Not exactly, the combined movie was meant to contain the colored version of the fight against the Crazy 88. The black & white filter was used to avoid an R-rating in the theatrical release.
The scenes were filmed and supposed to be shown in color. Black and white today doesn't really reduce costs, at least if it has to look good. It's not like back in the past when color film was more expensive. From my understanding, Tarantino decided to remove the color from a large part of the scene to avoid an R-rating and in some versions (like the Japanese if I remember correctly) it was colored. In an interview, he stated he would use the colored version when releasing the single movie cut.
I think it is quite funny, that she didn't use her leg for years and had to learn how to walk, but she had no problem to beat the c*!# out of this guy with her arms she had not used for years as well.
Fun fact: Michael Madsons hat infuriated Tarantino for some reason, he repeatedly asked him not to wear it yet Madson refused and so he wrote it into the script that he had to take it off. He spoke about this in an Opie and Anthony interveiw years ago.
Bill made her think that her daughter was dead - to teach her a lesson. He said "making someone think that someone they love is dead is very cruel." That's what Beatrix did to Bill originally.
They went a little fast through some of the ending. That was a great Bill line. Also I always like the SECOND time the Bride asks Esteban "where's Bill?" and also his "How else is he going to see you again?"
Bill is probably the best villain in cinema. He is smart, strong and understandable. He is also not a true villain in the sense that objectively speaking the story does not have a hero. Both Bill and Beatrix are horrible people who are murderers. We only root for Beatrix because the story is set up that way. P.S. Can we give a shot out to Budd who becomes my favorite character the more I re-watch these movies.
Paula Schultz -- the grave that the Bride was buried in -- was the widow of Dr. King Schultz... as in Christoph Waltz's character in "Django Unchained".
The scene where Beatrix spits at the investigator to let him know she's alive, is reminiscent of the true story of Roy Benavidez. Roy was a Green Beret in Vietnam, and was so grievously injured in a rescue mission/hours-long firefight, that when he was brought back to his fire base, he was pronounced dead by the medics. He was being zipped into a body bag, when he spit at the doctor. After a long period of recovery, during which his doctors told him he would never walk again, he returned to his unit, and continued so serve as a Green Beret. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Fun fact Gordon Lau played three characters in Kill Bill vol 1. He was the leader of the Crazy 88, the assistant in the Japanese tea house, and Master Pei Mai
58:00 The young actress playing B.B. is still acting. She was in "Steve Jobs" as Steve Jobs's daughter, and she was also one of the Spahn Ranch girls in Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
I love how excited George gets when we first see Pai Mei (and so cool that he tells us what that name means. I've seen this many times and I didn't know). I know how i feel when a character in a film I'm watching is from Milwaukee, and they speak English lol mostly...
Y'all didn't notice. The airplane seat armrests had receptacles for swords, just as the motorcycle seats do. It's an alternate universe where swords are common.
If you guys haven't seen From Dusk Till Dawn, I highly recommend it. Written by Tarantino, directed by Robert Rodriguez. Effects by Tom Savini, who also has a small character in it, but a very memorable one. Also, I looked up the actress who played BB. She also played Sandman's daughter in Spider-Man 3 and Tarantino cast her in a small part in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The first hour of that film is the most intense shit I've ever seen. First movie I ever saw. Like, ever. I was between 2-3 when I saw it and it stuck with me. Wanted to make movies ever since. And the Salma scenes ensured my heterosexuality lmao
I watched that film late at night once on TV with no context you can imagine my surprise when it turned half way through into entirely different movie. Most genuine wtf moment I've had watching a movie lol
I think Dusk til Dawn is the final chapter in the Tarantino verse in chronological order as it finally has the demise of Sheriff Earl McGraw who also recently survived a zombie apocalypse in Planet Terror
I just wanted to say that Quentin does make these films for us. The nobodies like you said at the end. He would totally appreciate our approval as fans. Why do they go on set? “Because we love making movies” is what they say on set all the time.
I think it's supposed to be the interpretation of a guy who grew up reading a little of the comics but not much. Because yeah an actual Superman fan would know Superman is the most humble person ever who would never look down upon humanity. Tarantino seems to know that, he just made Bill a character who doesn't know as much about comics as the writer does.@@ramiabdo5953
I think Tarantino put the anime scene into his movie as the origin story because he respects anime and manga are part of Japanese culture and Oren Ishi is a Japanese character.
@@Crystalsforfun Although you're not wrong, I doubt that was his primary motivation. Given how many homages and how much style he infused into these two movies, the anime sequence feels right at home. My guess is that he knew he wanted an anime scene of some sort and used that creative flexibility to convey a scene he couldn't otherwise. Tarantino was at the top of his game with Kill Bill. Amazing movies.
Pai Mei teaches NO ONE the 5 point etc etc technique; but he teaches it to Beatrix and she used it to kill Bill; Vihaio considered Bill a son, but he betrayed Bill's whereabouts, and she found Bill and killed him; Hanzo swore an oath never to make another sword, but he broke it for Beatrix so she could kill Bill. Bill's father figures don't seem to be very pleased with how Bill turned out!
I loved how happy George was through the whole Pai Mei (sorry for spelling it wrong if I did) training section! I would love a chance to sit and chat with you about your upbringing George! Love ya guys! Keep on doin this content! It's a blast!
"Like some mystical revenge...granted your body back to get revenge" - check out Brandon Lee in 'The Crow' "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids" I always assumed this was meant to show the characters were once close friends and had those common interactions where they'd finish each other sentences they knew each other so well.
