The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Flicks (2024)

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Henry Cavill, Alex Pettyfer, & Hero Fiennes Tiffin talk with Patrick Stoner about how Guy Ritchie & similar films work best in the theater.
Flicks is a program devoted to exploring the latest creations from Hollywood. Each week, WHYY film critic Patrick Stoner provides up-to-the-minute coverage of top films, stars and moviemakers.
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be a guy Richie film like the ministry
of ungentlemanly warfare is a
combination of fast cutting action and
eccentric humor it's Unique that's my
take but I asked the Stars Henry cavl
Alex peder and heroine stiffen what a
guy Richie film was to them and in the
theaters I think guy is great at
crafting character okay and he knows a
lot of characters and so he has an
understanding of what is interesting he
can recognize it almost immediately he
can verbalize it and he can give us an
example which then we can run with and
he will let us run free and if the idea
is terrible he will ridicule us but it's
done in such a good-natured way and that
when someone does have a good idea
they're Al so praised and raised up to
what extent do you think we're actually
getting back into going to the theater
anymore you you know it's it's a really
interesting question because I had this
conversation with Carrie El uh two
nights ago and he was telling me about a
conversation he had with Bob zus he says
and we are a different generation of
movie lovers he goes because in this
generation that there is only two things
really that you have to be on time for a
flight and a movie
I think over the last 10 years there is
this
increasingly uh more thirst for great
films and look at the summer that we had
last year with Oppenheimer and Barbie
you know um we want to go to these event
movies but we don't want just to go to
event for big IP we want to go to event
to see a fun cinematic experience well
now you you've grown up during the era
though when we've gone away from that
where streaming is is more important to
what extent do you identify with with
what they're saying it's the convenience
and comfort that tricks you into
thinking it's a good thing but it's
actually not because you get to a point
where you realize you've missed a bit or
you've lost interest or or whatever and
there's no there's no feeling that even
people in my generation or people who
are younger I'm sure they resonated but
hopefully been to at least one viewing
at at the cinema where you you know you
everyone laughs at the same time it's
also watching with people and it's the
commitment to it that's what I noticed
most when I'm watching something in
America and a lot more of a vocality In
from from the audience and I really
enjoy I really enjoyed that for me
that's not I don't think it's the same
in in Britain as it is there we can be a
bit stiff up a l we sort of enjoy
quietly with manners but uh stop eating
your pop I like the idea of you know bit
of yeah terribly so yes absolutely so
absolutely in London I'm Patrick Stoner
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