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Ritchie’s ‘Revolver’ targets crime world
By Stephen Schaefer / Movies
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 - Updated 45m ago

Ever since he scored with his 1998 English hit “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” director Guy Ritchie has mostly made gangster movies of one kind or another. Friday’s “Revolver” has to be one of the strangest.

Starring Jason Statham as a winning gambler and Ray Liotta as the strangely named crime boss Dorothy Macha, “Revolver” orbits around a shrink’s version of a duel to the death.

“I do appreciate that this movie isn’t for everyone and that it’s not easy to get,” said Ritchie, 39. “It’s actually a simple movie, but it’s funny how people think it’s a complicated movie.”

A fan of “the confidence trick and the genre of movies that are con tricks,” he wanted to make a movie that said, “Ultimately the biggest con man was hiding within your own head.”

This psychological approach with mind-game questions about who is really the enemy, “is consistent with rules of the con and consistent with the mystical aspect of religion, which is that the devil is a trickster. That idea I liked very much,” he said.

Is this influenced by his and wife Madonna’s interest in the Kabbalah?

“It’s influenced by everything I’ve been,” he said.

About being married to a superstar, “It works because, first, I love her. That helps in a marriage. I actually like her, which is even more rare in a marriage,” he said.

Ritchie’s next gangster project, “RocknRolla,” stars Gerard Butler and is due next year.

Source: Boston Herald



Also, another US report with some cute footage.