Le Samouraï

Le Samouraï  (The Godson) is a gangster movie from 1967 directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, based on the novel The Ronin of Joan McLeod[1]. Alain Delon plays the lead role. The film served as an example for a lot of directors such as John Woo and Quentin Tarantino, and contains little dialogues.



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[hide] *1 Content  ==Content[ Edit] == Jef Costello is a Hitman who lives alone and always carefully prepares his murders. He lives In his apartment as a real loner. In addition to some cigarettes and a few bottles of mineral water has Costello also a little bird. He follows in his structured life some rules that help him to survive in the exercise of his dangerous job.
 * 2 success of the film
 * 3 end of the movie
 * 3.1 alternate ending
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For his latest mission he must go to a night club to kill the owner. Before he begins, Jef goes to his girlfriend Jane, who in case of arrest serves as an alibi. Jef all details of account. For example, so he steals a car and let him moments later customize the license plate. When he arrives at the nightclub, walks straight to the Office of M., the owner. Jef de man cold-bloodedly shoot down without hesitation. But as soon as he leaves the place of the assassination, he is seen by several people. Also the pianist Valérie notes on him.

Moments later is Jef Costello along with some other men his age, arrested by the police. Jef touches not panic; Finally, he has an alibi. In addition, even the eyewitnesses did not succeed to identify him. Despite the fact that the police let him go, the police inspector to let him pursue. And when Jacob by his principal is paid, the encounter ends in a shooting. Jef gets hurt on his left arm.

Jef should now go unnoticed trying to figure out how the thing really works. During his personal investigation, he comes to know that the police bugging him. Jef is increasingly in trouble. And as if that were not enough, he must kill the eyewitness, Valérie, his clients. Jef prepared carefully for itself again and walk this time on very striking way the nightclub inside. Then he went to the piano by Valérie and does he get his weapon will appear. Just when he wants to shoot, he is killed by binnenstormende agents. Valérie thinks they just escaped death, but if the police inspector open the gun of Jef, he sees that it was not loaded. ==Success of the film[ Edit] == Le Samouraï is often regarded as one of the best crime movies ever. Director Jean-Pierre Melville neo-noir in this exciting made use of only three shootings. This is a very small number for a gangster film. Yet this film often honored because of the exciting scenes. Also the character of Alain DelonJef Costello, who plays the laconic, seems to endure the test of time very well. In addition, the film, despite the simple scenario, already for quite a few threads about the deeper meanings of the film.

Le Samouraï was used as a base for a lot of films such as The Killer (1989) by John Woo, The Driver (1978) by Walter Hill and Reservoir Dogs (1992) by Quentin Tarantino. Also Ghost Dog (1999) by Jim Jarmuschis affected by it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2] ==End of the movie<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the end of the movie is Jef Costello shot dead by the police. Jef had no bullets in his weapon and so can this be regarded as a suicide scene. Costello does so much trouble to be killed, because he wants to show everyone that he could fulfill the contract if he wanted it.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source? ] Jef remained so until his death a true professional. ===Alternate ending<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Director Melville wanted Delon would smile at the time that Jef is shot. But when he discovered that Delon had done this once before in another film<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="328" style="line-height:1;">[citation needed], they decided to remove the smile. There are pictures of this scene. ==Quote<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The film opens with the phrase "there is no greater solitude than that of the Samurai, with the exception of the tiger in the jungle ... Perhaps ... ".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Although this text is presented as a quote from the Bushido (the book of the Samurai), he is made up by Melville.