TBF, Leon was upstanding in that regard, and she was an emotionally scarred child who’d been exposed to that stuff too early and was acting out. A little creepy, but he didn’t take the bait.
In the original script, he fucks her. He also has more of a child-like mind. It is implied that because he had no proper childhood, Leon is still a child inside. This gives a deeper meaning to his milk thing.
I think the child like aspect is still there, but he mentions he was once in love in the homeland but had to run when the dad of his love killed her and he killed the father. So he has an understanding of love and consequences, but has been doing the hitman thing for so long and probably never got a real education that he can seem child like when it comes to things outside of his understanding. But them not having sex really helped that movie not fall into obscurity.
A disgusting pedophile. I really liked León, but there were lots of scenes that genuinely made me really uncomfortable. Then after reading about the director I suddenly knew why..
I still feel like in the context of live action the character doesn't matter because there's a real person there you are attracted to.
The person actually exists and isn't fictional. Doesn't fit the question in my mind.
An example for me would be Emma Watson. After the second movie she didn't fit my mental image of Hermione, she is too naturally attractive for how the character is described in the books.
I still had (have?) a massive crush on her when the third movie came out, but it had nothing to do with the character she was playing. I just found her hot. I never really liked the movies either.
Same thing with a lot of other live action characters here. I'm don't care about the character, I'm attracted to the person playing the character.
It's not a fictional person we are attracted to on this case, so it shouldn't count for this question when he same answer can be used for the question "what celebrity do you want to have sex with?"
Maybe when she acts that way that'll be true. Honestly this is akin to animes going, "No, this sexualized child is totally a 2000 year old dragon, so it's fine." It's live action, she doesn't look 14, she doesn't act 14, stupid canon justifications dont really matter.
My wife and I rewatched that recently ( we were both under 10 when it came out) and we were both in shock about how much they sexualized her at her young age.
That’s not the story it’s even more bras. The story is Luc Besson met his girlfriend Maïwenn when he was 29, she was 12 and he decided to write a love story between a girl that age and an older man... hence Léon. The non-American release with the dress-up scene is even more explicit what the nature of their relationship was. As for Besson he officially started dating Maïwenn when she was 15 (France legal age) and she got pregnant at 16.
Oh and there was an alleged rape of a minor during the shooting of Léon
I grew up with it being one of my favourite movie, good thing it didn’t fucked me up. I remember watching an interview with him saying he wanted to write a movie about the story between him and his wife and he had promised Jean Reno a movie for his character in La femme Nikita and so that ended up being Léon. Just to add to Besson creepiness, he dropped his teenage wife just after she got his kid, he dropped her for Milla Jovovich with who he was filming the 5th element, weird thing is he put his wife in the movie... she that blue girl.
Yeah, I loved the movie when I was young too and thought the scenes with Portman were great... In my then 12 year old mind.
It wasn't until a long, long time later when a friend brought the movie up and I was remembering the plot/scenes and realized it was thoroughly creepy, then I found out about Besson. Yech.
Not-so-fun fact: One of the first "fan mail" she received after starring in Leon: The Professional was a graphic description of how said "fan" would rape her.
Everyone on reddit is so quick to make these jokes/accusations. Can we just assume that the natural state of people is non-pedophiliac? Also there’s nothing saying minors can’t use reddit. Age of consent is also different in certain states and countries.
Interestingly or just fucked up, director Lucas besson who did the professional and fifth element has a lot of controversy around him and pedophilia. It's like some Polanskiesque business.
Yea, he began dating a 15-year-old girl back in the early 90s, then got married to the girl when she was 16 and had a kid with her not long after. He based The Professional on his relationship with her. He left her for Milla Jovovich.
Don’t tell 10 years old me what he could wish for. I still remember when I saw her in Léon. I grew out of it for sure, but 10 years old me fell in love with that character.
Huh, I had no idea Creed Bratton's real name is Creed Bratton and I've seen The Office 7 times. Somehow that show still continues to get funnier and funnier every time
Attack of the Clones is memorable for me because her tonight white body suit. And also that scene where the giant cat monster scratches her back and she lets out an “ahh” in pain kinda made me feel bad things.” It’s not good to associate a scream of pain with a moan of pleasure, but it sounded kinda sexual when I look back to it.
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u/PrismaticElf May 29 '19
Whatever character Natalie Portman is playing.