The Professional
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2013
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
When The Professional first came up as a possibility for our next episode, it was immediately apparent that everyone had fond memories of this film. EVERYONE!!!
Chris and Carlos watched the uncut international version (known as Leon: The Professional) and Donna watched the original theatrical version. They highlight the differences in each cut, discuss the strengths and drawbacks of these choices, and discover that a few minutes of additional footage might have a pretty dramatic effect on some people's impressions of the movie.
Topics include: the multiple ways you can view the Leon/Mathilda relationship, proper post-coital hygiene, the majesty of Gary Oldman's hammiest performance, how some of the unconventional decisions made by the filmmakers helped elevate the material above and beyond similar movies from the same era, whatever happened to this Luc Besson, and much more.
We wrap things up by taking our own version of 2 Truths 1 Lie for a spin and then we expertly navigate our way through what could have been the most uncomfortable round of Who Would You Be and Who Would You F? of all-time.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember The Professional? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up today. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:32.7 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:33.8 | And today we're revisiting The Professional. |
| 0:36.6 | In the art of the kill, Leon was the master. |
| 0:40.6 | Somebody's coming up. |
| 0:42.4 | Somebody's serious. |
| 0:44.0 | He never missed a hit. |
| 0:47.5 | He never got caught. |
| 0:49.8 | You're indestructible bullet slide off you. |
| 0:51.9 | You play with him. |
| 0:53.2 | And above all else, he never had a reason to care until now. |
| 1:00.5 | The Professional is a 1994 action thriller written and directed by Luke Bassan, |
| 1:05.0 | which stars Jean Renaud, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman in her feature film debut. |
| 1:09.9 | After 12-year-old Matilda witnesses the execution of her entire family at the hands of a corrupt |
| 1:14.6 | DEA agent, she's taken in by Leon, a stoic hitman who agrees to help her get revenge. |
| 1:21.0 | How fucking cool does that sound? |
| 1:22.6 | Like, I just watched it, and I want to watch it again now. |
| 1:25.2 | It sounds cool. |
| 1:26.3 | It does it cool. |
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