I think you're on the right track. I thought it might've been a little in-joke the Viper group used to say quoting the old cereal slogan to playfully taunt Beatrix back in better days, and its one of the few hints in Vol 1 what the Bride's name is.
welp kill bill is heavily based on the classic japanese revenge epic: lady snowblood in which it is the vengeful spirit reborn in the mistreated womans child that is going on the killing spree. tarantino even used a bunch of soundtracks from that movie for kill bill
That scene of her walking up to the diner and sitting down with dust flying off her after the burial and trying to look all casual and normal is hilarious.
I watched each separate reaction, and yet, here I am, watching your long reaction on a Sunday night, unable to look away until it's done. Damn you both! 🤣
While Kill Bill Vol. 1 was filming, Uma Thurman had her baby daughter with her. The costume ladies from Hong Kong (?) made her baby a matching yellow jumpsuit.
You guys are lucky. I remember watching this in theatre and the ending of the most movie was such a cliffhanger. Having to wait an entire year for the sequel was infuriating lol.
QT originally wanted it released all at once and Mirimax made him split all those minutes into 2 movies, I heard. I thought the cliffhanger twist was so good it workes better in 2 parts, myself :)
You probably have already researched this but, -Kill Bill, and the backstory of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, are based on Fox Force Five from Pulp Fiction. Fox Force Five was itself a reference to Charlie's Angels, and behind the scenes Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman came up with an idea of, "What if one of the Angels/Foxes left the team, but 'Charlie' wouldn't let that happen and kills everyone at the wedding, so she goes on a revenge spree?" -Quentin Tarantino said in the Volume 2 commentary that he went out of his way for The Bride to have a happy ending. Most likely, the pregnancy and daughter story element was introduced to the story for that purpose. But it also makes The Bride's motivations more justifiable, because they are more selfless--she left the Squad for the same daughter that she seeks to avenge. -Since Tarantino apparently intended an unhappy end for The Bride, the character arc of Shoshanna Dreyfus is most likely Tarantino's recycle of his original idea for The Bride's fate, prior to screenwriting.
Classic movies and a great reaction. Love the double-feature format on these, they really do require it (even though we had to wait back in the day). Also, George's apparently significant background knowledge of Martial Arts Film History as well as Chinese dialects really added to the experience (since the knowledge I hold on these subjects is pretty much squat). 😉👍 And one last time, for Quentin...🦶👣🦶🐾
It was more than just a relationship thing... more than that she quit. Remember he's angry also that she pretended at first that she was dead, plus she didn't tell him that he was going to be a father. I think that last part is key. That's why he chose to raise the child because he really wanted a daughter and felt like Beatrix was stealing her from him.
It’s also he’s a sick maniac. His mentor was that old violent pimp. He in a sense is a pimp too and a violent ex. He’s evil in a multitude of ways. Like he OWNS her.
@@bigmikem1578 I don't think it's nearly that simple. The thing that's so often forgotten is that the squad are all actually evil in their own ways, even Beatrix. That's the point of Bill's interrogation. We root for her because she's the protagonist (and rightly so), but the system of morality they all follow is fundamentally different from ours. When Budd delivers his line that "We deserve to die... but then again, so does she", I've seen a fairly shocking number of reactors ask themselves, "Why? What'd she do?" It's simple: she, just like the others, _was a contract murderer._ Theirs is a world where they consider death a righteous punishment for betrayal, and Bill's morality in that regard isn't substantively different from Beatrix's.
Interestingly, the names of the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad" Members fit perfectly with the character of each. The "Cottonmouth" (AKA Water Moccasin), hides in the trees dropping on it's prey unaware and striking; a perfect description of the sneaky assassin O'Ren Ishii. The "Copperhead" tends to only attack when threatened like we saw Vernita Green do in her kitchen with the gun in the box of cereal Budd, or "Sidewinder" lures our heroine into a false sense of security, much like the sidewinder snake uses it's tail to lure prey within striking range. California Mountain Snake (or Kingsnake) is a harmless, non-venomous snake that mimics the coral snake in appearance. It's was an interesting choice for the vindictive Ellie Driver, but perhaps she was the least of the squad and was given that name because she is all bravado, but no venom. Obviously, the "Black Mamba" is one of the deadliest snakes in the world, known for being a fearless and relentless predator.
The Sidewinder Rattlesnake doesn't lure prey with it's tail. That loud rattle is meant to warn and ward off all predators. California Kingsnakes do not resemble Coral snakes at all. (I had one.) You're right that they are non-venemous, and quite friendly (unlike Elle Driver).
@@Deathbird_Mitch I said that the Kingsnake Mimic's the colors of the Coral Snake, not resembles. It is an evolutionary feature to keep other predators from attacking it. Juveniles sidewinders use their tails to attract lizard prey, a behavior termed "caudal luring". Adults lose this behavior as they make the transition from lizard prey to their primary diet of desert rodents.
I think you are right on, except about Elle. The Kingsnake feeds on other snakes, mainly poisonous ones, so possibly she took out other assassins, and that's why he sent her to kill Black Mamba and why she killed Budd. Just a thought.
Hanzo is played by Sonny Chiba a Japanese action film legend. China also mentored Hiroyuki Sanasa who has appeared in multiple American films like Mortal Kombat, the Last samurai and recently John Sick 4
Tarantino films are just so unique and I'm so happy they exist. In a time right now where most 'mainstream' movies don't have a lot of style, you can count on him to make some of the most interesting and beautiful films to exist in modern cinema. It's a breath of fresh air compared to 90% of movies that were being made from 2000-2020.
