Guy Ritchie directed the crime comedy film Snatch, which follows the story of a diamond heist gone wrong. The film features an ensemble cast including Jason Statham and Brad Pitt. Jason Statham's role in Snatch helped establish his reputation in Guy Ritchie's crime films. Brad Pitt's role also contributed to his growing recognition leading up to bigger budget films. The film poses the question of where a stolen 86 karat diamond ends up.

1. Film Case Study: Snatch
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2. Synopsis
The film opens as we see boxing promoter
Turkish and his naive partner Tommy, sitting
nervously before an unseen man, in London.
Turkish gives a brief narration about the
circumstances, then the movie really takes off.
We then jump to Antwerp, where gangster
and compulsive gambler Frankie Four Fingers
and his buddies, dressed like rabbis, pull off a
daring robbery and nab an 86-karat diamond
(throughout the rest of the film, it's either 86-
karat or 84-karat, depending on which
character states it, or it loses value after going
through so many hands). One of Frankie's
men is the brother of ex-KGB gangster Boris
the Blade (Rade Serbedzija), aka Boris the
Bullet-Dodger, named due to his unique
ability to defy death. Boris is now in the
business of selling guns on the blackmarket,
and lures Frankie to buy a gun, in order to
steal the diamond.
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3. Direction
The director, Guy Ritchie,
directed Snatch as a
crime comedy film which
poses the question:
Where is the stone? This
is a caper about a
diamond heist gone
helter-skelter, the rough
world of bare-knuckle
boxing, an unpredictable
Irish gypsy and a dog.

4. Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie has also directed films such as Lock Stock and
Two Smoking Barrels which have received high ratings
from film critics such as IMDB receiving a 8.2/10.

5. Cast

6. Jason Statham
Statham is known for his roles
in the Guy Ritchie crime films
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels (1998), Snatch (2000)
and Revolver (2005) . He has
also appeared in the heist film
The Italian Job. The majority
of those films have achieved
very high ratings from film
critics which established Jason
Statham’s reputation as a well
known actor.

7. Brad Pitt
Pitt first gained recognition as a
cowboy hitchhiker in the rod
movie Thelma & Louise (1991). His
first leading roles in big-budget
productions came with the
dramas A River Runs Through It
(1992) and the Legends of the Fall
(1994). This established Brad Pitt
as a known actor in progression to
go into leading roles. Then Brad
took on one of the leading roles in
the film Snatch (2000) as a bare-
knuckle boxing gypsy which
brought about further recognition
by other directors and film
producers.