My grandfather was the lead editor for heavy metal. Sadly he passed away from brain cancer when his daughter (my mother) was 16. We still have the dark room in our house where some of the film was processed.
Moebius worked as a designer on Fifth Element and was also an artist for Heavy Metal. The publishers of his comic Incal tried to sue Luc Besson, but it fell through partly because Moebius collaborated with Besson on his project.
I always thought The Fifth Element was a rip-off of Heavy Metal, until I learned two of the creators of Heavy Metal actually worked on it. And basically guided the end result of the movie quite a bit.
Heavy Metal was legendary when it came out... for those of us lucky enough to have gotten a copy when it was released in the early 1980's... Pure gold.
touché!! haha But that quote in itself TAKES ME BACK DOWN MEMORY LANE!!!! You have to be a "millennium" or at least in a pre-millennium age group?! lol I am 34 myself. Anyway, shit made me think about all kinds of school-age shenanigans & cheating ass shit me and my studious peers would do. haha SMH One of my favorites; were the tiny, balled-up papers with answers on it or whatever... AKA "cheat sheets"... that was sometimes passed around/thrown amongst us friends. Those were the dayz needless to say... All your meaningless worries were passing a vocabulary/spelling test AND not getting caught while doing it!! lol #GOODtimes ANNYYYYWHO; my long random nostalgic dumb rant is now over. Yerp. lol (if you actaully end up reading this shit chemicalspore or anyone for that matter.. good day or night to ya. CHEERS!!! Now get @ ME if you dare!!! haha jkjk)
This is so insane that this video exists. Many years ago my girlfriend (now wife) and I watched the Fifth Element together. Later that night I watched Heavy Metal, because I had just got it from the $5 bin at Walmart earlier that day. Being that the Fifth Element was still fresh in my head, I was blown away by the similarity.
Y'all saw it as kids in the drive in....awwe man the good old days. Lots of hot sexy cartoon boobs. Of course seeing it as a kid that's what I thought about. As time goes on I've realized what a great movie it really is. The newer version of heavy metal doesn't even come close to the OG
I just noticed this when watching Heavy Metal again and went to the internet to see if someone else connected these two movies. Yes, whoever wrote Fifth Element was definitely a Heavy Metal fan.
Brilliant. Back when Fifth Element was being worked on, Besson was really secretive about it. I remember the very vague "giant 5" previews shown in theaters, etc. But I read in a film magazine (don't recall which one) that it had a cabbie that saves a girl from trouble in a Bladerunner-esque city and they go on a big adventure together and I was like "hey that kind of sounds like the first part of Heavy Metal!" Well, lo and behold, it wasn't just that commonality!
I didn’t know that they had so many similarities. I’ve been reading so many comments on here. I love reading all of the memories people are sharing because of watching this. It’s interesting to see how many people have had the same thoughts about these two movies. I’m glad this video was made.
Well said! It's great how the internet has bridged many years apart for people who can then share their experiences together. We're very fortunate to have this privilege.
I am glad you did this, because I saw the parallels between the two stories for years, but every time I mentioned it to someone, they looked at me like I was nuts.
Really? I saw an interview of the maker of 5th element and he stated that he had been influenced by Heavy Metal. And back then I was like - and that is the best you can come up with? Most people who saw and liked 5th element because of Bruce Willis and Milla J. have no clue that Heavy Metal exists. Reminds me of the Hunger Games thing. A guy told me: "Dude, there is a movie, where they have to fight gladiator games." And I was like: "Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger?" "No, what is Running Man? I am talking about Hunger Games." "Hunger ... what?!"
Heavy Metal is an arts class on steroids. It had both Space-Conan and Space-Red Sonja (with silver grey hair) in one movie. Plus the best zombie movie as an extra. And that soundtrack. Come on!
Well... Heavy Metal the American variant of Metal Hurlant, a French Sci-Fi publication, and Harry Canyon (I think) was a Moebius story. Luc Besson is French, and was likely very well acquainted with this type of story telling and aesthetic (especially Valerian), and so it makes loads of sense that there is a tonne of crossover! **edit** One other thought: The Fifth Element was more Valerian than the movie Valerian, but I didn't realize how much T5E was influenced by Heavy Metal until now. While George Lucas was influenced more by the WWII movies that he had grown up on, the artistic styling and "used space" aesthetic was entirely based on the French stylings of the time. Cloud City is a great example of the Valerian influence.
Do not know If I'm wrong, but Jean-Claude Mézières did work in The Fifth Element and said to Luc Besson, why don't you do a Valerian film, instead of this. I remember reading or watching some interview with Luc Besson about both films.
@@JCResDoc94 Good artists borrow, great artist steal - Pablo Picasso (Born in Spain, lived in France). Truth is everyone during that time was copping and borrowing and stealing from everyone, including Miyazaki. All admired and respected everyone else's work, and build each other up.
@@Antropologopt When Valerian was announced I was hoping for Fifth Element on a much grander scale. It started off well enough, but there was way too much cgi, and the whole running through the City, breaking through sector to sector was too over the top for me. I have only watched it once, and everytime I try to watch it again, I almost stop at or around the same spot. If should have been way more than what it was.
>The Fifth Element was more Valerian than the movie Valerian Yup, the Valerian film is filled with so much stuff, it's like they tried to cram 10 films into one.
I have a vivid memory of watching Heavy Metal for the first time. I planned for it and it was a Friday night. The Heavy Metal cover was all over the cable t.v guide. First showing was of course after 10:30 due to the adult content. This was the 80s not today where its content on demand. To prepare for this night I froze some O.J and made rice crispy treats. The first issue with watching it was that the only t.v in the house that had cable was in my parents bedroom. Normally not a issue on a Friday night due to my folks owning a small tavern and usually worked Friday night. Well, this night she was off and getting dress to go somewhere around the start of Heavy Metal. So, now I am ready with my frozen O.J and my homemade rice krispy treats. Everything is good at the beginning and my mom is in and out of her bedroom while I am looking at Heavy Metal while eating frozen O.J and krispy treats. Then, the Den sex scene started and I can picture it vividly and my mom slows down while putting earrings in while looking at the scene. I sit there perfectly still without making a sound and then the scene ended. Then I heard my mom say quietly while continuing to get ready "at least its cartoons".
I'm so intrigued by the idea of frozen OJ! Are you just talking a glass of frozen orange juice? It sounds so simple and so tasty, I can't believe I never did that!
