Podcast 105: The Fifth Element

The 3 Guys Podcast

Recorded on 3/12/2023

It Mu5t Be Found. This week are reviewing sci-fi cult classic The Fifth Element starring Milla Jovovich, Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker and directed by Luc Besson. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS!

The 3 Guys Rating

4.1/5

Notes From The Show

  • Quick Synopsis

  • Released: May 7, 1997

    Directed By: Luc Besson

    Written By: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen

    Produced By: Patrice Ledoux

    Stars: Milla Jovovich, Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker and a bunch of other actors.

    Plot: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.

    Taglines: It Mu5t Be Found.

    How did this movie do?
    Budget: $90 Million
    Box Office: $264 Million

  • Lawsuit

    • Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean Giraud sued Besson after the film was released, claiming The Fifth Element had plagiarised their comic The Incal. Giraud sued for 13.1 million euros for unfair competition, 9 million euros in damages and interest, and two to five percent of the net operating revenues of the film. Jodorowsky sued for 700,000 euros. The case was dismissed in 2004 on the grounds that only “tiny fragments” of the comic had been used and Giraud had been hired by Besson to work on the film before the allegations were made.
  • Awards

    • Nominated for Best Sound Editing Academy Award
  • Casting

    • Gary Oldman is such a good friend of Luc Besson that he took the part without reading the script, doing this movie to repay Besson for partly financing Oldman’s movie Nil by Mouth (1997). Asked in a 2014 interview if he liked the movie, Oldman stated, “Oh no. I can’t bear it.” He had explained in 2011: “It was me singing for my supper, because Luc had come in and partly financed my film.”

    • Milla Jovovich beat out over 3,000 women who auditioned for the role of Leeloo.

    • The voice of Mrs. Dallas (Korben’s mother) is not credited. It was performed by Jill Mullan, in her only acting credit. Her name appears in the credits in the list of those thanked.

    • Mel Gibson was considered for the role of Korben Dallas.
  • Trivia

    • This movie was supposed to be a trilogy. Luc Besson had three scripts that he condensed into one.

    • Luc Besson wanted to show the future is not dark and dangerous. “This future is very funny.”

    • The “Divine Language”, spoken by Leeloo, was invented by co-writer and director Luc Besson, and further refined by Milla Jovovich, who had little trouble learning and developing it, as she was already fluent in four languages. The language had only four hundred words. He and Milla Jovovich held conversations, and wrote letters to each other in the language as practice. By the end of filming, they were able to have full conversations in this language.

    • Luc Besson wrote the original screenplay when he was in high school. He had conceived the story of this movie, and invented the world of the movie, as a child so he could escape his lonely childhood. He began writing the script when he was sixteen, though it was not released in theaters until he was thirty-eight.

    • Luc Besson wrote this story in high school and made the hero a taxi driver because his own father worked a second job as a taxi driver. He did this to support Luc going to art school. Luc has a taxi driver in almost all of his movies to honor his father.

    • When the President tells Father Vito Cornelius he has “twenty seconds” to state his point, Vito talks for exactly twenty seconds.

    • The flying traffic created by the visual effects team at Digital Domain allowed artists to create personalized license plates. Though never visible in the movie, the state slogan printed on all license plates reads “New York, The F***-You State.”

    • Bruce Willis ad-libbed the line “look lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.”

    • When Korben first meets Leeloo, and she starts talking to him in her language, Luc Besson didn’t tell Bruce Willis what Milla Jovovich was going to say to him, so Bruce’s reactions are real.

    • The animatronic mechanisms used for the Mangalore masks were later recycled for the Neimodians in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).

    • The parasites being disinfected from the landing gear of the spaceship (bound for Fhloston Paradise) by a team in sealed suits are actually Boglins, the 1980s puppet toys. With them is a Bumble Ball, a battery-operated shaking and vibrating ball covered with rubber knobs.

