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TZEECH
12-01-2008, 01:16 AM
This is a great score by Eric Serra.
ENJOY!!

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L�on (also known as The Professional and L�on: The Professional) is a French 1994 action drama film written and directed by French director Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and a young Natalie Portman in her first starring role.


L�on (Jean Reno) is a hitman (or "cleaner" as he would rather be known) living a solitary life in New York City's Little Italy. Most of his work comes from a mafioso named Tony (Danny Aiello), who operates from the "Supreme Macaroni Company" retail store. Leon spends his idle time engaging in calisthenics, nurturing a houseplant that early on he describes as his "best friend",and (in one scene) watching a Gene Kelly musical.

One day he meets Mathilda (Natalie Portman), a twelve-year-old girl with a black eye, living with her dysfunctional family in an apartment down the hallway. Mathilda's father (Michael Badalucco) attracts the ire of corrupt DEA agents, who have been paying him to store cocaine in his residence, after they discover that he has been stealing some of the drugs for himself. A cadre of agents storm the building, led by a ragged and drug-addicted Norman "Stan" Stansfield (Gary Oldman), and murder Mathilda's entire family, missing her only because she was out shopping when they arrived. When she returns with the groceries she was sent to buy and notices the carnage, she calmly continues down the hallway past the open door of her family's apartment, and receives sanctuary from a reluctant L�on.

Mathilda, who soon discovers that L�on is a hitman, begs L�on to become her caretaker, and to teach her his skills as a "cleaner": she wants to avenge the murder of her four-year-old brother, the only member of her family that she actually loved. In return, she offers herself as a maid and teacher, remedying L�on's illiteracy. L�on hesitantly accepts her offer and the two begin working together, slowly building an emotional attachment between one another, with L�on becoming a friend and father figure. As they work together, Mathilda admits to L�on several times that she is falling in love with him, but he says nothing back.

As Mathilda increases her confidence and experience, she locates Stansfield, follows him to his office in the DEA building in an attempt to kill him, only to be ambushed by Stansfield in a bathroom. L�on, discovering her intentions after reading a note left for him by Mathilda, rushes to the building and rescues her, shooting two of Stansfield's men in the process.

Stansfield is enraged that what he calls the "Italian hitman" has gone rogue and is killing his own men. He confronts Tony and threatens him into surrendering L�on's whereabouts. One day, as Mathilda returns home from grocery shopping, an NYPD ESU (Emergency Service Unit) team, sent by Stansfield, takes her hostage and attempts to infiltrate L�on's apartment. L�on ambushes the ESU team and takes one of their members hostage, rapidly bartering him for Mathilda's freedom. As they slink back into the apartment, L�on rips open the wall to get at a small ventilation shaft in the kitchen, he throws down his plant and sends Mathilda down. He then tells her that he loves her, and she goes down to safety moments before a rifle grenade rips into the apartment.

In the chaos following the explosion, L�on sneaks out of the apartment building disguised as a wounded ESU officer. On his way out of the building, L�on is noticed by Stansfield, who silently follows him before shooting him from behind. Stansfield, looming over the dying L�on in a pool of his own blood, finally introduces himself. L�on hands Stansfield an object, which he explains is "from Mathilda". Stansfield opens his hand and recognizes it as the pin from a grenade. He proceeds to open L�on's vest to see not only the now-pinless grenade, but numerous others strapped to his chest. Stansfield mutters, "Oh, shit" right before a massive explosion kills them both and sends shock waves through the neighborhood.

Mathilda heads to Tony's place as she was instructed to do by L�on. Tony will not give Mathilda more than a few dollars of the fortune L�on had amassed, which was being held by Tony. His reasoning is that she is not old enough to receive the large amount of money and that school should be her priority until she's older. When Mathilda asks Tony to give her a 'job', and insists that she can 'clean' as Leon had, Tony sternly informs her that he 'ain't got no jobs for a 12-year-old girl!'. Having nowhere else to go, she is then seen returning to school using the Roosevelt Island Tramway. Readmitted to the school Mathilda walks into a field with L�on's houseplant in hand, she digs a hole and plants the houseplant in the grounds of the school, as she had once promised L�on she would, "to give it roots."

Domingo
12-01-2008, 02:07 AM
A great movie, and a great score...

...but is it really necessary to lay out, in detail, the plot of the entire movie?

metallicgrey
12-01-2008, 02:10 AM
you are a saint..
thank you so much

tofu
12-01-2008, 03:11 AM
thanks Tzeech!!! a great movie (we love Natalie Portman!!!)

TZEECH
12-01-2008, 04:15 AM
A great movie, and a great score...

...but is it really necessary to lay out, in detail, the plot of the entire movie?


I think it adds to the collection.
I figure that most everyone has seen it, so i don't think i spoil it for anyone.
If i did, didn't mean to.

tofu
12-01-2008, 04:22 AM
no problem with me pal. But if you have more complains, you should not add so many details..

killa5k7
12-01-2008, 04:28 AM
Did there happen to be a regular ost for this?(Non Score)
Thank you for the score..its such a great movie and a great score.

tofu
12-01-2008, 04:35 AM
as far as i know no there isnt..

Simon B
12-01-2008, 10:43 PM
(as is it a french movie, i ty in french :p)

then juste merci! :)

Szczepan
12-01-2008, 11:14 PM
wow this brings back a lot of memories thank you TZEECH

TZEECH
12-01-2008, 11:17 PM
I'm glad you enjoy it.