This is perfect, I had already watched both of your videos for this film but I was considering going back and rewatching them for fun. But now I can watch both videos together in one video! I really enjoy your Godfather reactions and rewatch them on occasion so I would certainly welcome the Godfather films getting the Omnibus treatment! 😁
@@garytiptin6479 ya know, maybe... I'm gonna be honest I haven't seen GF3 in probably 20 years and I've never seen GF:Coda so I really need to watch that, but I don't think I would mind a GF Omnibus, original 3 or with Coda.
I love the soundtrack. What you call “the Kill Bill music” is actually Quincy Jones’ theme from the ‘60s Raymond Burr TV series “Ironside.” He also famously uses another ‘60s TV theme, Al Hirt’s fantastic “The Green Hornet.”
Using the assistant for info. on the current whereabouts of the remaining three vipers makes sense, but there's also geographical convenience: she had to go to Japan for the sword.
That is a metal plate on the side of her forehead and temple. Yes, she could tell it was 4 years from reading her hand lines. And she killed the guy who paid to rape the bride had his lower lip or tongue bitten til he bled to death. The movie you were thinking of in relations to Sophie becoming paraplegic is Boxing Helena with Sherilyn Fenn.
I havent searched the comments. But the actor of Pai Mai is the same guy which played the main role in "The 36 chambers of Shaolin". Of course he was WAYYYYYY younger then :)
I find it very satisfying to hear Simone make the exact same little oohs and aahs in the showdown, as Patricia Arquette's Alabama does in the beginning of True Romance, while watching a Sonny Chiba (Hattori Hanzo) movie. 😎
I saw this when it came out in theaters and the scene where she is getting buried alive was SO MUCH MORE INTENSE than it is watching it even with headphones. It was creepy!
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Watching this movies back to back is just a whole bloody affair!
"The Cruel Tutelage of Pai Mei" is definitely one of the BEST flashbacks in any movie ever!!! PAI MEI: Let's see how good you really are. Try and land a blow. If you land a single blow, I'll bow down and call you master.
i consider kill bill to be my perfect 10/10 favorite movie, and i didn’t know that. i’ll give you another one, did you know that johnny mo of the crazy 88 and pai mei are both played by gordon liu?
I still can't believe Michael Parks actually was a last-minute fill-in for the role. He's on screen as Esteban Vihaio for all of maybe five minutes and it's one of the most captivating performances I've seen in my entire life.
Interesting to know that during this time Disney owned Miramax (and the Weinsteins left claiming Disney was bullying them--how ironic--taking Dimension with them and creating The Weinstein Company.) So technically Disney still owns Miramax films made during Disney's ownership (along with Dimension films -like the Scream series and The Crow-- before the Weinsteins took Dimension when they left. Which makes Kill Bill 1 &2 and Pulp Fiction Disney films.
25:38 the movie goes black & white after the eyeball rip because it would have gotten an NC-17 rating if they'd shown all the blood. Apparently it stays in color the whole time in versions released outside North America
Tarantino did an amazing job with this series. I also like his movie The Hateful Eight. Another great movie. You both did a great job showing AND covering up for the lack of music. LOL. Great Post. Thank you both for sharing it with us.
Apols if mentioned before but there's a couple of references that weren't included - Bill playing the flute recalls the Silent Flute/Circle of Iron which was intended to be a Bruce Lee movie, but David Carradine finished in 1978. And Elle Driver's thrashing on the floor after losing her eye recalls Daryl Hannah's death as Pris in Blade Runner.
About the encounter of Bill and [Blipped] in the church, I have two "theories": 1- He went full "italian guy" and used the "they come as friends and you'll never see it coming". 2- Or.. He somehow kinda gave her an opportunity to come back to him.
OMG!!! I love you guys. I am just now discovering this channel and instantly subscribed after watching only one of yalls videos (this one) You two are amazingly funny and are the perfect comedic match. ohh, I wonder of Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah's character) is still screaming and trashing around on Budd's bathroom floor or did the Black Mamba bite her already ..lol.
This has been a fun first watch and a nice way to enter your world of TH-cam.. Touching on the Tarantinoverse for a minute, Quentin liked to meld worlds together in a way. Sonny Chiba (Hatori Hanzo) was one of the big Japanese action stars of the 1970 and the connection for him in a way was True Romance. Tarantino wrote the screenplay for True Romance as well and sold it so he could make Res Dogs in 92. There was a scene in the film when Clarence (Christian Slater) is watching a triple feature on his birthday those films were The Street Fighter, Return of the Street Fighter, and Sister Street Fighter all 3 films starred Sonny Chiba. With most of Tarantino's influences he had a habit of getting those actors that he loved and admired as well as from the film genre's he admired for his own work. Pam Grier is another good example of this as Tarantino was a big fan of the Blackploitation genre of the 70's. Grier was in Tarantino's 3rd film Jackie Brown. Sonny Chiba passed away in 2021. Both Romance and Jackie Brown are worth a watch.
Yea that kinda always stuck out to me. The way I rationalized it is that she most likely had some of her innocence stolen from Bill. Who knows what kind of stuff he was teaching her. Hell, he could've told her that one day mommy is coming home to kill daddy so she wouldn't be so blindsided.
