"Legend" is a gangster biography film released in 2015, the film is adapted from the real gangster historical events, the story describes a pair of well-known Clay brothers in the London gangsters in the 1950s and 60s, the older brother with wisdom and the younger brother with iron fist, twins, one soft and one rigid, one wisdom and one courage complement each other, gradually dominating the gang forces in London, but such a huge black mass has also attracted the attention of the police...
Emily Browning
"Legend" is a third-person way to bring out the entire story, with the twin brother Reginald's first wife, Francis (Emily Browning), as the narrator, unlike "Black Mass" deliberately creating a sense of fear and oppression, this film adds a lot of witty and humorous dialogue clips, which also slightly dilutes the dull and boring feeling of the biographical film.
To put it bluntly, "Legend" is a movie with a gangster skin, but in its bones is a girl's love story, but the male protagonist's occupation in the general love story is replaced by a gangster boss, and the male protagonist in the movie is busy dealing with the affairs within the gang and between brothers, and ignores the heroine who is alone in the empty boudoir, washing her face with tears all day, and the original romantic pursuit before marriage, and the commitment of the sea withered stones, there is a world of difference.
Viewers watching "Legend", I believe that more than half of them are because they want to see Tom Hardy play two roles, and then after post-processing, the sense of seamless integration presented in the movie, but the first half of the film appears on the same screen at the same time, almost all of them use over-the-shoulder shots to deliberately avoid, feeling that there is a feeling that they can avoid it, can shoot less of this picture, until the second part of the movie, the two brothers turned around and stabbed at the party, only to obviously feel "they play with themselves" The thrill.
I was looking forward to The performance of Tarren Egerton in the movie, a new generation of small fresh meat male star who became popular with "Ace Agent", but he became a clown in "Legend", and there was no depth and three-dimensional sense of the role in the movie, which was a clear gap with my expectations of seeing his acting skills go to the next level.
Although like "Black Mass" has become a protagonist of many supporting roles, there is a sense of Tom Hardy's personal show, but on the whole, "Legend" is quite good-looking, just look at a "fight with yourself" meme is worth it, as for the name of the movie called "Legend", you can see the director's ambition and vision, but in fact, whether it can become a legendary level gangster movie, my answer is no!