# Leon: The Professional **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586 "2014-04-21T05:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/1 "2014-04-21T05:50:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/2 "2014-04-21T05:53:02Z")
Oh hell, no. All along there may have been some tension, but Leon also strove to remember she was still a little girl. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/3 "2014-04-21T05:59:43Z")
actually, that was the only troubling part (for me) in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/4 "2014-04-21T06:33:23Z")
I thought the whole point of the movie was her apparent maturity vs. her actual age and his emotional immaturity. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/5 "2014-04-21T07:12:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/6 "2014-04-21T07:28:49Z")
…Ok, [here’s a Cracked.com article](http://www.cracked.com/article_19962_6-crucial-movie-scenes-that-never-made-it-out-script_p2.html) that mentions it. Scroll down to #1. Not the most scholarly source, but they do link to the original script. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/7 "2014-04-21T08:58:57Z")
> [@wheresmymind](#): > > …Ok, [here’s a Cracked.com article](http://www.cracked.com/article_19962_6-crucial-movie-scenes-that-never-made-it-out-script_p2.html) that mentions it. Scroll down to #1. Vindicated! I thought it was just my latent pedophilia. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/8 "2014-04-21T14:59:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/9 "2014-04-21T15:12:37Z")
> [@wheresmymind](#): > > …Ok, [here’s a Cracked.com article](http://www.cracked.com/article_19962_6-crucial-movie-scenes-that-never-made-it-out-script_p2.html) that mentions it. Scroll down to #1. Not the most scholarly source, but they do link to the original script. From that script: > [@](#): > > …Leon cries, unable to oppose her. Mathilda is > too young, but she’s also too beautiful and lovely and sweet > and tender… She sweetly, very sweetly, gets on him. and > [@](#): > > Leon embraces her. He’s full of happiness, shame, so many > emotions, he can’t control very well. But, hell, how > beautiful it is seeing them sweetly making love. I think the film just got ruined for me. Ew. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/10 "2014-04-21T15:28:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/11 "2014-04-21T15:32:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Funny - people are upset that he has sex with her, but teaching her how to be a contract killer is fine? 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. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/12 "2014-04-21T15:37:38Z")
> [@wheresmymind](#): > > I do remember the extended international version playing up the sexual tension between the characters more than the US release. 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!]: [“This…is from…Matilda!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNS9aDRqyII) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/13 "2014-04-21T16:42:02Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I think the film just got ruined for me. Ew. “But hell, how beautiful it is seeing them sweetly making love”? Is that really how scripts are written? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/14 "2014-04-23T02:57:48Z")
In answer to the OP: no, they did not have sex. > [@sitchensis](#): > > I thought the whole point of the movie was her apparent maturity vs. her actual age and his emotional immaturity. Aye, that’s one of the most important aspects of the film. > [@wheresmymind](#): > > 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. Aye, the actual film is a masterpiece; the US release is just a piece (of crap). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/15 "2014-04-23T03:12:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/16 "2014-04-23T04:59:27Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/17 "2014-04-23T05:18:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/18 "2014-04-23T05:43:33Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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. I’m not sure I understand you; could you elaborate? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/19 "2014-04-23T05:46:58Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > “But hell, how beautiful it is seeing them sweetly making love”? Is that really how scripts are written? No. I call bullshit on this. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586/20 "2014-04-23T13:07:02Z")
[The deleted scene in question](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWIJpw9UJdQ)-from the Youtube link above… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leon-the-professional/686586.md?page=2)