The Fifth Element

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

Trivia

• Although filmed in English and set in a futuristic New York, the movie is a French production, filmed at Pinewood Studios in England.
• Even though the story jumps "300 years into the future" from 1914, the year in the future is 2263.
• The Divine Language spoken in the film was invented by Milla Jovovich (who plays Leeloo) and director Luc Besson.
• In the future New York City, there still is a Central Park which has the same size and location as the original - but is a hundred feet in the air.
• In the future, the ground level in the city (with buildings resembling those from Star Wars Coruscant) is too polluted to walk on, covered in garbage and with the air itself being thick and suffused with black smoke. This is shown in a brief police chase scene during the film, when Korben Dallas hides his taxicab under the fog and a pursuing policeman bitterly remarks "How do they expect us to find anything in this shit?"
• The surface of the water is also much lower in the future. We see this in a brief shot of New York Harbor, when there is almost no water left (the island containing the Statue of Liberty is now connected directly to the mainland). There are, however, still oceans left, as we can see the Earth from space in a few scenes.
• Interestingly enough, Korben (arguably the main character) and Zorg (the main villain) never encounter one another.
• As a visual motif, Korben usually has a large rectangle behind him and Zorg has a large circle behind him.
• When ABC first aired The Fifth Element, they digitally removed all the Golden Arches since ABC is sponsored by McDonald's
• In Korben Dallas´s apartment, it is possible to see a banner with the Brazilian national football team association crest on one of the walls.
• Korben Dallas was originally supposed to be a worker in a rocketship factory. When the film went into development-hell in the early 1990s and Besson went on to make Léon, comic book artist Jean-Claude Mezieres, who had been hired as a conceptual designer, returned to drawing The Circles of Power, the 15th volume in the series. This featured a character called S'Traks who drives a flying cab through the congested air traffic of the vast metropolis on the planet Rubanis. Besson read the album and subsequently changed the character of Dallas to a cab driver whose taxi flies through the Rubanis-inspired metropolis of the future New York.
• In an original version of the script, Zorg confronts Korben aboard the hotel. Zorg then fails to kill them when he discovers he used all his ammo in his ZF1. Korben and company escape and Zorg activates a shield in his ZF1. He then survives and lands on Planet Fhloston. Zorg tries to call his secretary to send another spaceship, but the batteries in his ZF1 phone die.
• On the DVD closed captioning, the phrases that Leeloo says that are included are "Mlarta", "Big Ba-Dah Big Boom", "Akta", "Seno Akta Gamat", "San agamat chay bet. Envolet", "Danko", "Domo Danko" and "Apipoulai". The rest is called "unknown language" and when it is specified, "divine language".
• Knowing references to Star Wars pepper the film. The opening scene mimics the scene in where Imperial Troops are helping Boba Fett carry Han Solo's frozen body out of Cloud City. A female major has hair similar to Princess Leia's iconic hairstyle from . The priest's costume is heavily reminiscent of Obi-Wan Kenobi's ouitfit in . The design of the Federal battleships is similar to Imperial Star Destroyers.
• The nervous would-be mugger who attacks Dallas as he leaves his appartment at the beginning of the film is Mathieu Kassovitz, a French film director and friend of Luc Besson.