The Fifth Element

  • 2114 evil returns (1914+300 years)
  • Major Korben Dallas- taxi driver and world saver
  • Zorg- corporate evil greed 
  • Flying cars, immense use of vertical space within the city 
    • Smog barrier, people and society have moved above the smog
  • Priest Cornelius- knowledge passed down, awaiting the divine being
  • Divine Being speaks in the divine language
  • Leeloo- the divine being
  • Microwave makes food entire meal from pellets/ powder
  • Aknot- leader of the Mangalores 
  • Zorg produces weapons to illegally trade to Mangalores in exchange for the element stones
  • Priest and Zorg represent Life and Death
    • Zorg tries to offer his belief that life comes from chaos and therefore they are one in the same
  • The Guardians gave the stones to Diva Plavalaguna (did not fully trust the human race)
  • Major Dallas is recruited to recover the element stones in a "Discrete Operation"
  • Robot bar tender in airport/ spaceport
  • Fholston Paradise- cruise ship/ space craft, vacation resort
  • Ruby Rhod
    • Flamboient and "Extra"
    • Very much a self  obsessed celebrity
  • Mr. Shadow- Evil ruler who wants Zorg to procure the element stones
  • Everyone on all sides of evil, good, greed are all trying to get the stones
  • Dallas is the one to actually get the stones
  • Save LeeLoo and escape the cruise ship using Zorgs ship
  • Mangalores destroy cruise ship and zorg
  • 1 hour 57 minutes until Evil destroys everything
  • Arrive in Egypt
  • Wind- wind blows- Yellow
  • Fire- fire burns- Red
  • Water-               - Blue
  • Earth-               - Green
  • Love is worth saving, Love is the fifth element
  • evil is stopped 62 miles above Earth (Kármán Line)
    • Kámán Line is a boundary between Earths atmosphere and outer space

Fashion of the film
  • Metal
  • Sharp edges
  • Shiny
  • Beige/tan military uniforms
  • Tuxedoes
  • Dresses
  • Flight attendants have highly sexualized clothing

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