12/23/2023 0 Comments Fifth element definition![]() ![]() That US release begat an Australian release and a Dutch and Scandinavian release, all of which are pretty much barebones discs, with only a subtitle trivia track to speak of. That never happened, but in the meantime someone did invent the Blu-ray.īeing a newcomer to this high definition world, I haven't seen the US Blu-ray release of The Fifth Element, but it too wasn't without its hiccups, with the initial release by Sony so poorly received that they went back and remastered and re-released it, offering a free upgrade to the disgruntled. I chose the third path I decided to wait for a decent UK re-release. The clue is in the logo, if it has the Columbia Tristar logo, it's probably a decent print, if it has European Gaumont logo it's the flawed print. It became a choice between the better quality but lower resolution R1 disc, or taking a chance with the various Region 2 releases in the hope of finding a decent transfer. The print sourced for the UK disc also has a smidgen more dirt on it. You can see the full story at DVD Beaver, but in short, the UK release had the contrast punched up, the brightness lowered, losing detail in both brighter and darker scenes and was distinctly desaturated in the red part of the spectrum. The initial Region 2 disc that I reviewed, and the subsequent 2 disc special edition had an image quality that was severely lacking, especially when compared to the Region 1 Ultrabit release, at the time considered the definitive DVD benchmark. It turns out that it wasn't perfect indeed it was anything but. Coming off the VHS, the DVD looked perfect, and I reviewed it as such almost ten years ago now. ![]() ![]() My passion for it was such that I upgraded to the DVD when it was first released, when all I knew about DVD transfers was that anamorphic was good, surround sound was good too, and extras were just a bonus. The Fifth Element is a future with pep, with joy, with boundless and indeed idiotic optimism. Luc Besson's crazy Technicolor future world is the perfect antidote to years of dark and gloomy sci-fi visions, those post apocalyptic doom laden works of speculative art that insist that humanity is doomed to wallow in its own self-destructive excrescence. The Fifth Element has been the ultimate sci-fi guilty pleasure for me, since I first saw it on creaky VHS. (first picture, mine second via trash ballerina.Introduction "Leeloo Dallas Mooltipass," are three words that will invariably put a grin on my face. Here’s a still from the film of the Leeloo I was attempting to recreate: If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. I edited it quite a bit in Photoshop to try to imitate the grittiness of the film. I had a lot of onlookers ask me if I was insane. Then I positioned her on a ledge and tried to make it look like she was trapped, imitating the first scene of the movie. I chopped her hair off, spraypainted it orange and constructed her first outfit, the bandage one, out of medical tape. There’s a tangent in there about swapping one feminine ideal (Barbie) for another (a paid model).īecause it’s one of my favorite films and her character is so iconic, I knew I had to make one of my Barbies into Leeloo. In keeping with that, they hired Milla Jovovich, a model-turned-actress, to play this perfect being. Leeloo is the fifth element and the scientists who reconstruct her call her a perfect, supreme being. Quintessence can literally refer to a fifth element and it is supposed to be the most perfect embodiment of something. My first thought when I looked up the definition of quintessence was Barbie as Leeloo from the Fifth Element. ![]()
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