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Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)
- WalterGR 6mo ago(2019)
- sschueller 6mo agoOff topic but Milla Jovovich just released an AI memory called mempalace: https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace
- dmos62 6mo agoInteresting to see programming and acting worlds cross-pollinate.
- electroglyph 6mo agonah, a crypto grifter released one with cooked benchmarks
- notachatbot123 6mo agoThere is zero history of her programming. This is a scam, using her name.
- QuantumNomad_ 6mo agoThe Wikipedia article about her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milla_Jovovich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milla_Jovovich links to https://www.millaj.com/ https://www.millaj.com/ which links to her Instagram http://instagram.com/millajovovich/ http://instagram.com/millajovovich/ where the bio reads: > Mother/Actress/Architect of MemPalace free and open source on GitHub And the linktree from the Instagram profile links to https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace
- Cpoll 6mo agoThe parent post didn't say "unauthorized." Plenty of scams use celebrities' names/reputations and compensate then for it. See: just about every pump-and-dump cryptocoin.
- NoSalt 6mo agoWHAT?!?!? Surely you aren't telling me that the Hawk Tuah girl didn't create her own coin from scratch.
- diimdeep 6mo agoThis is what you get combining shameless bunch of famous B-rated movie star, crypto dudes and Automatic programming hype (Claude in contibs) https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace/graphs/contributors https://github.com/milla-jovovich/mempalace/graphs/contribut... But it is so dumb that it doesn't even add to the drift towards greater Idiocracy clock values.
- nixass 6mo agoher partner "engineered" it while she "architected", whatever that means in this particular case
- IOT_Apprentice 6mo agoIt means she came up with the idea and partnered with someone to build the code. Pretty simple to understand.
- grenoire 6mo agoI love this movie so much it's _unreal_. What an experience, every single time. And each time I see an article like this, I simply marvel at the immense love for art and life it has. What an incredibly talented crew, what product of mastery and care.
- sixtyj 6mo agoHe continued with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The Fifth Element has similar cinematic feeling as the first Blade Runner. And now it is clear. There is the same person behind it :)
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- simonh 6mo agoValerian was fun, but I really don't think it held together. Great set piece scenes though.
- Cthulhu_ 6mo agoValerian missed the mark; I'm sure it's got great designs (although I also believe it's mostly CGI), but the story of the movie is disjointed (which is a risk when trying to merge multiple storylines into one) and the actors are lifeless.
- throwa356262 6mo agoI really liked Valerian. The story was fine and I expected Cara to be crap but she was actually fine. I did however very much hated Dane DeHaan's annoying voice.
- vidarh 6mo agoI've grown to like Valerian over rewatches, but unfortunately it suffers from Besson being a massive Valerian fanboy and trying to stuff everything he possibly could into it... I think he'd have done far better if he'd gotten a more limited budget, or had to produce three of them for the cost of the one he did...
- tomaytotomato 6mo agoI have fond memories of the Fifth Element, as one of my first PG-13 movies at the cinema that I was allowed to see as a 9-10 year old. Looking back, the whole story gives a different futuristic feel to the usual gloomy polluted dystopian earths, and feels a bit, "near-future". Seeing hover cars getting drive through McDonalds will forever be a future hope for me (my inner 10 year old self)
- Sam6late 6mo agoI was in Paris years ago and took these photos of the actual cab models that were on display. Enjoy https://imgur.com/a/txIHpJT https://imgur.com/a/txIHpJT
- jr3592 6mo agoWhere did you see these? I'd love to go next time I am in Paris.
- Sam6late 6mo agoIt was the HQ of French company, Alstom's French headquarters is located in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, near Paris, at 48 rue Albert Dhalenne, 93400 Saint-Ouen, France. The display shows original props from Luc Besson’s 1997 movie The Fifth Element — including Korben Dallas’s famous yellow flying taxi and the blue-and-silver NYPD police car. Alstom keeps these pieces on display as a fun tribute to their shared focus on city mobility.
- ModernMech 6mo agoThe article is missing one of the best futurescape shots in the whole movie! http://i.imgur.com/6W5InkH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6W5InkH.jpg That image is only on screen for like 2 seconds, but it tells a whole story and really pulled me into the film. The first half you're deep in the city, and then finally when you get to see it from afar, it seems like a whole real city instead of the few locales they shot. Also makes it feel like a continuity of our future instead of some random alien drama.
- rainingmonkey 6mo agoImgur is blocked in the UK, and last I checked blocked connections from VPNs too. Which scene are you referring to?
- ModernMech 6mo agoTry this one? http://www.vfxhq.com/1997/stills/fifth/welcome.jpg http://www.vfxhq.com/1997/stills/fifth/welcome.jpg It's the wide shot of NYC after they leave the spaceport.
- justinclift 6mo agoProbably not a good example. That one seems to be very low resolution unless I'm doing something wrong.
- ModernMech 6mo agoThere's another higher resolution one in the thread. If that one is blocked as well there's always reverse image search.
- msephton 6mo agoWorks in Opera with its built-in VPN.
- nntwozz 6mo agoThat's amazing, you always see flooded cities in the future this is out of the box thinking.
- tvshtr 6mo agoI have very vivid memories of watching it for the first time in the cinema (original run). I'm pretty sure I still have the ticket. I was spending winter break in the mountains, with some friends, completely snowed in. I bought the soundtrack too (on a cassette tape). Possibly the last decent movie of his.
