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packetmantis posted:Disclaimer: The Fifth Element is my favorite movie of all time and I rewatch it constantly. It's full of little moments, but one I somehow just noticed is from early on. When Korben is in his apartment talking to his mom, he lights up a cigarette with a match and the camera lingers on the single match left in the package. (Given the linger I'm not sure this counts as subtle but I just noticed it.) In the end when they're trying to activate the stones the last match is the one they end up using. drat, you discovered they main setup and payoff of the movie! But seriously, TFE is also my favorite movie despite Luc Besson being.... so very French.
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packetmantis posted:Disclaimer: The Fifth Element is my favorite movie of all time and I rewatch it constantly. It's full of little moments, but one I somehow just noticed is from early on. When Korben is in his apartment talking to his mom, he lights up a cigarette with a match and the camera lingers on the single match left in the package. (Given the linger I'm not sure this counts as subtle but I just noticed it.) In the end when they're trying to activate the stones the last match is the one they end up using. I also like that in the future cigarettes are about 75% filter, 25% tobacco.
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Sep 11, 2018 14:32
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Beautifully lavish and somewhat narratively muddled. I like that his cigarettes have giant filters and tiny tobacco rolls. Maybe there's a shortage. Never thought I'd get an efb on this, but here we are
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Sep 11, 2018 14:33
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Ends up the secret to not getting cancer is a filter that's 2/3rd the size of the cigarette. It just occurred to me that I've never seen TFE in high definition.
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Sep 11, 2018 14:46
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Does Oldman's character also have cigs with huge filters? It's been too long since I saw the film so I don't remember if he even smokes, but it would be a neat way to show class and lifestyle differences if the working stiff has to use cigarettes that are mostly filter while the wealthy guy doesn't.
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Sep 11, 2018 14:50
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I imagined it as cigarette companies slowly reducing the amount of tobacco in cigarettes over hundreds of years to increase profits.
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Sep 11, 2018 15:31
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The filter is actually a twix for an after smoke snack.
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Sep 11, 2018 15:55
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Krispy Wafer posted:It doesn’t matter if the Arachnids shot a plasma bolt into an asteroid field to push a rock into South America (they did). It’s whether the Federation let the rock hit on purpose. Pretty sure the mormon's were huge on westward expansion. If you accept space as a frontier,
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Sep 11, 2018 16:25
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I thought the point of the huge filters was that Korben was trying to quit them. "To quit is my goal" and all that.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:35
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TFE is a trash movie for trash people and I will loving fight anyone about it
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Sep 11, 2018 16:59
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Naw I’m playing, liking things is awesome and I’m glad my friends here enjoy it
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Sep 11, 2018 16:59
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Screaming Idiot posted:EDIT: nevermind, not opening this can of worms, but Seanbaby is Extremely Not Good Username delivers.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:15
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citybeatnik posted:I thought the point of the huge filters was that Korben was trying to quit them. "To quit is my goal" and all that. Ya, the filters are explicitly established as there because Korbin is quitting. The movie does a great job with low-tech/hi-tech with things like cigarettes being lit by wooden matches. A semi-irritating thing is that the Priest lives in what appears to be a building that is from the mid-20th century. Thing is, by that point it would be as old as something from 1800 to us and yet it looks like a 30 year old building from the wear and tear. That thing should be falling apart.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:22
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oldpainless posted:Naw I’m playing, liking things is awesome and I’m glad my friends here enjoy it More like old friend-list 
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Sep 11, 2018 17:29
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Pook Good Mook posted:Ya, the filters are explicitly established as there because Korbin is quitting. Futuristic renovation tech.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:30
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The Fifth Element is extremely cool and good despite Luc Besson being a creepy sex weird who had a kid with Maïwenn Le Besco when she was 16 and he was 31.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:37
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I'm pretty sure in France that's considered late.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:38
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And he left that model (the woman who played The Diva) for the lead actress because of that film. I don't know if he left her before or after she had his kid.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:53
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Aphrodite posted:I'm pretty sure in France that's considered late. Macron (the president) has a 24-25 year gap with his wife who he met when he was 15 and she was his teacher.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:54
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IUG posted:And he left that model (the woman who played The Diva) for the lead actress because of that film. I don't know if he left her before or after she had his kid. 4-ish years after. Luc Besson is a gross man.
