![]() ![]() When the shield covering the being during its immersion in UV light is removed, General Munro appears to be awestruck when he sees a perfectly-formed human woman. He informs the scientist that he hopes the the being is "friendly", stating his intent to destroy the being with a card-activated destruction system inside the machine if he is not. The entire process is explained by the lead scientist to a skeptical General Munro, who is less than enthusiastic about the being's revival. Almost as if this being was … engineered." He continues to describe the cells as being "perfect."īeing that a few cells were still viable in the arm, the lead scientist begins reconstructing the being using the isolated DNA and a complex machine that puts the being together part by part, beginning with the skeleton, followed by the muscles and organs, and finally exposing the body to slightly greasy solar atoms (ultraviolet radiation), forcing the body to take measures to protect itself from UV damage by growing skin and hair. The DNA, far superior to human DNA which contains 40 "memo groups", contains over 200,000 "memo groups." The scientist describes the DNA of the being as being "tightly packed, with infinite genetic knowledge. Discovered by Earth scientists, the severed forearm is transported to a laboratory in New York and analyzed, and its DNA isolated and studied. The Mondoshawans and their ship are destroyed, leaving nothing but a mangled right forearm from the sleeping Supreme Being in the wreckage. The Mondoshawans, as promised, are en route to Earth to return the stones and sarcophagus, when their ship is attacked by a brace of Mangalores. Along with his apprentice, David, he patiently awaits the arrival of the Stones and the Fifth Element. ![]() ![]() Three centuries later, the current priest, Father Vito Cornelius, preserves the key in his apartment. The priest promises to keep it safe, passing his knowledge on to his successors until they return. They leave the priest with a single bronzed key, which is to be used to open the secret room in the temple for arrangement of the weapon. Knowing that the weapon was designed to defeat a dark entity known as Evil every 5,000 years, the aliens - the Mondoshawan - promise the temple's current human priest that they would return the weapon's components to Earth before Evil arrived three centuries later. I said, "Listen, what about bandages?" Like you know, when people get wounded, they just put bandages to cover the necessary bits.In 1914, a race of aliens in heavily armored spacesuits arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple to collect the four elemental stones and a bronze sarcophagus containing the body of the fifth element in human form. So how do we do that? And that's where the bandage idea came from. So, you have to almost have as little as possible, but for the sake of modesty you have to cover up too. Something Luc and I had actually talked about before meeting with Jean Paul was like, "How do we shoot the birth scene of Leeloo?” She gets put together through this DNA splicing machine, and she's naked, but she can't be naked throughout the movie, so what do we do? And something that hit me was like being in a hospital for instance, they put like a robe on you that's open in the back so that they can reach in, and give you injections, and put tubes in you and things. Speaking recently to Vogue, the actress revealed the origins of Leeloo’s bandage costume and how her suggestion sparked Gaultier’s creation: When it came to designing Leeloo’s look however, Jovovich herself offered a bit of input that went on to guide Gaultier’s work. One of the most important of these creative forces in fact was fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, who was hired by Besson to handle costumes for his visionary sci-fi epic. The Fifth Element was of course bound to have a distinctive look given the prodigious creative forces involved in its making. Related: Why The Fifth Element Is The '90s Most Underrated Sci-fi Movie ![]()
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