Fifth Element-Anthropology
Archaeologists in the media are more often then not portrayed as young fairly good-looking men dressed for an adventure where ultimately they will be the heroes. They will deliver the treasure and rescue the young beautiful damsel in distress, which is not the case in the film The Fifth Element. The movie opens with an older man who has a scruffy white beard and white hair with a thick European accent on an excavation. He is in what seems to be either an old Egyptian cave or pyramid deciphering old drawings and inscriptions. He has a minimal staff, which includes a young boy holding a mirror against the sun as a source of light and a young man sketching what is supposedly on the walls. No women are present in this scene. There is no appearance of a woman during this archaelogical expedition.The archaeological dig takes place in 1917 in Egypt. The archaeologist who is not given a name is intently studying the inscriptions on the wall. While doing so he exclaims a few times that this find will make him famous. He begins talking to the young man sketching the inscriptions. He explains what t
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Approximate Word count = 739
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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