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Guy Ritchie
English filmmaker (born 1968)
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| Born | Guy Stuart Ritchie (1968-09-10) 10 September 1968 (age 56) Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
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| Children | 5 |
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968)[1][2] is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr.
Ritchie left school at the age of 15, and worked in entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials. In 1995, he directed a short film, The Hard Case, followed by the crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), his feature-length directorial debut. He gained recognition with his second film, Snatch (2000), which found critical
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Guy Ritchie - Biography
Guy Ritchie early life
Born in Hatfield, a London satellite town, on September 10, 1968, Guy Stuart Ritchie's academic life left something to be desire. He attended 10 schools including Stanbridge Earls School, a specialist institution for dyslexics. Eventually expelled for dabbling in drugs, he completed his formal education armed with little more than a GCSE in film studies.
Start of film career
After tending bar, laying bricks and digging sewer lines, Guy set his sights on the film industry. Having started as a runner in 1993, he was soon directing music videos and commercials.
"I think I wanted to be a filmmaker when I was at school because I couldn't do anything else," he later reminisced. "There was a course at my school, which didn't seem to be going on anywhere else, in film studies. I picked up on it and before I knew it I was interested in it."
His first foray into dialogue was with a short film entitled The Hard Case. The project gave him the confidence to write and direct the movie that would propel him
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Guy Stuart Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire on 10 September 1968 and brought up in London. Beginning as a film runner in Wardour Street, Ritchie eventually moved on to make music videos and commercials before writing and directing a short film, The Hard Case (1995), which he used to set up financing for his debut feature, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Juggling seven separate storylines with great confidence and verve, Ritchie displays a magpie talent, taking inspiration from Peter Collinson'sThe Italian Job (1969) and the ITV series Minder (1979-94) to tell a fast-moving tale of East End gangsters and gamblers. The film's delight in gangland slang and its sharp eye for fashion and London locations made it an unexpected box-office success. Ritchie served as executive producer on Lock Stock... (2000), a spin-off series of dramas for Channel 4.
Ritchie's follow-up film, Snatch, is more of the same on a bigger budget, but it is let down by a super-abundance of plot and big stars it doesn't know how to handle: Brad Pitt and Benicio Del Toro
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