The fifth element / Columbia Pictures presents a Gaumont production ; a film by Luc Besson ; story by Luc Besson ; screenplay by Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen ; produced by Patrice Ledoux ; directed by Luc Besson.
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FilmPublisher number: 82409 | Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0800195175
- 9780800195175
- 5th element
- Music, Eric Serra ; costumes, Jean-Paul Gaultier ; special visual effects supervisor, Mark Stetson ; editor, Sylvie Landra ; director of photography, Thierry Arbogast.
- Nominee, Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing (Mark A. Mangini), 1998 Academy Awards ; Winner, Best Special Effects, 1998 BAFTA Awards ; Winner, Best Cinematography (Thierry Arbogast), Best Director (Luc Besson), Best Production Design (Dan Weil), 1998 César Awards.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Good and evil battle for the future of 23rd century Earth in this visually striking big-budget science fiction epic. In the movie's prologue, which is set in 1914, scientists gather in Egypt at the site of an event that transpired centuries earlier. Aliens, it seemed, arrived to collect four stones representing the four basic elements (earth, air, fire and water) - warning their human contacts that the objects were no longer safe on Earth. A few hundred years later (in the 23rd century), a huge ball of molten lava and flame is hurtling toward Earth, and scientist-holy man Victor Cornelius (Ian Holm) declares that in order to prevent it from destroying the planet, the same four elemental stones must be combined with the fifth element, as embodied by a visitor from another world named Leeloo (Milla Jovovich). However, if the force of evil presents itself to the stones instead, the Earth will be destroyed, and an evil being named Zorg (Gary Oldman) will trigger the disaster. Despite her remarkable powers, Leeloo needs help with her mission, and she chooses her accomplice, military leader-turned-cab driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), when she literally falls through the roof of his taxi. Writer and director Luc Besson began writing the script for The Fifth Element when he was only 16 years old, though he was 38 before he was able to bring it to the screen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 or Dolby Surround (English).
English or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Milla Jovovich, Luke Perry.
Music, Eric Serra ; costumes, Jean-Paul Gaultier ; special visual effects supervisor, Mark Stetson ; editor, Sylvie Landra ; director of photography, Thierry Arbogast.
250 years in the future--and what a bright, noisy and vigorously colorful future it is--a beleaguered taxi hack, more accustomed to combating mechanical failures and bothersome creditors, finds himself pitted against Evil with a capital "E." It seems dubious he's up to the challenge.
Nominee, Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing (Mark A. Mangini), 1998 Academy Awards ; Winner, Best Special Effects, 1998 BAFTA Awards ; Winner, Best Cinematography (Thierry Arbogast), Best Director (Luc Besson), Best Production Design (Dan Weil), 1998 César Awards.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
MPAA rating: PG-13.