@@allenwilson6462 what the heck!? I can't tell whether you're a genius or I'm just stupid! How have I never thought to freeze grapes?? That's gonna make the best morning snack! You have just introduced me to 2 new snacks! Thankyou sir!
I've always thought of 5th Element as a Heavy Metal movie. Same with Chronicles of Riddick (not all of them, just the second one). They both have that weird euro-sf sensibility that just feels like it's straight from the pages of Metal Hurlant.
I was lucky enough to have seen Heavy Metal in the theater, I was a collector of Heavy Metal Magazine and loved Möbius's and Richard Corbin's art and still have my collection and the Taarna Sideshow statute
I almost typed the same thing you did! I consciously didn't notice, But now, watching them side by side, I think some part of my brain actually DID!!! Hella weird, huh?! Happy New Year!
Even weirder, I just changed my channel name about 4 days ago, when I noticed they had added numbers to our names. Before, it was @erikdee. They changed it to @erikdee2765 or something, I changed it to @erkdeeNOSPELLSNO. And when I looked at your channel uploads, you have a video there by Invisible Glue called NomeansNo... just a bit of synchronicity....
Fantastic comparison video! I've loved both movies since I first viewed them but I have never realized the depth in which TFE takes inspiration from HM. I would love to see more content of this genre!
This video is well timed! I just rewatched Heavy Metal a few months ago and the resemblance to Fifth Element really hit me! I love both movies, really amazing stuff.
I remember being a kid and stayed the night at a buddy's house. This friend always had access to the coolest video games , movies and cartoons. We were about 9 or 10 still in elementary school, his parents were divorced so he was spoiled by both mom and dad. It's not that we were allowed to watch it at that age but once grandma would disappear in the room for hours. She only come out to feed us at the same times , so he knew when he could get away with it, lol. Heavy Metal was an amazing cartoon for it's time, thanks for the nostalgia. I never knew the fifth element had so many things in common to the cartoon Heavy Metal. No wonder the fifth element is one of my favorite movies , I've seen it hundreds of times.
I remember classmate once gave me a gameboy for the whole evening. Homework was forgotten. As for someone who only had tetris it blew me away. Playing a game with headphones on was something in those days.
Same here with the spoiled friend with divorced parents. They weren’t rich but this kid had everything. Dirt bikes, video games, go cart, a gajillion cool toys. And his mom worked all the time so I rarely saw here. We ate whatever and whenever for years. In our early teens we started finding all the adult videos including Heavy Metal, and that was tame compared to others we found. We were surprisingly adult about it all. Probably knew we had found gold and didn’t want to lose it. Frigin crazy time.
Music was So Much better in Heavy Metal, really the Story was Better with Incredible Voice Character Actors, Love Heavy Metal, Fifth Element was very Derivative, but Still like Both
There are multiple stories within the base film, and including Heavy Metal 2000. Does anyone remember any other stories which were then given a 5th Element treatment?
@@Agustin_Leal In themes, concepts and settings definitely, but isn't it visually pretty much Kurosawa/Westerns+war movies dressed up as Valérian and Laureline? Admittingly I don't really know what Dune aesthetics very established before the 1984 movie.
Iirc, Besson said that the 5th Element was based on a story he thought up when he was young he'd always dreamed of making into a film one day. He'd have been around 22 in 81, and we all know how derivative our stories can be when youthful. It makes sense that he might have used it as a starting base, but he certainly lut his own unique spin on things, which is really what most storytelling is.
@@jordanmc9015 nothing we make is ex nihilo. Someone like Besson may stray too close to ripping off in the true sense, but movies like the 5th Element had their own unique touches to the older formulas. It's the same with the Terminator movies and how much was exactly drawn from Harlen Ellisons Puter Limits episodes. I like both those episodes and what Cameron made and if one arose from the other then I don't see a problem given the differences that seperate them.
@@nektulosnewbie Watch lockdown (Escape from New York) Enter the Warriors gate (Forbidden Kingdom). Taking ideas, or inspiration is one thing. Copying entire plots, story lines, etc, is just lazy.
Similarly, Gene Roddenberry had a standard story he called "The God Thing". He used it in different forms over the decades. Most notably Star Trek the Motion Picture and TNG: Encounter at Farpoint. It was supposed to be used in the aborted 70s series Phase 2, but then went to the big screen. Aspects of the basic story can be seen in many other Star Trek episodes.
@@curbfeelers6287 that has more to do with Roddenberrys theological wrestlings than anything else. He has major issues with God despite his religious stance.
Yop, most of the inspiration for the writers and most of the graphic artists for the 5th, also worked on heavy metal, Us / French golden age of comics and sci-if illustrator.
Believe me, MG... when my generation saw *The 5th Element* in theaters when it first came out, the first thing we thought of was "it's a live action Harry Canyon movie", and I think it was completely intentional. I also found it funny that the movie also had a Dallas, an Ash and even a chest bursting scene (when Dallas takes the stones out of the singer) as *Alien* was heavily inspired by Heavy Metal as well. 4:08 and 5:42 Oooh! A piece of (John) Candy!
Mœbius may not have lent his direct involvement to the animated anthology, but his DNA is baked into the film by design. Mœbius co-founded Les Humanoïdes Associés in December 1974, debuting the trailblazing sci-fi/fantasy magazine Metal Hurlant the month after (including the debut of Mœbius' pterodactyl-riding antihero, Arzach). Two years later, the editorial crew responsible for National Lampoon translated many of those cartoons for an English-speaking audience through Heavy Metal magazine.
No way have I NOT known about this. No FREAKING WAY was fifth element inspired so closely to a heavy metal story. Ive seen both the 81 and the 2000s and DIDNT EVEN MAKE THE CONNECTION! This is AWESOME!!!!
1/14/2023 @ 6:29 a.m. I finally made the connection - I've seen Both also, I was about 10 when cable tv was a 'New' thing in the neighborhood & Heavy Metal was shown along with American Pop. The 80's was a Time to Remember...
FYI: Luc Besson was born in 1959. He was 16 yr old in 1975. “As a teenager, Besson envisioned the world of The Fifth Element in an attempt to alleviate boredom. He began writing the script when he was 16” (in the year of 1975) - “though the film was not released in cinemas until he was 38. The original story was set in the year 2300 and was about a "nobody" named Zaltman Bleros (later renamed Korben Dallas) who wins a trip to the Club Med resort on the planet Fhloston Paradise in the Angel constellation. There, he meets Leeloo, a "sand-girl" who has the "beauty of youth" despite being over 2,000 years old. Besson continued to work on the story for years…”
And you know this how? Cuz he told you? You were there in person when he wrote it in high school? Or you're just shitting words out of your mouth? Fuckin jagoff
Yes, saw all of those on the big screen and have been watching them all on Disc, Heavy Metal was the reason the Laser Disc player stayed in service for decades...
