Bronson (2008)

This drama tells the real-life story of the infamous British prisoner Charles Bronson (not to be confused with the American actor of the same name). Though Bronson was initially sentenced to seven years for burglary, his bad behavior--including attacking violently, taking hostages, and staging protests from the roof--has had him imprisoned for more than three decades, most of it in solitary confinement.

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The notorious life of the U.K.'s "most violent prisoner" serves as the subject of Pusher Trilogy director Nicolas Winding Refn's brutal biopic. Born Michael Peterson but later renamed by his fight promoter, Charles Bronson's sole ambition in life was to become famous. Surmising that the fastest means of accomplishing his goal with such limited opportunities was to cultivate a stylized persona as a hardened criminal, the ambitious do-badder embraced a desperate existence of extreme savagery. But who is the real man behind the warped persona? Seeing as how 28 of Bronson's 34 years behind bars were spent in solitary...
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confinement, that's a difficult question to answer. The terror of the legend comes to vivid life, however, as director Refn explores the twisted alternate reality created by Bronson, and highlights precisely how the controversial criminal staged himself within that anarchistic world.
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Portret van Engelands meest beruchte en gewelddadige crimineel, Charles Bronson. Een man die 34 jaar van zijn leven in de gevangenis doorbracht, waarvan 28 jaar in eenzame opsluiting. Geboren als Michael Peterson, was zijn ambitie simpelweg beroemd te worden. Maar met de weinige kansen die hem geboden werden, was de onderwereld een aantrekkelijk platform voor zijn explosieve karakter, waarbinnen hij een maniakaal alter ego creëerde.

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