What are the films directed by Luc Besson?

1. Release date: April 6, 1983 The final battle

English name: Le Dernier combat

Plot summary:

In the ruins of degraded civilization, everyone fights for To survive, they plunder food and water. Barbaric behavior replaces language communication. The relationship between people is in a tense state of confrontation, and "sex" becomes the most powerful driving element. In this desert-like land, we will be able to see how many people survive and die...

This film was made by Luc Besson when he was unknown in the film industry. With passion, vitality and explosive power, he broke through all traditions, broke away from the cages of all commercial mechanisms, and braved taboos such as no color, no dialogue, and no stars to complete the film. When the film was completed, there was no way to promote it, so Besson took the film to the Awoki Film Festival in Switzerland, where it won the Special Jury Award and the Film Critics Award, thus opening up his international reputation. This film dissects the ruins of civilization after the nuclear war. Because it has no color, it is a black and white film.

Two. 1985 Subway

Chinese name: Subway

Introduction

The story takes place in the complex and vast space of the Paris subway. Fred robbed Helena's husband's safe and fled to the subway, where he met the Pulley Boy, drummer Anonymous and others who had been living in the subway for a long time. Fred asks Helena for money to redeem the documents, and Helena's husband's gang and the police are chasing Fred. In the process of searching for Fred to regain the documents, Helena gradually fell in love with him and became more and more betrayed by her class and living environment. Fred has been unable to sing since his voice was injured since he was a child, and he has always wanted to form a band. With the help of his subway companions, Fred successfully organized a band. He also robbed a cash carrier and used the money he robbed to get a chance to perform on the subway. As the band sang "Gans don't kill people, peoples kill people", Fred fell under the gun, and Helena who rushed over could only cry for the first time. Kissed him for the last time.

The film is called "Metro", and most of the scenes in the film are set in the subway. Luc Besson successfully expressed the living space and independent world in the subway. Fred broke into this small world and immediately found that it was more suitable for him than on the ground. This latecomer never got out from the moment he entered the subway until he finally died in the subway, handing himself over to this mysterious underground without reservation. world. Obviously, Besson uses the self-contained subway world as a metaphor for the non-mainstream alternative people in society. The unconventional life and rock music are the typical characteristics of this small world. Almost all the characters in the film have ambiguous pasts and only live in the present. Only Helena, played by Adjani, has traveled from the past to the present. This kind of psychological time level expression makes the film only in a state of superficial description, unable to shape the character in a deeper level. This is almost Luc Besson's biggest weakness. Several main characters in the film are illusory, and their surreality cannot win the audience's approval. On the contrary, several supporting characters are very interesting: the pulley boy, the drummer played by Reno, the flower seller who appears from time to time, and the two police chiefs. The subordinates - one is called "Batman", the other is called "Robin" and so on. Together, these supporting characters complete the subway world and make the film more entertaining, but they also reveal Besson's deliberate whitewashing of this alternative world. The result of this balance is to make the subway world more mediocre and more acceptable to society on the ground. It can be seen from the music in the film that although the lyrics of the final band performance are "warning" sentences such as "Guns don't kill people, people kill people", the music is a pop song melody similar to that of Hong Kong's "Winner" band. On the one hand, it emphasizes the alternative color of the personal world, on the other hand, it is packaged in an easy-to-accept way. This is Besson's "Metro World".

This is also a weird film in terms of film types: thriller, cops, romance, music. Besson here shows his familiarity and admiration for various types of Hollywood films. Perhaps, this combination makes people compare themselves to Almodovar's films in Spain, but Besson is far from the sharpness and intensity of Almodóvar's works, as well as the realistic and distorted description of real life. If Ashi's works are surrealism, Besson's "Metro" is just a packaged, chaotic and illusory dream.

Three. 1988 The Big Blue

English title: The Big Blue

Plot summary

Jacques (played by Jean-Marc Barr), who loves the sea, has always wanted to be with the sea. Even though his father was swallowed by the sea due to a diving accident when he was young, Jacques' love for the sea has never changed.

But in a chance encounter, Jac met and fell in love with the young and beautiful woman Johanna (Rosanna Arquette). From then on, Jac’s life seemed to become uncontrollable. Ke Liushen wanders around in the decision between the sea and Johanna...

This film was the opening blockbuster of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. It describes the dilemma of individuals having difficulty integrating into the real society, so they turn to look for their dreams. Another life, with a strong autobiographical color. Human beings continue to challenge the limits, but in the end they return to the sea. It is a blue-toned movie.

The opening blockbuster of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, the 1988 César Award for "Best Music and Best Cinematography"

Four. Release date: February 21, 1990 Thunderbolt

English name: Nikita

Plot summary:

Nikita (played by Anne Parillaud) and a group of friends After robbing a store of medicines, the owner of the store and her friend were killed in the incident, and Nikita was sent to jail for killing a policeman. At this time, a mysterious government organization came, selected Nikita, and trained her to become a spy killer. After several years of spy training, Nikita returned to real life as an ordinary nurse. At this time, she fell in love with a man, and their relationship faced a tense situation when Nikita received an order from a spy...

