Bronson (2009)
Bronson. Charles Bronson the Criminal according to Charles Bronson the Creative, and vice versa.
It is about a Man whom is someone you’ve literally read about in the papers, you’ve heard about him in the Office or on the Factory Floor. He is a bad man for the things he has done, he has been punished for it.
7 months inside for robbing a Post Office. (I know someone who has done that!) Charles Bronson as he became to be inside ended up going into his fourth decade inside with over a third of that time in solitary.
Danish Director Nicolas Winding Refn co-wrote the screenplay alongside Brock Norman Brock a previous Production Executive for Gosford Park in 2001.
The story is the carefully balanced “Ying and Yang” Artistic Journal of Michael Petersen, an inmate spending his life inside at the cost of the taxpayer and costing more money than any other inmate in the Land.
Without disrupting your future viewing of this film let me tell you this; Danny Dyer with all due respect, has nothing on the disconnected passion and anger that Tom Hardy can ever cheekily provide. A London lad from the streets of any suburbian capital performing on any big screen near you in the future showing complex acting abilities is truly a wonder to watch. Tom Hardy of Martina Cole’s The Take recently shown on SKY is phenomenal as our hero. Nowhere in the film are heroics though other than the simplist of wantings. Which is to “Just let me do what I want to do”.
And that is just what it seems Charles Bronson was trying to do all along.
Tom Hardy has not been seen a great deal on the box or in the cinema, would surely be the most trecherous of mad man villians. Even though his possibly most famous role to date as in the (apologies for the Americanism) “in the closet” Handsome Bob in the most recent Guy Ritchie twistathon RocknRolla in 2008, Tom Hardy has provided a performance that I do not think could have been bettered by Jason Statham who turned down the intitial offer of the title role. Assuming Hardy fully captalising in this situation to take a Hollywood opening for the future has sustained himself incredibly as a man who will have a huge budget behind him soon.
The theatrical scenes in the film portray not only the character of Bronson, the man wanting to release his creativity on the World has also simultaniously done this as himself Tom Hardy. The scene where his face is split in two aliking to Two-Face of Batman, his control of the strongest of angers and comical values is a mere emotional strain, fantastically entertaining to see.
The film is flippant, sarcastic and quite literally, strongly facetious as the opening set scene will provide disgustingly for you.
The overall theatrics of the Actor, the Director and the possiblity of Charles Bronson himself makes Bronson by Nicolas Winding Refn starring Tom Hardy is a screenplay highly recommended to see.
