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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 me away with them because they knew that the World Wars were about to break out on Earth. I am the only defense that the Universe has against the ultimate evil.
| Age:
| 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 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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| | Watch The Fifth Element Movie Trailer |
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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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