{"id":4898,"date":"2010-09-25T22:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2010-09-25T22:19:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T02:19:43","slug":"la-femme-nikita-1990-luc-besson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4898","title":{"rendered":"La Femme Nikita (1990, Luc Besson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All I&#8217;ve seen from Luc Besson since <em>The Fifth Element<\/em> has been trailers for <em>The Messenger<\/em> and <em>Angel-A<\/em>, so I&#8217;ve been thinking of him as this slick-ass hyper-stylist, forgetting the earlier action grit of <em>The Professional<\/em>.  Well, this one takes <em>The Professional<\/em>, drops a load of dirt on its head and plants it firmly in the 80&#8217;s.  So it&#8217;s got that pre-<em>Reservoir Dogs<\/em>, pre-CGI version of hyper-stylization, which from today&#8217;s perspective makes it hard to discern from its anonymously-directed peers like <em>Predator<\/em> or <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/836\">License to Kill<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I wasn&#8217;t paying enough attention because I was busy being horrified by the lead character (Anne Parillaud, who somehow went on to be a Catherine Breillat regular), introduced as a strung-out nihilist who shoots a cop in the face.  I wonder if the TV remake used that scene.  The movie proceeds to stretch believability even more than <em>Predator<\/em>, as the government (personified in &#8220;Bob&#8221;: Tch\u00e9ky Karyo of <em>The Patriot<\/em>, <em>Wing Commander<\/em>) gives her weapons and trains her to be a secret assassin.  I thought it really came to life whenever Jean Reno was onscreen, but maybe I&#8217;m just a big Jean Reno fan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I&#8217;ve seen from Luc Besson since The Fifth Element has been trailers for The Messenger and Angel-A, so I&#8217;ve been thinking of him as this slick-ass hyper-stylist, forgetting the earlier action grit of The Professional. Well, this one takes The Professional, drops a load of dirt on its head and plants it firmly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,34,1122],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-france","tag-luc-besson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}