SNATCH: An Existential Take.

Mary fucking Poppins London (Farina)
The single greatest fight film of all time has nothing to do with Rocky or Somebody Up There Likes Me or even The Great White Hope.
The single greatest fight film of all time is SNATCH. (2000) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O5dnl9mxOg&feature=related
Brad Pitt speaks an English dialect that has yet to be properly translated.
Dennis Farina is a Jewish American and detests Mary Fucking Poppins London.
Benicio Del Toro plays an Hassidic Jew in his role as a
wanton gambling heister of jewelry. Ha
I thought he was a getaway driver, what the fuck can he get away from?
I admit it. I am a racist. We are all, deep down inside, racists. That is why we must breach cultural boundaries and see and seek what there is to see and seek.
But Black people who have English accents rock. Ha
Shut up and sit down you bald headed fuck.
If all bets are off, then there cannot be any money mate.
You stop me again while I am walking and I will cut your fucking jaylocks off. You understand?Thinking , it can get you in a lot of trouble, I would not do too much of it if I were you.
The last thing I ever wish to do is bet a Piker.
I shoot you, you go down.
Well that sounds promising, what are we waiting for?
And the pigs finish what the dogs don't.
Speak English to me Tony, I thought this country spawned this fucking language and so far I cannot understand a single fucking thing anyone is sayin.
Just cut up the body into six pieces and then parlay it together.
You need at least six pigs to go through a body.
Hence the expression as greedy as a pig.
Do you know what nemesis means?
He will find you Moses in the Burning Bush if you want him to.
Well that sounds promising, what are we waiting for?
It was a rhetorical question Harold, and what did I tell you about thinking?
I hate fucking dogs, come on Tony!!!. Tony?
For every action there is a reaction and a Piker reaction is quite a fucking thing.
These are the great quotes of an era, people.
First there was Chaos, a rough unordered mass of things, also considered as a void. Chaos was followed by Gaea (Earth) and Eros(Desire), who came to cancel every logical thought or act. Gaea then brought Uranus (the Heaven), Pontus (the Sea) and the Mountains to the world. http://www.greek-gods.info/theogony/
This was the great lie. There is only chaos. Oh there
appears a confluence of several streams of consciousness. But it is merely an appearance.
What the hell is that? 466th. Bullshit I say.
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
Bullshit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_4BPdaGGE
Farina is the father of three sons, Dennis, Michael, and Joseph. His youngest son, Joseph, is also an actor. He was an officer in the Chicago Police Department from 1967 to 1985. When Farina quit the force, he became a private detective. He has one granddaughter, Brianna, and four grandsons, Michael, Tyler, Matthew and Eric. Dennis is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan and played an avid fan alongside Dennis Franz in the play "The Bleacher Bums" for a few years.
Farina was arrested on May 11, 2008 carrying a loaded .22 caliber pistol through LAX airport security. Farina was taken to LAPD's Pacific Division, booked on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon and bail was set at $25,000. He claimed he had simply forgotten the weapon was still in his briefcase and had never intended to take it on a plane. After police determined the weapon was unregistered, the charges were upgraded to a felony and bail was increased to $35,000.[5]
On July 17, 2008 after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors, Farina pleaded no contest and was sentenced to two years probation.[6] On July 17, 2009, the judge in his case decided he should not have been prosecuted for a criminal offense, dismissed the charge and expunged it from Farina's otherwise clean record
Dennis Farina is a hero of mine. I do not like guns. THE POWERS THAT BE TOOK CARE OF IT.
There are three million people in our prisons; the same as or more than the communist totalitarian Chinese who have three or four times our population.
There is nothing but chaos.
GET USED TO IT.













This is one of my favorite movie quotes:
Clarice (Jody Foster): If you didn't kill him, then who did, sir?
Lecter (Anthony Hopkins): Who can say? Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere.
'Silence of the Lambs'
November 24, 2009 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I feel just like that sometimes. I mean the therapy thing is going nowhere. hahahahaha
November 24, 2009 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have know a few people in therapy Seashell that that quote would most certainly apply to.
HA !
C
November 24, 2009 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
So do I! HA!
November 25, 2009 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
There are time when unacceptable behavior is perfectally acceptable.
And sometimes even expected.
Depending of course on the circumstances.
C
November 24, 2009 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess things could be worse if you are an Albanian double agent.
November 24, 2009 11:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is nothing but chaos.
There is nothing but perfect order. We just don't access it very often.
November 24, 2009 11:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey MBH, I like this Bohm. I bookmarked it. I guess, in the end it is peace within. But I love string theory...I cannot really grasp it, I just like the idea of string energy thingies with different vibrations...musical connotations.
November 25, 2009 5:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. A world built on music is pretty damn cool. The problem with string-theory is that it takes a couple illogical leaps to get to it's description of the world. Bohm's ontological holism and holographic universe are perfectly grounded -- probably the best science we have that describes the world. He's given little credit though. Word is: he was a socialist. Therefore, his science could not possibly be right.
November 25, 2009 8:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
great link, that Bohm. Is this not entanglement? (Forgive the naive question, I have difficulty reaching up into this level of thinking and making sense of it.)
November 25, 2009 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Difficulty reaching? Clearly not. That's an awesome connection.
Entanglement is not identical to the Implicate Order. But the Implicate Order is what makes entanglement necessary.
I'll try to say a bit more when I get off work.
November 25, 2009 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Snatch is a great film. Definitely one of my personal favorites. Informative.
November 25, 2009 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great scene. I just cannot get over Blacks with Brit accents. It is like I am eight years old again Miguel. It is soooooooo coooooooooooool. hahha I got a couple hundred discs from my kid along with a dvd player.
