Current Events > Maïwenn: Leon the Professional is based on my relationship w/Luc Besson

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g0ldie
02/17/21 10:39:42 AM
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pretty old, I guess, but I heard about this recently, and it shines a negative light on one of my favorite movies :/

Mawenn met film director Luc Besson when she was 12 and he was 29, and they began dating when she was 15. In January 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their daughter Shanna.[1][6] On the DVD extras for the 1994 film Lon: The Professional, Mawenn said the film is based on her relationship with Besson.[7] She was 20 at the beginning of filming (early 1996) for The Fifth Element, during which Besson left her for the film's star, Milla Jovovich.[8]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%AFwenn

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IShall_Run_Amok
02/17/21 10:42:14 AM
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Oof

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codey
02/17/21 10:43:20 AM
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It was already creepy lol

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Smashingpmkns
02/17/21 10:43:57 AM
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Yep Besson also has a few rape accusations that came to light in 2017-2018ish as well.
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g0ldie
02/17/21 10:51:16 AM
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IShall_Run_Amok posted...
Oof
indeed

codey posted...
It was already creepy lol
true, but in the movie, it was about a young girl who had an inappropriate crush on an adult who didn't reciprocate her (romantic) feelings, but this seems like a case of grooming

Smashingpmkns posted...
Yep Besson also has a few rape accusations that came to light in 2017-2018ish as well.
tbh, until recently, I didn't really know anything about him other than I liked a couple of his movies

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MTRodaba2468
02/17/21 10:58:22 AM
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Yeah, as much as I love Lon, Besson is a creep (to put it mildly).

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Hayame Zero
02/17/21 11:00:14 AM
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It's been looked back on even worse as time's gone on. The screenplay even had a "sex" scene between the two leads.

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g0ldie
02/17/21 11:04:31 AM
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wtf, I did not know...

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Bio1590
02/17/21 11:10:00 AM
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Her daughter was conceived when she was still 15 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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The Trent
02/17/21 11:11:10 AM
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Am I still allowed to like these films

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saspa
02/17/21 11:20:54 AM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
i remember reading an interview one time with Jean Reno about how Besson came to him with the script for Leon and told him that he was the only person he had in mind to play Leon, since it was sort of an expansion on the character Reno played in La Femme Nikita, and asked him if he would do it, and Reno agreed, and then to celebrate, Besson invited him to have a threesome with him and his wife.

I'd honestly believe that and OP with the mindset "oh they're just French"

But the OP really rankles me
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Lord_Shadow_19
02/17/21 11:24:24 AM
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g0ldie posted...
pretty old, I guess, but I heard about this recently, and it shines a negative light on one of my favorite movies :/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%AFwenn

Yikes

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g0ldie
02/17/21 2:04:27 PM
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bump

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UnholyMudcrab
02/17/21 2:08:16 PM
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The American cut is creepy enough, but the European cut of the movie, where Lon ends up reciprocating, is just inexcusable.
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g0ldie
02/17/21 2:16:49 PM
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I did not know there was a European cut

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No_U_L7
02/17/21 2:20:41 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
The American cut is creepy enough, but the European cut of the movie, where Lon ends up reciprocating, is just inexcusable.


wat...
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Lord_Shadow_19
02/17/21 2:38:58 PM
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UnholyMudcrab posted...
The American cut is creepy enough, but the European cut of the movie, where Lon ends up reciprocating, is just inexcusable.

I've seen both versions, I don't recall him reciprocating, but it has been years since I've seen the movie.

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g0ldie
02/17/21 6:32:03 PM
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one more

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Kitt
02/17/21 6:36:27 PM
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I'll never understand why the internet is always calling this movie a 10/10. Terrible script was terrible.

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