Backbeats (The Fifth Element) The Fifth Element (1997)

The film in 40 beats, structured by the Two Approaches framework. Korben Dallas's initial approach is to run the contractor's playbook — take the fare, do the job, stay defensively detached — and the post-midpoint approach is to treat Leeloo as a person rather than cargo and carry the mission as a personal stake. Ten structural rivets mark the turns. The quadrant is better tools, sufficient: a classical-comedy redemption arc inside a space-opera surface, climaxing in a literal declaration of love that fires the weapon when nothing else can.

Beats are in strict viewing (chronological) order. Timestamps are derived from reference/subtitles.srt (1755 entries; runtime 2:05:15) and verified against reference/annotated-srt.md. Footnotes cite SRT entry numbers and timestamps.

1. [0m] An Egyptian dig in 1914 reads the inscription of the four-elements prophecy. (Equilibrium)

Aziz, the volunteer boy, brings water for Professor Pacoli as the older man translates hieroglyphs by lamplight; Billy, the volunteer painter-copyist, is later sent to fetch grappa. The chamber wall describes a 5,000-year cycle and the great evil that returns at the end of it. The opening establishes the cosmology the rest of the film will operate inside; it does not yet feature the protagonist, but it is the world's equilibrium — the mythic baseline before disruption. 1

2. [8m] The Mondoshawan ship arrives and takes the four element stones and the sarcophagus of the Fifth Element away for safekeeping.

The priest's predecessor is killed in a panicked accident as the chamber opens; the ring of office passes to the next custodian. The film hands the audience the mechanism — physical stones, a fifth element, a custodian lineage — that will be required at the climax. 2

3. [11m] The lineage is set: the priesthood will wait for the cycle to end and the Mondoshawans to return.

The dying priest's last instructions tie the 1914 frame to the 23rd-century one. Pacoli, Billy, and the priest become the three figures whose successors (Cornelius, the Federation, the Mondoshawan cargo) will all converge in 2263. The structural payload of this beat is purely cosmological setup. 3

4. [13m] In 2263, Mangalore mercenaries hired by Zorg destroy the Mondoshawan ship returning with the elements. (Inciting Incident)

The Federation flagship under General Staedert tracks the wreckage and recovers a fragment of Mondoshawan tissue. The cycle's worst-case scenario has begun: the great evil is approaching and the elements are gone. This is the world's inciting incident — Korben's personal one comes about fifteen minutes later when Leeloo crashes through his cab. 4

5. [14m] Korben Dallas — ex-Federal Major, current cab driver — wakes alone in his box-apartment.

The protagonist's stable-state portrait. Cigarette by the fold-out bed, cat on the floor, a wake-up phone call from his old army friend Finger ("Hey, dog brain, finger here"), and the cab dispatch noting he has five points left on his license. The grind is the equilibrium for him personally — the place the rest of the film will move him out of. 5

6. [21m] Cornelius is brought to the President's situation room to brief the Federation on the prophecy.

The President accepts the cosmology because the science says nothing else will work. The instruction goes out: send someone to retrieve the four stones from the Diva Plavalaguna at Fhloston Paradise, where the Mondoshawans had relocated them in advance of the war. 6

7. [22m] Zorg, in his Manhattan office, takes the call from his Mangalore contact about the attack on the Mondoshawan ship.

The film's antagonist gets his establishing scene: he is working for the great evil, and the Mangalores call in to confirm the attack. Zorg orders Aknot to bring "what you asked for" to his factory. 7

8. [25m] Federation scientists rebuild Leeloo from the fragment of Mondoshawan tissue.

The cellular reconstruction sequence: orange hair, thermal bandages, the lab's gawking technicians, and General Munro observing the DNA scan ("200,000 memo groups"). Leeloo is the Fifth Element in human form, designed as the final piece of the weapon. 8

9. [29m] Leeloo escapes the lab through an air vent and falls off a high ledge into mid-air traffic.

The ventilation-shaft sequence and the drop. The film lifts her out of the priesthood's frame and into the city's frame in a single fall. Sets up the cab landing in the next beat. 9

10. [31m] Leeloo crashes through the canopy of Korben's cab in mid-air traffic. (Inciting Incident — Korben's)

She lands in the front seat begging for help in a language he does not recognize, while a passenger in the back yells about being late. Korben dodges a police pursuit and lands the cab. 10

11. [39m] Korben drops Leeloo at the address she shows him on her multipass: Father Vito Cornelius's apartment.

