For the people watching this who don't know - one of the greatest things about this film is that Barry the baptist is actually a real hard nut from the east end, bare knuckle boxing legend lenny mclean. There's a book about him called the guv'nor
So true! Its only as an adult that I can see how fucking shit dick van dyke's cockney accent was whoever coached him shouldn't have worked again! On a positive note in Snatch the woman who works in the bookie's when it hets robbed does an amazing cockney accent and she's american in real life!
This film has one of the most well put together plots I've seen. Everything looms in together perfectly and combined with the fast paced action scenes and cockney dialogue its an all round good movie.
Having been brought up in Brixton and lived there from birth, (1943) til I got married in 1969, I can tell you that the dialogue in this film is as true to life as it can be, and the way things were in the 50s and 60s. My late mum was born and bred in Bermondsy and was a true cockney by the sound of Bow Bells. So critics of this film I tell you this, - you don't know your arses from your bleedin' elbows.
+Matt Kilb Really? It's a cracking film. Born, raised and lived in the East End for the majority of my life and other than being an over the top comedy, I can imagine the characters coming from my area
+oldproji I am out of Rotherhithe and to be honest with you i think this is a way over the top version of cockney i know and love. I have worked with people out of every part of London docklands and i have rarely seen people put it on as much has the characters in this film.
And having been born and bred in Edmonton- (or "E'mon'on"- NORF London), and having lived "dahn" there well into me adulthood, I can get your back on that one a hundred and ten percent, mate. Deffo completely legit.
im north walian but my dads sisters married sarf landaners[ww2[ they were from catford and Deptford [men[ and settled in dartford in the 50,s.. all my family were Charlton fans ..and id go with the old man and uncles bill and bob..to the valley[im wrexham fan by the wayp all I remember was geezer types ..rough looking men and women too.. woolwich station beck to erith then a bus to dartford… the old fella worked in euston [after his stint in welsh guards he went awol and wanted to stay down in London..udsed to tell me stories of fred bense [Willesden steam driver[ and how hed throw parcels off when theyd go up to rugby at 3 in the morning[Neasden junction.. rogues everywhere.....
My daughter is three, and whenever she comes to me with a picture she's done, or a completed puzzle, I always say, "Very nice, 'arry! What's it for?" She's started saying it now, and it's freakin' hilarious!
ojideagu Ok, I wasn't trying to say that you don't know what you're talking about. It's just that some New Zealanders speak really fast. And to us, cockney's don't speak that fast at all.
dave474c Well sure most English people don't talk that fast. The fastest cockney speakers work on race tracks and market stalls. Irish people talk faster.
This is Guy Ritchie's best film. Snatch was still great, but felt almost like a redux of Lock Stock. The gritty, the "Lan-Dan" swagger, the coolness and the fantastic dark humour that put a smile on my Chevy chase. A perfect film 👌🏼
"Cockney, Sonja, is an area in London where criminals live. The police don’t arrest them because, and they’re very strict about this, because they only slaughter their own. And they have funerals with horses and floral tributes that say things like “Mum” and “Stab”. -Alan Partridge
These guys, some of the stunts they pull. They’ll chain you to a car that’s been clamped, so the only way you can get yourself free is by phoning the council, but you can’t do that because they’ve shoved your mobile phone up your backside.
@@JonSmith-cx7gr This was in the late 80s, when mobile phones were like big black plastic bricks, with a big rubber breadstick sticking out of the top. It was agony!
@@JonSmith-cx7grmy phone ain't small I've got a Galaxy Note 8 it might be slim but I'm sure it's not going up anyones rear end not until I've finished with it anyway
Lenny McLean playing Barry the Baptist. Allegedly the hardest man in Britain. Thank you RUclips algorithm for dragging up a 12 year old video in all it's 360p glory.
Lennys story is quite fascinating. I recommend checking out the documentary about his life "the guv'nor". An interesting fact about the narrator - he was the cab driver in an American Werewolf in London.
The drowning chap is Tim Maurice-Jones, the Director of Photography having a little cameo in the movie. He also has a cameo in Snatch and gets pistol whipped by Benicio Del Toro in the opening scene. A sucker for punishment I guess ha!