Considering bill had her watching fighting films/shows early on I think it was somewhat alluding to bill indoctrinating her young. By that point I wouldn’t b surprised if she saw someone die b4
She seems noticeably desensitized to death in general. Seems like Bill was, intentionally or not, exposing her to the world Beatrix was trying to spare her from. In this way Beatrix was right, BB would never have a normal life if Bill was her father. Like Bill said, Beatrix is wise beyond her years.
Back in the 80's every Saturday afternoon was Kung Fu cinema on one of the channels. I never missed it. It's when I was introduced to martial artist movies starring Gordon Liu, Jackie Chan, and more. They were so young back then. I was also surprised when I saw Sonny Chiba in Kill Bill. It brought back a lot of memories of the old martial movies of 70's & 80's. Lastly, the movie the little girl mentions to her mother(Uma Thurman) at the end,.."Shogun Assassin" is a 1980 movie. I remember it well. Good movie and bloody too. 👍
The little girl in this ended up playing the hippie girl that sold Cliff the acid dipped cigarette in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Not sure if she's done anything else.
25:50 Tarantino is a big fan of Takashi Miike, the director of ichi the killer, and also make an appearance in Sukiyaki Western Django, still from Miike. Basicly it'a remake of For A Few Dollars More with japanesse cowboys and katanas :p I love that movie !
29:39 the practical effects throughout were great. many to be over the top, but i think the effect on Lucy's had just didn't look right. obviously, going practical in a scalping means you've got to add material in order to take material away. building up her scalp in order to be scalped would make her head larger than normal, but in this case it didn't look right. and no I could not do better. (you know who you are when you were gonna leave that comment.) mainly because I'm an hvac design technician and can't do Hollywood level makeup.
Having been in two separate comas, I can assure you that just two weeks on a feeding tube is enough to take your working legs from you. And to be clear, just 13 hours to get back on your feet is nearly impossible. Will is def Kiddo's highest stat..
The japanese mob boss is missing a patch in his hair because he survived a katana hit, probably blocked unsuccessfully, and it buried in his skull a bit.
Nice Ralph Wiggum reference in the beginning! You choo-choo-choose the best jokes! Also, the "P" Wagon is referred to as the *Party* Wagon on TV edits, complete with an exclusive-for-TV designed logo. The word party also replaces what Buck actually does when "he's here." It's not the greatest lipover, but it is dubbed by the original actors.
When you combine the two Volumes, it officially becomes Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
Yeah
Not exactly, the combined movie was meant to contain the colored version of the fight against the Crazy 88. The black & white filter was used to avoid an R-rating in the theatrical release.
@@HrWischand it was also a way to cut the costs of the movie down alot and I think it's a epic way to use special effects on the cheap
The scenes were filmed and supposed to be shown in color. Black and white today doesn't really reduce costs, at least if it has to look good. It's not like back in the past when color film was more expensive. From my understanding, Tarantino decided to remove the color from a large part of the scene to avoid an R-rating and in some versions (like the Japanese if I remember correctly) it was colored. In an interview, he stated he would use the colored version when releasing the single movie cut.
@@HrWischIt was to avoid an NC-17 not an R rating. It is rated R, pretty much everywhere.
The sunglasses weren't a disguise. The sunglasses were because the lights hurt her eyes. She hasn't used them in years.
I think it is quite funny, that she didn't use her leg for years and had to learn how to walk, but she had no problem to beat the c*!# out of this guy with her arms she had not used for years as well.
Fun fact: Michael Madsons hat infuriated Tarantino for some reason, he repeatedly asked him not to wear it yet Madson refused and so he wrote it into the script that he had to take it off. He spoke about this in an Opie and Anthony interveiw years ago.
the hat is badass and looks great honestly lol
Bill made her think that her daughter was dead - to teach her a lesson. He said "making someone think that someone they love is dead is very cruel." That's what Beatrix did to Bill originally.
It's not like he had a chance to tell her.
They went a little fast through some of the ending. That was a great Bill line.
Also I always like the SECOND time the Bride asks Esteban "where's Bill?" and also his "How else is he going to see you again?"
Bill is probably the best villain in cinema. He is smart, strong and understandable. He is also not a true villain in the sense that objectively speaking the story does not have a hero. Both Bill and Beatrix are horrible people who are murderers. We only root for Beatrix because the story is set up that way.
P.S. Can we give a shot out to Budd who becomes my favorite character the more I re-watch these movies.
Paula Schultz -- the grave that the Bride was buried in -- was the widow of Dr. King Schultz... as in Christoph Waltz's character in "Django Unchained".
David Carradine (Bill) starred in a TV series, "Kung Fu", as a martial arts phenom long before this movie was made.
"We better get to see her use the sword."
Me: Oh, you have no idea. 😎😎😎
The scene where Beatrix spits at the investigator to let him know she's alive, is reminiscent of the true story of Roy Benavidez. Roy was a Green Beret in Vietnam, and was so grievously injured in a rescue mission/hours-long firefight, that when he was brought back to his fire base, he was pronounced dead by the medics. He was being zipped into a body bag, when he spit at the doctor. After a long period of recovery, during which his doctors told him he would never walk again, he returned to his unit, and continued so serve as a Green Beret. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Wow thanks for such an interesting fact
I just saw The Fat Electrician uploaded a video about him.
Fun fact Gordon Lau played three characters in Kill Bill vol 1. He was the leader of the Crazy 88, the assistant in the Japanese tea house, and Master Pei Mai
The bald guy running the sushi bar is played by a different actor. You ARE right about Johnny Mo and Pai Mei, though. 2 out of 3 ain't bad!
