10/29/2022 0 Comments Fifth element![]() ![]() Yes its hardly challenging - I found myself reading it in a day from cover to cover but still I loved every page of it. The book to me captures the visual spectacle that Luc Besson envisaged (or is it So I am biased - I will say it now I love the film and to be honest the novel really cannot do much wrong either. Yes there are minor variations which I think were made more from a practical cinematography perspective than for any other reason and to be honest did not detract from the story at all. So I am biased - I will say it now I love the film and to be honest the novel really cannot do much wrong either. The Fifth Element is written directed by Luc Besson, the visually innovative director of La Femme Nikita and The Professional.more The film stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich. ![]() The Fifth Element, a timeless story about love and survival, heroes and villains, good and evil, set in a strangely familiar yet intoxicatingly different 23rd Century. This "thing", this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and all light.Įvery five thousand years, the universe needs a hero, and in New York City of the 23rd Century, a good hero is hard to find. In another exists an element made not of earth, air, fire or water, but of an anti-energy, anti-life. In one dimension lies the universe and all of its multitude of varied life forms. This "thing", this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and al Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. And Luc and Jean Paul talked about this bandage idea, and Jean Paul was like, ‘Genius! I love it.’”ĭirector: Alexandra Gavillet Director of Photography: Tamara Santos Editor: Daniel Poler Producer: Naomi Nishi Associate Director, Creative Development: Billie JD Porter Director, Creative Development, Vogue: Anna Page Nadin Camera Operator: Marco Macchiori First A.C.: Marijo Badillo Gaffer: Samantha Boesch Audio: Gloria Marie CCO: Maureen Sherwood Associate Producer: Courtney Walden Production Assistant: Cole Ewing Hair: Danilo Makeup: Holly Silius Floral design by Brittany Asch of BRRCH Filmed on location at Zevarra Locations|Lofts Milla Jovovich photographs by Chris Brenner Costume-design sketches courtesy of Jean Paul Gaultier Senior Director, Production Management: Tina Magnuson Production Manager: Emma Roberts Production Manager: Kit Fogarty Associate Talent Manager: Phoebe Feinberg Postproduction Coordinator: Andrea Far Postproduction Supervisor: Marco Glinbizzi Director of Content, Vogue: Rahel Gebreyes V.P.Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions. When people get wounded, like, they just put bandages to cover the necessary bits. “So you have to have as little as possible, but for the sake of modesty, you have to cover up…. “Being in a hospital, they put a robe on you that is open in the back so they can reach in and put injections and tubes,” says Jovovich. ![]() The bandage idea was inspired by hospital gowns and wound care. First, she’s naked in a DNA-slicing machine, then she’s wearing the iconic bodysuit. #Fifth element how to“I knew that this character was beyond unique and she was something that had never been seen before.”Īs for the costumes, The Fifth Element team had to think of how to clothe Jovovich during her birth scene. This was really a dream come true,” says Jovovich. However, when she ran into the director one hazy morning at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, he asked her to film a screen test, and she got the role. Nothing came of her first casting with Besson. In a new video with Vogue, Jovovich recalls how she transformed into Leeloo. The most famous piece by far is a barely there white bandage bodysuit, which has inspired Halloween costumes for decades. The flame-tressed humanoid is tasked with saving the planet and has quite the wardrobe-all designed by Jean Paul Gaultier-to go along with it. In 1997, the science-fiction film The Fifth Element by Luc Besson was released-and the character Leeloo, played by 19-year-old Milla Jovovich, was born. ![]()
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