Having managed to cost the system tens of millions of pounds in damages, he is quickly branded as "Her Majesty's Most Expensive Prisoner." Unable and unwilling to carry on with the expense of cleaning up after his constant temper tantrums, his jailers decide to get rid of Peterson by simply declaring him sane and releasing him from prison after over ten years behind bars. Unfortunately, White survives, and Peterson is merely transferred to another mental hospital, that being Broadmoor Asylum For The Criminally Insane.Įven more dissatisfied with his new home, Peterson starts a large-scale riot, portrayed in the theater of the mind by actual news footage of the event, complete with close-up shots of Peterson sitting on the roof, gleefully posing for the cameras. Playing along with the regulations for a time, he lulls the orderlies into a false sense of security, and then attempts to strangle John White to death. Unable to stomach the suffocating lifestyle and mind-pummeling drug regimens in use at Rampton, Peterson longs for a way of returning to his "hotel room." Eventually, he decides to commit a crime that will hopefully get him sent back to a normal prison. Disgusted but too drugged-up to attack, Peterson immediately begins plotting. While Peterson is slumped in the common room, barely conscious, a fellow patient named John White approaches him: initially appearing sympathetic, White observes that Peterson is no more insane than him - only to then reveal himself as a convicted pedophile, and suggest that the two of them team up and rape a nine-year-old girl.
Immediately starting fights with the orderlies and refusing to take his medication, he is forcibly sedated in order to keep him out of trouble. As the guards grow tired of trying to control Peterson, they transfer him to another prison with a higher security rating - only for the guards at that prison to transfer him to the next in line, and so on.Įventually, Peterson is declared insane and is sent to Rampton Secure Hospital.
He also builds his reputation by getting into fights with the guards, enjoying the thrill of combat and the celebrity status he earns from his fellow inmates as a result however, it also results in him having several years added to his sentence. However, Peterson quickly grows to enjoy prison life: he frequently compares his prison cell to a hotel room - indeed, he later enthusiastically discusses his favorite prisons, like Parkhurst and Wormwood Scrubs, as if they really were hotels. Not only does he fail to earn more than a handful of cash, but he gets arrested soon after and sentenced to seven years in jail. Some time after the sentence for this crime is over, Peterson marries Irene and has a child with her.Įager for fame and fortune, Peterson acquires a sawn-off shotgun and robs the local post office.
As an adult, Peterson begins his life of crime by stealing money from his workplace, sharing some of it with his girlfriend, Irene this also results in his first visit from the police, and his first fist-fight with members of a law-enforcement agency.
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However, as the movie displays, the young Michael Peterson just keeps getting into fights: not only does he beat his fellow students to a pulp, but he even goes so far as to sucker-punch one of his teachers and throw a desk at him - incidents that naturally result in Peterson being punished several times, to no avail. The future Charlie Bronson is born to a perfectly ordinary life in Luton, raised by two upstanding members of society in a loving household. As he explains to the imaginary crowd, he always wanted to be famous - though being unable to sing or act, it was somewhat inevitable that he turned to crime in order to achieve recognition. The film portrays Bronson's life as a play taking place inside Bronson's head, where he is able to entertain a captive audience in his theater of the mind.