Just finished watching 'Layer Cake'

You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.

His name is not even in the credits, it's a part of the plot. Brilliant film, beautifully shot, great cast, and fun bits of business everywhere.

The absolute best UK crime movie. Layer Cake = *hierarchy* within society and the underworld.

A much younger me built my wardrobe around what Daniel Craig wore in that movie.

>Also, why the name 'Layer Cake'? It's because the protagonist is working his way up the "layers" of the drug world. He gets to the top "layer" with Michael Gambon as the boss and almost gets screwed over by him in the end. It's just a reference to the layers of the drug trade/criminal underworld that the protagonist was a member of. >I started to question what was his name man, have they mentioned it somewhere or not? It's never mentioned; even in the credits Craig's character was named XXXXXXX

Also features the screen moment that got Daniel Craig the Bond job.

The best guy Ritchie movie without being directed by him. Love layer cake.

Also peak Sienna Miller

There's a scene near the end where Michael Gambon directly explains the title. Love the teashop scene, just the way the music gets warbled whenever the victim takes a hit to the head.

Layer cake is one of my favorite movies. I've never loved the title, particularly because I think its the reason why so many people I know never watched it. But I love that it puts the film's conceit front and center: there is no meaningful difference between a business empire and a criminal empire.

Eddie Temple (Michael Gambon) perfectly nails what *Layer Cake* is about: >You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.

Layer Cake is one of my favorite movies to the point I'm not even sure if this is a troll post lmfao. In case it isn't, here's the answers in order.  It's dripping with personality from every character, and each one behaves appropriately to their character's motives and not just to fulfill a plot point.  Layer Cake is the heirarchy of criminals and the circles that they run in. It's all one cake, but there are dealers, enforcers, bosses and goons and they all serve a different purpose despite all simply being "criminals" I agree with being able to understand the film, the accents are unapologetic. Watch with subtitles or do what I do and watch it a dozen times. It clicks better on the subsequent viewings. It's also a novel so perhaps that would be a better medium if you're seeking understanding.  XXXX is the only name they ever give to Craig's character. I've taken this to both be a bit of a twist "he's so clever the viewer is so disconnected from this world that they never even realized they don't know his name". It's even the final line. "My name? If you knew that you'd he as clever as me." Also, I think it's meant to allude that while Craig's character *partook* in the life and spoils of criminal behavior, he fancied himself a businessman at heart. He didn't see himself as a criminal and so kept a very private and protected behavior. 

Scrolled all the way through this post and not a single person has mentioned prime Sienna Miller. Shame on all of you.

Really great crime movie, stylish, and snappy dialogue. You also have to pay attention to the twists and turns. Lots of great actors and performances, a lot of quotable lines. I wish Craig would've played Bond closer to XXXX.

I love it purely for the following reasons. 1) how they all pronounce “The Duke”, “The Jyuke” 2) Morty’s “someone’s about to get a f****** slap” line 3) “Do you know where I live”. “no”. “F*** off then”.

For those ppl who want to watch/rewatch that scene of Michael Gambon explaining the social intricacies of cakes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSborxD6avQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSborxD6avQ) Edit: His name doesnt matter, as he repreents any young pup who needs to climb up the ladder.

Wikipedia is a great resource to understand the title of a movie, the major plot developments, and the cultural reception. Much faster results than a Reddit post.

Loved this movie since forever. MC doesn’t have a name, though. Intentional I am sure.

I watched it last weekend, it's one of the best crime drama movies I've ever seen!

Welcome to the Layer Cake, son.

One of my favorite exchanges of all time “You wouldn’t be so f****** flash if you didn’t have them behind you!” “Well he f****** has, ain’t he?”

always wanted a yellow Range Rover

It's one of my favorite movies. Saw it before he was Bond. The layer cake analogy is described by one of the characters in the movie.

Great movie. Probably sealed the Bond role for Daniel Craig.

Layer Cake and Snatch are two of my favorite movies.

Welcome to the Layer Cake son...

Welcome to the layer cake, son.

Features a scene filmed in my favourite cafe that I used to eat at all the time, the Regency. Recently came under new management and I've not been in a while but it used to be an absolute institution. Film's fun too and played a large part in getting Craig the Bond role

Fun movie. Was this the first of that genre of silly British crime movies? This was defo my favorite. Style is pretty tired by now unfortunately but still going like that dumbass Brad Pitt try-too-hard train movie.

81% Rotten Tomatoes. IMDb is older men complaining. 7.1 is actually quite high for this unhelpful site..90% of IMDb ratings cluster between 5.0 and 7.5. Hardly a good scale to make decisions.

