Get ready to hop in a cab, Fifth Element fans!
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Most people don't live in tiny Fifth Element style apartments.
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Noodle bars in Blade Runner (left) and The Fifth Element (right).
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We don't have to explain what The Fifth Element is, right?
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In America, The Fifth Element is probably Besson's most famous work.
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In The Fifth Element, men literally build Leeloo from a tissue sample.
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Could you say the kitchen is the secret fifth element of hip-hop?
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His film roles extended to Superman III, The Fifth Element and Tomorrow Never Dies.
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Why don't you do a film of it, instead of this stupid Fifth Element?
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Sci-fi cult classic "The Fifth Element" is also leaving Netflix on August 1.
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The actor's film credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 8 Seconds and The Fifth Element.
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Maybe the bizarre mechanics will inspire innovation, like that sex pod from The Fifth Element.
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When a movie this carefully considered suddenly leaps into Fifth Element territory, the nosedive comes hard.
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But Moebius said yes, and so I have Mézières and Moebius working on The Fifth Element.
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Even better, despite its echoes of The Fifth Element, it is not part of a franchise.
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There is also a model of a flying taxi used in The Fifth Element from 1997.
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After watching a few scenes of The Fifth Element, we go to bed around 2150:45.81.
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But does Reuter really see the future depicted in The Fifth Element as a net positive?
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The seven-minute presentation comprised five scenes, and gave panelgoers their first look at Besson's adaptation of the trippy '70s French comic book—which turns out to contain a heavy dose of The Fifth Element-style humor to help leaven its hefty Fifth Element-doubling budget.
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Marketing will likely center around Besson's previous successes—action sci-fi like Lucy and The Fifth Element.
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Luc Besson — the director behind The Fifth Element — returns to sci-fi epics this summer with Valerian.
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And he looks exactly like the bad guy in the Fifth Element — I will not hear otherwise.
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THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) Stream on Amazon or Hulu; Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes or YouTube.
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From The Fifth Element director Luc Besson comes a new space adventure full of dazzling visuals (including Rihanna).
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The Fifth Element is completely bonkers, which makes sense given that Besson began developing it as a teenager.
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He enters a bedroom, revealing a woman who looks a lot like Leeloo from The Fifth Element. Surprise!
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Hollywood was filled with movies like Blade Runner, Back to the Future, Star Wars and The Fifth Element.
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I'd thought I'd find a folding display in Avatar, Starship Troopers, The Fifth Element, Black Panther, or Ender's Game.
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Bonus: You get to look like Leeloo from The Fifth Element, but without the damaging Born Sexy Yesterday trope!
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Together, they'll be facing the sinister-looking villainess Nimue the Blood Queen, played by Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element).
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Gigi Hadid looked straight outta the sequel to 'Fifth Element' walking in Jeremy Scott's sci-fi-inspired show Thursday.
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It's like his 1997 film The Fifth Element, but cubed and set in an outer space version of Zootopia.
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Moon does play favorites with two shades, however: "The Fifth Element vibes wins every time — neon yellows and oranges rule."
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Besson has said he will never make a Fifth Element sequel, and there's a lot to be grateful for there.
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In between decades of design work on films like Alien and The Fifth Element, Moebius continued illustrating and writing comics.
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Action films were also hugely successful—the top ten included Air Force One, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The Fifth Element.
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"This is a dangerous country," a character in Jorgen Brekke's chilly thriller THE FIFTH ELEMENT (Minotaur, $26.99) says of Norway.
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Except Besson was in a relationship with Anne Parillaud, the star of Nikita, and with Milla Jovovich of The Fifth Element.
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Besson shot The Fifth Element in England after the studio he was working with couldn't cut a financing deal in France.
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Anticipation seemed to be high, especially for those with a special fondness for Besson's 1997 sci-fi adventure The Fifth Element.
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These new shows, on the other hand, include programs like Playground, created by Fifth Element and The Professional director Luc Besson.
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They reveal how we might see New York City in a future of flying cars and airways transformed Fifth Element-style.
