The Study Of The Postmodern Style Of Guy Ritchie's Film

The British director Guy Ritchie was not trained by film, but he was famous in Hollywood since he directed his personal first film Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and became one of the hottest movie directors. Then he directed Snatch. Both the two films saturated with strong postmodernism feelings, and they also laid Guy Ritchie's personal movie style. Ritchie has photographed Revolver, Swept Away, RocknRolla and Sherlock Holmes series films, but the public's evaluation are mixed about those films. Among them,Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are the best represents of Ritchie's style,and they are popular in the world.With the exception of commercial value,the two films also has high aesthetic value, they make Guy Ritchie winning in money and honor.Postmodernism style is not Guy Ritchie's exclusive style, but is a obvious style of him.With strong postmodernism style,Guy Ritchie gets overnight success,but also draw people's controversial. People think of Guy Ritchie's style is a copy of American director Quentin Tarantino. But the author think it's a kind of developing trend of postmodernism style. There must be inheritance between directors to make development of good film. It is Guy Ritchie's inherit and carry forward of Quentin to make more films with postmodernism feelings appeared,and also leading to a development of films throughout the world, including China.Everything is contradictory, so we should take dialectical attitude and development view to Guy Ritchie's movies, because the development of postmodernism culture has been overwhelming, and postmodernism style films have more potential. We need to wait and see.This thesis mainly includes three chapters:The first chapter focuses on Guy Ritchie and his road of movie. This chapter mainly introduces the untrained Guy Ritchie is famous of Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and the film lays the postmodernism style of Guy Ritchie's films.The second chapter mainly shows the postmodernism style of Guy Ritchie's films,including the black humor, the violence, the nonlinear narrative and the unique technique.The third chapter mainly discusses about the value of Guy Ritchie's films and thinking caused by Guy Ritchie's films.By analysis and research of those parts, the thesis is to say that Guy Ritchie's film road and Guy Ritchie films' style and technique of expression, and can have a clear awareness of the value of Guy Ritchie's movies. At the same time, those films can cause people's thinking.