1. Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie was born on the 10th September
1968 in the UK, he dropped out of school at
the age of 15 realising he wanted to pursue a
career in film making. He was against
attending film school as he believe that the
quality that came out of them was poor. He
triggered his career by becoming a runner
and started then making commercials and
music promos. With the money he made he
then made his short film The Hard Case
which lead on to the prequel Lock, Stock and
Two Smoking Barrels, this film really
launched the careers of Jason Statham, Jason
Flemyng and Vinnie Jones. His next film was
Snatch which had a bigger budget and
featured actors such as Brad Pitt.

2. Guy Ritchie
• His style of directing has been very influential in the British gangster
genre. I have noticed in snatch he uses a lot of direct address and
voiceovers so that it feels like you are talking to the character he uses this
when he is trying to show the more powerful character so you also feel
the sense of power he is trying to convey. He uses various types of lighting
depending on how he wants to represent the character for example he
would use dark lighting and a high angle to portray the feeling of fear and
to show the person is weak. He focused on London and his main
characters usually had strong cockney accents, he uses a lot of comedy
and classic gangster movie conventions when creating his films. A thing for
me I enjoyed about snatch is the way there are over 8 main characters and
they all have quite a balanced time on screen and there's more than one
story within the main plot.