Friday Favorites: Favorite Character – The Fifth Element

Welcome to “Friday Favorites” which highlight some of my favorite movie-related things.

Last week in part 1 of my Friday Favorites devoted to characters from The Fifth Element I talked about how much I enjoy Ruby Rhod as played by Chris Tucker.  However, there’s one other character in the film that holds my attention every time he’s onscreen, and that is Gary Oldman’s villainous Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.  Zorg would probably go in my top 10 most memorable film villains of all time.  Much like with Ruby Rhod, Zorg is the perfect combination of writing, styling and performance that makes him hard to forget.

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