The Hidden Meaning of Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie’s the Gentlemen Season 2, Episode 5 is about Eddie as a saviour of England, an Arthurian figure with deep Trojan roots, envisaged crowned in Westminster abbey, as a just king, the embodiment of the old English values with a modern twist, fair, yet ruthless. Merciful, yet strong. Consciously or unconsciously, Guy is here anticipating an English Messiah. Eddie is the embodiment of old-fashioned aristocratic values: sangfroid, civility, elan and fortitude in the face of peril. Guy is trying to resurrect an ideal of gentlemanly conduct, the warrior noble with courtly manners, cavalier swagger and charm. Eddie touches a stone in London, which is obviously symbolic of jesus, the stone the builder's rejected; this is how the realm is defended and regenerated, via the resurrection of British christianity, and old-fashioned gentlemanly values (in a distant second place), themselves derived from Arthurian legends and the Christian Middle Ages.