However, the pollution in “The Fifth Element” is not as dire and extreme as the pollution in “Blade Runner” but still, it is a great feature of this film. The city is packed with noise pollution due to all the cars flying around everywhere. The city is very busy and we can see that the buildings are grimy and polluted; we can see this in all the black and grey stains on the skyscrapers.
On the whole I can confidently say that pollution contributes to both movies lots, although “Blade Runner” contributes a little more. This helps to portray a busy and fast moving city, although the impression given of by the atmosphere or environment is dystopia shown in the dreary weather.
The eccentric amount of crime adds to the theme of this sci-fi movie. In these films it is clear that there are plenty of crimes being committed.
In “The Fifth Element” crime is shown unambiguously by presenting a diversity of crimes, such as, mugging, people being armed with weapons and fire-arm dealing. These examples are shown at different part of the movie. As Dallas is watching television when he gets an unexpected knock on the door, this is where the mugger confronts him with a huge gun, but he fails to strike fear in Dallas. Another example is when Leelo crashes into Dallas’s cab, he is asked to pullover due to him carrying an unauthorised vehicle, but plummets into the smog. These examples depict the reality of the crime.
Contrary to “The Fifth Element”, “Blade Runner” conveys a different image; it doesn’t face up to as much crime. The main scene which stands out the most of blatant crime, is where Leon Kowalski takes out a gun, whilst being interrogated by Mr Holden, and shoots him without warning. This film lacks in crime as all sci-fi movies need lots of it.
The police add to the tension in both sci-fi moves and portray another key representation of a sci-fi movie. Both Ridley Scott and Luc Besson reinforce the dominant image of the police academy by depicting an advance in their force.
“The Fifth element” conveys their police force through modernised costumes, the police officers wear heavy uniform designed outfit, with breastplate light beams and weapons. The movie uses comical contrast to everyday society by elaborating on the police making fools of themselves. This is shown when the police officer drops coke all over himself, just before going into a high-speed chase, the affect that this has on its audience is that it lightens the tension, engaging humour in the movie.
This is very different to “Blade Runner”. The movies main technological advance in the police force is there flying vehicles, which lacks in originality in contrast to “The Fifth element”. Ridley Scott made the decision to not employ comedy to the film, which made the tension heighten, but the sense of seriousness is a negative attribute to the movie as it makes it monotonous.
Transport and futuristic forms of space travel contributes to the two movies a lot. “Blade Runners’” main development in space travel is the big spacecraft which can fire nuclear missiles, and is gigantic. The other obvious ones are the flying cars. We do not see any aircraft traffic as the cars over right the space for any modern aircrafts to be addressed. The movie conveys reality in its vehicles by contrasting between 21st century cars and modern day transport, due to its flying mechanism and electronic features. The modern flying cars have wheels which illustrates to the audience that they work on the ground, as well as in the air, which depicts a positive progress in the technological developments. “The Fifth element” fails to incorporate the advances of transport, the most developed vehicle in this movie is the flying cars, which are predictable and derivative which is a negative element of the movie.
Ridley Scott and Luc Besson depicted the world of the future by increasing the technological developments employed throughout the film and exemplifying them in a realistic way.