Love the gratuitous examples mate. I've been meaning to change up the way I end my phone calls, I might take "Now, if you don't mind" for a spin and see if I can piss off my whole family.
Not many cockneys left in London anymore. You have to travel out to the surrounding countryside to find them. The "London accent" now is basically just a mixture of African and South Asian dialects.
That's Lenny McLean, the guv'ner. A old East end bare Knuckle boxer. Met him a couple of times. Massive hands. Glad I never got a right hook from him. Nice fella so long as your on his good side 😄 may he rest in peace.
great clip and I agree that ordinarily a cockney would glottalise the /t/ but sometimes they do pronounce a /t/ "properly" as a voiceless alveolar plosive. i've never worked out how they decide whether to or not
If we want to emphasise something, we'll consciously say the "t". E.g. if you hear a mother call her child, she might say, "Oi, Tyrone, ge' 'ere naaa!". But she'll put a "t" on ge' if she's really mad.
Few people know that the guy who plays Barry the Baptist is a Shakespearean and a thesbian. I attended one of his art installations at a studio in Soho where he was also showcasing his new line of craft beer called 'Okay to be Gay', as in happy gay not the other kind. His real name is Tarquin and back in the 90s he was well known as the man who ran a rabbit shelter for unwanted rabbits. His reading of Faust at the Old Vic was quite something and you can't help but admire a man who doesn't kind wearing black fingernail polish and a mini skirt. His charity work is also legendary. He once donated his entire earnings from a season of Catcher in the Rye to the women's institute in memory of the suffragettes. Great guy. Really high, gentle voice in real life. Bit of a shrinking violet. Prefers the company of his rescue hamsters to people. Also I think he once beheaded someone with just his teeth. I might be confusing him with someone else now I think about it. I hope he never reads this.
The term Punter has many definitions depending on the situation. In simplest form it means customer. But the term is mostly used in illegal circles like prostitution and the selling of goods on the black market. It also refers to customers who are naive, ignorant or stupid about what they are involved in. The american version for this term would be Johns or tricks in prostitution, or punks. hope this helped.
Blindin' film. Cheers for that clip, pal. And yep, you're bang on, son: "Liability" would normally be pronounced "Liabili'ee" with a London accent- (very similar to how Barry said "Be'uh", as opposed to "Better.") Take it from a bloke who lived round people who talked like that for donkeys' years. That glottalled 'T' what you're on about ain't just confined to London and Essex talk though. I once had a girlfriend from Sheffield in Yorkshire who used to glottal her Ts and say stuff like "Be'uh" as well.
That could be his phone-voice though. I talk dead posh over the phone as well and so does me mum, but I'm rough as bloody glass-paper when I ain't on the phone. o.o
Yes I agree, this is variation partly due to natural variation and partly due to the nature of scripted performances. The producer would go for the cut that he liked rather than a consistent accent I fear. The point with 'arry's 't's is interesting as he glottals one, has [t] for one and [d] tap for another, all perfectly normal variation in and around london, but one would expect this sort of character to bit more consistent i think.
In my experience, most cockney's throw in a few non-glottal stop 't's now and then, particularly if they are trying to be more emphatic about something. It's dropped 'f's that always fascinated me as in "Spent some time wif me girl 'riend" almost like a softened P.
"Oh no. He's better than good. He's a fuckin' liability!"
Love that quote
I did not get it: I would have used "asset" instead of "liability"
@@nicola.turotti He's so good that's he's going to beat all of them, meaning he's a liability to Harry's operation.
@@nicola.turotti which is why thankfully you're not a screenwriter.
*FACKIN
The film is chocka full of them.
For the people watching this who don't know - one of the greatest things about this film is that Barry the baptist is actually a real hard nut from the east end, bare knuckle boxing legend lenny mclean. There's a book about him called the guv'nor
This deserves more likes
Used to work the door at the hippodrome in Leicester Sq. Got away with murder apparently.
Looked up one of his bouts and the bloke could seriously box.
