Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie. It follows a group of small-time London criminals planning a big heist. The film opens with a market stall hustler and his partner running from police. Later scenes show a man counting money surrounded by a marijuana grow operation and a group of men in a cage, possibly criminals. The film represents different social classes and genres, with most characters being working-class males, and only one assertive female character.

1. Task 1 Research in to thriller genre Ed Skinner 9130 Reepham College

2. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

10. Mise en scène Marijuana growing is against the law, but the man seems to be standing in a mass production of growing a Class B drug. The man is dressed in a light brown but long, light brown coat. It could suggest that he is hiding something from the viewers. He is using an knife to hold up what looks like large amounts of money, possible from the production of the marijuana. The bundles of money can be associated with the drugs but the man looking at it could possible be the owner, or not wanting to get his fingerprints on the money. The money leads us to think, is the money stolen, from the drugs, fake? The character is positioned in the shot with the large proportion of the scale of the growing, showing its a serious matter. The position of the money and the character is looking down at the money giving a sense of authority.

11. Same character as before but seems to be holding a gun and a man appear to be missing a foot, possibly shot? Gangsters? The man in wearing white clothing could suggest innocent, helpless? He’s also on the floor is he weak or defenceless, dead? A group of men and they all seem to be wearing the same light brown coat and is traditional for gangs or groups to wear matching clothes to fit in to look united. The group are behind bars or in a cage connotations of criminals should be locked away? Are they guilty of something? This surrounding seem to be very empty are they in a desolate area old perhaps. Wooden floor boards and a old window. White covered bricks show innocent again maybe?