Besson conceived of this energy - the energy used to talk, to engage in sports, even to think - as an actual, living thing that never disappears, but spreads throughout the universe and beyond. Four elements gathered together to create the fifth one: life. The title of The Fifth Element refers to the four elements of alchemic Greek tradition -earth, air, fire, and water. Now, Besson teams with Bruce Willis, one of the most dynamic and successful actors of his generation, to take the science fiction film in a new and exciting direction.Ĭolumbia Pictures presents The Fifth Element, a timeless story about love and survival, heroes and villains, good and evil, set in a strangely familiar yet intoxicatingly different 23rd Century. His visually innovative style has marked the critically-acclaimed thriller The Professional, the exotic undersea adventure The Big Blue, the new wave thriller Subway and the seminal action film La Femme Nikita, the first major French blockbuster. One of today's most provocative and acclaimed filmmakers, director Luc Besson's works have captured the imaginations of filmgoers worldwide. This "thing," this darkness, waits patiently at the threshold of the universe for an opportunity to extinguish all life and all light.Įvery five thousand years, the universe needs a hero, and in New York City of the 23rd Century, a good hero is hard to find. In another exists an element made not of earth, air, fire or water, but of anti-energy, anti-life. In one dimension lies the universe and all of its multitude of varied life forms. Every five thousand years, a door opens between the dimensions.
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