![]() ![]() The wide, reinforced necks are provocative and far beyond even the fashion of now - but they just about manage to not look like couture spacesuits. Ruby Rhod, the larger-than-life, flamboyant radio host, has more than his fair share of great outfits. But those English guys working on the set were whistling and stuff.” The skimpy, iconic get up (and Leeloo's orange hair) had a massive impact on not only the film, but thousands of cosplayers for years to come. The design even took model-actress Jovovich some bravery to step out in, as she told Entertainment Weekly that the costume, “was a bit embarrassing,” adding, “in the fashion world, most of the guys are gay and they have the etiquette not to notice. Jovovich’s nudity and near-nudity, intended to show her vulnerability and naivety, manages to sit just this side of voyeuristic despite how much some horned-up nerds might enjoy it. The piece takes direct inspiration from Gaultier’s underwear-as-outerwear collections, and has been the Halloween costume of brave souls ever since. ![]() Her first costume is some strategically placed restraints that form into a bodysuit/dress when she escapes her confinement. When we meet Leeloo she’s naked, but she soon dons an outfit - if by accident. Here we celebrate just a few of the thousand. Gaultier’s costumes were bright and fun they took inspiration from his previous collections while incorporating non-traditional materials and a futuristic vision.Įven after 20 years, Gaultier’s costumes remain an incredible and necessary feat of design. The costumes are colourful, exciting, and a world away from the grim rain-soaked worlds of predecessors like Blade Runner (1982). For a thousand costumes, he may have even done 5,000 sketches before narrowing it down”. ![]() It’s an incredible amount of work people don’t even know about. Speaking at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Gaultier retrospective, Thierry-Maxime Loriot commented on Gaultier’s attention to detail, saying, “a thousand costumes is like 10 collections but all for one movie. The film would likely not have had quite the same impact without Gaultier’s obsessive commitment. On board to design them was former enfant terrible of the design world Jean Paul Gaultier, who created over 1000 ostentatious, bright, detailed costumes for the film even honing in on the details of characters in crowd shots. While the rest of the visuals are pretty impressive, it's the costumes that tie the whole thing together. Besson and his team, which included renowned cinematographer Thierry Arbogast and production designer Dan Wiel, worked together with the $90 million budget to bring Besson’s vision to life. What makes The Fifth Element so much fun is not only its fast pace and dialogue, but its visuals. However, it was and still is fiercely adored it's exciting, a lot of fun, and revolutionised a genre that can so often be oppressively dire. It’s not hard to see why the film, then the most expensive non-US one ever made, was overly long, full of holes, and in need of, “fierce trimming”, as Roger Ebert noted at the time. She then clarified her meaning, saying, "As an actor, I have a great short term memory - I can memorize a lot of things quickly, then forget it quickly." Despite that, Jovovich clearly holds the language and her experience making "The Fifth Element" very dear to her heart, with her official website providing links to various fanmade dictionaries and other sources that people can use to learn more about the Divine Language.French director Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi The Fifth Elementwas, and still is, pretty polarising. Jovovich admitted in the 2017 interview that the only thing she remembers of the Divine Language is how to say her name. ![]() Besson spoke with Nerdist about how long it took him to write and create the world of "The Fifth Element," explaining that "when I started to write at 16 it was more like a novel," morphing to a film over the years until he finally shot his creation when he was 30 years old. For Jovovich, who speaks four languages - English, Russian, French, and Serbian - it probably wasn't too big of a task for her to get the hang of the Divine Language ( ). In the same interview, the actress explains that Besson's original language was actually created over the course of many years, with the director working on it as he wrote the film. ![]()
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