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The Fifth Element · The Art of Costume Podcast

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  They're just kind of staring at this very dusty Temple.
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  Like, what do we do here? I know.
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  I'm like, okay, Bilbo has this information.
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  Not been passed out, you passed out everything else, except how
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  to actually activate the 5th Element, and save, everybody
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  Bilbo. Cast.
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  I'm Elizabeth Joy glass and I'm Spencer Williams, how you doing?
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  Spencer Elizabeth what's going on?
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  How are you? Oh you know just just living
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  life trying to get some sewing done.
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  Not being very successful sewing.
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  Are you working on a Halloween costume?
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  Umm yeah, we're recording this way before Halloween.
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  Oh yeah. It's totally just blew our spot.
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  Even though it's going to be after Halloween.
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  When everybody here is that? Well, it's just a little feature
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  glimpse into the future Elizabeth's.
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  Costume was amazing after it was sewn.
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  Effectively weeks ago. Yep, never mind.
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  I'm good. I just got back from my mom's
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  house. How was that?
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  It was fun. You know, my apartment in Les
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  does not have a laundry machine. So I love to visit my mom every
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  once in a while. But I have to bring like 34
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  trash bags full of clothes and bedding and towels and rugs.
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  Everything I do. All all the laundry.
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  It's too expensive out here to do laundry at these laundromats
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  and l.a. it is that is something I don't miss.
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  It's paying to do my laundry. It gets pricey.
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  So yeah, I feel good. I'm back home now and I'm
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  feeling Nice and clean all my clothes.
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  Smell good. My pillow smell good.
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  So I'm ready. That's the best.
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  That's all that's holy. I could do this podcast from bed
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  but I'm sure you wouldn't approve of that.
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  I mean, you have that option open could so long as it sounds
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  fine. I'll try it out maybe for like
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  the Christmas episodes. Maybe, maybe we should do a like
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  a sleepover episode. Be fun.
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  We could, like, we can, we can watch Like slasher.
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  All the sleepover attendees get murdered and we could get like a
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  matching. Like the art of costume blogcast
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  silk pajamas. Yes, with like a little Scrooge.
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  Little hat with the little fuzz ball on the end.
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  Yeah, I like this idea. Let's make it happen, What?
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  Put we'll put said, matching pajama outfits in our future
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  merch store, whenever that is Beautiful.
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  Sounds beautiful. So you two could sleep in our
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  silk the art of costume. Blogcast pajamas only the finest
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  finest for our listeners. Anyways.
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  Elizabeth, what are we watching this week?
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  And this week I had the pleasure of watching For the First Time.
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  The Fifth Element. Yes.
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  Oh my gosh, did you love it? Or did you love it?
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  Oh, it is so good. Like, I'm kind of mad.
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  I didn't like know about this soon, like I knew about the
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  Fifth Element. But like, I just had never
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  watched it for whatever reason. I don't know.
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  And I'm so happy I've seen it now.
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  I'm so glad you loved it. I I feel a little emotional
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  talking about it. This is my favorite, we're
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  talking before. This is my favorite movie.
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  My favorite Standalone movie aside from like you know, the
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  Lord of the Rings but gosh this movie Everything to me.
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  It's beautiful. It's funny, it's action packed
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  so much detail. I mean, I have this movie on VHS
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  somewhere, gone DVD. I had on the iPod video wherever
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  you could buy this movie. I have a copy of it.
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  Somehow I couldn't get it to you to watch this movie, but we
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  still made it work. We made it work.
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  Beautiful thing about Amazon video.
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  Yes, renting movies. These on-demand know it, this
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  was great. I so, of course, like, you know,
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  the nerd in me loved it right away when it's like, what, like
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  1919 eat Egypt and they're like, Excavating.
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  So I was like, I'm right on board right away.
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  Yeah, feels like it's the perfect sci-fi movie and just
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  everything about it. To me is just great.
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  So I'm so excited to talk about this with you.
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  This has been on our Since the very beginning.
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  So I've been counting down the days.
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  So let's do this, let's do this. Gives us a summary, okay, in the
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  23rd Century, a New York City, cabbie korben Dallas finds the
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  fate of the world in his hands, when lilu falls directly into
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  his cab. I mean, literally she falls into
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  his cab as embodiment of The Fifth Element.
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  Lilu needs to combine with the other four elements to keep the
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  approaching great evil from destroying the world together
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  with 'The father, Vito Cornelius and zany broadcaster Ruby.
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  Rhod Dallas must Race Against Time and a wicked
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  industrialists. Org to save humanity.
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  And that is the fifth element. That is The Fifth Element.
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  If you have not seen it in the past 20, some odd years, this is
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  your spoiler warning. Don't be like me, go watch it.
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  Don't be Elizabeth, don't be someone who loves sci-fi, but
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  somehow, it does not see one of the greatest.
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  Sci-Fi movies of all time but is not too late.
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  If you have not seen it, go watch it now and we could enjoy
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  it together. There's still time.
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  There is still time. It's on, like go run it on
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  Amazon. They're controlling Our Lives.
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  Anyway, just go, rent it from them.
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  So, funny, reading that summary because like on paper, this
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  movie sounds absolutely ridiculous.
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  I mean, this is a ridiculous movie.
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  This is a ridiculous movie as much.
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  As I loved it, I was also like, what is happening?
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  Okay, well, you know, wasn't ridiculous Spencer well,
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  actually no, they were ridiculous.
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  But they were brilliant, the costumes.
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  Oh my God, I mean these costumes are stupid.
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  Good stupid, good because costume designer Jean Paul
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  Gautier is a brilliant person. He is just brilliant and what's
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  so brilliant about it? Is he Not even a costume
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  designer. He is a fashion designer which
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  is so cool. I like new a famous fashion
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  designer had done the costumes for this.
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  Did not know. It was him.
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  I just kind of like okay, whatever sounds like, oh my
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  goodness, like who did this? And I was like, oh Jean-Paul
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  your ta. And I was like, I know him.
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  He's a person, we studying fashion column, why don't you
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  bring us behind a wardrobe? Elizabeth, I'll pray you behind
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  the Wardrobe. Director.
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  Luc, Besson thought that only Jean Paul Gautier could bring
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  his vibrant and outlandish Vision to life and he was right.
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  For those of you who don't know, because you've been living under
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  a rock or something. Jean Paul Gautier is a French
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  haute couture, fashion designer who became a household name
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  through his many, many, many collaborations with Madonna from
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  the cone bra to his many. Inventive lines Edge.
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  If you don't know who he is, just a little Google search will
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  bring up 102. Recognizable, designs grab a
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  book, he did the costumes for the Madonna blond ambition tour,
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  so just start right there. Then the Google machine.
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  Yeah, put in the Google machine. He's done like a lot with
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  Madonna, so you just have to like search his name and Madonna
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  and you'll see something you recognize so job.
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  How could ya he'd worked on like a couple of little projects here
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  and there, but he had never worked on anything to the extent
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  of The Fifth Element. So he was on this production for
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  years and years and years before it actually got made.
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  At one point, he was making designs for Julia Roberts.
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  When she was at to play lilou and Prince, he was set to be
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  Ruby Road and he was like, okay, doing you know, doing sketches
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  for him. He actually met with Prince and
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  He was like, I had no idea. You know, fashion is season
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  after season has after season, you never stop.
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  He's like, I didn't know it was going to take so long.
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  So a lot of his original designs, we never even get to
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  see. But I do love this one.
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  He has four prints with like The Fishnet, just like all these
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  feathers all over. I was like, oh my gosh, If
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  Prince had actually played Ruby Road, like it would have been a
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  brilliant. Oh my God, I am still happy
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  work. Where where it landed.
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  But I do like to imagine prince playing this role.
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  That would have been cool. Yes.
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  That would have been so cool. UTA said about working with
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  Luke, I spoke with Luke about what is futuristic and we
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  decided that there could be elements of today.
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  You could even imagine that there will be only retro clothes
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  in the future. Everything is possible, and I
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  think that's the Real Genius of his costume design.
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  It's like, Yeah, it definitely looks like it is in the future,
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  but it also looks like something you would have seen in the 90s.
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  Like it is not out of place in our society even today and he
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  really just made the whole look of this.
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  He created over a thousand individual costumes for The
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  Fifth Element. You know, they're like was
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  really no shop in here. Everything was made and that's
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  impressive, considering they only had a 90 billion dollar
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  budget and it's not like they I'd like small stars or like,
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  you know, it's like oh limited number of sets know, this is
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  like a huge sci-fi epic. Yeah, it's so brilliant.
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  There's so many different costumes.
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  I mean, everywhere you look, you see something really cool in the
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  background even. Yeah, even I love Theo he don't
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  was like oh let's make McDonald's employees in the
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  future. It's like who does that?
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  Those are some of my favorite costumes.
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  I'm excited to talk about this. It is so Good and the fact that
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  he did it on what was really, a small budget by today's
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  standards. But even for a thousand
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  costumes, whatever their portion of that 90 million was, it was
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  not a lie. That's, absolutely insane.
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  Are you ready to jump into this? Yes, let's take a quick break.
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  I'ma grab another Lacroix and I'm ready to just go for it.
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  Let's go, let's go. All right.
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  Spencer, are you ready to go, 1914?
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  Egypt's. Let's do it.
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  Let's do it. Oh my gosh, this this had me
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  right away because, you know, I'm like, I love the mummy.
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  I love like old tiny archaeology.
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  Bees. So seeing this.
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  I was like yes. Let's let's uncover some mummies
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  or something. It's such an interesting intro.
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  I remember watching it as a kid and I used to be like I used to
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  almost get kind of creeped out by the pacing of this intro for
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  some reason, I thought it was so interesting but it's actually
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  lots of fun. Now looking back at it as
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  speaking of I think it's awesome that Luke Perry has like this
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  very small little Cameo, it's a really great.
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  Great part though. Is is that who that is the
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  younger guy, right? Yeah, okay.
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  I was looking at him and looking at him, I was like, who is that?
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  Who is that? I'm like, okay, the brilliant
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  Luke Perry vial of the scene is so fun.
