It's an over stylized, preening mess of "look at me" acting, tired cliches and scenery chewing not seen since Al Pacino and Mandy Patinkin shared a stage. Brad Pitt is a walking children's party clown in this movie.
@@jamespfitz You really don’t get it, pmsl. By all means have your opinion, but it doesn’t make it valid *just* because it’s an opinion - you’re talking utter shite.
It's not rhyming slang that I previously knew, but I'm guessing it's short for Jacob's Cream Crackers - knackers (bollocks, balls or testicles, for our non-UK friends :-) ). That word is going into my vocabulary right now. :-) scontent.harristeeter.com/legacy/productimagesroot/DJ/2/907432.jpg
@M A L L A M I'm more than familiar with the Cockney accent. I'd actually like to think I do a pretty good one myself. But I really don't think that's what he said. Considering the word prior was "Mohammed" & "Aihmad" is another Arabic proper name, I'm gonna stick to my premonition. I'll have to watch that scene with subtitles though because I'm genuinely curious at this point.
hisoj I get the same vibe from Alan Ford that I get from Ray Liotta; both strike me as being capable of extreme violence. Great actors the both of them.
To be honest he still comes across as a restrained psycho in real life. A psycho who has to act half normally given the job. A bit like Geoff Bell (another scary dude), always think they seem like they’d knock your block off down the boozer if you spilt their pint :D :D
@@danielhenderson762 Well, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Frederico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock never won a best director Oscar to name but a few, but thats just my bad taste I think.
I don't know why Alan Ford didn't go on to be a big star after that. Still the Bricktop performance was memorable. Arguably the star of the show in a movie with a stellar cast and wonderful one liners. A genuine British gem.
@@JayCity10 He also did some funny sketches in the Armando Iannucci Show as a very bricktop-esque character. The washing machine repair makes me laugh every time along with the dyslexic cockney
I don't think that anyone else could have played the part as well as Alan Ford, absolutely brilliant and just so amusing as well as threatening in the same breath. Well done Alan, more of same please!
Im an american and I love British film making. And this is my favorite film ever. Guy Ricthie is the man. Alan Ford is right too. There is no "star" of this movie. Everyone has a chance to shine, brilliantly..........like an 86 karet diamond..............some of the most memorable charactures of all time. The most quotable film ever! Simply BRILLIANT!!
When you watch actor's trying to play a bad guy they have to be at the top of there game to even get close to how menacing alan ford plays brick top its an absolute gem of a performance only rivaled in my opinion by sir ben Kingsley in sexy beast
Alan Ford was an actor struggling for regular work for years - everything from Shakespeare to TV parts - until Snatch and Two Smoking Barrels made him a more bankable character star (he wrote about it in his novel, Thin Ice. Fantastic to see that he got rewarded as he is tremendous in this key role - to me, Ford's portrayal of Brick Top makes the movie.
Guy Ritchie's work is simply AWESOME and his cast (Alan Ford, Jason Statham,Benicio del Toro,Vinnie Jones, Rade Šerbedžija & of course Brad Pitt) is just perfect. Waiting for his latest film EAGERLY !
I've been watching this movie over and over again. While they have all done a splendid job in the movie, I'd have to say that Alan Ford's character took the cake away. What a brilliant actor!
Haven’t watched it in a decade. Still managed to recite every line in this clip. I can’t think of a line in it which doesn’t work as a quote. Top film.
Def. in my top 10, but man, I saw this during my english movie phase, which started with kidulthood, there are so many of these good english social, gangster, situational films, Ive seen a lot and there are more to see, even older ones. English have really good social presence in their films, I guess its the language and the social honesty.
That's really very insightful of you I think, that social honesty thing. Shane Meadows films are very good examples of that. Also Mike Leigh, who isn't known for making films about hard men so much as finding the humour in the every day lives of folks having a hard time. I like my American kitchen sink dramas too, though it seems there isn't quite the same appetite for unflinching socal honesty unless it's front and center of the story rather than merely a matter of fact. Shameless getting it's 8th season suggests I'm probably wrong about that though.
