I agree with the actress! They chopped her whole scene up during editing. Silver lining though, she stole that movie with just the few minutes she was on film!!

@WitchHunter1991

2 жыл бұрын

The actress clearly doesn't know what to do with her body here, like at all. The director did the right thing to only use the few shots that looked ok

@grumpyphoenix

2 жыл бұрын

@@WitchHunter1991 She's an opera singer. They do a lot of standing in one spot and gesturing. She's also wearing a restrictive and heavy outfit.

@christins.1481

2 жыл бұрын

I personally liked the edits added into the movie, but that didn't away from 'her scene' that was the key moment for the ENTIRE movie. Since then, people have been trying to recreate what she did and hardly any can even remotely top her what she pulled off.

@HogwartsGoth

2 жыл бұрын

@@christins.1481 No one can recreate it because her voice was put though a sampler and arranged with 'fake' high and low notes. You can look that up on any website about the movie.

@Robinwhiteart

2 жыл бұрын

Most memorable thing about the movie!

I saw this movie in theaters when I was a kid, it was a really fun movie and the audience was laughing and screaming during some scenes, but when the Diva sequence came in, it was deadly silent. At the end of the scene everyone applauded. I will never forget.

@garcia207

2 жыл бұрын

The view of Earth in the background made the opera scene more amazing

@Cjjjj902

2 жыл бұрын

This never happened lol.

@redmatrix

Жыл бұрын

@@garcia207 Floston Paradise, not Earth.

@tina7151

Жыл бұрын

That would've been an awesome experience. I think my closest movie experience to this when I watched a quiet place. No one was eating chips and are so hushed that it was a weird and cool experience.

@PaulSmithVPS

Жыл бұрын

I also involuntarily started loudly applauding! I remember that moment in the theater so vividly.

I like how her hand gestures along with singing was choreographed with LeeLou’s fight scene with the Mangalores.

I love this song. It is still awesome after 20 years and this is the best part of the whole movie. I can listen to this song all day. Her voice is so heavenly and so darn beautiful.

@patiencepopovich981

9 ай бұрын

Great song. Dimash does this song and it is awesome as well.

Inva Mula (born 27 June 1963) is an Albanian opera lyric soprano. She began her soprano career at a very early age. Her father (Avni Mula) and mother (Nina Mula) were also opera singers. She is also known for providing the voice of the diva Plavalaguna in the film The Fifth Element. The character Plavalaguna, which means 'blue lagoon' in Serbian, was played by French actress Maïwenn Le Besco but her famous performance of the Diva Dance Opera was actually sung by Albanian opera singer Inva Mula-Tchako

@ML-xh6rd

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this information. Her lip-sync is so good I believed she was actually performing the vocal. Although the actress's performance in the movie is iconic, what makes it so is the vocal, which is other-worldly.

@Spillage66

2 жыл бұрын

And plenty of synth samples!

@tigerfur11

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spillage66 yes they had to make her sound Alien 👽 of course they had to modify.

Why do I find myself mesmerized by this performance every time I see it?

@thejanuaryfall

9 ай бұрын

Same!

This is what I call professionalism....one take and she killed it

@leewilliams1987

11 ай бұрын

One take of lip-syncing. But you should she the bird that actually sang it behind the scenes. She's a master.

What a missed opportunity. It would've been great to have a litttle back story on this character. Just saw the interview with the actress. She's adorable. And beautiful. And so humble. xo

FIFTH ELEMENT. love that movie.. ❤

This is my favorite part of the movie😊

@Axtec36

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@MarkCritelli

5 жыл бұрын

yeah that was my favorite part of the movie as well

@robbierush1560

4 жыл бұрын

I listened to this on the soundtrack so many times

@user-th3qy1ks7h

4 жыл бұрын

제5원소 😍😍😭😭

@shannonboyd4506

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. That's why I love when Dimash sings this. He's like an alien. He really has this range and better. I'm really glad to see this vid though. Beautiful!

No one has come close to repeating this. It is so beautifully done by her.

Truly the most memorable scene in the movie! The movie was another Bruce Willis epic!!