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When The Fifth Element crops up on cable, as it seems to every six hours or so, you don't click past it.
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The actress dressed up as Leeloo, one of the titular Supreme Being characters from her dad's popular 1997 film, The Fifth Element.
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The studios will give Fifth Element early access to scripts, and the publisher will use its experience to adapt games for Asian markets.
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But the execution of that idea is where things get fun, with the final product looking like something out of The Fifth Element.
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It features in a clip from Luc Besson's beloved sci-fi film of 1997, "The Fifth Element"; the exhibit's denouement is the Pop.
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Its dank aesthetic coursed through movies and shows like The Matrix, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, The Fifth Element, and the original Ghost in the Shell.
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This, though, is a whole other thing, more like the Jean Paul Gaultier costumes in The Fifth Element, Besson's daft 280 sci-fi opera.
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With its genderqueer, panethnic cast and comedy beats working to some exotic polyrhythm, The Fifth Element feels like a beach party on Planet Ibiza.
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Where The Fifth Element had just under 200 effects elements—that flying-car chase through Manhattan, the luxury-cruise starship—Valerian has about 2,500.
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This is how I find myself in Vauxhall, London, staring at a hulking white space pod that looks like something from The Fifth Element.
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Imagine a mashup of Avatar and Jupiter Ascending, with the strange aliens of The Phantom Menace and the oddball everything of The Fifth Element.
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In February, French prosecutors also dropped their investigation into rape allegations against film director Luc Besson, the author of "Nikita" and "The Fifth Element".
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Where The Fifth Element featured an alien opera singer, or Tucker's over-the-top Ruby Rhod, Valerian introduces Rihanna as a shape-shifting exotic dancer.
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We got an exciting new trailer with a Fifth Element vibe at this year's E3, although we still don't know when the game might launch.
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The comic was published through 2010, and has been cited as an influence on stories including Besson's own Fifth Element and George Lucas' Star Wars.
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Whether it's self-lacing sneakers or Fifth Element-style cutout bandage bodysuits, the futuristic being in question always look simultaneously super cool and totally baffling.
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The ensuing argument makes no sense, and, of course, Gary Oldman in The Fifth Element impersonator Lee Garrett throws himself into the fray as well.
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Luc Besson, director of The Fifth Element and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is under investigation by French authorities for alleged rape.
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Besson has talked at length about his love for the series, especially its heroine Laureline, and it inspired some of his 1990s hit The Fifth Element.
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Hailey, on the other hand, went for a look that was equal parts Aaliyah and Leeloo from Fifth Element on their way to a Drake concert.
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Like, if you put The Sims in a blender with the Kardashians and put them into the set of Fifth Element, you might get Stacie's work.
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Aside from a teaser and a few photos, no one has seen what The Fifth Element and Lucy director has been at work on as of late.
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We spied Doctor Strange, Rey, Wonder Woman, Negan, and characters from classics such as The Fifth Element, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Xena: The Warrior Princes.
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Valerian is thus something of a spiritual sibling to The Fifth Element, although it contains no material from the same world besides a bunch of blue goo.
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Luc Besson is firmly back in The Fifth Element territory with this one, both in subject matter and tone — weird, kinetic, colorful and ... did we say weird?
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Looking a little like the world-saving stones from sci-fi classic The Fifth Element, a new device is expected to have a big impact on renewable energy.
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The company's slick concept designs show that one service structure, internally known as the "fifth element," that could power ten Poshtel units with electricity, water, sewage and wifi.
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Some other ideas include a Starfleet communicator from Star Trek, a Multipass from The Fifth Element (there's also a version that you can slip your actual ID into).
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"When I did 'The Fifth Element,' I realized I was never going to be the girl in the movie that goes 'watch out' or 'help me,'" she said.
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The movie, directed by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) looks breathtaking, and it says a lot when a Rihanna cameo isn't the most exciting part of the trailer.
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Rick Deckard in Blade Runner and Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element grab their quick meals of choice at noodle bars, and the characters in Firefly curse in Mandarin.
