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There's a very real sense of mission...
...on this film.
A purpose that is no less than trying to reissue a new definition...
...of a modern science-fiction picture.
I refer to it as an elevated genre movie, and it is a vampire movie of sorts...
...but it is a vampire movie...
...that seeks to break the convention of the vampire movie.
Both dramatic and fun, and very, very visual.
I thought it was a brilliant, inventive new world.
I was very eager to become a part of it.
Fantasy, fantastical, inventive.
Science-fiction, futuristic action-adventure comedy.
This movie was exciting. So many things to do...
...and so many things to design...
...adn so many things that you could work on.
It's not totally real, but it's not totally unreal.
It's somehow-- All I can say...
...is that it is realistically unreal.
I like the society that he made.
I like the idea that he was dealing with a disease...
...that had spread rampant through the world.
It's all kind of scary to us, in the back of our minds...
...when we think about it.
And that's what this script's about, it's about infection...
...and what it does to people and how it changes people's personalities...
...and how they relate to each other.
My God. Cross.
Poor bastard.
The underpinnings of the story...
...immediately caught my attention.
And it's why I liked the script, because it takes a story...
...which is in fact a comic book...
...and it grounds it in reality that we can all relate to.
Ultraviolet takes place in the future.
The world has now eradicated all disease.
Everything that was still a mystery today, in our century...
...is not a mystery anymore.
Pretty much it's this really happy world...
...you would think.
But because they're so hell-bent on being sanitary and hygienic...
...the society is really scared of any new strain...
...or any new virus. And there's one last disease...
...that hasn't been wiped out.
The government did tests on it...
...and made the strain of particular disease uncurable.
And it takes shape in a form of vampirism.
So when enough people start dying and disappearing...
...and underground resistance forms...
...to try and bring this government down, number one...
...and number two, to fight back in any way we can.
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I think Kurt has one of the most complete visions...
...of any filmmaker I've worked with.
I think he brings a sense of style...
...coupled with a deep, deep regard for martial arts...
...that infuse pretty much every frame of the movie.
Every aspect of this movie is from his head.
And every sequence, he's cut in his head.
Every sequence, he's previsualized.
Every sequence, he's chosen the colours.
Every sequence, he's chosen the design of the rooom that we're in.
We're looking up at her when she exits.
So we don't see any floor on the exit.
And it's truly a singular, singular point of view on this movie.
XPD-154. Clearance, classified courier.
I'm expected.
Reverse-engineer DNA identification in process.
Remove your head-covering.
Remove your eye-covering.
Milla Jovovich was the persion...
...who Kurt wanted to play Ultraviolet...
...from the very beginning.
I received a script for Ultraviolet...
...and i read it and really fell in love with Violet as a character.
And I relate to her. I wanna be her.
And i wanna help her get over her anger....
...and all the issues that she's got.
To find in one person the physical abilities...
...as well as the physical beauty...
...as well as this just internal strength of character...
...that is able to be projected on-screen...
...makes it very clear to me to understand why Kurt said:
"Milla Jovovich, that's the actress I want for this role."
There is no one else to play Ultraviolet.
I remember when I first read the script...
...and Kurt told me about it...
...and he told me who was doing it, and I thought:
"Yeah, wow, of course."
Violet Song jat Shariff. Tell me I'm wrong.
-You're wrong. -Why are you doing this?
Because I hate humans with every fibre of my being...
...and I'll kill every single one of them...
...almost as quickly as they'll try and kill me.
-You used to be human. -But not anymore, right?
I got sick, and now I'm something less than human.
Something worthy of extermination.
It's academic, now, isn't it? You won't make it out of here with that case.
Watch me.
Later on , I heard...
...that he actually wrote the script for me...
...which was really flattering and exciting.
It's not a weapon. It's a child.
It's both. It's weapon and a child.
Its blood is swarming with cultured antigens...
...that would kill all of us on contact.
If they atomize its tissues into the atmoshere...
...it would be like insecticide to people like you and me.
It would find us, and it would kill us.
All of us.
The humans want me. Nerva wants me.
I don't have any place left to go, Garth.
Besides...
...you have all my guns.
I think Garth is one of those...
that truly misses being human.
And he's a techie. And he lives in a semitrailer.
He's looking for a cure...
...you know, to be human again. And that's Garth's life right there.
How could he be alive, Violet? Wait, wait, wait, look, look.
Look, what the boy wrote down on the paper...
...it's the chemical foundation of what I'm certain...
...is a cure for hemoglophagia.
Daxus' researchers probably developed it years ago...
...in the lab where he was bred in.
Just give me a little time. I can cure you.
I know it.
I think he'll do everything that he can to be close to her and help her.
But she's a strong-willed woman and she is gonna do...
...exactly what she wants, even if he wishes that she didn't...
...you know , because he would like to protect her.
And you can't protect Ultraviolet.
She's gonna rip the house down if she wants to.
Kill any Hemophages inside.
Easy, Violet.
-Do you know who I am? -How could I not?
Tyrant. Egomaniac. Narcissist.
I play a man who's trying to control everything.
He's trying to maintain order in a chaotic world.
Are you mental?
She has become a thorn in my side.
She's formidable...
...and has proved herself worthy of....
...and capable of destroying as much as I throw at her.
You won't have him.
He's a germophobe.
There's many diseases in this new world...
...so he doesn't wanna get any of them.
So his wardrobe reflects that.
His boots are connected to his shoes...
...and his gloves are connected to his jacket...
...so no germs can enter anywhere.
We came to Hong Kong and Shanghai for the look of the movie.
We looked at a number of cities around the world...
...to find a place that seemed appropriate...
suitable to shoot this movie.
And when we came to shanghai...
...the architecture of the city was so extraordinary...
...so genuinely futuristic...
...that it sort of surpassed anything that we could have imagined...
a designer sort of inventing.
I mean, here they were, here were buildings...
...that had not been seen before on film.
And yet they were the product...
...of enormous architectural invention.
Kurt fell in love with the city...
...fell in love with the architecture...
...and knew straight off that we were gonna shoot...
...some, if not all, of Ultraviolet in Shanghai.
There is a science museum here...
...which is one of the most spectacular structures...
...that I've come across.
You have a big sequence that takes place there.
And it's and impressive structure...
...really impressive structure.
There is no place that looks like this. This is--
Shanghai is the city of the future.
And it's right here now.
And you're gonna see it on the movie.
You're gonna see it on the screen.
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