Was one of several films around the world that were the first to use an entirely "digital backlot" (i.e. the actors were all shot in front of blue- and green-screens with all the backgrounds added in post-production, a technique which has been used for TV, video and video game production for many years). Fans debate on which movie was shot first, but the other movies include: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Casshern (2004), and Sin City (2005).
The patient being treated by Doctor Emma Turner wears a shirt printed with Enki Bilal's artwork.
Nikopol's first name in the comics is Alexander
Nikopol:
Fuck you!
Horus:
Right, but let's fuck her again first.
Horus:
You believe in God?
Nikopol:
I don't even have that to fall back on.
Horus:
I suggest you believe in me, Nikopol.
Nikopol:
Do I have a choice?
Horus:
I am afraid not.
Horus:
Children, my human children, I am back.
Nikopol:
You piece of shit! Your objectives are shit. Your filthy rapist god ambitions are shit. You're full of shit, Horus!
Horus:
Coming from a human, remarks like that don't carry much weight.
Horus:
[referring to Jill] Young women like her are rare. Extremely rare. There are only a few of them in the entire universe. No one knows why they appear in one world or another. They don't even know who they are themselves, and the power they have.
Nikopol:
What power?
Horus:
The greatest power of all. The power to procreate with God.
Nikopol:
Horus, where the fuck are you? I need you, I need you now!
Jill Bioskop:
I am a professional guinea pig!
Elma Turner:
How many meals do you have a day?
Jill Bioskop:
Two a week.
Nikopol:
[Nikopol carried in the air by Horus] Remember the sign we saw, my soul. That beautiful, soft summer morning... round a turning in the path. A disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones. Its legs in the air like a woman in need... burning its wedding poisons... like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs. I could hear it clearly with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart. One of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.
Jill Bioskop:
[Jill reciting in French] Moreover, it matters not that we discuss it... of your eyes, your green eyes. Lakes of my soul tremble and vice versa. My dreams in form of insanity... To soothe those bitter commotions.
Nikopol:
[Nikopol finishing Jill's recitation in English] But all that it is not worth of prodigy of your saliva, Jill. It bites my soul, and it dizzies and swirls it down, remorselessly. Rolling it, fainting to the underworld.
Receptionist:
[Jill approaching, carrying grocery bags] How is Dr. Elma Turner?
Jill Bioskop:
Never been better.
Receptionist:
Welcome to the Western Hysteria Hotel, 39th floor, room 12. Any friend of Dr. Turner is a friend of mine.
Nikopol:
[Nikopol falls into the bed, lying there, and recites] Ceaselessly by my side moves the Demon. He swims around me like impalpable air. I swallow and feel it burn my lungs. And fill them with eternal desire and guilt.
Jill Bioskop:
I should have shot you when I first met you.
Nikopol:
There's still time.
[they kiss]
Allgood:
What a bitch! What A Bitch!
Lily Liang:
A bitch, but a fast learner about politics.
Allgood:
That's what I mean - a whore...
Allgood:
Neutral! Neutral doesn't exist. There's only men and women, humans and aliens... the integrated and the rejected. The whole fucking universe is split in two.
References
Blade Runner (1982)
- The film's city infrastructure, floating cars and sthe subject of non-humans references Blade Runner.
Brazil (1985)
- The scene of the esthetical surgery with an old woman like Sam's mother in Brazil
The Fifth Element (1997)
- The floating cars, themes of non-humans, the mysterious stranger with the strange hair are references to The Fifth Element. As well, the connection between Egypt and aliens/other civilisations is a reference.
The Matrix (1999)
- Jill keeps taking blue pills in her process to become human and the last pill John gives her is red. In The Matrix, Morpheus offers Neo a red pill and a blue pill; the red pill is the one that reveals to Neo the final secret of his humanity.
Features
The Fifth Element (1997)
- Gil looks like The Diva