"Since your arm now belongs to me, I want it strong" This is such a cool fucking line. After disgracing her, he tells her he's fully committed to making her strong.
@@HaydenLau.You Chinese people need to just write the correct damn translation of what he says instead of teasing us all the time with "he's actually much more insulting"😂😂
@@jihigh482 I'm not going to translate an eight minute video. I'll give you an example though, when he says "your so called kung fu is really quite pathetic" what he actually said was "you're weaker than a cripple, try again, trash" And the word cripple in Cantonese also carries the connotation of trash.
well, Pai Mei must have liked her from the first meeting: she got pissed off and showed it, fought him, and tried to hit him with a brick in the back of his head ...this is the most fun he had in a long while. He liked the feisty character.
Well, apparently he was training her to be more proficient than Bill from the start. He didn't show let alone teach Bill that dancing on the enemies sword technique. Then he tells her at the start of the training, "what do you do if the enemy is three inches in front of you? Curl into a ball or do you put your fist right through him? Those both sound far more deadly than the five pointed palm exploding heart technique!
I think he was able to assess her potential. By his standards he knew she had never had a proper master and although she was “amateur at best” he couldn’t attribute her weaknesses to her own shortcomings. He saw her skill set she had acquired from the inferior training and knew it he would have the ability to improve her. He also saw how she carried herself as a person and saw her willingness to do what was required to improve. Her tenacity was apparent.
Uma is such a great actor. Here she has the eager happy face of a teenager hoping to succeed, no hint of what’s to come. All in her facial expressions. So great.
@@BoatLoad-o5z I understand your point. However, some people believe those who act should be referred to as actors regardless of their gender. No doubt you could make case for/case against.
@@Capcoor you can go look up any dictionary the word actor was and still is reserved for a male. just because some woke person want to make every word gender neutral doesn't mean the world has to follow his insanity
@@heiveldboy The arm twist is quite funny since an arm twist like that is 101 for martial arts such as Ju-Jitsu traditional, so she couldn't have been that proficient as there's a lot of easy get outs of a grab like that.
He really did warm up to her in the end, teaching her the "...exploding heart technique" When she found out her master was poisoned you could see how much she wanted revenge for his death. One helluva of a movie!
I love that the dedication, focus, and commitment displayed during her training actually sets her apart from the other assassin's, and ultimately above them in the end.
@@SpeccyMan lol "never". You're completely wrong, dingdong. Commas are always placed before conjunctions when the sentences can stand independently. If you're going to be pedantic, at least be in the ball park.
Not just honor. Anger and overconfidence gets you killed. By taking her arm he's saying " I had 100 opportunities to kill you, remember that next time you decide to swing at me like a toddler"
@@patrickirish8091 to be fair HE CHALLENGED HER not the other way around, she was trying to be humble, and literally groveling at his feet. He insulted japanese people(whom she respected because she learned the samarai sword albeit from Bill) he also degraded her in every way possible before hand. Pai Mei is not some humble wise Miagi sensei type he is a certified A-hole with an ego the size of a skyscraper backed by unrivaled power and no one to keep him in check.
what pai mei meant was there was no middle ground...it is either you can or you can't ...basically pai mei is shredding her ego....and building it back up...
"He hates Caucasians, despises Americans, and has NOTHING but contempt for women. So in your case, it might take a while." - this part always cracks me up lol
He taught her the secret ultimate move because Kiddo sticks through it regardless of how difficult master is and the hardship of the training, and she kept improving her skills
He is hundreds of years old. Somewhere along the line he likely learned a lot of languages both out of natural curiosity and to understand a foes mind better. Doesn't mean he will use that language.
7:49 I just love how he asks if she's interested in becoming this OP after all inflictions of pain and insults. This sudden question really shows that such sadism is not his primary intent. He really is interested in raising a better warrior.
yes...boot camp. Their job is to strip ANY civilian thought, and train warriors. But sadly not this generation. It truly is some kind of alchemy - change something into something else.
When he had her arm it really felt like he was experiencing an internal dilemma of whether to break it or not depending on her answers. Very powerful moment in this scene.
