Friday 13 March 2009

Bronson

A film on the life of Charles Bronson is released in cinemas today, he has been decribed as 'the most violent prisoner in Britain'. The Film I personally think looks prety good and will definatly be seeing it sometime soon however there has been alot of controversy surrounding the film due to the glamourisation of the violence as you can see from the video below.

Bronsons origional sentance in prison was 7 years for an armed robbery where he got away with a measley £26.18, he has then commited violent acts and many hostage taking situations whilst in prison (one of which being because he wanted 2 cheeseburgers and in another he requested a blow up doll as part of his ransom) meaning he has been in prison since 1974 for all but 4 months and 9 days and only 4 of the years he has spent in prison has not been in solitary confinement.
Although Bronson isnt actually recieving any money from the film is it right to give such a man the privelage of having a film made on his life?

More on Bronsons life can be found HERE

As a final note i find it quite odd that Tom Hardy (the gay one from Rock'n'Rolla) is the one playing Bronson, thats some serious beefing up he had to do

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

for tom hardy to get to tht phsyiche he had to do 2500 push ups a day for five weeks!

man has commitment.

ProphetNine said...

He shoulda followed my schedule, he woulda been that hench in a week.