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Luc Besson ((:lyk bɛsɔ̃); born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for directing and producing thrillers and action films that are visually rich. Critics cite Besson as a pivotal figure in the Cinéma du look movement, a specific, highly visual style produced from the 1980s into the early 1990s. ''Subway'' (1985), ''The Big Blue'' (1988) and ''Nikita'' (1990) are all considered to be of this stylistic school. Besson had been nominated for Best Director and Best Picture César Awards for his films ''Léon: The Professional'' and ''The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc''. He won Best Director and Best French Director for his sci-fi action film ''The Fifth Element'' (1997). His sci-fi thriller film ''Lucy'' (2014) is France's biggest export success. In 1980, he founded his own production company, called ''Les Films du Loup,'' and later ''Les Films du Dauphin.'' This was superseded in 2000 by his co-founding EuropaCorp film company with his longtime collaborator, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam. Besson has been involved with filmmaking for more than 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and/or producer. He has also being declared the John Hughes of action films because his screen writing skills are more famous than his directing. ==Early life== Besson was born in Paris, to parents who both worked as Club Med scuba-diving instructors.〔(Luc Besson on 'Arthur And The Invisibles' ) – CANOE〕 Influenced by this milieu, as a child Besson planned to become a marine biologist. He spent much of his youth traveling with his parents to tourist resorts in Italy, Yugoslavia, and Greece.〔"Luc Besson", ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2008.〕 The family returned to France when Besson was 10. His parents promptly divorced and each remarried. "Here there is two families, and I am the only bad souvenir of something that doesn't work," he said in the ''International Herald Tribune''. "And if I disappear, then everything is perfect. The rage to exist comes from here. I have to do something! Otherwise I am going to die."〔("Luc Besson: The most Hollywood of French filmmakers" ), ''International Herald Tribune'', 20 May 2007〕 At the age of 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive. :"I was 17 and I wondered what I was going to do. ... So I took a piece of paper and on the left I put everything I could do, or had skills for, and all the things I couldn't do. The first line was shorter and I could see that I loved writing, I loved images, I was taking a lot of pictures. So I thought maybe movies would be good. But I thought that to really know I should go to a set. And a friend of mine knew a guy whose brother was a third assistant on a short film. It's true," he said in a 2000 interview with ''The Guardian''.〔(Luc Besson interviewed by Richard Jobson ) ''The Guardian''〕 :"So, I said: 'OK, let's go on the set.' So I went on the set...The day after I went back to see my mum and told her that I was going to make films and stop school and 'bye. And I did it! Very soon after I made a short film and it was very, very bad. I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luc Besson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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