The transition from complementary actor to protagonist is not always easy. In fact, it doesn't always end up happening. Hence many actors complain that all films are shot by the same 5 or 6 actors. But in Tom Hardy's tenacity and his worth we can already find him with his leading roles beyond the long shadow of Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom for whatever reason he always intervened as his dark side, his nemesis... A matter of custom perhaps.
The point is that living on the other side of the quintessential protagonist can also end up becoming an opportunity. It happens when the mirror is turned around and we want to see the things told by the character on the other side. This is how Hardy ended up capitalizing on quite a few good films where he demonstrates that charisma that transfers to his characters like that electric gift in gestures, in texts, in adrenaline or melancholy, depending on what you want.
Top 3 recommended Tom Hardy movies
The child 44
AVAILABLE HERE:The most aberrant thing about dictatorships are their slogans of happiness, the populism capable of inserting into the shared imagination the transformative images of a reality of sinister drift. The reality of the paradigmatic communism of the USSR never fully reaches us. We can imagine the exile to Siberia for all types of dissidents, or the terrible gulags. But there is always room for more malicious objectives of the current leader... Hardy is on this occasion the Schindler who opens our eyes to harsh reality, convincing us along the way that all his efforts are necessary to restore dignity to humanity.
In the former Soviet Union, Leo Demidov (Hardy) is a state security officer (MGB) and former war hero, who when investigating a series of murders of children, the state relieves him of his position and removes him from the research to preserve the illusion of a crime-free utopian society. Demidov will then fight to find the truth behind these murders and the real reason why the government refuses to acknowledge them. For his part, his wife (Rapace) is the only one who remains by his side, although perhaps she also hides her own secrets.
Mad Max
AVAILABLE HERE:A remake of this episode fit very well into a Hardy moving perfectly among the post-apocalyptic dust. Just like Charlize Theron, they make up a tandem that at times seems to take us back to the 80s of the original film, surpassed in effects and scenery, of course.
Haunted by his turbulent past, Mad Max believes the best way to survive is to go out into the world alone. However, he finds himself drawn into a group fleeing across the desert in a War Rig driven by an elite Empress: Furiosa.
They escape from a Citadel tyrannized by Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord mobilizes all his gangs and relentlessly pursues the rebels in a high-speed "road war"… Fourth installment of the post-apocalyptic saga that resurrects the trilogy that Mel starred in in the early XNUMXs. Gibson.
La entrega
AVAILABLE HERE:One of those surprising films that you never suspect where it is going to break. Moving underground through neighborhoods dominated by the underworld, gangsters may be the only allies and the worst threats may come from those who in theory should be in charge of safeguarding order and law...
Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) is a bartender at a neighborhood bar in Brooklyn. Marvin Stipler (James Gandolfini) ceded ownership of the bar years earlier to Chechen mobsters and now runs it with Bob. On his way home, Bob finds an abused pit bull puppy abandoned in a trash can. While he rescues him, he meets Nadia (Noomi Rapace) and Bob leaves the dog in his care until he can decide whether to adopt him.
When two masked gunmen rob the bar, Marv is upset because Bob told investigating detective Torres (John Ortiz) that one of the gunmen was carrying a broken watch. Torres has seen Bob before at the church they have both attended regularly for some time. Chechen thug Chovka (Michael Aronov) then threatens Marv and Bob and tells them they must make up for the stolen money. Marv later meets with one of the perpetrators, Fitz (James Frecheville), and reveals that he orchestrated the robbery.
Bob decides to keep the dog and names him Rocco, while he teams up with Nadia, who agrees to take care of the dog every time Bob tends bar.