Greg said:
:Trevor Phillips <phillips@central.murdoch.edu.au>
:
:> You know, Fifth Element IS rather Anime-ish. Or maybe it's just that I
:> like Anime, and Fifth Element is one of my all-time favourite LA movies.
:> There are lots of similarities, tho. ^_^

    I think this is so because so much effort was spent into the
    visual detail surrounding the characters and their environments.
    No one talks about going to hear a movie.  So it's nice to be
    able to go see a movie that people will appreciate *seeing*.

    Most live-action films tend to focus on gratuitous melodrama,
    plot threads, sex, violence, or a badly-mixed cocktail of all
    four elements.  A different variety is good, even if the ending
    was a little too simplistic, IMHO.

:Lots of design works on the Fifth element was done by Me'ziere who is a
:french renowned comics artist. In fact, some of the movie's scenes really
:seems to have popped from his albums.

    Actually, I see a stronger influence from Jean "Moebius" Giraud,
    who is probably even more renouned than Jean-Claude Mezieres.

    There's supposed to be a book on the movie that should have the
    entire vocubulary to the "divine language" that Besson created
    (and Jovovich refined).  Is it out yet?


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