Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.
- Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 13 wins & 9 nominations total
- Willie
- (as Charlie Forbes)
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- TriviaThe film was dedicated to Lenny McLean, who played Barry the Baptist. He died of lung cancer exactly one month before the film's premiere. The dedication reads as follows: "In memory of LENNY McLEAN (The Guv'nor)"
- GoofsDuring the final round of the card game, Harry reveals his cards one by one. When he turns over his third and final card, Eddie looks shocked in a dramatic "forward tracking zoom out" shot, realizing how much he just lost. However, Eddie had already lost when Harry's second card was revealed (pair of sevens beat pair of sixes), it wouldn't matter what the third card was. So his shocked expression should have come earlier: after the second card's revelation, not the third.
- Quotes
Bacon: What's that?
Samoan Joe's Barman: It's a cocktail. You asked for a cocktail.
Bacon: No. I asked you to give me a refreshing drink. I wasn't expecting a fucking rainforest! You could fall in love with an orangutan in that!
Samoan Joe's Barman: You want a pint, you go to the pub.
Bacon: I thought this was a pub!
Samoan Joes Barman: It's a Samoan pub.
- Crazy creditsIn the closing credits, the character names in the cast list are shown entirely in lower-case letters with no initial capital letters.
- Alternate versionsNew footage included in director's cut:
- at the very start of film, Ed is shown explaining the rules of 3 Card Brag to two people;
- the scene where Big Chris goes to see the man on the sunbed is longer
- Tom, Soap and Bacon are shown walking through the pub to the bar while Ed is playing cards
- the earlier stages of the card game are shown
- Alan explains to Ed the "history" between JD and Harry
- when Barry is talking to the two scousers the dialogue is different
- when Big Chris is walking into Harry's office near the end, he meets the man who was on the sunbed near the start of the film.
- when Ed is being interviewed by the police you see him finishing explaining the rules of 3 Card Brag to them (as seen at very start)
- just before the credits, you see Soap telling a whole joke in the car when they are coming back from the job
- three outtakes are shown during the credits: one with Soap telling a joke, the next where Barry asks one of the scouser's for an ice cream and one where a guy runs onto the set.
- SoundtracksHundred Mile City
Performed by Ocean Colour Scene (as Ocean Color Scene)
Courtesy of Universal Music (UK) Ltd.
Written by Damon Minchella, Simon Fowler, Oscar Harrison and Steve Cradock (as Steve Craddock)
© 1997 Island Music Ltd.
The cast is comprised of mostly young, veteran, male actors. In fact, the only female in the film doesn't even speak, though she handles a machine gun fairly well. Sting appears briefly in several scenes as a bar-owning father figure. While his secondary performance is solid, as usual, it is also unmemorable. The soundtrack is first-rate, from the 60's hits of James Brown to the contemporary beats of London's underground. The groovy, pulsating music and lyrics are often succinctly synchronized with the action and dialogue in the film, creating a theatrical rhythm that is fairly uncommon in cinema (from any period).
Critics and audiences over the years have often dismissed stylized camera work as pretentious and unnecessary, stating that it detracts from the story, bogs it down, or pads it; however, the film medium has the luxury of actually "displaying" a story for its audience, unlike the written word alone. It's what the medium is all about -- it's VISUAL. Hence, one of the reasons a filmmaker chooses such visual displays is to "brand" his or her work, in the same way as writers like Cummings, Hemingway or Joyce did with their medium. It's hard to imagine a cinema without Hitchcock, Kubrick, or Scorsese to represent it. To this end, Ritchie has taken his first step in establishing his own brand. His energetic, ultra-contemporary camera work incorporates (through a fresh perspective) such devices as slow motion, fast motion, and freeze-frame coupled with narration. It is at times reminiscent of (and actually expands upon) Martin Scorsese's patented visual stylistics and camera movements, like those found in 'Mean Streets' and 'Goodfellas'. But the similarities with Scorsese's work end there.
Critics' endless comparisons of Ritchie's film with the works of Quentin Tarantino and Danny Boyle's 'Trainspotting' stand mostly unwarranted, as these comparisons take away from the inventiveness and originality of 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. Ritchie's film is a much more involved, complex, layered work than the aforementioned comparisons. While Tarantino's films are very strong on dialogue, screenplay, and editing, they often lack creative camera work and direction. Boyle's 'Trainspotting' does have a resembling "feel" to 'LS&TSB', but aside from its Great Britain origins, there really is no need for comparison. 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' is essential viewing.
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- Juegos, trampas y dos pistolas humeantes
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- Budget
- £960,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,753,929
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $143,321
- Mar 7, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $3,753,929
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1