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Quint's quickie email interview with Guy Ritchie!!! We talk REVOLVER and ROCKNROLLA!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I have a really short quickie interview for you folks that I did via email with Guy Ritchie. We were supposed to arrange a phone interview (which would have been a bit less impersonal and tad longer), but because of a brainfart on my end the only place we could reschedule was to do a quick email interview.
I'm running this just before I'm set to run out the door for BNAT. Hopefully I didn't fudge up the coding...
Enjoy our short chat about his latest film, REVOLVER and a little bit at the end regarding his new one, ROCKNROLLA starring Gerard Butler!
Quint: I know the film was released in a different form overseas. Did it benefit you for the North American release to have a full run in other countries first?
Guy Ritchie: I was happy with the film before the cuts. However, I had time on my hands between the two releases so, we cut out a narrative, which was not imperative, in order to make the story easier to follow. I am happy with either cut, but, I think the second one is easier to follow.
Q: Has there been a vastly different reaction between the two cuts?
GR: It depends on who you talk to. The challenge is the concept, but, has the concept become more accessible? The answer would be yes, but, it doesn’t make it an easy concept for the mind to grasp no matter how easy you make it - it's never going to be vastly popular or accessible, unless you really pay attention. That’s simply the nature of the concept.
Q: Can you talk about working with Luc Besson. What was the process like?
GR: Luc was very helpful. He enjoyed it and he understood it, so, life was easy there.
Q: Revolver is by far your most complex film. Was scripting difficult or was the process exactly the same as the rest of your movies?
GR: I don’t think Revolver is complex, but, it is tricky. I know it is hard to appreciate, but it's simple in the fact that it's about a man recognizing that he is his own worst enemy and, that's really it. The rest of it is commentary, but the mind makes it complex, and, there is a reason the mind does this. The movie is about that reason. If you get the trick the mind is pulling, it becomes a rewarding experience.
Q: There's a definite film noir feel to your film. Do you have any specific influences?
GR: None that spring to mind. I think most of my influences are a sort of subconscious. I steal a bit here and I am inspired a bit there, but, if you asked me from where, I’d be stumped.
Q: You always seem to gather fantastic casts. Your next film, ROCKNROLLA, has, in my opinion, your best cast yet. I'm a huge fan of Tom Wilkinson and Jeremy Piven in particular. Can you give us a taste of what we're in for with ROCKNROLLA?
GR: RocknRolla is about modern London - how it has usurped New York as the new cultural and financial capital of the world. There has been a massive influx of very rich and poor people in the last decade and, this has had massive influence on the way just about everything is done. I am interested in the Russian billionaire thing and the crime that follows it.
Q: Do you have anything else in the pipe-line?
GR: After that, I want to do a war movie.
Q: That's about all I have at the moment. Thanks so much for taking the
time to answer these questions.
GR: Thank you my good man. Guy.
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com
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saved my breath in the last Ritchie thread.
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...but I know worse interviews.
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that way, he could get Madge in a burkah.
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Revolver was amazing.
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I was excited for a second when I thought Ritchie was doing a Judas Priest biopic. That would be awesome. I know he's not British, but Edward Norton for young Rob Halford all the way.
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No, really? You mean your films are uninspired....Hmmm
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Even Madonna knows living in London is so much more trendy than living in New York. Just fake an accent and you're in!
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lets admit that people. Sure you thought smoking barrells was cool a few years ago, but hes a one trick pony. Jeremy Piven, London..Oooohh, like you cant picture that flick in your head already. Dude is a hack, an uninspired, talentless hack...
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By Roger Ebert
Guy Ritchie's "Revolver" is a frothing mad film that thrashes against its very sprocket holes in an attempt to bash its brains out against the projector. It seems designed to punish the audience for buying tickets. It is a "thriller" without thrills, constructed in a meaningless jumble of flashbacks and flash-forwards and subtitles and mottos and messages and scenes that are deconstructed, reconstructed and self-destructed. I wanted to signal the projectionist to put a gun to it. -
He's a talented director who makes decent movies. Nothing more, nothing less. He's hardly great, but he makes well crafted entertainment. Maybe if every other film Hollywood was turning out ended up being as good as Ritchie's first two then you can call him a hack, but unfortunately most movies that come out are limp and uninspired.
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Well put, he of the Ebert-sack-chins.
