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- prhnI'm just here to share my love for this film. I'm a big movie fan. I've been watching the Fifth Element since high school, and I've only grown to appreciate it more and more as a film as I get older.It's so full of life, creativity, color, humor, and themes we can all relate to (purpose, love, loss, etc).This is peek Bruce Willis, and the movie is filled with other exceptional actors including Gary Oldman and Ian Holm. Milla Jovovich is extremely entertaining to watch as a sort fish-out-of-water, and I know Chris Tucker's character here isn't for everyone but in my opinion it's right on-brand for the film. Cracks me up every time for decades.Mostly the effects have aged really well. That's generally thanks to heavy use of practical effects, as this article highlights.I often get sad that this is becoming a lost art. Great filmmakers with big budgets are still doing this type of practical effects work (Nolan [Interstellar], Villeneuve [Dune]), but I think eventually it will be lost in time.
- Jordan-117Excellent article. And a great opportunity to share one of my favorite scifi worldbuilding artifacts: the 4K matte painting used for the brief view of Manhattan during the take-off sequence:http://web.archive.org/web/20161007133354if_/http://digitald...The overall vision for the city is implicit but wildly creative: sea levels have dropped significantly, with the architecture of the city spreading across the newly-exposed land and leaving original structures like the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan's skyscrapers, and the Statue of Liberty towering above the landscape. There are also oodles of tiny details scattered throughout the image -- you can pore over it for a good 10 minutes and still find more to appreciate. Very cool of Digital Domain to share it originally.
- jacquesmWhat I like most about the Fifth Element is that they didn't milk it through a bunch of sequels.
- grenoireI love this movie so much it's _unreal_. What an experience, every single time.And each time I see an article like this, I simply marvel at the immense love for art and life it has. What an incredibly talented crew, what product of mastery and care.
- aresantIf you enjoyed the Fifth Element absolutely watch Jodorowsky's Dunehttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/On the cover it's a story about the failed production of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune script but the deeper story was the aggregation of an unbelievably talented pool of visual artists including Jean "Moebius" Giraud (mentioned as central artist in 5th element), H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Salvador Dali, & Dan O'Bannon.That group would go on to centrally influence the visual style of a huge body of science fiction work including Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Star Wars, The Matrix, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc etc.The art and creativity on display in the film is absolutely sonic.Kind of like the original PayPal mafia!
- Sam6lateI was in Paris years ago and took these photos of the actual cab models that were on display. Enjoy https://imgur.com/a/txIHpJT
- sschuellerOff topic but Milla Jovovich just released an AI memory called mempalace:https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace
- tvshtrI have very vivid memories of watching it for the first time in the cinema (original run). I'm pretty sure I still have the ticket. I was spending winter break in the mountains, with some friends, completely snowed in. I bought the soundtrack too (on a cassette tape). Possibly the last decent movie of his.
- nntwozzLEELOO DALLAS MULTIPASShttps://youtu.be/RdqiaNsKR2E
- BadBadJellyBeanI really like how well the movie aged. I recently watched it with my wife, who had never seen it, and she was hooked. Most of the effects hold up very well today and the movie is just fun.
- ModernMechThe article is missing one of the best futurescape shots in the whole movie!http://i.imgur.com/6W5InkH.jpgThat image is only on screen for like 2 seconds, but it tells a whole story and really pulled me into the film. The first half you're deep in the city, and then finally when you get to see it from afar, it seems like a whole real city instead of the few locales they shot. Also makes it feel like a continuity of our future instead of some random alien drama.
- tomaytotomatoI have fond memories of the Fifth Element, as one of my first PG-13 movies at the cinema that I was allowed to see as a 9-10 year old.Looking back, the whole story gives a different futuristic feel to the usual gloomy polluted dystopian earths, and feels a bit, "near-future".Seeing hover cars getting drive through McDonalds will forever be a future hope for me (my inner 10 year old self)
- WalterGR(2019)