Right!? I'm half vietnamese myself and the only thing I know asians are always racist against is their neighboring asians 😂 the japs and Chinese especially it's blood feud that's been going on for ages and ww2 made it 100x worse
I only just now realized why Pai Mei tortured Bea at the end and that's cause she literally tried to hit him with a brick and cheap shot him just cause she was getting cooked by him and felt embarrassed/frustrated..........very dishonorable by her.
I feel like it would have ended that way either way. Pai Mei was baiting her on purpose, he set her up and was expecting her to take a cheap shot so that he could teach her the first lesson. I’m basing this off of a few things but mainly because he said “that is the beginning” .
@@vinsanity982 I agree, I feel like if she tried some shit like that again it would end way worse; but I doubt he wouldve antagonized/baited her like this throughout her training, unless he had to humble her again aha
07:17 " It's my arm now. I can do what i please."_pai mei It was pai mei's arm on her body that threw that knife, chopped off that head, plucked that eyeball, punched its way out of a grave and five point finger exploding heart technique the fck out of bill and everyone else on her list. this movie is a masterpiece
I didn’t think too much about it before but I imagined this guy knew what Bill and his gang were all about. They were bad people, all of them but he took them in and trained them anyway. It just makes his character more interesting. Maybe he was an old man so bored and full of knowledge and experience that he’s willing to train anyone who had the grit and determination to follow thru.
@@godbluffvdggYou m0r0ns going around TH-cam telling people that it's "just a movie/show" are so pathetic lol don't forget to remind people who still study Romeo & Juliet that "it's just a play". Fvcking idiot
Peace, been reading the comments and did see anyone shout out the Legend, Gordon Liu. Shaw Brothers movies was my childhood. Gordon Liu my favorite. Peace
remind me of the legendary Bajiquan master Li Shuwen, unbeatable during his lifetime, killed a lot of kungfu masters in duels, later were killed by poison by one of the family members of the master he killed.
No one has issues with strong women protagonists when they are well written characters who have flaws weaknesses and overcome hardships and earn the success they achieve.
I just realised that's why I hate feminist rhetoric to a degree. Sure if the best person for a role is overlooked because of prejudice then that's outrageous. But often they look at someone who's worked themselves to the bone to reach the top, and disregard that struggle because "he only got there because he's a man". Jealousy.
Pai Mei is a master. I don't think the people he trained before could ever understand the mind of a master. It's a different thing that they acquired some training from him. I don't know but he doesn't appear condescending to me in this clip. He's a genius and easily bored, has his personal views and takes only his art seriously. Everything said in the beginning about him turns out to be false. He agreed to train her immediately. I just felt right from the beginning that he liked her immediately. Ridiculing her was a way of assessing her personality.
@@sopek1427 Agreed. It's just a different philosophy. A master devotes his life to something....be it even something mundane. It's more than "picking up a skill". You want to be a bartender? It's more than mixing drinks. It's understanding how flavors combine. How things compliment each other? The balance of these things. Yet the perspective in the West is - just a bartender. The same can be said for so many other skillsets. Landscaping, plumbing, making coffee, etc.
I mean, Bill honestly could have been doing that thing where you tell people that your cat doesn't like people when in reality it's a cuddly li'l guy and then they feel like they're really special when your cat warms up to them immediately. Pai Mei is just a big grumpy kitty who is really good at Kung Fu.
For those that think she landed a blow at 6:41, I don't think that counts as a blow because it looks like he was expecting it, allowed her to do it, and used it as a trap to then attack.
The unspoken rule of any swordsman is that you do not draw a blade unless you fully intend to use it. When he told the Bride to pull the sword, she knew that he was telling her it was fight time. Pai Mai was impressed she understood.
This scene is still the best parody/homage of all those martial arts movies/manga/anime out there, from Kickboxer/Bloodsport to Kung Fu and Dragon Ball.