"Thunderbolt" is produced by France's most valuable and well-known actor Directed by director Lu Besson, from the perspective of a spy killer, it dissects the terrifying black hands behind the national bureaucracy and presents Lu Besson's exploration of human nature. It was once remade by Hollywood into the American version of "The Scorpion Star" and became Lu Besson's One of the more commercial films in the works.

1991 Cesar Award for "Best Actress", 1992 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film Nomination

Five. Atlantis 1991

English name: Atlantis Released: August 21, 1991 (France)

Plot summary:

Luc Bay The documentary directed by Song is similar to the Faces of the Sea Expo. The film was shot all over the world's seas and explores the beautiful underwater world. It is a pure audio-visual enjoyment.

This film has no actors, only narration. This film will lead movie fans into the beautiful underwater world, accompanied by wonderful music, using sound and picture to express different aspects of life and spiritual levels. We will be able to see the magical changes and landscapes of the seabed between sunrise and sunset. Luc Besson set several themes to describe "A Day Under the Sea", including "Heart", "Melody", " Throbbing", "soul", "darkness", "heart", "tenderness", "love" and finally "hate". The entire film was shot under the sea, and animals are the only actors in the film. Ocean blue is the main color of this film. Paired with Serra's mysterious music, Luc Besson will more completely present the rich colors of the sea...

This film was the opening blockbuster of the 1991 Venice Film Festival. Atlantis is a legendary submerged mysterious land located under the Atlantic Ocean. Luc Besson wanted to prove that the world under the sea also has an organization similar to our society. Perhaps it can also be said that "Atlantis" is a sub-proposition derived from "blue sea and blue sky". This film is Luc Besson's work that abandoned traditional shooting techniques. It is a film of pure visual enjoyment. There is no traditional script, no human dialogue, only the close integration of sound and painting, and it relies entirely on Luc Besson and composer Eric. Sera and *** discussed the script. Luc Besson used animal courtship, group fights, chases and other scenes to enrich the plot. The film was filmed in all parts of the world, including Scotland, Australia, Oceania, Colombia, Florida, Panama Islands and other waters, and even the Arctic waters. Ice and snow landscapes or the Red Sea with multiple wars. Luc Besson thought this would be his last film to discuss the ocean. This is also a film full of environmental awareness. There are only fish swimming leisurely in the sea and no human beings in the whole film. It is another unabashed adventure of Luc Besson

VI. 1994 This killer is not too cold

English name: Leon

Plot summary

There is an Italian professional killer named Leon living in the slums of New York. One day, the little neighbor girl Matilda knocked on his door and asked to stay here to avoid the danger of death. It turned out that the owner of the neighbor's house was a spy for the police. He was punished by the police for destroying the whole family just because he embezzled a small bag of drugs. Matilda was rescued by Lyon and began to help Lyon with the housekeeping and teach him to read. Lyon taught the girl how to use a gun, and the two got along well. The girl followed the police and rushed to seek revenge, but was arrested instead. Leon arrived in time and rescued the girl. They moved again, but the girl still fell into the hands of the police. Leon defeated a group of police officers, rescued the girl again and let her escape through the ventilation duct, and asked her to take out the money he had saved. Leon disguised himself as a policeman and tried to get out of the encirclement, but was discovered by the police. At the last moment, Leon detonated his bomb...

Seven.

The Fifth Element in 1997

English name: The Fifth Element

Introduction

A super sci-fi action film invested and filmed by the French film industry following the Hollywood model. French director Luc Besson takes the lead, and in front of the screen, American superstar Bruce Willis is invited to play the savior hero and pronounce it in English. The plot describes that in New York City in the 23rd century, a taxi driver picks up Milla Jovach, a girl who fell from the sky for no reason, and she is the key figure to save the earth from destruction. The hero takes the beauty to avoid a series of dangerous pursuits, and finally finds the fifth element that can save the earth. The storyline and thematic message of the entire film are quite simple, but the art design and computer special effects create a very dazzling visual image, and the non-stop action scenes can also satisfy the appetite of genre film fans.

In Egypt in 1914, the Mondowowan people, a race living on an alien planet, went to the temple built by their ancestors on earth to worship and retrieved four stones representing the four elements and the fifth element. The scene shifts to the future in the 23rd century. The Mongolian Dowang tribe's spaceship is destroyed by the Mangalore people, who represent the evil force, as it approaches the earth. The remaining genes are preserved and the cloned Lilu with human female characteristics becomes a survivor. She is The fifth element. She falls in love with Cobain, a New York taxi driver. The two of them were arranged to go to Lost Paradise to retrieve the four stones to protect the earth from destruction. Lilu gradually understood human beings, Qyburn and Lilu became a pair of lovers, and the evil forces were finally defeated.

