I used to like that movie as a kid, but I’ve had a different perspective on it, and other films, since coming across this video about the “born sexy yesterday” trope
it’s an older video, but still relevant and edited very well.
Fuck Luc Besson, and fuck his creations (I don’t believe in separating the artist from the art).
My friend found a bunch of vhs tapes that his dad hid, and we would watch them together. We were both around 8 or 9, and we watched various porn tapes, and stuff like Heavy Metal and other R rated stuff. The stuff that really gave a lasting impression in my mind’s eye though was a collection of actual deaths caught on tape called “Faces of Death” and a movie called “Pink Flamingos”. Ill always remember aligators ripping a paraglider apart, and the chicken scene from pink flamingos. I rematched it when I was older and it didn’t seem as bad as I remembered, but it’s not a great scene to have stuck in your head…
Now I specialize in making horror illustrations lol.