Beautiful - *quality.
I see a lot of León, with a helping of Leeloo.

Previous arguments of dupe have always failed when the differences are as glaring as this-Maatc's is more entertaining:

In the one, the guys running his finger over his lips and humming and in the other the cat spontaneously improvises what could pass as the supreme being's language..You know..Leeloo?? Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat?

Not a dupe by any stretch

Leeloo Dallas!

This sift has me thinking about this movie again.

It should have been awful. There are so many things wrong with it. The nonsensical plot. The cliches (Leeloo happens to fall into the one cab piloted by ex super commando Korben? The fifth element is love?). Trickys acting (I've seen forests that were less wooden). The card carrying villains. Casting the directors model girlfriend in the title role.
I could go on.

Yet it takes all these things that should make it terrible and somehow makes it work for it by virtue of sheer fucking awesome.

I saw this when it came out in the cinema, and had it on VHS (that was when we magnetically encoded images and sound on tape kids!) for years.

And you know, I haven't seen it in a decade. Tomorrow, I'm going to buy some nice beer, find it on bluray or itunes or whatever and watch it again.

And honestly...

I can't fucking wait

Agree completely on that whole not having to explain itself. Apparently it was written by a teenage Luc Besson and thinking about it does sort of reflect the kind of story you make up as a kid. A lot of imagination, not much direction and completely carefree.

My intepretation was always that Leeloo was the fifth element. She represents life in its purest most innocent form as a counterpart to that wierd ball of death/evil that calls Zorg up on the phone (wat.). Leeloo learns of all the atrocities humanity commits, she loses sight of the point of life until Gorban gives her a reason. Love is the key but not the element imo. I just threw up a little. But here we are analysing a film which defies it. It just wants to show us something fantastical and doesn't care if we understand or not.

ps. That Gorban - Leeloo relationship is still wierd. I was getting a father daughter vibe until they touch lips at the end. Meanwhile in Leon...

I had a dream about this movie once...

Oceanic Flight 815, en route to Earth 2, crash lands on a desert planet infested with giant sand worms and zombies. In an attempt to get home, the survivors encounter Jeffrey Sinclair on board a space station caught in a time rift, who reveals that he has been chasing Q who is commanding an army of half-Scarran, half-Sylons with Goa'uld symbiotes to conquer a magical island in Neverland. And the only one who can save the universe is Jim Raynor, captain of a stolen Firefly, and his life partner, a half Wookie, half Time Lord who has sworn a life debt to the captain. They have a depressed robot sex slave who isn't attracted to them and each of them owns a power ring, bestowed to them by the Guardians of the Universe (who are all dwarves, except for one of them who is Tom Waits).

You don't even want to know who the crew of the Firefly is. It will blow your fucking mind. Ok, I'll tell you: Napoleon, Socrates, Sigmund Fruuud, Billy the Kid, Genghis Kahn, and Ludwig Van; then for some reason Whoopie Goldberg is there with William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, and Malcolm McDowell, who can't stop pining over Beethoven. At the end of the movie, the crew is clean cut, the robots are all shiny, and the ghosts of Bill Hicks, Rufus, Obi-wan, Pizza the Hut, Dr. Frankenfurter, and Alf are all sitting around waiting for you to wake up -- but, when you wake up -- you're Homer Simpson! OMG don't tell ANYONE about the twist ending or the sequel where he meets Hank Hill who gets abducted by aliens and meets spooky Fox Mulder and that sexy redhead Leeloo.

My mind is exploding! There may be another me who isn't as awesome as the real me and enjoyed the movie The Notebook... Pshhhhhh -- Frell the frack off. Every alternate reality of me smokes pot and makes or plays video games. Stop trying to change me, universe!

The faster corporations like ADM, Monsanto, Bunge, Altria, etc. squeeze out family farms, micro-agribiz and the like the faster we can all eat those cool concentrated chickens that leeloo was cooking in that machine in Fifth Element!
Srsl'y though, the state of and quality food in the US compared to 30 yrs ago is total shit-thank You Walmart.

Oh, I understand why they do it, I just don't understand why they think it's a good idea to do it

>> ^CheshireSmile:

>> ^residue:
I can't fathom why anyone ever thinks it's a good idea to turn their camera sideways

people turn video cameras sideways for the same reason they turn still cameras sideways: to get the person's full body in it, or at least to get a portrait-type view. unfortunately they don't realize whatever they play the video on doesn't ALSO turn sideways.

>> ^CheshireSmile:

>> ^residue:
I can't fathom why anyone ever thinks it's a good idea to turn their camera sideways

people turn video cameras sideways for the same reason they turn still cameras sideways: to get the person's full body in it, or at least to get a portrait-type view. unfortunately they don't realize whatever they play the video on doesn't ALSO turn sideways.


I always think those people are incredibly strong and just turn their TVs on its side when that part comes up.

>> ^residue:

I can't fathom why anyone ever thinks it's a good idea to turn their camera sideways


people turn video cameras sideways for the same reason they turn still cameras sideways: to get the person's full body in it, or at least to get a portrait-type view. unfortunately they don't realize whatever they play the video on doesn't ALSO turn sideways.

>> ^rellik:

Anyone notice the asian chick beside her? She wasn't wearing much too. woo!


lol, I honestly didn't see the other chick before I read this comment!

Thank goodness, I thought I was losing it
No wonder I could only understand 3 or 4 words.

>> ^ponceleon:

Actually it is not Italian. If you listen to the director's commentary on the DVD, it's basically jibbrish made up of a lot of languages and none. Similar to what the hunchback spoke in The Name of the Rose.
Edit: Source http://everything2.com/title/Leeloo%2527s+Language

Actually it is not Italian. If you listen to the director's commentary on the DVD, it's basically jibbrish made up of a lot of languages and none. Similar to what the hunchback spoke in The Name of the Rose.

Edit: Source http://everything2.com/title/Leeloo%2527s+Language

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It's Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat!