'Legend' was an almost interesting movie, but fully on the life of the Kray brothers, exciting, and surprising, Tom Hardy playing these two characters, so Tom Hardy was one of the actors in the new era, more complete they have been. Hardy boys: Thanks to a mix of old and new movie tricks, Tom Hardy is both Ronnie Kray (left) and Reggie Kray (right) in gangster movie 'Legend'.
Nov 20, 2015 Adam Chitwood reviews the 1960s-set gangster drama Legend, which stars Tom Hardy as twin brothers in a pair of charismatic performances in an otherwise dull movie.
Right off the bat it’s a muddle because of Helgeland’s slavish devotion to Martin Scorsese, a bad thing to display when you don’t have Scorsese’s chops. Early on in the picture, as Reggie Kray, the relatively charming, less psychotically violent of the fellows, is courting his future wife Frances, Helgeland opts to do a little “GoodFellas.” As Reggie escorts Frances into a pub where he’s the kingpin, the moving camera follows from behind and glides alongside the couple as various friends of Reggie pay their respects. On a stage at the back, a singer is crooning “The Look of Love,” a song that had not actually been written when the scene takes place, but never mind that. You know where this is going. Helgeland wants to create his own version of the famed Copacabana tracking shot in Scorsese’s legendary 1990 gangster film, but he hasn’t quite worked out all the choreography—hence, the aforementioned singer ends up performing the world’s longest version of “The Look of Love,” at least until the point at which the sound editor or someone decided to have mercy and faded the guy out and substituted some generic-sounding movie music. This is merely one example, and a pretty outstanding one. There are plenty more throughout the film. (All of this is doubly stupefying when one recalls what a solid job Helgeland did in both writing and directing departments in his last picture, the 2013 Jackie Robinson story “42.”)
The movie’s main advantage and/or talking point is Tom Hardy, who plays both twins. Reggie is slick and confident, while Ronnie, a paranoid schizophrenic with strong sadistic tendencies, is like Lenny in “Of Mice And Men” if Lenny had been an East London mook, and evil to boot. Both performances are commanding, but not as commanding as they might have been. The weaknesses of Helgeland’s writing and directing are also to blame here. Particularly the latter: the unimaginative (and, I imagine, practically expedient) framing of the two Hardys during scenes in which they’re together makes the dual performance play like a tricksy stunt at times. Helgeland could have learned a great deal from the blocking of dual Jeremy Irons accomplished by David Cronenberg in “Dead Ringers,” which made the viewer feel as if there were really two different people in the frame. Too many times here there’s the feel of two different performances. Sometimes Hardy manages to ignite a spark. There’s a scene in which Chazz Palmentieri, playing a bluff emissary from the American Mafia, makes the twins an offer they’re better off not refusing, Ronnie’s belligerence notwithstanding. When Ronnie makes an unabashed announcement concerning his sexual preferences to this wise guy, it’s a real moment. As is one with Hardy’s Reggie, finally confessing at the end to his brother why he’s directing his own violent impulses so destructively into one target.
Moments such as these are too few and far between, while moments such as a wedding scene prefaced by the song “Chapel of Love” are far too many. The lucky bride is Reggie’s, and her name is Frances, and it’s with Frances’ story that the movie, for me, broke away from irritating mediocrity and into genuine badness.
