![]() "The Fifth Element" is now available in all its eye-popping glory on 4K UHD Blu-ray. It makes 'The Fifth Element' look like a child did it with a crayon." Kamen: "If you liked 'The Fifth Element', wait until you see 'Valerian'. I think we had a 180-page script or something, a crazy, endless thing."Įxactly 20 years after "The Fifth Element", Besson returns to sci-fi this summer with " Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", a deliriously stylish space opera also inspired by French sci-fi comics - and this time powered by the unlimited potential of digital imagery. In today's world of blockbuster sequels and reboots, it almost seems strange to find a sci-fi smash that stands alone - although rumours of a sequel have persisted. It's one link in a long line, but as far as I'm concerned, I saved the universe and that's that."ĭespite being a hugely prolific writer and producer in the intervening years, Besson has never returned to the universe of "The Fifth Element". I'd like you to point that out in your article. Getty ImagesĬreed-Miles: "If you watch it again, you'll see that it's actually me who saves the universe. Kamen: " said 'It's the evil, it wants to control the world.' I said, 'Right, but where did it come from?' He said, 'It comes from the evil.'"īruce Willis and some friends with prosthetic heads. Twenty years on, even those who worked on the film don't have all the answers to the film's mysteries - like, for example, what actually was the flaming space monster thing? I love US, I love them, but I think that I'm definitely European and there's a thing of mentality that we cannot change." Conversely in Britain and Europe it went down a treat."īesson: "I'm used to it, because 'Fifth Element' was not so big at the time and 'Leon' either, and 'Nikita' either. It was received with perplexity in the United States, because sci-fi wasn't meant to be funny. So there is a lot of Americans who are not ready for that because they want to see a hero with big muscles and fighting. (The Wall Street Journal called it "gibberish".)īesson: "They like their superhero with tights who show the power of United States and who defend us against ugly aliens. 1 one at the US box office, although American viewers and critics didn't warm to the film as much as audiences elsewhere. It was a smash hit internationally and opened at No. "The Fifth Element" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May 1997. SonyĬreed-Miles: "I had a Friar Tuck haircut and a rubberised conical bra, it looked like half of Madonna's conical bra on top of my head. Some of the colourful costumes designed by Gaultier for "The Fifth Element". ![]() He was a constant creative watching eye." He was jumping around changing people's jackets and putting scarfs on them and giving them hats to wear. Smith: " approach wasn't what we in the movie business would think of as a costume designer. He was the archetypal director, a real control freak."Ī huge part of the film's signature look were the audacious, colourful costumes, conceived by legendary fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier. He used a big anamorphic lens, like a letterbox. Straight away I noticed the beautiful way he frames everything. Every shot, every frame in that film has been framed by Luc Besson himself. It felt like being in Star Wars, which it kind of was."ĭudman: "It was very focused - Luc is very focused - but it was lots of laughing, because a lot of what we were doing was blatantly silly."Ĭreed-Miles: "I'd never worked with a director that operates the camera as well. Getty ImagesĪlthough Besson hoped to shoot in France, the film was shot at the famous Pinewood studios in the UK.Ĭreed-Miles: " massive, massive sets that went on for miles. Cheshire seems to follow Viola though, suggesting that he is not an Infernal Demon.The New York backdrop was a vast model packed with details like working traffic lights and in-joke license plates. Umbra Witches form contracts with Infernal Demons they don’t help out of their own free will. ![]() If Cheshire is one of these faeries, it could explain why it follows Viola without a contract. Interestingly, this version of Cait Sith was a fairy, which may be relevant to Bayonetta.Īs we know, Viola has unknown connections to “faeries”. In Irish mythology, there is a figure called Cait Sith, which is supposedly a fairy that steals the souls of the unburied dead and curses homes, especially if an offering of milk was not left outside. Because of this, we can see evidence that Viola is closely related to Bayonetta. This charm version of Cheshire looks incredibly similar to the stuffed doll that Bayonetta carries as a child. While not being summoned, Cheshire remains a small charm on the end of her weapon. ![]() In Bayonetta 3, Cheshire is Viola’s demon that she can summon. If you are a longtime fan of Bayonetta, then you may be aware of this already. ![]()
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