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Master of Ossus wrote:It should have no sequel. What would it cover? The librarian helping her out?

Indeed, this would just be a case of a totally pointless sequel fucking over a perfectly good original.

Apparantly Luc Besson who did the original Leon will be writing it.

So it can't be bad

CyberianKnight wrote:Apparantly Luc Besson who did the original Leon will be writing it.

So it can't be bad

He did the Fifth Element. Trust me, it can.

Great Movie, Excellent DVD.

The only good thing about that movie was the multigun (the one that had homing bullets, freezethrower, rocket launcher, flamethrower, and who knows what other shit inside).

I personally felt the rest was a colossal waste of cash, and I never liked Milla Jovovich anyway.

Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:

CyberianKnight wrote:Apparantly Luc Besson who did the original Leon will be writing it.

So it can't be bad

He did the Fifth Element. Trust me, it can.

I liked the Fifth Element

CyberianKnight wrote:

Evil Sadistic Bastard wrote:

CyberianKnight wrote:Apparantly Luc Besson who did the original Leon will be writing it.

So it can't be bad

He did the Fifth Element. Trust me, it can.

I liked the Fifth Element

[gags]

Hey, the Fifth Element was cool.

Fifth Element was good, La Femme Nikita was good. I like this guy, I really do like this guy.


Just one question, what's the difference between the cut and uncut versions?

neoolong wrote:Hey, the Fifth Element was cool.

The movie had Chris Tucker, that guy can drive people insane with his voice, plus the ending was pretty lame, Love is the 5th Element that was pretty gay

Mike_6002 wrote:

neoolong wrote:Hey, the Fifth Element was cool.

The movie had Chris Tucker, that guy can drive people insane with his voice, plus the ending was pretty lame, Love is the 5th Element that was pretty gay

Can you ever make an intelligent post?

Mike_6002 wrote:

neoolong wrote:Hey, the Fifth Element was cool.

The movie had Chris Tucker, that guy can drive people insane with his voice, plus the ending was pretty lame, Love is the 5th Element that was pretty gay

I second Stormy's sentiment. DO you ever make more than one intelligent post out of every twenty or so? If that? I have been only following this thread, but your random postings of unnecessary bullshiot are going too far and getting too old too fast. I suggest you pipe down, else mods are going to be all over you.

Mike_6002 wrote:

neoolong wrote:Hey, the Fifth Element was cool.

The movie had Chris Tucker, that guy can drive people insane with his voice, plus the ending was pretty lame, Love is the 5th Element that was pretty gay

Chris Tucker was supposed to be annoying. That was the point. And it's not that Chris Tucker that was necessarily annoying, it was the character. You ever see Friday, Rush Hour?

The ending wasn't bad and made sense. The love thing seemed to be what the movie was leading up to anyways.

[quite]Just one question, what's the difference between the cut and uncut versions?[/quote]

About twenty-five total minutes of footage. It details the continuation of Mathilda's "cleaner" training, adds a lot of details to the relationship between her and Leon, and explains how Leon became a hitman and moved to America, among other things. If you haven't seen it, go get it now. The Russian roulette scene is, in my opinion, the best acting of Natalie Portman's career thus far.

This movie used to be an obsession of mine. I've seen it at least 100 times over the years, easily. I even had the director's cut two years before it was released on DVD in the US.

For the last year or so, I've mulled over the idea of writing a fanfic based on the premise that Leon survived the showdown with the NYPD. In my version, Stansfield would be gunned down at the last moment by Benny. (He seemed capable of realizing Stan was nuts, and he was always a loose end anyway.) I'm not sure where it would lead, though, so I've never gotten around to actually doing it.

PS:

If you look around on here...

http://markcarpenter.cjb.net/

...you'll find the first-draft script for Leon, translated (albeit roughly) from the French-language and out-of-print book L'Histoire de Leon. Here's a teaser: In this version, Mathilda dies.

Maybe another movie covering Leon's earlier years would be cool.

Maybe how Leon got recruited and his training as a cleaner?

neoolong wrote:Maybe how Leon got recruited and his training as a cleaner?

That'd be interesting provided it's pulled off right. All in all though, I don't really think it should have a sequel though.

Stormbringer wrote:

neoolong wrote:Maybe how Leon got recruited and his training as a cleaner?

That'd be interesting provided it's pulled off right. All in all though, I don't really think it should have a sequel though.

I agree. The Mathilda character was never as complex as Leon. And it would be interesting to see how he became the man he was.

I don't know. In the director's cut, Leon gives that little summary of how he became a hitman, and it doesn't sound like there's much material there for a second movie.

I'm not sure a sequel is warranted, but if it's going to be done, I'd rather see a sort of Nikita-type movie based around Mathilda.

If the sequel was about Mathilda it migh turn out to just be an uber-wank fest with Natalie Portman looking hot and killing people.

Which could really make it a crappy movie.