History Fridge / TheFifthElement

** Given how many people go through the airport in a single day, it probably wouldn't take all that long.

** So the five elements are [[CaptainPlanet Earth, Fire, Wind, Water and Heart?]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Leeloo could teach Ma-Ti a thing or seven. Thousand.]] - The Deviations

*** The novelization specifically says there is now a second moon.

* Exactly how long has the trash strike been going on? That pile of trash takes up half the concourse, and is like a wall. People walk by and no one comments on the smell (or is wearing some kind of mask to filter out the smell!)

* It makes for a lovely dramatic moment and all, but one gets the feeling Leeloo was a little...sporadic with her reading if she got all the way to "W" before hitting a topic that would drive home how [[HumansAreBastards rotten]] humans can be.

** You'd assume that, coupling the higher altitudes of the city and the pollution that's down in the lower levels, people have become accostumed to breathing in harsh environments.

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** Plus, humans don't have long-term problems with unassisted breathing until you get to about 15,000 feet above sea level. Lots of planes fly ''lower'' than that (in fact, unless the pilot has supplemental oxygen, planes ''have'' to fly lower than that, which includes quite a bit of non-commercial civil aviation.)

-Tropers/{{Circeus}}
* While Leeloo's reaction to the 'war' page is still [[{{Narm}} way too over-the-top]], the climax made me realize why she broke down so hard. [[spoiler: Leeloo is the element of ''love''. Of course she freaked out at the idea of war.]]
** YMMV on its narm levels. Anyone who has truly known and understood the depth and breadth of humanity's wars... it practically takes a heart of stone not to weep openly.
** Not to mention she just woke up after 5,000 years of being in a stasis. You'd probably lose your shit too if you woke up thousands of years later to discover all of the unbelievable atrocities people have committed in your absence and how you weren't around to prevent any of it. Hell, she probably felt somewhat responsible given that she had saved the Earth thousands of years prior and ''THIS'' was the result of a saved planet!?

* There's nothing horrific in the encyclopedia that starts with a letter that comes before W, apparently.
** Maybe she missed a few entries. Even with her accelerated learning and perception, she was scanning that encyclopedia pretty fast, and she only found "War" when she deliberately searched for it, after witnessing actual atrocities first-hand. Maybe her subconscious even made her avoid all of the entries that were negative beforehand, so as to prevent a HeroicBSOD like what happened at the end and would have doomed the whole mission if it hadn't been for Korben.

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* I got it early on, but a lot of people are surprised and impressed at the hidden depth of ''The Fifth Element''. Everyone thinks "Yay, WaifFu saves the world, go Leeloo!" until a later re-viewing reveals [[spoiler:that the fifth element is not Leeloo. It's ''love.'']]--{{Indigo}}

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** Surgery. It's a bigger question just how she got them ''in''. They are very big stones, and it looks like their combined volume is more than could possibly fit inside her stomach and ribcage, even assuming that she has no vital organs.

** Actually, the implication is that the rivers and probably most of the Harbor have been ''drained'' to make more room (The Statue of Liberty isn't on a tower, that's what's left of Liberty Island itself). They didn't build up, they built ''down''!

*** The novelization specifically says there is now a second moon. -Tropers/{{Circeus}}

** That's only Fridge Logic for people who don't associate 1914 with WWI. Anyone with passing familiarity with history would get the reference immediately.

* You know it just occurred to me, while reading the entry above. New York is basically a bunch of gigantic skyscrapers - right? Not only it would be very difficult for people to breathe at such height (I think it's where airplanes fly right now, no?), it's freezing up there. Sure, the latter could be explained by all the vapor that occurs in the city. But what about air? And here is something - the reason for New York to become this way is overpopulation and lack of space. Yet the temple in Egypt is so stand alone, that makes you wonder why didn't humans build their city outwards? I mean, sure, Egypt is rather far (different continent no less), but does that means that others are not faced with overpopulation?

* What happened to glove she was wearing, her body was literally formed around it and then it's gone.

* You know it just occured to me, while reading entry above. New York is basically a gigantic skyscrapers - right? Not only it would be very difficult for people to breath at such height (i think it's where air planes fly right now no?) it's freezing up there. Sure the latter could be explained by all the vapor that occurs in the city. But what about air? And here is something - the reason for New York to become this way is overpopulation and lack of space. Yet the temple in Egypt is so stand alone, that makes you wonder why didn't humans build their city outwards? I meant sure Egypt is rather far (different continent no less) but does that means that others are not faced with overpouplation?

* The SaveTheVillain scene seems to simply show us that Vito is good and would help everyone if he has to, even if he hates doing so. But at the same time he also saves earth. As we later see Mr. Shadow stoped only because Zorg was going to get him the stones, but as soon as that fails he starts to accelerate to earth again. If Zorg had died earlier, there would have been not enough time to get to Phloston and get the stones.

** Strange that Leelo after doing it sometimes over still doesn't seem to know how to activate her power.

*** Every five thousand years evil tries; going back through infinity. The moon would only appear the last time EVIL NEARLY WON.

* While Leelo's reaction to the 'war' page is still [[{{Narm}} way too over-the-top]], the climax made me realize why she broke down so hard. [[spoiler: Leelo is the element of ''love''. Of course she freaked out at the idea of war.]]

* At two instances in the film, we get mention of how "old tricks are the best tricks". The Colonel mentions it to Korben Dallas regarding how the military [[spoiler: rigged the Gemini Croquet contest so Korben would win.]] The other is when Zorg is showing off the ZF-1, regarding everything but the Replay feature as "oldies but goldies". This isn't unintentional. The movie is subtly telling us that [[spoiler: Leelo is going to win in the end. She's the '''oldest''' trick/weapon that the human race have.]]

** WordOfGod states that the fifth element is sex. Which is [[FridgeBrilliance brilliant]], since in some philosophies whole world (and life) was created by mixing the elements. And taking something from two things, then mixing it together creating something new is all what breeding is about.