![]() ![]() You have the emotionally distant overly-masculine hero the frail, scared, and emotionally unstable and weak damsel in distress requiring saving the evil villain bent on destroying the world and then the too dumb to get anything done henchmen to carry out everything. Everything is cliché and standard to this point. They even have the wise old man with his apprentice supposed to have the information to save everybody. They then proceed to introduce Zorg as the evil villain as well as stereotypically dumb henchmen who don't know enough to ask about the little red button. Her character is also intentionally annoying just like foreigners often are to natives. She's the character the audience is supposed to relate to because we don't know anything other than who some people are and fragments of plot. As an audience, we don't know what's going on either so we're in the same boat as her. She's naked and scared and has no idea what is going on. Then they introduce the damsel in distress character, LeeLoo. Most movies aren't as forceful about it, but this one does so intentionally which is why it comes across as annoying at first. The movie is almost force-feeding to the audience, "hey, he's the overly macho hero". They even joke about him being too emotionally distant in his apartment. They literally shove that into your face at the beginning by showing the long list of weapons required for the mission on a cartoonish scroll falling from the general's hand. ![]() He's intentionally overly masculine and emotionally distant. Bruce Willis's Korben Dallas is not the character you're supposed to relate to, he's the focus of the story, but he's a caricature of his own Die Hard character John McClane. The Fifth Element quite literally takes stereotypical archetypes of both character and genre to weave its own tapestry. The movie is as much a satire as it is a film of its own merit. It was cliché after cliché after cliché." The Fifth Element isn't quite a magnum opus, but instead it falls into a niche area of film making that is extremely difficult to be successful with. Many old movies that have been declared classics or have grown a beloved fanbase often have a joke associated to them: "I watched the movie and hated it. If you can watch it today and think to yourself, "seemed like a regular movie to me" then that alone should at least give you some sort of context for just the quality of the movie it is and why it's beloved. Let me preface this with some context the movie was released in 1997 and is nearly 20 years old. Latest Discussions The Batman Texas Chainsaw Massacre Uncharted Roland Emmerich Jamie Dornan Robert Pattinson (2017) The Big List of Movie-Related Subreddits.Our Full Rules and Wiki Filter Posts by Link FlairĬlick 'spoiler' after posting something to give it a spoiler tag! The post will then be hidden like this.įor leaked info about upcoming movies, twist endings, or anything else spoileresque, please use the following method: ![]()
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