The Pusher

Titolo originale: Layer Cake
Regia: Matthew Vaughn
Anno: 2004
Origine: United Kingdom
Generi: Dramma Thriller Crime
Tag: london, england | based on novel or book | drug smuggling | hitman | kidnapping | gangster | drug trafficking | ecstasy | cocaine | drug mule | mission of murder | murder | cafe | biting | rooftop | hostile | neo-noir | complex | crack head | bold | brisk |
Cast: Daniel Craig Sienna Miller Tom Hardy Colm Meaney George Harris Sally Hawkins Kenneth Cranham Jamie Foreman Michael Gambon Ben Whishaw Dragan Mićanović Stephen Walters Louis Emerick Dexter Fletcher Tamer Hassan Jason Flemyng Nathalie Lunghi Rab Affleck Burn Gorman Steve John Shepherd Daniel Moorehead Francis Magee Philip Howard Darren Sean Enright James Dodd Kelly-Marie Kerr Nick Thomas-Webster Don McCorkindale Budge Prewitt Neil Finnighan Ben Brazier Ivan Kaye Darren Healy Matt Ryan Paul Orchard Marvin Benoit Garry Tubbs Dimitri Andreas Marcel Iureș Brinley Green Peter Rnic Kerri Kravin

The Pusher, cioè chi spaccia o comunque commercia la droga, racconta le vicende, ingarbugliatissime, di un giovane commerciante di cocaina, che detto così può sembrare una cosa normale, se si osserva la faccenda dal punto di vista puramente commerciale. L'uomo è XXXX, cioè non ha un nome, ma una bella reputazione tra le canaglie par suo. Il giorno che decide di ritirarsi dagli affari e godersi la vita deve patteggiare con i suoi ex complici, che pretendono da lui alcune prestazioni extra prima di lasciare: rintracciare la figlia scomparsa e tossicodipendente di un boss, fare da intermediario tra un certo Duca e l'amico che gli ha chiesto i favori a proposito di una partita di droga contesa dai due bastardi. Facile a dirsi, in realtà una trappola per topi.

Approfondimenti

Jason Flemyng (Crazy Larry) and Dexter Fletcher (Cody) starred years earlier in the sleeper hit [...]	D
Marcel Iures plays a Serbian drug dealer (Slavo), yet, being a Romanian actor, he speaks Romani [...]	D
The café in which Morty pours out the teapot is a real-life café in London. You can get b [...]	D
In the penultimate scene at Stoke Park country club, XXXX and his fellow drug dealers are eatin [...]	D
In the novel, the protagonist and his hired cold sniper shoot an American tourist, mistaking hi [...]	D
The warehouse where XXXX meets Eddie Temple was mostly empty, and most of the crates seen in it [...]	D
The actor who played Duke is Jamie Foreman, son of notorious London gang enforcer Freddie Forem [...]	D
"Layer Cake" author J.J. Connolly designated his protagonist as "XXXX" in his mind until he cou [...]	D
The phonetics ("radio alphabet") "Delta-Uniform-Kilo-Echo" are spoken in sentence over the poli [...]	D
Body Count: ten (eleven if XXXX died).	D
Louis Emerick (Trevor) was originally intended to play Morty, but his Liverpool accent was a ba [...]	D
Daniel Craig (XXXX) and Ben Whishaw (Sidney) would re-unite years later in the Bond movies Skyf [...]	D
The original ending, the ending Sony Pictures wanted producer and director Matthew Vaughn to us [...]	D
In the opening montage, XXXX walks through a pharmacy, in which he imagines all of the products [...]	D
The warehouse where XXXX meets Eddie Temple is the largest of its kind in the U.K.	D
The door into Eddie Temple's library is a façade of books, including Dante Alighieri, on the [...]	D
The song that plays while XXXX and Morty drive to see Jimmy was intended to be a temporary trac [...]	D
When XXXX enters the house after his encounter with Eddie Temple, a poster that reads "The Devi [...]	D
When charming American girls at a bar in this movie, Cody tells Tiptoes that he is pretending t [...]	D
"Layer Cake" author J.J. Connolly wanted to play Lucky in this movie.	D
Eddie Temple mocks England ("typical!") as he plays an Irishman. Actor Gambon is, indeed Irish. [...]	D
The silenced pistol with which XXXX kills Jimmy Price is a Chinese Type 67, a very obscure pist [...]	D
The first draft of the screenplay was four hundred eight pages long. The book on which it was b [...]	D
The "f" word and its derivatives are said 210 times throughout this movie.	D
When Gene gives XXXX a handgun, producer and director Matthew Vaughn said on the DVD commentary [...]	D
It was Daniel Craig's performance in this movie that caused producer Barbara Broccoli to take n [...]	D
Guy Ritchie was in place to direct, but other commitments meant he had to drop out.	D