“I only speak two languages. English, and bad English.”
– Korben Dallas (The Fifth Element)
Remember back when Bruce Willis had hair? Good times. I also remember the first time I saw this movie. So weird. So very weird. And so amazing. The Fifth Element was one of those movies that make you think about what the future could or might look like. You know it is unlikely that the future will look anything like this, but still. Nothing is impossible.
The Fifth Element is inspiring like any other futuristic movie might be inspiring. You see technologies that may or may not ever come into existence and wonder how cool something like that could be. That right there is the definition of inspiration. It might not be Webster’s definition, word for word, but it is there in the idea.
Inspiration isn’t about any definitive physical guidelines or mathematical rules that we currently rely on. Movies like The Fifth Element are about taking the impossible and creating the concept. Inspiring ideas. A lot of the technologies that come into existence tend to be based on something a smart person saw once in a movie or show and then thought “What if?”
That right there is one of the gifts that movies and shows, like The Fifth Element, provide. Maybe nothing on the actual screen gets invented or created. That isn’t the point I or this movie are trying to make. Innovation and creation come from people asking the right questions. If a smart person or group asks “what if?” enough, typically, something truly special follows.
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