    • Plavalaguna, Diva’s name, is actually composed of two words: Plava and Laguna. “Plava” in Serbian, Croatian, Montenigrin, and Bosnian language means Blue (feminine, masculine would be “plav”). “Laguna” in the same languages means lagoon. So her name is Blue Lagoon. (Milla Jovovich also played Lilli in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991).) Diva’s name has been inspired by the Plava Laguna resort in Porec, Croatia, where Luc Besson vacationed a few times.

    • The visual effects crew said figuring out what “evil” should look like was the hardest part of their job.

    • The explosion in the Fhloston main hall was the largest indoor explosion ever filmed. The resulting fire almost went beyond control. It took twenty-five minutes to put out.

    • At the end of the movie, when Korben’s mother calls, and the President passes off the phone, you can hear her complaining, “I might as well throw myself into traffic, Saran Wrap myself to the bed and pretend my child is suffocating me.” She is listing off previous scenes within the movie.

    • When Zorg is leaving the Mangalores behind with the one crate of weapons, setting them up to kill themselves with the self-destruct buttons he failed to tell them about, he talks to his Right Arm about how he doesn’t like warriors like the Mangalores because they fight for hopeless causes. Right Arm says they fight for “Honor”. Zorg’s response is “Honor’s killed millions of people, hasn’t saved a single one.” Later, on Fhloston Paradise, the Mangalores set off the bomb that kills Zorg after saying, “For the honor”.

    • The number “5” appears in the movie on several occasions: There are five elements; Korben Dallas’ license had five points left; Zorg stops his bomb with five seconds remaining on the timer, and the Mangalore’s bomb starts with that same five second timer. Ruby Rhod, near the end of the movie, after the alien planet is stopped, says, “There’s a bomb going off every five minutes!”, and the doctor at the end says that Leeloo and Korben need five more minutes. Ruby Rhod’s show is at 5 o’clock.

    • In her death scene, Diva Plavalaguna says to Korben about Leeloo that she needs his help and his love or she will die. This foreshadows the ending, in which Korben tells a seriously wounded Leeloo that he loves her and kisses her, which combines the powers of the stones with her own and releases the divine light upon The Great Evil destroying it.

Released: May 7, 1997

Directed By: Luc Besson

Written By: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen

Produced By: Patrice Ledoux

Stars: Milla Jovovich, Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker and a bunch of other actors.

Plot: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.

Taglines: It Mu5t Be Found.

How did this movie do?
Budget: $90 Million
Box Office: $264 Million

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean Giraud sued Besson after the film was released, claiming The Fifth Element had plagiarised their comic The Incal. Giraud sued for 13.1 million euros for unfair competition, 9 million euros in damages and interest, and two to five percent of the net operating revenues of the film. Jodorowsky sued for 700,000 euros. The case was dismissed in 2004 on the grounds that only “tiny fragments” of the comic had been used and Giraud had been hired by Besson to work on the film before the allegations were made.
  • Nominated for Best Sound Editing Academy Award
  • Gary Oldman is such a good friend of Luc Besson that he took the part without reading the script, doing this movie to repay Besson for partly financing Oldman’s movie Nil by Mouth (1997). Asked in a 2014 interview if he liked the movie, Oldman stated, “Oh no. I can’t bear it.” He had explained in 2011: “It was me singing for my supper, because Luc had come in and partly financed my film.”

  • Milla Jovovich beat out over 3,000 women who auditioned for the role of Leeloo.

  • The voice of Mrs. Dallas (Korben’s mother) is not credited. It was performed by Jill Mullan, in her only acting credit. Her name appears in the credits in the list of those thanked.

  • Mel Gibson was considered for the role of Korben Dallas.
  • This movie was supposed to be a trilogy. Luc Besson had three scripts that he condensed into one.

  • Luc Besson wanted to show the future is not dark and dangerous. “This future is very funny.”

