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Zorg: A case with four stones in it! Not one or two or three but four! Four stones! What the hell am I supposed to do with an empty case?

Aknot: We are warriors, not merchants.

Zorg: But you can still count. Look it's easy. Look at my fingers, four stones, four crates, zero stones, zero crates! Pack everything up we're outta here.

Aknot: [Mangalores raise their guns] We risked our lives! I think a little compensation is in order.

Zorg: Oh, so you are merchants after all. Leave them one crate for the cause.

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The Fifth Element (1997) - 29 corrections

Directed by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Chris Tucker, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-fi, Thriller

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When Leeloo enters the Fhloston Paradise, we get a good shot of the view the oval windows have to offer. But isn't that where the Opera is supposed to be? That room is pretty high, and when Ruby and Korben enter the Opera, they first have to ascend a stair to get there. This is also visible when Korben leaves the Opera. [The atrium where Leeloo is greeted is connected to the docks. The opera hall is connected to the hotel, a different room altogether.]
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In the scene where they are talking about the temperature of the evil planet thing, the sensors really must be bust as it is reporting -5000 degrees, which would be impossible as the lowest temperature possible is 0 degrees kelvin, -273.15 celsius or -459.67 fahrenheit. [True, those are the lowest possible temperatures. However, they don't actually specify what temperature scale they're using - it's possible that a new standardised scale has been developed which uses -5000 as the equivalent of absolute zero.]
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When Korben throws the bomb onto the bottom of the landing in the Hotel, he asks Ruby to count to ten. Ruby starts counting 1,1000 2,1000, but stops. When Korben shouts at him to count again he starts again from 1, and the bomb explodes after he starts screaming under the pool table. Assuming the Bomb was a timer (Why would Korben ask Ruby to count if it wasn't) the bomb should have exploded well before it did. [After he stops counting in the 1-1000, 2-1000 format, he does start from 1 again, but he counts much faster to compensate for this. Korben telling Ruby to count to ten was just his "cool hero-like" way of letting him know that a bomb was going to blow up in 10 seconds, and to take cover. Someone of Korben's training and expertise would not really need Ruby to count for him.]
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When David and Leeloo are at the check-in desk, David pulls out a fake ID stating him as Korben Dallas. When the real Korben Dallas appears, he takes the ID off David, looks at it and says, 'I sent David here.' He didn't know David's name before and the ID states that he is Korben Dallas, so Korben wouldn't get the name from the ID. [He did know David's name before - they had met when Dallas first brought Leeloo to Vito Cornelius.]
Edit Corrected by Twotall
When Korben breaks the police winch, it breaks the device off the mounting and pulls the entire thing out of the police car. The weakest part of the connection (and therefore the place where it would break) would not be the winch mounting but the hook and loop inside Korben's car, which aren't meant to take the strain that the winch mount would be required to. Imagine if this happened every time a subject bolted - that's a lot of winches to replace and reinstall. [But the winch mount *did* break; and, since there are numerous plausible explanations for why, this fact cannot be considered a mistake. Most likely, this particular winch had simply been put under too much strain for too long without proper maintenance.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius Time
When Corbin Dallas, with the others, are trying to open the stones at the end of the movie, once they figure out how to open it, they gather around the wind stone, which is upside down from the rest. [This is intentional. Air is above you, the others aren't. It's supposed to be symbolic.]
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During the scene in which the Mangalores are raiding the diva's hotel room on the cruise ship, and then when Leeloo goes in and fights them, the view out the window is of a blue screen. [The view out the window is a night shot. You can see stars, and the top of the hull (or balcony) through the window when pausing the DVD. It is not a blue screen.]
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When Korben is with the generals in his house, the generals get into the fridge, then when Korben opens the fridge, one of the generals blinks, even though they are all dead. [They are not dead, that is why one of them blinked.]
