
The Fifth Element Is Teenage Scifi
Alienating the Audience
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The Future Looks Bright
The cars have kind of like a 1950s Rolls Royce dimension to them. The entire military's been replaced by the space beret. They all look like 50 year old British Marshals about to invade Sicily in World War II, except they're in space. Even the gun that the priest has at one point looks like a 3D printed gun that somebody made in their garage and killed the Prime Minister of Japan with. It doesn't look like a solid gun. But it really swish and cool, like everybody's really stylized and looking really cool.
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