@@millsbomb007 no, it was manslaughter in self defence. He gave a stupid prize to a player of a stupid game
RIP Lenny
EEEEZA PHHHUCKIN PHEEEF!!! hahahahahahah
Vincent McGhee
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
very nois ary. woseefoa
Right since i heard this line i became a phucking pheeef myself in London!
lmfao .... hes better than good hes a fucking liability
muahahahaaha
love that quote: "he'sa fuckin feef!"
Barry isn't acting, he's just being himself.
Legendary hard man.
Barry is literally Thanos
Barry would have kicked the shit out of Thanos and stuck that gauntlet up his fucking arse.
Darkseid
the guvna
You aa bloody wight
Literally.
barry is the kind of dude so solid even his head seems ripped
ajajajajajajaj
Big chin and large neck muscles, McLean was a boxer
Thats bricktop narrating!
He is also the bartender at the Ed's father's pub.
The great Alan Ford
And Ed’s father is played by Sting 😀
Wow i just know. He sound different though
Shhhhh, you're gonna have to repeat that
"Whats this Eddy like then?"
"Eez a fuckeen Feef!"
LMAO
Are you still alive
@@franklin2286 Yeah, that was my old account.
🤣🤣🤣
Lenny was a machine.
jajajajajajaj
"The baptist got his name for drowning people for Hatchet"
"AHHHYOOO GON FACKIN PAAAY!!"
Love when he grimaces and looks at his watch while drowning someone. RIP Guv
"Time is money. Money is time."
Lock stock and snatch were in my opinion perfectly produced films. No shortcomings anywhere.
Dam skippy
Lock, Stock and snatch sounds like dirty movie.
Any American wanting to put on an English accent needs to watch this first, rather than Mary Poppins.
So true! Its only as an adult that I can see how fucking shit dick van dyke's cockney accent was whoever coached him shouldn't have worked again! On a positive note in Snatch the woman who works in the bookie's when it hets robbed does an amazing cockney accent and she's american in real life!
Karl Urban could do with some cockney lessons, have you heard his accent on The Boys? Fucking diabolical.
Johnny Depp is the only yank that perfected a cockney accent (From Hell)
he is a fucking fief
@Jakethemuss sorry to sound a intelectual wanker who cant spell but the American accent is older than ours lol
This film has one of the most well put together plots I've seen. Everything looms in together perfectly and combined with the fast paced action scenes and cockney dialogue its an all round good movie.
Having been brought up in Brixton and lived there from birth, (1943) til I got married in 1969, I can tell you that the dialogue in this film is as true to life as it can be, and the way things were in the 50s and 60s. My late mum was born and bred in Bermondsy and was a true cockney by the sound of Bow Bells. So critics of this film I tell you this, - you don't know your arses from your bleedin' elbows.
I have no objection to the authenticity of the dialogue. My objection is to it being a festering lager advert of a film.
+Matt Kilb Really? It's a cracking film. Born, raised and lived in the East End for the majority of my life and other than being an over the top comedy, I can imagine the characters coming from my area
true
+oldproji I am out of Rotherhithe and to be honest with you i think this is a way over the top version of cockney i know and love. I have worked with people out of every part of London docklands and i have rarely seen people put it on as much has the characters in this film.
And having been born and bred in Edmonton- (or "E'mon'on"- NORF London), and having lived "dahn" there well into me adulthood, I can get your back on that one a hundred and ten percent, mate. Deffo completely legit.
RIP Guv'nor.
RIP Lenny "the Govenor" Mclean, the hardest man who ever lived!
im north walian but my dads sisters married sarf landaners[ww2[ they were from catford and Deptford [men[ and settled in dartford in the 50,s.. all my family were Charlton fans ..and id go with the old man and uncles bill and bob..to the valley[im wrexham fan by the wayp all I remember was geezer types ..rough looking men and women too.. woolwich station beck to erith then a bus to dartford… the old fella worked in euston [after his stint in welsh guards he went awol and wanted to stay down in London..udsed to tell me stories of fred bense [Willesden steam driver[ and how hed throw parcels off when theyd go up to rugby at 3 in the morning[Neasden junction.. rogues everywhere.....
@@neilwilliams8741 where in Wrexham you from la
he wasn't hard, any amateur boxer could batter him
@@mikejohnson2638 LOL - Obviously a 'Fantasy Island' fan! :-)
@@mikejohnson2638 I think the definition eludes you, somewhat.
