Cheers to my friend Paul for pointing me to the quote of the week from Guy Ritchie, featured in a recent Esquire interview. It’s the same piece that has already attained a measure of press attention for his description of Madonna as “retarded,” but this metaphor for his filmmaking oeuvre (handily condensed by the Guardian) is the real keeper:
“What you’ve got with marmalade is fucking bitter and sweet,” Guy explains. “Now, the marmalade at [the place they had breakfast], that’s an accessible marmalade. And my sensibility is accessible. My nature is, I like accessible shit. The first two accessible movies I made, Lock, Stock and Snatch, they are accessible.
The next two aren’t accessible. First there’s Swept Away, which, well, everyone gets confused on, because of Madonna. And the next one [Revolver] is just conceptual. That one – that’s just pure esoteric marmalade. You can tell a lot by a person’s marmalade. My palate is really a fine shred, it’s accessible. I’m not saying I won’t test you. Because all marmalade tests you.”
No word yet on what type of marmalade “Sherlock Holmes” will be. Maybe he’s switched to jam.
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3 responses to “Guy Ritchie on ‘esoteric marmalade’”
A very interesting article by Esquire.
Certainly hope Holmes isn’t the rock ’em sock ’em movie the trailer makes it out to be.
I’m pretty sure that’s exactly the movie “Sherlock Holmes” is.
Guy Ritchie is a lousy filmmaker and a bore. WHo gives a ca ca what he has to say about marmalade or anything else under the sun.