20. Rocknrolla (2008)
There aren’t as many mockney-geezery roles in Tom Hardy’s career as you might think, although he has a twist in this area and also in Matthew Vaughn’s Layer Cake, in which he plays one insane members of a crew led by Daniel Craig. very professional cocaine dealer. In Guy Ritchie’s infamous gangster drama, he plays Handsome Bob, a bit of a lazy bastard, with a secret emotional life, who works with Idris Elba. The film put my teeth to the test, but Hardy brings some of his trademark earthy charisma.
19. It Means War (2012)
It’s a questionable game for Hardy fans, although he does get points for an excursion outside of his comfort zone in the world of larksome capers. In this frantic and tense comedy, Hardy plays a very tough federal agent, a super-file cockney with a V-neck sweater and a simian walk. His partner is the smooth hottie Chris Pine. The two fell in love with the adorable Reese Witherspoon and used all of their spyware gear to spy on each other by taking Reese on dates. Maybe Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson would have been better.
18. Venom (2018)
Hardy deserves a leading role in a Marvel movie – and he is one of the very few actors who would be just as credible as superheroes or villains. But it’s not that one. Here, he plays tough investigative reporter Eddie Brock, who eliminates the villains from the business in his weekly online show. But then he horribly “merges” with a symbiotic organism imported from space by precisely the kind of evil commercial monster he exposes in his program and becomes the monstrous venom. The element of comedy is really not Hardy’s thing.
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17. Marie Antoinette (2006)
Hardy has a tiny role in the film by Sofia Coppola, embodying Raumont, the noble displeased with the court of Marie-Antoinette, a young schemer who participated sufficiently in the politics of power of the time, but without the status he thought he had law. Hardy’s relatively low profile here is likely due to the fact that he is not entirely plausible as a pretty boy figure and had not yet grown up in a larger, more macho look.
16. Child 44 (2015)
Hardy has indeed entered its impassive chunk phase in this heavy adaptation of the historic bestseller, which takes place in the post-war Soviet Union and based on a real case. Hardy plays Leo Demidov, the soldier who hoisted the red flag at the top of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945 and became a security officer. He is on the trail of a serial killer, but hated by the regime for his categorical refusal to report his wife on a falsified charge. It’s a big meal from a movie, but Hardy brings an actor muscle mass to it.
15. The Reckoning (2002)
Hardy wandered the wild side and was confident enough in his own resounding masculinity to play a very sexist character in this strange film set in the 14th century. It presents a troop of itinerant players led by Willem Dafoe; one of them is Straw, played by Hardy, who specializes in cross-dressing and applying lipstick with delicate precision before going on stage.
14. Lawless (2012)
Hardy is not especially known for patterned knitwear, but perhaps he should be, given his woolly outfit in this crowd drama from the era of gonzo-violent prohibition. He plays Dead Forpan Bondurant, a hooch runner in Virginia whose sweater really needs hand washing. Her brother is Howard, played by Jason Clarke, and there is a nervous younger brother, Jack, played by Shia LaBeouf. Hardy’s slow and fresh presence gives film to the ballast.
13. Warrior (2011)
It was a film widely regarded at the time as having brought the smackdown and delivered the action wowers. Hardy plays Tommy, an Iraq war veteran returning home to Philadelphia to settle the score with his scruffy and intimidating father, Paddy, played by Nick Nolte. Father agrees to coach Tommy in his MMA fighting career, but Tommy’s opponent turns out to be his equally tight brother Brendan, played by Joel Edgerton. It’s stuff in numbers, but Hardy is frantically charismatic.
12. Dunkirk (2017)
This is just a comeback, but what a cameo and what a film, from a director who gave Hardy some of his best roles. The scene is the miracle of the victory over the defeat of Dunkirk, when thousands of stranded British soldiers were rescued from the beaches of northern France using a brave flotilla of small boats. Hardy plays Farrier, the only RAF pilot who engages the enemy above the head at almost suicidal risk: it’s a supercharged role given the RAF’s dissatisfaction for a perceived failure to provide sufficient air cover during the evacuation.
11. Capone (2020)
A very strange but startling performance by Hardy as a prematurely aging Al Capone, placed under house arrest in Florida during the last year of his life, suffering from dementia and syphilis, beginning to hallucinate and displaying an unfortunate habit of getting dirty in times of stress. Hardy growls and recounts his insults in Italian and English.
10. Bronson (2008)
Many connoisseurs of Hardy believe that it was this film, by the Danish provocative Nicolas Winding Refn, which really propelled the actor into the league. Above all, he gained 100 pounds (which meant that he had a new bee and a Russell Crowe-like solidity) to play the famous British prisoner Charles Bronson (an eponymous first name, born Michael Peterson), a lifer whose delusions and the propensity for violence in prison has kept him angry for the past three decades. Bronson speaks directly to the public, like a funny and dapper tour of the music hall. It’s a strange film, but a strong performance by Hardy.
9. Legend (2015)
Playing twins is a test for any actor, and Hardy enthusiastically approaches him in the double role he surely was born to play – Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the hideous cockney siblings who ruled the gangland of the East End in the 1960s. Reggie is the supposedly most rational, albeit without glasses, and Ronnie is barking mad, with glasses and a little bit more weight. Hardy’s Ronnie has a pop-eyed, perpetual look of psychopathic disapproval, emphasizing his own gaiety in a scolding voice, like a scary Tommy Cooper. Reggie, in all of his comparative normality, is closer to being the main role of the film.