Canto speaker here. I find some of the translation not accurate. Below is my attempt for a better version? More like a direct translation. I’m not good with English, so my vocabs are probably limited. Haha. 2:19 Your han language is very bad. I cant understand a word. In fact it hurt my ears. If I don’t tell you to speak, you do not speak. Your Han language is good or your cantonese? 2:33 Wo speak Japanese… 2:36 I am not asking you about Japanese language, or about Mongolian language. I am asking do you know Cantonese (Guang Dong Language) 4:06You look out of breath. Must be from the few hundred something steps up and feel tired. I think you are only silly, your overall health are very weak as well. 5:05 if I lose to you, then today I’ll kneel down and call you master. 5.25 You seen my kung fu. Now try my leg technique. 5.48 Even a cripple is stronger than you. Again, you garbage. 5.57 I’ve given you the opportunity to demonstrate your kung fu knowledge. I see you know absolutely nothing. 7.50 Do you want to learn the kung fu style that I used earlier? I guess that’s all. The rest are okay. K.tks.bye
2:15 The one leg kneel came about in middle aged Europe. When knights kneeled to the king, their armor was so heavy, they could only kneel on one leg so they could get back up. She should have kneeled with both legs.
i dont know if you tried but kneeling with both legs like that is really uncomfortable and it was done on purpose. its supposed to make your legs numb after a while so you couldnt stand up easily and attempt on the emperor's life
Looking back at this so many years I think I understand what he's doing here: he's breaking her ego. While I'm sure that he's having a lot of fun insulting and humiliating her, I think it has a purpose. Kiddo believes that she's a strong assassin already. She's good in Tiger Crane and very good with a sword. Pai Mei specifically attacks and insults those skills and when she's angry he humiliates her in combat. In a hard way he's showing her how limited her skills are. Only when she truly understands, when she's crying from all that pain, does he end the session and say that her training begins. At that point he feels she is truly ready to learn.
It's what the military does in boot camp. Break you down to build you back as a soldier. Old you was a pathetic little civilian bitch. New you is an obedient killing machine that works in a unit
Love how this scene was filmed. The music, the close in shots, the framing. QT clearly paying homage to 70's kung fu films of his youth and enjoying every minute of it. 🥋
I love how he was content to insult and you with her, until she started fighting dirty and void of skill or honor. But once she did, he ended it quickly.
There is on his character, he’s an established character from the older Chinese movies. You should be able to find a history video on him if you search TH-cam
As others have stated he is based on a character in old martial arts movies, when Bill is by the campfire explaining Pai Mai to Beatrice that’s basically Tarantino telling you about the films that Pai Mai is in. Also shortly after KB 2 came out Tarantino had a plan for a film about Bill’s past and the three father figure that raised/trained him. Those being The pimp lord (can’t remember his name) Okinawa sword smith Hatori Hanzo and Kung Fu master Pai Mai. He wanted it to be animated I think. But it never happened and with David Carradines passing it was cancelled.
Amazing character. Has the same energy as Sgt. Gunnery Hartman, if he were Chinese. While cruel, he is fair, and there is method to his madness. The fight between him and Kiddo is meant to break down her ego and her arrogance. When he speaks to her, you can see her frustration. Even if he started teaching her on the spot, there's a chance it wouldn't stick because she wouldn't take him seriously. He had to flex on her and show her how big the gap was, break her down to the point where she realized how helpless she was against him. He had to "factory reset" her in a sense, so that he could teach her his way from scratch.
Pai Mai's lines to me are the best lines QT ever wrote for any of his characters in any move. Gordon Liu's delivery is also simply perfect. Just like Sony Chiba, who played Hattori Hanzo in Volume 1, he was at the time a huge star in Far East, including China, but both were virtually unknown in the West. This movie and their relatively small but crucial roles opened them to the wider audience.
I remember after watching the first Kill Bill movie and thinking "wow, she is WAY too strong and OP", and loving the spectable of the first movie and all of its action. The second film I didn't like as much but loved for different reasons. I loved how it defied my expectations where I thought "how could they top the first movie?" they couldn't. So they went a different path by giving us an Origin story about how she became such a legendary warrior, and strongest woman alive. I always thought it was funny how Uma portrayed the Bride as being so doe wide eyed towards Bill while she's still supposed to be in love with him. I can KIND OF buy it.. but as soon as he's gone, the disappointment begins.
The Pai Mei actor is the same who was the leader of the "Crazy 88", and many years ago the protagonist (the young apprentice) in "The 36th Chamber of the Shaolin".
