The Gentleman - 12 Stories at Once

Guy Ritchie's style is known by the movies Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. The English Gangster movies that take an entire cast of a dozen or more individuals and they continually fight, steal, argue, lie, and interact with each other continually going around and around until most are dead and at the end of the day, no one knows what really happened or accomplished their goal.

For the Gentleman, we see a similar type of ensemble characters, but with a single main character. Mickey Pearson is the main character and he's crafted and created as a powerful, charismatic, and likeable character. We open with him being shot and then are woven through a great tapestry of a story about each of the 12 characters and their own stories come into play.

There are advantages to telling a story like this. Every bit of boring from each story is taken away and the story weaves each character in and around each other and this allows the author suddenly pull in a bunch of master fighting 20 year old rappers who steal a bunch of weed from an underground lab. It lets you accidentally push a Russian Oligarch's son out of a window and store him in your freezer next to the Wagyu steak. It keeps the audience continually guessing and wondering what will happen next and how it will end, which is the most important question.

Music by Simon Swerwer,
Cuggin's Cove,
Emergence,
Inith and Od Travel North