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At the end of the plot section, the article currently says "Dallas confesses his love for Leeloo and kisses her. In response, Leeloo combines the power of the stones as the Fifth Element and releases the divine light on the great evil." Although the script broadly points to Leeloo as the Fifth Element, it always seemed clear to me that it wasn't her. The Fifth Element is Love. This is supported by the priest's quiet exhortation to "Tell her, Corben."
Suggested replacement text: "Dallas confesses his love for Leeloo and kisses her. Love is the Fifth Element. It activates Leeloo, and allows her to combine the power of the stones and release a powerful light that destroys the great evil." AceNZ (talk) 03:41, 5 November 2017 (UTC)Reply
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I think this bit of the plot is probably wrong. In the earlier scenes before Fhloston, Aknot is injured following Zorg's detonation of the weapons, and is seen telling others to go to Fhloston and retrieve the stones. The leader killed by Dallas is uninjured and, on screen, unnamed. -- ferret (talk) 16:52, 11 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
Kenixkil (talk) 01:20, 15 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
The first paragraph of the "[p]roduction" section seems overly long to me (footnotes removed):
As a teenager, Besson envisioned the world of The Fifth Element in an attempt to alleviate boredom. He began writing the script when he was 16, though the film was not released in cinemas until he was 38. The original storyline was set in the year 2300 and was about a "nobody" named Zaltman Bleros (later renamed Korben Dallas) who wins a trip to the Club Med resort on the planet Fhloston Paradise in the Angel constellation. There, he meets Leeloo, a "sand-girl" who has the "beauty of youth" despite being over 2,000 years old. Besson continued to work on the storyline for years; by the time his documentary film Atlantis was released in 1991, he had a 400-page script. Nicolas Seydoux and Patrice Ledoux from Gaumont were the first people to take on the project. In November 1991, while looking for actors for the film, Besson met French comics creators Jean Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières and recruited them for the film's production design. Giraud and Mézières's comics were a major source of inspiration for Besson's futuristic New York City. Mézières wrote the book The Circles of Power, which contains a character named S'Traks, who drives a flying taxicab through the congested air traffic of the vast metropolis on the planet Rubanis. Mézières showed images of the flying taxi to Besson, who was inspired to change the background of Korben Dallas from a worker in a rocket-ship factory to that of a taxi driver who flies his cab around a Rubanis-inspired futuristic New York City. Five other artists were hired for the project, and Jean-Paul Gaultier was hired to design the costumes. The team spent a year creating over 8,000 drawings, during which time Besson approached both Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson for the lead role. Willis expressed interest, though he was reluctant to take on the role as the film was considered risky after his previous two films, Hudson Hawk and Billy Bathgate, had been received poorly; Gibson eventually turned down the role. While the team impressed film companies with their designs, they struggled to find one willing to take on a budget of almost $100 million. In December 1992, production stopped without any prior warning, and the team disbanded.
Could anyone please tell me where a good place to split it would be?--Thylacine24 (talk) 00:46, 18 December 2021 (UTC)Reply