Snatch (movie)
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Snatch is a 2000 film by British writer-director Guy Ritchie. It features an ensemble cast including Dennis Farina, Jason Flemyng, Adam Fogerty, Alan Ford, Stephen Graham, Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, Vinnie Jones, Rade Serbedzija and Jason Statham.
Many of the cast also appeared in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Besides the cast, the films share the same ideas and motifs while using separate characters and storylines.
Plot
The plot centers around a very valuable 86 carat (17.2 g) diamond, stolen by Frankie Four-Fingers (Del Toro) in Antwerp and brought to London, where he and the diamond fall afoul of local thieves and underworld figures.
The film is characterised by Ritchie's usual assortment of colourful characters, especially the "pikey" (Irish Traveller) Mickey (Pitt), Uzbekistani ex-KGB agent and gangster Boris the Blade (or Boris the Bullet-Dodger) (Serbedzija), and Bullet-Tooth Tony (Jones), who can "find you Moses in the burning bush if you pay him".
The protagonist (and very occasional narrator) of the film is Turkish (Statham), an unlicensed boxing promoter who finds himself in debt to local crime boss Brick Top Polford (Ford) when his only fighter, Gorgeous George (Fogerty) is injured in a fight with Mickey over a dodgy caravan Turkish's partner, Tommy (Graham), had bought.
Also involved are Sol (Lennie James) and Vincent (Robbie Gee), two fences hired by Boris the Blade to rob a bookie's while Frankie Four-Fingers is placing a bet, on the understanding that they will get the take and he will get the contents of the case (the diamond, that is) Frankie carries with him. Since the robbery goes horribly wrong and the bookie's is owned by Brick Top, Sol and Vincent are placed in a very difficult position themselves...
Quotations
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Bricktop defines the word nemesis as:
- A righteous infliction of retribution, manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt: me.