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Excellent commentary. A few bullet points I'd like to mention:

1. It's pronounced Yovovich. I'm always quick to point this out to people because I have a similar problem with my last name. People are always saying it wrong, so I just tell them, "It rhymes with sandwich".

2. The guy Trey said was Mos Def, is actually UK Trip-Hop sensation, Tricky. He works with Massive Attack a lot (I don't have the info in front of me, but I think he may have even been one of the original members).

3. Luc Besson originally wrote The Fifth Element when he was 16 (which if you ask me, helps to explain some of the more immature and over-sexual aspects).

3. Gary Oldman was originally very excited to do the project because he's a big Bruce Willis fan and was looking forward to working with him. We can all imagine his disappointment when he found out the reality of the situation. Even with that brief shot of them sort of crossing paths, Oldman and Willis didn't actually meet each other until the premiere.

4. The language of the Supreme Being (which I agree with maul2 is amazing) is a complete, working language made up by Besson. He and Milla are the only two people who can use and understand it. In fact, the two of them would communicate that way on set.

5. Milla was briefly married to Luc Besson for a year and a half, from December 14th, '97 to June 12th, '99.

Tricky was also married to bjork.

TThis movie does a great job of creating a very in depth lived in world. One of my all time faves. I may have bought the sound track 3 times. Most of the effects still hold up today imo.

Okay, now you're just making up names.

Yeah, we didn't have much to say about the movie, all told. Ya'll voted for it.

I had a really close friend growing up, an Indian girl, and we had what I thought was a little secret language that we shared. Which her mother later informed me was Hindi. So at some point in my childhood I apparently kind of knew Hindi without realizing it.

A better test would have been to have told one of them something, had them communicate it to the other, and ask the other what was said.

Yeah actually come to think of it, no. I have never known any twins...weird.

EDIT: Just watched "Oh Brother Where Art Thou"...I see what you mean. Also, I love George Clooney.

Finally got around to listening. I agree it was more of a "watching with your friends" vibe then actually talking about the film, but that's OK. It's an excuse to watch the movie again I had never noticed the Sanctuary manga in his apartment before- it's a great book, if you can track it down, as well as a good live action film. Two child survivors of the Killing Fields grow up in Japan and decide to jointly remake society from both ends- one runs for public office and the other joins the yakuza.

I think this movie is the reason for my love of the music genre 'Opera Metal'- fantastic female singers with a great metal band behind them (and often a male death metal singer for a fun counterpoint). If you haven't heard Nightwish, check them out