nothing like the professional? the stories are identical beat for beat
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innocent girl being chased by overwhelming government force
seeks help from an outside-the-law vigilante badass loner type
vigilante badass doesn't want to help because reasons
they end up hanging out alot because reasons
his life is suddenly filled with purpose notably contrasting with his loner past
innocent girl matures from being a happy go lucky type and cares for him (known as an "arc")
he sacrifices himself for her and dies happily with that new-found purpose (also an "arc")
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another great response & post pagy. 100% serious when i say this, i wish my brain could process things the ways yours does. life would be that much easier & simpler
Stop us when this sounds familiar: a young girl who has a knack for carnage is reluctantly taken in by a reluctant father-figure who is haunted by a daunting history of violence. Logan***8217;s premise may be new to the cinematic world of X-Men, but movies have been using that same skeleton of a plot for years, particularly in Luc Besson***8217;s Leon: The Professional.
She also impressed with her dramatic moments. ***8220;When we started working on the script, we talked a lot about Natalie Portman in The Professional: somebody who looked like a child but had the kind of maturity and sophistication behind her eyes of a grown-up. That's what she has,***8221; says Kinber
i mean it has quite a bit in common with leon i feel like this is obvious beyond denial
in effect it's not particularly like it because it's going for a greyer neo-western unforgiven tone, it is more ambivalent about violence where in leon it's clear the girl will leave killing behind, logan as a character is battered and tired where leon was simple-minded and naive, etc. this is the difference details and direction make and why you can't evaluate a movie by its plot alone.
but the plot structure is not dissimilar nor is the concept pairing action man with action girl
and leon the professional is one of the most famous films to use it with the additional detail of killer female child, so it only makes sense to compare them
t2 isn't really a character-driven film nor is it remembered for the amazing interplay between arnold and kid everyone hates, so unless your takeaway is that logan was incredibly simplistic and superficial that would be a kind of oblique comparison
not to mention, again, the kids in logan and leon are amoral killers to start with, not so much edward furlough