It was directed by Luc Besson, pretty much French in style, in the EL.
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A back to back viewing of the original 1922 film then Shadow of the Vampire with Willem Dafoe is chefs kiss.
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Yeah that movie is creepy with the Portman bits…I couldn’t finish it.
Only gets more creepy when you find out the director, Luc Besson, was in a relationship with 15 year-old while writing it …and knocked her up at 16 when he was 32… it’s abit of pedos daydream of a movie (for the director that is, not the fan base of the movie).
Apparently the script was even worse but the lead actor Jean Reno refused some parts.
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It was weird. Just watching it thinking. ‘If they just made her 18-19, and made him 20 years younger. Then it could maybe work”
Instead, she’s 12-14 and he’s 35-40.
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Which reminds me, it’s time to revisit Queen Margot. Not the best film, but my first introduction to Ms Adjani, as a 19 year old at the Carlton Movie House. Sigh
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To me that dynamic made it interesting, she a pretty disturbed kid and that’s understandable with what happened to her family. The assassin character is interesting to.
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I haven’t watched the movie in a long time but l remember thinking it was an entertaining watch. I took it as a young girl pretending to be older to cope with her situation and Leon the assassin never showing any interest in that behaviour. It could have easily slid over the line if he showed any romantic interest in her but l don’t recall that, but my memory may be fading.
Leon the professional is a amazing movie
Gary oldman makes such a despicable bad guy
I got the impression that he constantly pushed her away when she cast him in a romantic role.
He was redeemed to the extent that he reluctantly assumed in loco parentis responsibility for her and went so far to exact revenge on her behalf with his own life.
I remember my Equity lecturer (the late Professor Harold Ford) explaining that in loco parentis was not the same as en ventre de sa mere.
Its a shame the american accents are so prounounced.
I expect to see some marines roll in with some swords and shields.
And thats the accents of the main protagonists
I really like the Herzog version, something pretty different in his filmography and one of my favourite films of his. Always loved the opening scene, I think Bruno Ganz has a unique screen presence and it’s got cool music by an interesting German group called Popol Vuh (they did the music for several Herzog films).
Agreed about The Hunger. Just about anything with Susan Sarandon is watchable, in my opinion, and this one has one extremely memorable scene with her and Catherine Deneuve. Recommended.
I don’t care what anyone says but Dante’s peak is absolute movie gold.
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For me it’s Catherine Deneuve who’s the real star. And I know exactly which scene you are referring to. She is impossibly cool. I used to have the DVD but I lent it to someone and it never came back.
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Fantastic disaster movie
Easily in my top 5 disaster movies
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Scarface.
Great movie on the rise and subsequent fall of a Cuban drug lord.
I only just found out it’s a remake of a 1932 movie.
Anyone seen the OG ?
Going back to save grandma & then the dog.
Buy a new dog, get someone else to play grandma & end the movie half an hour early.
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I have an enormous disdain for that god forsaken grandma.
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I like disaster movies
2012
Day after tomorrow
Deep impact
Greenland
San Andreas
A very long time ago and as I remember, it was based on Al Capone, Italian immigrants that time, making the most of a US capitalist society, in which violence prevailed.
The American dream.
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