So happy you recognised the Clan of the White Lotus reference and the significance of Gordon Liu in the scene! My favorite wuxia homage ever!
I laughed so hard when Simone asked if there were going to be 88 of O'Ren's gang. That entire conversation with Budd is so perfect.
58:00 The young actress playing B.B. is still acting. She was in "Steve Jobs" as Steve Jobs's daughter, and she was also one of the Spahn Ranch girls in Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
1:28 I used to think that revenge is a dish best served cold, but then I realized it meant getting back at somebody.
(RIP Norm Macdonald)
I love how excited George gets when we first see Pai Mei (and so cool that he tells us what that name means. I've seen this many times and I didn't know). I know how i feel when a character in a film I'm watching is from Milwaukee, and they speak English lol mostly...
I'll gladly sit through these again with you two.
Elle Driver's writhing and screaming on the ground is homage to her character Pris in Blade Runner (1982).
Y'all didn't notice. The airplane seat armrests had receptacles for swords, just as the motorcycle seats do.
It's an alternate universe where swords are common.
If you guys haven't seen From Dusk Till Dawn, I highly recommend it. Written by Tarantino, directed by Robert Rodriguez. Effects by Tom Savini, who also has a small character in it, but a very memorable one.
Also, I looked up the actress who played BB. She also played Sandman's daughter in Spider-Man 3 and Tarantino cast her in a small part in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The first hour of that film is the most intense shit I've ever seen. First movie I ever saw. Like, ever. I was between 2-3 when I saw it and it stuck with me. Wanted to make movies ever since. And the Salma scenes ensured my heterosexuality lmao
I watched that film late at night once on TV with no context you can imagine my surprise when it turned half way through into entirely different movie. Most genuine wtf moment I've had watching a movie lol
And the amazing Tito & Tarantula playing the club
I think Dusk til Dawn is the final chapter in the Tarantino verse in chronological order as it finally has the demise of Sheriff Earl McGraw who also recently survived a zombie apocalypse in Planet Terror
Fantastically well edited, George
I just wanted to say that Quentin does make these films for us. The nobodies like you said at the end. He would totally appreciate our approval as fans. Why do they go on set? “Because we love making movies” is what they say on set all the time.
I took a 14 day cruise in China and Japan in ‘06 and listened to this sound track the whole cruise. Every time I hear this music I remember my trip.
I will always love Bill's line about Superman.
Even though that theory isn't accurate based on the comics
I think it's supposed to be the interpretation of a guy who grew up reading a little of the comics but not much. Because yeah an actual Superman fan would know Superman is the most humble person ever who would never look down upon humanity. Tarantino seems to know that, he just made Bill a character who doesn't know as much about comics as the writer does.@@ramiabdo5953
I think Tarantino put the anime scene into his movie as the origin story because he respects anime and manga are part of Japanese culture and Oren Ishi is a Japanese character.
Could also be that he didn't want to shoot a scene with an actual child actor in bed with a grown man...
@@Crystalsforfun Although you're not wrong, I doubt that was his primary motivation. Given how many homages and how much style he infused into these two movies, the anime sequence feels right at home. My guess is that he knew he wanted an anime scene of some sort and used that creative flexibility to convey a scene he couldn't otherwise. Tarantino was at the top of his game with Kill Bill. Amazing movies.
Pai Mei teaches NO ONE the 5 point etc etc technique; but he teaches it to Beatrix and she used it to kill Bill; Vihaio considered Bill a son, but he betrayed Bill's whereabouts, and she found Bill and killed him; Hanzo swore an oath never to make another sword, but he broke it for Beatrix so she could kill Bill. Bill's father figures don't seem to be very pleased with how Bill turned out!
I loved how happy George was through the whole Pai Mei (sorry for spelling it wrong if I did) training section! I would love a chance to sit and chat with you about your upbringing George! Love ya guys! Keep on doin this content! It's a blast!
"Like some mystical revenge...granted your body back to get revenge" - check out Brandon Lee in 'The Crow'
"Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids" I always assumed this was meant to show the characters were once close friends and had those common interactions where they'd finish each other sentences they knew each other so well.
Yeah that phrase is tailor made for the crow
I think you're on the right track. I thought it might've been a little in-joke the Viper group used to say quoting the old cereal slogan to playfully taunt Beatrix back in better days, and its one of the few hints in Vol 1 what the Bride's name is.
welp kill bill is heavily based on the classic japanese revenge epic: lady snowblood in which it is the vengeful spirit reborn in the mistreated womans child that is going on the killing spree. tarantino even used a bunch of soundtracks from that movie for kill bill
These movies are amazing. And volume 2 has the coolest end credits ever.
That scene of her walking up to the diner and sitting down with dust flying off her after the burial and trying to look all casual and normal is hilarious.
I watched each separate reaction, and yet, here I am, watching your long reaction on a Sunday night, unable to look away until it's done. Damn you both! 🤣
While Kill Bill Vol. 1 was filming, Uma Thurman had her baby daughter with her. The costume ladies from Hong Kong (?) made her baby a matching yellow jumpsuit.
You guys are lucky. I remember watching this in theatre and the ending of the most movie was such a cliffhanger. Having to wait an entire year for the sequel was infuriating lol.
QT originally wanted it released all at once and Mirimax made him split all those minutes into 2 movies, I heard. I thought the cliffhanger twist was so good it workes better in 2 parts, myself :)
It was 6 months, not a year.