Helgeland’s conception of Frances is doubly banal. First, he saddles her with the burden of semi-omniscient narration that’s rife with platitudinous nonsense (“It was time for the Krays to enter the secret history of the 1960s” and “Not even Scotland Yard could ignore murder on the street,” the latter of which has the uncomfortable echo of the bit in the Piranha Brothers sketch wherein the gangsters detonate a nuclear device over London). Second, he gives her onscreen character hardly any more depth than any of the complaining gangster and/or undercover cop wives you’ve seen in dozens of crime pictures over the years, Emily Browning’s committed performance notwithstanding. Which makes Helgeland’s final trick with this character all the more objectionable when he finally pulls it. I knew a bit about the case of the Krays before coming in to the screening of the picture, but that knowledge wasn’t at the forefront of my consciousness as I watched the movie. And then I thought … wait a minute. And sure enough …
If you're unfamiliar with the infamous Kray twins, you'll get to know them pretty well after watching Legend, which opens in U.S. theaters on Nov. 20 (the British crime thriller debuted in the UK on Sept. 9). Based on a true story, Legend follows the tale of Reginald 'Reggie' Kray and his twin brother, Ronald 'Ronnie' Kray (both portrayed by all around great guy Tom Hardy). The brothers are English gangsters who run amok in London during the '50s and '60s, mingling with the underworld just as easily as they do with politicians and celebrities. The film charts their rise, but also the downfall that ultimately landed the siblings in prison in 1969.
Reggie's wife Frances Shea (Emily Browning), who committed suicide in 1967, narrates the film from the afterlife, so it's no surprise that Legend touches upon some pretty heavy topics, such as mental illness and murder. The material stems from the Kray twins' lives, as told through a book titled The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins by John Pearson. But just how much of the film is accurate to the real-life crimes of the Krays? In The Guardian, a close friend of the family, Maureen Flanagan, gave commentary on what she thought the film got right and what it missed the mark on. Her overall opinion?
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'I thought the film was great.. In this film, Tom Hardy is chilling. He’s got everything right as Reggie: the walk, the beautiful hands, the way he holds the cigarettes and that frown which was always quizzical as if he’s just about to ask you a question. And then, on the other hand, when he plays Ron, he’s menacing and he’s got the stare absolutely right. I think he gives a fabulous performance.'
Flanagan went on to describe the film's accuracy in portraying the romance between Reggie and Frances (Reggie apparently really did propose to her by climbing up a drainpipe to her bedroom window, as shown in the film). However, Flanagan said that a scene in which Reggie physically assaults Frances wasn't based in reality. According to Flanagan and other people who knew Reggie well, such an attack never occurred in real life. According to Pearson, Frances herself also insisted that Reggie was never physically violent toward her, as a review of the film in The Guardian noted. Continued the paper,
According to John Pearson, Reg’s intimidation of Frances was psychological: he talked about killing her, her brother and her parents and brandished his gun. Knowing she was afraid of the sight of blood, he cut his own hand and dripped blood all over her as she slept.
Flanagan also described the Kray family matriarch, Violet (Jane Wood) as 'the most important person in [the Kray brothers'] lives.' In the film, however, Flanagan says her character was 'dismissed' and 'only in a couple of scenes.' Furthermore, Violet is shown in the film to mistreat Frances, but Flanagan claimed that she had only ever seen Violet showing kindness to Frances.
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As far as Ronnie's homosexuality being portrayed openly in the film, Flanagan claimed that Ronnie actually had a small circle of friends and family (known as 'The Firm') whom he informed about his sexuality. 'A lot of men who really thought that there might be something there would never have said anything to [Ronnie],' Flanagan said. 'He would have attacked them so they wouldn’t ask. Later on, it just became knowledge with the people that he considered 'the firm.' It was accepted.'
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In The Guardian's review, it's noted that the film sets up Ronnie as a paranoid schizophrenic and Reggie as the 'rational' twin, but it's also stated that 'It’s certainly true that many people found Reg the less terrifying of the two, but both men were violent and unstable from the beginning.' The murders which finally land both brothers in jail are shown in the movie; Ronnie shoots a criminal named George Cornell point-blank, which is true to life. The movie attempts to give a motive for the murder, but in reality, the true rationale is unknown. The film also depicts the murder of the infamous criminal Jack McVitie by Reggie as a stabbing that occurs at a party, but in reality, McVitie's murder was an involved double effort, with McVite held back by Ronnie and urged his brother, Reggie, to go through with the stabbing.
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When it comes down to it, as glamorous as the Kray brothers' lives appeared to be — spending time with famous celebs like Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland — and as bigger-than-life as the movie title suggests, the reality of the Kray brothers is dark, twisted, and hardly worth being labeled a legend.
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