Did you manage to squeeze yourself into shot?
No, wouldn't even have tried... Clear security perimeter, things like that. They were shooting a near-car pile-up right next to the Gare Saint-Charles train station, meaning -- lots of onlookers, lots of security. They rehearsed the scene 2 or 3 times, with the stunt vehicles stopping right before the end each time, and then they shot the final scene in a single shot, the final scene is about 5-10 seconds in the finished film, it took them over an hour to do it. What a waste of time and money... The scene wasn't even very exciting. I think they wanted to do a French Bullit with comedy... It was a box-office success with 3 sequels, but also made Luc Besson (the movie's producer) suddenly look like the French George Lucas, instead of, I don't know, the guy who made Leon such an endearing film.
Anyway!
:PThat would have been something to show the grand kids :lol:
I still have a videotape of a cable show I was interviewed in back in 1996... Now that was fun. I had hippie hair and looked obviously and painfully stressed. Ah ah, oh dear oh dear.