Hardy doesn’t play the role, he inhabits it. Refn uses Hardy’s body brilliantly, keeping him as unclothed as possible. Gaining 2 stone of muscle, he is an intimidating screen presence even before he opens his mouth. Tom Hardy’s physical transformation into Charles Bronson is nothing short of incredible.
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Thus another layer of invention is added to Charles Bronson- the prisoner becomes a movie star. The prisoner Charles Bronson wrote an autobiography, which is where Brock Norman Brock takes up his story for the Bronson script. This transformation feeds into the modern craving for recognition, fifteen minutes of fame. Michael Peterson recreated himself becoming Charles Bronson, going from a petty criminal given seven years for stealing £26.18, into a notorious prison demi-god.
Whilst the visuals for Bronson are impressive, it is the theme of reinvention, which permeates the film, that makes it fascinating. The groundwork has been laid by directors like Kubrick and Tarratino, who have educated the modern audience in this visual aesthetic, essentially making a film like Bronson possible.
Reyn is reliant on having an audience that is acclimatised to a certain level of stylised violence. Director, Nicholas Winding Refn pays homage to Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in more ways than simply mixing violence and classical music.
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The found soundtrack is used to full effect, especially during a fight scene which is punctuated by the beats of an 80s dance hit, creating an arresting staccato. These standout images are accompanied by a fantastic soundtrack, enticing the audience to watch scenes we would be horrified to see play out in real life. The motif of blacks and reds spatter the screen, mixing ultra-violence with comedy, producing both shock and laughter from the audience. Highly stylized shots displaying Bronson’s predilection for violence are both beautiful and disturbing. Visually the film exceeds your usual cinema experience. However it is credit to everyone involved in Bronson, that the film sustains the interest of the audience by approaching the biopic from a very skewed, but innovative angle. This is not the most promising premise for a film, the title character having spent a large proportion of his life completely alone in a small box. Labelled as the most violent criminal in Britain, he has spent more than 34 yrs in jail, 30 of them in solitary confinement. Charles Bronson’s claim to fame is his notoriety in British tabloids. Style over substance seems to be the motto for both the man’s life and the film. Bronson is more concerned with capturing the essence of the man, rather than the truth. Unlike the other films in the recent spate of biopics, Bronson is not a linear consideration of its subject’s life. I knew I was made for better things, I just didn’t know what as” “My name’s Charles Bronson and all my life I’ve wanted to be famous.
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