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Actors: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Leon: The Professional |
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Mathilda (Natalie Portman), a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for a local corrupt cop, Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman).
One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs, killing the whole family. Only Mathilda survives by finding shelter in the apartment of her apartment neighbor, the reclusive Leon(Jean Reno).
Soon, Mathilda finds out about Leon's profession, a brutal, highly skilled contract killer, and seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother, the only member of the family she cared for, who was killed as well, despite his innocence.
Leon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to to feel and to care and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his power to rid himself of the only eye witness to his ruthless crime--Mathilda.
--, Resident Scholar
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Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon's apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour's unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.
--Lola da Chola, Resident Scholar
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Leon (Jean Reno) is a hit man in New York. He lives next door to a little girl, Matilda (Natalie Portman). Mathilda's father, unknown to her, is a drug dealer. When he finds out the Matilda's father took some, he goes and kills the entire family with the exception of Matilda who was shopping. When she comes back and finds her family dead, she goes to her neighbor whom she sees all the time and camps up with him. When she enters his life, everything changes for him. She later announces that she wants to become a hitman just like Leon so she can get revenge on the corrupt cop who slayed her parents. What follows is an exciting and very sensitive tale of a hitman who grows to love a little girl like his own, and the little girl who grows to love him.
--Michael Gookin, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Leon: The Professional |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal becomes sensitive
Criminal enemy is...
- law enforcement gone bad
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- eccentric
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
- perforation--bullets
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