  • The “Divine Language”, spoken by Leeloo, was invented by co-writer and director Luc Besson, and further refined by Milla Jovovich, who had little trouble learning and developing it, as she was already fluent in four languages. The language had only four hundred words. He and Milla Jovovich held conversations, and wrote letters to each other in the language as practice. By the end of filming, they were able to have full conversations in this language.

  • Luc Besson wrote the original screenplay when he was in high school. He had conceived the story of this movie, and invented the world of the movie, as a child so he could escape his lonely childhood. He began writing the script when he was sixteen, though it was not released in theaters until he was thirty-eight.

  • Luc Besson wrote this story in high school and made the hero a taxi driver because his own father worked a second job as a taxi driver. He did this to support Luc going to art school. Luc has a taxi driver in almost all of his movies to honor his father.

  • When the President tells Father Vito Cornelius he has “twenty seconds” to state his point, Vito talks for exactly twenty seconds.

  • The flying traffic created by the visual effects team at Digital Domain allowed artists to create personalized license plates. Though never visible in the movie, the state slogan printed on all license plates reads “New York, The F***-You State.”

  • Bruce Willis ad-libbed the line “look lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.”

  • When Korben first meets Leeloo, and she starts talking to him in her language, Luc Besson didn’t tell Bruce Willis what Milla Jovovich was going to say to him, so Bruce’s reactions are real.

  • The animatronic mechanisms used for the Mangalore masks were later recycled for the Neimodians in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).

  • The parasites being disinfected from the landing gear of the spaceship (bound for Fhloston Paradise) by a team in sealed suits are actually Boglins, the 1980s puppet toys. With them is a Bumble Ball, a battery-operated shaking and vibrating ball covered with rubber knobs.

  • Plavalaguna, Diva’s name, is actually composed of two words: Plava and Laguna. “Plava” in Serbian, Croatian, Montenigrin, and Bosnian language means Blue (feminine, masculine would be “plav”). “Laguna” in the same languages means lagoon. So her name is Blue Lagoon. (Milla Jovovich also played Lilli in Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991).) Diva’s name has been inspired by the Plava Laguna resort in Porec, Croatia, where Luc Besson vacationed a few times.

  • The visual effects crew said figuring out what “evil” should look like was the hardest part of their job.

  • The explosion in the Fhloston main hall was the largest indoor explosion ever filmed. The resulting fire almost went beyond control. It took twenty-five minutes to put out.

  • At the end of the movie, when Korben’s mother calls, and the President passes off the phone, you can hear her complaining, “I might as well throw myself into traffic, Saran Wrap myself to the bed and pretend my child is suffocating me.” She is listing off previous scenes within the movie.

  • When Zorg is leaving the Mangalores behind with the one crate of weapons, setting them up to kill themselves with the self-destruct buttons he failed to tell them about, he talks to his Right Arm about how he doesn’t like warriors like the Mangalores because they fight for hopeless causes. Right Arm says they fight for “Honor”. Zorg’s response is “Honor’s killed millions of people, hasn’t saved a single one.” Later, on Fhloston Paradise, the Mangalores set off the bomb that kills Zorg after saying, “For the honor”.

  • The number “5” appears in the movie on several occasions: There are five elements; Korben Dallas’ license had five points left; Zorg stops his bomb with five seconds remaining on the timer, and the Mangalore’s bomb starts with that same five second timer. Ruby Rhod, near the end of the movie, after the alien planet is stopped, says, “There’s a bomb going off every five minutes!”, and the doctor at the end says that Leeloo and Korben need five more minutes. Ruby Rhod’s show is at 5 o’clock.

  • In her death scene, Diva Plavalaguna says to Korben about Leeloo that she needs his help and his love or she will die. This foreshadows the ending, in which Korben tells a seriously wounded Leeloo that he loves her and kisses her, which combines the powers of the stones with her own and releases the divine light upon The Great Evil destroying it.