Daniel Craig’s character’s name is Layer Cake

There was a period Layer Cake happened to be on TV for some reason whenever I got how from school. I think I ended up watching it 10+ times.

Love this flick.

Great movie. Was a huge fan of this and when they announced that Daniel Craig was to the be the next James Bond it was because of this film that I knew they'd made the right call.

Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining

This movie got him the Bond role

I think there was an alternate ending on the dvd too, but maybe I’m misremembering.

I do treasure the scene, with the Cult's 'She Sells Sanctuary' (a superb tune) on the soundtrack, where **XXXX** rocks up to the golf club in a very cool Audi RS6 Avant. A great way to introduce the character.

Loved it. One of my favorite quotes from the movie (applies to the tech field as well): “Oh, and forgive me for stating the obvious, but stay away from the end user. They're guaranteed to bring you trouble."

One of my favorite movies. Well-written, well-cast, well-acted and well-shot. Probably one of Daniel Craig’s best roles

1. It is the best movie of the noughties 2. It is the best crime film of all time 3. It has the best needle drop soundtrack of all time 4. The Layer Cake is a metaphor for the underworld based on an actual kind of cake which has layers; think: ogres are like onions 5. Daniel Craig's character is never named Let us all appreciate the fact there is a Youtube video called [tea pot beating scene.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwB9i9P43cs) Pure cinema.

I loved Bond's audition tape.

Dear god Sienna Miller looked so good in this!

The cafe scene was the best, that kettle got a work-out! Great movie all around!

It's one of the best movies

It's a great flick, but man the soundtrack is also a star. I keep hoping for a vinyl release of the soundtrack, it's such a fun collection of songs.

I need to do a rewatch, but I remember loving it and thinking after seeing it that Craig was a great choice for Bond (didn’t see him in the role prior to viewing it).

I always thought it was called 4 Layer Cake because the title is written “L4YER CAKE”

Peak Sienna Miller!

It's F****** EXCELLENT

I love it and always have loved it. I was living in Australia when it was first released and they just seem to push British films more there, so I saw it during its theatrical run and just thought it was such a cool film.

A ‘Layer Cake’ is a tiered cake in which there are several strata - kind of like late capitalist society. The thesis of the film is that it’s all bullshit and you end up dying. Bonus points: watch ‘I Care A Lot’. A stealth remake.

Great movie.

There’s always going to be that person that chimes in with “the book is so much better!” I’m that person today. If you haven’t read it, it recommend it highly.

11/10 plus the soundtrack was killer. The dance scene with Sienna Miller was memorable

The nightclub scene with the “You Got The Love” playing in the background is one of the sexiest first encounters/scenes between two characters on film.

Daniel Craig was so manly in this movie. I liked his outfit a lot- jeans, t shirt and a leather jacket.

Cinematic film that got Daniel Craig his James Bond role.

The montage moments, some great parts: intro, Ordinary World, and the ending run where they go to the warehouse right through the end. What I dislike is, how Matthew Vaughn kind of took the CGI base from this and ramped it up in subsequent films. Here the CGI portion was tastefully done, but it wasn't the best CGI we've seen, it was during the ending when he holds the card to the country club up and it transforms into the estate itself. In the next few films he did this, and it got worse. The X-Men films he was involved with were great. But you get into Kingsmen and Kingsmen 2 where the CGI got dumped on and looks terrible. The thing is, he doesn't need it, I would've appreciated good CGI for the movies, but he is talented enough to not necessitate it.

I’ve heard the argument made that XXXX’s name is Dante, based on Temple’s reference of The Damnation of Faust, a book by Dante on the bookshelf/door in Temple’s library that XXXX walks through, and the vowels replaced by numbers on the Layer Cake poster are “A” and “E”; the vowels in the name Dante. Not ironclad by any means, but the connection has been made at least

layer cake is a well shot well directed movie. but it’s a horrible, depressing story and i wish i’d never seen it.

Layer Cake was an okay movie, but it had two a couple of brilliant instrumental tracks on the OST. [Drive to Warehouse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_bWxzJcJqg) [Drive to Boatyard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiFR2RwRAHU). They're by Ilan Eshkeri, who also did the soundtracks for shows like [House of Guinness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DxRJZz0E1I&list=PLACrjduQziWt39fWJIokbllemv08drsUE) and movies like [Stardust](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-3SH8QZPVY&list=OLAK5uy_neBqW6EfrK38fCwJPiYopSsk8rp470saY).

I rewatched it a year or so ago as I couldn't remember much of it. Honestly I think its a terrible attempt at a Guy Ritchie movie. I once again, dont even remember what happened in it, just the feeling that it was a c**** imitation of something else.