maybe they did earlier. We kicked their butts as implied in the movie, but actual war details are scarce.
I don’t think I understand. Maybe the shapechangers invaded before the mondoshawans took the weapon from Earth? And nobody noticed?
I was under the impression tht the weapon was taken before the world at large even knew aliens had been to Earth.
Dude, it was 1914, and they were probably worried a stray artillary shell would break their pyramid or something.
Given that it was done in the desert in 1914, no one would notice.
The only question I had from the movie was wondering whether the old Egyptologist professor from the opening sequence was killed or “forget-rayed” or just made to go for a short nap with those eye-beamy thingy’s.
smiling bandit, I’m with you there. What I didn’t understand was what Tars Tarkas wrote. I was trying to rephrase it so that I could figure out what he meant. As for the professor, Luke Perry says that he’s dead (“They Killed the professor! They’re monsters” “Billy, listen to me!”), so I guess he is.
We never see what the Mondoshawans actually look like. I assume they are not actually metal but are actually wearing very large and cumbersome suits of some kind.
If you’ll notice, the “survivor” they bring is the armored gauntlet from one of the suits. When they regenerate Ms. Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat, she is still wearing the glove (and little else).
The Mangalore’s were my favorite. They were like hapless, dopey Klingons.
Detop posted
I have another question : who is playing the voice of Bruce Willis’ mother in the movie ? Is it Sandra Bernhardt ? I checked on IMDb and I couldn’t see a listing.
I figured the voice to be from Jaon Rivers
Bubba
Jaon being Joan’s ugly sister
Great movie.
Hey a useless fact about New York in the Fifth Element, New york city is miles above the sea, cause of a lower sea level, if you look closer when they are taking off (they are going to a cruise ship) look at the city, you’ll see a statue of liberty miles up from the surface.
Well, no one would notice if they all looked like us, and in 1914 people probably aren’t going to scream “alien” first but think that deamons are running around or something.
A more likely explination now that i think about it while less sick is the room where the stones were probably was under survalience and warned the metal aliens. And if the metal aliens knew where they were, the shapeshifters or another agent of the evil planet might get ahold of them. is the script online?
There is a draft version from 1995 available here. There are some clear differences between the draft and the film, though, even from a quick perusal of the opening lines.
Another point of mention from this wonderful movie… when he has to reach inside the opera singer to get the stones out, am I the only person who was thinking EWWWW!!!.. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m touchy about such things… but they never would’ve allowed such a thing if the opera singer was human. Reaching and feeling around their insides? Gross. Talk about speciesism… I nearly wish they HAD made the singer human, that would’ve proven most interesting to see people’s reactions… or made on version with her being human and another the way the movie was.
In this picture:
http://www.vfxhq.com/1997/fifth.html
it looks like they just kept landfilling into the Hudson and East Rivers until they reached Liberty Island.
There is a scene where Leloo and the priest show up to Korben Dallas’s apt and the exchange goes something like this:
Priest: “I’m sorry to have to do this Mr Willis (maybe Wallis?)”
Korben Dallas: “Dallas”
I am wondering if this is a blooper that they let slide?
msmith537, I think the preist was just supposed to be bad with names. He doesn’t remember Zork’s name, mentioning him only as an “art dealer” interested in the stones. He also misremembers Dallas’ name when trying to take the Gemini contest tickets at gunpoint.
As for the shapechanger invasion, I can hardly argue that it didn’t occur. I think the context clearly points toward WWI here, but YMMV.
Regarding the oepra singer, I was impressed by the fact that a modern movie even had an opera singer and that the male lead was actually interested in the music, instead of making dumbass jokes about how boring or highbrow the material is and how he’d rather be off drinking or watching sports or some such stereotypical crap.
Count me as one that would buy a disc of music, if it were styled in the fashion of tha opera. Kick ass…
I love this movie. Makes me think of the sequence in Heavy Metal with the taxi driver…