![]() ![]() Fox) and O-Ren Ishii ( Lucy Liu), and in "Volume 2" will presumably kill Elle Driver ( Daryl Hannah), Budd ( Michael Madsen) and of course Bill ( David Carradine). She has wiped out Vernita Green ( Vivica A. She reverses the paralysis in her legs by "focusing." Then she vows vengeance on the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, and as "Volume 1" concludes, she is about half-finished. Is QT thinking of Emily Dickinson, who heard a fly buzz when she died? I am reminded of Manny Farber's definition of the auteur theory: "A bunch of guys standing around trying to catch someone shoving art up into the crevices of dreck." The Bride is no Emily Dickinson. She survives for years in a coma and is awakened by a mosquito's buzz. In the opening scene, Bill kills all of the other members of a bridal party, and leaves The Bride ( Uma Thurman) for dead. His story is a distillation of the universe of martial arts movies, elevated to a trancelike mastery of the material. The movie is not about anything at all except the skill and humor of its making. I love them both, but for now I'm going with Kill Bill Vol."Kill Bill, Volume 1" shows Quentin Tarantino so effortlessly and brilliantly in command of his technique that he reminds me of a virtuoso violinist racing through "Flight of the Bumble Bee" - or maybe an accordion prodigy setting a speed record for "Lady of Spain." I mean that as a sincere compliment. It catches you off balance and I think that is brilliant cinema. After watching enough Quentin Tarantino movies you begin to understand that in each scene you never know who is going to exploit an opportunity to kill somebody else. Many times when these killers confront each other it's leisurely, casual, and then BAM! somebody shoots at somebody. One thing I did enjoy throughly that I saw in both these movies is the unpredictability of each situation. Apart from that the first one was ludicrously violent, and I do believe there is a point where too much blood is liable to be counted as a mark against a film. The first one was still quite good, I don't usually like anime but I thought that anime scene was a nice touch. When Uma Thurman goes to find Bill and her daughter is there playing with fake guns, that was the most sentimental plot twist Tarantino could have possibly incorporated. To be honest I think I liked the second one better than the first. In fact, taken as one movie Kill Bill is probably my favorite Tarantino film. ![]() 2 is also completely brilliant, and I don't think I'd ever watch just one without the other. I think Tarantino has a long list of all the people he's ever thought was cool, and his entire career as a filmmaker is essentially an excuse to meet these people and cast them in movies so other people can see how cool they are. Jun Kunimura, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu, all cool. and most of Carradine's role), but everyone involved in this movie is awesome. QT is one of the few directors left that has the talent and the willingness to pull this sort of thing off, and that makes Vol. It's a throwback to my favorite period of Japanese filmmaking the late 60s into the 70s, when legitimately talented filmmakers like Seijun Suzuki, Koji Wakamatsu, Norifumi Suzuki, and Kinji Misumi decided not to spend their time making period epics and deeply metaphorical introspective dramas, but rather mad-ass exploitation movies that mixed extreme violence and softcore pornography. Plus it's all set to The 5.6.7.8.'s, how cool is that?ΔΆ. Probably the most audacious and logistically complex thing QT's ever shot. The 2 minute tracking shot in the house of blue leaves scene that follows The Bride through the whole building, turns around to follow Charlie Brown (who, oddly, is played by the dude who wrote Ichi the killer) back to the top floor, and then switches off to Sophie Fatale to go back to the bathroom where Thurman is changing suits. ![]()
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