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Léon: The Professional: Directed by Luc Besson. With Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello. 12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered.
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Léon: The Professional is a '90s staple, directed by Luc Besson, known best as an action film. What audiences gloss over is the awkward relationship between adolescence and adulthood. Unbeknownst to her, Mathilda must take a dreaded walk from a trip to the grocery store back to her apartment, where she realizes her family has been gunned down by du...
A milk-drinking, suspenders-wearing, plant-loving Italian hitman adopts a young girl after her dysfunctional family is murdered by a crooked cop and makes her his protégé, teaching her the ways of the hitman. What more could one ask for? Mathilda had to improvise her life, juggling the desire to remain a kid (influenced by her little brother) and t...
Mathilda is lonely, misunderstood, and ambitious. Does revenge count as ambitious? Maybe not, but everyone has had the incriminating, venting, anger-filled thought. Gary Oldman's character is the anti-Jim Gordon, who you love to hate. He is the master manipulator and embodiment of two-faced power plays. And in the middle of it all, the ultimate mid...
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Sep 28, 2022 · One movie miraculously absent from so many lists is "Léon: The Professional." I thought the premise of a Gump-like hitman shacked up with a 12-year-old girl was pretty iffy back in the day, even ...
Oct 17, 2016 · Generally, it is a safe bet to assume that a hitman is a bad guy. Generally, anyone who can kill strangers for money is heartless, not like you or I – and that’s true in cinema (for the most part) – hitman enter, hitman kill, hitman leave. Generally, that is the role in a movie these killers hold. But not in Léon. And that difference ...
Léon: The Professional was a commercial success, grossing over $45 million worldwide on a $16 million budget. [1] Plot. Léon Montana is a Franco-Italian hitman (or "cleaner", as he refers to himself) living a solitary life in New York City's Little Italy. His work comes from a mafioso named Tony (Danny Aiello).
Mar 31, 2018 · Review: Léon: The Professional Posted on March 31, 2018 by The Movie Bastard Following the success of La Femma Nikita in 1990, “renegade” (as labelled by HBO) French director Luc Besson ( Lucy ) finally had the opportunity to bring Fifth Element , a film he’d been dreaming up on-and-off since he was a teenager, to the big screen.
Léon: The Professional — also known as Léon and The Professional — is a 1994 film directed by Luc Besson which stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman in her first major role. It was inspired by Reno's one-shot role as Victor the Cleaner in 1990's La Femme Nikita, which became so popular that Besson decided to make a whole movie about him though the two films are otherwise ...
