jdurbin - The Monday Morning Memo

Cult movie. The Guy Ritchie film Snatch. A multiple plotted heist flick. His first full length brought action filmer Jason Statham to American audiences, Brad Pitt loved that movie so much, he took a crazy part of a fast talking, cockney-slang speaking gypsy in Snatch. Profanity laced, so check out the TV cut.

-Jonathon Durbin

“I didn't play golf, and he had never smoked marijuana. I was a nail chewer, inclined to brood, and dubious of the motives of other people. He was big and placid, uniformly kind to strangers and friends, and never went anywhere without whistling a little song. I minored in philosophy. He fell asleep watching television. He fell asleep in movie theaters, too, and occasionally, I suspected, while driving. He had been in the navy during World War II, which taught him, he said, to sleep whenever he could. I, still troubled no doubt by perplexing questions of ontology and epistemology raised during my brief flirtation with logical positivism ten years earlier, was an insomniac. I was also a Jew, of a sort; he was, when required, an Episcopalian.”

- Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs, 2009

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