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Line 3: {{quote\| ''"Hello. My name is Violet and I was born into a world you may not understand."''}} ''Ultraviolet'' is a 2006 [[Science Fiction]] / Action film starring [[Milla Jovovich]] as the eponymous Violet, fighting in a guerrilla war against the oppressive Arch-Ministry government in a dystopian future. Line 11: Violet infiltrates an Arch-Ministry stronghold disguised as a courier, and escapes with what is supposed to be an ultimate weapon, something which will kill the few remaining hemophages with a single blow. But the "weapon" turns out to be a child named Six, prompting Violet to defy both her own kind, who want him dead, and the Ministry, who want him back. ''Ultraviolet'' was deliberately created to stylistically resemble a comic book, with brilliantly colored outfits and hair, and an airbrushed appearance to close-ups. As with many comic books, the action scenes are deliberately over the top. It was not well-received, with a [[Rotten Tomatoes]] rating of 9%, but some find it [[So Bad ~~Its~~It's Good]] or a [[Guilty Pleasure]]. It can now be streamed for free via a collaboration between [[YouTube]] and the [[Hulu]] competitor [http://www.crackle.com Crackle], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqpFXoo7o1Y here] and [http://www.crackle.com/c/Ultraviolet/Ultraviolet/2480344 here], so you can watch it for yourself and make your own opinion. In 2008, the studio Madhouse produced a 12 episode anime series loosely based on the film titled ''Ultraviolet: Code 044''. Not to be confused with ''[[Ultraviolet (TV series)\|Ultraviolet]]'' the British television series, which was also a modern take on vampires, but which could otherwise not be more different in story, style and tone. ~~----~~ ~~=== This film provides examples of: ===~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Action Girl]]: Violet, of course. * [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Daxus. It helps that {{spoiler\|he is a hemophage himself.}} Line 32 ⟶ 30: * [[Cosmic Deadline]]: Which seems to set about ''twenty minutes in''. * [[Deadly Dodging]]: Violet kills most of a group of gunmen mooks this way. It helps that they were stupid enough to stand in a ''circle'' around her with guns pointed inwards... * [[Death Byby Cameo]]: Director Kurt Wimmer. * [[Dueling Movies]]: With ''[[Underworld Evolution]]'' or ''[[Blade Trinity]]'' or possibly both and maybe even with ''[[~~Thirty~~30 Days of Night ~~(Film)~~\|Thirty Days of Night]]'', which would explain why the vampire subtext seemed a little buried. * [[Elite Mooks]]: The guys with katanas... maybe. You'd have to be either crazy-good or just plain crazy to be armed with a sword when everyone else has access to guns. * [[Executive Meddling]]: The original cut of this film clocked in at about 120 minutes. The version shown in theaters? 88. And apparently, both Milla and Kurt were locked out of the editing process. The extended cut on home video clocks in at 97 or so minutes and is better, but unavailable on Blu-Ray because Sony refused at the time to allow unrated or NC-17 content on the format. Double whammy. The [[Novelization]], however, uses the [[What Could Have Been\|unedited story]]. * [[Extended Disarming]]: The computer attempts to tally all the weapons in Violet's [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]. It finally gives up and just says "many" in a very surprised-sounding voice. * [[Faceless Goons]]: The Ministry's [[Mooks]]. * [[Faux Symbolism]]: The prologue shows hemophage victims [[You Have to Have Jews\|wearing black hats and clothing]], being [[Fantastic Racism\|harassed by skinheads]], and [[A Nazi Byby Any Other Name\|herded into camps]]. This sequence serves no narrative purpose and is never referenced again. ** Possibly because after the opening sequence, almost all the hemophages were executed? As Violet herself says "The ones that survived... started fighting back." * [[Fictional Document]]: The opening credits show that the movie is supposed to be based on a series of comic books or manga. Line 48 ⟶ 46: * [[Gun Kata]]: And lots of it. * [[Hammerspace]]: Used liberally. The hemophage strike team in the opening has shoulder-mounted ones that holds swords, Violet has her wrist-mounted [[Hyperspace Arsenal]], Garth has an entire [[Mad Scientist Laboratory]] in a semi, and Daxus keeps Six. * [[Heal It ~~With~~with Fire]]: In the final battle, Violet's hands are cut up pretty badly, so she fires her SMG's so she can use the muzzle heat to cauterize the wounds. * [[Hollywood Darkness]]: Averted. When the hemophages shoot out the lights, it actually gets too dark to see what happens. Given the amount of bodies on the ground when the lights come back on, we can guess, though. * [[Hot Chick ~~With~~with a Sword]]: Pretty much the whole point of the film really. * [[How Many All of Them]] * [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Violet caries a ridiculously large number of guns and her sword in a pocket dimension. This leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when the computer in the Arch-Ministry building scans her for hidden weapons. Line 62 ⟶ 60: * [[The Man Behind the Curtain]]: Subverted. Daxus is a great deal more dangerous than he looks. Unlike [[Equilibrium\|DuPont,]] it's made clear halfway through the film instead of [[Foreshadowing\|foreshadowed.]] * [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Due to coming out during a spate of vampire action films there was no mention of the characters' "condition". * [[No -Paper Future]]: Violet has a bracelet that's actually a bendy credit card... which she uses to buy disposable cell phones, printed on paper. * [[Non -Action Guy]]: Garth. * [[Not Using the Z Word]]: The movie only mentions the word "vampire" twice, first in the exposition dump when Violet notes that it's a slur used for hemophages, and a second time (in Vietnamese) when Violet is confronted by the Blood Chinois. * [[Novelization]]: A book version of the film was written by Yvonne Navarro, which is based and expands upon the original, uncut screenplay. * [[Oblivious to Love]]: Violet seems completely unaware that Garth has feelings for her. * [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: The hemophages are infected with a disease that's been around since ancient times, creating the myth of vampires. This virus, however, has been modified in an attempt to create [[Super Soldier~~\|Super Soldiers~~]]s. * [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]: All of the hemophages, but especially Violet. Six can be seen this way as well. * [[~~Pieta~~Pietà Plagiarism]]: At the end. * [[The Power of Love]]: {{spoiler\|Violet crying over Six's body brings him back to life... because her tears infected him with hemophagia.}} * [[Pro -Human Transhuman]]: Subverted. * [[Rule of Cool]]: The movie practically runs on it. * [[Same Story, Different Names]]: The basic structure of the story is rehashed from Wimmer's previous film, ''[[Equilibrium]]'', with the colors ramped [[Up to Eleven]]. * [[She Fu]]: Need you ask? * [[Short -Range Long -Range Weapon]]: The mooks are so very guilty of this. * [[Shout -Out]]: One near-archetypical shot in particular may be a reference to ''[[Ghost in ~~The~~the Shell]]'', to ''[[The Matrix]]'', or to both. * [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Nerva does this. * [[Smug Snake]]: Daxus Line 91 ⟶ 89: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Vampire Fiction~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Ultraviolet]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Films of the 2000s]] [[Category:Vampire Fiction]]