Here's another list of things I've learned today:

[lnr]

- The dutch for hangover (kater apparently).
- How good a film Leon is.
- How much sleep it's possible to get mid-afternoon by accident.
- That there are things in this world which are very scary, sometimes in davefish's journal.
- That bad guys should stick to the pretty chinese brocade jacket, and leave the bad special effects and wings out of it.
- And an odd cure for acid indigestion involving salt and milk.

I'll let you know in the morning if the latter actually works for more than 5 minutes.

Comments

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

I have a real thing for Gary Oldman in that film. I find this deeply worrying. But he's just so damn ... sexy. In a deranged psychopathic sort of way.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

He makes a good contrast with Reno's concise an elegant use of terror. I think he'd do really well as Lono in Hundred Bullets, actually - he's already good at playing comic book villains...

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Another thing that makes Jean Reno so great in "Leon" is the fact that he'd been cast entirely against type. Most of his work back in France was comedy, and he'd been dubbed the French John Cleese (check out "Les Visiteurs" for the sword fight between Reno and a Renault 4 for a classic comedy moment). Gary Oldman was terrific as usual, but then again these days he's got the market in psychos collared, especially the idiosyncratic type that Dennis Hopper used to play so richly.

[k425.livejournal.com]

I went to see Leon because I loved Reno in Les Visiteurs, and wasn't disappointed. But I came out of the cinema saying to Matt that the young actress was one to watch out for. And lo! Natalie Portman was indeed one to watch out for.

Hangover

[skorpionuk.livejournal.com]

It's "Kater" in German as well. It means tom-cat, though I don't know why tom-cats mean hangovers.

You can also have a "Muskelkater", which is sore muscles from over-exercising.

HTH

[northernmonkey.livejournal.com]

I *love* Leon. It's one of my favourite films. I could go into a whole diatribe of why it's so great... but i refuse to be drawn into film student mode again.

:)

xxxx

[tienelle.livejournal.com]

I watched it entirely by accident one night. It was preceded by a film student going into a whole diatribe about why it was so great. It was, indeed, great. I must watch it again some time.