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  I love that Aziz. Light kid who's like just
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  struggling to stay awake and it's really boring Temple and
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  him and his friends who it's like, who let you go work for
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  this man. But the costumes are actually
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  really cool. They do feel like very authentic
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  to me. Yeah.
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  They're very time, appropriate appropriate for what they're
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  doing. And then just these big, metal
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  robots, just freaking, I was like, okay cool awesome.
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  Okay. Okay.
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  Like, I knew it was gonna get to the Future at some point and
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  these big lumbering like robots. I'm like, how are they gonna
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  save the world? The modish ons are huge.
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  They feel very slow. So yeah, I imagine your first
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  time seeing I like well, we're not in very good hands but it's
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  just so cool though the way to come in and just like the giant
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  robotic machines, I don't know if Jean Paul Gautier had
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  anything to do with the actual robot costumes that were seeing
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  right now but they came out so cool.
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  Whoever did do them, they did come out cool.
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  Like I kind of want a plushie cute.
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  You want to hug them. They were like, nice, you know,
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  and I feel bad that Luke Perry's character Billy.
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  Just start shooting at them just because they're scary looking,
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  but they're actually like, oh, we're here to save you like
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  don't worry. We'll come back in x amount of
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  years to like save you again, you know, just chill humans.
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  We got you, I feel like these costumes, the like period
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  costumes. I imagine they must have been,
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  like, the harder costumes for Jean Paul Gautier because he's
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  so used to doing like, all these really fun camping, crazy
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  fashion. Look, X.
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  And then he had to do these period costumes.
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  He must have been like, he's far like way.
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  I thought this was a sci-fi film.
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  Yes. Someone lied to me.
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  It's a great opening scene though, and then they just goes
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  right into 300 years later. Nothing nothing in between.
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  You all know what happens between a three hundred years,
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  right? You know, the 2000s, coronavirus
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  all that happens. Yeah, 300 years later and the
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  human race Seems to be thriving, definitely thriving.
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  I love the idea of sci-fi through the fifth vomit, because
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  it doesn't feel dated to me actually feels Feast futuristic
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  to me. I mean, I'm sure everyone kind
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  of perceives it differently. And there are some retro
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  elements to it now. But to me, it felt very
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  futuristic like it still holds up to me as like, this is how I
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  imagine the future being as well.
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  Yeah, I think I think it's because like this Society is
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  very relatable and it's like, oh yeah.
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  Yeah, I can see us ending up like that and like 300 years,
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  like Granite, we still have her McDonald's and all the things we
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  love just in a very hyper futuristic sense.
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  Yes. All of our mothers are still
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  calling us and bothering us on the phone.
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  Yeah, still got our street vendors.
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  So let's talk about the first costumes we see, as we jump, 300
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  years later, starting, I guess with the military costume,
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  Terms, which I think they're cool because they still feel
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  relatable and sense that they have those modern military
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  uniforms, that were familiar with but they still feel very
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  futuristic at the same time they do because it's got the color
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  scheme that we're all very familiar with that's very
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  standard but like the design of the co like the collar.
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  It's like he makes just these little adjustments that you're
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  like oh yeah, this Is a couple a couple centuries on definitely?
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  Yeah, the Silhouettes definitely feel very Advanced and I like to
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  compare this movie. A lot to one of my other
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  favorite movies of all time alien comparing like the
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  different ideas of what the future looks like and you know
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  the idea of the future and 70s and 80s as totally different
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  than like goatees idea of the future and look massan's in the
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  90s. I think it's really cool to kind
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  of compare those two and see the difference in decades, I
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  definitely I agree. Another character I think is
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  awesome, is the president he wears the same costume
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  throughout the entire movie. But I think it's cool, this idea
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  of the president matching like his staff in terms of costumes.
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  Yeah, I liked it. He felt a lot more like how he
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  kind of felt like a judge almost like the way he ran things, but
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  like, just the very simple costume.
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  It's like, oh, he's in this position.
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  Not because like he was super Flashy.
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  It's because he is like he's good at his job.
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  Yeah, he's just a president, it doesn't feel political at all,
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  which I love that idea. Like you know, maybe three
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  hundred years in the future politics are going to be a
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  little bit more like just about getting things done, you know,
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  and having like a great leader to look up to.
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  That feels very futuristic though, of course, that's why
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  they got the red and the blue and then one more costume from
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  the scene that I never realized how much I loved it, but it's
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  actually the costume. On the priest Cornelius played
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  by the lovely. The legendary Ian Holmes, who we
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  love so much, love him, our old Bilbo Baggins, his priests robes
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  actually have like some really interesting stitching on it
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  which I never noticed until this watch through.
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  Yeah. I love especially cuz it's like
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  it feels like whatever you know. Like the priesthood for these
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  aliens is and like The Catholic church at sometimes just like
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  merge. And so one but he has that like
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  almost dog collar, you know, clerical shirt just - the little
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  insert with, like, his gray sweater.
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  And it's like, oh, that's like what you see the grandpa priests
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  wear and shows all the time. It feels comfy, you know, I kind
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  of want some of those robes. Yeah.
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  But I do love the brown, the brown over it, it's like, oh
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  wait, no, not the kind of priest we think we think we know.
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  All right, all right, well, let's take a jump to South
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  Brooklyn in the future. Brooklyn looks a little
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  different than the Brooklyn. We know a lot different.
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  I like wasn't even paying attention to where they were in
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  the world. I was just like, oh, future
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  America got it. We introduced korben Dallas
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  played by Bruce Willis. What were your thoughts?
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  I loved his character. I so okay.
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  How do I express this? I feel like he was just kind of
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  playing himself and I also like oh my gosh, Bruce Willis was
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  like super attractive at one point I just know him from like
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  die hard. Oh die.
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  A die, all the like more modern die hard.
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  Yeah, and I'm just like, oh yeah, Bruce Willis.
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  Yeah, whatever. And I'm like, oh wait, you were
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  a young person at one point? Okay.
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  I think he plays this role so good.
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  I'm not a huge Bruce Willis fan. Like I've I actually don't know
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  if I've seemed to Die Hard movies.
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  I've maybe seen one of them. I can't tell you which one it
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  was. So I'm sure we just dropped our
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  viewership by like, Three fans. It's okay but I love how he
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  plays korben Dallas. He's yeah, he does feel like
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  he's playing Bruce Willis a little bit but I mean it works
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  though. He felt it definitely works and
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  I love he's like I'm just a dude like yeah, the cab driver just a
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  cab driver and I love that. He doesn't like break out any of
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  his military training, really, until the very end.
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  Yeah, you almost don't. You realize that's his
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  background. He will.
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  Greg, he's just been like this lousy cab driver all his life,
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  but yeah, I love his intro. He's wearing the orange tank
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  top, which I'm actually obsessed with.
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  I love it because, you know, he was like in the military wearing
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  those like, tan suits for years and years and years, and he gets
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  out and he's like, I'm gonna wear some color, but he doesn't
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  really know what he's doing, so he just gets the Fright, orange,
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  tank top. And it's interesting, they I
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  brought that up because I do have a note here.
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  When director, Luc, Besson was talking to Entertainment Weekly
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  about one of his more recent films Valerian.
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  But he was saying that there's always a dominant color in my
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  films and specifically, The Fifth Element was orange.
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  And it's true. You do see a lot of orange
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  introduced into this film. Oh, yeah.
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  And I'm not a big orange person, but orange looks real good on
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  the korben. Dallas, I'll say that.
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  So, It does. I also like the it's almost,
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  it's not a mock turtleneck, but how high it comes up.
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  Yeah. The cut and like the ribbing on
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  it is very flattering. I'm like, it's very flattering,
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  should this be something we bring back?
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  I think so. And one of my favorite things
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  about the costumes in this film, which we're going to talk about
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  a lot later when we introduce Ruby Rod, but the idea that in
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  the future feminine masculine silhouette It's are really not a
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  think, you know, it's just like, everyone is comfortable with
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  wearing whatever they want because if you look at the cut
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  on korben, Dallas has tank top, it's very like even the back has
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  cutouts. You know, the turtleneck is
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  almost kind of feminine in a sense and like, it just doesn't
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  matter. It's a future, looks good on
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  him, and I love it. It's so good.
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  Yeah, I also loved. Did you notice his pants at all?
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  Know how they were? Very Why Paul Jean Paul Gautier
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  because they like their, I think they're like leather and they
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  lace up in the front. I you see them like a couple of
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  times they're like so interesting and detailed like
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  it's a shame. We don't get to see them more
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  often. I need to look back.
• 23:22
  I think I'm just always distracted by the orange tank
• 23:25
  top. It's like so good.
• 23:27
  All the lacing down the front and then down the sides of the
• 23:30
  pants. And then like the way it Buckles
• 23:34
  in the front I'm like, oh my gosh you never see these pants
• 23:37
  and yet so much work went into them.
• 23:39
  Wow look at that. Designing those are so cool.
• 23:44
  I'm obsessed with them. Now it's almost like they're
• 23:46
  built like they were supposed to be chaps or something, you know.
• 23:50
  Exactly. I love it.
• 23:52
  It's the small details. Literally detail went into every
• 23:57
  single part of this film. So this is what my favorite
• 24:00
  scenes, though. Because Lenny, has that mugger.
• 24:03
  Who is standing at his door and he's, I've seen this cause
• 24:08
  played so many times that like, comic-con's and all the
• 24:12
  different conventions or the guys wearing the hat and it's
• 24:15
  supposed to look like it looks like a zoom background or
• 24:18
  whatever. Yeah, lifts up his helmet and
• 24:21
  he's like, give me the cash. It's so good.
• 24:23
  It is so good. I was like kind of confused at
• 24:26
  first. I was like, wait, what's
• 24:28
  happening on like oh, it's a drug addict.
• 24:30
  Trying to get money. But even like this mugger, he
• 24:35
  has such like a cool costume. I mean, he's showing lots of
• 24:39
  skin, very revealing. It's almost like the top is kind
• 24:42
  of almost like I don't want to say sexualized, but it's just
• 24:45
  very interesting, but then he's wearing a cheetah print, like
• 24:48
  baggy silky pants. It's just such a cool costume.
• 24:53
  It's such a cool costume and it's like it lets, you know,
• 24:56
  like, oh, in the future. Anything goes and I love it.
