Still has enough pedo vibes to make it hard to suggest this film to others. Sucks, because outside of that it’s a good movie with great acting from Oldman. Kind of like how Irreversible is also an excellent movie, if it weren’t for the 9-minute long uncut/realistic rape scene.
Helps that oldman even stepped in for a couple of the scenes to protect the young actor and be like “yeah no I’m not doing that and neither is she, write it out and do something else.”
do you think a young girl from a broken household like that wouldnt be…weird…with strong protective figure like leon showing up?
leon doesn’t take advantage of her or anything, shoots down all her advances, the “relationship” is always protrayed as clearly unhealthy and something leon doesnt want
I thought the same thing after seeing the American version, it just seemed like a understandable case of a childhood crush that Leon reacts to with equally understandable awkwardness.
Then I watched the director’s preferred version. It’s pedo bait and he’s a legally proven pedophile who “married” a child he met when she was 12 and who was pregnant and married by 16, end of story.
Still has enough pedo vibes to make it hard to suggest this film to others. Sucks, because outside of that it’s a good movie with great acting from Oldman. Kind of like how Irreversible is also an excellent movie, if it weren’t for the 9-minute long uncut/realistic rape scene.
Must be a French thing?
It might be Luc “cleared of all charges” Besson’s thing
Gaspar Noe, the director for Irreversible, is also French. I just meant, “I guess the French really like to get saucy in their art.”
Helps that oldman even stepped in for a couple of the scenes to protect the young actor and be like “yeah no I’m not doing that and neither is she, write it out and do something else.”
Look at the BTS photos, luc besson can’t keep his hands off Natalie Portman
You can use her name. People have heard of Natalie Portman.
do you think a young girl from a broken household like that wouldnt be…weird…with strong protective figure like leon showing up?
leon doesn’t take advantage of her or anything, shoots down all her advances, the “relationship” is always protrayed as clearly unhealthy and something leon doesnt want
granted, i only watched the english version
I thought the same thing after seeing the American version, it just seemed like a understandable case of a childhood crush that Leon reacts to with equally understandable awkwardness.
Then I watched the director’s preferred version. It’s pedo bait and he’s a legally proven pedophile who “married” a child he met when she was 12 and who was pregnant and married by 16, end of story.