The chase ends at the priest's door. Cornelius and his apprentice Father David are stunned — the perfect being is in their living room, ahead of schedule, on Earth, with no stones. Leeloo and Korben exchange names — "Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat" — and Korben drives away. 11

12. [42m] Ruby Rhod broadcasts the Gemini Croquette contest draw and the corporate sponsor rigs Korben's name to win.

The film hands its comic-relief leg to Ruby, who will be the Korben-Leeloo plot's foil all the way through the Fhloston sequence. Ruby's on-air register and the contest mechanism are established. (Intercut with the priest's-apartment scene that closes Beat 11.) 12

13. [45m] Mangalores raid Cornelius's apartment looking for the multipass.

The priests' rule-bound space is overrun. Cornelius gives the Mangalores a fake; David is wounded; Leeloo evades to the elevator. 13

14. [47m] Mangalores arrive at Korben's apartment in force. (Escalation 1)

Aknot leads the Mangalore strike team to Korben's door. Korben kills them all. The same kind of strike team has just overrun the priests' apartment a beat earlier. 14

15. [51m] Cornelius arrives at Korben's apartment and reveals the stones are with Diva Plavalaguna at Fhloston Paradise.

The mission frame is set. Cornelius explicitly states the cosmology to a still-skeptical Korben: "I try to serve life." The Fhloston destination is locked. 15

16. [54m] Zorg meets Cornelius in his office; the Mangalores deliver an empty case; Zorg chokes on a cherry.

The film's set-piece debate scene. Zorg recites his "I create life out of disorder" speech to a captured Cornelius, then chokes on a cherry that had garnished his drink and is briefly helpless — the bad-faith mirror's pratfall. The Mangalores arrive with the stones case; Cornelius reveals it is empty. 16

17. [58m] Korben loses his cab job and his mother calls.

At the dispatch counter Korben is fired ("you are fired"); back at the apartment the phone rings — his mother launches into the running-gag harangue about not calling. 17

18. [60m] General Munro arrives at Korben's apartment with the Federal mission: pose as the Gemini Croquette contest winner, fly to Fhloston, retrieve the stones. (Commitment)

Munro's three-reasons pitch ("elite special forces", "most highly decorated", "the only one left alive") is delivered here, in the apartment briefing — not later on the flight. Korben at first refuses. When Cornelius and David then arrive at his door begging him to recover Leeloo, he agrees. The cab driver becomes an operator again in one bounded scene. After this the project is real and it is his. 18

19. [62m] Cornelius and David head over to Korben's apartment, against Cornelius's instruction to David.

The priesthood mobilizes physically. David refuses to stay back; Cornelius accepts him along. The team that will eventually be in the temple chamber begins to assemble. 19

20. [63m] The police computer questions Korben through the apartment door about whether he is harboring anyone.

Leeloo hides under the fold-out bed. Korben answers no — and shoots the speaker when the question is repeated ("Wrong answer"). The Resistance/Commitment hinge is now closed: Korben is committed and is also lying to the cops to protect Leeloo. 20

21. [67m] The multipass cover identity is locked: Leeloo Dallas, multipass.

Cornelius and Munro converge on the cover plan and Leeloo is brought back into Korben's apartment. The phrase "Leeloo Dallas, multipass" is locked in here for the first time and becomes the running marker of the cover identity through the rest of the film. 21

22. [69m] Fhloston Paradise — Fog the hotel host welcomes the team to the resort.

Boarding, the Fhloston liner sequence, the visual reveal of the resort and the suite. Lee Evans's stuttered Fog as the hotel's front-of-house security. Korben says "you're gonna kill me" at Leeloo's casual nudity. 22

23. [72m] Cross-cut: Korben dozes, Ruby chases flight attendants, the Diva prepares for her concert.

Three plot legs running in parallel. The film slows down to let the resort breathe before the raid. 23

24. [75m] The Diva's concert begins; Leeloo, alone in the suite, opens the WAR archive.

Maïwenn Le Besco's Diva performs the famous aria — "Il Dolce Suono" from Lucia di Lammermoor into Éric Serra's electronic original — while in parallel Leeloo finds the encyclopedia entry on War in Korben's quarters and starts reading humanity's full record of violence. The concert and the archive are intercut: the most beautiful sound the film has, against the worst data. 24

25. [79m] Mangalores breach the concert hall and the Diva is shot mid-aria.

