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- Guionista
- Elenco
- Nominada a1 premio BAFTA
- 4 premios ganados y 2 nominaciones en total
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Opiniones destacadas
I was fortunate enough to have seen "The Krays" on cable a number of years ago and I never forgot it..
I consider myself a stone cold film buff especially for the action drama genre. To later find out that the film was based on real people just drove the point home even further how awesome this film was.
I only wish that the DVD version would be released in the US as well. I rank this film right up there with "Once upon a time in America" and "Miller's Crossing" as films I love and would watch again and again.
I consider myself a stone cold film buff especially for the action drama genre. To later find out that the film was based on real people just drove the point home even further how awesome this film was.
I only wish that the DVD version would be released in the US as well. I rank this film right up there with "Once upon a time in America" and "Miller's Crossing" as films I love and would watch again and again.
A powerful film about the lives and crimes of the notorious Kray Twins. The Kemp brothers are superb as Reggie and Ronnie (and still the best film concerning their turbulent lives). The movie is almost a perfect production and dealing with a violent subject matter, that could easily have been screwed-up. The mood and atmosphere is charged and even the 'Maltese Brothers' get a mention (nice one). Two of my favourite actors Steven Berkhoff and Tom Bell, explode onto the screen!
Not bad entertainment but not good enough for a classic. Some people have mentioned that the Krays gave their approval to the script. This was a bad thing. Now they are both dead. The Kray story should be done again, probably on TV as a mini series of about 6 hours to give the whole thing justice. We could then include more details of their life of crime, their arrests and trial. The Kemp brothers do not look alike at all but the Krays also looked different as they got older. Martin Kemp would pass for Reggie if he was a bit stockier but Gary Kemp is nothing like Big Ronnie. The overall impression of the film was that they were the leaders of a gang of teddy boys rather than the biggest gangsters in London. If the story is retold we need better casting for the twins and they need not necessarily be brothers.
Before this one, speaking of British gangster epic, there was THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY, and before there was GET CARTER.... Period. Don't look further. Plus, this terrific film is the best ever made about the Krays brothers real life. The most gripping, accurate, brutal, far better than LEGEND starring Tom Hardy - who will later play AlCapone - or even better than the two other films made in the meantime, since LEGEND. Everything is flawless for me here; it remains very British whilst using the American rise and fall scheme for gangsters, in the pure Scorcese's way. I guess Peter Medak the director - usually a bland, lame film maker - was himself inspired by THE GOOD FELLAS story telling. I am sure. And why not?
I hadn't seen the ratings on IMDb until after watching the movie itself. I have to say, that is some harsh reviews there. The whole film was indeed enjoyable, it portrayed the Krays and London gang-lands as a whole, very well. There were moments in the film where it became very boring and quite monotonous, in the sense that it seemed as if it were never going to end, but the last thirty minutes really makes the film worth watching. After seeing Goodfellas and hearing that it was a lot like that but a little less funny and, of course, a lot more English-based, I expected quite a lot. Nevertheless, this film still surprised me and maintained to keep me on edge throughout the entirety of its showing. If I could give it any rating, I'd give it around 7.6, but I'd have to round this to 8. It's a brilliant film and it doesn't merely deserve 6.6 overall.
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaReggie Kray reportedly wrote regular fan letters to Martin Kemp.
- ErroresIn the boxing scene at the fairground, the twins' are portrayed as young adults and that the fight between them transpires after Ronnie knocks out the prize fighter - this incident actually took place when they were both small boys. The ringmaster shouted to the crowd if anyone wanted to take on the show fighter and the young Ronnie Kray shouted that he'd fight him. Amid much laughter, the referee pointedly said he was a bit young - whereupon Reggie stepped up and challenged his brother. They fought gamely, and were both awarded half a crown for their efforts; this was also the bout that led to their later semi-professional careers as pugilists.
- Citas
Rose: I was on the bus the other day. And some old toerag was boasting about all he'd suffered during the war. Stupid old... I tell you, they don't know. It was the women who had the war - the real war. The women were left at home in the shit, not sitting in some sparkling plane or gleaming tank. There's no glamour for us. They should have been with me when old Pauline Woolley went in to labour. D'you remember that, Violet?
Violet Kray: Yes, yes I do, darling.
Rose: Seven hours of screaming down Bethnal Green bloody tube station. Then I had to cut the baby's head off - to save the mother's life. She died anyway, poor old cow. God, there was so much blood! Jesus! And the abortions. Those poor girls. One day they'll drain Victoria Park lake. And you know what they'll find? What glorious remnants of the Second World War? Babies, that's what. Bullets and dead babies. Men! Mum's right. They stay kids all their fucking lives. And they end up heroes - or monsters. Either way they win. Women have to grow up. If *they* stay children, they become victims.
- Versiones alternativasThe infamous 'Chelsea Smile' scene was reduced in the UK cinema version but was later restored fully uncut for video releases after 2002.
- Bandas sonorasBittersweet
Written by Chris Rea
Published by Warner Chappels Music
By Arrangement with Chappell Music Ltd.
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- También se conoce como
- Die Krays
- Locaciones de filmación
- Walcot Square, London, Greater London, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(Reggie beats up men)
- Productoras
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Taquilla
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 2,060,847
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 948,002
- 11 nov 1990
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 2,060,847
- Tiempo de ejecución2 horas
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1
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