Death Becomes Her: Magic Potion

Meryl Streep and Sridevi.....two screen goddesses

Check ok?

I love how Isabella Rossellini loses her accent saying “Fine” when Meryl Streep asks her if a check is ok for payment. Lol!

Good job 👍👍👍👍serect

"Cheque OK?"
"NOW a warning?!"

Movie name pl

Always wondered what would have happened if she refused to drink the potion? Would Lisle have killed her to keep her knowledge of the secret potion from getting out? Makes you think.

do they sell this stuff at sephora?

"a born to be alone yA hA"
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This is like a lesbian scene. What's your thoughts?

Not the kind of immortality I'd sign up for.

😅the way her boobs and butt lifted 😂 honestly I can do with a bit of that 🤪

From the appearance of aging to youth, I think the change is not obvious and it is hard to see.I hope that this movie can be reproduced with new actors, not to mention that the shooting techniques are more advanced than those in the early days.

Isabella . . . so dreamy.

God! never would I want to live forever. I just want to come to earth to do what I was created to do then be with my Heavenly Father.

- Check Ok!?😏
- Fine... 😌

Scarlet King From Scp-001 ( CN Evil God ) Vs Scp-2747 From SCP Foundation ( Mommy )

Imagine with modern de-ageing technology what a reboot or sequel to this could be like.

I wonder what would have happened if that check had bounced after she took the potion?

She didn't warn her enough clearly. With this potion the moment your body dies, it starts to decay but keep on going.

Funny how it resonates with South Korean culture and Hollywood

Favourite was when she looks in the mirror and says I’m a girl ❤❤

Iconic 😂😂😂😂😂

Is incredible how all they have age but Meryl ??? Is it that she actually took the potion in real life ???

I have a feeling Meryl Streep really drank the potion in real life, too. She looks awesome. 💓

The potion would have been perfect if it had actually prevented Mad and Hel from getting wounded in the first place 😏

In 1991, I was at my doctor’s office at Cedar Sinai Medical Center. When I was done with my appointment, I crossed the street to go to my car which I had parked near Jerry’s Deli. There were a lot of Star Wagon trailers parked in the Valet area. I knew what that meant. Filming! I asked what was being filmed and who was in it. Death Becomes Her. Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, and Meryl Streep were there that night. I didn’t see Bruce or Meryl but I did see Goldie Hawn in a beautiful long, red dress. I hardly recognized her because she had red hair. I was 29 years old then. The following year, the movie came out and I went to see it. I remember this scene very well. Back then, I thought nothing of that serum. I’m 60 now. GIMME A BOTTLE STAT!!!! 👵🏻🤣

Does anyone else wonder how much the amount written on the paper was???

Rewatching all these movies through new eyes now that I know they all drink a.dr.e.noc.hrom.e....

What is Dan Humphrey doing in the end?

I found the original version of the Death Becomes Her script on Internet Archive, and found so many interesting differences with the final version of the film. I am putting this comment on multiple videos to encourage fans of the film to read the original script and maybe start a discussion about it. I tried my best to just report the changes without giving my opinion on what I liked and what I didn't.

In the original script, Toni the bartender (completely written out in the final version) helps Ernest escape from Madeline and Helen. He visits the bar after escaping Lisle's mansion, where another drunk customer drops dead. Ernest plants his wallet on the corpse (minus any picture IDs) and Toni calls the police to report that "Ernest" is dead. Meanwhile, Madeline and Helen guesses that Ernest has gone to the bar and head there as well.

By the time the two women arrive, the paramedics have already arrived. The body is covered with a sheet and Toni is telling the police that the dead man is Ernest Menville. When Madeline announces that she is his wife, the police ask her to identify the body. Before she can pull the sheet off and expose the ruse, Toni produces the potion bottle, now empty, saying she found it on Ernest before he "died." Mad and Hel, thinking that Ernest took the potion and will wake up in the morgue, play the grieving widow and friend respectively and leave the bar without looking under the sheet. Ernest and Toni then make their getaway.

Twenty seven years later in Switzerland, Madeline and Helen are bored and miserable (here they are described as looking flawless and unchanged, rather than rotting and falling apart). They halfheartedly insult an elderly couple walking by, not realizing that they are Ernest and Toni. Ernest has the appearance of an old man, save for a youthful right hand.

Also in the original script, Helen did not take the potion until after Madeline died. After Ernest pushed Mad down the stairs and fixed her up, Helen enters the house demanding to see her corpse. Madeline emerges after overhearing Helen reveal her scheme to kill Madeline. Ernest and Madeline lie by saying she had her make up done at the spa (the one in the beginning where Madeline went before Helen's book signing). Helen goes to the spa the next day demanding the same treatment that Madeline got, and she is overheard saying that money is no object. The same guy that gave Lisle's address to Madeline does the same for Helen.

Meanwhile, Madeline blackmails Ernest into using the Helen's murder plans to murder Helen herself (narcanol and flashback included). The blackmail in the script is more intense, with Madeline not only threatening to get Ernest arrested for murder, but also to sneak out of the morgue to get back into their bedroom to frame him for necrophilia. Helen shows up for dinner according to plan, but looking years younger and wearing Lisle's pin on her dress. Madeline, realizing that Helen had taken the potion, abandons the plan and shoots Helen before dinner even starts, and the plot continues as per the movie.

Other bits and pieces I found interesting:

Lisle verbally tells Madeline that the potion costs one million dollars.

Lisle tells Madeline that she is 71 years old, same as the film. But when she tries to get Ernest to drink the potion, she tells him she could not convince Shakespeare, Lincoln and Max Factor to drink the potion, and killed all of them. This makes her at least over 400 years old. Ernest also feels actual danger in this scene as refusing Lisle's offer may cost him his life.

Ernest gives Rose and the other servants a year's salary and dismisses them, which I think is really sweet since I sympathize with Rose for putting up with Madeline's crap for so many years.

Helen's story from after being dumped by Ernest until the book signing is not shown, though she mentions that she had a therapist.

The music by Alan Silvestri, especially in that scene, is amazing.

MERYL IS SO LEGENDARY

- Now a warning.
- NOW a warning?

This always gets me 🤣🤣🤣

The idea of this ancient potion recipe being used as an immortality serum, but the users turning into sentient zombies after their bodies died, is a concept that was reused in the Japanese manga/anime - Sankarea : Undying Love.

IM A GIRL!

I love.

Now..! A warning.!? 😂

"I want to be alone" is a famous line said by Greta Garbo in the movie Grand Hotel (1932). Garbo is one of the most celebrated beauties in cinema history and famously quit showbusiness at the height of her fame, never to return again, becoming the biz's greatest enigma.

Most convenient mirror ever

I did some research.. the quote is from Greta Garbo. Striking resemblance to the lady who gave potion… she supposedly died in 1990 😅

This is witchcraft guys. Don't worship your looks or appearances.

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