Leon, and my connection to this story.

I really love this style of film making which is Stanislavsky and my connection is I was Stan at one point in history.. my best friend was Artaud, and we would have a contest who could pick up the best looking girl, and Artaud always won, he was blonde blue eyed and I was black haired greying and brown eyes, but still I did pretty well, because my theatre ideas were leading the way.

Artaud did theatre in a circle with the audience almost all the way around with just entrance behind. It was his idea and he did that all his life as I remember I went to all his shows they were amazing!! Like there is nothing like it today they were mesmerising from start to finish.

Mine were more Shakespearean and while the staging was mostly in the front on a long stage very wide, sometimes we would have actors come into the seating area and shout and carry on and walk up to the stage that way, so we had actors mingling with the audiences doing things.

And of course Stanislavsky is what most film making is based on, realism. So we had techniques to fool the audience into thinking what they were seeing was real, like very realistic snow and smoke machines and like wind and great props that the actors used to feel more like the audience was looking at real life, amazing sets and costumes like the real thing. They call it in film "method acting", like using very realistic guns and like smoking a real cigarette or drinking real drink or food.

But my connection to this film Leon with director and writer Luc Besson and the stunning Natalie Portman and of course Jean Reno and Gary Oldman starring, is I lived in the town they filmed it in and in the same street.

So I remember that smell of burnt rubbish.. it wasn't like plastic bad rotten smell, more like camp fire smell... and kids would light up a drum... its one of the oldest cities in Europe. People think it's American by this film, but it is European. Though they make it out its little Italy, but was really real Italy.

Cool huh, and I looked just like that bandana kid like Peter Pan sort of and I hung out with babes.

Guy hanging out in the background offers her a butt.