I saw heavy metal when it first came out when I was a kid. John Candy Eugene L. and so many other well known actors got their their start with this movie. I've been saying it s since I saw the fifth element in the 90's. they took that storyline from heavy metal from the harry Canyon f****** story. I mean it's obvious right.. Bravo my friend Bravo!!
Wow. Holy crap dude. Bravo. I mean really, I've been watching this channel for years (I'm subscribed), but this is absolutely the icing on the cake. Good work man. Wow. You deserve so much credit. Best video editing of the year. I am impressed!!!!!
I remember when The Fifth Element came out, I was 12. Pretty much every kid I knew had went and seen it. I was trying to convince all the kids at school it was basically a live action version of an American Anime from 80s called Heavy Metal. No one believed me, and kids tried to make fun of me for making it up.
I used to look at Heavy Metal magazines (usually tucked in between Penthouse and Playboy magazines) and just loved the art style when I was a kid back in the 70's. Now I found comic file versions of all the English published years that I read/look on my phone. Such great material through the many years of it's issues starting from the early 70's. Could make many great movies from all the material. Besides this 1981 movie, there was a series of Metal Hurlant shows that used to stream. Especially today with the level of CGI, AI assisted CGI, et al, wish they would make more video adaptions.
@@thealternative9580 I'm trying to forget those. Was not my bag man. But I did like to read some of the salacious articles. The Errol Flynn one was too detailed..
When I first saw Fifth Element in theaters I thought "Heavy Metal" but in fairness, it very quickly diverges in tone and narrative. Harry Canyon is a grimy, jaded, dystopian affair appropriate to the attitudes at the end of the 70s. While Fifth element is a bubbly, vivid optimistic 90s rave flyer.
I thought of Harry's episode in Heavy Metal at once after seeing the 5th Element. It's cool to see just how many similarities there are when seen side by side.
Guardians of the Galaxy was around as a comic well before Farscape. Better off comparing Star Wars to old WW2 dogfight movies, and Akira Kurosawa films. 😂
@@epsileth All James Gunn did was a 1:1 copy of Farscape's main plot and characters and slapped Marvel Universe on it. Gunn straight out admits it he did. The plot of Farscape is an astronaut get shot to the other side of the galaxy and becomes a wanted criminal and joins with other criminals on a spaceship running from the military police force The Peacekeepers. Most episodes are them getting into trouble and using the most illogical plan to get out of it. Peter Quill = John Crichton: Human taken into space, who talks to other characters using Earth slang, uses a Walkman and has a hidden superpower. Gamora = Aeryn Sun: Humanoid Peacekeeper, who begins as the enemy until she is also classified as a wanted criminal and becomes the love interest of John. Drax = Ka D'Argo: The muscle of the group covered in tattoos and carries a sword/rifle. Acts like a tough guy, but really a softy at heart. Rocket = Rygel XIII: Tiny alien, who acts like a selfish greed asshole. I would include Groot equals Pa'u Zotoh Zhann, but their only similarly is they are plants. As for other tells actor Ben (John Crichton) Browder is in GOTG Vol. 2 as Sovereign Admiral and on the commentary track for GOTG1 Gunn is asked as the end credits start how Peter is able to speak to the other characters. He says Peter was injected with nanites that stay at the base of the skull, which is exactly how it's done in Farscape with John in the pilot episode.
Heavy Metal, The Fifth Element, and Blade Runner all originate from the period in which NYC was drowning in crime and inequality, and it seemed like it would only keep going to it's logical conclusion. Escape from New York took it in another direction, but from the same starting point. And before someone someone drops in to "correct" me, yes Blade Runner takes place in LA, but the aesthetic of the malignant megacity comes from NYC. LA did not have then nor does it have now the same dense structures that Manhattan has.
When I saw 5th Element for the first time, it instantly to me to this story. Heavy Metal also boasts one of the best soundtracks ever. Totally cutting edge for 1980... the same year Flash Gordon came out, 3 years later than Star Wars.
О-хо-хо, Корбан, как жаль что ты потерялся в своих текстурах. Ты был отличным актёром. Твои роли были удачными по большей части. Жаль, что болезнь тебя забрала к себе.
"Heavy Metal" was a tremendous influence. Each story is rich and memorable. We had to go to Midnight Madness to see it. Which makes it even more endearing. Den of Earth.
Not going to lie I'm in my fifties and I've seen both of these movies 100 times and they're both two of my favorites... but I never made the connection.
Great comparison. I’ve watched HM over 200 times since the day it came out, and TFE not as much but many times as well. Both are in my top favorite list of movies. I never thought of the parallels between them, but perhaps subconsciously the reason why I liked TFE so much was because of HM. Thank you for opening my eyes (figuratively) 😎
Now, if only 5th Element could have had a soundtrack of the quality of Heavy Metal. Best OST ever. "Open Arms" catapulted Journey into the stratosphere, but the deep cuts are equally impressive. "Radar Rider" and "Heartbeat" are songs I never tire of - pure 80's hard rock goodness. The two Cheap Trick songs, "Reach Out" and "I Must Be Dreaming" are pure Trick, but with a slightly harder edge. What can you say about Sabbath's Mob Rules except 🤘🤘? "Veteran of the Psychic War" is still my favorite Blue Oyster Cult song.
One of the many strong elements of The 5th Element is the music. Eric Serra’s soundtrack is AMAZING. If he had scored Valerian, the movie wouldn’t have been as forgettable.
I saw it a couple days before release in a radio station (WLIR) preview and they handed out a program that's basically the cover of the soundtrack. I'd already seen Sabbath and BOC in the Black & Blue tour so them, and Nazareth and though I wasn't too familiar with Sammy Hagar I knew it was him with the "headbangers in leather!" opener. Donald Fagen of Steely Dan? Don Felder of the Eagles? (I reckon his "Heavy Metal" song edges out Sammy's). Devo?! I LOL'd when they appeared with "through being cool" such an awesome scene. Journey?! I totally missed recognising "open arms" as it was nothing like what little I knew of them. The too-short Captain Stern bit has Grand Funk Railroad's "Queen Bee" and man, when the drums kick in Don Brewer sounds like he's playing drums with four arms! Even the end credits (Devo again!) doing "working in a coalmine" is splendid stuff.