Oh don't play innocent with me Bezza. Spanking!
fav dialogue. kinda sticks into brain. natural delivery...
Lotta kinky stuff in that country.
must come from all of those pederast boarding schools...
@@Krowsnose if you was stuck on a island you'd be whipping your bumole too
@@phuckyoutube5927 Were all on it over here
Love that he feels the need to smack the desk with it just to make sure the intended usage is clear
"No mortgages, no debts. Lock, Stock, The Fuckin' Lot."
My daughter is three, and whenever she comes to me with a picture she's done, or a completed puzzle, I always say, "Very nice, 'arry! What's it for?" She's started saying it now, and it's freakin' hilarious!
Don`t play innocent wif me, sunshine.
Does she still say it?
@@H.K.5 Yes. The other day she said it, and it was awesome. God, I love her!
Cute
@@thomhardcastle9897 You wanna be careful she don't nut you one of these days 🤣🤣👍👍
He says "Liability" with a T because he is emphasising the word. Cockney's do that when making a point and not talking fast.
Yeah they do. But as a Kiwi, I can tell you for sure that east-enders don't speak that fast at all.
dave474c I was born in the East End and still live there
ojideagu Ok, I wasn't trying to say that you don't know what you're talking about. It's just that some New Zealanders speak really fast. And to us, cockney's don't speak that fast at all.
dave474c Well sure most English people don't talk that fast. The fastest cockney speakers work on race tracks and market stalls. Irish people talk faster.
ojideagu Yes, some of the Irish do speak quite quickly.
You know it serious when Brick Top is narrating
RIP Barry The Baptist
This is Guy Ritchie's best film. Snatch was still great, but felt almost like a redux of Lock Stock. The gritty, the "Lan-Dan" swagger, the coolness and the fantastic dark humour that put a smile on my Chevy chase. A perfect film 👌🏼
AHYA GUNA PHUCKIN PAY???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PHAY*
"He's a fkn fif"
"Cockney, Sonja, is an area in London where criminals live. The police don’t arrest them because, and they’re very strict about this, because they only slaughter their own. And they have funerals with horses and floral tributes that say things like “Mum” and “Stab”.
-Alan Partridge
These guys, some of the stunts they pull. They’ll chain you to a car that’s been clamped, so the only way you can get yourself free is by phoning the council, but you can’t do that because they’ve shoved your mobile phone up your backside.
@@vonteflon Mobile phone up backside is not so bad. Is only small.
@@JonSmith-cx7gr This was in the late 80s, when mobile phones were like big black plastic bricks, with a big rubber breadstick sticking out of the top. It was agony!
Lovely stuff
@@JonSmith-cx7grmy phone ain't small I've got a Galaxy Note 8 it might be slim but I'm sure it's not going up anyones rear end not until I've finished with it anyway
Never seen Thanos in a suit before.
That's kingpin
And speaking cockney.
This was a nice movie. I recorded it on the VHS Tape and would watch it from time to time back in Pakistan. A great masterpiece.
Lenny McLean playing Barry the Baptist. Allegedly the hardest man in Britain.
Thank you RUclips algorithm for dragging up a 12 year old video in all it's 360p glory.
One of the scariest men who ever lived.
both my grandads where proper londoners, they could make the most drab topic sparkle with life. i was blessed to be able to listen to them both
Love this film and "The Guvnor" made it special. Just found out that there are 6 different cockney ways to pronounce. Amazing.
'Allo, my son! Do you wan' a lolly?!
James Grimwood Oi! You use language like that again and you'll wish you hadn't!
"Runs harmoniously" Looks on his watch with that face. Man that's briljant
It never gets old.
Lennys story is quite fascinating. I recommend checking out the documentary about his life "the guv'nor". An interesting fact about the narrator - he was the cab driver in an American Werewolf in London.
Now, not a lot of people know that.
@@rossini55 Ya slaaaaaag!
Alan Ford aka Brick Top in Snatch.
He is also a good friend of Freddie Foreman, very funny story about him in Foreman's book 🤣
Loved him as Brick Top in Snatch.
