“Leon”
Leon: The Professional was released in 1994, by Les Films du Dauphin company. The film was directed by Luc Besson who had also directed: The Fifth Element, Lucy, La Femme Nikita. The film is about a girl named Matilda played by Natalie Portman and a professional assassin Leon played by Jean Reno. When Matilda was only 12 years old and she has already found out the dark side of life. Her father is abusive, and her mother neglects her. Her family got murdered by an agent, she decided to find Leon who lives down the hall. She joins Leon and study from him for she can avenge for her family.
Leon can be one of my favourite film. I watched this film quite early when I was about 13 years old and I watched it on my phone. At the first time I didn’t really understand the film, but the second time I watched it, I thought that is a very interesting movie. First is that the story is really unique and attractive.This is not like other film, talk about the relationship between family, couples, it is about a teenage girl and middle age man. The most part of why I like this movie is that the scenes, the screenshots of the movie just like art. Especially how they put the colours together. Also, there are many beautiful quotes in the film. I like to think after watching a film, I remember there is one quote, Matilda says, “Is life always this hard, or is it just when you're a kid?”, “Always like this.” Leon says. The quotes can make me think a lot and I think quotes are very important in a movie just like the lyrics in songs are important. Quotes can bring more colours into the film and make it more meaningful.
The actress who played Matilda, Natalie was only 11 years old and that was her first movie. There are smoking scenes in the movie, so Natalie’s parents were worry about her, so they worked out a contract with Luc Besson there could only be five smoking scenes in the film, Portman would never be seen to inhale or exhale smoke, and Mathilda would give up during the course of the film. When the film was first tested in LA, the version that was screened included a short scene where Mathilda asks Léon to be her lover. However, the audience became extremely uncomfortable and began to laugh nervously, completely destroying the tone of the film. The film received terrible test scores at the screening, and as such, producer Patrice Ledoux and writer/director Luc Besson decided to cut the scene for theatrical release.
I really do recommend this film, I think this is not only just a classic film that people say you should watch it because it is famous, also the meaning and the message in the film is what I like about it. The actors were very professional, and as I said the story is very unique.
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