Amen! I've been explaining these exact comparison details to people who haven't seen Heavy Metal for two decades now. So glad that someone finally made it a visual argument..
Unreal. 5th Element has been one of my favorite movies since it came out. And I saw Heavy Metal many times in the 80s. I **never** made the connection between the two!
В искусстве так происходит всегда, один художник мотивирует и вдохновляет другого. В результате появляются шедевры такие как "Пятый элемент" Р.С. мне показалось, что стиль графики в этом мультике очень напоминает фильм "Малыш и Карлсон" 1968г.От этого он не перестает быть интересным и самобытным
![GEEK TIMË [OFFICIAL AUDIO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ry-6RvkH880/mqdefault.jpg)
My grandfather was the lead editor for heavy metal. Sadly he passed away from brain cancer when his daughter (my mother) was 16. We still have the dark room in our house where some of the film was processed.
Just know your grandfather was a legend
Major respect to your family
I love the film. Its absolutely amazing. Especially the fighter pilot segment.
Films messed up in all the right ways lol.
Thank you! Interesting history only here on yt!
So the 5th element looks like was produced straight from the negatives if you get what I mean
Amazing
Moebius worked as a designer on Fifth Element and was also an artist for Heavy Metal. The publishers of his comic Incal tried to sue Luc Besson, but it fell through partly because Moebius collaborated with Besson on his project.
Morbius?!
@@PieroMinayaRojas no.
@@PieroMinayaRojas moebius its moebin time
Love behind the scene stuff 👍
I think this movie was also at least aesthetically inspired by Valerian comics, yeah? Of course Luc made that movie as well.
I always thought The Fifth Element was a rip-off of Heavy Metal, until I learned two of the creators of Heavy Metal actually worked on it. And basically guided the end result of the movie quite a bit.
Both great movies.
But lazy AF strategy for someone who designs movies.
Yeah basically rip off
ripp-off how
@@dealerhealer3673Are you insulting the 5th Element with the number one glazer in the comment?
(me)
Heavy Metal was legendary when it came out... for those of us lucky enough to have gotten a copy when it was released in the early 1980's... Pure gold.
My dad was. Definitely seemed to influence him in a crazy unique way.
I saw it in the theater back in the day. Now I have it on Blu Ray.
I think it's my only Blu Ray.
want more? Check out The Spine of Night
It needs a live action movie
Only watched the movie twice, still play the soundtrack all the time.
"Hey man, let me copy your homework." "Okay but don't copy it exactly!"
touché!! haha But that quote in itself TAKES ME BACK DOWN MEMORY LANE!!!! You have to be a "millennium" or at least in a pre-millennium age group?! lol I am 34 myself. Anyway, shit made me think about all kinds of school-age shenanigans & cheating ass shit me and my studious peers would do. haha SMH One of my favorites; were the tiny, balled-up papers with answers on it or whatever... AKA "cheat sheets"... that was sometimes passed around/thrown amongst us friends. Those were the dayz needless to say... All your meaningless worries were passing a vocabulary/spelling test AND not getting caught while doing it!! lol #GOODtimes ANNYYYYWHO; my long random nostalgic dumb rant is now over. Yerp. lol (if you actaully end up reading this shit chemicalspore or anyone for that matter.. good day or night to ya. CHEERS!!! Now get @ ME if you dare!!! haha jkjk)
@@CodyDylanFerrell back in them good old days
The scenes are nothing alike and this is just click bait
@FP194 Oh, look, Captain Buzzkillington has joined us.
You're blind. They are basically the same
This is so insane that this video exists. Many years ago my girlfriend (now wife) and I watched the Fifth Element together. Later that night I watched Heavy Metal, because I had just got it from the $5 bin at Walmart earlier that day. Being that the Fifth Element was still fresh in my head, I was blown away by the similarity.
What is walmart bin?
Cool story. I first saw heavy metal as a kid in 90s... I was way too young to watch it.. I found it quite erotic
@@Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский a big box full of random DVDs they sell for discount prices
@@archam777 What is DVD?
@@Papagiorgio153 ruclips.net/video/5QBHukn8Qm8/видео.html
I want Doovda !
My dad took me to see Heavy Metal when it was released. He probably shouldn't have taken me. I was way too young to appreciate it back then.
Same, saw it at the drive-in w dad.
Me too. Exactly 40 years ago
Y'all saw it as kids in the drive in....awwe man the good old days. Lots of hot sexy cartoon boobs. Of course seeing it as a kid that's what I thought about. As time goes on I've realized what a great movie it really is. The newer version of heavy metal doesn't even come close to the OG
why you ungrateful little
@@motrhead69 lol. He did !!!
I just noticed this when watching Heavy Metal again and went to the internet to see if someone else connected these two movies. Yes, whoever wrote Fifth Element was definitely a Heavy Metal fan.
It's Moebius, who happens to be both the designer for this movie and an artist for Heavy Metal.
Fire 1 Million....
@@MollyHJohns but Moebius didnt work on Harry Canyon it was Juan Gimenez who died of COVID last year
@@aeonsbeyond Gimenez died ? Damn this makes me sad, his comics were in a league of their own.
@@aeonsbeyond unironically thanks to bring that up 🙏
Brilliant. Back when Fifth Element was being worked on, Besson was really secretive about it. I remember the very vague "giant 5" previews shown in theaters, etc. But I read in a film magazine (don't recall which one) that it had a cabbie that saves a girl from trouble in a Bladerunner-esque city and they go on a big adventure together and I was like "hey that kind of sounds like the first part of Heavy Metal!" Well, lo and behold, it wasn't just that commonality!
I didn’t know that they had so many similarities. I’ve been reading so many comments on here. I love reading all of the memories people are sharing because of watching this. It’s interesting to see how many people have had the same thoughts about these two movies. I’m glad this video was made.
learn what Metal Hurlant and The Incal is
Well said! It's great how the internet has bridged many years apart for people who can then share their experiences together. We're very fortunate to have this privilege.
Heavy metal should be way more popular
@alexsnowden5829 they don’t know what’s good
@@sedsitametadinterreteliber2937 I know what good animation is
@@mcilrain heavy metal is good eighties animation
@@sedsitametadinterreteliber2937 Akira came out in 1988
@@mcilrain different styles
I am glad you did this, because I saw the parallels between the two stories for years, but every time I mentioned it to someone, they looked at me like I was nuts.
You could have been an expert witness during the lawsuit.
You are nuts but you were right😄
@@deshrektives There wouldn't be a law suit. The guy who did the art for the taxi scenes is the guy who made Fifth Element.