The firefight intercuts with the continuing aria. Korben fights through to the dressing room. 25

26. [83m] Korben kneels beside the dying Diva, who asks him to take care of Leeloo, and he reaches inside her body to retrieve the four stones. (Midpoint)

The Diva tells Korben that Leeloo "is more fragile than she seems" and that "she needs your help and your love or she will die," and dies. He extracts the stones from inside her body. From this scene on, Leeloo's care has been handed to him personally. Sets up the climax (Beat 33). 26

27. [86m] Korben moves through the hotel with the stones; Leeloo, having read the WAR archive, fights Mangalores and is beaten.

Leeloo at full Divine-warrior register takes out the front rank of Mangalores in the ballroom, and is overwhelmed by reinforcements. Korben finds her wounded in the corridor and carries her, not the case. 27

28. [93m] Zorg arrives at the wrecked hotel and discovers the case the Mangalores brought him is empty; he plants a bomb to clean up.

Zorg sweeps the ballroom for the stones, finds the empty case the Mangalores delivered, and arms a bomb. He disarms the bomb when he realizes the case is empty and the stones are still in play — he doesn't want to destroy them himself. 28

29. [98m] Korben's team — Korben, Leeloo, Cornelius, Ruby, David — escapes Fhloston Paradise on a small ship; Zorg is killed by his own bomb.

The household assembles on the escape ship. Zorg, alone on the hotel concourse, reactivates the bomb to take everyone out and does not get clear in time. 29

30. [101m] In transit to the temple, Leeloo refuses to fight: she has read the WAR archive and quits. (Falling Action / New Approach)

Cornelius explains that the fifth element is what saves humanity — but only if the fifth element believes humanity is worth saving. 30

31. [104m] Temple chamber prep: Cornelius and Ruby ready the four stone pedestals while David's wounds catch up with him.

The team arrives at the temple. Cornelius and Ruby work through the Mondoshawan loading sequence; Ruby — the comic-relief broadcaster — is now the assistant priest. The Federation evacuation countdown is announced over the loudspeaker. 31

32. [108m] The Federation evacuation closes and the dark planet is seconds from Earth. (Escalation 2)

The "two minutes to complete evacuation" message marks the point of no return. The closed environment of the temple, the ticking countdown, and the unresponsive central pedestal raise the stakes to maximum. 32

33. [112m] Cornelius and Ruby get the four stones to fire — water, fire, earth, air activate in sequence — but Leeloo's pedestal is silent.

The team gets the stones working through trial and improvisation; the four streams open and meet above the chamber. The fifth pedestal, where Leeloo stands, does not light. 33

34a. [115m] Cornelius tells Korben that Leeloo needs to know life is worth saving and that he is the one who has to tell her; Korben kneels, says "Because I love you," and kisses her.

The escalation half of the climax envelope. Cornelius — having exhausted the priesthood's procedural arsenal at the four firing pedestals — names that the fifth element will only fire if Leeloo believes life is worth saving, and that Korben specifically has to be the one who tells her. Korben kneels at her pedestal, answers her "Why?" with "Because I love you," and kisses her. The line is delivered around 1:58:36. The mission's missing piece has been supplied verbally; the test has not yet returned its answer. 34

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34b. [~117m] The fifth element fires from Leeloo's mouth as a beam of light that meets the four streams; the dark planet is struck and becomes inert. (Climax)

The certainty-moment. The beam of light leaves Leeloo, meets the four elemental streams above the chamber, and strikes the dark planet, which becomes inert. The audience becomes certain in that frame — for better — that the mission has resolved: stones assembled, weapon fired, Earth saved.

b

35. [119m] Korben and Leeloo stand in the chamber as the four streams disperse and the threat is confirmed dead.

The "scanner imaging has confirmed the dark planet: dead" radio confirmation closes the cosmological plot leg. 35

36. [120m] The President's video address from Federation HQ: the team is decorated. (Wind-Down)

The post-climax debrief: the President addresses the heroes by video; Cornelius and Ruby stand by. 36

37. [120m] Korben's mother gets through on the phone — through the President's call.

