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Leon The Professional




Which bring me to the third musician. And it is Eric Serra. At first it seems like the music in the movie is kind of strange. And it is. It is not your typical Hollywood score with orchestra and stuff. Eric Serra is a bit more creative than that. Though what he did was interesting. He merged the style of composing of Bjork and the style of Sting and made the score of the movie in such a way that both "Venus as a Boy" and "Shape Of My Heart" sound completely natural within the broad sonic landscape of the movie. And it is very interesting because those are very different songs on their own. Bjork, for example is an experimental artist. She goes fucking crazy. If you listen the stuff that she produces now, you will start hearing her creative insanity even in the early stuff like "Venus as a Boy". How the hell did Eric Serra merged it with Sting? I guess he is just genius. To be frank, Leon's score is not my favorite music from Serra. I think it would either be the opera piece he wrote for the Fifth Element ( also directed by Besson and the song performed by his wife Maïwenn ), or the soundtrack of Le Grand Bleu, a Besson movie about dolphins and people who like to swim a lot, also starring Jean Reno, and by chance starring Jean-Marc Barr who played in a Lars Von Trier movie starring Bjork herself. For which she received an acting award at Cannes from Besson. What a circle of madness!