There was a six-year interim between Kill Bill and Tarantino's previous film, Jackie Brown, and that six years was well worth the wait as is this BD release of Kill Bill Volume 1. 1 Tarantino has created a world all to its own, almost like a graphic novel in its look, feel and physics. Kill Bill Volume 1 is no exception and in Vol. Perhaps what gives people the impression that Quentin Tarantino's films glorify violence lies in the fact that he never makes any excuses or apologies for his violent characters - he just lets them live in the world he has created. On the contrary, Kill Bill, like all of Tarantino's films, explores the characters behind the violence what makes them act out, why they do the things they do. But, Tarantino never lets the violence become the focal point of the film. How many of us haven't been wronged and felt the need for justice in some fashion or another? Kill Bill Volume 1 is almost like a video game in that it lets one lose oneself in a fantasy of vengeance and it doesn't preach or cause you to feel guilty. Uma Thurman is more than believable as the deadly Caucasian samurai assassin out for revenge against her would-be killers and Tarantino's keen eye for cinematic language and brilliant sense of pacing means that there is always something to catch your eye and to keep you wanting more. The story is involving, with Tarantino's typically witty dialogue and the brilliant performances he coaxes out of the actors. Still, even with the obvious debts to previous genre films and the basic plot devices of revenge and violence, Kill Bill Volume 1 is more than just spectacle.
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David Carradine is most famous for his role as Kwai Chang Caine on the hit 70's television series Kung Fu and Sonny Chiba reprises his role as Hattori Hanzo, the same character he played in the early-80's Japanese television series Kage no Gundan (Shadow Warriors). The film's genre sampling even extends into its musical selections and choice of actors. For example, "Chapter Three: The Origin of O-Ren" is completed animated in the Japanese animé style or "That Really Was a Hattori Hanzo Sword" nods at Japanese samurai films. The various scenes throughout Kill Bill Volume 1 are filmed in different styles hinting at the influence of their respective genres. As she meets them, does battle, and ultimately takes them down, she crosses them off of her list.
Told in Tarantino's usual nonlinear fashion, the film is segmented into "chapters" and opens up in black and white on a scene of a bride (Uma Thurman) in a bloody wedding dress in a chapel in El Paso, Texas, as an off camera Bill (David Carradine) declares "this is me at my most masochistic" as he shoots her in the head just before she is able to finish getting out the words, "Bill, it's your baby."įrom there we are taken on a wild ride as The Bride, back from the coma that resulted from the gunshot to her head, goes on a bloody rampage of revenge against the members of what is known as The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who killed her entire wedding party, including her fiancé.
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In Kill Bill Volume 1 Tarantino took his genre sampling to a new level, piecing together bits of Hong Kong cinema, Japanese samurai movies, animé and spaghetti westerns with his typical flare for witty dialogue and pop-culture references and the result was a thoroughly engaging revenge movie displaying an imaginative use of technique. Reworking what he sees as the best aspects of the genre films he grew up admiring, Tarantino takes those elements and makes them into something wholly new and engaging without the pained worship or tongue-in-cheek approach that so many other directors suffer from. Quentin Tarantino wears his influences on his sleeve and makes no apologies.
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