Subway is a 1985 French film by Luc Besson, starring Christophe(r) Lambert and Isabelle Adjani (Besson himself has a small part as one of the subway drivers for about a minute). It is a simple, exciting, non-commercial movie full of eccentric characters and, for me, by far, is Besson's best.
Fred (the blond Lambert) is a safe bomber, who stole some important papers from Helena's house in a party, blackmailing her afterwards. He is chased by Helena's husbands mafia-like men, and later, by police certainly. However a thief and a bomber he may be, he has other ambitions in life, such as creating his own music band or as falling in love with Helena. Helena, on the other hand, is about to go mad in her gilded cage life and is intrigued by this man. While Fred starts living in the underground world of Paris Metro, he meets interesting characters, such as The Roller Skater and The Florist, who are mostly petty criminals.
The film's style, both character and graphics based, is promising, however, I believe it does not promise his Leon coming, but rather The Fifth Element. While as a story, Leon has always been stronger, the latter was Besson's visual dance, with heavy colours and costumes, influenced by the time it was shot, very fashionable but maybe a little too fashionable at some points. Subway, on the other hand, tells a more seductive story, and is the simpler-in-vision version of The Fifth Element, with characters that would look from outer space as much, to some of the audience knowing nothing about life on the streets (or under the streets for this one particularly). Looking at the poster below, do not think as if it is a remake of Star Wars, no, the fluorescent lamp that Lambert is holding represents the difference of the underground world, where the light is artificial but the characters are not.
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there was a music video related to this movie.
ReplyDeleteit involved.....scenes from the subway.
i wish i could remember the song.
ı think you mean, Arthur Simms, It's Only Mistery ?
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