The running mother-call gag finally lands: Mrs. Dallas is patched through to Korben via the Federation line, her familiar harangue ("the President's an idiot. You don't sound like an idiot") closing a beat she has been trying to open since the morning. 37

38. [120m] Korben and Leeloo are sealed in a regeneration chamber together while the President waits on the line.

Leeloo is regenerating from her wounds; Korben is in there with her. The privacy of the regeneration chamber is the film's last image of them. 38

39. [121m] The Federation closes the call.

The President signs off; the wind-down resolves. 39

40. [121m] End credits over Éric Serra's "Little Light of Love." 40

Summaries

Through Commitment (Beats 1–18)

The film opens in Egypt 1914 with Pacoli reading the four-elements prophecy and the Mondoshawans taking the stones away for safekeeping. Three centuries later the Mondoshawan ship returning the stones is destroyed by Mangalores hired by Zorg. Korben — ex-Federal Major, present-day cab driver, alone in a box-apartment — gets a wake-up call from Finger and a rough morning at dispatch. Cornelius briefs the President's situation room while Zorg's office takes the Mangalore mission-accomplished call. Federation scientists then rebuild Leeloo from a tissue fragment; she escapes through a vent and lands in Korben's cab. Korben drops her at Cornelius's place, where she gives her name. Ruby's broadcast launches the Gemini Croquette contest. Mangalore strike teams hit both apartments in turn (Escalation 1), Cornelius makes his way to Korben's place to reveal the stones are with the Diva on Fhloston, and Zorg meets Cornelius for the cherry-choke debate. Korben loses his job and the mother phone call begins. Then General Munro arrives at Korben's door with a covert mission: pose as the contest-winner, fly to Fhloston, retrieve the stones. Korben commits.

Rising Action through Midpoint (Beats 19–26)

Cornelius and David head over; the police-control bit ("Wrong answer") closes the apartment scene; the multipass cover identity is locked ("Leeloo Dallas, multipass"). Korben boards the Fhloston liner with Leeloo, Ruby, Cornelius, and David, arrives at Fog's hotel, dozes through Ruby's rounds, and the Diva's concert opens. The Mangalores raid the concert hall; the Diva is shot mid-aria. In the wrecked dressing room, Korben kneels beside the dying Diva, who tells him Leeloo is more fragile than she seems and asks him to take care of her. He reaches into her body and retrieves the four stones. The midpoint is single-scene and intimate: Leeloo's care has been handed to him personally, and from this point on the mission is not the priests' but his.

Falling Action through Climax (Beats 27–34)

Korben moves through the burning hotel with the stones; Leeloo, having read the WAR archive on the ship, fights Mangalores and is beaten; Korben carries her out. The team — Korben, Leeloo, Cornelius, Ruby, David — escapes on a small ship while Zorg is killed by his own bomb. In transit Leeloo refuses to fight: she has read humanity's record of violence and quit. At the temple, Cornelius and Ruby get the four stones firing, but Leeloo's pedestal is silent. With the dark planet seconds from Earth, Cornelius tells Korben the fifth element needs to know life is worth saving and that he has to be the one to tell her. Korben says he loves her. The fifth element fires; the dark planet becomes inert; Earth is saved. The post-midpoint approach — be the partner, supply the missing piece — is tested at maximum stakes and holds.

Wind-Down and the New Equilibrium (Beats 35–40)

The threat is confirmed dead. The President addresses the heroes by video; Korben's mother finally gets through; Korben and Leeloo are sealed together in a regeneration chamber while the call waits. The new equilibrium is not a return to the box-apartment but a partnered version of Korben — the contractor's playbook still intact, but no longer the whole life. The film ends in the better-tools / sufficient quadrant: classical comedy at the cosmic scale, the redemption arc resolved with the externally posed contest (save Earth) and the internally posed one (say the thing) closed in the same gesture. The Revised Approach was the ideal one — the film stages no other path that could have worked, because the fifth element is by design something only a specific personal declaration can supply. There is no shadow-ideal-approach the film leaves on the table; the climax tests exactly what the midpoint set up, and the test passes.

