Starring - Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Duffy, Colin Morgan, Paul Anderson, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Paul Bettany, Tara Fitzgerald, Chazz Palminteri, Sam Spruell, Tiger Rudge, Kevin McNally and Aneurin Barnard.
Produced by - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Chris Clark, Quentin Curtis and Brain Oliver
Production Company/ Parent organizations - Anton Capital Entertainment, Cross Creek Pictures, StudioCanal and Working Title Films
Distributed by - Universal Pictures
Directed by - Brian Helgeland
Released - September 9th 2015
Budget - $20 - $25 Million
Box office - $43 Million
Running Time - 2 hours and 12 minutes
At the start of Legend the fact they have the protagonist being the voice over talking about the Crays who are also protagonists is really effective and helps the audience gain more information about the twins for when they watch the film. The first image that the camera slowly moves into is 'London in the 1960's' which is said by the voice over. This is effective because then the audience are straight away given the information on the image so they can have a bigger picture when watching. The 60's jazz themed music really fits well underneath her voice over and sets the scene from the beginning. The cut onto the next scene with the car and the people walking along the street shows and tells the audience the kind of status the 'Crays' had because the street and speed they are driving at the could of walked it but they are driving through with a personal driver so they clearly have a high status then everyone in the clip. The next cut leading into the image of the twin brothers with a mid-shot is a good way to introduce the audience into the characters and the fact they are shown first shows how important both of these characters are. I personally think this is a good idea so u can straight away see who the 'crays' are and what the audience have got to look out for. After this there is a mid-shot again but it cuts to Ron who the voice over is describing then followed by the next cut where it goes to Reggie who is also in mid-shot and has the voice over speaking about him. However when the voice over says 'My Reggie' the audience are straight away given that tiny bit of knowledge the voice over is an important character and is clearly with Reggie simply from the word 'my.' Again the next cut goes back to them both doing something different giving the audience the idea that they are different types of people even if they are twins. Followed by 'it took a lot love to hate him the way I do' is significant because the audience will again be given an insight, the fact the music builds up to that line creates intense feeling for the audience almost thinking what will happen next making them want to keep watching. This is effective simply because just from the opening sequence the audience will want to watch more to find out what the voice over meant when she says the last line 'it took a lot love to hate him the way I do.'