About The Movie From IMDB

The Fifth Element | May 9, 1997 (United States) 7.6

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Cast

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Korben Dallas
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Leeloo
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Zorg
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Cornelius
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Ruby Rhod
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Billy
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General Munro
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President Lindberg
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Fog
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Right Arm
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General Staedert
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Professor Pacoli
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Mugger
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Mactilburgh
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Thai
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Neighbour
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Major Iceborg

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Countries: France, United KingdomLanguages: English, Swedish, German, Arabic, Egyptian (Ancient)Budget: $93,000,000 (estimated)

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The Fifth Element | May 9, 1997 (United States) Summary: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
Countries: France, United KingdomLanguages: English, Swedish, German, Arabic, Egyptian (Ancient)

Quotes

Police: Are you classified as human?

Korben Dallas: Negative, I am a meat popsicle.


Korben Dallas: [Leans down and kisses Leeloo. Leeloo swipes his gun and holds it to his head]

Korben Dallas: You're right, you're right, I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry.

Leeloo: Senno ecto gammat!

Korben Dallas: I'm sorry, I'm sorry!

Leeloo: ecto gammat!

Korben Dallas: [In a later scene] When she woke up, she said a bunch a stuff. I didn't understand any of it but... what does 'ecto gammat' mean?

Priest Vito Cornelius: Uh... never again, without my permission.

Korben Dallas: That's what I thought.


Leeloo: Leeloo Dallas mul-ti-pass.

Korben Dallas: Yeah.

Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.

Korben Dallas: Yeah, multipass, she knows it's a multipass. Leeloo Dallas. This is my wife.

Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.

Korben Dallas: We're newlyweds. Just met. You know how it is. We bumped into each other, sparks happen...

Leeloo: Mul-ti-pass.

Korben Dallas: Yes, she knows it's a multipass. Anyway, we're in love.


DJ Ruby Rhod: What's wrong with you? What you screamin' for? Every 5 minutes there's somethin', a bomb or somethin'. I'm leavin'. bzzzz.


Mr. Kim: You got a message.

Korben Dallas: Yeah

Mr. Kim: You're not gonna open it? It might be important.

Korben Dallas: Yeah, like the last two I got were important. The first one was from my wife, telling me she was leaving. The second was from my lawyer, telling me he was leaving... with my wife.

Mr. Kim: Ah, that's bad luck. Grandfather say it not rain everyday. This is good news, guaranteed. I bet your lunch.

Korben Dallas: Okay, you're on.

Mr. Kim: Come on...

[Reads]

Mr. Kim: You are fired. Oh.

Korben Dallas: Well, at least I won lunch.

Mr. Kim: Good philosophy, see good in bad, I like.


Korben Dallas: Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

[Leeloo continues to talk in divine language]

Korben Dallas: Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for conversation, but maybe you could just shut up for a moment?


Zorg: I don't like warriors. Too narrow-minded, no subtlety. And worse, they fight for hopeless causes. Honor? Huh! Honor's killed millions of people, it hasn't saved a single one.


Leeloo: [with heavy accent] Chi-cken... Good.


Priest: Hurry! The wall is closing!

Mondoshawan: [lumbering towards the exit] Here is your mission: pass your knowledge on to the next, as it was passed on to you.

Priest: I-I will do as you command, but please hurry! You still have time!

Mondoshawan: Time not important. Only life important.

[the Mondoshawan extends the key beyond the exit, and the Priest turns away in horror as the rest of him is crushed between the wall]


Leeloo: Everything you create, you use to destroy.

Korben Dallas: Yeah, we call it human nature.


Korben Dallas: We need to find the leader, Mangalores won't fight without the leader.

Aknot: One more shot, and we start killing hostages!

Korben Dallas: That's the leader.

Aknot: Send someone to negotiate.

Fog: [as Dallas looks at him] Uh, I-I've never negotiated before.

Korben Dallas: Do you mind if I try?

Fog: No, sure, sure, sure.

[shouts]

Fog: We're sending somebody in to negotiate!

