Bryan Young treats us to another peek behind the curtain with his latest Cinema Behind Star Wars over at StarWars.com, this time looking at the 1994 film Leon: The Professional .
Before Luc Besson got into making movies, he was influenced mightily by Star Wars. In fact, Star Wars is the film that established the core of how he wanted to make films and the way he’d tell stories. He told Deadline Hollywood in 2015, “I will never, never forget when, at 16 years old, I sat in a film called Star Wars, and then suddenly, there’s a sound, and everybody did this [he turns around and looks behind], because for the first time, the sound was coming from the back. Everybody turned, and we look at the spaceship from the roof coming on screen, and everybody was like, wow. That’s why I’m working so hard. I want to offer people a wow moment that they will remember.”
