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From Paris, With Love movie poster
Hello Everyone,
There's a generation that grew up with 'From Russia, with love'. Now, it's going to be 'From Paris, with love'!
The nice thing is that the chess motif is there in this 2010 Hollywood release also. It's an action film starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It has and directed by Pierre Morel. The screenplay was co-written by Luc Besson.
After the opening scene the camera pans to the U.S. Embassy in France where you find the personal aide to the U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) keeping the Ambassador busy with a quick chess move! The movie ends with a chess scene too but we won't spell the beans. Reese loves chess and so does his eventual partner Charlie Wax.
Here's a dialogue from the movie:
James Reece: I'm not your driver. I'm your partner.
FBI agent Charlie Wax: Yeah, you're the chess player. I read your file.
James Reece: You play?
FBI agent Charlie Wax: Do I look like I play board games?
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Nice cool action packed movie and the chess set in the opening scenes is real swell.
ReplyDeleteYaya i wnt to see the movie when depressed and the chess 'surprise' lit my day. The chess part is not that much mentioned in reviews and there's no Youtube video for it. Thanks for the still Alexandra. Couldn't find it on the official website of the movie.
ReplyDeleteNice movie there. Betrayal, action and lots of shooting.
ReplyDeletepl tell me d dialogue which john speaks in the end when he plys chess
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