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Character name: Persophone
Appears in: Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions
Date(s):2003
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| Character back story: Persephone is the wife of The Merovingian. She seems bored with her existence in the Matrix, and is disaffected from her womanizing/cheating husband
She is attracted to Neo and offers to help him if he kisses her with the same passion with which he has kissed Trinity. Reluctantly, he complies, and she helps him free The Keymaker.
Persephone uses a distinctive four-barreled handgun, loaded with silver bullets, to shoot a werewolf who is in her husband's employ.
She seems to be able to deduce the feelings and emotions of those she kisses, She apparently takes deep pleasure in sampling the emotions of others | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:unknown
computer program | Personality type:flirtateous,independent
| | Signature look: | | Resides:the matrix | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:The film playing on the TV behind Persephone when she shoots the Merovingian's thug is The Brides of Dracula (1960). Persephone was played by Monica Bellucci, who also played a bride of Dracula in _Dracula (1992)_ which also starred Keanu Reeves.
Andy and Larry Wachowski cast Monica Bellucci as Persephone after seeing her performance in Malèna (2000). |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Merovingian: Oh my god Persephone, how could you do this? You betrayed me.
[Stream of French]
Persephone: Cause and Effect, my love.
Merovingian: Cause? There is no cause for this. What cause?
Persephone: What cause? How about the lipstick you're still wearing?
Merovingian: Lipstick? Lipstick? Heh, what craziness are you talking about woman? There is no lipstick.
[checks his face]
Persephone: She wasn't kissing your face, my love.
Persephone: They come from a much older version of the Matrix, but like so many back then they caused more problems than they solved. My husband saved them because they are notoriously difficult to terminate. How many people keep silver bullets in their gun?
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Character name: The Mirror Queen
Appears in:The Brothers Grimm
Date(s):2005
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| Character back story: A beautiful, evil queen who experimented with black magic before being struck by the Bubonic plague
During the outbreak of the plague,she hid in her castle tower and tried to cast a spell to protect herself,it worked but she did not understand that the plague was carried in the wind & she was infected, the spell she created gave her immortal life but but not the youth and beauty to go along with it. Her youthful appearance now only exists in her mirror, the source of her life, as an illusion and nothing more. She needs to drink the blood of 12 young women to regain her beauty, | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:500 years old
| | Personality type:evil,cunning,devious | | Signature look: | | Resides:19th century Germany | | Character connections: | | Fun facts/trivia:Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins were cast originally, but both had to bow out due to scheduling conflicts. |
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Character name: Dr Lena Kendricks
Appears in:Tears of the Sun
Date(s):2003
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| Character back story:Dr Lena is doctor in a catholic missionary hospital in war torn Nigeria
Her late husband was Dr John Kendricks (a u.s citizen)
A group of u.s navy seals are sent into Nigeria to extract Lena,the missionary priest & a couple of nuns, when the team reach the hospital she tells them that she will not leave without the patients & the refugees. So she forces Lt Waters that the they will all have to travel 12 miles out of the country and reach the border to safety | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:30s
doctor | | Personality type:strong willed,compassionate,caring | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:Tensions between Director Antoine Fuqua and Bruce Willis emerged soon after principle photography began, ending with each vowing never to work with the other again.
(29 October 2002) A stuntman was killed filming a parachuting scene near Oceano, California. Jumping with eight other skydivers from 14,000 feet, the man was supposed to land on the beach, but actually landed about 300 yards offshore and drowned. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | Patience: We love you, Lena. All of us. We will always love you.
Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks: I love you too.
Lt.Waters: l'm Lt. Waters with the U.S. Navy. l'm here to get you and
your people out.
Dr Lena: We're in the middle of surgery here.
Dr Lena:Get those weapons out of my operating room.
You're frightening my staff.
l'll be with you when l'm done. Now please wait outside!
Lt Waters:Your staff should be frightened, ma'am.
Do you know what'll happen to you and these women when rebels
get here?
Dr Lena: I'm responsible for 7 0 people here, more than half of them seriously wounded.
Lt Waters: My orders are to evacuate foreign nationals only, ma'am.
Dr Lena:What does that mean?
Lt Waters:l mean nonindigenous personnel, ma'am.
Dr Lena:Then we have a problem.
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Character name: Donna Quintano
Appears in:Shoot Em Up
Date(s):2007
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| Character back story:Donna is a prostitute working in a seedy brothel, she was recently pregnant but she miscarriaged.
When Mr Smith delivers a dying woman's baby during a gunfight he takes the hungry baby to Donna because he knows that she is lactating and is able to feed the baby
Smith & Donna used to be in a relationship several years earlier, so Smith & Donna go on the run with the baby they are being trailed by gang boss Hertz who wants to kill smith & the baby | | Inspiration for character: | Age/Occupation:30s
prostitute | | Personality type: | | Signature look: | | Resides: | | Character connections: | Fun facts/trivia:Baby Oliver" was cast before he was even born. The producers chose a woman who was pregnant with twin boys who would deliver about the time filming began so the baby would genuinely be a newborn baby, as his character is.
Monica Bellucci's character is Donna Quintano, so her initials are "DQ". When she leaves with the baby, Smith tells her not to tell him where she'll get off the bus. He tracks her down to a "Dream Queen," a stand-in for the "Dairy Queen" or "DQ" fast food chain, as well as a play on her character being a specialized lactating prostitute. |
| | Character Quotes & Catchphrases | DQ: You are the angriest man in the world!
Mr. Smith: If I remember right, you used to like it like that.
DQ: [DQ is breastfeeding another man] Wait your turn, Smith, there's plenty to go around.
Mr. Smith: Not for me, thanks. I'm lactose intolerant.
DQ: Why don't you take the baby to the police?
Mr. Smith: I can't go to the police.
DQ: Why not?
Mr. Smith: I'm the Unabomber.
DQ: They caught the Unabomber.
Mr. Smith: That's what they think.
DQ: [buying a bulletproof vest for Baby Oliver] It's a better investment than a crib.
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