Blog Entry # 4

Visual Culture, Art history, and Fashion Design can all be viewed in excellent detail: in a Movie. The Fifth Element.

1. The Fifth Element demonstrates a fully realized fictional world. The Movie was an idea that Luc Besson had since he was a youngster, taken his time to develop the world before he actually developed the story. With the help of Jean Paul Gaultier as fashion designer, they helped bring Besson’s Dream into reality. And what it was is a fully colorful mix of races, places, ships, wars, conflicts, lore, society, politics and marked an achieve in the movie industry for special effects.

2. Firstly the entire movie is set in the future, with a completely different society and trends. All the buildings were actually made and modeled to reflect the n eeds of a society in space. And with the movie being a futuristic society Jean Paul Gaultier designed clothing that Reflected the needs of and wants of a futuristic society. As well as adding additional layers of information into the clothing of the main characters, Like Corbin Dallas (Bruce Willis), who is a rough and tough typical ex-soldier who runs into/falls in love with a redhead alien women looking to save the planet. Jean Paul Gaultier Took that too heart when designing Corbin’s outfit with a orange tank-top and cargo pants his a hard and tough guy yet if you look close to the white tank top you can see and intricate design that is both delicate and romantic too reflect Corbin’s Soft Side. Movies seldom are original in today’s society, The Fifth element is original and fully developed, and that extraordinarily rare.

3. Luc Besson before The Fifth Element, was mostly into crime dramas Most notable was his piece Leon – The Professional. So in a line of Crime Dramas, The Fifth element seems kinda of out of place, but like I’ve stated before this was a dream of his since he was a kid. Jean Paul Gaultier is a world re-nouned fashion designer and make new and unusual cloths that carried meanings really wasn’t anything new for him.

4. Dominance takes the form as the story in the fifth element. A story so complex with multiple characters all focused on a central problem either to help it or destroy it. Love takes the cake as solution to the problem, which is corney as hell, and the solution is what they all strive for and what the story apex is, so Love is the dominance in The Fifth Element.

5. Humanity is seen as just another race in the galaxy with no real special identifiers. With both alien and human celebrities we all just fall into the world and what you make out of your life is what you work for.

6. I understand that huge tasks can be accomplished. Like carrying an idea for decades and developing and saving it for when I feel the world is ready.