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The French filmmaker behind movies like The Professional and The Fifth Element is explaining the creative process behind his new film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
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Parts of Valerian feel a lot like Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element: it shares both specific setpieces, like a vast vertical highway, and a more general colorful griminess.
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The Fifth Element produced one of science fiction's most iconic protagonists, and even failed Besson characters — like Morgan Freeman's pseudoscience-spouting professor in Lucy — tend to be memorably bad.
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Perry was well known for his TV career that spanned almost four decades, but he also starred in 36 movies, including "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "The Fifth Element."
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Right now, to me, that feels like naïve wishful thinking, a kind of "Love is the fifth element!" motto-message that doesn't have much to do with current reality.
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There are skins of Corben and Lilu Dallas [from The Fifth Element], as well as Ripley [from Alien], R2-D2 and a bunch of others which we won't spoil.
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A bit of a failure upon its opening in 1997, The Fifth Element—in all its bleep-bloop orange-haired space-taxi glory—has since burrowed into our hearts.
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Flying cars are a pretty standard trope for movies and TV shows set in the future (see: "The Jetsons" and "The Fifth Element"), and "Blade Runner" is no different.
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The director and producer Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element," the "Taken" series) took to Facebook to urge people to vote against the far-right National Front, with its isolationism.
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The Fifth Element actor took video of the entire match, silently supporting Jack as the youngster was on the receiving end of some painful looking slams on the wrestling ring.
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From what we're reading, writer/director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element and Lucy) stuffed Valerian with visual delights, but left little in the way of actual human (or alien) interest.
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What followed was a solid hour of world-class entertainment that kicked off with a Viennese opera star singing techno-style like she was the Diva from The Fifth Element .
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Volocopter CEO Florian Reuter says he takes inspiration from The Fifth Element, Luc Besson's 1997 sci-fi / fantasy film that featured chaotic scenes of flying cars veering and nose-diving.
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After working with Madonna and Luc Besson for his film The Fifth Element, that was something fun to do... When I started doing this, I was a punk — an enfant terrible.
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If you're a fan of 1997's The Fifth Element, you've probably fantasized about what it would be like to walk in the shoes of your favorite supreme being, Leeloo Dallas.
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A post-Casablanca Ingrid Bergman assumed the mantle in Victor Fleming's version and, fresh from The Fifth Element, Milla Jovovich assumed it in Luc Besson's The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc.
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After plotting out the six-episode series, he pitched his ideas for the World War II-based show to French director Luc Besson, best known for "The Fifth Element," and Besson's business partner.
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It certainly looks as though this is a movie that Fifth Element fans will really love, and the visuals recall other spectacular-looking films like James Cameron's Avatar and The Wachowskis siblings' Jupiter Ascending.
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The phrase "under-the-radar question mark" was designed to talk about this space opera, which is the most expensive film in European history and the latest from Fifth Element and Lucy director Luc Besson.
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Based on a series of French graphic novels Valérian and Laureline, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is the latest film from Luc Besson, who's best known for The Fifth Element and Lucy.
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It's the kind of beautiful space garbage—a pulpy, fun, colorful and borderline nonsensical romp through impossible worlds—that I fell so hard for in Jupiter Ascending and yes, Valerian's own predecessor, The Fifth Element.
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Peter Debruge, Variety: Even Besson, who convinced the world that Milla Jovovich could act (in "The Fifth Element"), can't salvage Rihanna's awkward line readings — unless that's the effect this sophisticated, Shakespeare-trained glampod is going for.
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We saw cosplayers dressed as characters from Stargate SG-1, Farscape, The Fifth Element, and quite a few more — and that's all before you even get to the variety of characters pulled directly from comic books.
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It's been almost 20 years since the release of The Fifth Element, writer-director Luc Besson's delightfully garish, unapologetically maximalist space-jam—and the film that proved that, in space, everyone can hear Chris Tucker scream.
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Every scene in Valerian's trailers looks outlandish, stunning, or incredibly campy, adding to the sense that Besson has fully returned to the wacked-out audacity that marked his 1990s films The Professional and The Fifth Element.
