I just finished watching Warrior for the 2nd time. After the movie I was researching Tom Hardy’s acting career and came across a forum about his role in the new Batman movie. He’ll be playing Bane who is the over muscle bound nemesis who breaks Batman’s back. In this forum I read a lot of comments about Tom Hardy not being big enough to play Bane blah bah. Let’s stop here for a minute and reflect on Dark Knight. I remember when Health Ledger was announced as the Joker all the comic forums across america exploded. You could’ve sworn that fat zit faced fan boys were posed with pitch forks and torches outside of Christopher Noland’s home waiting to strike at the first sign of Batman sacrilege.
What happened after Dark Knight was released? All the Fan Boys shut the their fucking mouths and the rest of us truly embraced any choices Noland makes with actors or plot. Not only did Health Ledger give us the most menacing Joker to ever hit the big screen. Heath delivered the best performance of his career.
Now back to Tom Hardy as Bane. Hardy isn’t that tall but is ripped like a greek statue. Somehow all these fan boys have missed Bronson? Where Hardy trained with a personal trainer for 6months to bulk up his frame losing some of his cut for mass. This was to simulate the body of an inmate that doesn’t have weights to work out with. Yah he looks like a fucking monster in that movie. Put Bronson in instead of Bane and Batman doesn’t stand a chance.
Hell put Christian Bales character “Jim” from the movie Harsh Times and the bad guys would really be scared. That’s what I want to see. Jim vs Bronson in a mega fight to the death. I’m getting off topic now.
Hardy’s performance in Warrior is awesome. His physique shows muscles where most of us don’t have any. He could flex one of his gorilla shoulder muscles and make a guidette cry. With forced perspective they can add a little height to him and let him roll with it. What I don’t want to see is another bumbling fool in a foam muscle suit making retarded grunting noises like we saw in Batman and Robin. At this point I can’t see anyone else who could play this role better or any other director pulling it off.