Really? I saw an interview of the maker of 5th element and he stated that he had been influenced by Heavy Metal.
And back then I was like - and that is the best you can come up with?
Most people who saw and liked 5th element because of Bruce Willis and Milla J. have no clue that Heavy Metal exists.
Reminds me of the Hunger Games thing. A guy told me: "Dude, there is a movie, where they have to fight gladiator games."
And I was like: "Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger?"
"No, what is Running Man? I am talking about Hunger Games."
"Hunger ... what?!"
Mas você é maluco Brian... Você sabe que é doido.
Both of these movies are true classics!
one is a masterpiece the other a failed and pathetic attempted by an overhyped bad director
@@mikescorpio13Elaborate which one is what
@@George18798 if you knew good cinema you wouldnt need to ask
Heavy Metal is an arts class on steroids. It had both Space-Conan and Space-Red Sonja (with silver grey hair) in one movie. Plus the best zombie movie as an extra. And that soundtrack. Come on!
Amazing! Love both movies, watched them numerous times - and yet until today I have not noticed these obvious similiarities. Thanks!
Well... Heavy Metal the American variant of Metal Hurlant, a French Sci-Fi publication, and Harry Canyon (I think) was a Moebius story. Luc Besson is French, and was likely very well acquainted with this type of story telling and aesthetic (especially Valerian), and so it makes loads of sense that there is a tonne of crossover!
**edit**
One other thought: The Fifth Element was more Valerian than the movie Valerian, but I didn't realize how much T5E was influenced by Heavy Metal until now. While George Lucas was influenced more by the WWII movies that he had grown up on, the artistic styling and "used space" aesthetic was entirely based on the French stylings of the time. Cloud City is a great example of the Valerian influence.
no question. i was just typing about all the french comic bulk bought/theft. _JC
Do not know If I'm wrong, but Jean-Claude Mézières did work in The Fifth Element and said to Luc Besson, why don't you do a Valerian film, instead of this. I remember reading or watching some interview with Luc Besson about both films.
@@JCResDoc94 Good artists borrow, great artist steal - Pablo Picasso (Born in Spain, lived in France). Truth is everyone during that time was copping and borrowing and stealing from everyone, including Miyazaki. All admired and respected everyone else's work, and build each other up.
@@Antropologopt When Valerian was announced I was hoping for Fifth Element on a much grander scale. It started off well enough, but there was way too much cgi, and the whole running through the City, breaking through sector to sector was too over the top for me. I have only watched it once, and everytime I try to watch it again, I almost stop at or around the same spot. If should have been way more than what it was.
>The Fifth Element was more Valerian than the movie Valerian
Yup, the Valerian film is filled with so much stuff, it's like they tried to cram 10 films into one.
I have a vivid memory of watching Heavy Metal for the first time. I planned for it and it was a Friday night. The Heavy Metal cover was all over the cable t.v guide. First showing was of course after 10:30 due to the adult content. This was the 80s not today where its content on demand. To prepare for this night I froze some O.J and made rice crispy treats. The first issue with watching it was that the only t.v in the house that had cable was in my parents bedroom. Normally not a issue on a Friday night due to my folks owning a small tavern and usually worked Friday night. Well, this night she was off and getting dress to go somewhere around the start of Heavy Metal. So, now I am ready with my frozen O.J and my homemade rice krispy treats. Everything is good at the beginning and my mom is in and out of her bedroom while I am looking at Heavy Metal while eating frozen O.J and krispy treats. Then, the Den sex scene started and I can picture it vividly and my mom slows down while putting earrings in while looking at the scene. I sit there perfectly still without making a sound and then the scene ended. Then I heard my mom say quietly while continuing to get ready "at least its cartoons".
It was cool she let you watch it also I’m intrigued by the rice crispies frozen orange juice. How does that work?
Lmao
I'm so intrigued by the idea of frozen OJ! Are you just talking a glass of frozen orange juice? It sounds so simple and so tasty, I can't believe I never did that!
@@drewk3259 Just a bowl of frozen O.J but now I just eat frozen grapes instead.
@@allenwilson6462 what the heck!? I can't tell whether you're a genius or I'm just stupid! How have I never thought to freeze grapes?? That's gonna make the best morning snack! You have just introduced me to 2 new snacks! Thankyou sir!
I've always thought of 5th Element as a Heavy Metal movie. Same with Chronicles of Riddick (not all of them, just the second one). They both have that weird euro-sf sensibility that just feels like it's straight from the pages of Metal Hurlant.
I was lucky enough to have seen Heavy Metal in the theater, I was a collector of Heavy Metal Magazine and loved Möbius's and Richard Corbin's art and still have my collection and the Taarna Sideshow statute
This is great editing
thanks
Wow this is insane! Big fan of both movies, never noticed this. Thanks!
I almost typed the same thing you did! I consciously didn't notice, But now, watching them side by side, I think some part of my brain actually DID!!! Hella weird, huh?! Happy New Year!
Even weirder, I just changed my channel name about 4 days ago, when I noticed they had added numbers to our names. Before, it was @erikdee. They changed it to @erikdee2765 or something, I changed it to @erkdeeNOSPELLSNO. And when I looked at your channel uploads, you have a video there by Invisible Glue called NomeansNo... just a bit of synchronicity....
Sir. I salute you. Thanks for putting in the work and showing us what we all thought.
To be honest I enjoyed them both but never compaired
Heavy Metal brings back memories. Amazing.
It's amazing how they are so similar. Great job
Fantastic comparison video! I've loved both movies since I first viewed them but I have never realized the depth in which TFE takes inspiration from HM. I would love to see more content of this genre!
This video is well timed! I just rewatched Heavy Metal a few months ago and the resemblance to Fifth Element really hit me! I love both movies, really amazing stuff.
I remember being a kid and stayed the night at a buddy's house. This friend always had access to the coolest video games , movies and cartoons. We were about 9 or 10 still in elementary school, his parents were divorced so he was spoiled by both mom and dad. It's not that we were allowed to watch it at that age but once grandma would disappear in the room for hours. She only come out to feed us at the same times , so he knew when he could get away with it, lol. Heavy Metal was an amazing cartoon for it's time, thanks for the nostalgia. I never knew the fifth element had so many things in common to the cartoon Heavy Metal. No wonder the fifth element is one of my favorite movies , I've seen it hundreds of times.
I remember classmate once gave me a gameboy for the whole evening. Homework was forgotten. As for someone who only had tetris it blew me away. Playing a game with headphones on was something in those days.
