Agreed, love the flick-Seriously can't stand that frikkin' motif that Leone used for that harmonica Bronson carried around with him to constantly play that tired riff....Ugh!

Best scene, opening scene. Buildup to, and throw-down at the train station.

"Looks like we didn't come with enough horses."

(shakes head) "You brought two too many."

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the good the bad and the ugly-the leone style has been added as a related post - related requested by enoch.

The name of the tortoise helping out? Yeah that's Leon, he's a good guy, if a little simple, just don't ask him about his mother.

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...

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Back in 1993, I remember this guy with a bad leg, living in a slum in Freetown (Sierra Leone's capital), in a tiny room plastered with Bollywood and Hong Kong B-movie posters, and whose door was made of pieces of cardboard glued together. He didn't have much.
He was called "Prof" Abubakar and made a living creating and selling steel wire sculptures from stuff he was scavenging off the streets. You're probably thinking of African steel wire toys, but his were crazy, there was nothing like it. They were incredibly complex, animated, spring-loaded, or with some sparkling devices.

Some years later, someone I knew came across him. He was exposing at the Pompidou centre in Paris.

Two decades later, it's like Kelvin Doe is his Internet-era spiritual son. I hope he does as well.

[EDIT]
Correct name: Abu Bakarr Mansaray (bio | one of his contraptions). He now lives in the Netherlands.

Leon didn't do it!

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*promote the ajackalit

Thank you my friend

i got ya once sifty recharges me>> ^chingalera:

Oh well, I tried!


i got ya once sifty recharges me

See what you think of this one. Mariama is a Sierra Leone born German musician and songwriter (she moved as a baby) and here she's playing acoustic guitar in Paris for the French website Soul Kitchen.

http://videosift.com/video/Mariama-Underground-SK-Session

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Played the shit out of this song back then, *promote


who luvs the enoch?
A_C luvs the enoch!
thanks kiddo,very awesome of ya =)

Very much so, you've always kicked ass

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Played the shit out of this song back then, *promote


who luvs the enoch?
A_C luvs the enoch!
thanks kiddo,very awesome of ya =)