Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Sorg is a fictional character, the main villain of the Luc Besson science fiction film "The Fifth Element." Played by the famous British actor Gary Oldman. Thanks to the unusual appearance and charismatic performer of the role, Sorg became one of the most popular villains in the history of cinema.
Character Creation
The script of "The Fifth Element" Luke Besson began to write at the age of sixteen. Over the next two decades, the plot of the film changed many times, as did the time and place of the action. There is information about the early versions of the main characters with different names and backgrounds, but at what stage in the writing of the script Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Sorg appeared, it is difficult to understand.
The memorable appearance of the character was developed by the famous designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, who helped Besson to create the appearance of the picture. He also created over eight thousand costumes for the film.
First appearance
At the beginning of the film, Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Sorg is the founder and president of the weapons company Sorg Industries. When the warlike alien race prevents Sorg from acquiring the four elements his mysterious lord so needs, Jean Baptiste Emmanuel destroys them with cunning.
Also, one of the most famous scenes with the participation of Sorg is a dialogue with the priest Vito Cornelius. It is there that the character speaks his famous dialogue about the power of destruction and the inevitability of the end of the world.
Highlights of the film
After a former military man from an elite special forces unit, and now a simple taxi driver Korben Dallas, accidentally meets a girl Lila, he is instructed to get on a cruise ship and get four items that the aliens have not given to Sorga from a secret agent. For this, the authorities organized a fake contest with a prize in the form of two tickets for the same liner.
Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Sorg, like many others, thanks to the media learns about the victory of Dallas in the competition and tries to stop him by sending his assistant to the airport. After he fails to pass himself off as Korben, Sorg remotely blows up his assistant’s mobile phone, thereby once again demonstrating his ruthless nature.
The villain arrives on the liner in his spaceship, supposedly for repair, and tries to get four elements once again. After his old acquaintances, the mangalore aliens penetrate the concert hall and make a stir, Zorg manages to shoot Leela and pick up the suitcase with the stones.
The End of the Sorg
Before his departure from the liner, Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Sorg activates a time bomb. However, he soon discovers that the suitcase is empty, and he urgently needs to return back. Sorg manages to defuse the bomb a few seconds before the explosion, but the defeated mangalors activate another bomb and detonate the ship with all the remaining passengers.
An interesting fact: in an earlier version of the script, Zorg managed to escape from the explosion with the help of a protective field, but he was thrown out onto a deserted planet, where the battery of his mobile phone suddenly stopped working, and the fate of the villain himself remained unknown.
A place in popular culture
After the film was released, the main villain of the Fifth Element became an integral part of world pop culture. Many quotes by Jean Baptiste Emanuel Sorg, including the famous dialogue with Cornelius “You are a monster, Sorg. - I know” and “If you want to do something well - do it yourself”, are now known to almost anyone in the world.
You can also meet memes with Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Sorg. A shot from the movie is especially popular in which the character smokes against the backdrop of the explosion without turning around. The text may differ and is not written according to a certain formula. Other photos of Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Sorg can also be found as a basis for memes.
Role performer
Luke Besson did not immediately decide on the leading actor in the films. Mel Gibson could play the part of Korben Dallas, and several thousand girls auditioned for the role of Leela. Immediately the director decided only on the performer of the role of Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Sorga. Actor Gary Oldman a couple of years earlier had already worked in Besson in the film "Leon", and the French director was very pleased with the Englishman. Corrupt policeman Norman Steinsfield, along with Sorg, is considered by many experts to be one of the best villains in the history of world cinema.
In addition to Sorg, Gary Oldman portrayed many world-famous heroes on the screen. He has played the roles of Count Dracula, James Gordon in the Christopher Nolan films about Batman, the famous rock musician Sid Vicious, Sirius Blake in a series of films about Harry Potter and Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President Kennedy. In addition to appearing on the screen, Oldman also works a lot in voice acting, he gave his voice to the main villain of the cartoon "Kung Fu Panda 2" and the character of the series of computer games Call of Duty Viktor Reznov.
Gary Oldman is without a doubt one of the most recognizable and beloved actors in Hollywood. Thanks to his huge acting range and incredible performance, in his arsenal there are images for every taste. For a long time, fans of the cinema complained about Oldman's lack of an acting Oscar (until 2012 he had never even been nominated for an award), but in 2018 he finally received an award for Best Actor. The actor, thanks to a complicated make-up and a complete change in voice and movements, was able to portray the Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill and received all the main figurines of the award season.