Legend (2015)

[Frayed Knot]

I’m not sure I had ever heard of the British actor Tom Hardy prior to maybe the beginning of this year.
Since then I’m not sure I’ve seen a movie that hasn’t had him somewhere in the flick: LOCKE, REVENANT, MAD MAX, THE DROP, and probably a bunch of others I don't know about because he’s often unrecognizable from role to role.
And now my latest journey into Hardy-land counts twice as he stars as both Reggie Kray and Ronnie Kray in LEGEND, the story of British identical twin thugs who ruled the London underworld during the 1960s.

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Told from the point of view of Frances, the girlfriend/wife/ex of Reggie, the more mentally balanced (a relative term) of the two, the story brings together gangsters, sadistic violence, Scotland Yard, corrupt cops, and slimy MPs of that era reminiscent of 2008’s THE BANK JOB. And a bit GOODFELLAS-like in that, while the gangster life seems good when everything’s going well, it's always going to get out of hand somehow and then the bill comes due eventually.
One problem is that I needed to go to the subtitles feature just to get through the thick East London accents and Cockney slang.

[Edgy MD]

A story previously dramatized by Gary and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet in 1990's The Krays:

[Vic Sage]

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and of course there is the Monty Python adaptation, the Pirhana Brothers.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Dinsdale!

[Frayed Knot]

That's long been one of my favorite MP routines. My freshman roomie had a record* with that skit on it and we damn near wore that sucker out.








* yes kiddies, a comedy record album ... they used to be big, ask your parents