What A Real RocknRolla Wants
The first thing that comes to me when talking about Guy Ritchie’s movies is middleclass and not-too-successful mobsters and thugs, with messy, strange, wicked, and uncool-but-cool twists of the conflicts. (That’s a compliment.) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels will always the best among his such works, but others like Snatch and RocknRolla are not that far from the previously mentioned.
RocknRolla is all about the hilarity in a “partnership” between London and Russian mobster. Along the way, it involves a complicatedly silly case of a missing “lucky charm painting”, a mob prince who becomes crack-addict rock star wannabe who presumed dead but absolutely alive, and a fiasco that sprouts in the gang because there is a rat who handed some of them to the cops. What a mess huh? Yet it’s not too weird of a mess for a film written and directed by Guy Ritchie.
The mixture of its soundtrack album is quite something. It really is a “various artists” album. There are some great names from diverse genres. From The Sonics (60’s garage rock), to The Clash (with a number from their reggae-dub era), War (70’s-80’s American funk), to The Hives (garage punk band of the new millennium), to Wanda Jackson (I’m sure most of you are familiar with her Stupid Cupid), to Miguelito Valdés (a popular singer of the 40’s-50’s with cubanismo style). I told you, it’s quite a mix.
So many choices. So much “musical excitement”. This soundtrack album is what a real RocknRolla wants. What a real RocknRolla wants? How come? Because, as Archie (Mark Strong) says in the film’s opening narration“,…A real RocknRolla wants a fucking lot!”
The first thing that comes to me when talking about Guy Ritchie’s movies is middleclass and not-too-successful mobsters and thugs, with messy, strange, wicked, and uncool-but-cool twists of the conflicts. (That’s a compliment.) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels will always the best among his such works, but others like Snatch and RocknRolla are not that far from the previously mentioned.
RocknRolla is all about the hilarity in a “partnership” between London and Russian mobster. Along the way, it involves a complicatedly silly case of a missing “lucky charm painting”, a mob prince who becomes crack-addict rock star wannabe who presumed dead but absolutely alive, and a fiasco that sprouts in the gang because there is a rat who handed some of them to the cops. What a mess huh? Yet it’s not too weird of a mess for a film written and directed by Guy Ritchie.
The mixture of its soundtrack album is quite something. It really is a “various artists” album. There are some great names from diverse genres. From The Sonics (60’s garage rock), to The Clash (with a number from their reggae-dub era), War (70’s-80’s American funk), to The Hives (garage punk band of the new millennium), to Wanda Jackson (I’m sure most of you are familiar with her Stupid Cupid), to Miguelito Valdés (a popular singer of the 40’s-50’s with cubanismo style). I told you, it’s quite a mix.
So many choices. So much “musical excitement”. This soundtrack album is what a real RocknRolla wants. What a real RocknRolla wants? How come? Because, as Archie (Mark Strong) says in the film’s opening narration“,…A real RocknRolla wants a fucking lot!”
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