[Corben walks into the room and shoots Aknot between the eyes. As he falls, the other Mangalores drop their weapons and bow over him, keening]

Korben Dallas: Anybody else want to negotiate?

Fog: Wh-where did he learn to n-negotiate like that?

President Lindberg: [looking at General Munro] I wonder.


[Father Cornelius and Ruby Rhod see the bomb stuck to the door]

Priest Vito Cornelius: It's a - it's a - it's a - it's a - it's a - it's a...

DJ Ruby Rhod: No no no no no no. 'Cuz if it was a bomb, the alarms would go off 'cuz all these hotels have bomb detectors, right?

[the alarms sound]


Korben Dallas: What's your name?

Leeloo: Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat.

Korben Dallas: Good. That... that whole thing's your name, huh? Do you have, uh... a shorter name?

Leeloo: Leeloo.


Zorg: This case is empty.

[switches to conversation between Cornelius and Leeloo, who is laughing]

Priest Vito Cornelius: What do you mean, empty?

[back to conversation between Zorg and Aknot]

Zorg: Empty. The opposite of full. This case is supposed to be full! Anyone care to explain?

Leeloo: [back to Leeloo, speaking in the Divine Language]

Priest Vito Cornelius: The guardians... gave the stones... to someone they could trust... who-who took another route... she's supposed to contact this person... in a hotel... and she's looking for the address. Easy.

Leeloo: [points to the computer screen] Dort.

David: It's-it's planet Fhloston, in the Angel Constellation!

Priest Vito Cornelius: We're saved.

[back to Zorg and Aknot]

Zorg: I'm screwed.


Priest Vito Cornelius: I'm really sorry to have to resort to these methods, Mr. Wallace!

Korben Dallas: Dallas.


Leeloo: What's the use in saving life when you see what you do with it?


Priest Vito Cornelius: You're a monster, Zorg.

Zorg: I know.


Leeloo: I don't know love. I was built to protect not to love, so there is no use for me other than this.


[last lines]

[the President is talking with Korben's mother on the phone]

President Lindberg: Mrs. Dallas, this is the President. On behalf of the federation, I would like to thank you...

Korben's Mother: Oh, please. That doesn't even sound like him! The President's an idiot, you don't sound like an idiot. If you don't wanna talk to your mother, just avoid me like usual, huh? I'll just throw myself in traffic. I'll just Saran Wrap myself to the bed and pretend my child is suffocating me...


Zorg: If you want something done, do it yourself. Yep!


[demonstrating a weapon]

Zorg: Voila! The ZF-1.

[the weapon opens, and Zorg picks it up]

Zorg: It's light. Handle's adjustable for easy carrying, good for righties and lefties. Breaks down into four parts, undetectable by x-ray, ideal for quick, discreet interventions. A word on firepower. Titanium recharger, three thousand round clip with bursts of three to three hundred, and with the Replay button - another Zorg invention - it's even easier.


Leeloo: Me fifth element - supreme being. Me protect you.


[Korben shows up at Father Cornelius' door with an unconscious Leeloo in his arms]

Priest Vito Cornelius: Yes?

Korben Dallas: I'm, uh, looking for a priest.

Priest Vito Cornelius: Weddings are one floor down, my son. Congratulations.


General Munro: [after telling Korben about the mission] Any questions?

Korben Dallas: Yeah. Just one. Why me? I retired six months ago. You remember?

General Munro: Three reasons. One - as a member of the elite special forces unit of the Federated Army, you are expert in the use of all major weapons & space craft needed for this mission. Two - of all the members of your unit, you were the most highly decorated.

Korben Dallas: ...and the third one?

General Munro: Of all the members of your unit, you're the only one left alive.


Check in Attendant: Miss?

Leeloo: Multipass!


Zorg: Where are the stones?

Priest Vito Cornelius: I don't know. And even if I did know, I wouldn't tell someone like you.

Zorg: Why? What's wrong with me?

Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. And you seem to want to destroy it.

