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.
White widow super cheese. [chuckles] It's the new gold rush. This is the thin end of a very fat wedge, sir. If it's such a fat wedge, why don't you keep it? You see, I've developed a reputation as a man who came up the hard way. You could say that there's blood on these pretty white hands. But in the new business, once legal and under the jurisdiction of the respectable umbrella of ministerial legitimacy, an enterprise like this will need a face with a clean past, which sadly I do not possess. Retirement doesn't sound so bad. Long walks in the countryside, pruning roses with my better half, raising some cubs. [inhales] I've earned it.
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Well, that comes later, Matthew, when the money's in escrow. Now that we've established the dilemma of our protagonist, let us turn to our antagonist. Many miles away, across the open plains, another beautiful feral beast lopes his way to a watering hole. Who are you talking about now? I talk, Raymondo, of Dry Eye. Oh, Dry Eye. What is he? Chinese? Japanese? Pekingese? Get on your fucking knees? Dirty dragon filth. ♪ Yellow is the color Gambling is the game ♪ He explodes on the scene like a millennial fucking firecracker. Bang, bang, bang. [shouting] You chee-bye motherfuckers! [Raymond] I'm gonna have to stop you right there, Fletcher. That doesn't sound like the Dry Eye I know. Just making sure you're paying attention, Raymond. So let's cut instead to a somewhat anticlimactic but suave and debonair Dry Eye, like a Chinese James Bond.
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