• 25:01
  Yeah. The future like we're as much or
• 25:04
  as little as you want. You know, we are comfortable in
• 25:06
  our bodies in the future. If you want to show your whole
• 25:09
  chest while mugging someone in broad daylight go for it that's
• 25:14
  fine. This brings us Elizabeth to one
• 25:17
  of the most famous scenes. I'd probably say in film
• 25:20
  history. Honestly, this brings us to the
• 25:24
  recreation of The Fifth Element. After one of them on DeShaun
• 25:29
  ships was shot down by the very Ugly and aggressive mangalore's,
• 25:33
  they obviously do not get along very well and Zork sent some
• 25:38
  mangalore's to get the, get the stones.
• 25:41
  But they're able to recreate the fifth element which they
• 25:44
  harvested from the crash site which brings us to this lab.
• 25:47
  And first, I just want to talk about the lab costumes with you
• 25:51
  because I thought they were very interesting.
• 25:53
  I thought they were very interesting.
• 25:54
  I thought this was one of the only places where you're like,
• 25:57
  oh yeah. This is a totally like a sci-fi
• 25:59
  film from the He's just because it's like how plasticy they are.
• 26:06
  But as soon as they started glowing in the dark, I was like
• 26:09
  oh yeah. Oh yeah, I'm here for this.
• 26:12
  Yeah, that part was so cool. I love how the costumes glowed
• 26:15
  in the dark. I was trying to like, do some
• 26:18
  good research to figure out how and what, you know, what efforts
• 26:21
  they put into the glow-in-the-dark moment, which
• 26:24
  is so short, by the way. I mean, they could have totally
• 26:26
  got away from that doing it, but it's really cool.
• 26:29
  Yeah, my love the sign. Test lab tech costumes with,
• 26:33
  like, just like the random it looks like, almost like leather
• 26:36
  sleeve moments. It's very fashion-forward.
• 26:39
  Yeah, it's just like a lab tech coat.
• 26:42
  Yeah. That's another thing, I like
• 26:43
  about this futuristic Society, it's like, they think about
• 26:46
  fashion every facet of their lives.
• 26:49
  Yes, I want to live in this future real bad.
• 26:53
  So this brings us though to the iconic Recreation of lilu, The
• 26:59
  Fifth Element and this is When she's first of all Milla
• 27:04
  Jovovich who I love so much. She's a brilliant actress one of
• 27:09
  my favorites. She is nude in this movie a lot.
• 27:13
  Yeah. Yes.
• 27:16
  It was very uncomfortable for her because you know like she
• 27:20
  comes from the fashion world at this point and she's like you
• 27:23
  know, in the fashion world like most of the guys like are gay or
• 27:27
  just like they're very respectful like there's a
• 27:29
  protocol you know you don't hit on the half.
• 27:31
  Nude models, not the case on the film set.
• 27:34
  Apparently, I'm just like, oh, that's like, this is like one of
• 27:39
  the coolest costumes ever. But it's like, oh, that must
• 27:41
  have been so uncomfortable for her, especially because she was
• 27:45
  doing a lot of her own stunts and she was like, I show so much
• 27:48
  skin in this movie and she was getting like, bruised and like
• 27:53
  be up doing all these stunts. And I'm just like oh this must
• 27:57
  have been a lot b19. Pretty much your first film like
• 28:02
  I know she was 19, that is crazy to me.
• 28:05
  What was I doing at 19? I was you're in college.
• 28:09
  Yeah, I actually don't want to talk about what I was doing at
• 28:12
  19 and that's a conversation with us left office potty.
• 28:18
  Lilu in that thermal bandage costume.
• 28:21
  It's so iconic. I've seen it recreated so many
• 28:25
  times and I also thought was interesting in a recent
• 28:28
  interview with Vogue Gautier explained.
• 28:31
  A costume for lilou was a bit of a last-minute creation and funny
• 28:36
  enough is one that everyone remembers from the movie and
• 28:39
  it's true. I think this is probably one of
• 28:41
  the most iconic costumes that came from the movie.
• 28:44
  I mean, you've never seen a movie but you've probably seen
• 28:46
  this costume a million times. Yeah.
• 28:50
  Like I was familiar with all of her costumes before watching
• 28:56
  this, like I don't think you can live in America and not be
• 29:00
  familiar with. Her costumes from The Fifth
• 29:02
  Element. Yeah this is like the Sci-Fi
• 29:05
  version of Cher, Horowitz, like plaid skirt from cloak, from
• 29:09
  Clueless. Like this is the Sci-Fi version
• 29:11
  of everyone knows it, it really is and like you see it in
• 29:15
  fashion, you see it like all over the place and other sci-fi
• 29:20
  things like it really made an impact because it's like, yeah.
• 29:25
  How do you take someone for being like basically
• 29:29
  reincarnated to having them? Through enough to run through
• 29:35
  and like, jump off a building. There's not much you can do, but
• 29:40
  like this made sense like for as revealing as it is, it actually
• 29:45
  made a lot of sense that that's what she would be wearing.
• 29:48
  Yeah, they're literally just supposed to be bandages to like
• 29:50
  just cover her up just enough because they're probably gonna
• 29:53
  be doing all these like experiments on her all these
• 29:56
  tests. But of course, she's a Fifth
• 29:58
  Element so she's a very quickly broke out.
• 30:01
  Which then brings us on to a very interesting car chase
• 30:06
  through New York City. I don't know if that's what you
• 30:09
  could call it anymore. But I want to talk about these
• 30:12
  scenes to because there's a lot of interesting costumes just
• 30:15
  like happening in these couple scenes.
• 30:17
  Yeah, I was like, I thought the police were very interesting
• 30:21
  because I'm just like that seems very hard to like do your job
• 30:26
  in? Yeah.
• 30:27
  They're big and bulky. Granite, they look very cool and
• 30:31
  I think Costumes are super interesting.
• 30:33
  They kind of have like a Robocop type feel, but yeah, I was
• 30:38
  starting to think I'm like, well, if I got into like a
• 30:40
  full-on like on foot pursuit running away, you know, from
• 30:45
  these law enforcement officer Lee, there are no sidewalks, we
• 30:49
  like there's a scene at the airport.
• 30:51
  Coming up later, were there on the ground?
• 30:54
  I'm like, they must be easy to get away from.
• 30:56
  Oh, that's true. I don't know.
• 30:58
  I felt like they were also supposed to seem kind of like
• 31:01
  like I feel like they were supposed to see menacing but
• 31:03
  also kind of foolish because it's like what are these police
• 31:07
  officers going to do against like The Fifth Element and zorg
• 31:12
  and all of his power. It's like they can't really do
• 31:15
  anything. Yeah.
• 31:16
  I guess you're saying I feel like they're supposed to be
• 31:18
  menacing in the sense that they are supposed to almost be
• 31:22
  combative and numbers you know. Like if there was always
• 31:26
  multiples I was never just like one law enforcement officer
• 31:30
  which then brings us. Another one of my favorite
• 31:32
  scenes it's maybe about 3 to 5 Seconds long but is when the two
• 31:38
  officers are ordering at the very futuristic McDonald's and
• 31:44
  this ended up was fantastic. This McDonald's outfit actually
• 31:48
  went on to become like a very iconic noticeable costume, and
• 31:52
  it's just so funny to me, not gonna lie.
• 31:55
  If I had another opportunity to dress up this Halloween, might
• 32:00
  go with that. At the futuristic McDonald's.
• 32:05
  I mean, look, I love it so much. I wish that we were this far to
• 32:10
  the Future where everyone at fast.
• 32:12
  Food restaurants, just like this.
• 32:14
  I love it so much. Oh my God, could you imagine
• 32:17
  Starbucks Barista where God's favorite?
• 32:20
  If you if they Rave me this today you know, it would be a
• 32:23
  Starbucks drive-through. Totally, there would have like a
• 32:27
  green wig with like, maybe like a futuristic Cup on their head.
• 32:31
  I like a little short green outfit.
• 32:34
  Oh I'd be feeling it. That would be hilarious but such
• 32:39
  a great costume and with that I'm feeling a little hungry.
• 32:43
  So maybe we should take a little break.
• 32:45
  Maybe we should just go get some fast food.
• 32:48
  Yeah. That I'm still not McDonald's
• 32:50
  person though. Sorry maybe the futuristic
• 32:53
  McDonald's but not the 2021 McDonald's.
• 32:56
  Maybe it's better normal. Wendy's down myself.
• 32:59
  Okay well, Be right back. Everybody
• 33:25
  ready to do some trading not with Gary Oldman.
• 33:32
  It's dangerous. We clearly are Gary Oldman fans
• 33:35
  here at the art of costume blogcast, because I just have to
• 33:39
  say, Gary Oldman is a brilliant. Brilliant actor.
• 33:42
  He is so good at just transforming into every role.
• 33:46
  We just talked about Dracula and you would have no idea that this
• 33:49
  is the same person. I know.
• 33:52
  Absolutely not. He looks like it's entirely
• 33:55
  different entirely different with that southern accent.
• 34:00
  Oh my gosh. Actually, it's funny watching
• 34:03
  this when I was younger till now, it wasn't actually until
• 34:07
  like high school or college, where I realized I was actually
• 34:10
  Gary Oldman, you know, thinking about like Sirius Black and
• 34:15
  Dracula. He's just such a great character
• 34:18
  actor. He is it even took me a second
• 34:21
  because I was like, wait, isn't Gary Oldman in this?
• 34:24
  And then like, it took me a second to remember, like, oh
• 34:26
  yeah, that's him. So Gary Oldman plays Jean
• 34:30
  Baptiste, Emanuel zorg, we'll just comes org for short and
• 34:36
  we're introduced to him when he's trading with the
• 34:39
  mangalore's. They're bringing to him.
• 34:41
  The chest with the four elements stones in.
• 34:44
  It, turns out the stones are not in the chest, they did not open
• 34:48
  a chest the check. Nope, so you get some very upset
• 34:51
  leads to him blowing up all the mangalore's.
• 34:54
  Let's just talk about these costumes for a little bit.
• 34:56
  Starting this is orgs, it's very, very interesting.
• 35:01
  I love his costume a lot. I do love his costume.
