directed and based on a story by Luc Besson. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary
Oldman, and Milla Jovovich (pictured). In the 23rd century, Korben
Dallas (Willis), a taxicab driver and former special forces major, joins
forces with a young woman (Jovovich) who falls into his cab, and they
set off to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of
Earth against an impending attack. Besson started writing the story that
became The Fifth Element when he was 16 years old; he was 38 when the
film opened in cinemas. Filming for the French production took place
primarily in London, as suitable locations in France could not be found.
It received mainly positive reviews, although it tended to polarise
critics. It has been called both the best and worst summer blockbuster
of all time. The Fifth Element was a financial success, earning more
than $263 million at the box office on a $90 million budget. At the time
of its release it was the most expensive European film ever made, and it
remained the highest-grossing French film at the box-office until the
release of The Intouchables in 2011.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1755:
A naval fleet led by Commodore William James of the East India
Company captured the fortress Suvarnadurg from the Marathas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suvarnadurg>
1885:
North-West Rebellion: Led by Wandering Spirit, young Cree
warriors attacked the village of Frog Lake, North-West Territories (now
in Alberta), where they killed nine settlers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Lake_Massacre>
1911:
The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted the country's
first national census.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_in_Australia>
1984:
Aboard Soyuz T-11, Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to be
launched into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakesh_Sharma>
2012:
A gunman shot at people inside Oikos University, a Korean
Christian college in Oakland, California, US, leaving seven people dead
and three injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikos_University_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
prosopagnosia:
A form of visual agnosia characterised by difficulty with face
recognition despite intact low-level visual processing.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prosopagnosia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in
it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives
himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him
with the gift of reason. Reason is a particle of the Creator's divinity.
When we use it with a spirit of humility and justice we are certain to
please the Giver of that precious gift.
--Giacomo Casanova
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova>
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