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| | Character name: | "Leeloo"
| | Appears in: | The Fifth Element (Film)
| | Date(s): | May 1997
| Award(s):
| Milla Jovovich received 5 nominations for her character role "Leeloo"; The nominations are as follows:
Saturn Award
- Best Supporting Actress
Blockbuster Entertainment
Award
- Favorite Female Newcomer
MTV Movie Award
- Best Fight
Razzie Award
- Worst Supporting Actress
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Character back story:
In 1914, an ancient race of good aliens called the Mondoshawan, took the 5th Element away from Earth for fear that it was no longer safe. They have predicted that the World Wars was bound to break out on Earth after 500 years. The Fifth Element is the only defense that the Universe has against the ultimate evil.
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| Unknown | | Occupation: | Extraterrestial
The Fifth Element
Saving the Universe | | Personality type: | Childlike
| | Signature look: | Striking orange hair | | Resides: | Federated Teritories,
New York, U.S.A.
| Character connections:
Father Cornelius - a priest living descendant of the group of Priests that passed on from one generation to the next, the knowledge and secrets of the Fifth Element and the Mondoshawan. He is the only one who understands the Divine Language.
Korben Dallas - the driver of the taxi cab where Leeloo dives into to escape the scientists in the laboratory.
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases: | "Mul-ti-pass!"
"Me fifth element - Supreme being.
Me protect you."
"Everything you create, you use to destroy."
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| Inspiration for film and character:
| - Some of the elements of the story of The Fifth Element are reminiscent of the Harry Canyon segment in the 1981 animated film Heavy Metal. Both stories feature a world-weary taxi driver in a dystopian future New York City who accidentally encounters a beautiful woman, who is at the center of a conflict involving an evil entity.
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Film Poster for Heavy Metal | - Additionally, The Fifth Element shares narrative elements with the French comic book series Valérian, which takes place in a highly-stylized future metropolis and features a masculine protagonist assigned to protect a seemingly vulnerable female character. The female character is named Laureline and is depicted with artificially red hair, while in The Fifth Element, Leeloo has orange hair. In Valérian it is ultimately Laureline who saves her male protector from the comic's main antagonist, also named Zorg.
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Valérian et Laureline
(Click on image to view) | - Several scenes pay homage to Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
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| | Fun facts/trivia: |
- Leeloo's full name is "Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat". According to the subtitles in English DVD Region 1
- "The Divine Language" spoken by Leeloo was invented by director Luc Besson and further refined by Milla Jovovich. By the end of filming they were able to have full conversations in this language.
- The only phrases from Leeloo's alien language that are included in the captioning are "mlarta," "big ba-dah big boom," "akta," "seno akta gamat," "san agamat chay bet. Envolet," "danko," "domo danko," and "apipoulai." Everything else appears as Unknown Language or, after it's specified, the Divine Language.
- The number 5 appears in the movie on several obvious occasions. There are 5 elements. Zorg stops his bomb with 5 seconds remaining on the timer and the Mangalore's bomb starts with a 5 second timer. Ruby Rhod, near the end of the movie after the alien planet is stopped, says, "There's a bomb going off every 5 minutes!" and the doctor at the end says that Leeloo and Korben need 5 more minutes. Also Ruby Rhod's show is at 5.
- At the time, this was the most expensive production in Gaumont's history and the most expensive film ever produced outside of Hollywood.
- At US$80 million, the special-effects budget of the film was the highest of its time.
- Although largely set in a futuristic New York City, the film was a French production, with most of the principal photography filmed at Pinewood Studios in England. Some scenes were also shot on location in Mauritania. The concert scenes were filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, except for the special effect shots that show the Planet Fhloston through the ship's portholes. The Fifth Element was shot in Super 35 mm film format. Many scenes contain visual effects, and nearly all of visual effects scenes are hard-matted.
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| | Character name: | "Alice"
| | Appears in: | Resident Evil Series (Film)
- Resident Evil
- RE: Apocalypse
- RE: Extinction
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2003 Nominated for Best Actress for Resident Evil (2002) - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films
2008 Won the Best Actress in a Science Fiction Movie or TV Show for her portrayal of Alice in Resident Evil: Extinction. - Spike TV Scream Awards
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| Character back story:
Alice is a fictional character and the primary heroine of the Resident Evil film series, based on the Resident Evil video game series. Though she does not appear in the games, she does eventually interact with a number of characters from the games including Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliveira, Claire Redfield and Nemesis. Alice plays a principal role in each films, the storylines all somewhat revolving around her and the struggle with the Umbrella Corporation (the company she used to work for). In Resident Evil, she is displayed as suffering from amnesia. In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, her character is portrayed as tough and rugged, as she is more familiar with the situation surrounding her. She also plays a similar role in Resident Evil: Extinction. Apart from the films, she appears in the film's novelizations where her background is explained, however, the novels are not considered canon.