• 35:05
  It's very like like a futuristic gentleman and he's like, you,
• 35:12
  you took some like oil Baron from like the South and like,
• 35:18
  transplanted him. 300 years. This is what he would wear.
• 35:22
  I love the giant silk shirt with the huge collar, and then just
• 35:28
  like the pin striped vest. Very simple but very effective
• 35:35
  was not a fan of whatever was on his head to this day.
• 35:40
  I still do not understand what is on his head.
• 35:44
  I like it because this to me is like a very recognizable
• 35:47
  character to me. So, over the years, I've grown
• 35:49
  to love it. I still don't understand what it
• 35:51
  is. I guess it's just like a cool
• 35:53
  accessory especially since all of his henchmen are wearing it.
• 35:56
  But I don't understand it. But I guess I'm just like, is
• 36:00
  this a helmet? It like what?
• 36:02
  I feel like there's a deleted scene that explains it.
• 36:05
  Like I'm like this is I don't understand I think it's just a
• 36:09
  cool accessory but I love like the iridescent sleeves because
• 36:16
  that to me says like very future.
• 36:18
  But then I love how its grounded and like the Pinstripe vest like
• 36:21
  you said because it says like oh you know this character from 20,
• 36:25
  you know, the 2020s the 2000s. You know, this character this is
• 36:29
  just that same character. On to the Future.
• 36:33
  Yeah. It's like you know, this rich
• 36:35
  man who doesn't care about anybody else?
• 36:38
  I also want to talk about The Mangler costumes.
• 36:40
  I just think they're really fun. The manglers are scary.
• 36:44
  Looking, they're so scary. And I love.
• 36:48
  They were the most sci-fi any part of this.
• 36:50
  I felt like, because you've seen, like, I've watched like a
• 36:53
  lot of Stargate, a lot of Star Trek, lot of Doctor Who there's
• 36:58
  a version of this alien and every single one of those Those
• 37:01
  like yes the for sure. I was like oh this is just the
• 37:06
  alien. We all get to know and love it's
• 37:09
  so funny to me. It's like, that's so true.
• 37:12
  This is a typical sci-fi alien that's meant to be like shot
• 37:16
  down a lot. But one thing I did notice
• 37:20
  though what you see in a lot of the costumes is like there's
• 37:23
  always like a fringe or rope or something.
• 37:26
  That's kind of like draping off of most of the characters will
• 37:30
  talk about With the diva later on the manglers have like that
• 37:35
  rope coming off of them. It's not really functional but
• 37:38
  it's just like a note that Gautier puts in all the
• 37:42
  costumes. Yeah.
• 37:43
  That that is like a very military thing with like the
• 37:47
  like ropes like that. I think they denote like rank or
• 37:51
  something. So it might be might be
• 37:53
  something like that especially with the mangalore's but keeping
• 37:57
  on with zorg at, he did have a henchman that I thought had a
• 38:00
  very interesting. In costume played by tricky who
• 38:05
  plays right arm. I liked his costume a lot.
• 38:08
  Actually, I think it's very cool because it still feels very
• 38:11
  futuristic but the silhouette actually is not all that
• 38:15
  unfamiliar. It's a leather jacket.
• 38:17
  It's a really cool collar but then he's wearing like a leather
• 38:21
  bolo tie, which is really cool to me.
• 38:24
  Yeah, I love that bolo tie, nothing else.
• 38:27
  Yeah, nothing else shirtless. So, like I said, you know, it's
• 38:31
  like A leather jacket, but still made, so futuristic with, like,
• 38:35
  the very slight alterations to it.
• 38:38
  Yeah. It's again, it's that thing.
• 38:39
  It's like, oh, you know, this character.
• 38:41
  It's the henchmen that gets to dress a little bit nicer than
• 38:44
  everybody else. Same character, I love that
• 38:49
  outfit. I love solves Orcs fasts.
• 38:52
  This org knows how to wear a good vest.
• 38:54
  He knows how to work fast. I love this one.
• 38:56
  I was just like, why do you just look like you're covered in?
• 38:59
  Plastic is very plastic. Key.
• 39:02
  It's probably a little, a little sticky and hot but I love the
• 39:06
  iridescent color vesa he wears when his office.
• 39:09
  It's so cool. It's so cool.
• 39:11
  This would be a great Halloween costume.
• 39:14
  We could cut this part out, but that would be fun.
• 39:16
  You have an idea sponsor. You have the hair for it.
• 39:19
  That's true. Not bad.
• 39:20
  But I would have to wear that plastic head piece that you
• 39:22
  don't like though. I mean, you'll get over it, get
• 39:27
  it Fred. Anyways, so going forward the
• 39:31
  See, starting to get into high gear.
• 39:33
  We're starting to realize the plot here.
• 39:35
  The fifth element lilu is clearly the key to destroy this.
• 39:40
  Great evil, that's barreling toward Earth, right?
• 39:43
  To destroy everything on it. The priest Cornelius has a plan
• 39:48
  and he needs to find a diva who has all the stones.
• 39:52
  The military also has the same plan, they need to get someone
• 39:56
  to fhloston Paradise to meet the diva and get the stones Zoar
• 40:00
  guests. Dia.
• 40:02
  He needs someone to get the philosophy, paradise and get the
• 40:05
  stones. So everyone has the same idea,
• 40:09
  which I feel like this movies shot, brilliantly house, just
• 40:12
  like everyone's stories happening at the same time.
• 40:15
  Same Mission. Just only one person's going to
• 40:17
  succeed at them today. Yeah, I love this part
• 40:22
  especially because like you start to really see like lilou
• 40:26
  like her character, a lot more and I was just like, what is
• 40:31
  happening? Opening like everybody.
• 40:33
  Everybody's tricking everybody. I just I couldn't the the woman
• 40:40
  who's gonna play Corbin's wife from the military.
• 40:43
  I was just like, oh my gosh, see is so funny.
• 40:48
  The generals like, this is going to be here.
• 40:52
  Why for today and corben's like, why?
• 40:55
  Why me why why do I need this? I believe her name is Major.
• 41:01
  Spork, which is a very fitting name to me.
• 41:05
  Yeah, I just, I love like the Princess Leia buns, are just
• 41:10
  never gonna. Now we're gonna leave will never
• 41:13
  escape the layout buns. The buns are here to stay, but
• 41:17
  this brings us another one of my favorite costumes of the movie
• 41:20
  is Lee lose outfit that she put together and it is just like
• 41:25
  this really brilliant like ribbed crop top.
• 41:28
  Yeah. If the very famous orange too,
• 41:31
  Suspenders that are obviously rubber, I love it so much.
• 41:36
  This is one of my favorite costumes of all time like she's
• 41:40
  so cute and it's like they wanted her to like be kind of
• 41:43
  innocent and it's like oh yeah like she looks like a little kid
• 41:46
  almost he was like I got myself right?
• 41:50
  So fun. I also I love how she's
• 41:52
  continuously just like taking her clothes off in front of
• 41:56
  everybody. She just doesn't understand like
• 41:59
  you know as humans. We've Felt ourselves to be like
• 42:03
  so taboo against like nudity and sexuality, that were always
• 42:07
  like, oh my gosh, cover yourself, you know, she's The
• 42:10
  Fifth Element, she's a Vance, she's just like it's a body, you
• 42:13
  know, just switches into her clothes and Care.
• 42:15
  Yeah. But I don't understand how you
• 42:18
  humans came to this but it was so cute and like now her in
• 42:22
  Corbin match which I thought was adorable.
• 42:26
  Oh my God, look at the two of you there, they definitely have
• 42:30
  a thing. Corbin's a little faster, jump
• 42:32
  on this thing considering she was just like resurrected, you
• 42:36
  know, 12 hours ago. So I would slow down a little
• 42:40
  bit Corbin but I guess it's too late for that couple hours ago.
• 42:46
  Yeah, I mean we loo kind of takes care of that but no so
• 42:53
  we're excited to learn that Corbin is the very happy
• 42:56
  recipient of a great prize, a trip for two to four.
• 43:01
  Lost In Paradise. Whoo, we have to mention that
• 43:07
  Corbin's mom does call. She's very upset that Corbin did
• 43:10
  not invite her on this trip. I love the simple like bringing
• 43:14
  in Corbin's mom. And to, like, every scene
• 43:16
  possible, just as like, some fun comic relief.
• 43:20
  I think that's hilarious. I know.
• 43:22
  And it's also like, it's always those calls that everybody has
• 43:26
  to take. Like, you can't get away from it
• 43:29
  like, Also, this is another great scene where we get to see
• 43:35
  Corbin's. We get to see Corbin's tank top
• 43:38
  but also like the windows in the back where you can see, like, he
• 43:41
  actually like reveals a lot of skin in the back of the tank
• 43:44
  top, which I think is really cool.
• 43:46
  So it's time to go on vacation Elizabeth.
• 43:48
  I ready to go to fhloston paradise.
• 43:51
  I am especially with those flight attendants.
• 43:55
  Yes, I'm so excited to talk about it.
• 43:57
  This is such a famous scene where leeloo, Dallas, just keep
• 44:01
  saying the word Multipath over and over.
• 44:03
  She's like, I have my multipath multipass multi-party past.
• 44:08
  Carbon is like yeah. Yeah, they got it's a multipass
• 44:14
  so good. I love his tactical jacket.
• 44:18
  It's like you do not look like you're about to go on vacation.
• 44:21
  Like you definitely look like you're ready for trouble.
• 44:25
  It's so good. This is one of those costumes as
• 44:28
  a grown older, I've really grown to love and like that.
• 44:31
  Tactical vest, jacket is so cool.
• 44:33
  I love like the random padding on his shoulder.
• 44:37
  There's no use for it, but it looks cool and futuristic.
• 44:40
  It's it does it does. And it's such like a it's like
• 44:43
  they're adding one thing to his costume but it changes the whole
• 44:46
  thing. I love it.
• 44:47
  It's so cool. I just love the scene in general
• 44:50
  at the airport it's just so colorful you get to see love the
• 44:53
  great costuming. This brings us of course to the
• 44:57
  mangalore's who are hidden as humans.
• 45:01
  They're Thing, one of the bodies of Corbin's neighbor but these
• 45:05
  two costumes are seeing very briefly.
