Death Becomes Her
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Madeleine: Do you know that they do to soft, bald, overweight Republicans in prison, Ernest?

Helen: She was a homebreaker. She was a man-eater. And she was a bad actress.

Ernest Menville: Where did you put my wife?
Second Doctor: She's dead, sir. They took her to the morgue.
Ernest Menville: The morgue? She'll be furious.

Lisle: We are creatures of the spring, you and I.

Helen: Oh ok! Well if she's not dead, you tell her to come down here, come right up to me and kiss me on the.
Madeline: Kiss you on the what?
Helen: Mad?
Madeline: Hel.

Madeleine: You're dressed. Special occasion?

Helen: I will not speak to you 'til you put your head on straight.

Lisle: Drink that potion, and you'll never grow even one day older. Don't drink it, and continue to watch yourself rot.

Madeleine: Oh, it's you.
Ernest: Fine, dear, thank you, like a rock.

Helen: You have no talent for poverty.

Ernest: You're sitting there, you're talking to me, but you're dead.

Madeleine: Could you just not breathe?

Helen: You can't raise an eyebrow without major surgery.

Ernest: Well, from now on, I'm going to be the kind of idiot I want to be.

Lisle: You are like Don Quixote, tilting at Nature's windmills.

Lisle Von Rhuman: This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us a taste of youth and vitality, and then it makes us witness our own decay.

Helen: I want you to know something. I have never blamed you for leaving me. I always knew it was her. She's a woman. A woman, Ernest. From Newark, for God's sake.

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Continuity mistake: When Meryl Streep "blasts" Goldie Hawn with the shotgun and Goldie falls into the pool of water, she falls in backwards. However, when we see her get up, she is getting up from a face-down position. (01:05:25 - 01:07:10)

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Trivia: When Madeleine is in the morgue, we get a shot of a table and on that table is a jar with a brain and formaldehyde in it, and on the jar is a sign and the sign says "abnormal." This is a homage to the film "Young Frankenstein": Dr Frankenstein sent Igor to the morgue to get a specific brain, an intelligent man's brain, but Igor was startled and dropped the intelligent brain, so looked around for another one and he did: He found a brain with the label "abnormal" on it, and that is why the monster was so hard to teach and control.

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Answer: Ernest painted Madeline's eyes before she came down the stairs. He even notes that the balance in her eyes were messed up.

Answer: Actually, they're both wearing coloured contacts. If you look at timestamp 01:17:23 when they say "Pleeeaase" to Ernest, you can see they're both wearing contacts. Meryl's aren't as noticeable, but they are the bluish-purple/periwinkle colour Ernest was using when he was painting her touch-ups on the pool table.

Answer: Her eyes changed when she fell into the hot tub. They were essentially boiled.

My interpretation was that when she was shot, she completely bled out, thus all color of her skin and eyes would fade away.

But there's no blood inside eyeballs?

There are several blood vessels that supply blood to the eyeball. The cornea is the only part of the body not supplied by blood.

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It wasn't a hot tub she fell into. It was a little pond. No hot water.

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