The Fifth Element

:Fifth Element is also the original name of the Estonian girl band Vanilla Ninja.

Plot summary

Every five millennia, when three planets are in eclipse, evil embodied takes shape and attempts to turn light to dark - life to death. The weapon against this evil is in a temple in Egypt. To succeed in its goal, the evil has to consume the location of the weapon. The weapon is the Five Elements of the universe: the first four are water, fire, earth and air, which are embodied in the form of small triangular-prism stones, and the Fifth Element (life) is a Supreme Being, resembling a human woman except genetically superior, encased in a sarcophagus in a shape of a person with head back and mouth widely open. These five elements together produce the Divine Light, which vanquishes the Ultimate Evil for another five thousand years. This weapon was placed on Earth by the Mondochiwan, an old and mysterious race, and the knowledge of the Evil and the Weapon is passed down generation to generation by a line of priests who serve the Mondochiwan.

Related Topics:
Temple - Egypt - Water - Fire - Earth - Air - Stone - Life - Sarcophagus

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In 1914, the Mondochiwan guardians took the elements away because they were no longer safe on Earth, due to the soon-to-begin World War One. Three hundred years later, when the Ultimate Evil formed again, a Federated Army battleship fires on the Evil; it only gets larger and engulfs the ship. The government allows the Mondochiwan to return and help defeat the Evil. The Mondochiwan attempt to bring the elements back to Earth. However, Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Oldman), reffered to as "Zorg" a powerful weapons manufacturer who was asked to obtain the stones by the Ultimate Evil (who Zorg only knew as "Mister Shadow"), orders the destruction of the travelling Mondochiwan spaceship. All of the Mondochiwan crew and the Supreme Being die when the crippled ship crashes on a planet, but the Earthlings are able to retrieve from the crash site a severed hand within a glove, which are regenerated to bring the Fifth Element, a red-haired and amazingly strong, smart and beautiful woman (Jovovich), back to life. The woman, however, immediately escapes the laboratory cage and dives into former war hero and now cab driver Korben Dallas's taxicab.

Related Topics:
1914 - World War One - Spaceship - Hand - Glove - Regenerate - Laboratory

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Korben (Willis), a former major in the elite forces, takes the woman to the present-time priest with the knowledge of the Evil, Vito Cornelius (Holm), and finds out that her name is Leeloo Minai Lekatariba-Laminai-Tchaii Ekbat De Sebat (Leeloo for short). Leeloo tells Cornelius that, as it turned out, the first four elements were not on board the crashed ship. Instead, the Mondochiwan gave them for safekeeping to a sky-blue alien opera singer, the Diva Plavalaguna (the diva's name is a joking reference to Milla Jovovich's first film, Return to the Blue Lagoon: plava laguna means "blue lagoon" in Serbo-croatian). She is meant to contact the Diva in a hotel on the planet Fhloston, where the Diva is performing at a charity ball.

Related Topics:
Major - Elite forces - Return to the Blue Lagoon - Serbo-croatian - Fhloston

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Since the Mangalores did not come back with four elements, Zorg (who had hired them to do the job) is therefore close to giving the Mangalores nothing in return but, at gunpoint, leaves them one crate of ZF1 weapons for their effort. But one Mangalore accidentally triggers a bomb built into his ZF1, leaving the Mangalores out for revenge.

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The government also finds out about the Diva from the Mondochiwan, and decides to reactivate Korben and send him to retrieve the stones from the Diva. In order to get him to Fhloston they rig a contest where the winner gets tickets to Fhloston. Four different people end up trying to get onto the flight as Korben: the real Korben, Cornelius's novice David along with Leeloo, Zorg's assistant Right Arm, and two shapeshifted Mangalore warriors (who intend to get the stones to make Zorg negotiate for them). Eventually Korben and Leeloo get on the flight together. Cornelius also stows away in the ventilation system.

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Immediately after a concert in an opera house-spaceship orbiting Fhloston, Plavalaguna is shot by Mangalores who try to take over the ship. Zorg arrives, with the intention of getting the stones himself, and plants a mini-nuke bomb in the hotel. He takes a wooden chest from the Diva's suite, believing the elemental stones to be inside, but once he's taken off he opens the chest and finds they're not there.

Related Topics:
Concert - Opera house

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After retrieving the four stones from their actual hiding place - inside the Diva's body, Korben manages to defeat the Mangalores by killing their leader. Afterwards the hotel's bomb detectors detect the mini-nuke and everyone evacuates the hotel. A furious Zorg returns to the hotel just as everyone is leaving, and gets blown up as the hotel explodes.

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As Korben, Leeloo, Cornelius and a radio DJ called Ruby Rhod (Tucker) are on their way back to Earth the Ultimate Evil starts moving towards Earth. Leeloo also researches "War" and finds out about the cruelty of man.

Related Topics:
Radio DJ - War

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They arrive back on Earth with only fifteen minutes left before everyone will die, and set up the weapon. But Leeloo doesn't want to create the Divine Light - "what is the point of saving life if we are going to destroy it?" But Korben convinces her there are some things worth saving, like love, and tells her that he loves her. They kiss, and the Divine Light forms and stops the Ultimate Evil just sixty-two miles from impact. It crusts over, goes into a harmless orbit and becomes a second moon.

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The next morning, President Lindberg and his staff go to the Nucleological Center to thank Korben. However, Korben and Leeloo are too busy having sex to be interviewed.

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