She wears a light blue long-sleeved maxi dress, a black bib collar necklace, a black choker, black bracelets, and a light blue belt with small side pouches. She is widely acclaimed and admired throughout the cosmos which is why officials and celebrities attend her shows.ĭiva Plavalaguna has several tentacle-like appendages sticking out of her body. She was entrusted to keep the four elemental stones safe as they can help defeat the great evil that appears every five thousand years. Put in the necessary fillings for your conical head and tentacles by using these fiber fill material.Īccentuate your hips with this light blue skinny belt.Īttach a small belt pouch to each of your sides.įinalize your diva outfit by putting on this black nail polish before you showcase another of your galaxy-captivating performances.ĭiva Plavalaguna is the universally esteemed and treasured alien opera singer in the English-language French science fiction action movie Fifth Element. Use this baby blue polyester fabric to construct the tentacles for the sides of your head and for your back. Utilize this long deadlock cap to create your long conical head protrusion.ĭye and color your deadlock cap to make it sky blue. Wear this black chin strap to have Diva’s head strap and to allow attachment of your head appendages. Match the fashionable bib with these black choker and bracelets set. Put on this black bib collar necklace to approximate Diva’s neck-piece. While the Mad scene is far from the most traditional of operatic moments, it still retains the double aria structure of “slow” and “fast.” So too does Besson in this choice.Ĭheck it out to get an idea of how Besson works this scene, and by extension, his films as a whole.Diva Plavalaguna (Fifth Element) Costume for Cosplay & Halloween 2023īegin your elaborate costume by choosing this long light blue long-sleeved maxi dress. And yet, it keeps in line with the operatic structure of a bel canto opera, albeit with a pop twist. With its hyperactive coloratura leaps and almost impossible vocal lines, it is a stark contrast to Donizetti’s perfectly written lyrical style. And just when you are lulled into the world of opera, Diva Plavalaguna pulls out a dance number (called “The Diva Dance” in the soundtrack) by Éric Serra. We get everything you might expect from Lucia in this segment. In a four-plus minute single take, we see the soprano take on the beginning of the famous mad scene from “Lucia di Lammermoor.” It’s actually a rather famous story as Besson reportedly wanted to use the voice of Maria Callas for this segment, but due to sound issues, he opted for Inva Mula, who dubbed the singing section of it. And sure enough, when we first meet her, that is exactly what we get. The constant mentions of the opera singer soprano have us creating ideas that she might just be a relic of history in a rather bizarre world we’ve experienced. We’ve heard about her throughout the film as the key to having the element stones everyone is after. That is essentially what he does almost halfway through “The Fifth Element” when he finally introduces Diva Plavalaguna. And yet, the director strikes a balance with these two opposing sentiments so that we never doubt his presence as a potent antagonist the hero Leon. In fact, you start to wonder just how far Besson might push that comic aspect at times. Meanwhile, Norman is a murderous villain who still gives us a few laughs due to his pathetic nature. Besson pushes the subject a bit to shock the audience, but never far enough that we stop believing the character altogether. We sympathize with Mathilda’s plight and yet she scares us out a bit with her subdued infatuation with Leon. One of my favorite examples has to be in “Leon the Professional” where its characters, particularly the precocious 12-year-old Mathilda Lando and Norman Stansfield, are both familiar and off-putting at the same time. It’s an odd balance that he strikes so beautifully in all his work. We always feel that his most outrageous moments are not so outlandish. And yet we always feel that he’s retaining a certain level of conservative cinematic structure in his movies. Just when you think you might have his intentions pinned down because he’s given you something rather traditional, he throws a curveball that turns expectations on their head. The director, whether working on an animated film, a suspense thriller, or a sci-fi classic, always manages to keep the viewer shocked and comfortable at the same time. Luc Besson’s films are strange and yet familiar. This week’s installment features Luc Besson’s “ The Fifth Element.” We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. “Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema.
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