You probably have already researched this but,
-Kill Bill, and the backstory of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, are based on Fox Force Five from Pulp Fiction. Fox Force Five was itself a reference to Charlie's Angels, and behind the scenes Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman came up with an idea of, "What if one of the Angels/Foxes left the team, but 'Charlie' wouldn't let that happen and kills everyone at the wedding, so she goes on a revenge spree?"
-Quentin Tarantino said in the Volume 2 commentary that he went out of his way for The Bride to have a happy ending. Most likely, the pregnancy and daughter story element was introduced to the story for that purpose. But it also makes The Bride's motivations more justifiable, because they are more selfless--she left the Squad for the same daughter that she seeks to avenge.
-Since Tarantino apparently intended an unhappy end for The Bride, the character arc of Shoshanna Dreyfus is most likely Tarantino's recycle of his original idea for The Bride's fate, prior to screenwriting.
26:15 - direct reference to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo
Classic movies and a great reaction. Love the double-feature format on these, they really do require it (even though we had to wait back in the day).
Also, George's apparently significant background knowledge of Martial Arts Film History as well as Chinese dialects really added to the experience (since the knowledge I hold on these subjects is pretty much squat). 😉👍
And one last time, for Quentin...🦶👣🦶🐾
SO GOOD , Can't believe it's not in your best reviews of the year
The song that opens the movie is "Bang, Bang, My Baby Shot Me Down". One of the first things BeeBee says to The Bride is "Bang Bang!"
A beautiful film in full Tarantino style. Charismatic characters, action, violence, twists and turns, soundtrack, references to past films.
I love how you coupled both chapters into 1. Thank you for that you 2
It was more than just a relationship thing... more than that she quit. Remember he's angry also that she pretended at first that she was dead, plus she didn't tell him that he was going to be a father. I think that last part is key. That's why he chose to raise the child because he really wanted a daughter and felt like Beatrix was stealing her from him.
It’s also he’s a sick maniac. His mentor was that old violent pimp. He in a sense is a pimp too and a violent ex. He’s evil in a multitude of ways. Like he OWNS her.
@@bigmikem1578 I don't think it's nearly that simple. The thing that's so often forgotten is that the squad are all actually evil in their own ways, even Beatrix. That's the point of Bill's interrogation. We root for her because she's the protagonist (and rightly so), but the system of morality they all follow is fundamentally different from ours. When Budd delivers his line that "We deserve to die... but then again, so does she", I've seen a fairly shocking number of reactors ask themselves, "Why? What'd she do?" It's simple: she, just like the others, _was a contract murderer._ Theirs is a world where they consider death a righteous punishment for betrayal, and Bill's morality in that regard isn't substantively different from Beatrix's.
@@rhonafenwick5643 It is more or less "that simple" you're js saying things that our understandable and could've went unsaid.
Tarantino also directed a 2 parter episode of CSI where one of the CSI members gets buried alive. Amazing episode
Interestingly, the names of the "Deadly Viper Assassination Squad" Members fit perfectly with the character of each. The "Cottonmouth" (AKA Water Moccasin), hides in the trees dropping on it's prey unaware and striking; a perfect description of the sneaky assassin O'Ren Ishii. The "Copperhead" tends to only attack when threatened like we saw Vernita Green do in her kitchen with the gun in the box of cereal Budd, or "Sidewinder" lures our heroine into a false sense of security, much like the sidewinder snake uses it's tail to lure prey within striking range. California Mountain Snake (or Kingsnake) is a harmless, non-venomous snake that mimics the coral snake in appearance. It's was an interesting choice for the vindictive Ellie Driver, but perhaps she was the least of the squad and was given that name because she is all bravado, but no venom.
Obviously, the "Black Mamba" is one of the deadliest snakes in the world, known for being a fearless and relentless predator.
The Sidewinder Rattlesnake doesn't lure prey with it's tail. That loud rattle is meant to warn and ward off all predators.
California Kingsnakes do not resemble Coral snakes at all. (I had one.) You're right that they are non-venemous, and quite friendly (unlike Elle Driver).
@@Deathbird_Mitch I said that the Kingsnake Mimic's the colors of the Coral Snake, not resembles. It is an evolutionary feature to keep other predators from attacking it. Juveniles sidewinders use their tails to attract lizard prey, a behavior termed "caudal luring". Adults lose this behavior as they make the transition from lizard prey to their primary diet of desert rodents.
I think you are right on, except about Elle. The Kingsnake feeds on other snakes, mainly poisonous ones, so possibly she took out other assassins, and that's why he sent her to kill Black Mamba and why she killed Budd. Just a thought.
@@blueeyedcowboy8291 I like it.
@@Deathbird_Mitch milk snakes (a variety of king snake) do highly resemble a coral snake
Breh. Simone. Your intros, and George's reactions to it, are the reasons I keep coming back. XD
Hey George you are right about the Yellow Jumpsuit that Uma Thurman wore. Quentin was a big fan of Bruce Lee
Hanzo is played by Sonny Chiba a Japanese action film legend. China also mentored Hiroyuki Sanasa who has appeared in multiple American films like Mortal Kombat, the Last samurai and recently John Sick 4
I love so much that you guys watched both movies together! Thanks!
Tarantino films are just so unique and I'm so happy they exist. In a time right now where most 'mainstream' movies don't have a lot of style, you can count on him to make some of the most interesting and beautiful films to exist in modern cinema. It's a breath of fresh air compared to 90% of movies that were being made from 2000-2020.
