Did you like Point of Return with Bridget Fonda?
01-20-05, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by scott1598
"The Female Cutie"...that doesn't seem right?
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01-20-05, 10:38 PM
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was the character Reno played in Leon supposed to be a spinoff off the one he played in La Femme Nikita?
I rented the old Samuel L Goldwin VHS tape a week ago and really enjoyed it. (only because the dvd that hollywood had was teh version with "dubtitles". my only complaint is that the subs were white (they blended into the background more then a few times), the print was terrible with scratches ect, and it was cropped to 1:85;1 and didn't bother to pan and scan.
also, did alias borrow the whole "living life as a double agent" like in this movie, or was it coincidence.
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I rented the old Samuel L Goldwin VHS tape a week ago and really enjoyed it. (only because the dvd that hollywood had was teh version with "dubtitles". my only complaint is that the subs were white (they blended into the background more then a few times), the print was terrible with scratches ect, and it was cropped to 1:85;1 and didn't bother to pan and scan.
also, did alias borrow the whole "living life as a double agent" like in this movie, or was it coincidence.
01-21-05, 01:11 AM
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Anne Paurillaud (French Nikita) no question. She played the deadly femme fatale to a T. Rough, vulnerable, sophisticated, playful, instrospective, merciless, deadly: a survivor. Anne Paurillaud did it all.
Point of No Return was god awful. How could Bridget Fonda have made this character so bland? She sucked all the life out of this character. Like she knew she had nothing to add.
Hey, if people are too frickin lazy to read subtitles they deserve the movie they got.
edit: The character of "Leon" is a spinoff in a way but Jean Reno isn't playing the same character. Think of "The Cleaner" in (La Femme) Nikita as "Leon's" evil twin brother.
And I think it would be fair to assume the creators of Alias were influenced by Nikita. I can't think of any other character from a movie or TV show that had a similar concept before the movie Nikita arrived.
Point of No Return was god awful. How could Bridget Fonda have made this character so bland? She sucked all the life out of this character. Like she knew she had nothing to add.
Hey, if people are too frickin lazy to read subtitles they deserve the movie they got.
edit: The character of "Leon" is a spinoff in a way but Jean Reno isn't playing the same character. Think of "The Cleaner" in (La Femme) Nikita as "Leon's" evil twin brother.
And I think it would be fair to assume the creators of Alias were influenced by Nikita. I can't think of any other character from a movie or TV show that had a similar concept before the movie Nikita arrived.
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01-21-05, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by cygnet74
sorry, bad joke referencing a scene from the movie. Nikita is her name. further, "Nikita" is the actual title of the film (no La Femme), in the same way that "Léon" is the actual title of "The Professional".
01-21-05, 10:46 AM
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here's what i could find. the name "Nikita" is Russian in origin. all variations on the root name "Nicole" (Nikki, Nike, Nikkos, etc) mean "victory" or "victorious people".
01-21-05, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by scott1598
The US version was almost a shot by shot remake and an inferior one at that. Absolutely no originality was brought to the US one.
