Death Becomes Her

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Death Becomes Her aaIn one small bottle… The fountain of youth. The secret of eternal life. The power of an ancient potion. Sometimes it works… sometimes it doesn’t.

By Antonia Patsidou

Movie Title: Death Becomes Her

Year: (1992)

Writers:  Martin Donovan, David Koepp

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Lead Actors: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn

IMDb Plot Summary: When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.

One of my Favorite Moment’s In The Movie: The desperate efforts by poor Ernest in order to escape from home-castle of the mysterious, wealthy Lisle that claims she keeps the secret of eternal life. The moment that Ernest keeps his balance only by a pair of straps and he’s one step before falling from the roof, Madeline and Helen urgently asking him to drink the filter, the only path that will save him from death! Ernest is ready to take the step towards immortality but at the last moment refuses and makes a heroic exit to the death. Nonetheless, the luck is on his side and falls onto a swimming pool, a crucial lifeline.

Favorite Dialogue In the Movie:

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Lisle Von Rhoman: Go on… Drink it… It is the completion of your life’s work. You gave other people youth and wasted your own! Drink. And you will be able to work again forever! Drink… drink, Dr. Menville. You owe yourself another chance! Drink! It’s the right choice! The only choice! Drink! SEMPRE VIVE! LIVE FOREVER!

Ernest Menville: Then what?

Lisle Von Rhoman: What?

Ernest Menville: Then what happens?

Lisle Von Rhoman: What?

Ernest Menville: I don’t want to live forever. I mean, it sounds good, but what am I gonna do? What if I get bored?

Lisle Von Rhoman: What?

Ernest Menville: And what if I get lonely? Who am I gonna hang around with, Madeleine and Helen?

Lisle Von Rhoman: But you’ll never grow old!

Ernest Menville: Yes, but everybody else will! I’ll have to watch everyone around me die. I don’t think this is right. This is not a dream. This is a nightmare!

Death Becomes Her: a comedy under the sarcastic prism of agonizing effort to eternal youth!

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Photo by Universal Pictures – © 1992

   “Nowhere do movie characters defy the laws of the physical universe as gleefully as they do in Robert Zemeckis’s films. From Marty McFly’s time travel in the “Back to the Future” trilogy to Jessica Rabbit’s close encounters with real flesh and blood in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” Mr. Zemeckis’s creations escape the ordinary every chance they get.

   Even so, this director’s latest film manages to find a new frontier as it takes two glamour girls one step beyond the world of collagen shots and chemical peels. With inexorable logic, “Death Becomes Her” pushes Beverly Hills’s beautiful people over the edge, and into the land of the living dead.“

Death Becomes Her (1992)
Review/Film; Squeezing the Humor Out of Death

[Helen and Madeleine shatter into pieces after falling down stairs]

Helen: Do you remember where you parked the car?