Luc Besson

who belonged to any club. I didn 't get down on my knees at the Cahiers du Cinéma altar.’ (Beineix …) He was later joined by Luc Besson and his film ‘Le Grand Bleu’ (1983), screened at Cannes Film Festival where Beineix’s second film ‘La Lune dans le caniveau’ (‘The moon in the gutter’, 1983) was booed and discredited by most, including Gérard Depardieu, the film’s major star. Despite the bad reviews, Beineix’s third project, ‘37º2 le matin’ (1876) had the same influence and cult-film effect on the youth culture in France and internationally as ‘Diva’ had. This was mainly due to Beatrice Dalle’s unanticipated performance where she managed to flawlessly capture the perfect combination of innocence and rebelliousness characteristic of 1980’s youth Zeitgeist as well as portraying an “icon of femininity in the 1980s” (Wilson, 1999:57). LUC BESSON: Luc Besson is the most ambiguous out of these two directors, receiving constant ridicule from the French critic establishment while at the same time proving a sustained hit within the young audiences. His films tell stories of misunderstood individuals who not only cannot fit into society’s forms, but are also prevented from achieving their goals because of their continuous conflictive state with society. A society that he pictures as the reason for young people’s emotional deprivation up to the age of 20’. (Besson cites in The Observer Review 30.10.94). In his early days, Besson’s only dream was to become a delphinologue. However,…

Soaring to the top of the North American box office, 'Dumb and Dumber To' starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels has already raked in $38.1 million from its debut. With Red Granite Pictures financing the movie, distribution and marketing has been carried out by Universal. Universal distribution chief Nikki Rocco had spoken out about the success of the original film which drove them to take on a follow-up film. "'Dumb and Dumber' was a beloved film on home entertainment, and people wanted to be…

The Luc Besson movie, Lucy, recounts the story of a lady who has totally opened the maximum capacity of her mind limit, while people generally would utilize just 10% of it. While numerous fans were befuddled by the interesting blend of pseudo-science and action scenes, the foundation of the motion picture depends on a totally distinctive note: It discusses the Luciferianism reasoning of the mysterious world class and its end product cutting edge, transhumanism. Before I go deeper in my essay I…

Colombiana, directed by Oliver Megaton and written Luc Besson, is an action-packed movie that was released on August 26, 2011. The movie is about a young Colombian woman named Cataleya, who witnessed her parents get murdered as a child, who then grows up to be an assassin to take revenge on the people who murdered her parents. The movie has a sexy touch due to its lead being Zoe Saldana, an American actress that has appeared in many great movies such as Avatar, Star Trek, and Drumline. Although,…

n utilised in their own works. Though “the young French cinema indirectly reproached Hollywood’s long-established narratives and restricted storyline subterfuges” (Lanzoni, 206), the French New Wave directors also had a longstanding appreciation for directorial greats like Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Orson Welles. Each film was an exercise in honouring great filmmakers, and any other hero of the director: writers, great thinkers and even Hollywood actors, through countless references in…

Jackson advocates for open-mindedness. The villagers acknowledge that “some places have already quit lotteries” (Jackson 4), which reveals that it is very much possible to dispose of the tradition without consequences. Thus, as previously stated, the first step in disposing of the outdated traditions, practices, and ideas is to acknowledge that they are there and to consider the fact that they may be unjust. If people have grown up with the idea that something is right and there is nothing more…

Everyone’s views on certain topics is something that can always change due to receiving greater knowledge from outside sources and experiencing new things from our everyday lives. Understanding someone’s philosophy is understanding how they interoperate right from wrong and the choices they choose daily. I like to believe that my philosophy is always changing and growing with everything I learn about and different things I go through by applying it to ethical behavioural, how I preserve…

What’s a stereotype? A stereotype is to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same. It’s a bad trait that most human beings have and do every day without even noticing. We tend to “Judge a book by its cover.” But you never know what could be in that book, may it just be a clear white cover with just the authors name, or a colorful active cover, that seems more appealing. It’s all about the material inside, that we wouldn’t know what that material is…

have a finished script Kar-Wai wrote scenes the night before or during the day of a shoot and shot the film in a linear fashion which is why the films plot and structure is what it is. The narrative of the film works as Kar-Wai plays with the lose structure instead of having one story he has two. To keep these two stories relevant, he has almost the same theme of Love through both stories with officer 223 being still in love with his ex-girlfriend and growing feelings for the woman in the blood…

movement it left a legacy with films like À bout de soufflé/Breathless (written and directed by Jean-Luc Goddard). French New Wave rejected the idea of a traditional story in films – they didn’t follow the structure and the narrative. The French filmmakers wanted the audience to react to their film like they would react in real life and wanted the films to be realistic as possible. The dialogue was spontaneous and as close to real life as possible,…