Zorg: Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.

[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]

Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed

[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]

Zorg: Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.


Korben Dallas: Leeloo... how do we open these stones?

Leeloo: Wind blows... Fire Burns... Water Falls...


DJ Ruby Rhod: And now we enter what must the most beautiful concert hall of all the universe. A perfect replica of the old opera house... But who cares?


Korben Dallas: How many are in there?

Fog: I-I-I-don't...

Korben Dallas: Let's count.

[looks around the corner and counts the Mangalors in the room; draws back quickly]

Korben Dallas: Seven on the left, five on the right.

[turns the corner again and fires six shots in rapid succession]

Korben Dallas: Four on the right, two on the left.


Korben Dallas: You wanna play it soft. We'll play it soft. You wanna play it hard. Let's play it hard.


DJ Ruby Rhod: Korben sweetheart, what was that? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! Y'know I got a Show to run here, and it must pop POP POP! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you PLEASE act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green, okay?

Korben Dallas: Can I talk to you for a second?

[Throws Ruby up against a wall]

Korben Dallas: I didn't come here to play Pumbaa on the radio. So tomorrow from 5 to 7 your gonna give yourself a hand, You green?

DJ Ruby Rhod: [Strangling Voice] Supergreen.


Leeloo: Hi.

Korben Dallas: Oh, so you speak English now.

Leeloo: Yes. I learned.


Professor Pacoli: [shocked after turning around and being surprised by one of the divine aliens] A-a-aa-a-a-are you German?

[alien shakes its head]


Check in Attendant: Mr. Rhod, you are going to have to assume your individual position.

DJ Ruby Rhod: I don't want one position, I want all positions!


Fhloston Hostess: We have twelve swimming pools, and two on the rooftop. All the restaurants are between level two and level ten. The planet Fhloston has 400 beaches, all accessible until 5 PM. Then, the airship goes higher, to offer you a better view with your dinner.

Korben Dallas: Is the Diva here yet?

Fhloston Hostess: Not yet.

Korben Dallas: Are there any tickets left for this opera? I'm a really big fan...

Fhloston Hostess: You have a seat reserved, front row, next to RU-BY RHOD! He's so talented, don't you think? I just love him... he's so sexy...


Leeloo: Multipass!


Zorg: I hate warriors, too narrow-minded. I'll tell you what I do like though: a killer, a dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun.

[Scene shifts to Aknot, who is staring in confusion at the little red button. He shrugs and pushes it]

Zorg: [Casually smokes a cigarette as the room with the Mangalores blows up] Bring me the priest.


[David brings some new clothes for Leeloo - she examines them with delight, then casually strips off her robe - David and Cornelius quickly turn around]

David: They really made her...

Priest Vito Cornelius: Perfect. I know.


DJ Ruby Rhod: We'll find out everything there is to know about the D man: his dreams, his desires, his most intimates of intimates, and from what I'm looking at, "intimate" is the stud muffin's middle name. So tell me my man, are you nervous in the service?

Korben Dallas: Mmm... not really.


President Lindberg: [phone call from President to Korben Dallas] Major Dallas, I first would like to salute a warrior, you are a shining example of this Army's might, in the name of the Federation and it's territory...

Korben Dallas: Mr. President, Mr. President, any idea when you gonna be getting to the point?

President Lindberg: O.K. There's a ball of fire, it's 1200 miles in diameter headin straight for Earth, and we have no idea how to stop it. *That's* the problem.

Korben Dallas: [sighs] How long do we have?

Scientist's Aide: [off the President's look] If its speed remains constant, in an hour and fifty-seven minutes.

Korben Dallas: I'll call you back in two hours.


[Korben is arguing with his mother on the phone]

Korben's Mother: Oh, I get it. You wanna make make your only mother to beg. Is that it?

Korben Dallas: No, I don't wanna make you beg. All I want is an explanation. Look, I just got in. I just smashed my cab, I lost my job, I got mugged. Besides that, everything's peachy. Thanks for asking. Now will you just settle down and explain this to me calmly.

