The Fifth Element (runtime 2:05:53) - Patreon Version
Added 2025-01-09 17:00:07 +0000 UTCWhy Hello there!
What's this? Another Sci-fi movie? You fricken bet it is! When you folks recommended this movie you mentioned the special effects were something else, and boy were you right! We were both really blown away... the whole world was filled with incredibly done effects. And the costumes were next level! There's so much to love about this movie, so thank you all again for voting for us to watch it!
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It's actually not the case, straight from the horse's mouth: https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18665765.html
tkitez (take it easy)
2025-01-22 05:06:04 +0000 UTCI freaking love this move! Watching the reaction now. Even though I’ve seen it a lot, I must have missed the 1914 date in the beginning or not given it much thought. But the robot alien guys remove the stones because they say “war is coming” - in summer 1914 World War I broke out. In other words, they knew the future. Awesome detail!
Bill B.
2025-01-19 02:50:13 +0000 UTCHuh, either that's some inside joke (in which case ignore me) or I am missing something (which admittedly is a frequent thing for me at my age). The Diva was played by Maïwenn.
Hans Engelen
2025-01-14 10:36:46 +0000 UTCAnd definitely check out the movie as well, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. It's criminal to me that it never got a sequel because that movie is fantastic. Avatar gets all the rave when it comes to effects but Valerian knocks it out of the park. I'm sure there will be people that disagree with me but I will take Valerian over the blue people any day.
Nathan Jasper, the Artist Formerly Known as Primary
2025-01-14 05:40:04 +0000 UTCThat's a seriously talented person to create that world and story so young
Chandra
2025-01-14 02:21:36 +0000 UTCThat's super interesting... Makes me really want to check out the Valerian comic strips you mentioned
Chandra
2025-01-14 02:20:28 +0000 UTCOh what!? Haha that's so awesome
Chandra
2025-01-14 02:18:35 +0000 UTCHoly hell. I've seen this movie four or five times and never realized that. Thanks for the fun fact.
RabidMango
2025-01-10 19:17:47 +0000 UTCLet me add this excerpt from people who know more about it then I do: Originally sung by Albanian coloratura soprano, Inva Mula, the blue alien opera scene is legendary not only because it sounds totally dope, but because it is so difficult to sing. In fact, Eric Serra (the composer of the funky 2nd half) didn’t intend for it to ever be sung. The first half comes from standard operatic literature. It is excerpted from Lucia di Lammermoor, by Donizetti. In this scene, the title character has gone completely bonkers… which is why it’s nicknamed “Lucia’s Mad Scene.”
Hans Engelen
2025-01-10 10:09:19 +0000 UTCAnd you just HEARD Vin Diesel’s first movie role. He’s Finger, Korben’s boss who wants him to bring in his cab.
djKENTO
2025-01-10 07:07:25 +0000 UTCThis is probably the first movie I saw Milla Jovovich in and I was instantly enamored with her. She plays Leeloo exactly how she's meant to be - innocent and pure. Almost like River Tam in a way. Chris Tucker is always hilarious in his movies and this one is no exception however slightly more annoying than usual lol! And Bruce, sweet grumpy Bruce... sometimes it seems like he plays the same in all his action movies but it's Bruce Willis so we forgive him. 😆
Nathan Jasper, the Artist Formerly Known as Primary
2025-01-10 06:21:15 +0000 UTCFun cameo for this film: The minion who gets blown up remotely in the phone booth is Trip-hop artist and pioneer, Tricky.
