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The Fifth Element is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film's central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his cab. To accomplish this, Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against the impending attack of a malevolent cosmic entity.

Besson started writing the story that was developed as The Fifth Element when he was 16 years old; he was 38 when the film opened in cinemas. Besson wanted to shoot the film in France, but suitable facilities could not be found; filming took place in London and Mauritania instead. He hired comic artists Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières, whose books inspired parts of the film, for production design. Costume design was by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

The Fifth Element received mainly positive reviews, although some critics were highly negative. The film won in categories at the British Academy Film Award, the César Award, the Cannes Film Festival, and the Lumières Award, but also received nominations at the Golden Raspberry and Stinkers Bad Movie Award. The Fifth Element was a strong financial success, earning more than US$263 million at the box office on a $90 million budget. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive European film ever made, and it remained the highest-grossing French film at the international box office until the release of The Intouchables in 2011.

In 1914 aliens known as Mondoshawans meet their human contact, a priest of a secret order, at an ancient Egypt temple. They take the only weapon capable of defeating a great evil that appears every five thousand years. They promise to return the weapon before the great evil's re-emergence. The weapon consists of the four classical element, as four engraved stones, plus a sarcophagus containing a "fifth element".

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