And although some might think of it as just a low budget, silly alien movie, Attack the Block has more in common with Kidulthood than it does Doctor Who.
Alan Ford's performance in Snatch made all the mob characters in Godfather and other mobster movies combined look amateurish. His personality,smile, pig feeding frenzy and accent made him the most evil character in all gangster movies. Truly iconic. I love this movie's very dark humor. One of Guy Richie's masterpieces. Thanks for the upload.v
Who remembers him in An American Werewolf In London? He was a cab driver in that... As Bricktop, Mr Ford out shined himself. It made Snatch my favorite movie of all time!
The problem with making a classic like ‘Snatch’ is that it’s so hard to out-do or even match for the director. The interweaving of the various threads is sheer brilliance.
I kind of like that it is almost impossible to reproduce. The emotional reaction is to always want more of something good, and of course I do too. But it's also something so awesome and beautiful of something great just standing there on it's own, never to be equaled nor reproduced.
The Gentleman was pretty great... Snatch is still better but there's elements like pacing and the story points interweaving that The Gentleman pulls off better than Snatch did
I remember reciting all over Bricktop's lines as a kid. Such a memorable character. 'If I throw a dog a bone, I don't want to hear if it tastes good or nor.'
Alan shows that by not flayling about and just staying calm and calculated, you can create a frightning gangster. American cinema can learn something from that.
Mr. Ford did a great job as Brick top, you have to give it up for Guy, for writing the most memorable lines in cinematic history. And Alan Ford, for a perfect delivery. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
One of my all time favorites. Came out around the same time as Lemony Snicketts A Series of Unfortunate Events. Always thought that was the proper name for snatch. The dialog in this movie is hilarious.
Thats why when you watch a scene on UA-cam of any movie you'll get a bunch of Millennials in the comments section saying , ' they should do a remake of this movie' .
To be fair, some of the superhero ones are good. And also to be fair, Lock, Stock and Snatch opened the floodgates to a ton of inferior imitators, too. How many films were made about the Essex Boys?
I love how Guy Ritchie pick totaly unsuspicious person actors as a chaotic villain. The man you see on the street and never expect he's a psychopath and a mob boss.
The fact that he can shhh a whole room of people... goes from a background of a roomful of rough men watching dog fights to absolute silence with an occasional dog yip. That's some heavy shit right there... to just casually expect everyone to obey minor cues & everyone instantly complying
I watched that film and straight away watch it again. 10 years later when my lads were old enough we all watched it together ……then watched it again. Great film simple as.
Hence The Saying ''Hungry As A Piggy'' In One Sitting - Best Actor Ritchie Gone So Well Getting Brad + The Srtath & Alan Ford Alone ...Such A Legend 10/10 movie 🎥 🎥
One of the best bad guy characters I ever watched. You know what is scarier than a thug screaming that he is going to break your legs? How about a guy casually telling how he would dispose of your body, he makes it sound like normal practice. Definitely one of my favorite acting talents in this movie. Never heard" I am sweet enough" sound so threatening lol
"The movie ITSELF is the star"
He's so right, big names mean nothing without a great story & dialogue & Snatch has it all 2000%+
It's an over stylized, preening mess of "look at me" acting, tired cliches and scenery chewing not seen since Al Pacino and Mandy Patinkin shared a stage. Brad Pitt is a walking children's party clown in this movie.
@@jamespfitz always that one lad
@@jamespfitz go back to watching avengers and shut up will you
@@jamespfitz you’re full of sh*t. This is a classic. Go make me a sammich Jimmy
@@jamespfitz You really don’t get it, pmsl. By all means have your opinion, but it doesn’t make it valid *just* because it’s an opinion - you’re talking utter shite.
I really wish Ford did so much more after Snatch. He's a brilliant actor.
OfficialEVANLUTION he did.
check out Cockneys vs Zombies
I know... he's brilliant
And he was a voice actor in fable
Is he?
Saw him walking down the street once, tried to speak to him and now I'm lacking Jacobs
LMAO!! Next time don't ask him for any inside info on a bare knuckle fight
you never had any to begin with
What does he do with all the Jacobs ?