8. London Road (2015)
This excellent undervalued film by Rufus Norris was one of the most surprising cinematic experiences of the last decade: an opera based on the case of the 2006 Ipswich serial killer, in a textual reporting style, taken from eyewitness accounts – based on the play at London’s National Theater. Hardy plays Mark, a choric minicab driver, singing about his own expertise on the subject of psychopathic homicide. He said defensively: “I have studied serial killers; that does not mean that i am one. “(But there is a disturbing pause before the sentence:” I am one. “) It was the closest Hardy who came to Travis Bickle.
7. Creation (2010)
In Nolan’s dizzying and high-tech brain thriller, Hardy plays one of the members of a team led by Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), an industrial spy pirate whose specialty is to invade people’s subconscious in order to steal their commercially sensitive secrets. Or, in this case, to design the implementation (or creation) of an idea that will break a business empire. Hardy is Cobb’s man, Eames, whose specialty is identity theft that changes shape, a very useful skill for manipulating the enemy. It’s a more chic, softer and more curvy role than what we expect from Hardy, and Nolan’s film highlights all the latent style and the threat of the actor.
6. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
It was another of the most impactful roles that put Hardy on the map in a big way. In the third and final of Nolan’s Dark Knight films, Hardy embodies the mighty and unforgiving Bane, who confronts Batman. Bane is a masked man with a heavy leather respirator to hide a horrible disfigurement and he is the leader of an underground army of discontented people. Most confused, he speaks rather indistinctly through his mask and you often have to concentrate very hard to understand what he is saying. It sounds like Darth Vader screaming, while playing the bass accordion through a Harley Davidson exhaust pipe. But Hardy never gives it less than 100%.
5. Le revenant (2015)
It was probably the purest and nastiest role in Hardy’s career, although it could just as easily have been placed in the lead. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the true frontier man of the 19th century Hugh Glass, who was part of an expeditionary force to establish a fur trapping base in Missouri. John Fitzgerald of Hardy is one of the shy men working by his side who abandons Glass after his death after the group was set up by a tribe of warriors, and later demands additional wages for allegedly giving it a Christian burial. But Glass is still alive, survives appalling odds and comes back. In a way, Hardy is there to embody everything the character of DiCaprio is fighting against: he must be a worthy alpha opponent, not just mean and disdainful. His presence of dazzling malice squeezes the film at the beginning and at the end – we are heading for a powerful confrontation.
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
The intelligence thrillers of John Le Carré are far from the romantic fantasies of James Bond. Hers is a world of dull guys in dull suits trying not to think of compromises and shabby and shameful betrayals. But in this excellent version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the character of Hardy Ricki Tarr is the closest thing to the 007 drama, surrounded by Ms and Qs. He’s a young, physically fit spy who has a little bit of femininity and femininity in his life, making a dramatic connection to Gary Oldman’s Smiley since his posting to Istanbul. He’s not classy like the rest of the guys, and he’s wearing a sheepskin jacket, a sleek denim shirt – and Hardy also has a reddish blond wig for the role. The outfit may be absurd at the limit, but Hardy wins and it is completely consistent with the period. Reinforced, Hardy will make an excellent leap.
3. Gout (2014)
Of all the main movie roles Hardy has had, it is probably the most conventional and heroic. In a Boston crime drama that is adapted from a story by Dennis Lehane, Hardy plays a nice, ordinary guy called Bob, who works at a bar owned by his brilliant cousin Marv (James Gandolfini). The place is used as a base by Chechen gangsters for their illegal money. Bob saves a puppy from a nearby trash can and this picturesque act of selflessness and innocence sets off a series of dramatic and tragic events. Bob is a unique figure in Hardy’s CV: he is basically sympathetic and comparable, and Hardy’s face and style have always resisted this kind of ingratiation. His character is also very vulnerable, victim of intimidation by a local cop and accused by him of dropping the church. The Drop is, in many ways, an outlier for Hardy, but it could show the way for his future career.
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
For the majority of his fan base, this is probably Hardy’s key film: George Miller’s widely adored reboot of his Mad Max franchise – a bizarre convoy chase action fantasy in the post-apocalyptic Australian desert, where a warlord controls oil, water, bullets and milk. Hardy plays taciturn Max Rockatansky (approximately the character played by Mel Gibson in the original), a former intercept lawyer and now a lone wolf, tormented by the memories of the woman and the child he could not to save. He is captured by a hateful chief and taken to his bastion from where he escapes with the charismatic Charlize Theron. She must lead a feminist response against the misogynist tyranny that keeps women oppressed, like farm animals, and she must make common cause with Max. It’s almost a silent film role for Hardy, but its powerful, bullish, violent presence and its fierce face – robust, but sensually full of lips – make it a living cartoon of rage under the desert sun.
1. Locke (2013)
It’s Hardy’s Best Hour, a movie that shows what he can really do as an actor, when all the movies that made him famous seemed to have removed the very qualities of subtlety and sensitivity that it shows here. Hardy plays British construction manager Ivan Locke, and the whole movie is just a shot of him behind the wheel of his car, like a dashcam, as he talks to the people who are important in his life on his mobile. hands free. He is a reliable, professional and emotionless guy who was on the verge of supervising the pouring of thousands of tons of wet cement into the foundations of a new building in the Midlands. But just when it is needed there in person, Locke has abandoned the site and is traveling to South London. He is going through a marital crisis and an emotional crisis, but he keeps things together; Hardy’s increasingly rare action shows the terrible damage that this inflicts on him personally. It is a vocal and physical performance that could be compared to Richard Burton, but it is quite distinctive personal work. It’s top Hardy.
