Villains We Love: Elle Driver
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There are villains we love, and villains we'd love to be -- at least fictionally, imaginatively within our own little dream worlds. These are worlds where we don't have to really kill anybody or do anything bad, but can just lather ourselves in their badassedness, especially as the time ticks down towards Halloween. For me, there's probably no villain I'd rather mimic than Kill Bill's Elle Driver, California Mountain Snake.
I was mesmerized when Daryl Hannah whistled her way into the hospital in the sexiest and coolest white suit known to man, only to change into something as equally cool -- taking the nurse look so far that there's even that bright red cross adorning her white eye patch. Cool song, cool clothes, and cool fighting style. If Uma didn't do such a great job, I would've been rooting for Elle the whole time.
Of course, every time I watch the scene after the jump, I always grumble about the fact that every costume store sells "sexy nurse" outfits, but no truly sexy nurse outfits. Sorry models, but your practically bare-arsed images on those skimpy little costumes are no match for head-to-toe white suits with red umbrellas, or form fitting and classic white nurses' uniforms. But one day... I'll sew one myself if I have to!
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10-30-2009 @ 3:47PM
The Deej said...
I just finished re-watching both parts of Kill Bill and she is one of the surprises of the film, especially in Vol 2. It's an absolute delight.
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10-30-2009 @ 9:43PM
Tony le Stephanois said...
Well played Monika, well played.
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10-31-2009 @ 9:20AM
BarkingGhost said...
I really liked the Elle Driver character. If there were ever some short-story style movie basis of entertainment the individual shorts for the characters in the movie is one.
And while Elle isn't necessarily 100% dead--just 100% blind--a prequel on her and her methods of termination would be entertaining.
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