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The Fifth Element

posted 19 years ago by Tigerpoon
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LMAO. Just thought it was funny now seeing it written since the Fifth Element was one of the best sci-fi films I enjoyed for entertainment. Anyhow, they talked about Os having killed the 1st element of the 5 elements. But they didn't go into detail what that 1st element would have represented. As the other 4 elements were Fire, Water, Wind (Air), and Metal. I'm guessing it might have been "Earth" referring to the Ground/Land. But that's taken from Aristotle's Four Elements. The Chinese also have "Wood" as an element making the total five. Any ideas?

I don't think they even showed a clear picture of the person who represented the "1st element". Just heard a scream of death.

[–] dayraven-1 19 years ago

it was probably "heart," ala Captain planet. that's why it didn't seem to matter that the day could be won without it. however, i notice, the sixth element, crap, could be seen all over this one.

[–] kenkakuknight 19 years ago

Actually, the five elements of eastern mysticism are Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood. If you arrange them in a circle/pentagon, it goes in that order.

There are two cycles to these elements: the complement cycle, and the antagonistic cycle. These are the checks and balances system. The complement cycle, one element feeds into another, and thus the elements give more power to them. Fire feeds earth, earth feeds metal, metal feeds water, water feeds wood, and wood feeds fire. The antagonistic cycle restricts/weakens the element across from them, making a star-shape. Fire weakens metal, metal weakens wood, wood weakens earth, earth weakens water, and water weakens fire.

Anywho, those are the five elements. I'm not sure where air/wind disappeared to.

[–] Jedi6215 11 years ago

Maybe Os killed Leeloo after she saved the world!

Korben Dallas should be coming after Os! LOL