Still one of the best movies ever .

@iLikeJesseOG

11 ай бұрын

Agreed

Her performance was the best part of the movie to me.

one of the most iconic scenes of all times ❤️

Funny to hear that Maiwenn was shocked that she thought people wouldn't recognize her effort in the role after the editing. Many years later, the diva dance is going flippin' viral and many singers are performing it live! Infact, Diva Plavalaguna is single handedly making sure more people are introduced to this marvellous movie ❤

I was mesmerized the first time I saw this and it still has the same effect.

FOR 22 YEARS I HAVE BEEN WONDERING WHAT HER PERFORMANCE WAS AND I THANK YOU FOR POSTING.

@MrWmJosephSmithIII

3 жыл бұрын

How could you not know? Something wrong with that statement.

@ebonyperkins4129

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrWmJosephSmithIII girl this statememt was a year ago. Ive slept since then. I suggest you do the same.

The diva lives rent-free in my head.

I'm 35 I loved it back then and I still love it now. My FAVORITE part of the movie!

@gnarghhfps3239

2 жыл бұрын

Been one of my favorites since I first saw it in 97

@LeeLynn-vq8yq

2 жыл бұрын

Same!!

she played the character so well. this actress made this song so incredible all over the world thanks for her.

@giniemery8022

4 жыл бұрын

She was Luc Besson's girlfriend at that time. Then, he met Mila... she also played in Leon the professional, she's the girl in the first scene being tossed out of the apartment. She's now a well known actress and filmmaker in France :)

@ak241

2 жыл бұрын

Inva Mula: Chapeau!

@husher5142

2 жыл бұрын

honestly shes the reason why I know who vitas is, or just in general Lucia di Lammermoor

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

@UNTERVÖX Art-Politic and Entertainment! LMAO

I give this a multipass! 👍

@shahrulandi07

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

@MrAngelMaxwell

4 жыл бұрын

#Hashtag XD 😂

@TanClaroComoLaLuna

4 жыл бұрын

XD

@9847300768

4 жыл бұрын

lol good one

@twootters7433

4 жыл бұрын

And some Cheekon!

Inva Mula´s voice is from another world most indeed

I am not a fan of the opera. However, when I heard this song performed in the Fifth Element, I was just captivated. It was like the song resonated through my soul. And, I've found a new appreciation for this genre.

@jakekgfn

4 ай бұрын

Yea her and Warhammer 40k have given me an appreciation of operatic music

Besides her out of this world voice, her awkward movements made the performance uniquely beautiful.

@annaharutunyan9266

2 жыл бұрын

Кто поёт?

@Sarah-qx4vz

2 жыл бұрын

This wasn’t the actual singer. She was lip synching

@carlotta4th

2 жыл бұрын

You basically just called her awkward, because this isn't the person who recorded the voice track.

She was the most massive impact of the movie.

@alwaysannoyedforever518

3 жыл бұрын

Man she was the sixth element

@silverkitty2503

2 жыл бұрын

liu was too!

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

WRONG, you people are hysterical

This is why FIFTH ELEMENT will never be bettered.

She MADE THIS MOVIE! No matter what they tried to do! It’s the main reason I REMEMBER THE MOVIE!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Eric Serra, composer of this song: For the scene to work, we needed her to sound like an alien, thereforee we had to create notes that no human could sing. So I purposely wrote un-singable things, some too low, some too high, sentences that were too fast, I would then arrange it with the sampler. I had never worked with an opera singer before, I didn’t quite realize the technical ability they had, I thought that only 60% of the song was actually possible to sing. In the studio before even taking her coat off she started humming from the music sheet. I was astonished, the beauty of her tone of voice and the perfection of her singing gave me shivers down the spine. Yet she was only humming. I couldn’t believe it. We sat down and she started to sing, I was overwhelmed. She sang 85% of what I thought was technically impossible. I then sampled and edited her voice a bit. It might seem obvious nowadays but at the time many wondered how I did it.

@ajsparx4133

4 жыл бұрын

I wondered if that last bit was possible, apparently *some* of it was!