"ah, dont play innocent with me, Bazza" another guy ritchie quote i use which baffles people. like "chiiiiill, Winston"
I use chill Winston all the time
I use Vinnie's 'furry muff' line all the time. 😁
"He's a facking fief!"
Still creases me today. 😂
Rip lenny mclean. Barry the baptist played by lenny mclean was one of the hardest men in Britain. Rip guv'nor 💯🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
The drowning chap is Tim Maurice-Jones, the Director of Photography having a little cameo in the movie. He also has a cameo in Snatch and gets pistol whipped by Benicio Del Toro in the opening scene. A sucker for punishment I guess ha!
Sounds like Alan Ford doing naration.
+Hjominbonrun And he'll cut your fucking jacobs off.
Hjominbonrun it is
Yes bricktop from snatch is the narrator here he also stars as jd's best friend lol sting tho funny to see a full blood Geordie in a cockney film
Y'don't want the piggies getting indigestion now,do ya?
And he got promoted to being a nemesis.
The Film is a classic , the sets and backgrounds were excellent ..
Narrator: Do ya know what Nemesis means?
About time I caught up with this great film again - haven't seen it for years
good old lenny rip
Mr. Mclean wasn't acting in that drowning scene, he was reminiscing.
"Ees a fahckin feef!"😂
Love the gratuitous examples mate. I've been meaning to change up the way I end my phone calls, I might take "Now, if you don't mind" for a spin and see if I can piss off my whole family.
Not many cockneys left in London anymore. You have to travel out to the surrounding countryside to find them. The "London accent" now is basically just a mixture of African and South Asian dialects.
That's Lenny McLean, the guv'ner. A old East end bare Knuckle boxer. Met him a couple of times. Massive hands. Glad I never got a right hook from him. Nice fella so long as your on his good side 😄 may he rest in peace.
Loved this movie ever since I was 12 ...... brilliant
Barry the baptist looks like the Thing from fantastic four
😂 e would ave like that 🤙
I'm learning Farsi right now and your video helped me understand how glottal stops work. Cockney is awesome.
Barry the Baptist aka Lenny MacLean was a seriously hard bastard in real life. Stood trial for murder but got off.
Barry passed away just about the time they wrapped up filming this movie was dedicated to him ✝️RIP great carractor
Love how Barry checks his watch while hes dunking his victims so as not to drown them. Lol!
great clip and I agree that ordinarily a cockney would glottalise the /t/ but sometimes they do pronounce a /t/ "properly" as a voiceless alveolar plosive. i've never worked out how they decide whether to or not
If we want to emphasise something, we'll consciously say the "t". E.g. if you hear a mother call her child, she might say, "Oi, Tyrone, ge' 'ere naaa!". But she'll put a "t" on ge' if she's really mad.
Thanks man. I started reading The Gu'vnor, Lenny Mcleans book. Starting to understand the lingo.
Oh, don't play innocent with me Bazza 😂
The man the legend the guv’nor
Few people know that the guy who plays Barry the Baptist is a Shakespearean and a thesbian. I attended one of his art installations at a studio in Soho where he was also showcasing his new line of craft beer called 'Okay to be Gay', as in happy gay not the other kind. His real name is Tarquin and back in the 90s he was well known as the man who ran a rabbit shelter for unwanted rabbits. His reading of Faust at the Old Vic was quite something and you can't help but admire a man who doesn't kind wearing black fingernail polish and a mini skirt. His charity work is also legendary. He once donated his entire earnings from a season of Catcher in the Rye to the women's institute in memory of the suffragettes. Great guy. Really high, gentle voice in real life. Bit of a shrinking violet. Prefers the company of his rescue hamsters to people.
Also I think he once beheaded someone with just his teeth.
I might be confusing him with someone else now I think about it.
I hope he never reads this.
A for effort here mate.
Whahaha love it
Had me in the first half not gonna lie
0:34 I couldnt imagine a better intro for Barry. They show his brutality, and then suddenly, he's very articulate when he speaks
The one liners in this film are legendary I have to watch it again
The term Punter has many definitions depending on the situation. In simplest form it means customer. But the term is mostly used in illegal circles like prostitution and the selling of goods on the black market. It also refers to customers who are naive, ignorant or stupid about what they are involved in. The american version for this term would be Johns or tricks in prostitution, or punks. hope this helped.