@AffiliatePro you sound like a quadriplegic with that grammar,go and put the kettle on.
It's not rhyming slang that I previously knew, but I'm guessing it's short for Jacob's Cream Crackers - knackers (bollocks, balls or testicles, for our non-UK friends :-) ). That word is going into my vocabulary right now. :-)
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"I don't care if is name is Mohammed I'm Hard Bruce Lee"
In tears at that line.
Ditto mate. And also "It's not as if he's a set of fuckin' car keys"
"in the quiet words of the virgin mary, come again?"
Thought it was "I'm mad"
I heard "Aimad" not "I'm hard"
@M A L L A M I'm more than familiar with the Cockney accent. I'd actually like to think I do a pretty good one myself. But I really don't think that's what he said. Considering the word prior was "Mohammed" & "Aihmad" is another Arabic proper name, I'm gonna stick to my premonition. I'll have to watch that scene with subtitles though because I'm genuinely curious at this point.
incredible to see an actor being a normal human being, when the movie makes me think he's a psychopath in real life. he is damn good.
hisoj I get the same vibe from Alan Ford that I get from Ray Liotta; both strike me as being capable of extreme violence. Great actors the both of them.
he doesn't look sane even in real life tho
To be honest he still comes across as a restrained psycho in real life. A psycho who has to act half normally given the job. A bit like Geoff Bell (another scary dude), always think they seem like they’d knock your block off down the boozer if you spilt their pint :D :D
Kyonshi ‘Orrible....
He’s a great actor in real life too.
Brick Top's dialogue about how pigs eat and how to dispose of a dead body properly is one of the best film narratives ever. Love this character!
brick top was class in this movie
To be fair brick top has only been in this movie.
Daniel Jones Alan Ford has been an actor going back over 40yrs. Check imdb.com
He played virtually the same character in The 100 Year-Old Man who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
One of the meanest, most heartless SOBs I’ve ever seen in a movie.
The whole cast was class in this movie.
"...and he's not exactly inconfukinspicuous..." pure poetry, worthy of the Bard hisself. Great character, great bloke.
Gone into common usage, along with 'insignificunt' and 'bin-nocilaars'
I still find myself constantly reciting Bricktop lines on a daily basis 😂😂
"Of course fuckin' of course" and "no thank you Turkish, I'm sweet enough" are very common here haha.
Goodie gumdrops
I hope this not a bad moment
Do you know what nemesis meeeans?
Punish him for me, Errol.
Snatch should’ve won multiple Oscars
I don’t think so, most movies who win oscars are shite
@@KokkiePiet u have bad taste then. Marvel and fast and furious r shite
@@danielhenderson762 Well, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Frederico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock never won a best director Oscar to name but a few, but thats just my bad taste I think.
Oscars are lame, bunch of snobs smelling their own farts.
@@KokkiePiet so well over 50% of Oscar winners are shite movies according to you?
You've got all the qualities of a dog....except loyalty.
I like dags
Yes, characteristics, aft. Thank you,
TButs 585 - "but I got no time for grasses!!!"
😂😂
"Feed em to the pigs Errol!"
I don't know why Alan Ford didn't go on to be a big star after that. Still the Bricktop performance was memorable. Arguably the star of the show in a movie with a stellar cast and wonderful one liners.
A genuine British gem.
I know. It makes no sense. In this movie he clearly showed his immense talent and screen presence. I can only think he didn't want to get typecast.
This was his Hannibal Lecture, his masterpiece.
@@JayCity10 He also did some funny sketches in the Armando Iannucci Show as a very bricktop-esque character. The washing machine repair makes me laugh every time along with the dyslexic cockney
I don't think that anyone else could have played the part as well as Alan Ford, absolutely brilliant and just so amusing as well as threatening in the same breath. Well done Alan, more of same please!
Im an american and I love British film making. And this is my favorite film ever. Guy Ricthie is the man. Alan Ford is right too. There is no "star" of this movie. Everyone has a chance to shine, brilliantly..........like an 86 karet diamond..............some of the most memorable charactures of all time. The most quotable film ever! Simply BRILLIANT!!
