The Business
Frankie is sent from London to Spain to make a delivery to Charlie, who likes the kid and shows him the ropes including the use of guns and drugs. Frankie likes the sun, pools and the cute, bikini clad girls and stays in Spain.
The Business is a 2005 crime film written and directed by Nick Love. The film stars Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and Roland Manookian, all of whom were in Love’s previous film The Football Factory. Geoff Bell and Georgina Chapman also appear. The plot of The Business follows the Greek tragedy-like rise and fall of a young cockney‘s career within a drug importing business run by a group of British expatriate fugitive criminals living on the Costa del Sol in Spain.
The film is narrated by Frankie, a young everyman living in South East London during the Thatcher era of the 1980s specifically 1984, with little hope of ever making anything of himself, yet he dreams of “being somebody” and escaping his lonely, dreary lifestyle. After severely beating his mother’s abusive boyfriend, he becomes a fugitive, and through family connections escapes to the Costa del Sol. His job there is to deliver a bag containing money to “Playboy Charlie”, a suave expat and fugitive who runs his own nightclub. Impressed by Frankie’s honesty in not opening the bag, Charlie takes a liking to Frankie, introduces him to his business associates, including the psychopathic Sammy, and invites him to remain in Spain and work as his driver. Frankie discovers that Charlie and his associates are in fact the “Peckham Four”, wanted for armed robbery back in Britain. However, Frankie decides he prefers the excitement, wealth, status, and luxury that Charlie’s gang offers, as opposed to his previous unremarkable life in London. Frankie therefore joins Charlie in the business of smuggling hashish across the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco.
Plot
The film then follows the rise-and-fall pattern common to many gangster films, showing first the criminals living the high life as their cannabis trade is booming, and then their downfall as greed and paranoia introduce conflict between them, and eventually split them up. Tensions amid the group are exacerbated by the mutual attraction between Frankie and Sammy’s wife Carly. Charlie and Frankie decide to go into business alone, importing cocaine instead of cannabis through drop-offs from Colombian aeroplanes, but this fails to resolve their problems. Not only do both men become increasingly addicted to the drug itself, but their new smuggling attracts the ire of the local mayor, who had previously been happy to ignore the cannabis trade but warned them not to import cocaine. After discovering that Frankie and Charlie have entered the cocaine trade, the mayor cracks down on their gang and shuts down their businesses. A subsequent assassination attempt on the mayor’s life proves unsuccessful, and leads to the beheading of one of the gang’s affiliates.
Six months later, Frankie and Charlie are homeless thugs, reduced to stealing in order to survive. While organising a disappointing reunion party at Charlie’s old bar, now run by Frankie’s friend Sonny, Frankie meets Carly again and decides to make one last deal. He invites Sammy in on a pick-up, but while both intend to betray the other, Carly had given Sammy a pistol. Sammy tries to shoot Frankie, but this proves unsuccessful as his pistol was handed to him with an empty magazine, unbeknownst to Sammy. Frankie in turn attacks Sammy with a rock; the fight then ends abruptly as Sammy is fatally shot by Spanish Navy patrolmen while Frankie escapes through a sewage pipe and emerges to meet Carly, who was responsible for handing Sammy his unloaded gun. Preparing to leave town with Carly, Frankie discovers that she is plotting against him as well when he finds another pistol in her handbag amongst their money; Frankie knocks her unconscious and drives off triumphantly into the sunset on his own.
The ending reveals that Sonny cleaned up his act and continued to run Charlie’s old bar, which he did successfully, whilst Charlie was reduced to working as a bouncer. The theatrical ending also reveals that “Carly went back to her parents’ house in Penge“, “Sammy went to Hell” and “Frankie went to Hollywood“.
Courtesy of Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Business_(film)
Facts for the Lads
The DVD features an alternate ending where Frankie meets Carly at the border. There she promptly tells the border guard where to find drugs in Frankie’s car.
Quotes for the Lads
My old man wrote me a letter from prison once. It said if you don’t want to end up in here, stay away from crime, women and drugs. Trouble is, that don’t leave you much else to do, does it?
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Teddy Atlas telling it like it is, as always
‘People are full of s***. They want to see something dark. People want to feel close to it and in on it, but, of course, only from the distance of their suburban homes. They want to have the benefit of comfort, security, safety, respect, and at the same time the privilege of watching something out of control – even promote it being out of control – as long as we can be secure that we’re not accountable for it.
With Tyson, the dark thing was always the anticipation that somebody was going to get knocked out. The whole Kid Dynamite thing. But we wanted to believe that the monster was also a nice kid. We wanted to believe that Mike Tyson was an American story: the kid who grows up in the horrible ghetto and then converts that dark power into a good cause, into boxing.
But then the story takes a turn. The dark side overwhelms him. He’s cynical, he’s out of control. And now the story is even better. It’s like a double feature now, like you’re getting Heidi and Godzilla at the same time.’
– Teddy Atlas
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Definitely Maybe? No, we’re pretty certain it’s their best album
It was back in 1993/94 when I first heard of Oasis. I was an 18-year-old lad who had just read a copy of the lad’s magazine Loaded. It had an article about this new band with these feuding Gallagher brothers being the stars of the show and full of attitude.
Anyway, not long after, I bought a copy of their debut album ‘ Definitely Maybe ‘ and was instantly a fan. I wasn’t one of those fans that follow them around the country and shout “Liam, Liam, Liam….” at all their gigs and I didn’t have pictures of them tattooed everywhere but just one that appreciated a good tune(or 10) when I heard it.
It’s not that often that you hear an album where all the tracks are not only timeless classics but also relatable to both the upbeat feeling of the nation at the time (and its misplaced notion that ‘things can only get better ‘ ) and the lads on the street, the lads from the council estates, that wanted to be, just like them. They were living our dreams. The money, the booze, the drugs, the women and the clobber, and all the other stuff that came with being a rock and roll star. We wanted to be like them so badly!
Of course, they weren’t the only great band out at the time. It was a great time for music and there were plenty of great bands around such as The Verve, The Charlatans, Ocean Colour Scene, The Stone Roses, etc to name just a few. Oasis, however was just, that little bit better! Although some would argue, quite a lot better!
Starting with the track Rock ‘n’ Roll Star, the sheer audacity of it, f**king great! The great thing about the man singing it, the legendary front man Liam Gallagher (and the one who wrote it, Noel Gallagher) was that he/they meant it and you knew it. They knew they were going to be big and so did we. The sound was unique, raw, and f**king awesome! I played it to death and then made the mistake of lending it to one of my mates, saying ” this band is going to be massive! ” I didn’t see it again for about a year.
Of course, not long after they released their 2nd album, another classic (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?) which although great as it was, just wasn’t as great as the first!
The Lads Room rating 10/10
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– Emanuel Steward
