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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!!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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 RU-vid for viewing)
@@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!
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.
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 :)
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
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!!!
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.
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.
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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 ❤
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.
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
Eventhough she was not the real voice of this song (even at first I thought it was hers) she made it look like it was her own voice. Great timing and dubbing. This is actually the best part I love in the movie. Eventhough she had a very short part she still so special to me and one of the best highlight in the movie. People were upset coz of the editing but that was a great show actually, showing some parts of the fighting scene in the back while she was singing on stage. Great editing.
indian army: You can buy 'The Fifth Element Soundtrack', which has all songs from the movie on it It's very inexpensive these days, since the movie is from 1996. It includes this song, which is also my favorite from the movie! I play music in my house constantly - prefer music to TV - and have had friends stop & ask...."Wait, wait......what IS this music?" when this song begins playing. Haha.....I always explain - and refer them to the movie in order to SEE the Diva. All the music is great, but this performance is the best in the movie - and the best on the soundtrack, too ~ IMHO ~
I was glad to see that because the actress playing the Diva (Maiwenn), worked a long time to get this right to match the wonderful voice of the actual singer (Inva Mula) and she was upset a lot of her dance was lost in the cutting room.
Hi Jewel. Yes, I've only heard this sung as good by one other woman in the world. There are other women who sing it well but not as good as the original. Just one that I've found. The original singer from the movie, Inva Mula and the other one I've found sing it as good. It is truly amazing.
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.
So you are saying this was done in one take by the French girlfriend of the director with no prior acting experience. The formula for an iconic movie scene
I'm saying, that she put emotional energy to learning her part. Even though she never wanted to take the role she acted with the character perspective. Overall she put her energy to play the part well. You could tell in the video she did act out through the scene like she practiced.
It clearly wasn't done in one take, as this footage holds several poses and nuances not shown in the film, as well as the actress only doing a portion of the dance sequence.
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.
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. 👍👏💯💙
I'd love to know HOW they got in her. As well as HOW she would give them IF she didn’t get shot. I realize that was not in the script but would still like to know.
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For such a short performance she was amazing! I was a bit disappointed also that she was killed off so fast wish it was a longer or she would of had lived thru it with the rest of them! She was so uniquely exceptional!
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.
i have listened to a lifetime of assorted music during my nearly 60 yrs, and i tell you, nothing beats this. it is the most authentically beautiful, complex, delicate yet so powerful song. so utterly captivating, and sincere/heartfelt... im sure noone else in the entire world could sing it like the true diva, herself, does. what a legacy to leave to endless generations... should have featured on one of the starwars movies, at an inter-galactic opera venue... awesome artistry
And she didn't even want the role, the original actress went missing and so this woman had to learn how to sing in just 3 months with little to no acting experience before. That's next level!
But she did not sing all the notes herself, she was not good enough, she got help from a sampler to make some of the high and low notes, Dimash sings Diva Dance with no help from anything but he's own voice, that's a true singer :-)
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.
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. 😊💕💙💙
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
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 .
4:20 her pitch changes are one of the most unforgettable parts of the movie for me I was just stunned when I heard it during the movie and thought it was edited. This is amazing.
So like... it was edited. Yeah. That was the main point of the song. That fast, precise bit at 4:34 and also the impossible-sounding rise at 4:40 were intended to convey a unique quality that "only an alien could achieve". And yeah, a good deal of it sounds like somebody noodling on a keyboard with some digital samples, which is what it is. But ironically, there are live performances of this bit you can find on RU-vid. Professional vocalists thought of it as a sort of throwing of the gauntlet.
Maiwen, I doubt you w9ill ever see this comment, your part was small in relation to screen time, BUT it was probably the most significant part of the movie, the Diva scene was amazing, and the editors did manage to do a great job of combining the action, and your performance. many of us wish we could see a full diva performance... You did not get much screen time, though your performance WAS impressive. You where a key element of the story, and despite a "small part" the fans love you for your performance. Thank you for agreeing to be a part of the film. You and Inva really brought the performance to life.
that is so true! always remember this as a key moment of 5th Element!!! even with the editing or exactly that! mixing the performance with the fighting action as marvelous!
