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About This Page: This is a discussion on Media, Movies and Music within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Something I stumbled across while zig-zag wanderring around the net (actually, I think I was motivated by Blue Harvest [Family Guy... Star Wars parody] on Sunday night....no wonder I called
Something I stumbled across while zig-zag wanderring around the net (actually, I think I was motivated by Blue Harvest [Family Guy... Star Wars parody] on Sunday night....no wonder I called in sick on Monday).
I know by today's standards, this might be a bit of an old movie, but is still one of my top 2 (vs. Silence of the Lambs, they go back and forth).
A great scene with "Leon and Matilda" and gives a bit more insite to the film.
I think the first scene was in "Leon," which isn't the American release.
I've seen both releases, and this is one of my very favorite movies, and I really feel strongly that the American version is better.
Simply put, I think the American release ("The Professional") captures everything important, and it lets you fill in the blanks. I didn't need the Mathilda - Leon dynamic further elucidated because I did it myself. There's more than enough in the American release to do it yourself. The cut scenes are interesting, but I didn't think they added very much to my understanding of the movie and its characters.
I'm of the opinion that, as a matter of style, when you can say as much in fewer words (or scenes), you do so. Provide us rich characters, but let us infer the finer details from the evolution of the character interactions, plot, etc.
To put it another way, staying within the same movie, one of the things that made the film so cool (to me) was the fact that everyone always talks about how frickin' badass The Cleaner is in this movie. And it's often thought of as an action movie instead of a character drama. But how many (few) minutes of action do we actually see on screen? There's actually incredibly LITTLE action shown in the film, to the point that the trailers, at risk of ruining the climax, often showed the second (and more tragic) of the whopping TWO explosions in the film. We the audience fill in the rest, and with the little we're shown of Leon's exploits (like his frontal assault on the DEA building, his quick work of the Chinese mafia drug deal, etc.) we're still able to fill in the blanks. Heck, the ultimate example of Luc Besson's economy of effort is when Mathilda asks him what he does for a living and he gives his one word answer, "Cleaner." Right there, with one word, he invokes an immediate reference to his other masterpiece, "La Femme Nikita," in which Jean Reno first played "The Cleaner." And anyone that saw Reno's character in that film instantly understands and respects what he is.
Seriously one of the best movies ever made, in my opinion.
There's no opinion needed. This is one of the best movies ever made.
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The Professional - Deleted Scene 
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