Korben's Mother: Oh, so you don't know you won a trip to Fhloston Paradise for two for 10 days? And I suppose you'll just leave me on the lunar surface to freeze my ass off?

Korben Dallas: If I'd won a trip, I'd know about it. Somebody would've notified me.

[a message drops in his tube]

Korben's Mother: Corben, they've been blaring your name on the radio for the last hour, you big ape.


Korben Dallas: [shoves a bag into Ruby's hands] You guard this with your life, or you're gonna look like this guy here! You green?

DJ Ruby Rhod: G-green.

[cut to the President's office, where every word is being heard over the radio, transmitted galaxy-wide on Ruby's radio show]

Korben Dallas: Super green?

DJ Ruby Rhod: Super green.

President Lindberg: Is that your idea of a discreet operation?

General Munro: Don't-don't worry, sir. I know my man. He'll calm things down.

[cut back to Fhloston, as three Mangalores go down in an explosion of gunfire, and Korben charges out a door, guns blazing]


Chief NY Cop: Sir, can you put your hands in the yellow circles, please?

Neighbour: Smoke you!

Korben Dallas: Wrong answer.

Chief NY Cop: The police control is now terminated. Thank you for your cooperation. Have a nice day.


Zorg: A case with four stones in it! Not one or two or three but four! Four stones! What the hell am I supposed to do with an empty case?

Mangalore Aknot: We are warriors, not merchants.

Zorg: But you can still count. Look it's easy. Look at my fingers, four stones, four crates, zero stones, zero crates! Pack everything up we're outta here.

Mangalore Aknot: [Mangalores hoist their guns with a roar] We risked our lives! I think a little compensation is in order.

Zorg: Oh, so you are merchants after all. Leave them one crate for the cause.


[Cornelius bursts into Korben's room and holds him at gunpoint]

Priest Vito Cornelius: I'm really sorry to have to resort to these methods, Mr. Wallace...

Korben Dallas: Dallas.

Priest Vito Cornelius: Er, Mr. Dallas. But we heard about your good luck on the radio, and we need your tickets for Fhloston.

Korben Dallas: Is this how priests normally take vacations?

Priest Vito Cornelius: We're not on a vacation, we're on a mission!

Korben Dallas: What mission is that?

Priest Vito Cornelius: We have to save the world, my son.


[Father Cornelius confides in a bartender]

Priest Vito Cornelius: I know she's made to be strong, but she's also so fragile, so human. Know what I mean?

[Robot bartender shakes its head]


Billy: When is this "Snake" act supposed to occur?

Professor Pacoli: Well, if this is the five and this is the one...

[counting under his breath]

Professor Pacoli: Every 5,000 years.

Billy: So I've got some time then.


Shadow: How are the stones?

Zorg: Fine... fine, just fine... I'll, I'll have the... ah... I'll have the four stones you asked for anytime now... but, but it wasn't easy. My costs... have tripled.

Shadow: Money is of... no importance. I... want... the... STONES...

Zorg: The stones... will be here... I'll see to it personally...

Shadow: I will be among you... soon.


[first lines]

Omar: [whispers to sleeping Aziz] Aziz! Aziz!

Professor Pacoli: [shouts] Aziz! Light!

[Aziz wakes up with a start]

Billy: "Aziz! Light!"


Korben Dallas: The government sent me to help you. Just stay calm.


Priest Vito Cornelius: Korben, I realize you that must be pretty mad at me, but I want you to know that I am fighting for a noble cause.

Korben Dallas: Yes, you're trying to save the world, I remember. Right now, I'm trying to save Leeloo, father.

Priest Vito Cornelius: Leeloo's in trouble?

Korben Dallas: When is Leeloo not in trouble?


Mugger: Gimme da cash!


Priest Vito Cornelius: I... have... a different theory, to offer you, sir.

