Couldn't they look for another make-up person???
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Death Becomes Her
preppyboy90 — 15 years ago(March 27, 2011 11:45 AM)
I highly doubt Earnest was THE ONLY expert at make upif they were gonna live forever the could've found other people through time.
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thomvic — 14 years ago(May 01, 2011 07:27 AM)
I think it might have been difficult for them to find someone new and it was easier for them to use Earnest since he knew them well. Also, I reckon regular people would have freaked out eventually once they found out about their secret of immortality.
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lexyladyjax — 13 years ago(August 10, 2012 02:56 PM)
Both women were obsessed with Ernest Menville. They were controlling obsessed witches, and I say this as a women who knows a controlling witch when I see one. There was more than one in this film.
OTOH, it's possible that death takes away one's ability to plan and think clearly about the futureso perhaps Madeline and Helen were impaired by the potion and by death.
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jonathanfranciscope-118-150060 — 13 years ago(August 12, 2012 01:36 PM)
The film isn't meant to be rationalised, it is primarily for a visceral response.
Ernest was a mortician, not an airbrush artist. Ernest was a genius at being a mortician.
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little_dog — 13 years ago(November 10, 2012 04:22 PM)
I don't think it was because they had gone crazy. How could they explain to those other people the fact that they were a pair of living, walking corpses? Ernest was already in the know, and if they had gotten him to drink the potion, he would have been bound by the same secrecy.
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moysant — 13 years ago(November 23, 2012 10:19 PM)
They had been warned not to tell anyone about the magic potion and its effects and Ernest only knows because he saw both women die and then come back to life. Isabella is scary so they wouldn't want to go back on their promise to tell noone. Also, they are now a bit crazy and their need to cover up the fact that they are dead, look dead and want to remain young and beautiful (when he makes thme up) that they want him to do it (a man they previously fought over).
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LesFleursDuMal — 11 years ago(October 09, 2014 08:29 AM)
The entire makeup/spray paint thing is a tad silly and just for comedic effect I suppose. All of the other people in the "secret society" were able to look fine and dance around with no issues but Madeline and Helen have these constant problems? You'd think they'd just allow themselves to go pale and then get spray tans and wear a little regular makeup.
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sakura_droplet — 11 years ago(October 09, 2014 02:29 PM)
All of the other people in the "secret society" were able to look fine and dance around with no issues but Madeline and Helen have these constant problems?
That's because Madeline and Helen had both 'died'
after
taking the potion. The other people in Lisle's 'secret society' had all taken the potion, yes, but we don't know if they all died, if that makes sense. If Madeline hadn't been pushed down the stairs or if Helen hadn't been shot, they wouldn't have needed the spray paint and make-up.
"Oh, my, where are my manners? Would either of you homicidal maniacs like some sweet tea?" -
boxerrebellion — 10 years ago(September 07, 2015 05:15 PM)
Not so sure that spray tan was quite so ubiquitous in '92. I'd never heard of it until the Dance reality shows came to be (DWTS & SYTYCD). The surgeon/mortician pointed out that make-up didn't look natural on dead skin (have you ever been to an open casket funeral?).
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lonely_goodner — 10 years ago(January 08, 2016 01:22 PM)
I can just see that Monster.com ad.
"Wanted: An expert makeup artist who can keep two dead women looking beautiful"
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