Volume 1 falls short in its attempt to exist solely on its own. I enjoyed it, and, like the rest of the crowd, I couldn't resist groaning a bit when the end titles popped up. Kill Bill is a very fun and exciting film, no doubt. The only complaint I have for the anime sequence is that it runs a little too long. It perfectly sets up the step-up in gore we're heading towards as The Bride is traveling to Japan to face O-Ren and her Yakuza clan. Not being a fan of anime, I was pleasantly surprised here. Her back-story is explained in a lengthy anime sequence. By film's end, we know the most about her character. The star character of Volume 1 turns out to be O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu). Fox, Michael Madsen & Lucy Liu in Kill Bill However, the problem is, we get other characters' back-stories which seem a little less central than The Bride's vendetta. So that's why that happened!' I understand that, to an extent, we are supposed to realize that this is a kung fu movie and just enjoy the ride. The problem is, how are we supposed to understand The Bride's plight until then? It's like, when we see Volume 2, we're supposed to think back to Volume 1 and go, 'Oh yeah. At the press day, producer Lawrence Bender promised we'll get all that in Volume 2. We don't even get to the back-story of The Bride. It feels like Tarantino actually ran out of time at the end of Volume 1. This would be fine for a longer movie, but it slows up this half. At its lowest points, Tarantino has the tendency to meander a bit too much in the expository. The Vernita Green scene is an example of Kill Bill at its best. Pretty soon, it's time for the expletives and super-cool Tarantino dialogue to fly. The two try their best to play off the situation until they can get the daughter off to her room. Assuming you've already seen the preview, I'm not giving anything away when I say that Vernita's young daughter comes home from school in the middle of the fight. It moves at such a breakneck pace, it's hard not to clench your fists and scooch toward the edge of your seat. The fight choreography here is simply incredible. The Bride's confrontation with Vernita Green is one of the high points of the film. That's all to come along later in due time. We also have yet to discover how The Bride possibly recovered from the beginning's brutal attack. Fox), although this technically takes place after The Bride has met up with O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu). The first person we see The Bride meet up with for a face to face, er, chat, is Vernita Green (Vivica A. In true Tarantino fashion, the timeline for Kill Bill is all over the place. The Bride reveals a piece of key plot info before a moment that is sure to make audiences jump. We only hear the voice of Bill (David Carradine) as he wipes blood from her quivering face. Kill Bill opens on a shot of The Bride (Uma Thurman), bloody, bruised and, as it would appear, near death. It is not possible to review the film without revealing a few things, but I will try to leave out as many specific details as possible. Acknowledging the incredible anticipation fans have for this film, I am going to try to keep this review as spoiler-free as possible. The promise was that Bill would now be released in two separate parts, each existing as a completely separate entity unto itself. But wait, what's that? Only half the movie is coming out? Huh? A few months ago, Tarantino and camp decided that Kill Bill would be too long to release as one single film. And it's about time for Kill Bill to hit screens. It's hard to say if any of these relationships could survive Volume 3.So here we are, finally to October 2003. This rift has only recently begun to heal when Tarantino finally acquiesced to Thurman's request for footage of the crash and the production's negligent attitude to safety. Meanwhile, Thurman and Tarantino's relationship, previously one of artist-and-muse closeness, became severely strained as the production of one movie sprawled into two, especially after the director pushed his star into a dangerous car stunt which left her with permanent damage to her neck. Fox (who played Vernita) described it, they had "that blonde competition going on," adding that it was "a pissing contest."īy the time of Volume 2's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie's two stars had to be kept apart, having their own separate tents for the movie's afterparty. One minor stumbling block there, though, may come from the fact that Daryl Hannah (who played Elle) and Thurman hated each other almost as much as their characters did. When he's talked about this potential project in the past, Tarantino has suggested that its plot might involve Nikki being trained by returning Deadly Viper Elle Driver, left blinded but not necessarily dead by Uma Thurman's Beatrix Kiddo in Volume 2.
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