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 …showed first 75 words of 739 total…

…showed last 75 words of 739 total…are trying to deter him from his mission. Although the Fifth Element does not portray this typical Indian Jones stereotype it does portray the archaeologist as typically being oblivious to all around him besides his work. It also expresses the fact that the old man hopes to gain fame and fortune from his discovery, and that he is not merely doing it for the knowledge that he and others will now be able to gain.