He was a special forces soldier, but retired. He's the grumpy one.
This is Korben Dallas, played by Bruce Willis.
He was a special forces soldier, but retired. He's the grumpy one.
This is what the back of his shirt looks like. Of note, ALL of the costumes in this move were designed by Jean Paul Gaultier.
He drives a beat-up future-NYC cab.
This is Leeloo, played by a 19/20-year old Milla Jovovich; she's a recently-revived 5000+ year old superhuman mystical heroine who can save the world, and is also known as The Fifth Element.
Luc Besson, the director, married Jovovich after filming (He had to divorce his current wife, who played the Diva, first.)
This is the outfit she's put in after she's revived post-assassination.
Here she is, escaping from the lab by leaping off a building. She lands in Korben Dallas's cab.
This is the outfit she chooses for herself, from the priest's closet.
This is the priest of the Fifth Element, who went on to be a famous hobbit, pictured with his nervous apprentice.
This is his apprentice in a silly hat.
All of these jokers go to a tropical planet called Fhloston to retrieve the other elements (stone representations of them, that is) from another agent.
This is Fhloston Parasdise, a spaceship-cruiseship-hotel resort thing. There's an Opera House in there, too.
On the way, they meet Rhuby Rhod, a famous galactic radio show host. This is Rhuby Rhod.
Rhuby Rhod flirts with the freckled flight attendants en route. Luc Besson wrote his character for Prince, but he was played by Chris Tucker.
On Fhloston, they meet the Diva Plavalaguna, who has the stones to give to Leeloo & Company. She is there to perform an aria. We first meet her in a veil.
She performs to raucous applause.
But then she is shot and killed, and Korben has to pull the stones out of her belly :/
They escape on Zorg's ship.
Zorg is the billionaire/arms dealer/robber baron who has been funding and helping the Great Evil all this time. He is played by Gary Oldman, who hated the role, and was only doing it because Besson bribed him by funding another film for him. He's pictured here with his main henchman, played by Tricky from Massive Attack.
And this is the Evil, a giant fire planet that wants to destroy all life. It can fly.
This is Leeloo learning English. She speaks "the divine language" at first. This basically means she talks like a cavewoman for 90% of the movie.
On the way to the temple where Leeloo and her pet rocks will defeat the Evil and save humanity, she reads about atrocities :(
The President of the Galaxy is on the line for a lot of this. He's handsome.
Leeloo is very upset by the history of human war; she questions her mission. Should she even save us?
In the temple, the menfolk struggle to arrange the other four elements around Leeloo while she has an existential crisis.
Leeloo asks Korben what's so good about humanity, anyway?
Korben convinces her with the power of love (and kisses).
Then Leeloo is able to channel the elements and stop the Evil from killing everyone.
The evil planet becomes another moon.
And they all lived happily after.