The Milla Jovovich/Claudine Hellmuth Connection
Last December, Kathy and I were passing by the TV section at Best Buy when we saw a movie that caught our attention. It was Ultraviolet, the stylized scifi/comic/vampire movie staring Milla Jovovich. Let's face it, Milla is hot, so we were understandably distracted by a scene of her fighting her foe with a flaming sword, all while looking fantastic in a color-changing outfit. We didn't know what movie it was until we got home and I looked it up.
Three months later, I watched the movie on one of the HD channels while Kathy was driving home from work. I was absolutely transfixed by the highly-stylized, selectively-colored sets and costumes. It isn't a great movie and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, actually, but it is oh-so-pretty to watch. I was already thinking how Kathy and I could use various scenes for color palette inspiration. I felt a little guilty for watching the movie all the way through, because I should have waited to view it with Kathy. I thought maybe I wouldn't mention it.
She came home that night with a bundle of Target bags and started pulling things out. One was a DVD - of Ultraviolet! I stared at her open-mouthed for a moment, then just laughed.
Recently we watched the DVD, which is billed as an extended cut. It turns out that the scenes they cut from the movie were the ones that explained everything! I don't understand that at all. Even with the scenes, it's only 92 minutes. It's still not a great movie, but at least you get a clue about what's going on. Gosh, do you think the movie could have done a tiny bit better if they had just left the darn scenes in?
We watched the movie with Milla's commentary on, which was very funny. She doesn't talk much because she seems to get absorbed with watching the film, but when she does, she shares the silliest things and she made us laugh.
You know how different people notice different things? Perhaps because I'm a trained voiceover artist, I notice speech patterns and vocal character. In the middle of listening to Milla, I turned to Kathy and said, "Do you know who she sounds like? Claudine Hellmuth. No, really!"
Well, Kathy had no context because she hadn't seen Claudine, the collage artist and art instructor extraordinaire, on TV recently. So, today I pulled out Claudine's Collage Textures and Techniques DVDs (highly recommended) for us to watch. Kathy couldn't quite hear the resemblance. Then I played a recent episode of Craft Lab where Claudine demonstrated a project. It was then where the vocal resemblance became clear. Almost eerie.
And why does this matter to me? I do not know, but the good thing is that I got a refresher course on some fun collage techniques and now I can't wait to pull out a canvas or something. Maybe I'll do a canvas using Claudine's techniques and colors from one of Milla's outfits, and it will be like a little meeting of the minds...or the voices in Alix's head. Either way, sounds like fun to me!
P.S. Milla's character, Violet, has my pre-chemo hair! The cut and length, that is. (I'd have paid good money to have her shade of purple hair!) Ah, the nostalgia. Sigh.
P.P.S. I just noticed the slogan on the DVD cover, "The blood war is on." I'm imagining Claudine in that same pose with a big paintbrush. What would it be? "The paint war is on." Hee, hee, hee...maybe not.
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