13 Fun Mind-Bending Facts About Fifth Element

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Sep 9, 2017 11:00 AM EDT

These are awesome, and now we absolutely have to go watch it again. 

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    Text - At the time it was the most expensive film ever made outside of Hollywood and featured the most expensive special effect ever created.
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    Water - Soprano Inva Mula (who dubs the voice of The Diva) performed several of the notes in isolation, humanly impossible to change noters as quickly as The Diva appears to.
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    Face - The role was Ruby Rhod was based on a mixture of Prince and Lenny Kravitz. Indeed, Prince was the first choice to play the character.
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    Text - The Mangalores were often shown wearing combat goggles. This was a practical solution so as save on eye make up and also cover the actor's eyes (which.could be seen through the prosthetics).
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    Forehead - In most shots of Gary Oldman, there is a circle around his head. In fact, a circle in the middle of the frame is a near-constant motif in this film. Bruce Willis, on the other hand, is more often framed by a rectangle or doorway behind him Poppingremlins
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    Skin - Bruce Willis ad-libbed the memorable line, "Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English." Same.
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    Text - The "Divine Lanuage" spoken in the film was created by director Luc Besson and refined by actress Milla Jovovich. Containing only 400 words, by the end of filming both actress and director were able to have full conversations in the newly invented language.
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    Facial hair - The fillm was originally intended to be a trilogy,but Besson condensed it into one film instead.
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    Facial expression - Finger', the person that Dallas has a brief telephone conversation with, is an uncredited voice role for non other than Vin Diesel.
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    Photo caption - Jean Reno, who worked with Besson on Léon: The Professional (along with Gary Oldman), was originally intended for the role of Korben Dallas.
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    Hair - Poppingremlins When filming began, the production decided to dye Milla Jovovich's hair from its natural brown color to her character's signature orange color However, due to the fact that her hair had to be re-dyed regularly to maintain the bright color, Milla's hair quickly became too damaged and broken to withstand the dye. Eventually a wig was created to match the color and style of Leeloo's hair, and was used for the remainder of the production
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    Text - Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) and Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) never meet or communicate with each other. In fact, there is no evidence that Dallas is even aware of Zorg's involvement at all.
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    Moustache - Luc Besson began writing the film when he was only 16. The entire world was an invention of his lonely childhood imagination. ND Luc Besson
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