Luc Besson

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Luc Paul Besson (French: lyk bs) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who was born on March 19, 1959; born 18 March 1959). Subway (1985), The Big Blue (1988), and La Femme Nikita (1990) were all directed or produced. Besson is a film maker associated with the Cinéma du look film festival. He has been nominated for the Best Director and Best Picture award for his films Léon: The Professional (1994) and the English-language The Messenger (1999) by Joan of Arc. For his sci-fi action film The Fifth Element (1997), he was named Best Director and Best French Director. Lucy and the 2017 space opera film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets were written and directed by John Clegg.

Les Films du Dauphin, his own film company, was founded in 1980 and later renamed as Les Films du Dauphin at the start of his career. These were superseded in 2000 when he co-founded EuropaCorp with his longtime collaborator Pierre-Ange Le Pogam. Besson, whether as writer, director, or producer, has been involved in the creation of more than 50 films.

Early life

Besson was born in Paris to parents who both worked as Club Med scuba-diving instructors. As a youth Besson wanted to be a marine biologist, Besson planned to become a marine biologist, and was influenced by this culture. He spent a large portion of his youth in Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece. When Besson was ten years old, the family returned to France. His parents divorced, and both of them married, and both of them remarried.

Besson suffered from a diving accident at the age of 17. He was unable to dive.

Personal life

Besson has been married four times, first to actress Anne Parillaud in 1986. Juliette, Besson and Parillaud's daughter, was born in 1987. In Besson's La Femme Nikita (1990), Parillaud appeared. In 1991, the couple wed a divorced.

Besson's second wife, actress and producer Mawenn Le Besco, was 15, when he first started dating when he was 31 years old and she was 15. They married in late 1992, when Le Besco, 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, who was born on January 3, 1993. Le Besco said that their friendship inspired Besson's film Léon (1994), which dealt with an adult man's emotional relationship with a 12-year-old child. Besson's marriage ended in 1997 after Besson became involved with actress Milla Jovovich during the shooting of The Fifth Element (1997).

On December 14, 1997, he married the 21-year-old Jovovich, who was 38. They divorced in 1999.

Besson married film director Virginie Silla on August 28, 2004, at the age of 45. Thalia, Sateen, and Mao Besson are three children of the couple.

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Career

Besson is said to have been on the first drafts of Le Grand Bleu when he was still in his teens. He began writing stories, including the history of what he later referred to as The Fifth Element (1997), one of his most popular films, out of boredom. The film is based on Besson's French comic books, which he read as a child. Besson wrote and co-wrote this science fiction thriller with American screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen.

Besson returned to Paris, where he grew up. To get a feel for the work, he did odd jobs in film. He served as an assistant to directors such as Claude Faraldo and Patrick Grandpert. Besson directed three short films, a commission document, and several commercials. He then migrated to the United States for three years, but he then relocated to Paris, where he established his own production firm. He first called it Les Films du Loup, but it was changed to Les Films du Dauphin.

Besson first encountered Éric Serra in the early 1980s and asked him to write the score for his first short film, L'Avant dernier. Serra later used Serra as a composer on other films of his own. Besson has written and produced numerous adventure films, including the Taxi series (1998–2007), the Transporter series (2001–2008; another collaboration with Robert Mark Kamen), and the Jet Li films Kiss of the Dragon and Unleashed, all from the late twentieth century. Taken 2, Taken 2, and Taken 3 are three of his English-language films, with Taken 2 being the biggest-grossing export French film ever directed by Liam Neeson. Besson produced the Olympic film for the 2012 Games in Paris.

Besson received the Lumière Award for Best Director and Best Director for his film The Fifth Element (1997). He was nominated for both Best Director and Best Picture César Awards for his films Léon: The Professional (1994) and The Messenger (1999). Jean Reno, a French actor, has appeared in several Besson films, including Le dernier combat (1983), Subway (1985), La Femme Nikita (1990), and Léon: The Professional (1994).

Besson is cited as a central figure in the Cinéma du look campaign, with a specific, highly visible style that originated from the 1980s to the early 1990s, by critics like Raphail Bassan and Guy Austin. Subway (1985) and La Femme Nikita (1990) are two of this stylistic school. In 1989 essay in La Revue du Cinema n° 449, critic Raphal Bassan coined the term. Besson was grouped with Jean-Jacques Beineix and Leos Carax as three directors who shared the style of "le look," according to a partisan of the experimental cinema and friend of the New Wave ("nouvelle vague") filmmakers. These writers were later described as favouring style over substance and spectacle over narrative.

Besson, as well as the majority of the filmmakers so classified, was dissatisfied with the term. He compared their work to France's New Wave. "Because of existing cultural norms, Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut were protesting against established cultural norms and using cinema as a means of expression simply because it was the most avant-garde medium at the time," Besson said in a 1985 interview with The New York Times. "Today, the revolution is entirely within the industry and is being led by people who want to change the look of movies by making them more convincing and pleasurable to watch."

"We have crafted a psychological armor and are set to do whatever it takes to get to work," he said. "I think our ardor alone is going to shake the moviemaking establishment's pillars."

The Lady (2011) (original name Dans la Lumiere) was directed by Besson as a biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi. He has also worked on Lockout (2012).

Many of Besson's films have been well-received, if not critical success. Le Grand Bleu was one of the first press releases.

Arthur and the Minimoys, Arthur, Arthur and the Forbidden City, Arthur, and the Vengeance of Maltazard and Arthur Besson's War of the Two Worlds. Arthur and the Invisibles, an adaptation of the collection's first two books, was directed by him. Both the United Kingdom and the United States had a film starring live action and animation.

Besson has been described as "the most Hollywood of French filmmakers." Scott Tobias said that his "slick, commercial" action films were "so interchangeable," including drugs, sleaze, chuckling supervillainy, and Hong Kong-style effects—that every new project always starts with white-out on the title page.

Besson, who is ranked as one of the best film developers in the United States, has been lauded by Armond White, an American film critic, for refining and revolutionizing action film. Besson dramatizes his characters' "as a violent resistance to human degradation," he wrote.

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