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Luc Besson - Has literally "Taken" dialogue from this movie

posted 10 years ago by Ali-w-reid
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Pretty much everyone with access to the internet will know one of the most well known "bad-ass" lines of recent movie history is from Taken:

I will find you, and I will kill you

But it is incredibly similar to what James Woods says to Daniel Baldwin at the end of Vampires:

Wherever you go I will find you, I will hunt you down and I will kill you

Delivered in a similar dead-pan, calm fashion.

https://youtu.be/NvwgD20kK_U

Now my questions are these:

- Is it likely that Luc Besson hadn't seen Vampires and this was an accident and coincidence?

- Are these lines of dialogue actually not similar at all and I'm over reacting?

OR

- Did Luc Besson actually steal this line for Taken?

I must admit I'm not really a fan of Besson. (Leon is a good film and Nikita and The Fifth Element are fun IMO ) But if anybody could post a link in the replies where Luc Besson has cited the line as a homage that would be much appreciated (a minutes worth of googling didn't turn up much)

Until then I'll stew in my own self satisfaction and assume I'm right.

Cheers

[–] PacinoDeNiro1991 9 years ago

Wow, you may have been absolutely right!
Check this out. http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/2015/10/john-carpenter-sued-luc-besson-lockout/

[–] Ali-w-reid 9 years ago

Oh boy... Not only a second case of plagiarism but off the same guy too. I was always under the impression that you should never return to the scene of the crime, let alone commit the same crime again while you're there..

Thanks for the post though. Some how Lockout passed me by when it came out, but even the short synopsis is jaw-dropping-ly derivative