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In the history of world cinema, there are countless films about spies, but if you let the audience say the name of the most impressive spy, it is estimated that everyone will open their mouths: Brother Atang, James Bond, Ace Agent... It's almost exclusively the name of a male agent.
The female killer who can stand out among the male killers, looking around, Pigo only thinks of one person - Nikita.
The broadcast of the popular American drama "Nikita" in 2010 not only made everyone remember the face of Asian actor Maggie Q (Chinese name: Maggie Lee), but also made people fall in love with the female killer who was extraordinary and murderous like a probing bag - Nikita.
But you know what? In fact, the first time Nikita appeared in front of the audience was not due to this American drama, but to the 1990 film directed by Luc Besson - "Female Prisoner Nikita".
As early as that year, the name Nikita was remembered by many viewers for its extraordinary killer life.
The film was also quite close to mainland audiences, and three years after its release in France, in October 1993, the spy film was introduced to the mainland for release. However, compared with the 118 minutes of the original French version, the length of the imported version is only 102 minutes, which is enough to cut 16 minutes.
Although the specific box office figures are no longer available, you can imagine how excited the mainland audience at that time was when they saw such an action blockbuster with a female spy as the protagonist on the screen.
Now more than twenty years later, Nikita is still a well-known female spy in the history of world cinema, and in terms of the influence of the times, it is not inferior to the current Black Widow.
It is worth mentioning that in 2019, Luc Besson also filmed a work of the same theme "Anna", but this time because of the particularity of the film content, it was finally missed in the mainland, which was impressive in the comparison between before and after.
The protagonist of the film, Nikita, was once a social. One day, she and three companions robbed a convenience store, but the owner resisted, and they still could not get out until the police arrived.
In the face of strong police fire, the four did not surrender, but pulled out their guns to fight with the police, and finally all 3 of their companions died in the gun battle.
When the police investigated the scene, they found Nikita hiding in the corner unharmed. The police thought that this was just a frightened passerby in the chaos, and put down all their defenses to comfort them, but they were shot by Nikita, and Nikita was imprisoned.
Although he has become a prisoner of the order, Nikita has not relented.
When asked to write a confession at the police station, she stabbed the officer's hand with a pen; when she heard in court that she had been sentenced to death, she made a big fuss in the courtroom, threatening to kill the judge and get rid of her hopeless appearance.
Eventually, Nikita was sent to the execution table and injected with a death potion.
But when Nikita opens her eyes again, she is surprised to find herself alive— it turns out that Nikita's powerful psychological abilities and special personality before and after her capture have been targeted by a mysterious government organization that wants to take Nikita under her wing and train him to be a good killer.
To reinvent Nikita, the organization prepared a number of training courses for her, including hacking techniques, fighting skills, shooting, and how to become elegant.
But in the face of these lessons, the always rebellious Nikita naturally did not obediently accept, she angrily bit the coach's ear in the fighting class, and the high-pressure action was made into a comic comedy in the body class, and even the makeup could not be safe.
In the face of Nikita's non-cooperation, the instructor Bob did not scold, but instead adopted a "gentle strategy".
Bob knows that all of Nikita's resistance stems from her lack of love from others, so on Nikita's birthday, Bob bought a birthday cake to celebrate her birthday, a simple move, but let Nikita, who has never had a birthday, feel moved, and finally began to actively cooperate with training.
A year later, it was Nikita's birthday, and by this time she had been reborn as a good killer.
On this day, Bob took Nikita out of the training center to eat in the restaurant, which was the first time Nikita had returned to normal society since she was imprisoned, and she seemed extremely excited. And when Bob pulls out the prepared birthday present, Nikita is even happier.
But when she unpacks it, she realizes that the so-called gift turned out to be a gun, and the real purpose of Bob taking her out to dinner was only to get her to perform her first mission - to shoot someone in the restaurant.
After giving the mission and escape route, Bob left alone.
Nikita successfully completes the mission according to Bob's instructions and prepares to escape, but finds that the escape route that Bob has left for him is only a dead end. In desperation, Nikita can only find another way to make a living, and in the process of escaping, Nikita and his bodyguards have a fierce battle, and when his life is hanging in the balance, he finally escapes.
It turned out that this was the test that Bob had left her, and if the test passed, Nikita would actually graduate.
After graduation, Nikita got a new identity and returned to normal life as an ordinary nurse.
But having been out of the group for so long, Nikita had forgotten how to live alone, and even went shopping at the supermarket, following the women in front of her and taking whatever she saw.
It was at this time that Nikita met Rick and quickly fell in love. Rick takes great care of Nikita, and the two of them have a dull but happy life.
But this happiness is only superficial, and while falling in love with Rick, Nikita also needs to constantly perform tasks assigned by the organization.
A year later, Rick and Nikita decided to get engaged, and Bob presented himself with a congratulatory gift — a travel ticket for a vacation to Venice. The name was Heli, which was actually sent to Venice to kill people.
On this day, Nikita is assembling a gun in the toilet, intending to snipe the target from the window of the toilet, while Rick confesses to Nikita outside the toilet door. Listening to her lover's sweet words and watching her own ongoing cruelty, Nikita felt that her life was completely divided, and she began to retreat.
She presents her idea to Bob, but unsurprisingly is opposed, and receives her next mission— stealing intelligence and having a new connector— Leon (yes, Leon from the director of another well-known film, This Killer Isn't Too Cold).
Lyon's style of acting is very different from Nikita's, he pays attention to everything to have a beginning and an end, so he has many conflicts with Nikita in the process of carrying out his mission.
In the final theft of intelligence, Nikita and Leon assassinate the intelligence agent and instead infiltrate the intelligence agency, hiding everyone, but are eventually recognized by the intelligence agent's dog.
Nikita flees in a hurry, but Leon has to ask why the mission failed, ultimately missing the best time to escape. Leon was shot several times and died, but escaped with Nikita before dying.
Back at home, Nikita is in excruciating pain, but Rick suddenly reveals his heart to him. It turned out that he had long known Nikita's true profession, and he saw all of Nikita's pain in his eyes. He said he wanted to escape with Nikita, but Nikita, fearing that one day it would involve Rick, chose to leave without saying goodbye.
Eventually, Nikita left the stolen information behind by Rick to the Order. The organization, on the other hand, said it would get her back even at the end of the earth.
Thirty years after the film was broadcast, it has become an eternal classic, and in this year's Luc Besson's new film "Anna", we can still see a lot of "Female Prisoner Nikita".
In Nikita, we see that the killer also has feelings and fears, and she makes people feel that the killer is also a living ordinary person.
Later, many spy films borrowed from "Nikita the Female Prisoner", and even Leon in 1994's "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" also has a shadow of Nikita.
Who can not love such a flesh-and-blood killer?
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