Most of Guy Ritchie’s movies have been stories of friendship between men, attempts to restore a much-needed confidence in a gender-neutral era. His rock music-video montages, clever dialogue, often in slang, and romantic interest in the criminal underworld have preserved the only remaining area of freedom for men in cinema. His preferred mode is comic, he likes focusing on the strangest thing about men, our tendency to boast and strut. In our times, words like legend and king are thrown around, especially online, but it’s unclear whether this is anything but advertising. We like to tell tall tales.
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