
The Fifth Element Is Teenage Scifi
Alienating the Audience
Gary Olden's Zorg
Zorg is based on one of Gary Olden's first films that he wanted to do independently. He just turned up without reading the script for this. It was like Zorg's a bit of a Bond villain. And then of course we get to the end of the film and you got the classic Roger Moore or Sean Connery Endom where they're banging in the... Christmas only comes once a year. Yeah, exactly. The prison must speak to you. The Queen Ress. They're banging in there. But Zorg has what's he got? He's got little bombs on his guns to blow up the enemy if they betray him. And he's got little devices implanted
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