Blindin' film. Cheers for that clip, pal. And yep, you're bang on, son: "Liability" would normally be pronounced "Liabili'ee" with a London accent- (very similar to how Barry said "Be'uh", as opposed to "Better.") Take it from a bloke who lived round people who talked like that for donkeys' years. That glottalled 'T' what you're on about ain't just confined to London and Essex talk though. I once had a girlfriend from Sheffield in Yorkshire who used to glottal her Ts and say stuff like "Be'uh" as well.
+Cockney Rebel
Perhaps he took care to articulate the word in order to emphasise it's importance?
That's exactly what he did. Cockneys do that all the time.
It ain't just us Londoners who use the glottal-stop. Other parts of the U.K. do it an' all, mate.
Manchester and Newcastle are bloody terrible for it! o.o
That could be his phone-voice though. I talk dead posh over the phone as well and so does me mum, but I'm rough as bloody glass-paper when I ain't on the phone. o.o
I like the narrator Alan Ford. I have an ear for voices as I listen to the radio a lot on long drives.
he makes sure that the administrative side of the business runs harmoniously...:)))
Would’ve been great if Lenny stayed alive longer to be in more guy Ritchie films
0:44 when THANOS demands the whereabouts of the infinity stones
Yes I agree, this is variation partly due to natural variation and partly due to the nature of scripted performances. The producer would go for the cut that he liked rather than a consistent accent I fear. The point with 'arry's 't's is interesting as he glottals one, has [t] for one and [d] tap for another, all perfectly normal variation in and around london, but one would expect this sort of character to bit more consistent i think.
In my experience, most cockney's throw in a few non-glottal stop 't's now and then, particularly if they are trying to be more emphatic about something. It's dropped 'f's that always fascinated me as in "Spent some time wif me girl 'riend" almost like a softened P.
0:51 LOL! my favorite shot!
We need guy richie to come back to gangster flicks. Hes soo good at them
now i have to watch all movie again... thanks a lot mate made my day... :DDDD
Harry.. Was 1 of 2 , Hired Assassins ..Hunting Sean Connery in the Movie “Outland”...a Sci-Fi ..Space Mining movie that’s Worth a Look !
With all the multiculturalism happening in England now, I hope that accent doesn't disappear.
England has been multicultural for hundreds of years
@@marknewbold2583 Yeah, up to 4% of non whites now, be surrounded soon FFS
Lol
It’s not really in the east end anymore, have to go out to Essex or Kent to find it
@@marknewbold2583 Yeah by stealing from other cultures. That's where America got it from
EES A FAHKING FEEF
Бритиши - стильные ребята, they get my respect.
What is the song that begins playing at the end?! i have been searching for it for years!
R.I.P Lenny "The Guvnor" Mclean.
I'm from Bethnal Green, i'm a proud fucking cockney.
I am from Cock Blue, and I'm proud of fucking nothing.
hows the bangladeshis up there lol
The soundtrack to this movie is unreal.
Actual title of this video: "EEZA PHACKIN PHEEF"
Very nice Harry (Barry looks confused)
What’s it for? 😂😂
Alright guvna
anyone knows the name of the music at the start of the clip, or what musicgenre? jazz, swing?
No. my NAN, as in grandmother. When I was a kid they lived in Loughton, but she grew up in Tower Hamlets, I think.
If Lenny McLean hadn't died, he would have been perfect for Thanos. Just look at him!
He's not just perfect, he's a fackin liability
I never noticed Brick Top was the narrator
the Guv'nor, probably the hardest looking Englishman who ever lived
Rest well Lenny gone not forgotten...
"He's a fakking fief!
It's so pity they didn't teach such a language at school 😊
That man had 25000 fights on the streets of the UK?!🧠
Very nice Harry! What's it for?
if you dont wanna be counting, the fingers, that you 'aven't got.... you'll get those ganz
"QUICK!!"
0:35
1:01
makes me laugh every time.
my dad knew lenny hes just as he is in the film .. a legend!
This movie is SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!