Simone's Coconut Squire
2025-01-10 06:17:57 +0000 UTCYou mentioned how great the costumes were in this. This is because they were designed by world-famous fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. Also, much of the look of the costumes and world were based on the work of comic artists Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières, whose books inspired parts of the film and its production design (with Moebius and Mézières serving as production designers on the film). In fact, if you've ever read a Moebius comic, many of the spaceship designs, police uniform designs, weird hats, vehicles, locations, etc. will look very familiar bc they're VERY much in his style. You also commented on Major Iceborg's Princess Leia-ish sidebun hairstyle. This was an intentional reference to Star Wars (as were several other things in the movie). Some people interpret this as Luc Besson acknowledging a Star Wars influence in The Fifth Element, but it's actually sort of the other way around. Although George Lucas has never publicly discussed the obvious influence of Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières' comic strip Valerian and Laureline, which ran in French comics magazine Pilote from 1967 to 2010, a few of the designers of Star Wars' look and feel leaked that they had indeed maintained a nice collection of Valerian refs while designing Star Wars. When you look at some of the parallels, though, it's more than just look and feel. Things like Princess Leia's infamous bikini, Han Solo in carbonite, the clone army, Darth Vader's F'd up face under the mask, the Millennium Falcon, the look of certain aliens, etc. were lifted pretty much directly from Valerian and Laureline. So, really, Valerian influenced Star Wars which then influenced The Fifth Element, a movie on which the artist of Valerian worked as a designer. Whether the Star Wars easter eggs in The Fifth Element were respectful "full circle" moments or little digs at the fact that George Lucas has never acknowledged the obvious parallels (like a "you took some of my ideas and designs without acknowledging the influence publicly, we'll use some of your ideas and designs without acknowledging them publicly" sort of thing), idk, but they're there.
Funk McPuke
2025-01-10 03:14:41 +0000 UTCI was actually coming here to comment the same thing. Anybody who hasn't heard Dimash sing "Diva Dance" -- or heard Dimash at all -- is missing out. If y'all do check him out, there are actually several versions of him doing "Diva Dance." Two are combined with other songs and are good but the performance I always recommend is the live performance at Bastau. It's only a minute and a half (bc he just does the "Diva Dance" portion of the song) but it's the most dialed-in and polished version and is closest to the one in the movie. You can find that performance on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zMupUOgQo I'll also add to your comment that the version in the movie used synthesized bits (which you can hear especially on longer runs and scales) bc it was written specifically to be unsingable by a human voice. In the performance I linked above, not only does Dimash NAIL the unsingable song, but he does it at the end of a 3-hour concert. Dude pretty much has to be an alien himself.
Funk McPuke
2025-01-10 02:53:41 +0000 UTCSorry, I had to. :)
Thomas Yanez
2025-01-10 01:25:44 +0000 UTCHappy you enjoyed this! It's a cinematic masterpiece that I've watched often. Milla Jovovich is a terrific Actress with the Resident Evil films being one of her biggest roles. Some trivia: The "Divine Language" spoken by Leeloo was invented by co-writer and director Luc Besson, and further refined by Milla Jovovich, who had little trouble learning and developing it, as she was already fluent in four languages. The language had only 400 words. He and Milla Jovovich held conversations and wrote letters to each other in the language as practice. By the end of filming, they were able to have full conversations in this language. Luc Besson demanded that most of the action shots in the movie take place in broad daylight, as he was reportedly tired of the dark spaceship corridors and dimly lit planets common in science fiction movies, and wanted a brighter "cheerfully crazy" look as opposed to a gloomy, realistic one He also wrote the original screenplay when he was in high school. He had conceived the story of this movie and invented the world of the movie as a child so he could escape his lonely childhood. He began writing the script when he was 16, though it was not released in theaters until he was 38
Wade Wallenstein
2025-01-10 00:51:52 +0000 UTCLucky Number Slevin is my second favorite! Hopefully it's on the horizon of your watchlist!
iOmegaTron
2025-01-09 22:32:17 +0000 UTCI honestly don't understand how some people can be so incredibly creative and talented. It would take me a lifetime to think up just one of these costume designs or story plots!
Chandra
2025-01-09 22:08:36 +0000 UTCHahahaha omg don't you dare
Chandra
2025-01-09 22:06:50 +0000 UTCIt's a shame that human creativity peaked with The Fifth Element, and we'll never top it. *Sigh* Oh well.
N.T. Stars
2025-01-09 21:58:56 +0000 UTCYESSSS!!! My favorite movie!! I'm so excited you're watching this for the first time!
iOmegaTron
2025-01-09 21:50:36 +0000 UTCY'all missed him again! The Diva was played by Brian Doyle-Murray.
Thomas Yanez
2025-01-09 21:46:09 +0000 UTCWoot woot woot. MULTIPASS!!! Good choice. Edit: The Diva Song became pretty famous and many people tried to actually cover it. It was pieced together from fragments as they wanted it to be something only an alien could sing with the tones and abrupt changes ... Many tried with varying degrees of success but imho the only person to really succeed is Dimash Kudaibergen. Worth a look if you have the time.
Hans Engelen
2025-01-09 17:40:04 +0000 UTC
