Thoughts on Kill Bill Vols 1 and 2, and other things

[ksmith]

These were my first Tarantino films. Are they representative? The violence struck me as realistic yet comic book at the same time. Yes, I read about the movie background and some of the inspiration. But does Tarantino take the same approach in his more realistic work?



(Vol 2) The fact that Beatrix went straight for Budd's front door bothered me. Would a skilled fighter do that? She must have seen him pause before going into his trailer, and she would have known his style. Did she really think she possessed the element of surprise? It undercut all the info indicating she was the best of Bill's killers.

Sword on a plane. Sword worn in the open when walking through a hotel lobby. Really? I laughed.

BB was being groomed for the life, wasn't she? I'm glad Beatrix got to her, though I wonder if she got there in time.

Elle's death. So gruesome, and so well-deserved.

The scene in the coffin got under my skin. Fear of immobility or a touch of claustrophobia on my part, maybe.

Poor David Carradine. Every time I saw him, all I could think of were the rumblings of how he died. Rule the 1st--when engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation, always have a spotter, or no one will look at your movies the same way ever again.

I liked O-Ren, even though she was a baddun.

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite scenes was one of the shortest. The look on the diner guy's face when he sees Beatrix appear out of the dark and head toward his diner, trailing clouds of grave dust.

Agree about Lucy Liu and awesome. That whole section with GoGo and the Crazy 88. The bizarre girl band. That lovely snowy landscape.

IIRC, I think Dusk til Dawn is based on a Joe R Lansdale work. The story was stolen, but I'm not sure if Lansdale was ever able to recover anything.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I have been known to delay things such as getting a burning dinner off the stove just so I can see the freshly-dug-out Beatrix say, "May I have a glass of water, please."

The "bizarre girl band" are the 5.6.7.8's, and they're a real band that Tarantino apparently heard over a store's speakers while he was in Japan. I first heard their music in 1998 on a visit to Japan, when one of their songs was played in a dance club I went to.