@leannsmarie

4 жыл бұрын

Kazakh singer Dimash has covered this song without technical assistance in a singing competition. Then again, he has a 6+ octave vocal range... (Its available on KZread for viewing)

@iasbi8512

4 жыл бұрын

@@leannsmarie And yet, the part that has the most digital editing to make it impossible is changed during his performance because he can't actually do it. It is one hell of a good try, though!

@llm9560

4 жыл бұрын

The Diva Song is my favorite scene. Love this movie.

Best Music in a SciFi-Film EVER...

@snypa-ck7hn

2 жыл бұрын

The Island - My Name Is Lincoln kzread.info/dash/bejne/npeJj5mffbSuodY.html And Avatar - i see you? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZY143I-fpNTYYco.html how do you feel about these 2

@paulziolo9241

2 жыл бұрын

Apart from 2001, of course.

They should've kept this . . this made her performance more epic. She def stole the whole movie

She made The Fifth Element IMMORTAL with this one song, scene and fight ❤🔥😘🥺

First off she's giving hands performance Vogue alien fem

Editing is brutal. I once acted in a scene that took a full week, 10 hrs to shoot and at the end only about 2 minutes were used. And then something that took a whole day to shoot was only used as a "surveillance photo" that flashed on the final screen for less than a second. Sometimes the entire scene or scenes already shot were cut out completely and reduced to a line mentioned by the actor.

@govmcfly

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact. The original prints of the Diva scene were ran over by a fork lift after falling off the airplane at LAX. They salvaged what they could and I assume that is why it’s so short and spliced together. Based on an interview with Associate Producer John Amicarella. Well, I guess it’s not that fun if a fact ha.

@nilebrixton8436

Жыл бұрын

@@govmcfly very interesting! It would make a compelling reason as to why the scene got cut the way it appears in the final version.

@badamsfx

Жыл бұрын

@@govmcfly Interesting. 1) I guessed the film was marked up for possible editing decisions but your story is much cooler 2) I assume you mean the original negative was run over because if a print was run over you can always make another copy.

The actress is so good omg..and i think she is the reason i love aliens 👽

Anyone else watching this and seeing that entire scene play out in their head..

Finally got to see the full video of this part from the movie, sad that they had to cut it, but it was nice that they saved this so everyone can see it. She did an awesome job!!!

@ThemeParkChomp

4 жыл бұрын

Ilyce They didnt cut it, the full song is in the movie, but obviously it doesn’t stay on the same one shot for 5 minutes. This is a full unedited take

@ArynCrinn

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the movie has the full song, but cuts from the performance to peoples reactions and the Mangalores searching for the stones as Leelo tries to stop them. There's also some alternate angles of Plavalaguna thrown in.

@k.o.gthetruenight3784

4 жыл бұрын

Ilyce it was Exactly the same

@Nina-vv3ev

4 жыл бұрын

Ilyce wtf are you talking about? Have you not seen the movie ?

Singer is Ivana Mula, first half is an aria from Lucia di Lammermoor (act 2 I think) She, like Maria Carey, and Beyonce, etc... has the ability to sing in several registers including Whistle. Additionally, Mula knows how to sing with overtones... so what you hear is not using auto-tune.

@meroqero1476

2 жыл бұрын

Mula is a beautiful Albanian singer. I have the same last name.

@experimetalfan8851

2 жыл бұрын

Beyoncé ain't shit compared to this amount of talent

@greenviolist34

2 жыл бұрын

@@experimetalfan8851 opinionated, but I certainly wouldn't call it talent.... actually it's offensive because it robs musicians of their due recognition for how much work and effort it takes to actually be a component musician let alone a great one.

@Beyonsehh

2 жыл бұрын

I’d like to see this singer try Mozart’s queen of the night aria

The fifth element will always be one of my favorite movies. ❤

I was completely stunned in the cinema, when the song changed complete to an different genre, and still love this awesome movie to this day

The Diva is perfect

She is the main reason I watch that movie over and over.