I have a friend of 12 years and every time I stop in for a visit he greets me with "Oink, oink".
You need to see "The Gentlemen"
He says there's no star in the movie when clearly he is the best thing about it. I will hold my hands up and say this is the best film ever
my Favorite Film
Strong words runt
I think by that he means it's an ensemble cast, there's no lead actor, every character is equal
Love this movie....so may high quality actors doing portrayals of incredible characters.
But I agree with him, everybody was perfect in that film and it didn't really have a main character. The movie is the star as it should be.
Damn... Ford literally won my heart after this movie...definetly one of a kind actor...
And I also miss Farina so much
'Looks like we're in Guvnor'
'Goody gumdrops. Get us a cuppa tea would you Errol?'
Is it not “Harold”?
@@EducationProfessional-pc6ep no its not
@@DeathEgg666 🤯your right! Always thought the cockney dropping of the "h" made it sound like errol!
bricktop made the film for me,alan fords come a long way since he was the taxi driver in american werewolf in london,brilliant actor,
***** he said that he was the taxi driver in the movie "American Werewolf in London" not in the movie "Taxi".
No fanks, Turkish... I'm sweet enough.
It's ''thank you'', you bloody yank
kapitan19969838 shut up red coat.
its no thankyou
puh the ke'el on, turkishhh
@Jakethemuss divia
When you watch actor's trying to play a bad guy they have to be at the top of there game to even get close to how menacing alan ford plays brick top its an absolute gem of a performance only rivaled in my opinion by sir ben Kingsley in sexy beast
yeah Ben was ace. Both menacing and funny in equal.
coot coot coot coot coot
Kingsley is an absolute psycho in that film...
Have a look at Ray Winstone in ‘London Boulevard’ he plays a great gangster in it
Alan Ford had the greatest lines in film history.
"Anything to declare?"
"Yeah. Don't go to England."
"I can't care if he's Muhammad 'I'm hard' Bruce Lee!"
That line got me
And that line was even in the script. Alan Ford forgot his line n it just came to him out of thun air
I can't get enough of this film. I rewatch it atleast once or twice a year with my brother
The best film of all time
Alan Ford was an actor struggling for regular work for years - everything from Shakespeare to TV parts - until Snatch and Two Smoking Barrels made him a more bankable character star (he wrote about it in his novel, Thin Ice. Fantastic to see that he got rewarded as he is tremendous in this key role - to me, Ford's portrayal of Brick Top makes the movie.
The dialogue in it, especially Fords, is incredible. It just flows off the tongue.
Guy Ritchie's work is simply AWESOME and his cast (Alan Ford, Jason Statham,Benicio del Toro,Vinnie Jones, Rade Šerbedžija & of course Brad Pitt) is just perfect. Waiting for his latest film EAGERLY !
He’s made a new movie!
I've been watching this movie over and over again. While they have all done a splendid job in the movie, I'd have to say that Alan Ford's character took the cake away. What a brilliant actor!
couldnt have chose anyone better for the part
Lol is that YOU Boris?
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OI ! Where's Bobby @ ?
The kinky Caveman Message ME ! ;)
You've got to be kidding me :D
Haven’t watched it in a decade. Still managed to recite every line in this clip. I can’t think of a line in it which doesn’t work as a quote. Top film.
He is the best fucking actor!
This and Lock Stock are my 2 favourite films ever. Brick top has to be one of the all time great villains, very funny.
Def. in my top 10, but man, I saw this during my english movie phase, which started with kidulthood, there are so many of these good english social, gangster, situational films, Ive seen a lot and there are more to see, even older ones. English have really good social presence in their films, I guess its the language and the social honesty.
Me too!
That's really very insightful of you I think, that social honesty thing. Shane Meadows films are very good examples of that. Also Mike Leigh, who isn't known for making films about hard men so much as finding the humour in the every day lives of folks having a hard time. I like my American kitchen sink dramas too, though it seems there isn't quite the same appetite for unflinching socal honesty unless it's front and center of the story rather than merely a matter of fact. Shameless getting it's 8th season suggests I'm probably wrong about that though.
