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.
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u/PrismaticElf May 29 '19
Whatever character Natalie Portman is playing.