Three Inspirational Thrillers

We have been researching across a number of thriller films and I believe we have found our three main inspirations: Snatch (2000), Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Reservoir Dogs (1992). Both Snatch and Lock Stock are directed by Guy Ritchie who is our main inspiration for our film, we hope build our thriller in the style of Guy Ritchie's.

Snatch (2000) is the follow up from 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', the film shares themes, ideas and motifs with Guy Ritchie's first film, 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. It is also filmed in the same visual style and features many of the same actors; the story follows a similar plot. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film contains two intertwined plots: one dealing with the search for a stolen diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter named Turkish who finds himself under the thumb of a ruthless gangster known as Brick Top.The film (similar to Lock Stock) begins by showing the situation near the end of the film but goes back over how the main central characters had drifted to the situation they were in.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is about Four Jack-the-lads who find themselves heavily in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our the good guys decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam. The film ends on cliffhanger which gives two ideas to how the story might have finished.

 Reservoir Dogs (1992) is directed by Quentin Tarantino and  Six criminals, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with an intention that they won't get too close and concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members and one of them is killed in the subsequent shootout along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop. We have taken inspiration from the opening to this film.