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Guy Ritchie (natural September 10, 1968) is an English film director. He has adopted a cockney accent despite existence the stepson of bart Sir Michael Leighton and a descendent of King Edward I [http://webpages.charter.net/ghal/Harry_McLaughlin_Descent_From_King_Edward_I_.pdf]. Ritchie dropped away from English public school Stanbridge Earls at Xv (he is dyslexic, a school is one of the virtually all large schools specialising around treating by using dyslexia inside England), however went in to get an accomplished music video and film director.

Ritchie directed the film inside 1995 titled The Hard Case. His number 1 truly successful feature was Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998. Recalling Quentin Tarantino, The Sting and The Italian Job in equal measure, the film was widely praised for its wit. It besides introduced actor Jason Statham to worldwide audiences, and placed previous soccer player Vinnie Jones onto a newly career as a film actor.

His 2nd release, Snatch in 2000, was another caper comedy, this time backed by a major studio. Its cast featured such Hollywood big names when Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro, and Dennis Farina. Reviews were too hard for this film.

He married Madonna on December 22 2000 at Skibo Castle in Scotland, and it develop of these baby together. It is each ardent buff of the controversial quasi-mystical Kabbalah Centre & donate much money & period to practicing and spreading its teachings. Ensuing his marriage to Madonnthe, Ritchie so began focusing his filmmaking inside the area of his renowned married woman, directing her in two a music cd (for the song "What It Feels Like for a Girl," the controversial videos that showed Madonnthe engaging around such senselessly violent acts when running off humans down sustaining a car) & a short film, "Star", for the popular BMW films series. Ritchie's next feature, too the vehicle for Madonnthe, was a remaking of the 1960s Lina Wertmüller hit Swept Away also entitled Swept Away. Ritchie cast Madonna as a rich, catty socialite world health organizatiin, fallowing the shipwreck, is trapped on a deserted isl& by owning a frowsy servant world health organization smacks and humiliates her: the woman is known as Amber Leighton, the title of Guy Ritchie's mother. the film was two the critical & commercial disaster that cast a cloud on top Ritchie's filmmaking career.

Ritchie's next proclaimed design was originally the Vegas-themed heist film entitled Revolver, which he angled to concentrate on the Civil War drama Six Shooters, in which quaternary Federal try to steal a gold reserves that Confederate President Jefferson Davis loaded onto trains when you took a siege of Richmond.

Ritchie & Madonna have homes in Los Angeles, New York and London, in addition to their united states retreat, Ashcombe House.

BBC Interview: Guy Ritchie
The director discusses violence in his movies, naming films, and playing cards.

IMDb.com: Guy Ritchie
Internet Movie Database's collection of filmography information for the director.

The Onion AV Club: Guy Ritchie
Interview with Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels director on violence and British filmmaking.


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