• 45:07
  But they've also become like really quite popular costumes,
• 45:11
  especially amongst like the cosplay Community.
• 45:14
  I've noticed a lot because these two costumes, they really
• 45:18
  screamed a future to me like this is when goatee really got
• 45:21
  to just go for it. When it comes to Fashion you
• 45:24
  know the girl is wearing the green transparent skirt where
• 45:28
  you could like see through everything you Again, nice
• 45:32
  picture for but in it and like she's wearing the fur and the
• 45:36
  male Bangalore is wearing like that redfish Nettie vests.
• 45:42
  It's just so interesting. He really got to play of
• 45:44
  textiles here. Yeah, yeah they really go for
• 45:47
  it, especially with that coat. I was like, oh yes this is what
• 45:51
  the future holds for us. It's like oh yeah this part like
• 45:55
  really reminded me of like Blade Runner and like all of our
• 45:58
  favorite like futuristic sci-fi movie I just feel like they had
• 46:02
  a lot of fun with this scene. I also I love that skirt too.
• 46:06
  Because then like early 2000's like with the plastic
• 46:10
  see-through close, it's like this enters into fashion like
• 46:14
  immediately after this movie. Yeah.
• 46:17
  We also get to see all of the airport workers and stewardess
• 46:21
  and flight attendants at the scene, which these are some of
• 46:24
  my favorite costumes of the entire movie.
• 46:26
  They're so fun. So fashion, so futuristic but
• 46:30
  also still Kind of reminiscent of like the classic stewardess.
• 46:34
  That we know, when I apply to the costume design program at
• 46:37
  our College, I actually had to design their like design.
• 46:40
  A futuristic flight attendant Alpha, and I'm like, oh, this is
• 46:44
  why you had us do that. This is where it came from, for
• 46:47
  sure. This is where that idea came
• 46:50
  from, but it's funny, like, I love these tops.
• 46:52
  I actually own a top, like the blue one with, like the little,
• 46:56
  like panels above the boobs. I have a stream of almost.
• 47:01
  Exactly like that and it's like, oh, still influencing fashion
• 47:06
  years later. They're just so cool.
• 47:10
  The designing, the structure, them all the seams on.
• 47:13
  It are so cool. And I also love how they make
• 47:16
  all the stewardesses. We're like the same wig, the
• 47:19
  same hat. Everything's very uniform.
• 47:22
  Doesn't matter what skin tone you have.
• 47:24
  Like, it just looked great on everybody.
• 47:27
  It really did. I yeah, this was a great scene.
• 47:31
  Also. Loved all the stewardesses were
• 47:32
  like, oh yes. This and this, and this and here
• 47:35
  is Ruby rhod. Also the stewardess, is also
• 47:39
  felt like very French to me, you know, it's also interesting
• 47:43
  because they're in a quote from Gautier talking about the
• 47:47
  stewardesses. He said, it's a little change
• 47:49
  from what they were wearing on Air France.
• 47:51
  Yeah. So I feel like it's very
• 47:53
  reminiscent of like the French flight attendants that Jean Paul
• 47:58
  Gautier got the know and he just kind of took that idea and
• 48:01
  Advanced it so many years into the future.
• 48:05
  I agree. And it's also like that Pan Am
• 48:08
  Blue that we're all familiar with, like, first year, it is,
• 48:13
  uh, I love them. It was, that was so good.
• 48:16
  So brilliant. Speaking of brilliant, we have
• 48:18
  to talk about the wonderful the legend Ruby Rod this character.
• 48:24
  Oh, my gosh, this is a movie that I will be pissed if they
• 48:29
  ever tried to remake it. It like it's going to have to be
• 48:33
  like the 100-year anniversary or something for them to even try
• 48:36
  it because this movie is just Flawless.
• 48:38
  Chris Tucker plays Ruby rhod so perfectly.
• 48:43
  I know we talked about Prince doing this character by
• 48:46
  honestly. Just don't see anyone else.
• 48:48
  But Chris Tucker playing this character, it would not have
• 48:51
  worked. I don't think with Prince like
• 48:55
  he gave that character just like so much life just like
• 48:59
  personality and it's like Oh my gosh, this is totally a radio.
• 49:03
  DJ like hundreds of years in the future.
• 49:06
  Like this is what they become. It's so perfect.
• 49:10
  I love the initial cheetah print outfit.
• 49:13
  We see, it's brilliant. I just love how they were not
• 49:17
  afraid to just go for in terms of Silhouettes because this is a
• 49:20
  very, I would say, hyper-feminine silhouette and it
• 49:23
  put it on Chris Tucker and it did not matter.
• 49:26
  It came out great. And it just says a lot, you
• 49:29
  know, to me this idea of, you know, Always see like Harry
• 49:32
  Styles, ranks of very feminine dresses and Billy Porter wearing
• 49:37
  these really brilliant gowns. I just thought was so
• 49:40
  interesting that like, the celebrities in this movie were
• 49:42
  like, taking advantage of that same idea to, this is, back in
• 49:46
  the 90s. So I feel like Gautier really
• 49:48
  had an idea of what the future would look like even 20-plus
• 49:52
  years into the future. Yeah, he was definitely thinking
• 49:55
  like, okay, what is our society right now going to develop into
• 50:00
  and he just like hit The mark. Yeah, you know, we've just as a
• 50:03
  society, we've grown into very genderless non-binary sense when
• 50:08
  it comes to Fashion as well. So I think that was really cool
• 50:12
  and then, of course, all of Ruby's groupies they're all
• 50:17
  wearing like cheetah print with black.
• 50:19
  It's just so perfect. So with that, it's time for us
• 50:23
  to get into our sleeping Chambers and get ready for a
• 50:27
  long trip to fhloston Paradise, so we could get this vacation
• 50:30
  going. Ass.
• 50:32
  It's quite the vacation to. All right.
• 50:36
  Go to sleep. Elizabeth.
• 50:37
  I'll see you after the break. Are you ready for a not so
• 51:02
  relaxing, vacation. Spencer, I'm ready?
• 51:05
  Have we finally arrived in fhloston Paradise.
• 51:08
  Oh, we have, we have arrived in Paradise.
• 51:14
  I loved this. It was so fun.
• 51:17
  I love when a just get off the ship plane boat.
• 51:22
  I'm Her onto the actual, it's a spaceship.
• 51:25
  They get off their spaceship, get the paradise.
• 51:28
  I still love like this idea that in the future.
• 51:31
  You know, we're still like putting flower leis on each
• 51:33
  other as we get on to the cruise ship.
• 51:37
  I also thought was interesting how go teeth stuck with like
• 51:40
  this. Very authentic costume for all
• 51:43
  the performers, the singing, the dancers.
• 51:46
  It was very fun. Yeah, I feel like it's almost
• 51:50
  like oh we're going to create this place.
• 51:52
  Or it's like a almost like a what they would think of as like
• 51:55
  a retro like Island Experience. Very typical touristy.
• 52:01
  Yeah. Especial Especially with like
• 52:04
  the hostess that gets Corbin to that, like his room.
• 52:08
  It's like, oh, you would see like that a super touristy
• 52:11
  Resort. Like what that woman's wearing?
• 52:14
  Yes, it's really very typical like Hawaiian bikini top with
• 52:19
  like the flower in her hair. It's very fun.
• 52:22
  And Lily's having the time of her life.
• 52:24
  She's like, wow, this is awesome.
• 52:26
  She can't wait to just relax and have some fun especially now
• 52:29
  that she can speak to people. Yeah.
• 52:31
  Little does she know she's about to have a very interesting
• 52:34
  evening? She won't have our rough
• 52:36
  evening. This brings us to the
• 52:39
  introduction of my favorite character, that exceeds almost
• 52:43
  like all movies, ever the diva Plaza.
• 52:46
  Laguna, the diva. Oh my gosh.
• 52:49
  She was amazing. But can we also take a second to
• 52:52
  talk? Like, talk about her groupies.
• 52:55
  Oh my gosh. Yeah, they're so fun.
• 52:58
  They're so interesting. You're like, what is happening
• 53:00
  is this person to evil Overlord or do we just take Opera very
• 53:04
  seriously and this town? What's going on?
• 53:08
  I know, I was like, what's with these like gilded gold masks
• 53:13
  like the elaborate Black costumes?
• 53:15
  I was like, oh, this might be a group, a group thing we need to
• 53:19
  do at some point. Yeah, I mean I was To be a part
• 53:23
  of this little crew. They're cool.
• 53:24
  I love like the one helper who has like the bald head.
• 53:28
  She's ranked this leather top. That's just so badass and so
• 53:32
  like intricate the detail on it. So cool and I love all the
• 53:36
  makeup to the makeup Department in this film.
• 53:38
  Really knocked it out of the part they did and then I also
• 53:42
  love how the diva. She's almost wearing like this
• 53:46
  it looks very much like a burka over her entire body was like
• 53:50
  just the I panel. Yeah.
• 53:52
  Wait, what are you hiding? What's happening?
• 53:55
  What was just like your first thought when he saw the diva,
• 53:58
  you must have been like, whoa, I was a little bit confused
• 54:04
  because I'm familiar with what the deal looks like, but not
• 54:07
  with this costume of hers. So I was like, wait, hold on,
• 54:11
  where's the diva? It's kind of a forgotten moment
• 54:14
  because, you know, as we'll talk about very soon with the Opera
• 54:18
  moment, it really kind of vowel signs this quick little Holly
• 54:21
  moment. Yeah.
• 54:21
  But I just feel like It deserves a little bit of sunlight because
• 54:25
  I think it's really awesome. Oh, it does.
• 54:27
  It's a standout moment. So, then we get to one of my
• 54:31
  favorite scenes. We it's time for Opera
• 54:35
  performance, Elizabeth. And I hope you're ready because
• 54:38
  there's a lot of costumes. It's just so beautiful.
• 54:42
  First we have Corbin with Ruby rod and I love their interviews
• 54:47
  because Ruby is so high energy. And corben's very like Like
• 54:53
  almost us. I do not care.
• 54:57
  Like are you having a great time?
• 54:58
  It's like, yes. Just always one words.
• 55:03
  It's so good. Always one word.
• 55:06
  And like he has. You can see the frustration on
• 55:09
  his face that he's like, I'm a professional.