President Lindberg: You have twenty seconds.


General Munro: Sounds like a freak of nature to me.

Mactilburgh: Yeah. Can't wait to meet him.


Shadow: It's Shadow...

Zorg: Zorg here.

Shadow: Am I disturbing you?

Zorg: Oh no... no, no... I was... just... W-Where are you?

Shadow: Not far now.

Zorg: Good... good, good...


[the Priest runs outside the Temple as the Mondoshawan ship lifts off]

Priest: I will fulfill my mission! You can count on me!

[holds up the key]

Priest: I will pass the knowledge on, until you return!


Mondoshawan: Priest, you and those before you have served us well. But war is coming. Stones not safe on Earth anymore.

Priest: My lord, if you take the weapon, we will be defenseless when the evil returns.

Mondoshawan: In 300 years, when Evil returns... so shall we.


Zorg: Torture who you have to, the President, I don't care. Just bring me the stones. You have one hour.


[as the Federation ships prepare to fire on the dark planet]

Scientist's Aide: Its structure has just solidified on the surface.

Head Scientist: I think it's anticipating the attack. Anticipation denotes intelligence.

Priest Vito Cornelius: The most terrible intelligence imaginable, Mr. President.


General Munro: The Mondoshawans never fully trusted the human race.


Priest Vito Cornelius: Because it is evil, absolutely evil.

President Lindberg: One more reason to shoot first.

Priest Vito Cornelius: Evil begets evil, Mr. President. Shooting will only make it stronger.


DJ Ruby Rhod: There's the Emperor and his lovely daughter. "I love to sing," she recently confessed to me!

[aside to Korben]

DJ Ruby Rhod: By the way, I have a recording of her talented voice...

[He touches a button on his cane. A recording plays]

Woman: [moaning] Uh-huh, oh yeah, uh-huh!


President Lindberg: Steadert.

General Staedert: Yes Sir!

President Lindberg: I have a doubt.

General Staedert: I don't, Mr. President.


[repeated line]

Leeloo: Multipass.


Head Scientist: The thing is sending out radio wavelengths!

President Lindberg: What the hell does it want with radio waves?

Scientist's Aide: Maybe it wants to make a call.


[just getting into his hotel room, the phone rings and its his mother on the other line]

Korben's Mother: You miserable bastard! I never should've pushed you out.

Korben Dallas: Ma?

Korben's Mother: Oh, so you don't know you won a trip to Fhloston Paradise for two for 10 days? And I suppose you'll I was in labor for days, and this is how you repay me? I should've just gotten a robot.

Korben Dallas: Come on, Ma.

Korben's Mother: Don't "come on, Ma" me. I should be there, not you! I need a tan! I need a cocktail!


Priest Vito Cornelius: [discussing the Dark Planet] Imagine for a moment that this thing is not anything that can be identified because it prefers not to be. Wherever there is life, it brings death, because it is evil, absolute evil.

President Lindberg: One more reason to shoot first.

Priest Vito Cornelius: Evil begets evil, Mr. President. Shooting will only make it stronger.


Mangalore Aknot: Aknot wants!


Priest Vito Cornelius: What are you doing?

Korben Dallas: Trying to save your ass so you can save the world.


David: Father, are you sure she's a supreme being?


DJ Ruby Rhod: Quiver ladies, quiver.


[repeated line]

Korben Dallas: Finger's gonna kill me.


Mactilburgh: It's an honor to meet you sir!

President Lindberg: Yes, it is.


Mactilburgh: Remove the shield.

Leeloo: [Leeloo was reconstructed]

Mactilburgh: I told you. Perfect. Thermal bandages.

Leeloo: [Leeloo was attached in Thermal bandages]

General Munro: I'd... like to take a few pictures... for the archives.

Leeloo: [Leeloo was taken a picture. Then she is surprised at the flash]


Letter from Gemini Croquette: [Korben receives a letter and upon opening it, the letter says outloud:] You're a winner!

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