And although some might think of it as just a low budget, silly alien movie, Attack the Block has more in common with Kidulthood than it does Doctor Who.
LIFE THROUGH MEDIA Any more British movies you would recommend?
i couldnt agree more...five minutes into any guy film and you know its his film...brilliant
Alan Ford himself was an uncut diamond! They could make a movie about him just talking.
Alan Ford's performance in Snatch made all the mob characters in Godfather and other mobster movies combined look amateurish. His personality,smile, pig feeding frenzy and accent made him the most evil character in all gangster movies. Truly iconic. I love this movie's very dark humor. One of Guy Richie's masterpieces. Thanks for the upload.v
Who remembers him in An American Werewolf In London? He was a cab driver in that... As Bricktop, Mr Ford out shined himself. It made Snatch my favorite movie of all time!
*Happy 80th Birthday Alan*
The problem with making a classic like ‘Snatch’ is that it’s so hard to out-do or even match for the director.
The interweaving of the various threads is sheer brilliance.
I kind of like that it is almost impossible to reproduce. The emotional reaction is to always want more of something good, and of course I do too. But it's also something so awesome and beautiful of something great just standing there on it's own, never to be equaled nor reproduced.
The Gentleman was pretty great... Snatch is still better but there's elements like pacing and the story points interweaving that The Gentleman pulls off better than Snatch did
In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary Turkish, come again
Brilliant.
One of the best one liners of all time, delivered perfectly by Alan.
My favourite character in Snatch without a doubt.
Same along side Bullet Tooth Tony and Mickey
Brick top was brilliant in this ..I just love his voice .. could listen to him all day 😀👍🇬🇧
"There was no star of this movie"
For me, it was Brick Top
Absolutely 💯.
"You can watch it for 5 minutes and know it's a Guy Ritchie film". Well said and so true! Great interview with Alan. Love that cockney accent.
"You can keep the silly fat wankah, the lads can't lift him!" hahaha great
my best line
Brick Top's glasses are perfect for him!
20 years later and this movie is still gold
I remember reciting all over Bricktop's lines as a kid. Such a memorable character.
'If I throw a dog a bone, I don't want to hear if it tastes good or nor.'
"do you know what a nemesis is?" that had me both hysterical and horrified all at the same time...great stuff.
Alan shows that by not flayling about and just staying calm and calculated, you can create a frightning gangster. American cinema can learn something from that.
I had never heard of Alan Ford before this film... this film made him unforgettable.
Alan Ford was bloody hilarious in this movie. Made it so much better 🙌
"It can get you in a lot o' trouble thinkin' Errol... I shouldn't do so much of it"
It was a rhetorical question, 'Errol. What have I told you about thinking?
He's a useless shiite that boy... punish him for me Errol
@Mario Lisa Well put, well put indeed.
Snatch is up there with Fight Club as Brad Pitt's best movies.
Mr. Ford did a great job as Brick top, you have to give it up for Guy, for writing the most memorable lines in cinematic history. And Alan Ford, for a perfect delivery. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
His performance in Snatch placed Ford on my list of favorite actors.
“Punish him for me Errol” fave line
What the fuck are you two looking at?!
I have watched this movies so many times that i can utter the dialogues while its being said.
What a bloody classic performance.
Do you know what "nemisis" means?
"A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt.. me"
TButs 585 no. I know what nemesis means though.
Oh brother I'm getting destroyed on this post!
best movie line ever
@@CameronKaake Oh, did he say horrible? I always thought he said honorable.
Ford plays the Bricktop style again in Lillyhammer
I Have had the privilege of working with this Beautiful Legend\m/X
jesus listening to Fords interview its like hes still in character this role was made for him
this guy was my favorite character. his favorite scene is also mine lol
best line in the movie is Bricktop's "In the quiet words of the virgin mary, come again?" Snatch is an all time great :)
He's a useless shite that boy. Punish him for me Errol.
One of my top 10 all time movies. Watched it 20+ times. His character literally made me uneasy...fuckin great actor he is
One of my all time favorites. Came out around the same time as Lemony Snicketts A Series of Unfortunate Events. Always thought that was the proper name for snatch. The dialog in this movie is hilarious.