• 55:12
  I'm gonna power through this. He can't.
• 55:16
  He's so annoyed. We re just keeps going but he
• 55:20
  can't take it. But let's start with rubies
• 55:24
  look. That black very formal gown with
• 55:28
  the red roses and the hairstyle. It's just brilliant.
• 55:32
  I'm obsessed with it. I loved it.
• 55:35
  I was like we see this look today it's very like it's very
• 55:40
  opulent butts like it's what an opulent person thinks a subdued
• 55:44
  like look is because he's like I'm at the Opera I need to look
• 55:48
  fabulous but like you know not to like not be too.
• 55:52
  Too shiny and it's like you didn't quite succeed but I see
• 55:57
  what what you were probably thinking.
• 56:00
  It's so beautiful. If I were Chris Tucker I would
• 56:03
  have wore this look to the Met Gala when the theme was like
• 56:05
  very campy, that would have been cool.
• 56:08
  It's just so cool and I love it so much.
• 56:11
  The flowers on it, the Roses, everything about who I just feel
• 56:16
  exhausted. It's just too good.
• 56:18
  It's beautiful like and then everyone surrounding And I was
• 56:23
  like there was definitely like a dress code to this and everybody
• 56:27
  adhered and took it to like a thousand percent.
• 56:31
  Yeah fulfill fun or just walking through.
• 56:34
  Ruby's, just time to all the different people.
• 56:36
  There's the one guy who's very wearing by the way, which I
• 56:39
  think is really cool. Like a very see-through floral
• 56:43
  white top also, very feminine. I love this character.
• 56:48
  I like really no idea who he was, but like he just seems so
• 56:52
  So confused that every stage. He's like, I don't know where I
• 56:57
  am. I don't know who I am, but I
• 56:59
  guess I'm here because as Ruby yells, right in his presence
• 57:03
  there. Stone-cold deaf is what ruby
• 57:05
  says it's so funny because constantly, this character is
• 57:09
  just like what, who it's just like, why is this person here?
• 57:13
  It's just terrible. It's like, why are you feel
• 57:17
  like, why are you here? Why are you famous?
• 57:20
  I also another thing I love about V-Rod is like oh my gosh
• 57:25
  like he would like fit in. So well today all you have to do
• 57:28
  is replace his like microphone with an eye, like an eye, a
• 57:32
  smartphone, and he'd be like Instagram liveing this like, oh
• 57:37
  my gosh, right? Like this is totally the idea of
• 57:40
  like celebrity and a future still, the same.
• 57:43
  Like this is just like almost like this is the Met Gala which
• 57:46
  we just watched not too long ago.
• 57:47
  You know? Like this feels very like,
• 57:49
  celebrities have not changed granite.
• 57:52
  It if that was a mic like an iPhone instead of a microphone,
• 57:55
  it would be exactly the same. Like you said, I just love this
• 57:58
  whole scene. And then there's another
• 58:00
  character which I always think is beautiful has no speaking
• 58:03
  lines or anything. But just like, I believe he
• 58:06
  called her, the empress or whatever.
• 58:07
  She has a big red hair. It's just such a beautiful
• 58:11
  costume, that that like band jacket.
• 58:16
  Yes, I love this scene, Allah, because goatee like Creed is
• 58:19
  really beautiful, scenery reminds me a lot of like that
• 58:22
  kiss. You know, seen from the more
• 58:23
  recent Star Wars movies by Michael Kaplan.
• 58:27
  Yeah. Just walking through and like
• 58:29
  everyone's just decorated but it's not part of the movie.
• 58:33
  This feels like very that for the 90s.
• 58:35
  It's the very same scene to me. It's just so fun.
• 58:38
  Absolutely. But the Divas really, the one
• 58:41
  that takes the cake here. Gosh, okay.
• 58:45
  So, let's talk about the concert when the diva plow Laguna comes
• 58:49
  out. I mean, this is just one of the
• 58:52
  Latest seems to me of all time. I was not expecting this but I
• 58:57
  loved it. It's brilliant.
• 58:59
  I don't really know how to pronounce her name.
• 59:01
  It's a very French bringing to say that her name is maewyn May
• 59:06
  when the best go. I'm not sure the actress who
• 59:10
  performed as a diva. Plov Laguna she's just brilliant
• 59:13
  and I love this costume. She doesn't do a lot of films
• 59:17
  nowadays, but I do miss her. I think she's brilliant.
• 59:20
  I hope to see her little bit more in the future.
• 59:22
  Sure, let's talk about this costume.
• 59:25
  I I loved it. I will say cuz like seeing it
• 59:29
  just out of context, all of these years I thought like that
• 59:33
  was just her skin but then I'm like watching this movie and I'm
• 59:39
  like wait is she wearing a dress?
• 59:42
  Is she an alien? Is that a head?
• 59:44
  Like what's happening? It is actually interesting you
• 59:47
  know because that's kind of an argument I've noticed through
• 59:50
  the years like what part of this is her skin and what part of it
• 59:53
  is a dress, I believe it's a dress looking at the way of
• 59:56
  folds it just feels like it's a very skin type latex E-Type
• 1:00:01
  costume. But yeah, I don't know where the
• 1:00:04
  dress ends and begins but it's still brilliant to me because
• 1:00:08
  the bottom part of the skirt is almost kind of like a mermaid
• 1:00:11
  type. Silhouette is very big at the
• 1:00:13
  bottom so at least we know the skirt is part of the dress.
• 1:00:17
  Yeah. I love it and like the neck
• 1:00:19
  piece oof. That's a good neck piece.
• 1:00:22
  It's a great neck piece especially as the whole look.
• 1:00:25
  Overall, is very simple. Like it's just a blue, like,
• 1:00:29
  latex e dress, but then, like all the detail in just a solid
• 1:00:36
  that's solid. Black neck piece, I'm like, oh,
• 1:00:38
  this is like it's beautiful, it's so good.
• 1:00:42
  And I love the song she performs the actual actress is not
• 1:00:46
  singing this song but still it just it's perfect lip syncing by
• 1:00:50
  the way. I mean it's just So, so good.
• 1:00:54
  It's not easy to pretend, you know, how to sing opera.
• 1:00:57
  So I just love the seen so much, it's so beautiful.
• 1:01:01
  For those of you that have seen it, you're probably not even
• 1:01:04
  listening to us. At this point, you're just
• 1:01:05
  envisioning it in your head and that's fine.
• 1:01:08
  You know what it looks like. It's just beautiful.
• 1:01:10
  It's a dream to me. But during this beautiful song
• 1:01:15
  all hell breaks loose lilu is fighting a mangalore's and I
• 1:01:18
  actually there's a quote, I just remembered and I'm paraphrasing.
• 1:01:22
  But the actress who plays a diva plow.
• 1:01:24
  Laguna, I remember an interview her saying that she is actually
• 1:01:27
  kind of disappointed with how this part turned out, because
• 1:01:31
  she practiced and rehearsed so hard for that scene.
• 1:01:34
  And I went, she went and saw the movie in theaters.
• 1:01:37
  This, he didn't realize that they're gonna be cutting in all
• 1:01:39
  these actions seems during her performance.
• 1:01:42
  Oh, so she was like it was like what the f?
• 1:01:45
  You know like what is this big old fight scene happening during
• 1:01:49
  my beautiful Opera moment. And I kind of get that be a
• 1:01:54
  little annoyed too, but still it had to happen.
• 1:01:58
  Looks so good though. It did, I think it went
• 1:02:01
  perfectly with the action scenes?
• 1:02:03
  I guess she's saying, and hey, I would love to have a full clip
• 1:02:07
  version of her performance, but when you intertwined know, if
• 1:02:09
  the action scenes, I'm still not mad at it, it came out really
• 1:02:12
  cool. Her singing makes the action
• 1:02:14
  sequences better, like that's I think so too.
• 1:02:18
  It's really fun and it like it gets the rhythm going, right?
• 1:02:22
  Away to where you need it to go. Absolutely lilu must have been
• 1:02:26
  doing a lot of reading during her trip to fhloston Paradise
• 1:02:29
  because now she's like a full-on martial arts expert which is
• 1:02:33
  just brilliant. Well, I love that because you,
• 1:02:37
  when she's in a cornelius's apartment, you see her like
• 1:02:41
  focus in on Karate and like learning martial arts.
• 1:02:46
  So it's like, oh, this is what you want to.
• 1:02:49
  This is how you want to fight and she's really good at sheet.
• 1:02:52
  Because the mango Lords a down this sets off, a very harsh
• 1:02:57
  sequence of events. Where the diva Plum Laguna is
• 1:03:00
  shot. Killed Corbin has to, then it
• 1:03:04
  reaches hands into her body and pull out the stones, which I
• 1:03:07
  have a lot of questions on how those stones got in her body in
• 1:03:10
  the first place. But, you know, some things you
• 1:03:12
  just don't have to ask questions about, it doesn't matter.
• 1:03:16
  He got them. That's all that matters.
• 1:03:18
  The movie happened, the wild go, it's too late to ask those
• 1:03:21
  questions. Yes, it's too late to ask those
• 1:03:24
  questions. There's too much going on there.
• 1:03:26
  Trying to make sure a bomb, doesn't go off.
• 1:03:28
  Everything's falling apart around them.
• 1:03:30
  They just gotta save the world at this point.
• 1:03:34
  This is one of my favorite action scenes.
• 1:03:35
  This is where Bruce rip Bruce Willis.
• 1:03:39
  I slowly can't say, Bruce Willis, Bruce Willis, Bruce,
• 1:03:44
  Willis, Bruce, Willis Bruce, Willis, really shines.
• 1:03:51
  This is where his Star really comes into handy.
• 1:03:55
  I know it's just really fun. So many explosions and shooting
• 1:04:00
  and rocket launchers, especially cuz, like, up until this point,
• 1:04:04
  I'm kind of like, yeah, I don't, I don't hate his character but
• 1:04:07
  I'm just like, what? Like what are you doing here?
• 1:04:09
  Like yeah. Like what was why was he sent
• 1:04:12
  here of all people? He just seems like a crabby cab
• 1:04:14
  driver to me. Yeah and then he like jumps into
• 1:04:18
  action. It's like, oh, okay.
