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The Fifth Element
by J. E. De Matteo

HUGE

Two and a half hours ago I walked up to my movie shelf- everyone was in bed…

The kids fast asleep, my wife was reading, her high intensity reading light reflecting off the mirrored doors of our closet.  I’d been about ready to fall asleep, but now, as tired as I’d been, sleep had been pushed off by a blaze of light . . .

My eyes fixed on a movie, “Wow, I wish I’d never seen that one.  Tonight could be the first time.”  But it wouldn’t be the first time; it would be the 6^th or 7^th time.  

I really needed something that could hold my attention tonight.

            I convinced myself that I actually couldn’t remember everything about the movie.  Sure I could remember Bruce Willis “negotiation technique” well enough.  That did it.  I grabbed the movie, got some sunflower seeds and popped it in the machine.

Feet up, drink and food at hand, I hit the play button.

Of course Bruce Willis is the perfect Korben Dallas, Ian Holm, the perfect priest and Gary Oldman, well, no one else could make Zorg so believable.  Leeloo is wonderfully portrayed by Milla Javovich.  The old priest at the beginning and Prof. Pacoli and Billy, John Bennett, John Bluthal and Luke Perry are all fantastic.  The whole opening scene is great. This is another movie where the casting was flawless (Lucinda Syson).

Oh, I almost forgot, remember Uncle Benny from Lethal Weapon 4, “you plik?”  Kim Chan as Thia runs a great theme restaurant in New York City in 2214.

The Fifth Element is great fun and full of action and noise (thanks to Chris Tucker).  I enjoyed it so much tonight that I just had to take the time to tell you about it.

Trivia: IMdb

The actor playing the cop in the driver's seat waiting at McDonald's is McDonald, Mac.

The name of the Diva is Plavalaguna; in Serbian, Milla Jovovich's mother tongue, Plava Laguna means "Blue Lagoon". This is a reference to Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991), Jovovich's first film.

Ruby Rhod was not the original name for Chris Tucker's character, it was Loc Rhod. This name appears in the script and movie novelization.

The explosion in the Fhloston main hall was the largest indoor explosion ever filmed. The resulting fire almost got beyond control.

When the President tells Priest Vito Cornelius he has "twenty seconds" to state his point, Vito talks for exactly twenty seconds.