Scenes We Love: Snatch
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Brad Pitt, Scenes We Love
Blame this on Anderson Cooper and the exhaustive coverage of President and First Lady Obama's trip to London. I can never see my favorite city on television without wanting to board a plane, and since I can't do that right this moment, I must haul every British film out and watch it to get my fix of Anglophilia.
Of course, few London visitors get close to the underworld inhabited by Guy Ritchie -- though the Obamas might meet a few Snatch characters if they get close to the protesters. (I'm not talking the ones who actually are there for real reasons, I'm talking about the ones just chugging lager cans because, well, why not. If you saw any of the news footage, you know what I mean.) I can't find my favorite "Who took the jam out of your doughnut?" scene, so "Two minutes!" will have to do.
I can't believe this film is nearly ten years old. Remember 2000, when people still liked Ritchie, Swept Away wasn't on the radar, Brad Pitt was kind of edgy, and Jason Statham was an ordinary Englishman, not a ripped demigod? How time flies ... and the thought takes the jam right out of my doughnut.
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4-02-2009 @ 9:01PM
Kate said...
Elisabeth, you're my new best friend. 'Snatch' puts me in fits every time I watch it and I'm sure I collapsed a lung when the dog swallowed the squeaky toy.
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4-02-2009 @ 9:02PM
Elisabeth said...
We are best friends! :D Although if you have a deep, abiding attraction to Jason Statham then we might be clones!
4-03-2009 @ 2:41AM
Kate said...
Ah, no. I have a deep, abiding attraction to Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Robert Downey Jr, and Javier Bardem. I will lure them to my science lab and make them into the Super Hunk! :D
4-02-2009 @ 9:57PM
paul said...
One of my favorite scenes in this movie is when Tommy and the boxer, George go to the Traveler's camp to buy a "caravan" and are duped into buying one that wont make it fifty feet without loosing it's wheels and axles. Micky (Pitt) uses this as an opportunity to get George into a boxing match; "you and me."
George, not knowing he's in a ring with a gypsy bare knuckles boxing champion who's as hard as a "coffin nail" is spitting orders for Micky to "stay down!"
"You're not going anywhere, you thick lump. You stay until the job is finished", Mickey intones shaking of Georges sucker punches. One of my favorite movies. Great choice.
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4-02-2009 @ 11:25PM
Matt said...
Turkish: Fuck me, hold tight. What's that?
Tommy: It's me belt, Turkish.
Turkish: No, Tommy. There's a gun in your trousers. What's a gun doing in your trousers?
Tommy: It's for protection.
Turkish: Protection from what? "Zee Germans"?
It just kills me every time i hear it.
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4-03-2009 @ 11:37AM
Kimberly said...
Ah, it's great to know there's other female Anglophiles out there that recognize the brilliance of this film! And Elisabeth, I have a deep, abiding attraction to Jason Statham...and Christian Bale, and Ewan McGregor, and Clive Owen, and Gerard Butler...
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4-03-2009 @ 4:28PM
Andy said...
I went to the Butt-numb-a-thon in 2000 and this movie was a sneak peek surprise...the crowd went wild and the movie being so much fun only added to the surprise. The actor who played the really large getaway driver was even there.
Plus I got to walk around for several months with the 'oh yeah, I've seen that' geek cred.
Oh movies...you're awesome.
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