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‘The Fifth Element’ at 25: Inside the making of the Bruce Willis sci-fi classic

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futuristic sci-fi head trip. Set in 2263, it sees ex-military cab driver Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) team up with a mysterious orange-haired woman named Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save the planet from a malevolent alien force, which is being helped by ruthless businessman Zorg (Gary Oldman).

The sprawling action movie was stuffed with color, music and eccentric humor; it made a star of Chris Tucker, who played flamboyant TV personality Ruby Rhod, and enlisted comic-book artists to render a future New York City and designer Jean-Paul Gaultier to engineer cutting-edge costumes.“Luc Besson did everything I thought a great artist should do,” sound designer Mark Mangini, who worked on the film (and just won an Oscar for “Dune”), told The Post. “He hired the most creative people in every department, and just told them to do what they do, without any micromanagement.

That, to me, was an epiphany.”Twenty-five years on, Amicarella, who most recently worked on Roland Emmerich’s “Moonfall,” is still impressed with Besson’s work. “It’s funny, it’s imaginative, it’s got romance and action, it’s kind of dazzling.

You’ve got these wacky unforgettable characters, and it’s a little baffling at times,” he said. “The bottom line is, it’s really unique and in today’s world, it holds up.” Below, a look at some of the film’s high points (and occasional mishaps).“I was brought in to read the script in front of Besson’s secretary,” Amicarella recalled. “I read it and said, ‘OK, I don’t really get it.’ But this is the guy who had done ‘La Femme Nikita’ and ‘The Professional,’ major landmark films.

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