- The film is the fourth collaboration between Luc Besson and Patrick Leduc, the producer and chief operating officer of Gaomeng Pictures.
- Before the filming started, all the storyboards were completed.
- The film is the opening film of the 50th Cannes Film Festival.
- The language Lilu spoke in the film was invented by Luc Besson and perfected by Milla Jovovich. By the end of the filming, the two could talk in this language.
- The explosion scene in the Fhloston lobby in the film is the largest indoor explosion scene in movie history, and the resulting fire almost made the scene out of control.
- When Cobain Dallas woke up, the date on the bedroom wall displayed March 18, 2263. March 18 was Luc Besson’s birthday.
- Dallas and Zog, the representatives of both good and evil in the film, have never met and never contacted.
- The film cost 90 million US dollars and was the highest investment in Gaomeng Pictures at the time.
- The special effects of the film cost 80 million U.S. dollars, becoming the highest record of investment in special effects at that time.
- The song Diva sings in the film is derived from the opera "Lucia of Latin America".
- Zog's ZF-1 weapon system is derived from the AKSU-74 compact assault rifle.
- At the beginning of the filming, the producer decided to dye Milla Jovovich’s brown hair orange. In order to maintain the bright color, Jovovich’s hair had to be dyed repeatedly, and the hair quality was seriously damaged. Later, he had to change it. Wearing a wig to shoot.
The Fifth Element behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Jimmie 2022-03-23 09:01:03
It's fun and good-looking, an excellent commercial comedy, and it is quite satisfying that expectations are not higher than that. It is not intended to convey the philosophies often found in science fiction blockbusters. Pure soft science fiction with creative humor elements creates a strong sense of future. The plot is quite smooth and interesting. The Diva opera is really amazing. In fact, the story is more fanciful. The five-element magic horse is like an ancient Chinese novel, which feels very magical but beautiful.
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Claud 2022-03-24 09:01:03
Quotations: Time is not important, only life is important.
The Fifth Element quotes
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[repeated line]
Korben Dallas: Finger's gonna kill me.
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Zorg: Where are the stones?
Priest Vito Cornelius: I don't know. And even if I did know, I wouldn't tell someone like you.
Zorg: Why? What's wrong with me?
Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. And you seem to want to destroy it.
Zorg: Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.
[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]
Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed
[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Zorg: Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.