lock stock and two smoking bar

Non-Print text Guy Ritchie, the director of Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, routinely uses literary and other codes, but also depends on technical, symbolic and audio codes to convey his themes in the feature film. These issues include family, repaying of debt, and gambling. The codes used also dramatise the situation Technical codes are used abundantly to create impact and to portray the theme of gambling in the scene where the protagonist enters a …

…theme family, is portrayed as important through Ritchie’s directing in the scenes of the murder and of the walk down the street. These scenes employ the use of the filmic codes of audio, technical, and symbolic codes to convey their theme. The issue of gambling is described as dangerous and unnecessary through the scene of the card match through the use of these same three codes, as too is the theme of paying debts.