TODAY’S BIRTHDAY: GARY OLDMAN (1958)

Gary Oldman (1958)

Oldman is an English actor known for playing eccentric characters and for his ability to master accents. He first appeared on screen in the 1982 film Remembrance and has since played a variety of characters including Dracula, Beethoven, and Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. In 1997, he wrote, directed, and produced Nil By Mouth, an award-winning film reportedly based on his life. Recently, he has received acclaim for his portrayal of which character in the Harry Potter film series? More… Discuss

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Fifth Element – Zorg (the personification of evil) through the great art of Gary Oldman)

“By creating a little destruction we are encouraging life”  Gary Oldman as  Zorg, in The Fifth Element

Leon – The Professional (1994): “Tony the IBM” by Eric Serra

Source: http://www.facebook.com/m.soundtracks
Soundtrack: “Tony the IBM“
Composed by Eric Serra
Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson
Stars: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman 
Awards: 2 wins & 8 nominations
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller 
Country: France

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Leeloo, The Fifth Element and Eric Serra’s misteriously grandiose composition: What a composer!

The Fifth Element, A film by Luc Besson, base on a story by Luc Besson

Cast

• Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas
• Milla Jovovich as Leeloo (Leeloominaï Lekatariba Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat De Sebat)
• Gary Oldman as Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
• Ian Holm as Father Vito Cornelius
• Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod, a popular radio talk show host
• Charlie Creed-Miles as David
• Brion James as General Munro
• Tricky (Adrian Thaws) as Right Arm
• Clifton Lloyd Bryan as Aknot
• Tom Lister, Jr. as President Lindberg
• Christopher Fairbank as Professor Mactilburgh
• Lee Evans as Fog
• John Bluthal as Professor Massimo Pacoli
• Luke Perry as Billy Masterson
• John Bennett as Priest
• Kim Chan as Mr. Kim
• John Neville as General Staedert
• Al Matthews as General Tudor
• Maïwenn Le Besco as Diva Plavalaguna

Fitz Hall (Footballer of Queen’s Park Rangers FC) appears at the beginning of the film as a twelve-year old boy.

Production

Pistol used by Bruce Willis as Maj. Korben Dallas (Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, Seattle)

As the film went into development in the early 1990s, Besson went on to create Léon, starring Jean Reno, while comic book artist Jean-Claude Mézières, who had been hired as a conceptual designer for The Fifth Element, returned to illustrating The Circles of Power, the fifteenth volume in the Valérian and Laureline series. This particular volume featured a character named S’Traks who drives a flying taxicab through the congested air traffic of the vast metropolis on the planet Rubanis. Besson read the book and was inspired to change the character of Dallas to a taxicab driver who flies through a futuristic New York City. Zorg owns the taxi company that employs and subsequently fires Dallas as part of a one-million person layoff designed to slow economic growth at the request of the government.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element)