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Luc Besson is a famous French film director, writer, and producer who is known for making spectacular films. The famous film director is widely recognized for contributing French cinema’s “Cinema du look” movement. He directed and produced over 76 films in his career and received numerous awards. People compared him with the most famous film director Stephen Steveburg
“The most important thing is always the story. Then come the actors.”
– Luc Besson
Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in school.
He planned on becoming a marine biologist specializing in dolphins until a diving accident at age 17 which rendered him unable to dive any longer. He moved back to Paris, where he was born, and only at age 18 did he first have an urban life or television. He realized that film was a medium which he could combine all his interests in various arts together, so he began taking odd jobs on various films. He moved to America for three years, then returned to France and formed Les Films de Loups – his own production company, which later changed its name to Les Films de Dauphins. He is now able to dive again.