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Sep 11, 2018 17:56
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oldpainless posted:TFE is a trash movie for trash people and I will loving fight anyone about it More like oldjoyless E:fb on the followup though
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Sep 11, 2018 19:40
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Pook Good Mook posted:Ya, the filters are explicitly established as there because Korbin is quitting. You've never been to Europe, have you?
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Sep 11, 2018 22:21
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The CRT monitors really haven't aged well for that movie. I guess the joke could be that these poor non-technical priests use 300 year old displays.
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Sep 11, 2018 22:31
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This is a movie where humanity's outer space border has a row of blinking lights and you're getting irritated by a priest's choice of home décor?
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Sep 12, 2018 02:28
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I thought the cigarette filter ratio thing and the "quitting is my goal" were supposed to indicate a disincentivization of smoking thing where the only way you can get cigarettes is in that format, like a logical extension of the smokers lungs on Marlboro packs in the UK and Canada.
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Silly Newbie posted:I thought the cigarette filter ratio thing and the "quitting is my goal" were supposed to indicate a disincentivization of smoking thing where the only way you can get cigarettes is in that format, like a logical extension of the smokers lungs on Marlboro packs in the UK and Canada. That was actually extremely sensible. And having McDonalds be a burlesque show
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Sep 12, 2018 02:49
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Silly Newbie posted:I thought the cigarette filter ratio thing and the "quitting is my goal" were supposed to indicate a disincentivization of smoking thing where the only way you can get cigarettes is in that format, like a logical extension of the smokers lungs on Marlboro packs in the UK and Canada. Yeah, I took it as an extension of putting warnings on the packs here, coupled with a new-agey Positive Affirmation™ thing that would have been a common target in the '90s. It sounds very proto-Positive Psychology.
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Sep 12, 2018 03:04
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Arcsquad12 posted:This is a movie where humanity's outer space border has a row of blinking lights and you're getting irritated by a priest's choice of home décor? As opposed to 4 pages devoted to the military tactics of space bugs.
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Sep 12, 2018 03:43
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Not really a subtle movie moment but it is awesome I reckon: In the Fifth Element, Korben Dallas and Zorg never actually meet or interact in any way. The closest they get is being on separate elevators on the cruise ship. Are there any other movies that do that with the protagonist and antagonist?
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Sep 12, 2018 03:46
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Burn After Reading, where the guy in charge of everything not only never meets the protagonists, he never knows they exist or that he's supposed to be in some sort of conflict with them.
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Sep 12, 2018 03:54
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I don't think Tommy Lee Jones ever meets up with Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men.
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It takes a bunch of movies before Bond ever meets Blofeld.
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Imagined posted:I don't think Tommy Lee Jones ever meets up with Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men. I think he almost does, but he walks away.
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Sep 12, 2018 04:20
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Schneider Inside Her posted:Not really a subtle movie moment but it is awesome I reckon: In the Fifth Element, Korben Dallas and Zorg never actually meet or interact in any way. The closest they get is being on separate elevators on the cruise ship. Are there any other movies that do that with the protagonist and antagonist? No Country For Old Men, the three leads never meet face to face the entire movie.
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Ferrule posted:As opposed to 4 pages devoted to the military tactics of space bugs. The arachnids would be smart enough to realize that waging war against Korben Dallas would be a bad idea.
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Sep 12, 2018 04:39
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Schneider Inside Her posted:Not really a subtle movie moment but it is awesome I reckon: In the Fifth Element, Korben Dallas and Zorg never actually meet or interact in any way. The closest they get is being on separate elevators on the cruise ship. Are there any other movies that do that with the protagonist and antagonist? That's really cool... The first thing that leaps to mind is the Professional (probably because of Gary Oldman on the brain), where Leon and he don't see each other until the final seconds. Doesn't quite fit the zero-contact thing though. Hm.
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Sep 12, 2018 04:56
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Wait, do Moss and Chiguhr actually meet in No Country for Old Men?
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Sep 12, 2018 04:59
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:Wait, do Moss and Chiguhr actually meet in No Country for Old Men? They're in the hotel together but they don't see each other (maybe Moss sees Chigurh as a silhouette in the window)
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Sep 12, 2018 06:08
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His hotel room door is popped open with the pneumatic bolt gun then he shoots the door and runs iirc
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They shoot at (and hit) each other a bunch of times, I think that counts as "meeting" even though they're in no mood to talk.
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