22:23 The Kill music is the theme from "Ironside", a 70s network TV series about a wheelchair-bound detective starring Raymond Burr.
This is perfect, I had already watched both of your videos for this film but I was considering going back and rewatching them for fun. But now I can watch both videos together in one video! I really enjoy your Godfather reactions and rewatch them on occasion so I would certainly welcome the Godfather films getting the Omnibus treatment! 😁
Oh, thank god I'm not going crazy. Here I was, sitting and thinking, "I've seen this before, haven't I? But it's a new video..."
@@juliodavila424 Okay, thank you for also clearing that up because I was in the same boat.
Just curious: would you want GF-3 included in that omnibus?
@@garytiptin6479 ya know, maybe... I'm gonna be honest I haven't seen GF3 in probably 20 years and I've never seen GF:Coda so I really need to watch that, but I don't think I would mind a GF Omnibus, original 3 or with Coda.
The pot calling the kettle black there george!?! "He like to hear himself speak."😂
The mostly silenced sequence around 24:30 just had me appreciating & curious about all the foley work haha
I love the soundtrack. What you call “the Kill Bill music” is actually Quincy Jones’ theme from the ‘60s Raymond Burr TV series “Ironside.” He also famously uses another ‘60s TV theme, Al Hirt’s fantastic “The Green Hornet.”
Using the assistant for info. on the current whereabouts of the remaining three vipers makes sense, but there's also geographical convenience: she had to go to Japan for the sword.
Terrific reaction. For the record, I have been subscribed for quite some time because I think you two are great.
That is a metal plate on the side of her forehead and temple. Yes, she could tell it was 4 years from reading her hand lines. And she killed the guy who paid to rape the bride had his lower lip or tongue bitten til he bled to death.
The movie you were thinking of in relations to Sophie becoming paraplegic is Boxing Helena with Sherilyn Fenn.
So great you show this combined as a single film.
I love that in volume one she kills a million people, but in volume two she kills exactly one..
I'm hereby recommending Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run" for a film with animated segments.
And more with Lucy Liu: "Shanghai Noon" & "Payback".
The fight choreography is incredible in this. Especially the fight with the Crazy 88s fight.
The music when she went to Japan was from the tv show the Green Hornet 1966
So fun to watch it with someone that has a knowledge of the homage and language. Thanks George!
I havent searched the comments.
But the actor of Pai Mai is the same guy which played the main role in "The 36 chambers of Shaolin". Of course he was WAYYYYYY younger then :)
I find it very satisfying to hear Simone make the exact same little oohs and aahs in the showdown, as Patricia Arquette's Alabama does in the beginning of True Romance, while watching a Sonny Chiba (Hattori Hanzo) movie. 😎
I saw this when it came out in theaters and the scene where she is getting buried alive was SO MUCH MORE INTENSE than it is watching it even with headphones. It was creepy!
Watching this movies back to back is just a whole bloody affair!
Love seeing George watch this. If anyone was going to get it first time.
"The Cruel Tutelage of Pai Mei" is definitely one of the BEST flashbacks in any movie ever!!! PAI MEI: Let's see how good you really are. Try and land a blow. If you land a single blow, I'll bow down and call you master.
Did you notice that the actor who played the cop who got spit on, at the crime scene, the one who realized she was still alive, also played Esteban?
i consider kill bill to be my perfect 10/10 favorite movie, and i didn’t know that. i’ll give you another one, did you know that johnny mo of the crazy 88 and pai mei are both played by gordon liu?
I still can't believe Michael Parks actually was a last-minute fill-in for the role. He's on screen as Esteban Vihaio for all of maybe five minutes and it's one of the most captivating performances I've seen in my entire life.
I lost it at "she's basically using a shardblade" lol
The thumbnail (though toenail might be more appropriate in this case) made me spill my coffee laughing. 😂
"toenail" Jesus Christ 🤣🤣🤣
The flute Bill is playing outside the wedding chapel is the one David Carradine used to play on the TV show "Kung Fu".
Interesting to know that during this time Disney owned Miramax (and the Weinsteins left claiming Disney was bullying them--how ironic--taking Dimension with them and creating The Weinstein Company.) So technically Disney still owns Miramax films made during Disney's ownership (along with Dimension films -like the Scream series and The Crow-- before the Weinsteins took Dimension when they left. Which makes Kill Bill 1 &2 and Pulp Fiction Disney films.
Love how you caught so many references!!!
Yes
The sound track was really good
I love that Simone's first thought is that it could be Sci-Fi.🤣😂🤣
@29:18 “NANII?!” 😂😂
25:38 the movie goes black & white after the eyeball rip because it would have gotten an NC-17 rating if they'd shown all the blood. Apparently it stays in color the whole time in versions released outside North America
Tarantino did an amazing job with this series. I also like his movie The Hateful Eight. Another great movie. You both did a great job showing AND covering up for the lack of music. LOL. Great Post. Thank you both for sharing it with us.
Apols if mentioned before but there's a couple of references that weren't included - Bill playing the flute recalls the Silent Flute/Circle of Iron which was intended to be a Bruce Lee movie, but David Carradine finished in 1978. And Elle Driver's thrashing on the floor after losing her eye recalls Daryl Hannah's death as Pris in Blade Runner.
About the encounter of Bill and [Blipped] in the church, I have two "theories":
1- He went full "italian guy" and used the "they come as friends and you'll never see it coming".