Hundreds of times? Wow! I've never watched any movie more than twice.
Same here with the spoiled friend with divorced parents. They weren’t rich but this kid had everything. Dirt bikes, video games, go cart, a gajillion cool toys. And his mom worked all the time so I rarely saw here. We ate whatever and whenever for years. In our early teens we started finding all the adult videos including Heavy Metal, and that was tame compared to others we found. We were surprisingly adult about it all. Probably knew we had found gold and didn’t want to lose it. Frigin crazy time.
Music was So Much better in Heavy Metal, really the Story was Better with Incredible Voice Character Actors, Love Heavy Metal, Fifth Element was very Derivative, but Still like Both
Heavy Metal had an excellent voice cast! I love that John Candy was involved.
I watched both of these films awhile back now but I never made the connection before seeing this. Good work.
There are multiple stories within the base film, and including Heavy Metal 2000. Does anyone remember any other stories which were then given a 5th Element treatment?
He mixed heavy metal and star wars. Then stylized it like a Terry Gilliam movie.
Star Wars is a copy of Moebius work.
@@Wirmish Star Wars is more Dune than anything else
5th element is derivative of a French comic called “The incal” not Star Wars
@@Agustin_Leal In themes, concepts and settings definitely, but isn't it visually pretty much Kurosawa/Westerns+war movies dressed up as Valérian and Laureline? Admittingly I don't really know what Dune aesthetics very established before the 1984 movie.
@Agustin_Leal star wars is nothing like dune
Iirc, Besson said that the 5th Element was based on a story he thought up when he was young he'd always dreamed of making into a film one day. He'd have been around 22 in 81, and we all know how derivative our stories can be when youthful.
It makes sense that he might have used it as a starting base, but he certainly lut his own unique spin on things, which is really what most storytelling is.
Everything Mr. Besson has "created" has been ripped of of something, or someone else. John Carpenter sued, and won. Its actually very disturbing.
@@jordanmc9015 nothing we make is ex nihilo. Someone like Besson may stray too close to ripping off in the true sense, but movies like the 5th Element had their own unique touches to the older formulas.
It's the same with the Terminator movies and how much was exactly drawn from Harlen Ellisons Puter Limits episodes. I like both those episodes and what Cameron made and if one arose from the other then I don't see a problem given the differences that seperate them.
@@nektulosnewbie Watch lockdown (Escape from New York) Enter the Warriors gate (Forbidden Kingdom). Taking ideas, or inspiration is one thing. Copying entire plots, story lines, etc, is just lazy.
Similarly, Gene Roddenberry had a standard story he called "The God Thing".
He used it in different forms over the decades. Most notably Star Trek the Motion Picture and TNG: Encounter at Farpoint.
It was supposed to be used in the aborted 70s series Phase 2, but then went to the big screen.
Aspects of the basic story can be seen in many other Star Trek episodes.
@@curbfeelers6287 that has more to do with Roddenberrys theological wrestlings than anything else. He has major issues with God despite his religious stance.
Oh you missed that the bandage clothing in the 5th element is the same clothe as the final warrior.
Taarna!
Yop, most of the inspiration for the writers and most of the graphic artists for the 5th, also worked on heavy metal,
Us / French golden age of comics and sci-if illustrator.
Super cool video.
Probably not many of us left who remember Heavy Metal.
Believe me, MG... when my generation saw *The 5th Element* in theaters when it first came out, the first thing we thought of was "it's a live action Harry Canyon movie", and I think it was completely intentional.
I also found it funny that the movie also had a Dallas, an Ash and even a chest bursting scene (when Dallas takes the stones out of the singer) as *Alien* was heavily inspired by Heavy Metal as well.
4:08 and 5:42 Oooh! A piece of (John) Candy!
Alien is 1979, so alien is the influential one here, but it really set new bars for all Sci fi and horror at the time.
Alien came out before heavy metal
Alien was inspired by the Space:1999 episode "Dragon's Domain". Per Ridley Scott.
@@CT-uv8os that episode didn't come out in 1999 then.
@@hamsandwich6685😂no
I've long been a fan of heavy metal. I thought there were some similarities the first time I watched 5th element. Didn't realize how deep they went.
Mœbius may not have lent his direct involvement to the animated anthology, but his DNA is baked into the film by design. Mœbius co-founded Les Humanoïdes Associés in December 1974, debuting the trailblazing sci-fi/fantasy magazine Metal Hurlant the month after (including the debut of Mœbius' pterodactyl-riding antihero, Arzach). Two years later, the editorial crew responsible for National Lampoon translated many of those cartoons for an English-speaking audience through Heavy Metal magazine.
Moebius is credited in the film
Glad somebody else saw that connection....great job editing ...now what about Den...?...
No way have I NOT known about this. No FREAKING WAY was fifth element inspired so closely to a heavy metal story. Ive seen both the 81 and the 2000s and DIDNT EVEN MAKE THE CONNECTION! This is AWESOME!!!!
I love both these movies and I had no connection
1/14/2023 @ 6:29 a.m. I finally made the connection - I've seen Both also, I was about 10 when cable tv was a 'New' thing in the neighborhood & Heavy Metal was shown along with American Pop.
The 80's was a Time to Remember...
Inspired is the new plagiarism huh
Fifth element is from the 90s
Got to love the space checker taxi
There's also an oval hallway from the "Hanover Fist" segment that I'm pretty sure they recreated perfectly for the inside of Zorn's building.
Yes on the handover fist part. One of my favorite scenes on heavy metal. Good call. Stern!!!!!
"He should be torn into little, bitsy pieces, and buried alive!!"
This is a trip! I remember watching Heavy Metal when it first came out.
Never realized the similarities.
I've seen "Heavy Metal" 2 or 3 times, but I never noticed the "Jaws 7" poster before.
FYI: Luc Besson was born in 1959. He was 16 yr old in 1975.
“As a teenager, Besson envisioned the world of The Fifth Element in an attempt to alleviate boredom. He began writing the script when he was 16” (in the year of 1975) - “though the film was not released in cinemas until he was 38. The original story was set in the year 2300 and was about a "nobody" named Zaltman Bleros (later renamed Korben Dallas) who wins a trip to the Club Med resort on the planet Fhloston Paradise in the Angel constellation. There, he meets Leeloo, a "sand-girl" who has the "beauty of youth" despite being over 2,000 years old.