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Earlier this month, the group said that CEO Marc Schmuger would leave and that founder Luc Besson, best known for directing movies such as "The Fifth Element" and "Le Grand Bleu", would assume interim CEO responsibilities.
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When I got the package, I immediately tried it on for my friends, and they said I looked like Leeloo from The Fifth Element (who is basically the hottest character in existence, so I was quite flattered).
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Release Date: February 10 Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) spent years trying to get this adaptation of the French comic series Valérian and Laureline off the ground, and this year it'll finally take off into outer space.
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Release Date: July 21 Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) spent years trying to get this adaptation of the French comic series Valérian and Laureline off the ground, and this year it'll finally take off into outer space.
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La Femme Nikita, The Professional, The Fifth Element, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, and Lucy all portray women not just as action heroes but as women transformed into action heroes—usually against their will.
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Wear geometric jewelry and unearthly, oversized and structured pieces — think David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth, or Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element — or go full on with intergalactic prints and planet-adorned pieces.
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This sounded like a pretty foolproof plan, but something was bound to go wrong, and that something ended up being Jadis and her terrible, horrible, no good, very bad group of Fifth Element cosplaying, Yoda-talking Scavengers.
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That's the best I can do to describe what it feels like watching the trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the first big sci-fi film from Luc Besson since The Fifth Element.
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Marilyn Van Syckel, New York TO THE EDITOR: Re "Few Follow Healthy Habits" (In Brief, March 29): I would like to suggest that a fifth element to living a heart-heathy lifestyle would include getting sufficient sleep.
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Image: LiliumSleek, personal vehicles that sail through cities on invisible highways are a staple of science fiction, from Star Wars to Blade Runner to The Fifth Element to Futurama to The Jetsons to....well, you get the idea.
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TikTok's last event of the day was a conversation with six of the app's biggest stars — who looked like something closer to characters from The Fifth Element than your typical clean-cut vlogger — on one of VidCon's largest stages.
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Mashable was invited to Wildfire Studios last Wednesday for a preview of the latest creation from Luc Besson, whose return to spacebound sci-fi couldn't come soon enough for fans of his next-level 1997 film The Fifth Element.
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Whenever they enter a room, heads turn—partly because they're dressed in what looks like a mix of Hood by Air and The Fifth Element with a Texan twist, like stereotypical cowboy boots paired with a skirt of orange construction netting.
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Like the teaser, the trailer portrays a film that looks very much like it's in the same vein as Besson's other big science fiction film, The Fifth Element, with tons of creatures, lush landscapes, and what looks like some incredible action sequences.
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Lots of them.) Born behind the lens of a true stoner legend (The Fifth Element, anyone?), Luc Besson's bloody and high-voltage sci-fi thriller is literally mind-expanding, as the titular character (Scarlett Johansson) tears through the world around her (and beyond).
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This vision of spaceflight—let's call it per luxuria ad astra—has yielded some of the most memorable fictional spacecraft in popular culture, from the campy starliner Fhloston Paradise in The Fifth Element to the mollycoddling generation ship Axiom from WALL-E.
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The ambient flows of Boards of Canada, William Baskinski, and Brian Eno are also cited as influences, along with the album taking cues and quotes from 80s and 90s movies and TV shows like The Guyver, Short Circuit, Ghostbusters, The Fifth Element, and Power Rangers.
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RiRi, always on the right, and LuLa, always on the left, wear gray jumpsuits wrapped with black tape that looks sort of like bondage and sort of like the costume Milla Jovovich wears when her character in the Fifth Element is generated in a lab.
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As Elsa chases the ethereal voice into an ice cave, desperate to connect at last with the supposed fifth element bridging the human world to the mystical, we find her mother's face reflected across the walls, singing the private call Elsa has been hearing.
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It's also a breath of fresh air after 2015's Ant-Man, an enjoyable but messy movie that spent too much time on poorly motivated action sequences, and hinged its big climax on the idea that love is the fifth element that fixes any scientific problem.
