Some Tom Hardy love today. Apologies to all the DiCaprio-Hanks-Gosling-Depp-Denzel fans, but if we’re talking male actors in 2017, it’s Daniel Day Lewis and Tom Hardy. There’s no space today to even get into Bronson, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, or The Dark Knight Rises. And did you see Taboo?!!! Daaaaaaaamn!
Today though, we’ll look at a movie Hardy did that may have flew under your radar– Legend. Hardy pulled lots of Best Actor wins for these roles but no Oscar love, which is robbery. How do you do a tour-de-force on TWO performances as both Kray brothers and not get an Oscar nod? I’ve got the script from Brian Hegeland and a bunch of clips from the movie. Let’s match them up and you tell me this wasn’t one of the best performances from 2016. Apologies for the script non-spacing, I tried fixing it, but the blog tech won’t fix it, so screw it… Let’s do this…
First, the opening, where you get the excellent CG effect of Tom Hardy playing both brothers, setting up the movie:
Directed by Brian Helgeland. With Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Anderson. Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s. Nov 18, 2015 Tom Hardy can act the hell out of any role, from subtle to blow-the-roof-off. In Legend, Hardy gets to do both, and all stops in between. It helps that he’s playing identical twins. Amazon's Choice for legend tom hardy. Legend (2015) 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,614. DVD $9.93 $ 9. 93 $14.98 $14.98. Get it as soon as Mon, Jun 1. The new biopic Legend, starring Tom Hardy as the twin Cockney crime lords Ronnie and Reggie Kray, is due to open in UK cinemas next week, and it's already ruffling some feathers.
EXT. LONDON SKYLINE – DUSK
PANNING DOWN from the heavens to the city below. Seen from
the East End looking west. Traffic in the streets, the
Thames, St. Paul’s. The BELLS at Bow Church can be heard.
FRANCES (V.O.)
story about the Krays. You could
two about them.
EXT. LINCOLN CONTINENTAL – ROLLING THE WEST END – NIGHT
We are low on the rear fender looking up, awash in neon:
Ronnie Scott’s, the Marquee Club. We catch glimpses of the
But I was there and I am not
INT. LINCOLN CONTINENTAL – ROLLING THE WEST END – NIGHT
In the backseat, the Krays: REGGIE tough and fit, RON off
kilter in style. An odd slowness here, like time has stood
They were brothers. But bound by
well. Counterparts. Gangster princes
Ron, heavier, thicker, bespectacled, looks to his brother.
FRANCES (V.O.)
Bloodthirsty, illogical, but funny
Reggie looks out the window watching London pass by.
FRANCES (V.O.)
lifetime do you find a street
when I say it took a lot of love for
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I love this bar fight scene with the rival Richardson gang. A proper shootout!
Four customers scurry out. The other EIGHT are RICHARDSON
GANGSTERS. Approaching from all sides. Tough bastards. Tooled
up with coshes and pipes. One, Mike Jobber, holds a razor.
Reg, Ron, the Richardsons were
look after you.
(re: Jobber’s razor)
MIKE JOBBER
RON
What are you going to do with that,
Ron indicates some hard metal shoved down in his pockets.
RON (CONT’D)
proper shoot out with some proper
Geronimo.
Reg, this lot are fucking nonces.
Get out of my way….
Motioning, with what seem to be guns, Ron walks past the
RON (CONT’D)
A shoot-out is a fucking shoot out! Like a Western…
And then he’s gone. One of the gang closes the door behind
You’re brother’s done a runner.
REGGIE
You don’t mind if I pour myself a
Reggie reaches over the bar, starts to POUR a GUINNESS.
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Jobber trades incredulous looks with the others.
Also love this scene with Chazz Palminteri as an American mafioso looking to go into business with the Krays:
London’s going to be the Las Vegas
and someone to muscle for us.
We can do your security, but we
to work with you.
PAYNE
Final Shooting Draft
BRUNO
say. He just said it. We’re in your
discussions of this nature.
He sends this as a good will
Reggie opens briefcase one. It is filled with $100 BILLS.
BRUNO (CONT’D)
briefcase contains business of my
Payne opens this one: It contains banded stacks of…
BRUNO (CONT’D)
bearer bonds. Jacked from a bank in
America. Can you guys handle it?
Reggie looks at Payne. Payne gives the slightest nod back.
REGGIE
Boys who jacked it get twenty
sixty/forty. This works out, Reggie,
of those bad boys. Does that sound
Fifty/fifty, mate.
Bruno considers him back…
BRUNO
Lastly, Tom Hardy fights with himself when Reggie come home from jail to find Ron running the business into the ground: Cached.
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Ron sees Reggie and Frances are starting out of the club.
Reg! Reggie!
Reggie pauses as his brother starts forward, glass raised.
A toast to my brother! Home at last.
And Frances! Dear lovely Frances.
Reggie can’t bring himself to leave. He motions Frances to
wait, but she follows him as he meets his brother.
Here, what are you playing at?
I’m not playing; you are. Finally
you don’t even thank me?
Thank you for what?! For running
For ruining all my hard work?!
What are you shouting at me for? You
what I had.
You’re fucking unbelievable.
We can fix it. We’re together again.
Reggie…
‘Let’s go’
feels himself losing his brother…
We’re talking about earning a
being gangsters which is what we
As Reggie reacts to that, Frances stands her ground.
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One day, Ron Kray, your miserable