2- Or.. He somehow kinda gave her an opportunity to come back to him.
The end of Vol 1. Got me goosebumps and teary eyes… still after watching it zillion times!
OMG!!! I love you guys. I am just now discovering this channel and instantly subscribed after watching only one of yalls videos (this one) You two are amazingly funny and are the perfect comedic match. ohh, I wonder of Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah's character) is still screaming and trashing around on Budd's bathroom floor or did the Black Mamba bite her already ..lol.
(the battle with Oren) "Silly rabbit..."
(Bea)"Trix are for..."
(Oren)"Kids."
not sure how intended that was, but I found it fun.
This has been a fun first watch and a nice way to enter your world of TH-cam.. Touching on the Tarantinoverse for a minute, Quentin liked to meld worlds together in a way. Sonny Chiba (Hatori Hanzo) was one of the big Japanese action stars of the 1970 and the connection for him in a way was True Romance. Tarantino wrote the screenplay for True Romance as well and sold it so he could make Res Dogs in 92. There was a scene in the film when Clarence (Christian Slater) is watching a triple feature on his birthday those films were The Street Fighter, Return of the Street Fighter, and Sister Street Fighter all 3 films starred Sonny Chiba. With most of Tarantino's influences he had a habit of getting those actors that he loved and admired as well as from the film genre's he admired for his own work. Pam Grier is another good example of this as Tarantino was a big fan of the Blackploitation genre of the 70's. Grier was in Tarantino's 3rd film Jackie Brown. Sonny Chiba passed away in 2021. Both Romance and Jackie Brown are worth a watch.
The stunt in the car that tarantino convinced her to do was gnarly.
next please...TRUE ROMANCE.. written by Tarantino with an amazing cast and a brilliant movie
the wee girl in this movie is also in the new Tarantino movie " Once upon a time in hollywood "...she is the girl Brad Pitt picks up in his car
Uma's daughter here is the dirty barefoot hippie Brad picked up?
That’s Margaret Qualley.
No, she isn't. She's in OUATIH, but not the girl who gets picked up.
She also plays Flint Marko's daughter, Penny, in Dam Raimi's Spider-Man 3
Weird thing for me is how Kiddo's daughter was completely unfased by the death of Bill, her father, with whom, I assume, she lived all her life
Yea that kinda always stuck out to me. The way I rationalized it is that she most likely had some of her innocence stolen from Bill. Who knows what kind of stuff he was teaching her. Hell, he could've told her that one day mommy is coming home to kill daddy so she wouldn't be so blindsided.
Considering bill had her watching fighting films/shows early on I think it was somewhat alluding to bill indoctrinating her young. By that point I wouldn’t b surprised if she saw someone die b4
She seems noticeably desensitized to death in general. Seems like Bill was, intentionally or not, exposing her to the world Beatrix was trying to spare her from. In this way Beatrix was right, BB would never have a normal life if Bill was her father. Like Bill said, Beatrix is wise beyond her years.
I got the feeling that he prepared her for his death.
Back in the 80's every Saturday afternoon was Kung Fu cinema on one of the channels. I never missed it.
It's when I was introduced to martial artist movies starring Gordon Liu, Jackie Chan, and more. They were so young back then. I was also surprised when I saw Sonny Chiba in Kill Bill. It brought back a lot of memories of the old martial movies of 70's & 80's. Lastly, the movie the little girl mentions to her mother(Uma Thurman) at the end,.."Shogun Assassin" is a 1980 movie. I remember it well. Good movie and bloody too. 👍
The music when Uma Thurman is in the coffin is from a Sergio Corbucci spaghetti western called The Mercenary. It was written by Ennio Morricone.
I feel like I seen this review, and I did. twice now
Yep! We just combined the two videos into one as per requested
@@CineBingeReact love it, you should find the Japanese cut without the black and white fight scene. It's with water after they run out of fake blood 🤣
Pai Mei said Beatrix's arm belonged to him now, so really he took both of Elle's eyes
The little girl in this ended up playing the hippie girl that sold Cliff the acid dipped cigarette in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Not sure if she's done anything else.
25:50 Tarantino is a big fan of Takashi Miike, the director of ichi the killer, and also make an appearance in Sukiyaki Western Django, still from Miike. Basicly it'a remake of For A Few Dollars More with japanesse cowboys and katanas :p I love that movie !
29:39 the practical effects throughout were great. many to be over the top, but i think the effect on Lucy's had just didn't look right. obviously, going practical in a scalping means you've got to add material in order to take material away. building up her scalp in order to be scalped would make her head larger than normal, but in this case it didn't look right. and no I could not do better. (you know who you are when you were gonna leave that comment.) mainly because I'm an hvac design technician and can't do Hollywood level makeup.
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
The O-Ren scene was based on another movie called Lady Snowblood.
Having been in two separate comas, I can assure you that just two weeks on a feeding tube is enough to take your working legs from you. And to be clear, just 13 hours to get back on your feet is nearly impossible.
Will is def Kiddo's highest stat..
Awesome T-shirt, Simone 👍
The japanese mob boss is missing a patch in his hair because he survived a katana hit, probably blocked unsuccessfully, and it buried in his skull a bit.
Nice Ralph Wiggum reference in the beginning! You choo-choo-choose the best jokes! Also, the "P" Wagon is referred to as the *Party* Wagon on TV edits, complete with an exclusive-for-TV designed logo. The word party also replaces what Buck actually does when "he's here." It's not the greatest lipover, but it is dubbed by the original actors.