Re: Conlangs in fiction/movies

--- Chris Peters <beta_leonis@...> wrote:

<snip>

> But, the conlang I'm especially interested in is The
> Language Before Time,
> from the movie "The Fifth Element".  I've found
> enough information to
> determine that it *is* a true conlang, created by
> Luc Besson, the
> writer/director of the movie.  And also that Besson
> and the actress Milla
> Jovovich were able to have conversations in the
> language by the end of the
> movie's production.
>
> I like the sound of the language, and I'm curious to
> find web or published
> resources about it, if they're available ...
>
> :Chris
>
I'll second that motion! It was amazingly well spoken
in the movie too. Far too often we hear aliens
speaking asssorted nonsense syllables in what is
clearly a thick American English accent, and where
even the cadence and structure of the "sentences"
reeks of English.

Not only was Milla's fluency in the language
remarkable, but so was the manner in which being a
"native speaker" of that language influenced her use
of English.


This August 1995 draft of the screenplay is widely
available, but has only a few lines of the language in
it: http://www.sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=fifth_element

I haven't been able to locate a final shooting script
as yet. The best sources I have been able to locate
say that the full vocabulary consists of about 400
words.

--gary

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