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Why PARIS with love?

posted 13 years ago by MoonPreacher
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Paris is among the most famous cities in the world but there was nothing here that could use something of it, I think the scene taken in the Eiffel Tower was the biggest reference, the terrorists should put a bomb in the tower ( once again ) and lead to a shoot out or something, and I never seen a movie set on Paris were french was almost not spoken ( even if the characters are supposed to be all americans and the fiancee french ).
This could have been called "from some random european city with love"...

[–] Orbtastic 13 years ago

Maybe some people might have bought tickets thinking it was a Romcom or something.

[–] Gibski 12 years ago

I thought it was a Romcom...

[–] keyvenx 12 years ago

I definitely thought it was a RomCom until I realized it could be a reference to the Bond film "From Russia with Love", so I gave it a try and I'm glad I did.

It's entertaining enough if you don't have stratospheric expectations.

[–] Gibski 11 years ago

I remember it was pretty entertaining even though I don't actually remember much of it since my memory is pretty crap.

[–] Romeycash 13 years ago

Because Luc Besson wrote the movie and he is French and frequently puts his country on display in his movies

[–] Prismark10 13 years ago

A riff on From Russia with love, maybe.

Its that man again!!

[–] Vanessa248 13 years ago

I agree the title doesn't fit the movie at all.

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[–] MrBigglesworth999 12 years ago

Paris tends to suggest a hint of sophistication when it's in a movie's title. Unfortunately this movie never progressed past a hint.

[–] Seth_Rogue_One 8 years ago

It's an homage to the Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963) and a hint to the viewers familiar with the spy genre that this is a agent-flick

We crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

[–] scannerdarkly (1274) 2 years ago

the creators of the film said exactly this ^^^

but if people dont know about the Bond film it would go over there heads for sure.

[–] 11 years ago

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[–] johnmiller (3332) 5 years ago

Luc Besson uses Paris a lot of the time.

[–] scannerdarkly (1274) 2 years ago

Luc Besson made this movie and he is French. Im thinking that had a lot to do with it. I found it refreshing that the Eiffel Tower was only visited in the film but had no integral part to its plot. Every other film has to have a shootout at the tower, a bomb is there, a tungsten rod is shot from orbit destroying paris with the Eiffel Tower falling down, a nanobot that devours metal is shot at the Eiffel Tower, etc, etc, etc, leave the tower out of it guys!!!!