Taken : Liam Neeson changes course
Revealed by Excalibur, Assignment OR The goodLiam Neeson has proven to be a great dramatic actor, at ease in a multitude of registers. In Black man, embodies a terribly disfigured and revenge-seeking geneticist. He then lends his likeness to a German industrialist who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews Schindler’s Listthen to a famous Irish revolutionary in Michael Collins.
In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menacethe actor plays the mentor of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the up-and-coming Anakin Skywalker, before becoming that of Bruce Wayne in Batman begins. Meanwhile, she made a pass through romantic comedy with Current love and transforms into a warrior priest in New York gangs.
In 2008, her filmography took an unexpected turn Taken, in which he plays the former secret service agent Bryan Mills, ready to sack Paris to find his kidnapped daughter. Liam Neeson reprises his role in two sequels and establishes himself as a modern day vigilante. Because if he still participates in amazing and amazing projects like The territory of the wolves, Walk among the graves, Silence OR Widowsespecially connects the often superfluous action films like Non-stop AND Black light.
A “sappy” monologue?
Taken gave a new impetus to his career. Liam Neeson had still done it serious doubts about its potential of the feature film by Pierre Morel. In 2020, the actor reveals a Entertainment Weekly who could never have imagined such a success for the film:
No disrespect to Robert Mark Kamen, wonderful screenwriter (of Taken) and my friend, but I said to myself: “It will be released directly on video. A small European thriller, it could be shown for a few weeks in French cinemas, and then it will go directly on video”.
The actor was also wrong about one of the emblematic passages of TakenWho over one million admissions in France. During a scene that has become cult, Bryan Mills switches with one of the kidnappers of her daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) when she is kidnapped, and promises to find and kill him thanks to special skills acquired over the years. A monologue that Liam Neeson finds “cheesy” reading the script, as he just explained Vanity Fair :
I certainly looked scary, but I thought it was cheesy. It was a very blue flower. I really thought that to myself. It’s nice to see that we’re wrong.
Source: Cine Serie
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