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Considered the French equivalent of "Steven Spielberg", filmmaker "Luc Besson" has a reputation for creating fast-paced, ultra-stylish, and hugely budgeted films with mass appeal. The son of two scuba instructors, he was born in Paris on March 18, 1959, and spent most of his youth following his parents on the club Med circuit between Greece and Yugoslavia. Like his parents, Besson was an avid diver. At the age of ten, he swam with a wild dolphin while his parents were on a dive. The experience so moved him that he decided to devote his life to observing and understanding the sea mammals by becoming a marine biologist. Living in such close harmony with the ocean had a profound effect on Besson; the idea for his film "The Big Blue" was born after an Italian filmmaker showed him footage of world champion free diver Jacques Mayol descending 92 meters on one breath of air.
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Considered the French equivalent of Steven Spielberg, filmmaker Luc Besson has a reputation for creating fast-paced, ultra-stylish, and hugely budgeted films with mass appeal. The son of two scuba instructors, he was born in Paris on March 18, 1959, and spent most of his youth following his...Read More
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Called "the French Steven Spielberg" by some, Luc Besson made an impressive debut at age 24 with "Le Dernier Combat" (1983), an apocalyptic drama noted for its striking black-and-white photography and bold lack of dialogue (a clever low-budget strategy). His subsequent films were box-office hits at home, more popular for their exhilarating visuals than for their thin storylines. After going underground to helm "Subway" (1985), starring Christopher Lambert and Isabelle Adjani, this son of scuba divers mined his first love (the sea) to make the underwater epic "The Big Blue" (1988), a huge commercial success in France and his international breakthrough, excluding the US market. Besson's next project, the aggressively violent and wildly improbable "La Femme Nikita" (1990), provided a great part for his then wife Anne Parillaud and finally registered with American audiences. An entertaining story of a hedonistic young woman who becomes an undercover assassin for the French government, the film did so well in the USA that it spurred the dreadful remake "Point of No Return"(1993).
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Luc Besson grew up his parents with his parents in several establishments of Club Med all around the world. His parents worked as diving instructors, so Luc learned to love the beauty of the deep blue. For a long time he planned to become a marine biologist. After an accident in the age of 17 he had to give up this dream. So he started to write and make movies.
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Luc Besson was born in Paris to parents who were scuba diving instructors. From the time he was five, they traveled around the world, and Besson planned to follow in their footsteps by becoming a diver and working with dolphins. Unfortunately, at 17, he had a diving accident which cut his dream short.
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Besson was a prominent face in the era of Cinéma du look in the '80s into the start of the '90s. Subway, The Big Blue and Nikita are all considered to be in this era.
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