The Proffesional -Leon

WaxLyrical said:
Leon was a very good movie, stained by Bessons obvious pedo proclivities.
It could've been a great movie.
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Probably the main reason why Portman wouldn't do a sequel.

I'm the same age as portman so watching it I didn't pick up the vibes, but if you hear what she has to say about it now you realise it was ick.
 
OutlawJoseyWales said:
Apparently the "Everyone!" line being shouted and as dramatic as it was, was all Gary, the director hadn't called for it.

Gary just told someone (like the sound guy I guess, or the cameraman, I can't remember) to be ready for it. And cinema history was born.
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Something like that yes, It was an outtake he shot to make the Director laugh.
 
bwana said:
I think you're confusing scandals.
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Jean Reno is Leon, a kind of a killer with 'a heart of gold’ character; innocent and childlike, he dotes on his house plant, drinks milk and loves Gene Kelly movies. Mathilda falls in love with him. In the long version (found here) on this really superb looking DVD release from Madman, there are quite a few scenes included that US preview audiences rejected; like Mathilda getting drunk in a restaurant and another where she suggests she become Leon’s 'lover’. According to producer Patrice Ledoux, interviewed in a short 'making of’ doco included on the DVD’s extra features, this kind of content, no, this kind of relationship, was in no way mysterious to the French filmmakers of Leon. Maïwenn Le Besco (she plays a bit part in the film, a prostitute) who was married to Besson for a time, says in the same featurette that Leon is about her relationship with Besson. She says they met while she was still an adolescent, and eventually they started dating when she was fifteen. Still, the relationship in the film stays 'innocent’ (as well as frankly a bit icky). The 'making of’ reveals that at the urgings of Portman and her very protective parents, some of Besson’s more 'extreme’ beats concerning the film’s central relationship were excised at script stage; like a scene where Leon accidentally walks in on Mathilda as she takes a shower (he’s embarrassed, she’s oblivious!).
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He just "hid" it well.
 
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