Charles Bronson (Bronson)

"You don't want to be trapped inside with me sunshine. Inside, I'm somebody nobody wants to fuck with do you understand? I am Charlie Bronson, I am Britain's most violent prisoner."

- Charles Bronson Michael "Charles Bronson" Peterson is the is the main character in the 2008 film Bronson directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and is based on the real criminal of the same name.

He is potrayed by Tom Hardy, who also played Bane in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.

He is known as "Britain's Most Dangerous Prisoner".

The real Charles Bronson is still in prison as of 2013.

Biography
When Bronson was introducing himself in the film, he stated that he always wanted to be famous. He couldn't sing or act but he showed his calling with a scene of him fighting prison guards.

Michael Peterson, as a young boy, was seen getting into fights with pupils and a teacher with a desk as a weapon. The first crime he ever commited was stealing money from the chip shop he worked at. He gives some of the money and kisses the girl who works with him. He then marrys the girl, Irene, and has a child with her.

Peterson goes to jail for the first time after he robbed a post office and getting away with a little amount of money. He enjoys the prison, comparing it to a hotel room, and every night he gets into fights with the guards. Now the other prisoners treat him like a celebrity. However, the guards are not liking it and they send him to every prison but with no luck. Eventually, he is sent to Rampton Secure Hospital, where he gets high doses of sedative drugs everytime he tries to start a fight. A man named John White approached him when he is sedated and seems to be sympathetic. But that suddenly changes when John reveals himself to be a pedophile when he suggests that him and Peterson rape a nine-year old girl. Disgusted, Peterson wants to attack him but he was not able to, he attempts to strangle John to death after acting all calm in several days to gain notoriety. Because of what he had done, Peterson has now been sent to Broadmoor, where he starts a large scale riot. Actual news footage shows Bronson sitting on the roof. Now branded as "Her Majesty's Most Expensive Prisoner", he is released back to the public.

While on his parole, Peterson goes to live in Luton with his uncle Jack and starts a career as a bare-knuckles boxer and does human baiting. He changes his name to Charles "Charlie" Bronson, after the famous actor. His career ended very quickly when he falls in love with a woman named Alison, steals an engagment ring, proposes to her is arrested for robbery.

He has been out for 69 days.

Back in prison, he is once again getting into fights, thus making his sentence longer. His violent outbursts are starting to get worse. One time he, held a prison officer hostage before he strips naked, covers himself in butter and fights riot guards. The governor tells him that if Bronson keeps up the outbursts, he will die in the prison. He starts to get interested in art, which prison officials believe that it is a good way for him to develop interacting skills with other people. However, the project has gone bad when Bronson takes his art teacher hostage after the governor refuses to look at his artwork. He strips naked, ties the teacher up to a pole, puts an apple in his mouth and paints his face. Then the governor sends in guards who, by superior numbers, detain Bronson.

The film ends with him in a coffin-like cage in a large dark room, badly beaten, chin torn, groaning.

Personallity
Bronson is violent, aggressive, animalistic and seems to enjoy every fight he gets into, especially with the prison guards.

Trivia

 * The real Charles Bronson was not initially allowed to view the film, but said if his mother liked it he is sure he would as well. According to Nicolas Winding Refn's commentary track on the DVD, his mother loved it.