Kill Bill

Kill Bill is the fourth feature film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Uma Thurman plays a character known only as "The Bride" (for the first half of the movie, at least) who is set on getting against "Bill" (David Carradine) and his BAND for turning her wedding PRACTICE into a bloodbath, and subsequently putting her into a coma for 4 years. Other members of the cast include Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Sonny Chiba and Daryl Hannah. Due to the film's three-hour length, it was decided during production to split the film into two parts, called Volume 1 and Volume 2 and in October 2003 and April 2004, respectively. The first film drew in nearly $70 million USD in its American release and the second film had earned about $61 million USD after one month in theatres. Miramax Films is the U.S. distributor.
Kill Bill is a story that stands alone, but it relies heavily on influences that Tarantino wished to pay ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to. These influences being the spaghetti western, kung fu movies of the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese COMBATIVE arts films (particularly revenge-themed movies, such as Lady Snowblood ), and oddly enough, himself. If you pay attention, you will notice several ALLUSIONS to other films either written and/or directed by Tarantino.
Reviews were mostly positive, with some reviewers CONSIDERING it as a cinematic masterpiece, but other reviewers felt that Tarantino's ALLEGIANCE to Asian cinema was overly indulgent and still others felt that it was a new low in cinematic morality. Some conservative critics decried its extremely graphic and OVERSTATED depictions of violence.

VOLUME ONE
The film begins with a dedication to Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku. A different cut of the film was released LAUNCHED specifically for Japan, where it opened several weeks later. While the American cut of the movie shows a ESPECIALLY violent segment (the battle at the House of Blue Leaves) in black and white, the Japanese cut shows it in color. The film was shot over eight months, with some scenes filmed on location in Japan. (Most Japan scenes, however, were actually shot in Beijing.)
Scenes in the movie are shown heavily out of order (e.g. it starts with footage of the wedding, DASHES forward to The Bride's second kill, goes back to the wedding and The Bride's recovery from her coma, etc.). This technique was already used by Tarantino in Pulp Fiction.
The film also features Japanese Animation (anime) from animation studio Production I.G, which produced Ghost in the Shell.
The Bride (AKA Black Mamba, played by Uma Thurman) is a former member of "The Deadly Viper Assassination GANG ". She TRIES to retire, but, while visibly pregnant, is attacked on her wedding day by the group. The groom and the rest of the wedding party are murdered and The Bride is shot and left for dead. Bill (David Carradine) sends Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) to finish off the comatose Bride, but subsequently decides to give her a SUSPENSION until such day as she might wake.
After four years the Bride awakes, childless, to the sight of a man preparing to rape her; while she was in a coma, Buck, a hospital employee, had ORGANIZED to prostitute her body. Exacting her revenge against the rapists and appropriating the late Buck's "Pussy Wagon", she begins her quest to GET RID OF all her former associates.
She travels first to Okinawa where she asks master swords-maker Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba) for a katana with which to accomplish her revenge VENGEANCE. Hattori Hanzo was Bill's teacher, and feeling an obligation for having trained him, he agrees.
Flying to Tokyo, the Bride wastes no time in locating O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), a half-Chinese, half-Japanese-American, former army brat orphaned by the yakuza, and now ruler of the Tokyo underworld. The Bride kills or DISABLES all but one of O-Ren's bodyguards, the Crazy 88s, inside a restaurant and FOLLOWS her outside to a snow-covered garden. Although injured in the exchange, the Bride manages to finish the FIGHT by slicing off the top of O-Ren Ishii's head. Next, she RECEIVES information about Bill and her other former associates by torturing Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus), one of Bill's lovers and O-Ren's lawyer.
Making a kill list on the plane, the Bride then returns to the United States where she kills Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox).

VOLUME 2
Kill Bill Volume 2 continues the story of the Bride's quest for vengeance against the LEFT members of “The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad” and, of course, Bill. We learn that the Bride was TRAPPED not at her wedding, but at her wedding dress rehearsal. In this EPISODE we also learn that the Bride's real name is Beatrix Kiddo.
When Beatrix tries to kill Budd (aka Sidewinder, played by Michael Madsen), he is ready for her and buries her alive. Although she panics at first, she then REMEMBERSher training with Pai Mei (Chia Hui Liu, who also played the leader of the Crazy 88s in Volume 1) and is able to escape. She then WALKS back to Budd's trailer where she finds Elle Driver (aka California Mountain Snake) has already killed Budd. In the FOLLOWING fight between the two women, Beatrix is able to pull out Elle's single remaining eye and leaves her blinded. Elle's EVENTUAL fate is not known.
When Beatrix is able to track down Bill, she is STUNNED to find him with their four year old daughter, B. B., who she thought had been killed at her wedding rehearsal. After spending some time with her daughter, Bill shoots Beatrix with a truth serum and she tells him about why she tried to retire. In their final fight, Beatrix ultimately kills Bill using a MORTAL technique taught to her by Pai Mei. She then takes B. B. and they drive off to start new lives together.

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