Small turnout for this movie which included Bill Erskine, Goins, Q, and myself. Goins and Q made it about half way through but to their credit the movie was rather long and we started about 20 minutes late. I loved this movie. It’s a bit hard to understand the combination of their cockney accents and the 1960’s slang but it’s better than reading subtitles any day of the week. I’m looking at you Erskine. 🙂
Quite a few recognizable actors in this movie. You’ve got a movie based on a true story of the Kray twins from the East end of London, where Tom Hardy plays both Reggie and Ron Kray. Reggie is the more “level headed” of the twins, and Ronnie is certified (twice) as a raging psychopath. Which is where the original slang of “Help me!! He’s Kray-Kray!!” comes from in my made up opinion. (Yes, I know it’s cray cray) As Ronnie’s doctor put it “…your brother is arbitrary, violent, and psychopathic. Probably paranoid schizophrenic. What I’m trying to tell you is, he’s off his fucking rocker”
Reggie falls in love with Frances played by 5’2″ Emily Browning and they get married about half way through the flick because it takes a lot of convincing on Reggie’s part that A. He loves her, B. He won’t go to jail anymore, and C. Ronnie won’t be a problem. Spoiler alert, A, B, and C all turn out to be big problems because A. Reggie rapes her, B. Reggie goes to jail part 2, and C. Ronnie is a HUGE fucking problem.
Ronnie Kray is gay and he will gladly let anyone knows he likes boys (which he does several times throughout the movie). But he wants to make it clear “I’m a giver…. not a receiver… I am NOT a FAGGOT”.
So Reggie builds a small gangster empire but ends up and jail. Ronnie messes it all up because with his brother in jail, no one remembers or has the balls to give Ronnie his Stematol a.k.a. “mental medication”. So when Reggie gets out of jail things start to sour between the two brothers and they end up fighting one another. At first it’s just a little bit of Tom Hardy slapping Tom Hardy action, but the momentum slowly builds up with neither brother wanting to back down.
Shit gets really long from here on but eventually the brothers both end up in jail where they spend pretty much the rest of their lives until their death. I think the ending said Reggie got out of jail early on a “compassion” suspension of sentencing in order to spend time with loved ones because he had cancer, but he died 3 weeks later.
I didn’t take screen caps. But I’ve attached my favorite part of the movie if you want to get some idea of who Reggie and Ronnie Kray are.
Legend is a 2015 biographical crime thriller film[7] written and directed by American director Brian Helgeland. It is adapted from John Pearson's book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins,[8][9] which deals with their career and the relationship that bound them together, and follows their gruesome career to life imprisonment in 1969.[10][11]
This is Helgeland's fifth feature film. Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis and Christopher Eccleston star with Colin Morgan, Chazz Palminteri, Paul Bettany, Tara Fitzgerald and Taron Egerton as well as the singer Duffy featured in supporting roles.
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