![]() ![]() The Bride travels to Japan to get a sword from the mythic sword-smith Hattori Hanzo, who comes out of retirement to make a sword specially for killing Bill. The Bride eventually awakens, and after recuperating, decides that she’s going to kill the other members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, culminating in the death of the mastermind Bill. The movie reveals that the mysterious Bill knows that the Bride is alive, but says that she should be left alone in her coma. From there, the movie hops back in time, and shows the Bride’s time she spent in a coma after almost being killed. The two brawl in Green’s home, pausing briefly when Green’s daughter comes home, but in the end, the Bride gets her revenge on Green, and leaves her dead in her home. Volume 1 starts right way with the Bride going to kill the number 4 spot on her list, Vernita Green (played by Vivica A. And Volume 2 is the beginning and end of the story, explaining the background of the Bride, and how her mission ends up. You see the Bride awaken from her coma, and go after the first two names on her list. Volume 1 is really the middle of the story. I actually really like the way that the volumes are split up. As usual, Tarantino breaks the movie up into several, out of order segments that slowly unravels the plot instead of just going from point A to point B. At times it can be slow paced and realistic, and others frenetic and seemingly operating on cartoon logic. The movie is so over the top, so ridiculous in its action and acting that you can’t help but get drawn in. It’s the execution of this movie that really gets it a spot on this list. Uma Thurman plays the Bride, a mysterious woman who was almost murdered right before her wedding by the group of assassins she used to work for, and goes after revenge. The plot of this movie isn’t really all that complicated. That doesn’t seem like it should be good, but somehow it is. This film becomes like a mixture of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Yojimbo, Nikita, and I Spit on your Grave. Any one of these genres would be amazing for Tarantino to try and tackle, but somehow he pulls of blending these genres into one fantastic movie. Kill Bill essentially amounts to a combination of spaghetti westerns, samurai movies, assassin movies, and women revenge movies. ![]() This movie is probably Tarantino’s most ambitious attempt at combining genres yet. ![]() Reservoir Dogs is a heist movie without the heist, Pulp Fiction is a gangster movie full of philosophizing poetic gangsters, Jackie Brown is essentially just a throwback to old blaxsploitation movies, Death Proof is an exploitation/slasher movie done with cars, and Inglorious Basterds is the weirdest WWII movie I’ve ever seen. ![]() He makes movies that usually fit into a genre, just with a weird twist. Tarantino has a knack for taking several different genres of movies, and seeing what would happen if you combine them. I’ve heard Tarantino described as a DJ of cinema, and I really think that’s a very fitting description. His writing, especially dialogue, is fantastic, as are his casting choices, music selection, cinematography, and really just everything about his films is top notch. You get the feeling that Tarantino has seen every movie ever made, and his own films become a kind of summation of film as a whole. Quentin Tarantino is one of my favorite directors, mainly because, similarly to the Coen brothers, Tarantino seems to be one of the biggest film geeks in the world. ![]()
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