Besson continued to work on the story for years…”
And you know this how? Cuz he told you? You were there in person when he wrote it in high school? Or you're just shitting words out of your mouth? Fuckin jagoff
Ну конечно, раз Люк Бессон это рассказал значит это правда).
Нет, он должен всем рассказать, что видел мультфильм на основе которого создал сценарий?
Very inspiring as someone who’s been working on a sci fi story for 5 years haha
How familiar, I am sure I heard this before...Right, Cameron's Avatar.
Sure he did! He retconned his own history trying not to get sued is obviously what happened.
I thought about this similarity for years but seeing it cut like this is very cool.
I saw Heavy Metal when it first came out in the theaters. It was a double feature with Wizards, which had come out a few years earlier.
Wizards was my all time childhood fav!
Yes, saw all of those on the big screen and have been watching them all on Disc, Heavy Metal was the reason the Laser Disc player stayed in service for decades...
I saw heavy metal when it first came out when I was a kid. John Candy Eugene L. and so many other well known actors got their their start with this movie. I've been saying it s since I saw the fifth element in the 90's. they took that storyline from heavy metal from the harry Canyon f****** story.
I mean it's obvious right..
Bravo my friend Bravo!!
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Wow. Holy crap dude. Bravo. I mean really, I've been watching this channel for years (I'm subscribed), but this is absolutely the icing on the cake. Good work man. Wow. You deserve so much credit. Best video editing of the year. I am impressed!!!!!
Damn I been made this comparison years ago it’s nice to see someone put a video to it
I remember going to see Fifth Element and being so surprised how dope that movie was. Still one of my favorite movies to this day !
Blue Lamp was such a cool song in Heavy Metal.
Great video, 👌
I never saw heavy metal but now I have to. Fifth element is my obsession. Even got tattoos of it
See Heavy Metal, it's fantastic, but give the "sequel," Heavy Metal 2000, a hard pass. ='[.]'=
I really enjoy folks using their brains to find out such similarities and share them :)
Wow now I wanna see Both of them now, mainly Heavy Metal The Animation is Beautiful & Fifth Element because good ole Bruce Willis is in it.
I remember when The Fifth Element came out, I was 12. Pretty much every kid I knew had went and seen it. I was trying to convince all the kids at school it was basically a live action version of an American Anime from 80s called Heavy Metal. No one believed me, and kids tried to make fun of me for making it up.
American anime?
@@ratpatooti5080
Canadian. America junior 😁 To be exact
i assume its cus you called it an american anime. its not.
G**damn I hate kids.
Anime is the Japanese word for cartoon. So you don’t have to say American anime you can say American cartoon or animated film.
I had always noticed the homage played with the cabbie thing. But I never realized how deep it went. Even the fridge shot!
Fun fact: the lady who voiced the nurse also voiced Lita/ Sailor Jupiter from Sailor Moon in the original English dub.
Nice~
The fat cop in the police station was voiced by John Candy.
I used to look at Heavy Metal magazines (usually tucked in between Penthouse and Playboy magazines) and just loved the art style when I was a kid back in the 70's.
Now I found comic file versions of all the English published years that I read/look on my phone.
Such great material through the many years of it's issues starting from the early 70's.
Could make many great movies from all the material.
Besides this 1981 movie, there was a series of Metal Hurlant shows that used to stream.
Especially today with the level of CGI, AI assisted CGI, et al, wish they would make more video adaptions.
Dont forget High Times.
@@thealternative9580 I'm trying to forget those. Was not my bag man. But I did like to read some of the salacious articles. The Errol Flynn one was too detailed..
Two highly underrated weird movies
Heavy Metal is like your college thesis love letter and 5h element is when you get some real financing under your belt.
No, Heavy Metal is originality and creativity. 5th element is when you steal.
@@chanjackie2299 Where's Chris Tucker in Heavy Metal?
@@AlexGeek "Because it's not stealing,
if you take from more than one source,
or if even one minute is not stolen."
- Alex's Big Brain Take
@@TheRealValus Green, Super Green!
@@chanjackie2299so you did no research, cool.
When I first saw Fifth Element in theaters I thought "Heavy Metal" but in fairness, it very quickly diverges in tone and narrative.
Harry Canyon is a grimy, jaded, dystopian affair appropriate to the attitudes at the end of the 70s.
While Fifth element is a bubbly, vivid optimistic 90s rave flyer.
The fifth element has been one of my favorite movies most of my life. I've never watched heavy metal, but my mind was still blown by this revelation!
Same, I'm glad I saw The Fifth Element first back in the day thinking it was original.
Heavy Metal was mostly violence, rock music, and sex.
The 16 year old within will absolutely love this movie.
This perfectly depicts why I had such a sense of familiarity when watching the fifth element the first time.
I thought of Harry's episode in Heavy Metal at once after seeing the 5th Element. It's cool to see just how many similarities there are when seen side by side.
Holy shit! I just watched Heavy Metal for the first time. I saw The Fifth Element a long time ago. But holy shit how similar?!?!
Every friend of mine (we're all old as dirt) have said that Fifth Element was just "Harry Canyon: The Motion Picture", without the nudity 😅
Major Grin, do Guardians Of The Galaxy ripping off Farscape.
Guardians of the Galaxy was around as a comic well before Farscape. Better off comparing Star Wars to old WW2 dogfight movies, and Akira Kurosawa films. 😂
@@epsileth 1969 Guardians Of The Galaxy is nothing like MCU Guardians Of The Galaxy.
@@vonVile never said they were the same. Second movie completely changed who Peter was, and who Ego was.
@@epsileth All James Gunn did was a 1:1 copy of Farscape's main plot and characters and slapped Marvel Universe on it. Gunn straight out admits it he did.
The plot of Farscape is an astronaut get shot to the other side of the galaxy and becomes a wanted criminal and joins with other criminals on a spaceship running from the military police force The Peacekeepers. Most episodes are them getting into trouble and using the most illogical plan to get out of it.
Peter Quill = John Crichton:
Human taken into space, who talks to other characters using Earth slang, uses a Walkman and has a hidden superpower.
Gamora = Aeryn Sun:
Humanoid Peacekeeper, who begins as the enemy until she is also classified as a wanted criminal and becomes the love interest of John.
Drax = Ka D'Argo:
The muscle of the group covered in tattoos and carries a sword/rifle. Acts like a tough guy, but really a softy at heart.
Rocket = Rygel XIII:
Tiny alien, who acts like a selfish greed asshole.
I would include Groot equals Pa'u Zotoh Zhann, but their only similarly is they are plants.
