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Leon - The Professional
Tube - the being being back for the time being Started conversation May 17, 2001
As I said: Leon - The Professional and the Director's cut version.
Why? Errr... because it's a touching movie!?
Seriously, the acting of N. Portman's just superb, going from laughing to crying and the emotions in between. The scene in the Restaurant where she bursts out laughing after drinking the champage. The scene were she threatens to shoot herself. J. Reno as the unmoved and slightly dim Cleaner. The dialogues "Is life always this hard or just when you are a kid?" - "It's always like this" or "The plant is just like me - see? No roots" The backgound music by E. Serra (was him, wasn't it? ahve to look at the CD again...) The Sting song at the end of the movie..... aaaahhhh! 
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Researcher 174523 Posted May 17, 2001
I absolutely agree. And so few people I know have actually seen it! That's tragic isn't it? The world must be introduced to this mastery of film making!
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 17, 2001
Leon is 
"No women, no kids."
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Talith (who got bored of being Caroo and thought new h2g2, new name) Posted May 17, 2001
Fabulous film, but then it's Luc Besson - what do you expect? Do you know, he made that film in English so Hollywood wouldn't remake it (like they did with Nikita, which became The Assassin) and screw it up? Major respect is due to the man.
The friend at uni who introduced it to me said at the time that he was getting very worried. Natalie Portman was just so attractive as a 14 year old that he was scaring himself. He said she was going to turn into a looker, and she has 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted May 17, 2001
I've only seen the short version, and that was superb. I'd love to see the director's cut.
Leon - The Professional
Tube - the being being back for the time being Posted May 18, 2001
AFAIK N. Portman was 12 (13 max) when the movie was made.
And yes, what Hollywood did to Nikita was *not good*.... but are there any Hollywood-remakes of foreign movies that got any better?! 
Well, Peet, let me tell you that the director's cut makes for a totally new movie, since it adds so much to the story line!
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- 1: Tube - the being being back for the time being (May 17, 2001)
- 2: Researcher 174523 (May 17, 2001)
- 3: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (May 17, 2001)
- 4: Talith (who got bored of being Caroo and thought new h2g2, new name) (May 17, 2001)
- 5: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (May 17, 2001)
- 6: Tube - the being being back for the time being (May 18, 2001)
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