Watching the movie �Kill Bill� was a really FUN experience. One of the biggest parts talked about a lot was the violence. I�ve read over and over how it might be one of the most violent movies out there. Well, I disagree.
Major Plot Points will be Given Away from �Kill Bill:�
It started out with The Bride all bloodied up. She was played by Uma Thurman, and Uma is just extremely cool in this movie. Her past movies have been odd, I�ve only seen �Batman and Robin,� which was a terrible movie, and she didn�t help all that much. She was in Quentin Tarantino�s (the director of �Kill Bill�) �Pulp Fiction.� She wasn�t the lead, but her character was a difficult person, she did drugs and passed out from them. She didn�t die, thanks to John Travolta�s character.
Quentin has a really different way of directing. Watching �Kill Bill,� I thought about how his way of directing could be easier. I mean, most directors film certain scenes before other scenes, they don�t usually (at least I don�t think they do) film the movie first scene to second scenes and so on. Quentin�s movies jump around so much, that you MUST watch the movie more than once. I wish I could watch �Kill Bill� again, but I might just buy it. I rented it and had to take it back before I could watch it again.
The Bride wakes up, one of her eyes is swollen shut. She talks to the man above her. The picture is in black and white at this point. The man she�s talking to, who she called �Bill,� duh, takes out a gun and shoots her in the head.
That started the movie. Now, we go through the beginning credits with a song that seemed like it was written for the movie, although I am not sure. Then, The Bride drives up in her truck, �Pussy Wagon,� and walks inside an enemy�s house. Her enemy�s are the �Deadly Python Assassination Squad,� and they are the people who beat The Bride up at her wedding, and then Bill finished her off, or thought he did.
In a pretty cool knife fight, the house of the lady (played by Vivica A. Fox) The Bride is trying to kill gets pretty banged up. If that were my house, I wouldn�t have been purposely knocking over my glass shelves onto them, but maybe I would have been dead quicker. The two women stop fighting after the daughter of the lady comes home. This part was hilarious. The daughter enters the house, and the women hide their knives. The child goes to her room, while the women talk about the wedding. The lady says that she is sorry and wishes she could go back and change what she did to the Bride.
The Bride was pregnant on her wedding day, and the baby was killed, along with everybody at the ceremony. So The Bride says that she�s not out to get even. �Getting even would mean killing you, going up to your childs� room, killing her, waiting for your husband to get home, and killing him.� When the lady goes back to the pantry to get cereal, she hides a gun in the box, but when she fires it at The Bride, she misses, and The Bride sends a knife straight into the lady�s chest, and that kills her. When The Bride turns around, the child is standing there. I wish Quentin didn�t add that part in, because that�s sick.
The scene totally changes to show two western policemen looking over the crime scene, seeing bloody bodies everywhere. One of the cops talk about how beautiful the Bride is and say that it was a shame that this happened. Then, she coughed up blood. She had been put into a coma. Four years later, a member of the assassination squad comes to the hospital where The Bride is at to inject her with poison and kill her. This member, played by Daryl Hannah, comes coolly into the scene, whistling. Her whistling gets added with music in a short while and shows her getting the poison. When she enters the hospital room, she gets a phone call from Bill telling her not to kill The Bride.
The Bride wakes up from her coma, bashes a guy�s head in the door to her room and gets out, except she has to use a wheel chair because her legs aren�t working well yet. When she woke up, she felt the metal plate in her head, and felt her stomach. She had no baby, and she remembered that Bill shot her. She takes the keys she stole from the male nurse and takes his truck, which has �Pussy Wagon� spray painted to the back of it. She gets in the bask seat, and tries to mentally make herself able to move her legs. �Wiggle your big toe,� she repeats over and over again. Now she thinks about the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, and about all the people she has to kill. She even makes a deathlist later in the movie. Number one, a Chinese-japanese-american lady, played by Lucy Lui. In a really cool and interesting Anime-looking cartoon, she explains who Lucy Lui is.
Lucy Lui�s character watched her father die, and then killed the man who killed him, and became the greatest known assassin ever. That was what happened in the cartoon. The cartoon was extremely bloody, the director must have liked the idea of blood spraying all over the place. That�s what made it violent.
�Wiggle your big toe,� she says, and it wiggles. She gets out of the back seat, and into the front and gets on a plane to Japan. She meets a couple of funny Japanese men, one of which is talked into making her a sword so she can kill Lucy Lui�s character. Then she flies to Hong Kong after that fifteen minute scene that included beautiful music that was the theme of �Kill Bill.�
Lucy Lui is introduced (again, but not in cartoon this time) and The Bride rides her motorcycle wearing yellow clothes with two black stripes down both of her sides. She coolly walks into the big house where there is a dance party going on and goes into a back room to get ready. The camera shot here went all over the place, up and down and it turned to see where she went into this room, and it circled around back into the main room, showed the band who was playing, who was a real band in Hong Kong, called the �5, 6, 7, 8�s.� That shot must have lasted about 3 minutes, and it was so cool! The Bride meets some lady in this back room, and holds her hostage to meet Lucy Lui. Whenever The Bride sees a member of the Assassination Squad, sirens go off, and the camera does close ups of The Bride, and her enemy.