As for other tells actor Ben (John Crichton) Browder is in GOTG Vol. 2 as Sovereign Admiral and on the commentary track for GOTG1 Gunn is asked as the end credits start how Peter is able to speak to the other characters. He says Peter was injected with nanites that stay at the base of the skull, which is exactly how it's done in Farscape with John in the pilot episode.
@@vonVile you're over thinking this too much. Most of what you're saying already existed in the guardians comics.
John Candy did the voice of the cop at 03:44 Eugene Levey and Joe Flaherty also did voice work on this movie. So few people seem to be aware of it.
Squidward was the voice of Hannover Fiste.
Roll that around in your mind brain.
John Candy was awesome in Heavy Metal.
Two timeless classics, I love both of these movies. A lot.
As a big fan of both movies, I was blown away with the similarities. Obviously inspired material.
Inspired is putting it lightly!
@@brocksamson4245 true, pity the soundtrack wasn't equally inspired.
Heavy Metal, The Fifth Element, and Blade Runner all originate from the period in which NYC was drowning in crime and inequality, and it seemed like it would only keep going to it's logical conclusion.
Escape from New York took it in another direction, but from the same starting point.
And before someone someone drops in to "correct" me, yes Blade Runner takes place in LA, but the aesthetic of the malignant megacity comes from NYC.
LA did not have then nor does it have now the same dense structures that Manhattan has.
Some 40 years later and NYC still is drowning in crime, arguably worse than ever.
But yes, point taken.
So that’s like NY right now
@@narcodiumcrime is nowhere near where it used to be
Just like Gotham. Though I was had a feeling of Detroit.
@@verifiedhandle9103 Cap.
When I saw 5th Element for the first time, it instantly to me to this story. Heavy Metal also boasts one of the best soundtracks ever. Totally cutting edge for 1980... the same year Flash Gordon came out, 3 years later than Star Wars.
I've always compared fifth element and that segment of heavy metal, especially after seeing both on acid.
О-хо-хо, Корбан, как жаль что ты потерялся в своих текстурах. Ты был отличным актёром. Твои роли были удачными по большей части. Жаль, что болезнь тебя забрала к себе.
"Heavy Metal" was a tremendous influence. Each story is rich and memorable. We had to go to Midnight Madness to see it. Which makes it even more endearing. Den of Earth.
Den RULES!
And if I don't obey you?
Then you die, the girl dies, everybody dies.
Seems reasonable to me.
Not going to lie I'm in my fifties and I've seen both of these movies 100 times and they're both two of my favorites... but I never made the connection.
Not surprised. Gotta hand it to you though, you have a knack for finding these kinds of things. Also, Mila Jovovich is hot.
Loved Heavy Metal
I have to watch these back to back before I watch this...
I'll be back!
Great comparison. I’ve watched HM over 200 times since the day it came out, and TFE not as much but many times as well. Both are in my top favorite list of movies. I never thought of the parallels between them, but perhaps subconsciously the reason why I liked TFE so much was because of HM. Thank you for opening my eyes (figuratively) 😎
You've seen them hundreds of times and didn't notice shot for shot similarities..... There are some scenes that are exactly the same.
Very nice. Requires me to re-watch both movies. Thank you!
The metal aliens in the beginning look exactly like the construction workers who discover the orb in heavy metal
Well holy shtt!……..how did I never notice this?? Thank you for the video my friend, the comparisons are perfect.
Great animation style, great story/storytelling and great soundtrack.
Now, if only 5th Element could have had a soundtrack of the quality of Heavy Metal. Best OST ever. "Open Arms" catapulted Journey into the stratosphere, but the deep cuts are equally impressive. "Radar Rider" and "Heartbeat" are songs I never tire of - pure 80's hard rock goodness. The two Cheap Trick songs, "Reach Out" and "I Must Be Dreaming" are pure Trick, but with a slightly harder edge. What can you say about Sabbath's Mob Rules except 🤘🤘? "Veteran of the Psychic War" is still my favorite Blue Oyster Cult song.
One of the many strong elements of The 5th Element is the music. Eric Serra’s soundtrack is AMAZING. If he had scored Valerian, the movie wouldn’t have been as forgettable.
@@TheElectricMayhem except that weird diva opera techno crap lol
I saw it a couple days before release in a radio station (WLIR) preview and they handed out a program that's basically the cover of the soundtrack. I'd already seen Sabbath and BOC in the Black & Blue tour so them, and Nazareth and though I wasn't too familiar with Sammy Hagar I knew it was him with the "headbangers in leather!" opener. Donald Fagen of Steely Dan? Don Felder of the Eagles? (I reckon his "Heavy Metal" song edges out Sammy's). Devo?! I LOL'd when they appeared with "through being cool" such an awesome scene. Journey?! I totally missed recognising "open arms" as it was nothing like what little I knew of them. The too-short Captain Stern bit has Grand Funk Railroad's "Queen Bee" and man, when the drums kick in Don Brewer sounds like he's playing drums with four arms! Even the end credits (Devo again!) doing "working in a coalmine" is splendid stuff.
Bruce Willis' character does indeed strike me as a live action Harry Canyon.
...Except for all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun
Bruce Willis is Harry Canyon.
They have as much in common as any other "hero" type character. It's hilarous. People want to see what they want tooo see i guess.
Я как-то высказал сравнкние этого мультика с Пятым элементом, когда разговаривал с племянницей. Приятно видеть, что я не один;)
Нас много )
Amen! I've been explaining these exact comparison details to people who haven't seen Heavy Metal for two decades now. So glad that someone finally made it a visual argument..
Oh wow. The similarities are beyond coincidence!
I've seen both dozens of times. There was always something familiar about 5th element.
And both good movies.
Beautiful mash-up! This was so good, but I think RetroNerdGirl elaborated on this a few years ago
Unreal. 5th Element has been one of my favorite movies since it came out. And I saw Heavy Metal many times in the 80s. I **never** made the connection between the two!
3:40 I never liked how she’s supposed to be passed out, but she’s holding his back 🤷♂️. I loved 5th element though,still do.
В искусстве так происходит всегда, один художник мотивирует и вдохновляет другого. В результате появляются шедевры такие как "Пятый элемент"
Р.С. мне показалось, что стиль графики в этом мультике очень напоминает фильм "Малыш и Карлсон" 1968г.От этого он не перестает быть интересным и самобытным
все что сейчас снимают уже было придумано кем-то когда-то
i did not know about Heavy Metal .... i want to see it now .
The work for this story from Heavy Metal come from the great late genius Juan Giménez.