- prhn 6mo agoI'm just here to share my love for this film. I'm a big movie fan. I've been watching the Fifth Element since high school, and I've only grown to appreciate it more and more as a film as I get older. It's so full of life, creativity, color, humor, and themes we can all relate to (purpose, love, loss, etc). This is peek Bruce Willis, and the movie is filled with other exceptional actors including Gary Oldman and Ian Holm. Milla Jovovich is extremely entertaining to watch as a sort fish-out-of-water, and I know Chris Tucker's character here isn't for everyone but in my opinion it's right on-brand for the film. Cracks me up every time for decades. Mostly the effects have aged really well. That's generally thanks to heavy use of practical effects, as this article highlights. I often get sad that this is becoming a lost art. Great filmmakers with big budgets are still doing this type of practical effects work (Nolan [Interstellar], Villeneuve [Dune]), but I think eventually it will be lost in time.
- stiiv 6mo agoAgreed -- it's a wonderful film, and deserves a special place right up there with Star Wars and Harryhausen for its practical effects. While the article mentions Moebius, I think this level of praise still merits an extra Incal callout, even if it just serves as a recommendation to those who want more of this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incal
- Cthulhu_ 6mo ago> but I think eventually it will be lost in time. I don't believe it to be honest; model making and painting remains a popular hobby for millions of people, the only question is whether filmmakers will want to use it. And recently, especially in e.g. Star Wars franchise entries, they have gone towards using models / sets again instead of just using CGI for everything.
- hypercube33 6mo agoCGI has amazing and always given me a wonderful advance for film making as a cinefile but I absolutely do not like how it replaced everything in movies for a while. Absolutely slop seeing actors in a green room trying to act through scenes and sfx puke we get instead of better directing, practical effects and magic of movies. I agree that now we are finding our way back to a balance of using everything together to tell stories and I'm personally here for it.
- BadBadJellyBean 6mo agoI really like how well the movie aged. I recently watched it with my wife, who had never seen it, and she was hooked. Most of the effects hold up very well today and the movie is just fun.
- jacquesm 6mo agoWhat I like most about the Fifth Element is that they didn't milk it through a bunch of sequels.
- jeandejean 6mo agoVery true, but I can't help but want a sequel haha. Maybe that desire proves your point... Let our imagination do the rest
- LiquidSky 6mo agoYet!
- throwa356262 6mo agoI think this one deserved at least one sequel. Speaking of sequels, who in the star wars universe will get their own show next? Based on who is left, i put my money on Exogorth.
- vidarh 6mo agoFifth Element is pretty much Besson doing Valerian before he was able to get funding for Valerian, so we kinda did get a spiritual sequel of sorts. Unfortunately, while I've grown to like the Valerian movie, when compared to Fifth Element it would seem that Besson should have been given a far tighter budget for Valerian rather than the apparent near free reign he got.
- mgoetzke 6mo agoFor Valerian he should have been better at casting people that had chemistry and felt real
- ticulatedspline 6mo agoI desperately wanted to like Valerian since I love Fifth Element, while visually striking the story line was pretty meh and OMG the casting was horrible. I think I could casually enjoy it even with the bad story if they had done better job casting.
- nntwozz 6mo agoLEELOO DALLAS MULTIPASS https://youtu.be/RdqiaNsKR2E https://youtu.be/RdqiaNsKR2E
- aresant 6mo agoIf you enjoyed the Fifth Element absolutely watch Jodorowsky's Dune https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/ On the cover it's a story about the failed production of Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune script but the deeper story was the aggregation of an unbelievably talented pool of visual artists including Jean "Moebius" Giraud (mentioned as central artist in 5th element), H.R. Giger, Chris Foss, Salvador Dali, & Dan O'Bannon. That group would go on to centrally influence the visual style of a huge body of science fiction work including Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Star Wars, The Matrix, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc etc. The art and creativity on display in the film is absolutely sonic. Kind of like the original PayPal mafia!
- ChoGGi 6mo agoI wouldn't want to watch that again, as I'm just reminded we'll never get to see his Dune. I'm still holding out hope for a cartoon of The Incal.
- Jordan-117 6mo agoExcellent article. And a great opportunity to share one of my favorite scifi worldbuilding artifacts: the 4K matte painting used for the brief view of Manhattan during the take-off sequence: http://web.archive.org/web/20161007133354if_/http://digitaldomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/The_Fifth_Element_04.jpg http://web.archive.org/web/20161007133354if_/http://digitald... The overall vision for the city is implicit but wildly creative: sea levels have dropped significantly, with the architecture of the city spreading across the newly-exposed land and leaving original structures like the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan's skyscrapers, and the Statue of Liberty towering above the landscape. There are also oodles of tiny details scattered throughout the image -- you can pore over it for a good 10 minutes and still find more to appreciate. Very cool of Digital Domain to share it originally.
- pavel_lishin 6mo agoWent to add this to my rotation wallpaper collection, only to realize it's already there.
- dylan604 6mo agoOne of the photog friends I have works on shooting panos of city sky lines that are used for the modern version of the matte paintings used to fill the windows in studio shoots. It's impressive to see them in person. I took the extended WB back lot tour years ago, and part of the tour was through the matte painting shop. The scale is very impressive. To see artists on 12' ladders to work on it was a nice "human for scale" during the tour. The circular/sphere real time screen backgrounds Favro at Disney/StarWars is using for The Mandolorian is also neat tech as well.
- NoSalt 6mo agoThis scene takes place so fast, and my attention is always on the departing ship, that I never noticed the fine background details. Thanks a bunch for posting this great image!
- hypercube33 6mo agoThe firth element is probably my favorite movie and I too never noticed the obvious that this single shot shows. Wild and thank you as well for sharing it!
- anigbrowl 6mo agoThis is actually a reprint of a 1997 article, rather than being from 2019.