Likewise, Tarantino as always adds fantastic dialogue which especially helps the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad during the backstory segmints of the movie. It's a revenge flick with a lot of different elements, but it doesn't try to be something else, or pass itself off as a grand odyssey. The brilliance that lies in Kill Bill is that it doesn't overreach itself. The colours and look of the film are all very exaggerated and oversampled, i'm not going to lie, but with such a masterfully woven story, the two go together like Eggs and Bacon, although I doubt highly that Samurai swords are edible. Here was have Tarantino at his flashiest but supplemented with a reservoir of substance which endures throughout the film. The entirety of Volume 1 is very much a build up that never fully stops, which is unique even to revenge flicks as they usually ebb and flow with a lot of changes to the pace. 1 is by far the stronger half of the duo. We had it with Reservoir Dogs, a heist film where we never see the heist, and with both Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds - two more films which take what is typical and throw it aside.Īfter multiple views, I still say that Kill Bill Vol.
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But after you've taken five steps, your heart explodes inside your body, and you fall to the floor, dead.If there's one thing we've learned about Quentin Tarantino as a screenwriter and director is that one should never expect a typical movie that fits the stereotypes of the genre exactly - or even remotely. He hits you with his fingertips at five different pressure points on your body. Quite simply, the deadliest blow in all of martial arts. And so began the legend of Pai Mei's five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique.Īnd what, pray tell, is the five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique? So began the massacre of the Shaolin Temple and all sixty of the monks inside at the fists of the White Lotus.
The Abbot at first tried to console Pai Mei, only to find Pai Mei was inconsolable. The next morning Pai Mei appeared at the Shaolin Temple and demanded of the Temple's head abbot that he offer Pai Mei his neck to repay the insult. Now was it the intention of the Shaolin monk to insult Pai Mei? Or did he just fail to see the generous social gesture? The motives of the monk remain unknown. As the monk and the priest crossed paths, Pai Mei, in a practically unfathomable display of generosity, gave the monk the slightest of nods. Once upon a time in China, some believe, around the year one double-aught three, head priest of the White Lotus Clan, Pai Mei, was walking down the road, contemplating whatever it is that a man of Pai Mei's infinite power contemplates - which is another way of saying "who knows?" - when a Shaolin monk appeared, traveling in the opposite direction. Well, that little darlin' I can pretty much damn well guarantee. Sounds like we got a deal, one condition. Get your bony ass down here in the morning, with a million dollars in cash, and I give you the greatest sword ever made by man. Well, that's hard to say, being that it's priceless and all. Let me tell you Elle, that's what I call sharp. Guess what I'm holding in my hand right now.īrand spankin' new Hattori Hanzo sword. She's so gentle right now, I could perform a coupe-de-grace with a rock. I just caught me a cowgirl that ain't never been caught. Jeff ShannonĪnd to what do I owe this dubious pleasure? 3 awaits, some 15 years hence) that Tarantino fans will study and love for decades to come. Has any actress endured so much for the sake of a unique collaboration? As the credits remind us, "The Bride" was jointly created by "Q&U," and she's become an unforgettable heroine in a pair of delirious movie-movies (Vol. 1, this slower grand finale revels in Tarantino's trademark dialogue and loopy longueurs, reviving the career of David Carradine (who plays Bill for what he is: a snake charmer), and giving Thurman's Bride an outlet for maternal love and well-earned happiness.
Violence erupts with dynamic impact, but unlike Vol. Tarantino doesn't copy so much as elevate the genres he loves, and the entirety of Kill Bill is clearly the product of a singular artistic vision, even as it careens from one influence to another. 2-not a sequel, but Part Two of a breathtakingly cinematic epic-is Tarantino's contemporary martial-arts Western, fueled by iconic images, music, and themes lifted from any source that Tarantino holds dear, from the action-packed cheapies of William Witney (one of several filmmakers Tarantino gratefully honors in the closing credits) to the spaghetti epics of Sergio Leone. 1 was a hyper-kinetic tribute to the Asian chop-socky grindhouse flicks that have been thoroughly cross-referenced in Tarantino's film-loving brain, Vol. "The Bride" (Uma Thurman) gets her satisfaction-and so do we-in Quentin Tarantino's "roaring rampage of revenge," Kill Bill, Vol.
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