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>So when, in Guy Ritchie’s latest London gangster-land roundelay, someone calls someone else a “black cunt”, it’s very much by design. So much so that Colin Farrell spends the next few minutes of the movie talking about why it’s ok to call someone a “black cunt”, explaining, no less, to the young black boxer in his gym, why he shouldn’t be offended by it. “You are black, and you are a cunt,” he says. “Those are facts.”
>This knuckle-scraping (bottom of two smoking barrel-scraping) British cinematic moment in itself should be enough for you to know that The Gentlemen is a film made by cunts for cunts.
>No, Guy Ritchie, it is not OK to call someone that, and I don’t need minutes of your lumpen dialogue twisting the locker-room logic of “it’s only a bit of banter” into an excuse as to why I, or the poor young actors you’re bullying into it, should have to put up with it.
>Oh people will tell me to lighten up, that I’m a snowflake to get offended by it. It’s a laugh, isn’t it?
>This knuckle-scraping (bottom of two smoking barrel-scraping) British cinematic moment in itself should be enough for you to know that The Gentlemen is a film made by cunts for cunts.
>No, Guy Ritchie, it is not OK to call someone that, and I don’t need minutes of your lumpen dialogue twisting the locker-room logic of “it’s only a bit of banter” into an excuse as to why I, or the poor young actors you’re bullying into it, should have to put up with it.
>Oh people will tell me to lighten up, that I’m a snowflake to get offended by it. It’s a laugh, isn’t it?
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>Except everyone involved in this isn’t pretending. They all know what they’re doing. They proudly trumpet this is a Miramax film. Yes, the name dragged through the ruins of Harvey Weinstein’s collapsed and disgraced empire of sex and greed is resurrected, shiny and new, now a beIN media group company, owned by Qatar.
>and there’s a Jewish character called Matthew Berger, surely named after Ritchie’s best mate Josh Berger, head of Warner Bros in the UK and chairman of the BFI. He gets called “that Jew” a lot, in a way that’s not OK either. Didn’t you think to say something, Josh? You bullied, too?
>Whom are we supposed to be rooting for here? Each character is a scumbag, a violent thug seething with hatred and greed and expensive clobber yet Ritchie shoots them with admiration, with a chummy, clubby cosiness that says these are my people, this is my world and we are on top.
>and there’s a Jewish character called Matthew Berger, surely named after Ritchie’s best mate Josh Berger, head of Warner Bros in the UK and chairman of the BFI. He gets called “that Jew” a lot, in a way that’s not OK either. Didn’t you think to say something, Josh? You bullied, too?
>Whom are we supposed to be rooting for here? Each character is a scumbag, a violent thug seething with hatred and greed and expensive clobber yet Ritchie shoots them with admiration, with a chummy, clubby cosiness that says these are my people, this is my world and we are on top.
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>The Gentlemen is the first true Brexit movie of the new order, probably the first preening, strutting example of the pro-Brexit, one nation Tory world now emerging. This vile pile of bile is the new establishment. The biggest cunts are in charge now – and what are you going to do about it, you little cunt?
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