![]() ![]() ![]() In spite of the bloodletting and violence, it is a very glossy film, beautifully shot in luxuriant widescreen colour by cinematographer Dick Pope (fresh from Mr Turner, his biopic of artist J.M.W Turner) and with plenty of Burt Bacharach on the soundtrack. It takes a mythologising and, at times, absurdly romantic, approach to its low-life heroes. The characters are British, the setting is London in the 1960s, but the film has the feel of an American gangster epic. Legend is a biopic on a very lavish scale. ![]() (“An open jaw will fracture easily,” Pearson explains Reggie’s thinking.) As John Pearson’s book, The Profession Of Violence, on which the film is loosely based, explains, this was when Reggie would offer someone a cigarette and then, as the man opened his mouth to take it, would hit him on the side of the jaw. We see a couple of examples of his notorious “cigarette” punch. Reggie, meanwhile, is dapper, very soulful when he is sharing lemon sherbets with the beautiful young Frances (Emily Browning) but calculating when violence is called for. ![]()
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