• 1:04:21
  Yeah. This This is why we booked him
• 1:04:23
  and I do love the hell goatee talks about at korben.
• 1:04:28
  Dallas is use of like vest in this movie and I love how
• 1:04:32
  through to fighting his beautiful tuxedo turns into
• 1:04:35
  like, this really shredded kind of like vessel at once again.
• 1:04:40
  I know because he is wearing that beautiful tuxedo, he looks
• 1:04:44
  fantastic and then it's just destroyed.
• 1:04:48
  It's just becomes a quick shredded salad of a mess.
• 1:04:51
  Pretty Glee. But yeah, it's a great scene.
• 1:04:54
  I love how Ruby Rod somehow gets like evolved in all the action
• 1:04:58
  against his will. He also just realized was like,
• 1:05:02
  oh, it's probably the safest person to be with.
• 1:05:05
  It, was Corbin. Hey, that's a fair statement.
• 1:05:08
  I mean, I would be like on Corbin's back like a backpack.
• 1:05:12
  If I had to get this place. I love though when he's staring
• 1:05:17
  at the the bomb and he stops Cornelius and his like, what is
• 1:05:22
  this? This, this is enough.
• 1:05:23
  All is not as it was a bomb. All these hotels, have bomb
• 1:05:30
  detectors and then the detector goes off.
• 1:05:34
  That's a great scene. That's my dad's favorite scene
• 1:05:39
  in the entire movie. We always like, quote, the part
• 1:05:42
  Factor, each other all the time I should say this is awesome.
• 1:05:46
  On my dad's favorite movies of all time.
• 1:05:48
  So maybe that's why I love this movie so much because my dad and
• 1:05:51
  I watch this together. They're all the time we still do
• 1:05:54
  whenever I hang out with my dad. It's like what you want to
• 1:05:56
  watch, Nacho, Libre, or to fulfillment.
• 1:05:59
  We're watching The Fifth Element.
• 1:06:01
  I love that. Those are your options.
• 1:06:03
  The both equally good movies. Both very different though.
• 1:06:07
  So depends on the mood. Does depend on the mood?
• 1:06:11
  Also who's here to bring down the mood again?
• 1:06:13
  But zorg. Oh yes or ghee gets right off
• 1:06:17
  his ship real mad. I love though his costume
• 1:06:20
  though. It's brilliant.
• 1:06:22
  This Is his, this is my favorite of his costumes.
• 1:06:25
  This just pinstriped suit with the stand-up collar.
• 1:06:29
  Unlike, yes, you are. The bad guy right now.
• 1:06:33
  Oh, yeah, it's so good. He just shows up, he still means
• 1:06:35
  business, you know, still kind of like that business attire but
• 1:06:39
  still very futuristic. And also, he's probably here to
• 1:06:42
  hurt some people to. So he looks good in a pinstripe.
• 1:06:45
  That's brilliant. Oh yeah.
• 1:06:47
  He's there to take care of business even though he isn't
• 1:06:50
  capable of doing what he needs. It's to know, it's just it
• 1:06:54
  doesn't go, doesn't go his way. Oh my gosh, the part that kills
• 1:06:58
  me, which I thought was hilarious.
• 1:07:00
  It didn't really dawn on me until this like, recent re-watch
• 1:07:03
  is how he's so pissed at the mangalore's, for not checking
• 1:07:07
  the crate for the stone. And he do it, it doesn't do it,
• 1:07:12
  it doesn't do it. And he said, like, I'm very
• 1:07:15
  disappointed the first time. He just flies away this time on
• 1:07:19
  the ship and he says, the same thing.
• 1:07:21
  I'm very disappointed. And I'm like, yeah, and yourself
• 1:07:24
  for not checking the Box sir. Hello.
• 1:07:27
  And also, like I had heard, this was one of like, the few moot
• 1:07:31
  action movies were like the main bad guy in the main Action Hero
• 1:07:36
  never cross paths. Oh yeah, it's, it's not
• 1:07:39
  interesting, it's so interesting but I had heard that, so I knew
• 1:07:43
  that, but then when he takes the box, I don't because I forget I
• 1:07:48
  think he takes the Box before Bruce Willis gets them out of
• 1:07:52
  the Right. Yeah, so that's happening.
• 1:07:55
  It's like happening simultaneously.
• 1:07:57
  Okay. I think he takes the box like
• 1:08:00
  slightly before he gets them or whatever.
• 1:08:02
  So I was thinking like wait but if he I was thinking like if he
• 1:08:05
  has the stones, how do they not cross paths?
• 1:08:08
  And then I'm like oh oh I see, it's so crazy to me.
• 1:08:14
  Yeah, they never cross paths, but I think there's a argument
• 1:08:17
  you can make that maybe Bruce Willis isn't the real hero of
• 1:08:21
  this story. Well, that's what I also.
• 1:08:25
  I feel like lilu is the real action hero of this whole movie.
• 1:08:30
  Yeah. The movie is called The Fifth
• 1:08:32
  Element so it's not called the cab driver with a question that
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  passed. Oh gosh, but he's a goner
• 1:08:41
  shortly after that, the entire fhloston Paradise as a goner
• 1:08:46
  honestly we barely make it out of here alive and crew of now
• 1:08:51
  unlikely hero. As Ruby Rod is somehow on the
• 1:08:54
  ship. They just took Ruby with them,
• 1:08:57
  then that's fine. He was like, I'm getting on that
• 1:09:01
  ship, he was not being left behind.
• 1:09:03
  He looks like I don't know what's happening but I'm staying
• 1:09:06
  with you for saving the world, the great and I'm like recording
• 1:09:10
  most of the way. But yeah, we finally get on a
• 1:09:14
  ship and we're going back to Egypt which I think is super
• 1:09:17
  cool. I love the call back to Egypt in
• 1:09:19
  the end. I know I like didn't think.
• 1:09:22
  We were going to go back to Egypt but then I was like, oh
• 1:09:24
  yeah, that makes sense. Like that's where the whole like
• 1:09:28
  were the stones were kept. That's where I like the whole
• 1:09:30
  situation has to go down. Yeah.
• 1:09:33
  And but I do love the scene though.
• 1:09:35
  I think it really gets to the entire meaning of the story.
• 1:09:39
  One of the themes Lee lose like watching back on history of
• 1:09:45
  what's happened ever since, you know, she had to save the world
• 1:09:47
  the last time and she gets like this entire CliffsNotes of The
• 1:09:52
  human race and it shows everything.
• 1:09:55
  It shows wore, it shows like the nuclear explosions, and I also
• 1:09:59
  think it's interesting. If it was really idea of what
• 1:10:03
  happened, she would see like covid.
• 1:10:05
  And our presidential elections shoots, the all that mess and
• 1:10:09
  global warming. The me to movement, and I just
• 1:10:13
  see it in her eyes. She sounds just, like, what's
• 1:10:15
  the point of saving this human race?
• 1:10:19
  They're just so messy, you know? And I just I just think that's
• 1:10:23
  an interesting conversation to have because you see in her
• 1:10:26
  eyes, like what's the point of this?
• 1:10:28
  They clearly are not very good at using their time here on this
• 1:10:32
  planet. Yeah, no, I love that especially
• 1:10:36
  because it's like, you know, the whole past Century leading up to
• 1:10:40
  just them making The Fifth Element.
• 1:10:42
  It's like, okay, that's the history they're working with.
• 1:10:44
  And it's like, oh yeah. And like, the 300 years, there
• 1:10:47
  were supposed to span like, 1/3 of that was just like, whoa,
• 1:10:52
  After war after War. Like why would she want to like
• 1:10:56
  go through with this totally? I think it just goes to say that
• 1:11:01
  like we as humans really need to get together at some point.
• 1:11:05
  You know, like our planet is struggling.
• 1:11:08
  We're constantly at war or really divided.
• 1:11:11
  Plagues coronavirus like we need to work together and actually
• 1:11:15
  make some good positive change in our world.
• 1:11:17
  Or maybe the Fulfillment is not going to help us next time
• 1:11:21
  around. I know the Fifth Element just
• 1:11:24
  might be like I'm too tired for this today.
• 1:11:27
  I'm gonna go save some other race of beings.
• 1:11:31
  So this brings us to Egypt. Our crew lands.
• 1:11:35
  They don't really know what they're going to do, but they're
• 1:11:37
  just going to make it work and that's exactly what happens.
• 1:11:40
  They're just kind of staring at this very dusty Temple.
• 1:11:43
  Like, what do we do here? I know.
• 1:11:45
  I'm like, okay, Bilbo has this information.
• 1:11:48
  Not been passed out, you passed out everything else.
• 1:11:52
  How to actually activate the 5th.
• 1:11:54
  Element and save, everybody Chico the Bilbo.
• 1:12:02
  Get it together. Bilbo Baggins, we're not in the
• 1:12:05
  Shire anymore. We are literally in your house.
• 1:12:07
  Okay? You have been training.
• 1:12:09
  Your tire life for this moment. What have you been doing?
• 1:12:12
  Yeah. And like, clearly, he's the one
• 1:12:14
  who's supposed to know this. She comes straight to him.
• 1:12:18
  He's the person, he's not marrying, anybody.
• 1:12:21
  He's the one who's supposed to know how to deal with this
• 1:12:24
  situation. I also love that I'm gonna start
• 1:12:28
  calling them Bilbo. Now, I also love that corny.
• 1:12:32
  If there's assistant David but like the other helper, he's been
• 1:12:37
  at the temple preparing for like a day or two.
• 1:12:39
  Now, what was he doing? I know where I'm like, where you
• 1:12:42
  just opening up shop and everything clean.
• 1:12:45
  Like you didn't do a very good job.
• 1:12:49
  I mean, it's not even clean like the door was open.
• 1:12:53
  Good job, thank you, David congratulations.
• 1:12:57
  So what do we do? If the stone it is done that
• 1:12:59
  ourselves like Corbin just had to fight and Fire Crews line,
• 1:13:03
  full of aliens, pull, stones out of another aliens chest.
• 1:13:08
  The least you can do is your job.
• 1:13:11
  I mean, or sweep up the place at least.