Oh my gosh, that little smile she had at the end 🥺

U can see how much emotion they left out of the final edit which is unerstandable with how much time she put into this piece that she would be disapointed

crazy, she felt left out and now, yeaarsss after the movie came out, we all just talk about the Diva!! It's what everyone takes out of the movie. bravo! she should be so proud!

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong. This is NOT the movie. There’s a whole other fandom who detests this part and can focus on what the movie was REALLY about.

She did an awesome performance, so many people watch the movie over and over just to watch her sing. Amazing , God bless.

@geoseason5800

3 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's Inva Mula's voice (Inva is the soprano who actually sings this song)

one of the best movie sequences ever

I am not what you'd consider an opera fan, but this performance totally captivated me! If only both the singer and performer had been allowed more time on screen.

Wow! She really did the part justice. Don’t worry Maïwenn, we got to see your full performance after all. It was a shame it was edited.

@beot-kkot

4 жыл бұрын

Maïwenn did not sing this, though. The voice belongs to Albanian lyric soprano Inva Mula, who was introduced to Luc Besson by Maria Calla's agent.

@ushidanouchida

4 жыл бұрын

Amalia her acting is a performance too

@k.o.gthetruenight3784

4 жыл бұрын

*•. .•* what part?

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

You think the moments on stage were that amazing? It wasn’t even a dance.

IIronic, She thought the people wouldn't appreciate her time and work or the character for that matter, because it was so fast and mix between her scene with Leeloo's fight, but is the Best and memorable moment in the whole movie. She was fantastic.

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

WRONG

@vileniaone8425

2 жыл бұрын

@@KrisD007 what you mean?

I remember seeing this for the first time! I was mesmerized then, but now I’m simply speechless to see it in it’s entirety!!

@nowakevelyne223

2 жыл бұрын

Same for me

Shes one of the main reasons I love this movie!

Performed by Albanian Opera singer Inva Mula. Missing this in the description. - Awesome: > 37k likes, zero dislikes.

Every time a reality competition show has an opera singer I am disappointed they don’t sing this song.

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO

Pity they should have put more of this scene in it, my favorite scene of the fifth element. Such a great movie

1000 years ahead of its' time. Look at music now, it is like the last minute of this vid. Sci Fi Rules, and always has.

@doriancoreyscloset421

9 ай бұрын

Everything now is like that movie 😂

I've always loved this segment of the movie so iconic

Idk why Hollywood hasn’t done a Diva movie. Her story would be amazing.

The Diva and Ruby made the movie for me. Still in my top 10 because of them.

I lost count of how many times I've watched this movie. Especially this Opera scene was a MASTERPIECE 👏👏👏

Really she is beautiful then in costume and now she is beautiful in real life. My favorite part of the movie it moved me then and now.

She's right tho, we did not get enough Diva! She worked her ass off on this and put her heart and soul in it, you can tell. I am glad She knows that we all see it and love what she did! She IS the Diva!

@iLikeJesseOG

3 жыл бұрын

I agree and thank you

@elainethomas9737

3 жыл бұрын

I agree 👍

@reggiewolfpac7711

2 жыл бұрын

4 Real this was freaking amazing.

@jenolegovich4589

2 жыл бұрын

She is a true Diva, but i think she was singing about Leeloo and her purpose in "our" life. As far as i saw all this Diva part, i see it even clearly. anyway i think the Diva's dance part cant be comparable to the Leeloo's fight part. But her voice worked perfectly there

@lancehol

2 жыл бұрын

The real voice was Inva Mula, an Albanian opera star. I saw Ms. Mula perform the lead in La Traviata at Opera Bastille in 2004. It was a truly masterful performance!

I feel in love with the blue lady look and voice😳😢💜💜💜🙌🙌🙌

She knew she nailed it that broke character at the end and got back. But her exitment is well noticed. Great job.

There is more originality in 5 minutes of this movie than in all of the Disney Star Wars trilogy.

That’s acting, homegurl. The final cut used the best shots and thank God. So much of the choreography in this would have detracted from the audio that made this song and The 5th Element a major part of pop culture’s history. Inva Mula sang the actual opera used. Fun fact, she was able to sing 85% of the “ un-singable” parts of the 2nd half.