There is another film by the same director with many of the same actors...Lock, Stock & Barrel
November 25, 2009 5:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Another great film from Guy Ritchie, Dick. I'm hoping his upcoming Sherlock Holmes release has some of the panache of these two earlier films of his. Something that has been missing from his later work, (tho I haven't seen 'RocknRolla').
November 25, 2009 10:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think the greatest film of all time is Zhang Yimou's "The Road Home".
Or Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon".
Or Zinneman's "A Man for All Seasons".
November 25, 2009 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
I haven't seen Zinneman's film but I very much like your other two so I will have to check it out. Thanks.
November 25, 2009 12:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
It isn't an "action" film in the usual sense; it's a "talkie". But if you like fine, nuanced discussion of ethics, and law, and a life-or-death contest over how fine and nuanced while both continuing to be ethical and defending the rule of law -- then it is an action film. One could say it is an epic struggle between, on one hand, Divine Right, and on the other, freedom of conscience which makes its stand on recourse to the Divine. Near-tanatamount to Divine Right v. Divine Right.
Script: I've watched it dozens of times looking for one misplaced or extraneous or not-quite-apt word and found: none.
Costuming: sumptuous and impeccable. (I think of the evident conflict, at the beginning, between the corpulent Orson Welles as the corrupt Cardinal Wolsey and Paul Scofield as Thomas.
Cinematography: slendid.
Acting: superb.
A grand, grand film.
As for "The Road Home": the framing of scenes in that is superb. The cinematography -- the color -- is breathtaking, jaw-droppingly splendid.
And Ziyi has the loveliest face. That and the pigtails do me in.
I first encountered Ziyi -- didn't know she existed, never heard the name -- in "Memoirs of a Geisha," bought on whim. Blew me away.
Searching for others with her I found "Crouching Tiger" -- which a friend had praised to me when it was first released. There is an enormous amount going on in that film.
"The Road Home," though: despite the reviews I passed it over a half-dozen times, the cover persuading me it was a children's film. I finally did get it, and I've since lost count of how many times I've watched it: it will do absolutely no harm to children; but it is for every adult who has been in love a first time.
Ang Lee is my favorite director because of "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" -- which is not my usual fare. And for "Lust, Caution". Read the reviews on Amazon (discussions can be found on imdb.com), and if interested go with the NC-17, unless you prefer a slightly toned-down retail store "R".
Another I like by him is "Ride with the Devil". A unique, wholly American perspective on the Civil War -- not my usual fare -- by Ang Lee, of Taiwan, who nailed it: it couldn't be a more American film.
Wonderful director with great heart and all-embracing compassion (humanizing even the evil Mr. Yee, in "Lust, Caution").
Other films I consider great are (as example) "Rear Window" and "North by Northwest". But those are on the lighter end of the spectrum.
November 25, 2009 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well all three excel. The Man For All Seasons is so supreme in character development...a Shakespearean tragedy that Shakespeare was toooooooooo afraid to really get into, although he alludes to it in one scene of his Henry VIII, I believe. The bell is tolling as Thomas More is executed.
November 25, 2009 5:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Have you seen "The Banquet" (US release "Legend of the Black Scorpion")? It's very loosely based on "Hamlet" (which I've not read); but it's got lots and lots of killing, as per Shakespeare, so you might like it.
And I must mention Wong Kar Wai's "2046," in which Zhang Ziyi ("Road Home" and "Crouching Tiger") gives an extraordinary performance. His "Chungking Express" is also fun; a delight.
(Another superb -- world class -- actor not to be missed is Tony Leung Chiu Wai, in, as examples, "Chungking Express," "2046," and "Lust, Caution".)
This is turning into a "films" thread . . .
November 25, 2009 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Love snatch, hate the beck photo though.
November 25, 2009 12:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
You are not SUPPOSE to like the Beck photo Sal. hahahaha
November 25, 2009 5:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was just talking about watching this movie again a couple of hours ago ... it's for sure a great one.
"well, it came from a funny angle!"
"Tyrone, when you back up, things come from BEHIND YOU!"
November 25, 2009 1:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know, a 350 pound getaway driver. hahahahaha
November 25, 2009 5:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
So, does this mean we are spawn of Chaos, Mr. Day? Hmmmmm. Well, with an unruly parent such as that, it's no wonder we are out of control. It's genetic.
November 25, 2009 9:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think it is genetic. Oh, but Flower, hit MBH's link for fun.
November 25, 2009 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dd, I'm cooking today. And you're "cooking" too! Kudos! :-)
November 25, 2009 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, I tell ya, if my stream of consciousness worked for you today, I am glad I posted it.
NO KIDDING.
November 25, 2009 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
And regarding the Empire's list:
Raiders of the Lost Ark the second greatest film of all time? Ah, come on, seriously? Of all time?
November 25, 2009 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Silliness. But, I guess I kind of like it that 'most people' or more likely, the corporate oligarchy, chooses to praise things that I do not. ha
November 25, 2009 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
it does reinforce a particular view of the masses and the ones that control them. not that I'm a liberal elitist or anything.
November 25, 2009 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
And 465 is 12 Monkeys? What they'd put at number 1, something like "When Harry Met Sally?"
November 25, 2009 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahah. I will bet you dollars to donuts that its that goddamnable Gone With the Wind.
And come to think of it, I kind of liked 12 monkeys.
But I swear I have never seen guys get KO'd in the ring like I did in Snatch.
November 25, 2009 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have never seen this movie. I must rectify that.
November 26, 2009 10:28 PM | Reply | Permalink