The House of Blue Leaves battle took six weeks longer than expected, but that’s because it’s packed with traditional special effects and stuntwork instead of the CGI we’re now used to. This film was Tarantino’s attempt to move from the talky fare he was known for and into the action cinema that he loves. The film ends with Bill speaking to Sofie and asking if the Bride knows that their daughter is alive. She then kills O-Ren and tortures her assistant Sofie Fatale to discover where Bill is. Tracking O-Ren to the House of Blue Leaves, the Bride - we don’t learn her name until the next movie, but you can see it on her plane ticket to Tokyo - wipes out O-Ren’s gang, the Crazy 88’s and her bodyguard, schoolgirl with a spiked yo-yo Gogo Yubari. But after he learns that she wants revenge on his former student Bill, he makes one for her. The Bride seeks to have a sword made by Hattori Hanzo (Sonny Chiba!), who has vowed to never forge a sword again. As a child, O-Ren’s parents were murdered and she spent her early years getting her own revenge. The first Viper who is on her kill list is Cottonmouth/O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) who has risen to become the leader of a huge clan of Tokyo Yakuza. She takes his truck and begins the long journey toward learning how to walk and fight again. The Bride wakes up, realizes she’s no longer with child and begins her mission of revenge by killing the hospital worker who’s been raping her while she was in a coma. However, Bill decides to cancel the kill order as he finds it dishonorable. California Mountain Snake/Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah, perfection in this movie) whistles her way through the hallways of a hospital, dressed as a nurse with a matching eyepatch, ready to kill the Bride with a lethal injection. We go back now those four long years to when the Bride was in a coma. She responds by trying to shoot and kill the Bride, who dispatches her easily with a knife to the heart. Our heroine tries to give her target a break and offers to meet her to battle somewhere that her family isn’t in the crossfire. The film jumps forward four years and the Bride (Uma Thurman, who helped conceive this movie with writer/director Quentin Tarantino) has hunted down one of the Vipers: Copperhead/Vernita Green (Vivica A. With what may be her final breath, she tells Bill, their leader, that she’s pregnant with his child. She’s been attacked and left for dead by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. And the places they’re gathered from are so disparate and non-mainstream, the fact that they’ve coalesced into a Hollywood blockbuster is pretty amazing.Ī woman in a wedding dress - who we come to know as the Bride and Black Mamba - lies wounded and possibly dying in a chapel in El Paso, Texas. When it comes to the two Kill Bill movies, the multiple references are so dense that there’s almost an art to how they come together. It all depends on how well remixed the source material is. Whether it's unveiled on Netflix or elsewhere, we should expect it one day.I had a discussion this week about whether or not an excessive amount of tributes and homages within a film makes for a great movie or one worthy of derision. It did screen at Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema, and there have been rumors and reports over the years that suggest that the four-hour cut of Kill Bill, subtitled The Whole Bloody Affair, will see the light of day. But over the course of the past ten years, there's been growing interest to release the longer cut. It was a rare moment where the creative and economic sides of the industry found a win. In that sense, Tarantino could release his three-hour epic (albeit in a two-part fashion). Meanwhile, for Quentin Tarantino, it allowed Kill Bill to be presented as he envisioned it, without having to cut out anything he'd hate to lose. And it allowed Miramax to sell the same movie twice. Notably since Weinstein liked to hack scenes from movies in favor of shorter runtimes, the two-part plan kept the movie(s) at a reasonable length. But over time, especially during the editing process, it became no laughing matter.Īs Variety reported, the two-part plan became a tantalizing win-win for both the filmmaker and the producer. As the eventually two-part film was being put together, Quentin Tarantino and producer Harvey Weinstein reportedly joked about the possibility of splitting Kill Bill into two films. Seen as one big, epic story, the original four-hour version of Kill Bill was shown at the Cannes Film Festival during its premiere, but it hasn't been seen much elsewhere. In its early inception, Kill Bill was envisioned as one super-long film. The Idea Of Splitting Kill Bill Into Two Movies May Have Started As A Joke
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