She walks this person to the main room, yells for Lucy Lui to come out, and then slices her arm off. Then all of the people in the dance room run out screaming. This lady lives, but doesn�t have an arm now. About 6 Japanese men with masks covering their eyes only jump out to kill The Bride. Her sword techniques are far more advanced than these guys though. She easily kills them. A teenage guard of Lucy Lui must kill The Bride now. Awesome sound effects are used to hear the ball and chain swing around the teen�s arm. It sounds like a ball swinging, of course, but its louder.
The Bride manages to kill this girl, but after getting hit a couple of times herself. Now, she can finally go after Lucy Lui, but then she hears motorcycles all over the place. Again, cool sound effects.
�You didn�t think it was going to be that easy, did you?� Lucy�s character asks.
It seems like a hundred of Japanese men with masks come in now. She cuts their limbs off, and this scene ends in an amazing shot of the house, with bodies screaming all over the place. That was the most violent shot. The action is so amazing though. It�s a lot of fun to watch. The camera really gets in the action, with many close ups. The picture goes black and white for most of this scene though. I guess that added to the kung-foo movie type.
The set outside is really cool, for the fight with The Bride and Lucy�s character. It�s snowing, and it�s in a Japanese garden, and the setting itself is fun to see. The fight doesn�t last too long, although both girls get cut. Lucy dies in the end, I�m sure you could have guessed that.
Then The Bride sends the lady with her one arm cut off to warn Bill that she�s coming. Michael Madson appears in this movie. He�s one of the Assassination Squad people. He says �That lady deserves her revenge. We deserve to die.� That pretty much ended Volume 1.
Awesome movie. Quentin Tarantino uses SO much style! The right music used with the right slow motion looks really cool. I believe that there was some techno used in the movie, and it sounded really awesome. When I watched the movie, every time a song played, I laughed because it was so cool. When Daryl Hannah was walking through the hospital, she whistled, and her tune was even awesome. It made me feel like she was Hannibal Lecter, whistling before he killed somebody. When music was added to that part, it felt as if it were from an old TV show or something. I don�t know if most of the music was from old songs or something, but I really want the CD. It is the coolest music in a movie I have heard if it was really by a guy who created it. The music was definitely my favorite part. It made the movie fun! Now, if you have seen �Pulp Fiction,� then you must have heard, and must recognize the song in the beginning, and that just goes to show Quentin�s style. �Pulp Fiction� had its own little trademarks. Like the suitcase, John Travolta opens the suitcase, and a gold glow comes from it. What is it? Is it drugs? Guns? An Oscar? Gold itself? We don�t know, and that�s why it�s so cool.
Quentin Tarantino wrote �True Romance,� which talked about a lot of cool music, like Elvis. Music in movies really makes the movie good. If �Indiana Jones� had piano music the whole time, you would not want to watch it over and over again, understand?
Movies that stick out in my mind, like �Session 9,� are movies that have bad music. You actually don�t see that many. I like instrumental music the best. Unfortunately, if you don�t have the perfect script, your music might not do any difference. Now, I don�t think many people liked �Planet of the Apes,� although it had a legendary director, and the best music ever. I had listened to the music in a music store once, and that�s why I had to rent the movie. I can listen to the music any time I want now, since I own it.
Movies that have a lot to do with music are the James Bond movies. They have music videos in the beginnings, and thanks to DVD, some people can skip right over those, since some people may not like the music videos, the songs. Pierce Brosnan�s movies have the best songs. Now �Live and Let Die� has an awesome song. I think I would watch that movie, just to listen to that song.
Music adds to the style.
�Kill Bill� was mainly Japanese, the style was kung-foo. This is because most of the movie was based on killing Lucy Lui�s character. It showed Vivica A. Fox die, of course, but that was just another violent scene that showed how dangerous Uma Thurman, the Bride was. The movie had awesome directing, of course. Quentin has invented so many trademarks in his movies. There are chapters in his movies. �Pulp Fiction� and �Reservoir Dogs� used the chapter titles as introducing characters. �True Romance� didn�t have chapter titles, because Quentin didn�t direct the movie. That movie was normal, scene by scene. Quentin�s directing is definitely noticeable. Quentin used Anime cartoon in �Kill Bill,� which I actually liked. That was interesting.
�Memento� has really interesting directing, but director Christopher Nolen only used this technique in his one movie. If he used it in �Insomnia,� people would have enjoyed it ten times more. That movie would have needed a lot more writing on it. And if Christopher Nolen used that kind of directing style on his next flick, the new �Batman,� then audiences probably would not like it. Audiences who like simple action movies like �Batman� would be confused and they would go crazy.
So, �Kill Bill� leaves us with Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, and of course, Bill, played by David Carradine. David is an old action star, and I think he did kung-foo movies, although he looks like he�d be the coolest western action hero in the world. I can�t wait to see the next one, but I think I might have to wait for it to come out on DVD.
�Kill Bill� was an awesome movie. I couldn�t figure out a theme to it. It was a revenge thriller, but didn�t seem like a movie that needed to be made. But it was funny, it was pretty action packed, and tons of fun. Plus, there aren�t many movies out there that needed to be made. It had awesome camera movements, it had lots of style, and the music was too awesome. If you don�t like it, then I�d stick with your normal love stories.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: �I�m the man.� � Bill says to The Bride, when she asks him �How did you find me?� In the first movie, we don�t know why Bill wanted to kill her. Maybe I missed that part.
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