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When Korben removes the stones from the Diva, he tears his shirt, wraps the stones and puts them in his jacket to carry. Later, he gives the jacket to Ruby to carry. From then on we lose track of the jacket until they all get onto a ship to escape Fhloston. Once there, the jacket and stones reappear for Cornelius to examine during the flight. Where and when did the jacket and stones change hands? [Korben can be seen carrying the jacket with him at some stages of the movie. Such as when he and Ruby are under the table moving away from the bomb, and Cornelius can be seen holding the jacket when the group goes to collect Leeloo. It's always there.]
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Leeloo's eyebrows change colors throughout the movie. Sometimes they are orange to match her hair, sometimes they are bleached blonde and sometimes they are an ash colour. [Likely Leeloo has used the makeup machine a few times throughout the movie. She seemed pleased with the results the first time she used it at Cornelius' apartment.]
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Anyone notice that the Diva has holes under her arms? These are probably ventilation holes, because it would get very hot in a costume like that. [Maybe your right. But she's an alien who's allowed to look however she wants, so this shouldn't be counted as a mistake.]
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In 1914, the Mondochiwans advise the priest in 300 years evil will return. When Korbin turns on the light, the display says it's March of 2263. They are past the 300 year mark by 49 years. [They were being approximate. It's hardly likely that the ultimate evil would provide them with a precise timetable - all they know is roughly when.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker Time
Before the space shuttle takes off, Ruby Rhod talk to his aides. He has a cigarette in his hand. He says 'zzzz' to them and goes to speak to Korben. His cigarette has disappeared. [You can see in a split second that he throws the cigarette to the floor just before he waves his hand and says 'Zzzzz.']
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When Leeloo is first revealed, she is completely naked, then thermal straps are placed over her. In the next shot, she then has a white strappy outfit. When did this outfit ever be put on? Only thermal straps were placed over her, no outfit. [The thermal straps became the outfit she was wearing (notice that most of the straps match the placement on the outfit). They just did not show all of the extra straps being added.]
Edit Corrected by Bruce Minnick
When Leeloo escapes from the Nucleolab, her hands are really dirty, but when she jump from the building, her feet are only a little bit dirty. [Her feet have a lot of dirt on them, but it's only on the surfaces of her feet that touch the ground: the ball of the big toe, the edge along the outside, and the heel.]
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Right before Korben gets into the sleep chamber, he throws in his jacket and you can see his foot on the ledge. The camera angle changes and he is seen with both feet still on the ground. [When the camera angle changes we only see Korben's head and upper torso. The foot on the ledge is still on the ledge, he uses it to lever himself up and lift his other foot into the same chamber.]
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The stones are covered in dust and cobwebs when they're taken from the short pillars, but they're nice and shiny when they're put into the bag. [The Mondoshawans have great reverence for the stones and take the time offscreen to wipe off the dust before they place them in storage.]
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When the cops attach the winch to Korben's cab, he takes off breaking the winch and when the camera angle changes you see that his cab door is now closed and the winch is nowhere to be seen. [As Korben drives away, his door is open and the winch cable is pulling on the cop car, then the winch breaks inside the cop car. We don't see the outside of the cab after it breaks the winch until almost a minute later. In that time, Leeloo would have identified the dangling winch and wire as dangerous and dropped it, while Korben would have closed the door as soon as he could (a safety precaution in a flying cab).]
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It's impossible for Leeloo to learn how to say "Please help" by reading the sign in the back of Korben's cab. She doesn't understand more than a word or two of spoken English, which doesn't prepare her for interpreting graphic symbols and the sounds they represent. [I don't think it's possible to state categorically what a supreme being is or is not capable of. Given her 5000-year slumber and the huge change in language in that time period, it would make sense for her to have been given some method to figure out elementary communication as soon as possible.]
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In the scene where Leeloo is being recreated, before they 'reanimate her,' you can see Milla Jovovich's stomach going up and down as she breathes. This shouldn't happen, because she's technically not supposed to be alive yet. [Leeloo is alive the moment the protective shield is removed. It's just that she is still asleep. She awakens from the flash when the photos are taken, but the flash is not meant for reanimating her.]
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