LAYER CAKE APPRECIATION THREAD

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SUCH A DOPE MOVIE BREHS

FORGOT TOM HARDY IS IN IT

shyt IS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STATUS

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An unnamed man, known only as XXXX, is a London underworld figure who has established himself in the cocaine business and is one of the city's biggest suppliers and manufacturers, whilst presenting himself as a figure with legal business operations. Considering himself a businessman and a calm person, he leaves the more violent aspects of the business to his henchman Morty. Morty previously spent 10 years in prison for murder. When he has made his fortune and name, XXXX plans to retire.

His plans to retire go awry when his powerful supplier Jimmy Price sends XXXX to track down Charlie, the teenage daughter of Price's associate, Eddie Temple, who has fled a rehabilitation centre with her drug-addicted boyfriend. To help track her down, XXXX enlists the help of two corrupt police detectives, Cody and Tiptoes. To the dismay of XXXX, the boyfriend is found dead and Charlie has apparently been kidnapped, although no ransom has been demanded.

At the same time, Price instructs XXXX to organise the purchase and distribution of one million ecstasy tablets from a low-level gangster named The Duke. XXXX does not know the pills were stolen from a gang of Serbian war criminals in the Netherlands, who have been in hiding since the war and are now resorting to stealing large drug shipments to earn money.

Meanwhile, XXXX encounters the Duke's idiotic nephew Sidney at a bar and becomes attracted to his bored girlfriend Tammy. XXXX tries to broker the sale of the ecstasy to Liverpool gangsters Trevor and Shanks, but they refuse, informing him of the drug's purloined nature and of the fact that the Serbs have sent a hitman, Dragan, to find the pills and kill those responsible for their theft. Because the Duke mentioned XXXX's name to the Serbs beforehand, he too is now in danger. Members of The Duke's gang soon begin turning up dead and the Duke himself goes missing.

XXXX arranges a tryst with Tammy but before it can be consummated, he is kidnapped by henchmen of Eddie Temple. Temple informs him that Jimmy had lost £13 million in a failed investment in Africa and is now hoping to sell the pills to recoup his losses. He demands instead that XXXX sell the pills to him, and plays him a recording indicating that Jimmy has been a long-term informant for Scotland Yard and intends to betray XXXX to the police as soon as the deal is done, planning to gain clemency from the deal and also take away XXXX's fortune.

XXXX, enraged, shoots and kills Jimmy but does so with a gun that Gene, Jimmy's henchman, had used to commit a prior murder, putting him and Gene in danger. XXXX then discovers that his accountant, whom Jimmy referred to, has embezzled all of his money and disappeared. Gene and Morty, after being given evidence of Jimmy's snitching, recognise XXXX as the new acting boss and show him the corpse of the Duke, whom Gene had killed along with Duke's girlfriend, Slasher, when the latter threatened to alert the police about the pills.

XXXX delivers the severed head of the Duke to Dragan as a peace offering. To recoup something from the fiasco, XXXX arranges for Cody and Tiptoes to raid the Duke's hideout and confiscate the drugs, which satisfies Dragan, who reports back to his Serbian boss that the police have seized the drugs. Cody and Tiptoes return the drugs to XXXX. However, when he attempts to sell them to Eddie Temple, Temple steals the drugs from them at gunpoint. To end XXXX's faux assignment given by Jimmy, Temple reveals that he has put Charlie back into rehab.

To satisfy him, Temple then gives XXXX a "welcome to the layer cake" in the form of a membership to the Stoke Park Country Club of which he is a member and Jimmy was. Suspecting betrayal, XXXX successfully arranges for Trevor and Shanks to steal the drugs back from Temple's men. The gang assembles for lunch at the Stoke Park Club, proclaiming XXXX their new boss. However, he demurs, stating his intention to stick to his planned retirement. When leaving the club with Tammy, mentally running through the names of his fellow murdered businessmen, he is shot by a jealous Sidney. XXXX bleeds and twitches on the front steps, his fate left uncertain.


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I remember reading this book in high school before they made a movie out of it. It was full of British slang, and I had to use context clues a lot to figure out what they were talking about.

It was this one part in the book when the main character was talking about smoking a faq. I was reading that shyt like:dahell: It took me a second to figure out that they were referring to cigarettes. I saw the movie, but I can barely remember it. I do remember thinking it was alright when I saw it, even though the book was much better ( as is with a lot of films made from books)

On a related note. I remember buying the American Gangster book after I saw the movie, just knowing it was gonna be better. I started reading that shyt, and a few chapters in I was on some
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Man that shyt was the exact movie word for word:troll: Why would somebody even publish that shyt:why:
 

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That book, which I read in 2006, after seeing the movie is incredible. Definitley one of the best crime novels I have ever read, it doesn't get more gritty and realistic then that. The sequel was awful. I liked the movie, but much like 'The Town' it feels so stripped down and bare after reading the novel, a really dope little crime thriller regardless. The movies script cuts out all the best parts, but it's a smooth, well done little movie all the same.

To dude above, I don't think there was an 'American Gangster' book, on which the movie was based, you probably bought the book version of the movie, I used to read those in elementary/smiddle school, I had 'The Game', and some other ones I can't remember. Part of the marketing campaign for the movie.
 

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Anyone who liked the movie, the book is great reading, takes the story down into like 5 more layers of UK crime land, it is one of the best criminal/fiction books. I can tell the author really spent time around the subjects he writes about, or was one himself. The sequel, however, was one of the worst sequels I have ever read. Absolute trash.
 
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