Luc Besson: One of the Best French Directors :: Movie Film Movies Films

Luc Besson One of the Best french DirectorsThesis Luc Besson is champion of the best French Directors of this century. His works grass either be viewed as mere action packed thrillers or the viewer can go in depth and instill principal society and morality. Besson wishes to make the viewer question the importance of unmarriedism, the role of each individual in society and whether the individual should follow the norms of society or follow his heart. Bessons humor, sense of compassion and his reflections on tone deserve credit. Besson draws on his suffer life in some movies. Besson lacks presence of family and religion and in his movies the protagonist has to sacrifice iodine love so as to attain another, which he feels to be of greater importance to his life. Introduction Luc Besson was born in Paris on evidence 18, 1959, and fagged most of his childishness living in the idyllic settings of divers(a) Mediterranean hideaways between Yugoslavia and Greece where his parent s worked as plunge instructors. A tragic diving accident when seventeen, put an end to his dreams of a career in leatherneck biology and he diverted his interest to films and directing. He dropped out of school and moved to Hollywood at the age of nineteen where he spent three years working on and learning about American films. There was a time when he used to watch a dozen films a week so as to understand filmmaking. Considered the French equivalent of Steven Spielberg, Besson is popular for creating fastpaced stylish and hugely budgeted films. What are noted in Bessons movies are the visual style, humor, pathos, and sense of direction, reflections on life and declination of modern society. (Susan Hayward, 1998) The Movies Luc Bessons movies can all be viewed not just as movies but movies with a meaning. One of his major themes in all his movies is social existentialism - the lessen of society and morality. The protagonist develops his own sense of morality and what is right an d wrong in relation to their decline in society as a whole. What are noticeable in his movies are the absence of family and the demise of the community, which he brings out with great sophistication. His childhood spent near the sea and his passion for it and diving also had a profound effect even on his work as can be seen from his movie The Big Blue.