• 1:13:16
  Anyways, the very least they kind of figure it out there
• 1:13:18
  playing the stones on all the parts.
• 1:13:21
  My favorite part is still makes me laugh to this day as when
• 1:13:25
  rubies like I don't have any fire I stopped smoking.
• 1:13:31
  What do we do? I love you.
• 1:13:34
  Like, if I had known, I would have kept smoking.
• 1:13:39
  So, carbon has like, a one that last match and we all just,
• 1:13:44
  like, know this feeling of like, oh my gosh, this is my last of
• 1:13:47
  something. If we screw this up we are like,
• 1:13:50
  very screwed. I know, I can't, I have to
• 1:13:53
  waiting for that match to go out and for them to have to do
• 1:13:56
  something very ridiculous. So bad and they all are like our
• 1:14:01
  Aren't breathing. It's just like so funny.
• 1:14:04
  It's just like, I also like the greatest acting ever to.
• 1:14:07
  If you look at Chris Tucker's face, it's just so funny to me
• 1:14:11
  every time. He's just like, just like, oh my
• 1:14:14
  gosh. Oh my gosh, I'm gonna die.
• 1:14:16
  I'm gonna die. And the movie comes to a great
• 1:14:20
  conclusion, as they realize like okay?
• 1:14:23
  Yeah, leeloo. You actually are to 5th Element.
• 1:14:25
  So you have to like, do your, turn on your butt and or
• 1:14:28
  whatever it is. I know and Lee lose kind of Like
• 1:14:33
  you know, I'm actually good. I just kind of caught up on your
• 1:14:35
  guys's history and I don't really see the point in doing
• 1:14:39
  this right now and Corbin kind of has to like convince her to
• 1:14:43
  like do her thing. And the idea behind it is like
• 1:14:48
  what makes it all worth it for the human race.
• 1:14:51
  And I think that is love and I think that's what they
• 1:14:55
  understood in that moment, which I think is so touching and so
• 1:14:58
  brilliant. So sweet, it's so sweet.
• 1:15:01
  Sweet. I also love that it's just this
• 1:15:04
  like dark force that needs to be stopped.
• 1:15:07
  Like no explanation of what it is.
• 1:15:10
  None like you can like put whatever you want in its place
• 1:15:14
  and it's like the answer is going to be loved.
• 1:15:16
  That's all you need to take care of business.
• 1:15:18
  Let's that's a good way to put it Elizabeth.
• 1:15:20
  I'm obsessed with you. It's just like.
• 1:15:24
  So the idea is just like, it's just darkness.
• 1:15:26
  That's just like they call them mr.
• 1:15:28
  Shadow. It's just like an evil ball of
• 1:15:30
  evil. Like, that's it.
• 1:15:31
  It's just darkness. And what fight's is like, The
• 1:15:34
  Fifth Element. All these elements on love.
• 1:15:37
  Just light the feeding Darkness. I think that's cool.
• 1:15:41
  I love it. I also love the end When mrs.
• 1:15:43
  Corpang Calls the president of course we cannot end without one
• 1:15:48
  more phone call from Corbin's. Mom, the president's so excited.
• 1:15:52
  He's like, this is Dallas. I'm so excited to actually
• 1:15:56
  someone take this, I don't want to talk to her.
• 1:15:58
  Yeah, like wrong person. Wrong Listen, it's so good
• 1:16:05
  Corbin and lilou have theirselves quite the Romantic
• 1:16:08
  encounter and this tube awesome. And I love the scientist was
• 1:16:13
  like, oh no they're not ready, they are not ready, they're not
• 1:16:16
  ready. I'm surprised they didn't just
• 1:16:18
  open it up for everyone to see and the way they like sexualize
• 1:16:21
  her character so much and his fellow but they finally gave her
• 1:16:25
  some privacy for once and that brings us to the end of my
• 1:16:30
  absolute favorite movie. The Fifth Element.
• 1:16:33
  This was brilliant. I can't wait to watch it again.
• 1:16:37
  It's just so good. It's one of those things you
• 1:16:41
  watch and you're like, I just feel good.
• 1:16:43
  Now that was like you. Enjoy your time, watching it.
• 1:16:48
  It's just fun. It's dramatic.
• 1:16:51
  And it sounds like of the themes you and I were just talking
• 1:16:53
  about but it's also like not too dramatic where you're feeling
• 1:16:57
  like stressed. It's not too serious.
• 1:17:00
  It doesn't take itself. Seriously.
• 1:17:01
  Ously in that sense. And its comedic it has a lot of
• 1:17:05
  parts are really funny but then it's also just like pure sci-fi
• 1:17:10
  and pure fashion. I mean, the costumes of this.
• 1:17:13
  I just feel like will just never be topped.
• 1:17:15
  It's just one of the greatest costume design.
• 1:17:18
  Masterpieces of all time. It's brilliant.
• 1:17:21
  Every single detail is right and Jean.
• 1:17:24
  Paul Gautier, he might be known as a fashion designer but he
• 1:17:28
  really left his mark on costume designing with this film he did.
• 1:17:32
  He did like there are very few costume designers who did who do
• 1:17:37
  in their careers, what he has done in this one single movie
• 1:17:41
  and it's, it's brilliant. It's him.
• 1:17:44
  I love how his stamp is all over this, but most importantly, it
• 1:17:48
  works for the story. One thing that will always haunt
• 1:17:51
  me though, which still drives me crazy to this day, is how this
• 1:17:56
  film was, not nominated for an Oscar for costume designing that
• 1:18:01
  to me. Is just offensive.
• 1:18:02
  Honestly, it drives me crazy around this time.
• 1:18:06
  Titanic, one award for costume design, and Shakespeare in Love
• 1:18:10
  was 1998 by Sandy Powell, which granted both of those are great
• 1:18:14
  costumes design pieces, but not even a nomination for Jean, Paul
• 1:18:19
  Gautier from Fifth Element, it drives me crazy.
• 1:18:22
  I'll never understand it. I will say especially the 90s.
• 1:18:25
  I feel like the academy was very snobby when it came to sci-fi
• 1:18:31
  and horror. And I'm sure they didn't like
• 1:18:34
  the idea of this fashion designer, stepping into the role
• 1:18:37
  of costume designer. I mean, it's only in the last 10
• 1:18:41
  years or so that it's not period.
• 1:18:44
  Dramas dominating the costume design categories, that's such a
• 1:18:49
  good point. I'm actually glad you said that
• 1:18:50
  because it is still true To This Day 2021.
• 1:18:55
  I mean we're still talking about, you know, the Emmys just
• 1:18:58
  past and how Maya see Rubio won the costume design.
• 1:19:01
  Award for Fantasy sci-fi with Juan division.
• 1:19:05
  But shows Li Quan division movies.
• 1:19:07
  Like any superhero movie would never get the same treatment,
• 1:19:11
  you know, back then. As to do now, it's just barely.
• 1:19:14
  Now where they're starting to be recognized by the academy, so it
• 1:19:17
  makes complete sense that the Fifth Element was totally just
• 1:19:20
  like pushed aside, in terms of costumes.
• 1:19:22
  Yeah, I agree. And I mean, I think all these
• 1:19:26
  Awards academies are really trying to look at how they do
• 1:19:30
  things cuz My personal view is that their relevance is
• 1:19:35
  diminishing, because people can watch whatever they want
• 1:19:39
  whenever they want, like, whatever they want, whatever,
• 1:19:42
  whenever they want. And it's like, you don't really
• 1:19:44
  need like the critics or like all these accolades, you know,
• 1:19:49
  put onto a singular show or movie for people to go and watch
• 1:19:54
  it. It's like people are just going
• 1:19:56
  to watch what they like and enjoy, despite whatever people
• 1:20:00
  think about it. So, I feel like finally now,
• 1:20:03
  they're like, well, I guess it's just not our opinions at the
• 1:20:06
  side, what isn't is not good in entertainment audience, you
• 1:20:11
  know, participation and audience.
• 1:20:14
  Appreciation of movies and TV, have a lot more bearing on that
• 1:20:18
  now because it's really, you know, views of movies and TV
• 1:20:24
  shows that drive what gets made not, you know, the accolades of,
• 1:20:29
  you know, the motion picture Academy, or the end.
• 1:20:31
  He's absolutely. Yes.
• 1:20:34
  Just as a society, we need to be embracing of all different types
• 1:20:38
  of media Cinema. There's so many different types
• 1:20:41
  of films out there. You know, some of the most
• 1:20:43
  brilliant work is seen in sci-fi fantasy.
• 1:20:46
  It's not just period anymore. So we just really need to
• 1:20:49
  embrace all forms of Storytelling.
• 1:20:52
  Also to be said, though, The Fifth Element was not a huge
• 1:20:55
  box-office hit when it actually came out if was not, which it
• 1:21:00
  was enough. Doesn't surprise me but after
• 1:21:03
  you and I watch Dracula, not too long ago.
• 1:21:05
  I'm like, well, I don't know, I don't know how they didn't love
• 1:21:09
  The Fifth Element, but they didn't now today is rendered, as
• 1:21:13
  one of, you know, everyone's favorite classic sci-fi movie.
• 1:21:16
  Yes, but back, then it was not the case.
• 1:21:19
  No, it's not. That was a good one.
• 1:21:24
  Spencer, I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
• 1:21:27
  I was a little nervous but I'm glad you enjoyed it.
• 1:21:29
  I thoroughly enjoyed it and, you know, I think we should say on
• 1:21:32
  this sci-fi track. Well, how about you?
• 1:21:35
  This is where you and I are happy is seeing how do you love
• 1:21:37
  sci-fi? So I'm down, let's stay here.
• 1:21:41
  I don't know about you but I am hyped for Dune.
• 1:21:46
  Oh no, June movie is coming out. Are you ready to talk about it?
• 1:21:49
  Spencer, I'm so ready. I cannot wait to see it as not
• 1:21:53
  come out just yet, you know, sit and present time, but I'm very
• 1:21:57
  excited to see it. It's going to be so good.
• 1:21:59
  That cast looks crazy. Good.
• 1:22:02
  I mean everyone's in it and the costumes from what I've seen
• 1:22:05
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• 1:22:07
  I'm so excited. So everybody get your butts into
• 1:22:11
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• 1:22:14
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