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The Fifth Element

I love The Fifth Element. The story, the characters, but the production design is just on another level.

It is another reason why I just never liked Avatar. You know, they went to a new planet and all that, which would take some amazing technology, but it all looks too…real? I way prefer my space sci-fi to have that ‘lived in’ look in some cases (Cowboy Bebop, Firefly) but I just adore the production design on The Fifth Element. It reminds me of older films from the Golden age of Hollywood and beyond, the films that imagined the future, the early 2000’s, to be a place of complete fantastical insanity. Flying cars, lasers, the lot. I think it’s a shame that a lot of films now will focus on creating a future that seems more realistic. Me? I’d prefer to be taken away to this magnificent, neon future. Just because there are bright colours and strange aliens everywhere, it doesn’t mean the content suffers. Doesn’t Gary Oldman’s character, Zorg, fire Korban Dallas because the government wants him to, to slow economic growth? That’s some deep shit right there, and yet, flying taxi cabs!

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. I’ll never be one, but I’m glad films like The Fifth Element will always be around to let me watch the journeys I should’ve been a part of.

(p.s: Milla Jovovich is so hot)

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