Monday, April 21, 2008
Snatch - Brad Pitt speaking Pikey
Snatch was directed by Guy Ritchie (otherwise known as Mr. Madonna). Its a wonderful crime caper with great comedy.
Snatch uses the Pulp Fictionesque intertwined plot angle. And does it very well. Every scene flows from one to next seamlessly. This isn't an easy thing to pull of when you've got 20 characters to worry about, but there doesn't seem to be a wasted shot.
Guy Ritchie shot the film in an MTV style, quick cut, fast camera sort of way, which I'm normally not a big fan of. But it really works with the story.
The whole idea behind it is that all of the characters in the movie and trying to get this priceless diamond. The movie characters range from gang members, thieves, boxers, mob bosses, and other upstanding citizens of society.
Brad Pitt is the actor who steals this movie. He plays a piker (basically the British version of trailor trash). As the beginning part of the scene says you cannot understand a word a piker says. It's amazing how an American actor was able to pull of that thick UK accent. What's really amazing about Pitt's performance is that he was able to play a character who is incoherent but you could understand everything he's saying just with his body language and energy. It really is blast to watch, just as the film is.
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Incorrect Pikies/Irish Travellers distinguish themselves from the settled communities where they live by their own language and customs. The language is known as Shelta (a mixture of Old irish Gaelic mixed with english), and there are two dialects of this language, Gammon (or Gamin) and Cant. It has been dated back to the eighteenth century, but may be older than that.[9]
Travellers are keen breeders of dogs such as greyhounds and lurchers. They also have a longstanding interest in horses, and the main horse fair associated with them is still held every year at Ballinasloe.
They are a different ethnic group to the irish themselves. ie irish gypsies
He plays a Pikey, an Irish Traveller.
so, its an Irish accent not a UK one.
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