It's an over stylized, preening mess of "look at me" acting, tired cliches and scenery chewing not seen since Al Pacino and Mandy Patinkin shared a stage. Brad Pitt is a walking children's party clown in this movie.
@@jamespfitz You really don’t get it, pmsl. By all means have your opinion, but it doesn’t make it valid *just* because it’s an opinion - you’re talking utter shite.
hisoj I get the same vibe from Alan Ford that I get from Ray Liotta; both strike me as being capable of extreme violence. Great actors the both of them.
To be honest he still comes across as a restrained psycho in real life. A psycho who has to act half normally given the job. A bit like Geoff Bell (another scary dude), always think they seem like they’d knock your block off down the boozer if you spilt their pint :D :D
@M A L L A M I'm more than familiar with the Cockney accent. I'd actually like to think I do a pretty good one myself. But I really don't think that's what he said. Considering the word prior was "Mohammed" & "Aihmad" is another Arabic proper name, I'm gonna stick to my premonition. I'll have to watch that scene with subtitles though because I'm genuinely curious at this point.
I don't know why Alan Ford didn't go on to be a big star after that. Still the Bricktop performance was memorable. Arguably the star of the show in a movie with a stellar cast and wonderful one liners. A genuine British gem.
@@JayCity10 He also did some funny sketches in the Armando Iannucci Show as a very bricktop-esque character. The washing machine repair makes me laugh every time along with the dyslexic cockney
@@danielhenderson762 Well, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Frederico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock never won a best director Oscar to name but a few, but thats just my bad taste I think.
Im an american and I love British film making. And this is my favorite film ever. Guy Ricthie is the man. Alan Ford is right too. There is no "star" of this movie. Everyone has a chance to shine, brilliantly..........like an 86 karet diamond..............some of the most memorable charactures of all time. The most quotable film ever! Simply BRILLIANT!!
It's not rhyming slang that I previously knew, but I'm guessing it's short for Jacob's Cream Crackers - knackers (bollocks, balls or testicles, for our non-UK friends :-) ). That word is going into my vocabulary right now. :-) scontent.harristeeter.com/legacy/productimagesroot/DJ/2/907432.jpg
I don't think that anyone else could have played the part as well as Alan Ford, absolutely brilliant and just so amusing as well as threatening in the same breath. Well done Alan, more of same please!
Haven’t watched it in a decade. Still managed to recite every line in this clip. I can’t think of a line in it which doesn’t work as a quote. Top film.
When you watch actor's trying to play a bad guy they have to be at the top of there game to even get close to how menacing alan ford plays brick top its an absolute gem of a performance only rivaled in my opinion by sir ben Kingsley in sexy beast
Guy Ritchie's work is simply AWESOME and his cast (Alan Ford, Jason Statham,Benicio del Toro,Vinnie Jones, Rade Šerbedžija & of course Brad Pitt) is just perfect. Waiting for his latest film EAGERLY !
I've been watching this movie over and over again. While they have all done a splendid job in the movie, I'd have to say that Alan Ford's character took the cake away. What a brilliant actor!
Alan Ford's performance in Snatch made all the mob characters in Godfather and other mobster movies combined look amateurish. His personality,smile, pig feeding frenzy and accent made him the most evil character in all gangster movies. Truly iconic. I love this movie's very dark humor. One of Guy Richie's masterpieces. Thanks for the upload.v
Def. in my top 10, but man, I saw this during my english movie phase, which started with kidulthood, there are so many of these good english social, gangster, situational films, Ive seen a lot and there are more to see, even older ones. English have really good social presence in their films, I guess its the language and the social honesty.
That's really very insightful of you I think, that social honesty thing. Shane Meadows films are very good examples of that. Also Mike Leigh, who isn't known for making films about hard men so much as finding the humour in the every day lives of folks having a hard time. I like my American kitchen sink dramas too, though it seems there isn't quite the same appetite for unflinching socal honesty unless it's front and center of the story rather than merely a matter of fact. Shameless getting it's 8th season suggests I'm probably wrong about that though.
And although some might think of it as just a low budget, silly alien movie, Attack the Block has more in common with Kidulthood than it does Doctor Who.
Alan Ford was an actor struggling for regular work for years - everything from Shakespeare to TV parts - until Snatch and Two Smoking Barrels made him a more bankable character star (he wrote about it in his novel, Thin Ice. Fantastic to see that he got rewarded as he is tremendous in this key role - to me, Ford's portrayal of Brick Top makes the movie.
Who remembers him in An American Werewolf In London? He was a cab driver in that... As Bricktop, Mr Ford out shined himself. It made Snatch my favorite movie of all time!
Alan shows that by not flayling about and just staying calm and calculated, you can create a frightning gangster. American cinema can learn something from that.
I remember reciting all over Bricktop's lines as a kid. Such a memorable character. 'If I throw a dog a bone, I don't want to hear if it tastes good or nor.'
The problem with making a classic like ‘Snatch’ is that it’s so hard to out-do or even match for the director. The interweaving of the various threads is sheer brilliance.
I kind of like that it is almost impossible to reproduce. The emotional reaction is to always want more of something good, and of course I do too. But it's also something so awesome and beautiful of something great just standing there on it's own, never to be equaled nor reproduced.
The Gentleman was pretty great... Snatch is still better but there's elements like pacing and the story points interweaving that The Gentleman pulls off better than Snatch did
One of my all time favorites. Came out around the same time as Lemony Snicketts A Series of Unfortunate Events. Always thought that was the proper name for snatch. The dialog in this movie is hilarious.
Thats why when you watch a scene on RU-vid of any movie you'll get a bunch of Millennials in the comments section saying , ' they should do a remake of this movie' .
To be fair, some of the superhero ones are good. And also to be fair, Lock, Stock and Snatch opened the floodgates to a ton of inferior imitators, too. How many films were made about the Essex Boys?
I watched that film and straight away watch it again. 10 years later when my lads were old enough we all watched it together ……then watched it again. Great film simple as.
One of the best bad guy characters I ever watched. You know what is scarier than a thug screaming that he is going to break your legs? How about a guy casually telling how he would dispose of your body, he makes it sound like normal practice. Definitely one of my favorite acting talents in this movie. Never heard" I am sweet enough" sound so threatening lol
Why do the people who write quotes from films in youtube comments sections always fuck them up? If the line was that brilliant surely you’d remember the actual words?
@@donnibrasko1 Sadly yes, but I’m doing important work here. If this type of insignificant mistake is not called out, we get complete anarchy. Do you want to be responsible for the total breakdown of society? Not on my watch son.
Hence The Saying ''Hungry As A Piggy'' In One Sitting - Best Actor Ritchie Gone So Well Getting Brad + The Srtath & Alan Ford Alone ...Such A Legend 10/10 movie 🎥 🎥