The Two Approaches Arc

The arc bends around the Diva's deathbed transfer. Before that scene Korben is a contractor with a cover identity, running a procedural mission for the Federation and the priesthood. After it he is responsible for Leeloo personally — the stones travel with him, but they travel as something he is bringing back to her, not as cargo to be delivered to anyone else. The film's escalations both put pressure on the matching approach: Escalation 1 (the Mangalore strike on Korben's apartment) breaks the rule-bound contractor environment in which the initial approach makes sense, and Escalation 2 (the Federation evacuation closing while the fifth pedestal stays silent) pushes the new approach to the moment where its specific test arrives. The climax is the test of whether Korben can supply the fifth element — not as a fighter, but as the person who can say what the cosmology requires. The Diva's instruction at the midpoint ("take care of her") and Cornelius's instruction at the climax ("she needs to know life is worth living") are the same instruction, escalated; the wind-down validates that the new equilibrium incorporates that instruction permanently.

The intermediate beats track the progression in three layers. The world-cosmology layer (beats 1–4, 6, 15, 19, 31) carries the priesthood's framing of what the elements are and what they do. The threat layer (beats 4, 7, 13–14, 16, 25, 28–29) carries Zorg and the Mangalores. The personal layer (beats 5, 10–11, 17–18, 20–21, 22, 24, 26–27, 30, 34, 38) tracks Korben and Leeloo specifically. The midpoint and climax both happen on the personal layer, which is why the film resolves there even though the cosmological and threat layers are running at the same scale.

Footnotes

  1. Aziz the volunteer boy brings water; Billy the volunteer is sent for grappa. (SRT 22 [00:03:54] "Ah, you bring them water"; SRT 41 [00:05:30] "Billy, in my sack, the grappa.") Pacoli reads the prophecy from the chamber wall. (SRT 14–17 [00:03:31]) ↩

  2. Mondoshawan ship lands; the predecessor priest is shot in the panic. (SRT entries ~91–110, [00:10:05–00:10:38]) ↩

  3. The dying Mondoshawan instructs the priest to pass the knowledge on. ("Pass your knowledge to the next priest as it was passed on to you." SRT 113, [00:11:15]; SRT 112–116 [00:11:13–00:11:25]) ↩

    1. Federation tracks the wreckage; Staedert orders fire ("General, you may fire when ready." SRT 149, [00:13:40]); Mondoshawan tissue is recovered. (SRT entries 132–157, [00:13:00–00:14:30])

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  5. Korben's apartment opener — alarm, cat, Finger phone call ("Hey, dog brain, finger here." SRT 199, [00:17:42]), license-points dispatch ("You have five points left on your license." SRT 263, [00:19:10]). (SRT 161–270, [00:14:54–00:19:30]) ↩

  6. Cornelius briefs the President; the Federation accepts the cosmology. (SRT 273–320, [00:21:23–00:24:30]) ↩

  7. Zorg's office — Aknot calls in mission accomplished. ("It's aknot... mission is accomplished." SRT 296–298, [00:23:30]; SRT 281–305, [00:22:42–00:23:50]) ↩

  8. Federation lab — DNA analysis ("This has 200,000 memo groups." SRT 321, [00:24:30]), reconstruction, Munro present. (SRT 315–360, [00:24:20–00:28:45]) ↩

  9. Leeloo wakes, escapes through ventilation. (SRT 361–380, [00:28:47–00:31:00]) ↩

  10. Leeloo crashes into Korben's cab; police pursuit. (SRT 384–410, [00:31:43–00:33:00]) ↩

  11. Korben drops Leeloo at Cornelius's door (SRT 481–510, [00:39:52–00:41:30]); Leeloo gives her full name ("Leeloo minai lekarariba-laminai-tchai ekbat de sebat." SRT 537, [00:42:54]). ↩

  12. Ruby Rhod broadcasts; Korben's name is drawn for the contest. (SRT 521–540, [00:42:08–00:43:30]) ↩

  13. Mangalore raid on Cornelius's apartment; David wounded; Leeloo escapes. (SRT 581–620, [00:45:13–00:47:30]) ↩

  14. Mangalores breach Korben's apartment. (SRT 621–680, [00:47:39–00:51:25]) ↩

  15. Cornelius reveals the stones are with Diva Plavalaguna. ("Her name is plavalaguna. She's a diva." SRT 778, [00:57:33]; SRT 681–740 [00:51:28–00:54:55]) ↩

  16. Zorg–Cornelius meeting in Zorg's office; cherry choke; empty case. ("A cherry." SRT 745, [00:55:07]; "[Choking]" SRT 750, [00:55:21]; "All because of one little cherry." SRT 757, [00:55:58]) ↩

