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The Fifth Element
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
1997 · Directed by Luc Besson · 126 min · Science Fiction · Action · Adventure · Screenplay in the scene database · 29 frames
Tagline
There is no future without it.
Plot
In 1914, aliens known as Mondoshawans meet their contact on Earth, a priest of a secret order, at an ancient Egyptian temple. They take the only weapon capable of defeating a great evil that appears every 5,000 years, promising to protect it and return it before the great evil's re-emergence. The weapon consists of the four classical elements, as four engraved stones, plus a sarcophagus containing a "fifth element".
In the 23rd century, the great evil appears in deep space as a giant living fireball. It destroys an armed Earth spaceship as it heads to Earth. The Mondoshawans' human contact on Earth, priest Vito Cornelius, informs the president of the Federated Territories of the great evil's history and the weapon that can stop it.
On their way to Earth, a Mondoshawan spacecraft carrying the weapon is ambushed and destroyed by a crew of Mangalores, alien mercenaries hired by Earth industrialist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, who is working for the great evil. A severed hand in metal armour from the wreckage of the spacecraft is brought to New York City. From this, the government uses biotechnology to recreate the original occupant of the sarcophagus, a humanoid woman named Leeloo, who remembers her previous life. Alarmed by the unfamiliar surroundings and high security, she escapes and jumps off a ledge, crashing into the flying taxicab of Korben Dallas, a former major in Earth's special forces.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Robert Mark Kamen, Luc Besson
- Cinematography: Thierry Arbogast, Nick Tebbet
- Edited by: Sylvie Landra
- Music: Éric Serra
- Production design: Dan Weil
- Produced by: Patrice Ledoux
Cast
- Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas
- Milla Jovovich as Leeloo
- Gary Oldman as Zorg
- Ian Holm as Cornelius
- Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod
- Luke Perry as Billy
- Brion James as General Munro
- Tommy Lister Jr. as President Lindberg
- Lee Evans as Fog
- Charlie Creed-Miles as David
Production
- Country: France
- Language: English, Swedish, German
- Studios: Gaumont
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Box office: $263,920,180
- Themes: new york city, flying car, taxi, egypt, race against time, saving the world, cyborg, dystopia, anti hero, stowaway
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