#References in kill bill volume 1 movie#
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O-REN WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT TO GET BEHEADED.

Tarantino apologized publicly, and she’s since forgiven him. The production knew the car was unsafe and required a stunt professional, but Thurman eventually relented, crashed the car into a tree, and injured her back and knees. It only came out recently that Tarantino coerced Thurman into driving a rickety blue Karmann Ghia for a pivotal scene that he demanded be done without green screen or CGI. THURMAN GOT SERIOUSLY INJURED DOING A CAR STUNT. He and Thurman also first crafted The Bride after talking about Coffy on the set of Pulp Fiction. That blend also captures the exact balance of the genres Tarantino celebrated in the script. Those three movies were: John Woo’s The Killer Jack Hill's Coffy, starring future Jackie Brown star Pam Grier and Sergio Leone's timeless western A Fistful of Dollars.

TARANTINO ASKED THURMAN TO WATCH THREE MOVIES TO PREPARE. “You can’t pour this raspberry pancake syrup on a sword and have it look good,” he said. He was also particular about the blood recipe. Just like many Chinese action flicks of the 1970s, Tarantino and company used fake-blood-filled condoms to create the bursts of blood you see on screen. Not to mention the shared love of perfection, craftsmanship, and knives. Okinawa has a reputation in Japan for not having great sushi (they love pork, though) so it’s suggested in the film that an Okinawan sushi bar is the perfect place for Hanzo to hide from his old life. Hattori Hanzo leaving his life as a swordsmith behind and opening up a sushi bar specifically in Okinawa is a bit of an inside joke. THERE’S A REASON HANZO SET UP SHOP IN OKINAWA. I’m pretty sure the people most excited about fictional bloodshed got the message. 1’s advertisements make it look like The Bride was stabbing a barrel of motor oil with a samurai sword and got some on her jumpsuit. THERE’S NO BLOOD IN THE TRAILER.Īs the bastion of general audience innocence, the MPAA won’t allow “blood or open wounds” in green band trailers, so Kill Bill: Vol. To avoid an NC-17 rating, and to avoid cutting out any of the over-the-top violence of the scene, he shot it in black and white. Those movies were broadcast in black and white to get around the censors, and that’s exactly what Tarantino did, too.

#References in kill bill volume 1 tv#

The film shifts from color to black and white when The Bride battles the Yakuza in the House of Blue Leaves, which is a nod toward kung fu movies shown on TV in the 1970s, but it wasn’t just an artistic choice. USING BLACK AND WHITE FOR THE CRAZY 88 FIGHT WAS A PRACTICAL HOMAGE. But it’s also my Josef Von Sternberg movie, and if Josef Von Sternberg is getting ready to make Morocco and Marlene Dietrich gets pregnant, he waits for Dietrich!” 6.

#References in kill bill volume 1 movie#

“Yes, this is my samurai movie yes, this is my badass chick movie yes, this is my spaghetti western and my comic book movie. “She got pregnant, and I was like, 'Okay, do I wait or do I not?' But I can honestly tell you that I didn’t have a choice,” Tarantino told the BBC. Then, Thurman got pregnant, so the long-gestating idea got put on hold again. Tarantino and Thurman conceived of The Bride together while shooting Pulp Fiction, so there was only ever one actress to play the role. QUENTIN TARANTINO PUT THE MOVIE ON HOLD WHEN UMA THURMAN GOT PREGNANT. Tarantino also copied a short headlock sequence from Game of Death during The Bride’s fight with Vernita Green (Vivica A. THE BRIDE’S YELLOW JUMPSUIT IS AN HOMAGE TO BRUCE LEE.Īs a nice sartorial tribute, The Bride wears a killer outfit meant to mimic the iconic ensemble Bruce Lee wore in Game of Death.

#References in kill bill volume 1 code#

Thurman’s character goes by a series of code names throughout the first installment, and her real name is bleeped to keep us from knowing it, but it’s printed clearly on her plane ticket to Tokyo (and Bill calls her “Kiddo,” which turns out not to be a nickname). If you look fast or pause the movie, you don't need to wait until the movie's second installment to learn The Bride's name. THE BRIDE’S NAME IS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. Turns out The Bride didn’t need to last that long. If you haven’t, you might not last five minutes.” Four minutes and 59 seconds after O-Ren steps forward to start the fight, she gets part of her head cut off. O-REN ISHII’S GENERIC THREAT CAME TRUE.īefore O-Ren Ishii fights The Bride, she mocks her in Japanese by saying, “Hope you’ve saved your energy. They didn’t fake it-though it was Thurman’s stunt double, Zoë Bell, who actually did it. During the scene where The Bride gets the sword from Hattori Hanzo, he throws a baseball at her which she cuts in two.