Alice is portrayed by Milla Jovovich in all three films and is also known as Alice Abernathy and Janus Prospero. The Umbrella corporation, however, has been known to refer to her as Project Alice or Program Alice.
At first, Alice was a security operative working in a underground research facility known as "The Hive". The facility is run by a mega corporation called Umbrella, and Alice is in charge of guarding a secret entry into the facility with spouse Spencer Parks.
After an outbreak of the T-Virus, Alice is taken into the facility with a rescue team, however the virus takes the toll of each member, and Alice eventually escapes with companion Matt Addison but both are captured, taken away, and experimented upon by Dr. Isaacs.
In the 2004 horror film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Alice is one of few survivors after the T-Virus breaks out onto the streets of Raccoon City from the underground facility. She is released by Umbrella as a test subject to match the power of Umbrella's new experiment Nemesis.
In Resident Evil: Extinction the T-Virus has infected the planet and Alice was left on her own trying to keep her friends out of danger from Umbrella. Later Alice teams up with a convoy of survivors where she tries to help them find a safe place from the infection.
| | Age: | 31
| | Occupation: | Ex-secuirty operative for Umbrella
| | Personality type: | Mysterious
She is primarily portrayed in Apocalypse and Extinction as a "a supremely efficient killing machine" and bio-weapon, while in the first film, she is shown first recognizing her abilities as a highly trained, but human security operative. | | Signature look: | Resident Evil
- Red Dress with high Boots
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Tatered Hodge-podge military clothes
Resident Evil: Extinction
The walking, talking, Kukhri knife wielding, bio-weapon and supreme being
| | Resides: | Racoon City | Character connections:
Spence Parks - Former Husband; fake marriage used for cover at the Hive
Carlos Olivera - A member of the U.B.C.S. Delta Platoon, Company A, and is in charge of handling heavy weapons, along with other duties such as local procurement, rear security and arms maintenance.
In Resident Evil: Apocalypse he met Alice in the school while they were conducting a search and resue for Angela Ashford.
On Resident Evil: Extinction, the two cross paths once again after Alice left them years ago when they "rescued" her in one of Umbrellas Facilities in Racoon City.
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases: |
"My name is Alice and I remember everything."
"Theres a cure!"
"My name is Alice. I worked for the Umbrella Corporation, the largest and most powerful commercial entity in the world. I was head of security at a secret high-tech facility, The Hive, a giant underground laboratory developing experimental viral weaponry. But there was an incident. The virus escaped and everybody died. Trouble was... they didn't stay dead."
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| Inspiration for character:
| Alice was an original character created for the film, although writer Paul W.S. Anderson noted that Alice was based from the ideals of the strong women archetypes in the Resident Evil games. Anderson initially toyed with the idea of the film being an allegory to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but the idea was not followed through. Despite that, the movie contains various references to the work. That included the concept of Alice's name.
| Although the name Alice was given as the character's name previous to Resident Evil's release, her name is not said during any parts of the film; it is however, listed in the credits. R esident Evil: Apocalypse is the first instance of the use of Alice as the character's name. In Apocalypse, for a brief moment in the film, a document is shown having Alice's name as Janus Prospero.
According to the Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction websites, and a promotional document released by Screen Gems called The Raccoon City Times, Alice is a nickname and Janus Prospero is the character's real name; this is never further explored or mentioned in any of the films. In the novel, her name is revealed to be Alice Abernathy, and like Prospero, it was never explored in any of the films. |
In Resident Evil Alice is shown as an "ass-kicking amnesiac" and since then she has been an "iconic figure and is closely associated with the series", becoming far more skilled and rugged since her first appearance. She is primarily portrayed in Apocalypse and Extinction as a "a supremely efficient killing machine" and bio-weapon, while in the first film, she is shown first recognizing her abilities as a highly trained, but human security operative.
Alice's superhuman abilities, as well as the use of various styles of martial arts and gun play have made her an almost super hero style of character.
Some have criticized the character of Alice, believing her to be a Mary Sue because she is an original character, supposedly portrayed as Anderson's concept of what "bad ass", "all powerful", and "totally awesome" are. The argument of IGN writer Scott Collura, is that Alice "completely devoid of depth" and the concept of a Mary Sue, "pretty much describes Alice to a 'T'". |
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- The twin kukhri knives Alice uses in Resident Evil: Extinction are a visual reference to Resident Evil: Apocalypse in which she uses two batons to fight Umbrella guards. The image was used on many promotional images and the film posters. The kukhri knife props have an aluminum blade with wood handles, and measure approximately 19.5 inches. She also uses many different varieties of automated weapons, such as machine guns, pistols and the iconic zombie-slayer, the shotgun.
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