The Fifth Element Page #20

SCIENTIST:

...Three minutes.

MUNRO:

We've lost contact with them.

269INT. CHAPEL

Korben and Cornelius turn the Stones every which way. All to no avai1.

Loc Rhod is discouraged.

LOC RHOD:

...we'll never make it.

He sighs. Three hooks pop off the Stone. Loc Rhod can't believe his

eyes.

LOC RHOD:

It... it moved! Korben! Korben!

Korben rushes over, looks at the Stone. Hooks are undone.

KORBEN:

What did you say? What did you do?

LOC RHOD:

Nothing! Swear to God, I didn't do

nothing!

KORBEN:

Look, you did something that set it off.

Try to remember. Concentrate. Tell me

exactly what you did!!

Loc Rhod tries to duplicate the same movement.

LOC RHOD:

I was like this... With my hands here and...

I said, "We'll never make it!" That's all!

Nothing happens.

KORBEN:

Is that all?

LOC RHOD:

Yeah... then I sighed... like this.

Loc Rhod sighs, really depressed this time. The Stone opens even more.

Korben's got it.

KORBEN:

The wind! The wind blows...

Korben blows on the Stone which immediately opens revealing a patch of

blue sky with some miniature clouds floating around inside. A yellow beam

pops up like a ray of sunlight, like Korben's smile.

KORBEN:

Quickly, everyone on a Stone!

Water for water! Fire for fire!

Earth for earth!

The two men move fast. Korben on the 4th Stone: Earth. He grabs a

fistful of earth and throws it on the Stone. A miniature patch of green

appears and immediately forms a green beam. Cornelius wipes his forehead

with a scarf and wrings it out over the Stone. It opens revealing a patch of

miniature raging sea. A blue beam appears.

Loc Rhod has a problem.

LOC RHOD:

(shaking)

I don't have a light. I stopped smoking

last week! If we'd come a bit sooner...

Korben pats his pockets, he comes up with a box of matches. There's only

one left.

KORBEN:

Don't breathe.

Loc Rhod and Cornelius hold their breath. Korben strikes the match. A

small flame appears on the tip. A breeze goes through the room. Korben

feels like he's got TNT in his hands. He approaches the flame to the Stone.

The flame twists, dims, flickers ...but holds on. The Stone opens. A patch

of miniature fire appears. Korben sighs, snuffs out the match. The fourth

beam, a red one, immediately forms.

270EXT. SPACE

A mass of fire fills the screen. The Earth is only a thousand miles

away.

271INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

SCIENTIST:

Two more minutes.

The President shuts his eyes. His lids move in prayer.

272INT. CHAPEL

Korben helps Leeloo onto her feet where the four beams and four colors

crisscross.

KORBEN:

It's up to you now, Angel!

LEELOO:

I'm so tired...

KORBEN:

You can sleep tomorrow... come on...

LEELOO:

I want to sleep... forever...

KORBEN:

Leeloo! Listen to me! I'll take you on

a vacation afterwards! A real vacation,

this time, for as long as you want.

Come on! You can do it!

Korben slowly releases Leeloo and steps back from the altar.

Leeloo can barely stand in the center of the four beams.

An indistinct white beam begins to form around her, starts to rise.

CORNELIUS:

Come on Leeloo! Come on!

The beam loses its intensity. Leeloo crumples to the floor.

273EXT. SPACE

The Dark Planet hurtles toward Earth. A hundred miles before impact.

The African continent is visible. No doubt about it:The fireball is

heading right for Egypt.

274INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

Seconds tick away relentlessly on the scientist's stopwatch.

SCIENTIST:

It'll be entering the atmosphere in one

minute.

275INT. CHAPEL

The heat in the temple is unbearable. All the walls start to ooze the

same horrible black slimy liquid seen at Zorg's. A drop of liquid falls to

the temple floor and begins to smoke, eating away at it like acid. Loc

Rhod has to dodge another drop of the stuff. Korben quickly straightens

Leeloo up and puts her back in the center of the beams.

KORBEN:

Leeloo! If you don't get on with the

program we're all gonna die! And that's

not on my agenda for today.

Leeloo wraps her arms around Korben's neck.

LEELOO:

(weak)

What's the use of saving lives...

when you see what you do with them!

KORBEN:

You're right but there are lots of good

things... beautiful things...

LEELOO:

...Like love...

KORBEN:

Exactly.

LEELOO:

But I don't know love... I'm like a machine

programmed to save other people's lives but

never to have one of my own.

276INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

The Scientist's stopwatch goes from 30 to 29 seconds.

277INT. CHAPEL

LEELOO:

I have thousands of memories but none

of them are mine... There is no need for

me other than this. I'm immortal but I have

no life.

KORBEN:

Yes, you do! I need you. More than you

can imagine! Stand up straight!

LEELOO:

Why?... Why would you need me?

KORBEN:

Because...

CORNELIUS:

(to himself)

Tell her, for God's sake!

A bit of the black acid falls on Loc Rhod's shirt setting it on fire. He

rips if off.

CUT TO:

278INT. CHAPEL

KORBEN:

Because...

Leeloo has tears in her eyes. The heat is overpowering. Black acid is

everywhere.

LEELOO:

Tell me...

KORBEN:

I love you...

Despite her fatigue, Leeloo smiles broadly.

CUT TO:

278bINT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

The stopwatch goes from 3 to 2.

279 INT. CHAPEL

LEELOO:

Now you're allowed to kiss me.

- Korben wraps his arms around her and kisses her like he's never kissed

anybody before. - The white beam, the Divine Light, immediately forms

around Leeloo and Korben. - The stopwatch hits zero. - The Absolute Beam

explodes from the top of the pyramid and heads straight into the sky zapping

the fireball smack in the middle, slowing it down. - Korben and Leeloo kiss

like there was no tomorrow.

- The beam hardens and slowly solidifies the Evil Planet. Inaudible

screeches escape from the dying planet. Screeches of terrifying pain as if a

million souls were dying.

- Streams of black acid spurt from the pyramid and solidify like

brilliant stalactites.

280EXT. SPACE

The pure beam, the Light of Life, has finished its work. The Dark Planet

nothing more than a dead planet.

Strangely enough, it looks like the moon. Everything is calm around it.

281INT. PRESIDENT'S OFFICE

President Lindberg opens his eyes and realizes he's not dead-

SCIENTIST:

The planet seems to have stopped at...

62 miles from impact.

282INT. CHAPEL

In the temple, the beam loses its intensity. But Leeloo and Korben

remain stuck together, lost in their kiss. Cornelius has dropped to his

knees, clutching his hands.

Loc Rhod slips along the wall with a sigh. He gives Cornelius a knowing

smile.

LOC RHOD:

This guy is a killer with the babes.

I knew it from the moment I laid eyes

on him.

Cornelius and Loc Rhod burst out laughing. Korben and Leeloo keep on

kissing.

283INT. LABORATORY

We are in the Nucleological Laboratory that gave birth to Leeloo in the

beginning of our story. The President enters the lab followed by a group

of officials in ceremonial dress.

MUNRO:

Mr. President, let me introduce you to

Professor Mactilburgh, who runs the center.

MACTILBURGH:

It's an honor to receive you. Mr. President.

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