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The_voice_of_reason
Jun 13th, 2003, 10:41 PM
I am watching "Leon: The Professional" (it was simply called "The Professional in its American release) right now, this is the 21st time I've watched it. It is so cool i cry sometimes.

I had a b&w 8x10 of Mathilda (Natalie Portman) sitting with a stuffed bunny and pointing a gun at the camera but i lost it :tear
Zomboid
Jun 14th, 2003, 12:10 AM
Yeah, good movie but made me feel uneasy a few times. I hear the foreign edition's better.
The_voice_of_reason
Jun 14th, 2003, 01:23 AM
The "Uncut International Version" is better, it goes deeper into the whole Leon-Mathilda relationship. Why does it make you uneasy?
Zomboid
Jun 14th, 2003, 01:42 AM
I don't know... 12 year old girls wanting to sleep with grown men just does I guess.
FS
Jun 14th, 2003, 07:40 AM
Leon is an awesome movie. And the unsavoriness of the Matilda/Leon relationship is hugely exaggerated. If there's meant to be love there it's purely emotional, and aside from Matilda shooting Leon an awkwardly seductive look and telling a landlord that he's her "lover", there's nothing but a kind of naive romance.
pjalne
Jun 14th, 2003, 07:51 AM
I agree. The Leon/Mathilda relationship is one of the most geniunely moving relationships I have seen in movies. There's a lot of affection going on, and it's treated very soberly. The political incorectness about the situation isn't polished down, neither is the whole thing exaggerated for shock effect.
Royal Tenenbaum
Jun 14th, 2003, 11:33 AM
It's a really good film, but I sold my DVD away. Not quite rewatchable.
The_voice_of_reason
Jun 14th, 2003, 01:59 PM
Leon is an awesome movie. And the unsavoriness of the Matilda/Leon relationship is hugely exaggerated. If there's meant to be love there it's purely emotional, and aside from Matilda shooting Leon an awkwardly seductive look and telling a landlord that he's her "lover", there's nothing but a kind of naive romance.

Spoiler for those who haven't seen the international version

In the international version Mathilda asks Leon to be "her first". He declines and Mathilda almost kills her self.
whoreable
Jun 14th, 2003, 02:06 PM
I shit you not my old apartment had 3 leon posters on the walls. My roomates were idiots. The movie wasnt THAT good. but yea it was pretty cool.
FS
Jun 14th, 2003, 04:45 PM
Spoiler for those who haven't seen the international version

In the international version Mathilda asks Leon to be "her first". He declines and Mathilda almost kills her self.

Are you sure that's not just a stupid rumor? I've seen the movie several times and I wouldn't know why they'd air the American version in the Netherlands, plus that sounds like it would totally clash with the rest of the movie.
James
Jun 14th, 2003, 04:58 PM
I'd want Jean Reno to be my first too. :(
The_voice_of_reason
Jun 15th, 2003, 02:44 PM
Spoiler for those who haven't seen the international version

In the international version Mathilda asks Leon to be "her first". He declines and Mathilda almost kills her self.

Are you sure that's not just a stupid rumor? I've seen the movie several times and I wouldn't know why they'd air the American version in the Netherlands, plus that sounds like it would totally clash with the rest of the movie.


No, I own the international version.
Royal Tenenbaum
Jun 15th, 2003, 05:20 PM
No, the international version owns you.