Did Leon and Matilda have sex? I’m referring to the part where he rescued her from the NARC people. They embraced, immediately followed by the scene the following morning, both rising from the same bed.
Oh hell, no. All along there may have been some tension, but Leon also strove to remember she was still a little girl.
actually, that was the only troubling part (for me) in the movie.
I thought the whole point of the movie was her apparent maturity vs. her actual age and his emotional immaturity.
I can’t seem to dig up a cite, but I remember reading somewhere that Luc Besson originally intended them to be lovers and even wrote a sex scene into the movie (perhaps it was that scene even), but was eventually talked out of it. I do remember the extended international version playing up the sexual tension between the characters more than the US release.
…Ok, here’s a Cracked.com article that mentions it. Scroll down to #1. Not the most scholarly source, but they do link to the original script.
Vindicated! I thought it was just my latent pedophilia.
Absolutely not. Matilda was hormone-crazed, but Leon was just trying to be a father figure, the best he could. sitchensis, where do you get her “apparent maturity”? She was an early adolescent, and acted like it.
From that script:
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I think the film just got ruined for me. Ew.
Funny - people are upset that he has sex with her, but teaching her how to be a contract killer is fine?
Nice priorities there, people! You ought to work for the MPAA.
Yup. Like I said, he’s trying to be a father figure to her. Which means trying to teach her to get by in the world. But killing is the only way he knows how to do so, so that’s what he teaches her. Which is of course tragic, but it’s also touching.
Indeed, the full-length cut (which I highly recommend over the heavily truncated U.S. version) includes a scene where Matilda does ask for sex, but Léon turns her down; whether or not it’s because he’s resisting temptation, or thinking “Eww, squick!” is up to the audience’s interpretation.
As an aside, my former roommate (who dropped off the face of the earth years ago) used to complain about Matilda’s nymphet portrayal, often saying things like “It’s wrong how the movie makes us feel that way about such a young girl!” Looking back, methinks the dude doth protest too much… esp. since he always dated 15-16yos, and eventually married one of them… of course, way back when, nobody really blinked at that sort of thing.
Oh, and because I must [spoiler alert!]:
“But hell, how beautiful it is seeing them sweetly making love”? Is that really how scripts are written?
In answer to the OP: no, they did not have sex.
Aye, that’s one of the most important aspects of the film.
Aye, the actual film is a masterpiece; the US release is just a piece (of crap).
In the US release, the sexual tension between them is 100% one-sided, and I fail to see how a “masterpiece” could have it any other way.
Because the full version also adds in a bunch of 80’s style comedy romance that clashes with the underlying themes of the movie.
There really needs to be an in-between cut.
Forest Gump have made love to the kid sooner, IMHO. But I seem to remember Leon was also carrying a torch for someone in the old country, so he’s not a complete piece of dead meat. He just found the present situation highly unlikely to include sex (as unlikely as having sex in a raging battlefield.) I thought that was the main theme.
I’m not sure I understand you; could you elaborate?
No.
I call bullshit on this.
The deleted scene in question-from the Youtube link above…