The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element: Out With the New, In With the Old The Fifth Element (1997) is a science-fiction genre film with a huge sense of humor. Director Luc Besson has already established a career full of films similar to it, each with a mix of action, comedy, and romance (ie: Taxi, Nikita, Leon, etc.). The Fifth Element is not an exception, and the overarching scheme is the same: beautiful and perhaps exotic girl in trouble, a common, maybe even down-in-the-dumps lonely-guy ready to fight in order to

Director Luc Besson’s 1997 film “The Fifth Element” is an incredibly imaginative futuristic film depicting the cycle of good and evil and the human factor involved with the infinite battle. Besson carefully constructs this film to provide a human feeling to the film, providing emotional gateways and glimpses of a character’s intentions or purpose using frequent symbolism. In addition to symbolism the use of vibrant color and lighting, or the lack of, is carefully considered within each shot which

On the surface, Luc Bensson's creation of The Fifth Element (1997) can be presumed to be just another Sci-fi movie on the market. Yet, with the creative genius of Jean Paul Gaultier being the creator of each costume on set the movie was deemed to be a masterful success visually as well as innovatively. Gaultier is known for being 'the enfant terrible of fashion, and his amazingly imaginative works' (Swift, 2014) and he didn't disappoint this time round, Gaultier challenged the stereotype of gender

In Andrew O. Thompson’s ‘Astral Grandeur’, ASC discusses the work and mentality of French director Luc Besson and his work on the The Fifth Element (1997). The article, within its’ four pages, interviews both Besson and his director of cinematography, Thierry Arbogast, on the collaboration in the look for each frame and the desired look that Besson wanted for the 90s hit. Thompson learns that unlike his other films within the last two decades before it, Besson desired a ‘comic-book’ atmosphere for

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people’s under-use rather than overuse of them, even on the most beautiful days. The film focuses on discovering the different elements that, altogether, create successful open spaces in urban areas. This was done through observing what people did and where they sat in those places, and identifying what attracts people to certain open spaces more than others. The first element is ‘sit-able space’. People tend to sit where there are places to sit. More importantly, sit-able spaces need to be comfortable

The Fifth Element is Leeloo, a supreme being that is needed to save the world. Leeloo not only looks perfect but is intelligent and can fight a bunch of people off without a sweat. Her capabilities are not nearly as noticed as her looks are. Leeloo is stared at and is called perfect fifty percent of the movie, and not because she kicks ass. Korben decides to help Leeloo and is looked upon as the hero of the movie even though Leeloo is the one who holds the power to save the world. Leeloo is only

Mise-en-scene, Cinematography and Sound in the Film Leon (Luc Besson) 1994 In the opening sequence of Leon, Besson uses a travelling aerial shot of a lake followed by a huge park, which is finally dominated by huge, cosmopolitan skyscrapers. The camera rests here to show the contrast in jungle and urban life. We then enter the urban city, where several travelling shots going through the streets are used giving an apparent sense of setting and location. The added use of non-diagetic

The Fifth Element illustrates an advanced society that is characterized by sociocultural evolution, long-term social trends resulting from the interaction of continuity, innovation, and selection (Schaefer, 2013). The film is reflective of the society’s cultural advancements in technology, industry and media. Known for being a blockbuster action sci-fi, The Fifth Element contains several sociological concepts which include secularization, agents of socialization, conferral of status, and Marx’s “Power

After watching Wall-e Or the Fifth Element some people probably wondered, “are we ever going to end up like this?” In the movie Wall-e, planet Earth was not in its best form because of all the pollution from the gas. So the humans decided to build a rocket ship out to space with the whole world on it and the robots 6jmb were taking care of the humans. They were doing everything for the humans from feeding them, playing games for the humans, anything you can think of, the robots were doing it. Businesses