![]() ![]() Artistic License History: The gun that Billy pulls out in the opening is a Mauser M712 Schnellfeuer.Artificial Person: Leeloo was created by the Mondoshawan prior to her reconstruction in a human government hospital, she was in fact treated as nothing more (or less) than the focal point of an elemental Converging-Stream Weapon."Four elements gathered around a fifth.".Arc Number: The number 5 appears throughout the movie. ![]() Despite the film being set a few centuries in the future, in real life the technology already exists to do this trick more effectively.) (Note that this is a parodical exaggeration. The president eventually notices the bug and squashes it, causing painful feedback for the listener. The roach also seems to have a brain implant that allows him some rudimentary control over it. Animal Espionage: One of Zorg's minions uses a cockroach fitted with a hilariously conspicuous transmitter to spy on the president.One is willing to kill an archaeologist who is on the verge of discovering the elemental weapon. Ancient Order of Protectors: The Mondoshawan's Earth followers seem to have elements of this.Always Accurate Attack: The Replay feature on the ZF-1, which fires a tracer bullet, after which every shot fired will home in on it, even if the gun is pointed in the opposite direction.Subverted when she tries it against Zorg he has a machine gun and the vent is noisy, so he does eventually hit her. Air-Vent Passageway: Played straight when Leeloo escapes the lab in the beginning.Aggressive Negotiations: Korben Dallas negotiates by shooting the leader of the Mangalores, knowing this will take the fight out of the others.įog: Where did he learn to negotiate like that?.Affably Evil: Zorg is cold, calculating, and ruthless, but also devilishly charming and considers his line of work not all that different from Cornelius's.Aerith and Bob: In the same character's name, no less.Milla Jovovich, who plays Leeloo, had starred in Return to the Blue Lagoon. The Diva's name translates as 'blue lagoon' in Croatian.At least this time he's stopping aliens instead of helping them. Ian Holm on a spaceship with a man called Dallas.5, to activate the Pillar of Light that will neutralize the Eldritch Abomination that threatens the Earth. ![]() Activation Sequence: Once the elements are collected, it's necessary to trigger the keystones with their respective Four-Element Ensemble, Leeloo and Dallas as Element No.She's an Ultimate Lifeform that was bred for war. After he alerts the others, David remembers about the breath and Korben surmmizes that the stones are simple: air (David's breath) for Air, water (Cornelius' sweat) for Water, earth (dirt) for Earth and fire (Korben's match) for Fire. David lets out a frustrated sigh, accidentally blowing air onto the Air stone. Achievements in Ignorance: As they are trying to activate the stones, there are no instructions or directions found.Absurdly Huge Population: The President of Earth mentions "some 200 billion of my fellow citizens", although these might not all be on Earth.2-D Space: The border of the Federated Territories is a massive line of buoys (presumably scanners) which detect incoming ships and turn green to indicate that they may pass.With the Great Evil getting closer, Korben has to help Leeloo save the planet. The remains of the "fifth element" are found and Earth scientists reconstruct it, generating an orange-haired Mysterious Waif named Leeloominaï Lekatariba Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat De Sebat, or "Leeloo" for short, who breaks out of the lab and dives into a taxi driven by ex-soldier Korben Dallas. ![]() On their way to deliver the five elements back, the aliens are shot down by a ship of another race of proud warrior aliens, who steal the box which would contain the stones. Cut to.Ģ263, when the Great Evil is starting to form itself. The priest points out that they're leaving Earth defenseless, and the aliens reply that when the Great Evil returns, so shall they. The aliens also order the priest to continue to take care of the temple and to pass on his knowledge, as it was passed on to him, to prepare for the Great Evil's incoming. Just as the discovery is made, the Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who made the temple in the first place (and whom the priest, and all those who have come before him, have secretly served) arrive in a giant spaceship and take away the stones and the sarcophagus, explaining that they are unsafe because of the imminent war on Earth. ![]()
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