Well, somebody had to do it.� It may as well have been Gerard Butler.
Here in Toronto to boost his in style movie in TIFF, the star of such hits as 300 and Nim�s Island is sticking up for his RocknRolla conductor Guy Ritchie. �
�I kind of pisses me off because it seems to be the very people that we�re the most proud of, especially in the U.K., are the very multitude that we want to give the hardest time.�
Butler is referring to the fact that, after the English movie maker carved out a name making such popular films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, Ritchie was lambasted by fans for his last deuce features � Revolver and Swept Away.
�I think that�s kind of happened to Guy and it just seems a little unfair.�
Butler says it�s wry that many of the people wHO unfairly vituperate Ritchie ar the same ones world Health Organization treasure his earlier films the most.
�Knowing Guy as I do, he�s such a decent, base person and I believe that if you�re that and you have endowment, it feels a small undeserved.�
With this in mind, followers of Guy Ritchie will be happy to see the filmmaker has returned to the genre he began with � that of frenetic, highly-stylized gangster crime drama.
In RocknRolla, Butler plays a nickel-and-dime crook world Health Organization gets caught up in a misrepresented, labyrinthine immovable scam betwixt a Russian mobster (Karel Roden) and an old school mobster (Tom Wilkinson).� Along the way of life, Butler (whose character goes by the moniker of One Two) has run-ins with a sexy comptroller, indestructible Russian hit hands and a buddy wHO surprisingly comes out of the closet.
For those wHO are familiar with Snatch, they�ll recognize (and hopefully appreciate) the complex, lab�yrinthine ways of Ritchie�s unique film. For Butler, it was persona of the reason he signed on.
�It�s still a Guy Ritchie movie, exactly like a Quentin Tarantino movie is a Quentin Tarantino film,� says Butler. �He shouldn�t take to apologize for the fact that he�s non had a sex change or turn a different person. �He�s still � doing what he does best.�
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