Mrs. Industries loves that movie, too, but it fills me with nameless dread and eldritch horror.

I have sort of a shameful mad love for Oldman's character in The Fifth Element. Actually, I have a shameful mad love for all of that movie. It's just so very over the top and so very clear that a sixteen year old boy who read too many comics wrote it.

I *adore* that movie. I must have seen it like fifteen times. Sometimes the track from the opera comes up in shuffle on my iPod, and I just sit there luxuriating in it. I'm certain it was a conscious choice, though, because for the first minute and a half it's the singer's natural voice, which is just lovely and resplendent, and then in the last thirty seconds or so is just the little bit of digitization--although that isn't even very much, it's just a little modulation for effect. The astonishing climb through the octaves really showed off her range.

Watching "The Terminator" which I have managed to go 23 years without seeing, but it's really quite good. It's showing off a lot of movement with very little dialogue, and though the effects are cheesy now in comparison to today's effects, I bet that they were shit-hot back in the day.

it fills me with nameless dread and eldritch horror

Ha! Yes, I think that about sums it up.

The astonishing climb through the octaves really showed off her range.

I always assumed that some electronic manipulation came into play there.

I wish that I had the track here to listen to, but... the vocal gymnastics is synthesized. You can tell by the pacing of the notes... a human could do that, but not quite in that way. There's a much more percussive break between pitches than the human voice would have.

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Here's just the techno bit of the aria (which is intercut with the fighty-fighty).

I'm also pretty sure the range is outside just about anyone's actual range (though I never entirely believed in Mariah Carey's claimed five-octave range).

Wasn't Julie Andrews supposed to have a six-octave range when she was only 13 years old?

Let's say, for argument's sake, that Mariah (or Julie Andrews) had a lower limit of, oh, C below middle C. That's lower than I can sing, it's lower than any soprano I know can sing, but let's say that.

Up to middle C, one octave. C above middle C, two octaves. High C, three octaves. I don't believe people can sing another *two* octaves above high C. Even something like the "Queen of the Night" aria only goes up to F above high C.

We're talking dog whistle range.

Here's just the techno bit of the aria (which is intercut with the fighty-fighty).

Mmm. I absolutely love the ending, where they both throw out their arms.