Cards, Money, Two Costumes: How did Guy Richie turn bandits into full Feded style symbols?

In this way, you can define crime authorities and street bandits in Guy Richie’s universe. 27 years have passed since the publication of the cult picture “Card, Money, Two Body”, and during this time, the British director completely changed his idea of ​​the crime world and turned his heroes into Dandies dressed in a needle. And the style in the films has become as well as recognizable as branded assembly bonding. Today, Guy Richie is 57 years old – on this occasion, we propose to draw the style of your favorite characters and find things that make them so special.

Fresh look

Before Richie, the mafia and gangsters in the cinema looked a little different. Skorsze has maximalism and solid costumes (“magnificent men”, “casino”, “Baptistern father”). Tarantino has a cult of a kitch and minimalism: black costumes and white shirts (“Criminal Reading”). And Richie has British in the entire layer: gentleman Tayloring and a mixture of street chaos, tweed jackets alongside leather jackets, three tank mass markets adjacent to the T -shirts.

In the “maps, money, two fathers” and “Big Kush” films, criminal officials stopped leaving Mafiosi to cartoon in tuxedo or shirt -free shirts. Instead, the audience saw a character gallery from London gentlemen to eccentric gangsters with ridiculous but stylish accessories in the trenches and tweed costumes. The spirit of time and space was felt in each image. Even outside the context, the audience understands that at first glance, not the Russian mafia before that, not the British, not the British, not Italian.

Powerful character

The clothes in Richie Films are not only a background, but a language where the character is read immediately. In the role of Brad Pitt, Mickey O’nil, “Big Kush” t -shirts, leather vests and miserable jackets on their shirts, so his crazy charisma is read from every scene. On the contrary, the hero of Jason Statham, on the contrary, on the flawless floors with dark blue fur decorations, then really on the British trenches and the style always works in the image.

In “Revolver ,, costumes become almost a separate character. Jason Statham Jake Green’s character appears in expensive costumes and silk shirts, and although he is actually a criminal in a world he decides on a decision, Savile Row seems to have been transferred to the screen with a Street in London, a street known as the center of traditional sewing men’s costumes). This aesthetics makes it dangerous and very elegant at the same time. In such atypical contrasts, the style of many characters of the director has been built. But more in the next block.

Game in contrast

Richie always balances between worlds. His characters are not the same London Dandis. In “Gentlemen ,, Collin Farrell in a whale -fiber tracksuit personalizes the irony and the British working class, while Mickey Pirson plays Matthew McConahi, who plays elegant costumes in his beloved cage. Costumar artist Michael Wilkinson created an entire wardrobe in different tones for him: from deep burgundy to heaven. Meanwhile, the costumes loved MacConachs very much and the actor took a few houses. In Rock Rock-N Rollier ,, costumes emphasize the social ladder: from cheap tracksuits to luxury expensive jackets, each image shows the level of the hero in the crime world.

What is the last?

Guy Richie did not do it in front of anyone: Handuts turned into stylish characters inspired by a good half of the fashion community. The gentleman is stylish and street aggression, irony and contrast of danger – exactly what makes them icon. It turns out that the director’s films are not only crime stories, but also the history of the British style. And perhaps this is the main secret of Guy Richie’s universe.