Evil is ultimate and absolute. Its threat is far greater than money, power or dominance. It does not require any external force to corrode the universe and eliminate mankind. But there is one thing that thorns in its back - the power of life. It feels powerfully threatened by the existence of life and the Creator, so it continues to destroy men, women, children, animals, plants, and even light. Trying to plunge the world into darkness. This absolute evil comes once every five thousand years, but every five thousand years, humans forget how to deal with it.

This film was the opening film of the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and won the 1998 César Awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography. It was also nominated for the 1998 Oscar for Best Special Effects and Sound Effects.

Eight. 1999 "The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc"

Detailed introduction:

Mysterious, pure, heroic, no matter what words are used to describe her, they are all It cannot be denied that as a peasant girl who never went to school, Joan of Arc lived a vigorous life.

Joan of Arc was born in a remote village in France in 1412. At that time, during the Hundred Years War between England and France, large areas of France had been occupied by the British. In addition, a civil war broke out in France. The Duke of Burgundy betrayed his motherland and sided with the British.

After King Henry V of England and King Charles VI of France died one after another in 1422, King Henry VI of England who succeeded him was still just a child. Although England claimed both the English and French crowns, the French Dauphin Charles did not want to give up his status. However, if he wanted to become the king of France, he had to hold a coronation ceremony in Reims, which was occupied by the British.

At this time, Joan of Arc was already 13 years old. She spent most of her time praying. She often hears strange sounds in the air and sees strange visions. This mysterious voice tells her that her mission is to revive France and help the Dauphin Charles become the King of France. To do this, she must wear men's clothing, hold a sharp blade, lead an army, and charge into battle.

One day, Joan of Arc returned from an outing and found that her village had been ravaged by the British army. Hiding in a closet, she witnessed the rape and murder of her 18-year-old sister by British troops. After this tragedy, she was sent to live with her uncle in a neighboring village. No one could have imagined what earth-shattering things this innocent little girl would do.

But this girl, under 20 years old, faced the world and announced that she would defeat the most powerful army in the world and liberate her country. At the age of 17, she met Crown Prince Charles and declared that she had brought God's will and asked Charles to give her an army to resist the British army. Charlie finally agreed to her request.

Two months later, Joan of Arc, wearing white armor, led her army to miraculously defeat the British army in Orleans, a strategic location on the Loire River. The French army subsequently won successive victories, and Charles finally got his wish and ascended the throne of the French King.

However, Joan of Arc was captured by the Burgundians in a battle not long after and given to the British who hated her. When she was 19 years old, she was condemned as a witch and burned to death.

Twenty-five years later, she was posthumously awarded the title of saint. In 1920, she was canonized as a saint and became an idol worshiped by people. It seemed she was destined to be the focus of endless debate.

Nine. Release date: December 21, 2005 (France) His tenth film "Angel A"

Luc Besson went silent for 6 years after the controversial "Joan of Arc" in 1999 In 2006, he finally returned to directing and completed his tenth film "Angel A". During the six years when the film was temporarily closed, he has been appearing as a "supervisor" and has supported a large number of newcomers and new works. He has participated in the production of as many as 50 films, many of which were written by him.

This low-key "Angel A" was kept secret during the filming period. Before the film was released, Luc even refused to organize a preview for the news media, adding a bit of mystery to the already highly anticipated film.

The male protagonist Andre (played by Gamele Dubuz) of the film is a gangster who has joined the Paris underworld. He is short in stature and makes a living by cheating. Many criminal activities are closely related to him. Inextricably linked. However, Andre is obviously not qualified for the "graceful nickname" of a liar, because he is deeply in debt and owes a large sum of money to the local gang leader Frank (played by Gilbert Melki). Not long ago, Andre won a lottery jackpot, and the prize was a green card to immigrate to the United States. However, the increasingly severe situation has turned his dream of immigrating into an irreparable bubble. After several intimidations from Frank, Andre decided to free his soul and jump off the bridge over the Seine.

When he stood on the bridge and was about to take a fatal step, he suddenly found a tall woman (played by Leigh Rasmussen) who was also about to jump into the river. As the water splashed, Andre also jumped into the river to save the girl who committed suicide. When the girl was rescued ashore, she was very grateful to Andre. Her name was Angel A and she was willing to do anything to repay Andre for saving her life. Angel A comforted Andre with his beautiful heart, allowing Andre to regain his confidence. Moreover, this long-legged blond beauty is also full of magic, and she paid off all Andre's debts with a series of carefully planned strategies.

Angel A told Andre that she was actually an angel, and as proof, she made an ashtray fly. Her mission on Earth is to help Andre find himself again, and she herself is Andre's mirror image.

Later, the angel who had completed her mission spread her wings and flew towards the sky. The reluctant Andre clung to her leg, not wanting her to leave, so the silhouettes of the two people crossed the sky. , finally, the water gradually rose up on the Seine River again, and after calming down, the figures of the two people appeared...

"The Final Battle", "Metro", "Love in the Blue Sea", "Nikita", "Atlantis", "This Killer Isn't Too Cold", "The Fifth Element", "Joan of Arc", "Angel A" and "Arthur".