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Not deleted on the european version..

I'm outraged. No doubt this "Natalie Portman" was damaged irreversible from this whole ordeal. There's absolutely no way she could have grown up to be a succesful actress.

Of course, I'm talking about the bit where her fictional family is murdered in front of her. God, the task of having to imagine your family is dead at just 12 years old...truly inhuman. Director should be in jail.

This whole movie had a thread of sexual tension between the two. At least, that's what I thought about it

>> ^rottenseed:

This whole movie had a thread of sexual tension between the two. At least, that's what I thought about it


totally agree but with the directors cut we get to see so much more and many things that were only implied before are given voice.
1.matilda is 12.remember that age? when emotions could become like a thunderstorm?imagine living in that fucked up..unloving family.no safety..no comfort and all you have is your 4 yr old brother whom you take care of.
2.leon is the adult and in the 1994 release we see him respecting boundaries but he seems a bit..off..in the original.THIS scene in particular clears all of that up.we see that leon shut down a part of himself at 19.THAT part of him never grew up nor matured in any substantive way.

so while matilda has found her knight in shining armor to bestow all that pre-pubescent hormones onto,we find out the leon is around the same age emotionally.
it is due to this very unique situation that we get to see leon literally morph in front of us.
kinda like the grinch but with guns,blood and screaming.
i would go as far to say that the character arc for leon is the most profound i have ever seen from any movie.

>> ^enoch:

>> ^rottenseed:
This whole movie had a thread of sexual tension between the two. At least, that's what I thought about it

remember that age? when emotions could become like a thunderstorm?


No. I'm still waiting on puberty...my beard is a clip-on

pedobear just asploded.

je-aysus

You know that empty feeling you get sometimes when you finish something good, like a favourite book or a fantastic tv series?

Leon was one of the only films that I got that real empty feeling with at the end on the first watch.

>> ^Retroboy:
pedobear just asploded.
je-aysus


Leon killed him.

Everything in this re-release is perfection. Everything? EVERYTHING!

reminds me of Lolita (both 1962 and 1997 versions).

Great scene and one of my favorite movies. Didn't realize it had been re-released! Joie!