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Eric D. Snider<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/strong>present 13 Futuristic Facts About The Fifth Element<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 1. L\u00c9ON: THE PROFESSIONAL<\/strong><\/em> HELPED IT GET MADE. <\/span> 2. BESSON KIND OF WISHES IT HAD TAKEN EVEN LONGER TO GET IT MADE. <\/span> 4. IT BORROWED SOME IDEAS FROM PLATO. Eric D. Snider and Mental_Floss present 13 Futuristic Facts About The Fifth Element. Here are three of my favorites… 1. L\u00c9ON: THE PROFESSIONAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13637,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13636\/revisions\/13637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/b>Mad Frenchman Luc Besson had five features under his belt when he started working on The Fifth Element<\/em> in 1992. But his respectable track record wasn’t enough to pull in the kind of financial backing he needed for a futuristic sci-fi adventure. So after some pre-production work (including meeting with designers; see below), he put The Fifth Element<\/em> aside and\u2014in the course of 11 months\u2014wrote and directed L\u00e9on: The Professional<\/em>, starring Jean Reno, 13-year-old Natalie Portman, and future The Fifth Element<\/em> villain Gary Oldman. L\u00e9on<\/em>‘s strong showing ($45 million worldwide, on a $16 million budget) gave the people who controlled the purse strings more confidence in Besson’s ability to make The Fifth Element<\/em> a success, and the project was put back on track.<\/p>\n
\nHe explained to The Playlist: “I was a little bit frustrated because I made the film right before all the new effects arrived. So when I did the film it was all blue screen, six hours, dots on the wall, takes forever to do one shot. Now, basically, you put the camera on your shoulder and then you run and then you add a couple of dinosaurs and spaceships.” He said he’d love the chance to make another futuristic sci-fi film\u2014maybe even a sequel to The Fifth Element<\/em>\u2014now that technology has made it easier.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span>Maybe you knew this, but Luc Besson didn’t. He conceived The Fifth Element<\/em> as a teenager in the 1970s, taking the four classical elements (earth, water, wind, and fire) and combining them to make a fifth (life). Turns out that a lot of ancient people had already come up with the same basic concept, including the Greek philosopher. Besson said, \u201cWhen my father came across Plato\u2019s writings on the subject, he came to me with the book and said, \u2018Do you know that your movie is a remake?\u2019 I read it, and was amazed to see the similarities between what Plato had written and what I had put into the script\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"