@dddevchonka

2 жыл бұрын

Have you heard Dimash performing 98% of it?

@Quklasa

Жыл бұрын

or Laura Workman singing... 100% of it?

I remember watching this in the theatre and just being speechless.

I love this aria of the opera Lucia Lammermoor by Donizetti. ❤

That woman did an amazing job of this.. The movie itself is amazing as well and will always have a place in my heart.

Just ONE take to make this phenomenal part ? Speechless

@TheWillvoss

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously. And here i am. Vfx artist. Not even realizing this was green screen. Lol.

Can I just say, this performance is what got me interested in Opera? 💯💎💎🎯👍🏽

This was my favorite part I do wish they kept her scene and just put it at the end of the movie. The end credits with her scene singing and the names scrolling on the sides .

She freaked the hell out of me when I saw this as a kid for the first time.

A M A Z I N G !! Iconic scene! One of the best sci-f movies from 20th century. She did such a great job lip syncing! Old but definitely GOLD!

@Deci_Bella

3 жыл бұрын

@Gorky VI Kornelius No. The Diva in the movie was played by Maïwenn Le Besco, but the voice belongs to Inva Mula.

I guess this is the first time you ever heard of 'Green Screen' Like 19 years ago (23)? No problem, I saw this in the making in 1999. Loved it then, and now. Thank you for sharing.

Her voice is fantastic

20 something years later and I finally see the whole thing

@iLikeJesseOG

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you got to see it!

This is awesome. I remember seeing the movie when it first came out. In my enthusiasm, I yelled, in the theatre, "That's from Lucia di Lammermoor". The audience bust out laughing. I was so embarrassed. My friend, however, was impressed that I knew that.

All I can say about that is WOW! She is incredible.

The diva is really something! The director's vision is really "out of this world"!!!😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Absolute genius, where opera meets funk. My favourite scene from 5th element 🌹

I was tripped out on LSD when I first saw this movie. Her performance sent me to space

My favorite scene !!!! Oh I could listen to this Forever 💙

I love this scene so much

They left enough of Plavalaguna in the movie to blow me out of my seat.

@disneydreamer8147

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr!!!!

@worldwideecherlon8811

2 жыл бұрын

Plava lagunma for ever lives in me

The actress and the singer deserves a standing ovations

She immediately brings me back to believe she is an alien and is the best in the universe singing to celebrities.

Wow! SO glad I came across this. Unique and beautiful.

Great costume for green screen composition. No hair to deal with.

I see most folks don't realize the actress in the costume and the woman who sang this were two different people

@evilborg

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think you are correct.

@thefreshmaker001

2 жыл бұрын

@@evilborg Emma Shapplin is the voice.

@davidmmuench

2 жыл бұрын

@@thefreshmaker001 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inva_Mula

That singer had a great voice

She absolutely ROCKED! Great movie and she was just superb!

One of my most favorite movies. Love this scene. I like how they mirrored her performance and Leeloo’s fight scene. So good and a little sad

She was amazing. So melancholy. Always brings a tear. Like she said in the interview she felt the character was sad and disappointed in the humans. She sure makes you feel that as well.. Great job. 👍👏💯💙

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

She didn’t sing it.

The Diva was such an interesting character, the way she sang and her appearance and she seemed so gentle for being so tall and even speaking with telepathy she seemed to whisper. I was so sad when she was killed after her performance. What an amazing character, having such an impression and so short of an appearance.

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

I was happy.

It is a shame that they cut so much of it out! I thought she did a beautiful job with this character!!💙So much raw emotion and the vocals are amazing...this part captivated me ever time I watched this movie. 😊💕💙💙

That performance really tied the whole movie together. I think the editing was fine, I'm glad we can see the whole thing here.

It was cool to see her whole performance, but the way it was cut in the film was perfect. The mix of action with the hypnotic singing of the Diva was something special.

Her voice is flawless.

This song was truly beautiful. You could tell she put her heart and energy into the performance

@KrisD007

2 жыл бұрын

The actress and singer were 2 different people