  17. Korben fired ("You are fired." SRT 799, [00:58:39]); mother phone call begins ("Hi, mom." SRT 807, [00:59:00]). ↩

  18. Munro arrives at Korben's apartment ("General munro, how nice to see you in the 5000 block." SRT 829, [01:00:20]); the three-reasons pitch ("One, as a member of the elite special forces unit..." SRT 842, [01:00:58]); "You're the only one left alive." (SRT 846, [01:01:14]) ↩

  19. Cornelius and David go to Korben's apartment. (SRT 871–890, [01:02:26–01:03:20]) ↩

  20. Police control at Korben's door ("This is a police control." SRT 894, [01:03:34]); "Wrong answer." (SRT 913, [01:04:24]) ↩

  21. "Leeloo Dallas." / "Multi-pass." (SRT 962, [01:07:38]; SRT 935–965, [01:05:30–01:07:50]) ↩

  22. Hotel arrival; Fog introduces himself ("Hello, Ms. Diva. I'm fog." SRT 1117, [01:15:30]; "I am, uh, security." SRT 1119, [01:15:36]; SRT 1001–1060, [01:09:28–01:12:43]) ↩

  23. Korben dozes; Ruby on rounds; Diva prep. (SRT 1061–1120, [01:12:43–01:15:51]) ↩

  24. Diva concert opens with "Il Dolce Suono" from Lucia di Lammermoor / Eric Serra electronic original; intercut with Leeloo reading WAR archive. (SRT 1121–1170, [01:15:51–01:19:16]; Wikipedia; IMDb soundtrack) ↩

  25. Mangalores breach concert; Diva shot. (SRT 1171–1220, [01:19:16–01:23:00]) ↩

  26. Diva's deathbed transfer. ("She's also so fragile, so human." SRT 1340, [01:35:31] — wait, actual line within deathbed sequence: "But she's more fragile than she seems." SRT 1342, [01:35:43]; "She needs your help and your love or she will die." SRT 1343–1345, [01:35:46–01:35:55]; SRT 1221–1310, [01:23:00–01:30:00]) ↩

  27. Korben moves through hotel with stones; Leeloo fights Mangalores. (SRT 1271–1320, [01:26:22–01:33:00]) ↩

  28. Zorg at the hotel; empty case; bomb planted then disarmed. ("Was that a bomb?" SRT 1486+ context, [01:45:04]; SRT 1321–1380, [01:33:48–01:38:11]) ↩

  29. Team escape; Zorg killed by his own bomb. (SRT 1381–1430, [01:38:11–01:41:49]) ↩

  30. In transit; Leeloo's despair; Cornelius's "fifth element must believe humanity worth saving." (SRT 1431–1480, [01:41:49–01:44:47]) ↩

  31. Temple chamber prep; pedestals; David's wounds. (SRT 1481–1500, [01:44:47–01:45:43]) ↩

  32. "Two minutes to complete evacuation." (SRT 1502, [01:45:49]) ↩

  33. Four stones fire — "Water for water. Fire for fire. Earth for earth." (SRT 1561–1574, [01:51:00–01:52:24]) ↩

  34. Korben's "Because I love you" (SRT 1606, [01:58:36]); fifth element fires. (SRT 1575–1620, [01:52:24–01:55:32]) ↩

  35. "Scanner imaging has confirmed the dark planet: dead." (SRT 1646, [01:59:33]) ↩

  36. President's video address. (SRT 1621–1680, [01:55:32–01:59:18]) ↩

  37. Mother gets through ("Some woman. Claims to be korben's mother." SRT 1705, [02:00:55]; "The president's an idiot. You don't sound like an idiot." SRT 1709, [02:01:07]) ↩

  38. Korben and Leeloo in regeneration chamber. (SRT 1681–1700, [01:59:18–02:00:30]) ↩

  39. Federation closes the call. (SRT 1700–1715, [02:00:30–02:01:30]) ↩

  40. End credits / "Little Light of Love." (SRT 1713–1755, [02:01:19–02:05:15]) ↩

Sources
  • Wikipedia — The Fifth Element — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheFifthElement
  • IMDb — The Fifth Element — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/
  • IMDb full cast and crew — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/fullcredits
  • IMDb soundtrack — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/soundtrack
  • Roger Ebert review (1997) — https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-fifth-element-1997
  • In-vault SRT — reference/subtitles.srt
  • Annotated SRT — reference/annotated-srt.md