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    Over the phone from Copenhagen, Refn says, "Tom Hardy beefed up a lot. He looks like Freddie Mercury from Queen, so there was quite a physical transformation. I had this idea of him being nude as much as possible, because it made him primal." One part of Bronson's story that interests Refn is the prisoner's thirst for fame. Full Article at Canoe
    Tom Hardy beefed up a lot. He looks like Freddie Mercury from Queen, so there was quite a physical transformation. I had this idea of him being nude as much as possible, because it made him primal.
    – Nicolas Winding Refn SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago
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  1. In England, it's very much a class society, and I think they want to punish him for who he is and what he represents
    – Nicolas Winding Refn SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago
  2. Bronson is a very feminine movie, even though it's about masculinity, male violence, male brutality. It's a feminine movie, and the operatic feel would enhance that aspect.
    SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago
  3. Violation from art makes you think. That's its main purpose.
    SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago
  4. My mother saw it, and she liked it a lot, too.
    SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago
  5. I learned the hard way that art doesn't have to destroy. It can enlighten. And things like that. A lot of the dialogue in the movie, the voice-over, became my own, my background.
    SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago
  6. One of the elements was the whole celebrity obsession we have, and the flip side of it. Bronson achieved his fame, but the flip side was, he's going to be in a cage. It's symbolic of what celebrity is really all about. And it's about an artist finding his stage. And finding that art is an act of violenc...
    SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago
  7. I just started making films. I was like Charlie Bronson. I didn't have a lot of options. I'm dyslexic, so I couldn't write. So my writing's very primitive. So I couldn't be a novelist. I'm colour blind, so I couldn't really paint. I'm not good with clay. So I didn't have a lot of options.
    SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago
  8. Bronson is probably the closest thing I'll ever come to a biography of my own life. It's a strange way of using somebody else's transformation to do a movie about your own life, but, starting out, when I was younger, I was being very nihilistic, being self-destructive with everything I did. Art had to b...
    SOURCE: Canoe 1 month ago

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