The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen is a 2019 gangster film written, directed and produced by Guy Ritchie, who developed the story along with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant. It follows an American drug lord in England who is looking to sell his business, setting off a chain of blackmail and schemes to undermine him. The Gentlemen premiered at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema on December 3, 2019, and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2020, by Entertainment Film Distributors, and in the United States on January 24, 2020, by STXfilms. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was also a commercial success, grossing $115 million worldwide against its $22 million budget. A spin-off television series was released by Netflix in 2024 with Theo James starring in the lead role.
[Raymond] So you're basing your whole crescendo on a figment of your imagination. I'm basing my whole crescendo on the sum of its parts. A few minor details aside, I wouldn't have any trouble at all selling this juicy peach of a drama to Big Dave. He'd cream his fucking panties. You're too smart to be blackmailing us, Fletcher. Yes, yes, and obviously I've taken precautionary measures.
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He's gonna need some people to run his business here when he buys it from Michael, right? He's gonna need a reliable pair of hands, someone like you. Hmm. So why didn't he ask you, Raymond? I don't know. It's none of my business. Because, I'll tell you, he already had someone earmarked for the role.
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Dry Eye. He promised Dry Eye the job, but only if Dry Eye helped drive down the price of Mickey's business. You see, it was Matthew who told Dry Eye the location of Mickey's farm, so he could steal his white widow super cheese to cause ripples and reduce the market value. And that is why Phuc, in turn, got those juice-swilling, acne-backed muscle Marys to do the job. It was Matthew who set this whole train of events off.
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Now, Dry Eye does not want to be subservient to Matthew anymore. Doesn't wanna be subservient to anyone. This is how it's gonna play out. [crowd cheering, applauding] You're gonna back the fuck off and I'm gonna take it all. Dry Eye likes the smell of power and does not like Matthew. So, the little dragon needed a gentle reminder of who was really running things. You've been in this paddling pool for two minutes. I've been swimming in the ocean with the sharks for 20 years. I'll tell you how this plays out.
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You will drown... and then my Mossad crabs will eat you. And this, my love, is why I want my hard-earned 20 million pounds. Because not only do I know exactly how Mickey's business operates, but I also know that the very man he's trying to sell it to is trying to force him into selling it on the cheap and has indirectly started a war.
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