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...how the US cut differs from the 2005 UK version. Because that was really, really awful.
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Emmm...have you seen Swept Away? Of his four films, Lock Stock was pretty good, and Snatch, while enjoyable, was basically a carbon copy of Lock Stock with added Brad Pitt (doing the worst Irish accent since, well, Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own). So one good film, one decent film, and two absolute turkeys. Not a good track record.
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My movies not incoherent shite....you just dont GET IT. fuck off richie you mug.
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Because I was so entertained by his first two movies, Ritchie could join the church of scientology, smack my momma across the face, and make Madonna cocktease me until I almost splooge, and then come in and throw a bucket of ice all over my groinage, and I would still think he's the f'n man.
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that's okay, I didn't like my world anyway. My world sucked, it needeed THIS interview, which was really amazing, to destroy it. THANKS interview! (And thanks for not asking "What kind of war movie?" - that question would have been stupid.)
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Ever thought about writing for AICN? 'cause you got Harry's style down pat.
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I'm sure any modern-day couple in a healthy sexual relationship have experimented in the bedroom. Especially when one has a partner famous for her liberal sexual attitudes. Further, it is quite common for chocolate to be used in such circumstances, so one can assume that the chances are quite high that Madonnas pussy juices have at one time or another been "coated" or, at least, intermingled with some form of cocoa-based product.
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Does Guy Ritchie think this is somehow still interesting? Is he going to have all his characters doing a cor blimey mockney accent whilst in shots that slow down then speed up? When we realise that he has no influences, we realise that he's pretty much spent, creatively speaking. He's on some sort of bland auto pilot, churning out films for audiences with the attention span of a gnat. This new film wont be anything about how London is the new cultural centre and more about lunking Russian stereotypes blowing people away with a few mockney east enders running about inbetween. Just you watch.
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"This new film wont be anything about how London is the new cultural centre and more about lunking Russian stereotypes blowing people away with a few mockney east enders running about inbetween."
I'd rather Guy Ritchie do somthing like this again than try something 'different' like Revolver. Lock Stock and Snatch may have been full of stereotypes and dody accents, but at least they were entertaining. -
Pitt wasn't doing an irish accent. It was gypsy (I forgot the technical term for it).
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That is the secret to success in writing to intemperate lengths of juvenile hyperbolic self-indulgence. You're welcome.
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on life, I mean...(?)
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I stand firmly by what I said.
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The same way that picking my nose is entertaining. It's disgusting, stupid and I stopped doing it when I was 15. I wish Guy Ritchie would stop making movies too, round about that age. One can but wish.
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if you ever talked to proper irish pikeys you'd be amazed at how brilliantly pitt pulled it off, the man fucking hilarious in snatch, its up there with his performance in fightclub... "do ye wanna buy a dag" "what the fook do i want caravan with no wheels fer" pure comedy gold
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"...or, at least, intermingled with some form of cocoa-based product," in one or more instances. Disgusting, I know, but that is the only reasonable scientific conclusion to the question.
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within a genre if you do it well? That is like saying the Rolling Stones JUST do Rock'n'Roll; I wish they would do a rap album. Or William Gibson JUST writes Sci-Fi.
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Revolver has been and gone in the UK, and widely recieved a critical mauling for it's pretensions and confused structure. Swept Away was a mistep that likely prompted Ritchie to return to a genre he know's and feels comfortable with, only in Revolver's case, imbued with the kind of psuedo-Goddard affectation that many attributed to
Madges influence on him. I'd like to see him try something other than an East-end crime caper, maybe an adaptation of an acclaimed literary property. In any event he's going to burn out if he sticks to one genre. -
jesus christ- It's like he madonna sucked what little talent he had away on their wedding night. And don't forget this is the man that gave the world the unique acting "talent" of one Mr. Vincent Jones.
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"RocknRolla is about modern London - how it has usurped New York as the new cultural and financial capital of the world."
As someone who has lived in both places I can state without a doubt that this comment is complete and utter nonsense.
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is still making movies? Who knew?
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Ritchie says "This is a film about how cultural changes and cuisine analogies have really impacted the urban sprall of London, making it a cultural mecca for double crosses and twist endings to rival Tokyo."
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Was a good film the critics had just decided that it was time to knock Ritchie "down to size" hence the reviews. But what moron lets a critic decide what they can and cannot like you know what they say about opinions...
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