The Fifth Element

Spanish Title: El quinto elemento.
Location: France, 1997
Director: Luc Besson
Script: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Producers: Patrice Ledoux. Iain Smith
Photos: Thierry Arbogast
Music: Eric Serra
Duration: 127 mins.
Intérprets: Bruce Willis (Korben Dallas), Gary Oldman (Zorg), Ian Holm (Cornelius), Milla Jovovich (Leeloo) Chris Tucker (Ruby Rhod)

SUBJECT

    The fifth element (in addition to the water, the fire, the air and the Earth), it can badly be or or, mainly if these are in conflict. For Light Besson in the fifth element (1997) the good wins, safeguard by a white police, inadapted and put taxi driver.

    Manhattan, March 18 of 2259, the Earth is threatened by badly, appeared in a planet in permanent state of excrescence and growth, like an interplanetary cancer that will swallow to the Earth. Only Cornelius (Ian Holm), priest of the cult to the Mondoshawan, it knows that it is the end unless they give with the key to get rid.

    The Mondoshawan (designed like strangers and amiable giant cockroaches, or Ninjas Turtles neo-barrocas and flemáticas?) they do not manage to arrive at the Earth and they are destroyed. But the biotechnological scientific wonder manages to rescue the Moondoshawn essence, feminine beauty, candor and human kindness. One is Leeloo, it is Practicamente a Perfect Being "Supreme being", the supreme being, its genetica composition is perfect and of Infinite information, like "a designed" being.

   In as much, the erratic ex--police and ex--combatant, Korben Dallas (It brushes Willis), production design circulates the Mahattan of the future (Give Weil, special effects, Mark Stetson), a city that, as it is obvious, it sends to the classic ones of Metropolis and Blade Runner. Although president Lindberg, of E.Or it is a black, Tiny Lister Jr, the power still can, and like always, to decide by the individuals, and Korben Dallas is sent to rescue the Moondoshawan treasure, stones that would prevent the triumph of badly, nothing but and nothing less, that the 4 Elements, Water, Wind, Fire and Earth.

    To the secular vasallaje the religious vasallaje is united. It is Leeloo, the goddess, who also wants stones and authorizes to Korben to rescue them in a
tourist station (a transespacial yacht that is a wonder of neobaroque styles, cientificcional frivolity and jet-Seth century XXIII). The bad ones of the film are headed by Zorg (Gary Oldman), and they form a strong army, precarious, perhaps neocolonized. They are the Mangalores, humanized designs of dogsrhinos, those that pretendian to obtain the Moondoshawan treasure with aim to give it MR. Shadow, rencarnacion of BADLY living. 
The fifth element is fragile in its dramatic proposal. A costory hardly of the War of the galaxies. Its force comes from the ability of Light Besson to amalgamate thematic cultural diverse. 
    In this film the aesthetic one is, to propose something, neobarroca, visible in the production design, visually the impressive Manhattan of the future, the peculiar designs of fashions (in charge of Jen-Paul Gaultier), the mixture of musics, including hip hop and the music of Bristol. In addition, after the dominant North American of the cinematographic style it is let guess to an ironic touch of the Besson French on the consumista
life of future century XXIII and one fixation in the life style (as much as Ridley Scott in Blade Runner or Terry Gilliam in Brazil). 
   This "superficial depth" that implies the daily life of the future puts off center a little possibilities WASP (the traditional North
American values) of recomposing the world. Post of Besson, in short, it is very the Nineties. 
    The white heroes of history (Slavic, that is to say, European and North American) they form something as well as the end of iceberg of the human races, end of iceberg that also implies imperial political hegemony. Yes. Neocolonial history never finishes.

  The wrapper dramatic-North American of the fifth element is very heavy, black remembers bad films the Seventies like The hole or certain
"transespaciales slippings" of Michael Jackson. 
    Substitute does not gain much Gary Oldman in a paper either very. Meanwhile Chirs Tucker, that it interprets to the diskjockey Ruby Rhod, it gives a very remarkable dionisíaca interpretation of the pop ambiguedad. Fifth... one is saved by visibility and effectiveness in its designs. For example, in the sequence of the opera singer that opens to the pop dramatic quality to old high culture

   Generally, the science-fiction is persecuted by the infantilism (Lucas), or the superficially important philosophies (Ridley Scott). Not very often there is seso (Kubrick) or humanismo modern (Takovski, Godard, Gilliam, again Kubrick). In all the cases the ability of the producer to design a possible
world is important. Besson is persecuted in his fifth element by the infantilism and the superficial philosophy (the good, badly, the empire), but it is placed like an excellent "culturológico" fabulador of the future, what it already is enough.

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