How much money...


...do you think Leon had with Tony?

Let's assume:

1. Leon had very few living expenses.
2. Leon has no dependents.
2. Leon was about 50 years only.
3. Leon had been working steadily as a hit man for 30 years.

It's a bit tricky due to inflation, but I'm going to guess an average of 20K saved each year for 30 years. That's 600K saved with Tony.

Let's take it a step further: I'm assuming that Tony paid no interest. So all in all, a pretty bad deal for Leon to keep his money with Tony.

But a fantastic deal for Tony, getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest-free loans. I doubt he kept all that money under his mattress all those years. Let's assume he invested it. A bit hard to do any number-crunching, since who knows what he invested it in. Let's assume 8% interest, compounded annually. That means that Tony now holds over 2 million dollars of money that should be Leon's.

And that line about banks getting knocked off is ridiculous, since there has been FDIC since the 1930's.

In another post, people are wondering whether Tony was fleecing Leon. Ha! How much does Tony give Mathilda? $100! And he tells her to come back in a month. So he's going to give her $1200 in a year -- out of 2 million dollars -- to an orphan girl with no relatives and no home, who he was explicitly told by Leon should get his money!

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I thought it was pretty clearly implied that Tony never had the money to give. He "held it" for Leon, spent it at his lesiure knowing Leon would never ask for it, and delayed whenever the money was asked for by either Leon or Mathilda by giving a little bit and saying he could get the rest anytime. In short, he'd been scamming Leon his entire career.

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It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if Leon had survived and then gone back to Tony demanding all the money that was owed him.


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I think the ending was fitting and left a lot to the imagination of the audience. And the death of Stansfield was imaginitive and compelling.

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