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The Fifth Element (1997): An Aria for Humanity (www.brightwalldarkroom.com)

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This is a beautifully written and incisive article that I chanced upon this evening. I don't know how we happened on the subject of the film, but my wife wondered aloud if there was a chance that the diva's performance was authentic, meaning voiced by a single person in real time. To my knowledge, there's no way for a human to be polyphonic to the extreme degree of the diva, but I tried to dig up some info on the subject anyway, eventually coming across this lovely piece. I hope you'll find it, as I did, an brief respite from the terrible reality in which we find ourselves. ✌️

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is anything else of Luc Besson's worth watching? We haven't heard much of him since Fifth Element here in America, but Americans are ignorant about cinema generally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A lot of them, in no particular order:
The Big Blue
Leon
District 13
Taxi
Nikita
Transporter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Leon aka The Professional is pretty good, but haven't seen his other films. Gary Oldman has a good role in this. I have to rewatch though to see how it's aged.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Leon: The Professional is pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" was OK... but the two leads were miscast and the script got a little bland. Still, the movie definitely has its moments.