Line #21 Trivia/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels


1	* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/JasonStatham used to be a street vendor.
2	* AmateurCast: Of the 44 speaking parts in the film, 17 were played by people who had never acted before.
3	* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/GuyRitchie and Creator/MatthewVaughn.
4	* CastTheExpert: Creator/JasonStatham was an aspiring Olympic diver and made money as a street hustler. Creator/GuyRitchie needed a street-wise seller, so Statham's audition was to improvise a scene in which he tactfully refuses to give a refund for a watch that he'd sold Ritchie.
5	* CastTheRunnerUp:
6	** Stephen Marcus (Nick the Greek) was originally cast as Tom, hence why the character is constantly referred to as fat.
7	** Creator/DexterFletcher originally wanted to play Tom.
8	** Nicholas Rowe (J) was originally asked to read for Winston.
9	* CompletelyDifferentTitle:
10	** In Russia, the film was translated as ''Karty, den'gi, dva stvola'' (''Cards, Money, Two [Gun]barrels'').
11	** In French, the title is "Arnaque, Crimes et Botanique" ("Cons, Crimes and Botany").
12	* CreatorCouple: The reason Music/{{Sting}} appears in the film is because his wife Trudie Styler was instrumental in getting the film made.
13	* TheDanza: Alan Ford plays a character named Alan.
14	* DarkhorseCasting: The most famous faces in the cast at the time weren't known for acting - rock star Music/{{Sting}} and footballer Creator/VinnieJones.
15	* DeletedRole: Model Laura Bailey was originally cast as Eddie's girlfriend. She completed filming but was later edited out after negative test screenings.
16	* FocusGroupEnding: The film's original ending had the four lads walking off with the money, with Big Chris and his son about to follow them to retrieve it. This was changed due to negative test screenings. According to Nick Moran, Creator/GuyRitchie scribbled a new ending on the back of a cigarette packet.
17	* FollowTheLeader: Just about every British gangster film in the late nineties and early 2000s tried to emulate this film.
18	* FriendshipOnTheSet: The four main actors became friends and are still in touch.
19	* HypotheticalCasting: Creator/VinnieJones claimed that he was the first actor to be cast, as Big Chris was described in the script as "looking like the English footballer Vinnie Jones".
20	* InMemoriam: The movie was dedicated to Lenny [=McLean=], who played Barry the Baptist. He died of cancer exactly one month before the movie's debut in England.
21	* OrphanedReference: Stephen Marcus (Nick the Greek) was originally cast as Tom, hence why the character is constantly referred to as fat. The finished film keeps the references but makes them a joke the underworld plays on him. The narrator adds that, for a skinny man, Tom's terribly fat.
22	* RealLifeWritesTheHairstyle: The ending had to be reshot, by which time Creator/JasonFlemyng had grown his hair long. Thus, he wears a hat in the final scene.
23	* RecycledTheSeries: The film had a surprisingly good but short-lived spin-off series of hour-long episodes.
24	* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Rory Breaker's television was originally supposed to be showing a football match. According to Stephen Marcus, the row of televisions in Rory Breaker's office took three hours to arrive and two hours to set up. Then, to Creator/GuyRitchie's annoyance, they played American football rather than the English kind due to an issue with Sky Sports, so he settled on a motor race.
25	* SleeperHit: A low budget film from a first-time director and cast consisting mostly of unknowns (of the 44 speaking parts in the film, 17 were played by people who had never acted before). In fact, according to Creator/MatthewVaughn, it almost went DirectToVideo in America, until producer Trudie Styler called her friend Creator/TomCruise, who attended a screening, loved it and convinced the studio to give it a proper release.
26	* StarMakingRole: Creator/JasonStatham, Creator/JasonFlemyng and Creator/VinnieJones.
27	* StuntCasting:
28	** Music/{{Sting}} as the bartender father of Eddie.
29	** Creator/VinnieJones (an ex-footballer with a reputation as [[UnnecessaryRoughness a hard nut]]) as Big Chris. At the time it was stunt casting, but it led him to a Hollywood career playing [[TypeCasting very similar characters]].
30	** Lenny [=McLean=] as Hatchet Harry's enforcer Barry the Baptist. [=McLean=] was better known for his former career as a fearsome bare-knuckle fighter known as the Guv'nor.
31	* ThrowItIn:
32	** Nick dropping his glass through Rory's table wasn't planned.
33	** Ed forgetting the guns wasn't scripted. Someone actually forgot to bring the gun props to the set.
34	** According to Vas Blackwood, Rory's "shistos, pesevengi, gamouri" line wasn't in the script. He drew on having Greek friends. There were two versions written and both were filmed.
35	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
36	** Creator/RayWinstone turned down the role of Hatchet Harry.
37	** [[https://imsdb.com/scripts/Lock,-Stock-and-Two-Smoking-Barrels.html Behold the original script]].

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