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作者：ceo/cfo 在 海归茶馆 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
layer Cake (also spelled L4YER CAK3) is a 2004 British gangster thriller, directed by Matthew Vaughn. It is based on a novel of the same name by J. J. Connolly.
The title refers to the human social strata, especially in the British crime underworld, as well as the numerous plot layers in the film. "The layer Cake is a metaphor for different levels of British society, whether it's the crime world or anything else", says director Matthew Vaughn. "The movie’s about showing how drugs are everywhere and it doesn’t matter who or where you are, you’re only one person away from drugs, scoring drugs or being involved with criminals. There's a speech at the end of the film where Temple uses layer Cake as a metaphor for life and how you go up and up and up from one layer of the cake and to the next."
Plot
The film centers around an unnamed cocaine dealer in the center of London played by Daniel Craig (known in the credits as XXXX). Craig's character has established a successful business buying, cutting and selling cocaine by using intelligence and self control to avoid the largesses and gangster behaviors associated with the business. Now having made his fortune through hard work and great care, he plans to retire from the drug industry for good.
Daniel Craig as the unnamed protagonist
Daniel Craig as the unnamed protagonist
However, XXXX's boss, Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) sends him to track down the teenage daughter (Nathalie Lunghi) of his associate, Eddie Temple (Michael Gambon), who has fled a rehabilitation center with her drug addicted boyfriend. In reality, XXXX is being sent to kidnap the daughter in an attempt to force Temple to retrieve £13 million Price had invested in a mine operation near Timbuktu. However, as a Communist coup takes place in the country their investment becomes worthless and Price informs Temple he had invested most of his money in the venture. Temple's incredulous reaction makes Price believe he has been manipulated, and he plans to use Temples daughter as leverage to force Temple to get his money back. Price also orders the protagonist to broker and organize the purchase and distribution of 1 million ecstasy tablets from a flashy gangster named The Duke. The fact they had been stolen from a gang of Serbian war criminals feared throughout the criminal community (and left alive after the heist) is not mentioned at first. Price believes that either Temple's skilled mercenaries or a Serbian hitman connected to the gang will see the unnamed protagonist killed one way or another, and perhaps the return of his lost money.
More trouble ensues for the lead character when he finds out who Price really works for; XXXX's associate, Morty (George Harris) brutally retaliates against a former associate in a filled restaurant; part of the Duke's gang mysteriously disappears, and the ruthless Temple involves himself in the already bungled ecstasy deal.
In the last scene of the film, having escaped the drug world and its danger, XXXX is in the act of celebrating his escape when he is suddenly and unexpectedly shot on the front steps of the Country Club by the Duke's dim-witted nephew for stealing his girlfriend, Tammy (Sienna Miller), and the protagonist's fate is left ambiguous.
作者：ceo/cfo 在 海归茶馆 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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 Bring this up to answer Fer. 兄的问题。Layer Cake 是部黑帮片 -- ceo/cfo - (3319 Byte) 2008-6-07 周六, 22:35 (1418 reads)
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