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He designed the costumes for many films and theater shows such as the movie "The Fifth Element" and has worked with performers from Beyoncé to Nicole Kidman, who was one of the first to buy a piece from his couture line after it opened in 1996.
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The latest film from Luc Besson—the French mastermind who, 20 years ago, helmed the iconic action classic The Fifth Element—is a trippy blast of a movie, drawing from the long-running French comic strip series Valérian and Laureline to create its own immersive, thrillingly textured world.
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Or rather safety-signal orange on the Colovos runway in the form of a terrific quilted parachute parka, and Day-Glo orange in Jeremy Scott's mash-up of "The Fifth Element"-meets-"The Flintstones"-by-way-of-Popples-and-bondage, where the big takeaway was: thigh-high moon boots!
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On Saturday, the 19-year-old Modern Family star attended Matthew Morrison's 7th Annual Halloween Party at Poppy nightclub in West Hollywood with her 30-year-old boyfriend Levi Meaden, and the couple got into the holiday spirit with coordinating costumes from the 1997 sci-fi film The Fifth Element.
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Among science fiction films, Luc Besson's 1997 epic The Fifth Element enjoys special status as a classic that's unique among others in the category, with an indulgent, artistic flair and beautiful set pieces that differ dramatically from the more drab and worn environs of movies like Star Wars and Blade Runner.
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The director not only used the influence of Valérian and Laureline to craft the world of The Fifth Element (Mézieres even did the early concept art), he's now shooting a feature film adaptation of the series starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne that will reportedly be the most expensive French film ever made.
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First published in 1967, Valérian and Laureline is the work of writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières (Mézières had a design role in The Fifth Element), who built out a weird world where two travelers — the titular Valerian and Laureline — travel through time and space to find an intergalactic criminal.
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The summer included one critical and commercial mega hit ( Men in Black); a handful of good-ol'-fashioned movie-star vehicles (Air Force One, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Fifth Element); a couple of nutso Nicolas Cage action movies (Con Air, Face/Off); and one indifferently reviewed but highly profitable sequel ( The Lost World: Jurassic Park).
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But the most gonzo alien flick of them all was Luc Besson's The Fifth Element, a bright, manic, space jam featuring Bruce Willis as a New York City cab driver in the year 21997 who finds himself in the middle of an intergalactic adventure when fiery-haired alien Milla Jovovich literally falls into the back of his flying cab.
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If any of this sounds ridiculous, you probably haven't seen Besson's other movies, like his sci-fi thriller Lucy, a 90-minute fear-mongering propaganda film about The Cloud, or his cult classic The Fifth Element, in which Milla Jovovich plays The Supreme Being, an all-powerful force who, for some reason, always needs to be saved by human men.
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The star-studded cast includes Roberts; Milla Jovovich, known for her roles in Resident Evil and The Fifth Element; González, who you may know from Baby Driver; Danielle Macdonald, who starred in Sundance favorite Patti Cake$; New York rapper Awkwafina, who is also in the forthcoming film adaptation of Crazy Rich Asians; as well as Jeremy Irvine, who starred in War Horse.
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And instead of watching the kinda-fun-but-mainly-dumb sequel Escape From L.A., follow it up with another cult classic about an ex-Marine reluctantly chosen to save the world… The Fifth Element (1997) When 1997 finally did roll around, things were by no means utopian, but with the dot com bubble just beginning and a cloned sheep named Dolly dominating headlines, the world wasn't exactly the police state Carpenter had envisioned (again, yet).
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She ditched her usual sea of blue mermaid tresses in favor of a peachy orange color some of her fans have already lovingly dubbed "mac and cheese": Followed by a quick day 2 glam makeover, going overnight from Fifth Element orange to the follicular embodiment of the rainbow emoji: The teen also took the opportunity to highlight her latest metallic lip colors, showing off the soft pink and gold Heir on Snapchat and advising her fans to always use a lipliner: While her festival looks were obviously all about the locks and the new lip kits, Kylie also found the time to model a swimsuit or two, predominately the kind that cannot actually get wet without getting destroyed.
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