“Eddie is the opposite of that: incredibly controlled, chooses his words incredibly wisely and very British. But really what he represents is the dying power of British aristocracy. At the height of British power, they held all the cards, they held the judiciary, they held the landmass, they were the most powerful. AdvertisementTheo James plays a British army captain called home when his aristocratic father dies in “The Gentlemen.” (Christopher Rafael / Netflix)How long did Ritchie’s style take getting used to? I’ll be honest, I brought my own middle-class chip about British structural class systems to it initially.
