Her small-framed physique makes for an intriguing visual counter-balance as Hardy essentially engulfs her wherever they are standing near, but the story never finds much for her to do besides be wooed and then wait around. In the relatively thankless task of playing Frances is Australian actress Emily Browning. Ron, who would be diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic, is more lumbering and volatile, though given to moments of uneasy lightness as when he dances clumsily at a Christmas party that ends violently. Reg is dashing and the more fully functioning of the two, adding a touch of movie-star charm as he climbs to Frances’ window with flowers and sweets. There is a mad, creative energy to his performance that is sorely lacking everywhere else in the movie. As identical twins, he genuinely seems like two different people, so completely does Hardy transform himself in creating a distinct physicality for each brother. “Legend” is first and foremost a launching pad for a wild dual-character performance by Tom Hardy as both Reg and Ron. Confidential,” here never fully connects the personal side of the Krays to their criminal myth. Helgeland, who wrote and directed the Jackie Robinson biopic “42” and isa co-Oscar winner for the screenplay to “L.A. This creates overlapping intersections of loyalty and affection between the brothers, their business and Frances.
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“Legend” is directed by Brian Helgeland, who also adapted the screenplay from John Pearson’s book “The Profession of Violence,” and the movie attempts to tell the story of the Krays from the vantage point of Frances Shea, a local girl who would marry Reggie.
The story of Ronald and Reggie Kray, twin brothers who were kingpins of the London underworld at the height of the Swinging ’60s, adds a bit of psychodrama and is already the stuff of legend, with numerous books and movies based on their exploits. Tales of crime and gangsterdom have long been tinged with a seedy glamour, a mix of grit and polish.
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