The movie itself is the star...reminds of films of old. Where the story was the star!
+kik ass Keep going, there are so many one-liner's you could go all day!
The best actor in all of history
Dude is just underrated & underworked.. Such a BAMF in this movie.
Brilliant, brilliant actor, plays the part like nobody else could. would love to see him in more
Every now and then a true Masterpiece like this comes out.
Nowadays it's all Random Superhero part 17 bullshit.
Thats why when you watch a scene on UA-cam of any movie you'll get a bunch of Millennials in the comments section saying , ' they should do a remake of this movie' .
Wow. Really well said. Never thought of it that way, but you're absolutely right!
To be fair, some of the superhero ones are good. And also to be fair, Lock, Stock and Snatch opened the floodgates to a ton of inferior imitators, too. How many films were made about the Essex Boys?
I love how Guy Ritchie pick totaly unsuspicious person actors as a chaotic villain. The man you see on the street and never expect he's a psychopath and a mob boss.
The fact that he can shhh a whole room of people... goes from a background of a roomful of rough men watching dog fights to absolute silence with an occasional dog yip. That's some heavy shit right there... to just casually expect everyone to obey minor cues & everyone instantly complying
The character of Bricktop made this movie, Alan Ford was the perfect person to perform the role
One of my top 5 all time films, so many characters, many of whom I have in life, guy Richie really blends the dialogue and cinematography perfectly
The way he uses those teeth for intimidation
So true. He exposes them when he’s angry like a dog.
It was his breath, he looks like he hadnt flossed in yrs
Englishman have fuck all teeth b
The Snatch intro reminds me so much of good old GTA 2
The kinky Caveman lol
The kinky Caveman hah yea, I played it through last year again
The kinky Caveman
/watch?v=o3FArI4TVZ4
Snatch is one of my favorite movies, bricktop is one of my favorite characters, along with bullet-tooth Tony
That scxene is one of my favs. But the whole Tyrone as a getaway driver, scene is my 1st fav.
''You bet your bollocks to a Barn Dance you're not backing out''-- Bricktop .
Great Film.
Brick Top's my favourite movie gangster.
Thats an absolutely excellent interview 👌
This is my all time favorite. This movie is just perfect. Watched this almost 50+ times already and im still watching this when im bored. Haha
You’re getting out your depth Alan, when people get out their depth they end up drowning.
One of the best films ever made
Snatch is definitely in my top 10 all time fave flicks. Brilliant.
I watched that film and straight away watch it again. 10 years later when my lads were old enough we all watched it together ……then watched it again. Great film simple as.
"Punish 'im for me Errol ..."
"You are on thin fucking ice, Turkish. And I shall be under it when it breaks."
Great casting of Alan as Brick Top, one of the many that made this an awesome movie.
Got Brick Top image on the wall along with Joker, Anton Chigurh and Moriarty. Brilliant character. :)
Washing machine repair thug... Marvelous, Alan is a national treasure...
'What? This kettle?'
I love Brad Pitt's expression at 4:41, cracks me up!
"Oops!"
Well...he laikes dags, that would be why
Can't believe this film is 19 years old great movie and 1 of my top 10 movie's of all time
The most realistic cockney in film history, my family are from White Chapel London and this spot on ❤️ Brick Top.
Do ye like dags.
"I fucking hate dogs!"
*DÆGS?*
"who took the jam out of your doughnut" aka why you in a bad mood,... lol i love English slang
You took the jam out of my doughnut, Tommy, you did.
Hence The Saying ''Hungry As A Piggy'' In One Sitting - Best Actor Ritchie Gone So Well Getting Brad + The Srtath & Alan Ford Alone ...Such A Legend 10/10 movie 🎥 🎥
He's gone down in the gangster hall of fame for this role. Brick Top was a brilliant character. Bang on
One of the best bad guy characters I ever watched. You know what is scarier than a thug screaming that he is going to break your legs? How about a guy casually telling how he would dispose of your body, he makes it sound like normal practice. Definitely one of my favorite acting talents in this movie. Never heard" I am sweet enough" sound so threatening lol