How can these have not won an Oscar? The accuracy of the cinema is just on a level that most can only dream of. Seriously, this is the perfect hero movie.
i remember when this was leaked online. my father came down from a nother state for a few days he absolutely loved this movie. He would say remember that movie when that girl snatched out that other girls eye. !? makes me laugh every time these clips come up in my feed. we used to watch these Chinese junk fu movies in the 80’s. he said that dude is still playing that flute. 😂😂😂😂
I always liked this scene too. How a true warrior comes down the mountain with a busted lip, "he's ready to talk to you now"... Basically is what happened at the beginning there
I love that Tarantino is near my age, which means we both grew up watching the same cheesy kung fu movies. What an homage this is. Beautifully executed, down to the authentic cheesy music track.
A Chinese teacher of any discipline is like this, for real. They’re very hard on you. Similar in that you have to earn their respect by being ultra respectful to them and through doing as they say and do to get better and better, once you’re good and they can see you do it the way they showed you. You have their respect. If you are lazy and displease them they don’t bother as much with you as the others and you lose out on small secrets and advantages that they would show you if you were respectful to them.
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“THAT’S THE BEGINNING!”
One of my favorite lines in this. Once you accept how little you know, that’s when you are the most open to learning.
Exactly.
Yep. In order to know you are right you first have to accept that you could be wrong.
Yes, he needed to humble her, to "empty the cup" of her previous training and ego.
"Ai, you only speak Japanese." This is brilliant
Mine was "like all yankee women all you can do is order from a menu and spend a man's money" effing priceless
"Since your arm now belongs to me, I want it strong"
This is such a cool fucking line. After disgracing her, he tells her he's fully committed to making her strong.
Very military like. Break u down build u back up
@@frankdeleon4209 Indeed.
;)
Yeah. And remember in the first movie. After she defeated The Crazy 88, where she said "Leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now."
@@bloodhound4741just like her master good eye!!!
"I asked you to demonstrate what you know and you did, not a goddamn thing!"
I just love the script man, love it
Such a powerful line, I always loved it
if you knew Cantonese you would know he is much more insulting than the captions suggest
if u want, you can love my diick either :)
@@HaydenLau.You Chinese people need to just write the correct damn translation of what he says instead of teasing us all the time with "he's actually much more insulting"😂😂
@@jihigh482
I'm not going to translate an eight minute video. I'll give you an example though, when he says "your so called kung fu is really quite pathetic" what he actually said was "you're weaker than a cripple, try again, trash" And the word cripple in Cantonese also carries the connotation of trash.
well, Pai Mei must have liked her from the first meeting: she got pissed off and showed it, fought him, and tried to hit him with a brick in the back of his head ...this is the most fun he had in a long while. He liked the feisty character.
Good observation!
That was my impression as well. He liked her fighting spirit, her ruthlessness, and her (self-)honesty.
Damn…torturing and mocking an assassin like a 2 year old toddler is his idea of joyful glee
Well, apparently he was training her to be more proficient than Bill from the start. He didn't show let alone teach Bill that dancing on the enemies sword technique.
Then he tells her at the start of the training, "what do you do if the enemy is three inches in front of you? Curl into a ball or do you put your fist right through him? Those both sound far more deadly than the five pointed palm exploding heart technique!
I think he was able to assess her potential. By his standards he knew she had never had a proper master and although she was “amateur at best” he couldn’t attribute her weaknesses to her own shortcomings. He saw her skill set she had acquired from the inferior training and knew it he would have the ability to improve her. He also saw how she carried herself as a person and saw her willingness to do what was required to improve. Her tenacity was apparent.
Uma is such a great actor. Here she has the eager happy face of a teenager hoping to succeed, no hint of what’s to come. All in her facial expressions. So great.
Yes! At the same time you can see the fire and determination that would ultimately gain Pai Mei’s respect.
@@tennesseewilliams101 yes she's an actress not an actor. unless she was born with testes
@@BoatLoad-o5z I understand your point. However, some people believe those who act should be referred to as actors regardless of their gender. No doubt you could make case for/case against.
@@Capcoor you can go look up any dictionary the word actor was and still is reserved for a male. just because some woke person want to make every word gender neutral doesn't mean the world has to follow his insanity
@@BoatLoad-o5z There we go. Case against.
That arm twist scene is some great acting. It's hard to believe she's not really in pain.
I just realized that i always unconsciously thought that's for real
Maybe the actor really twist the arm a little for realism
@@ignaciogodoy7095 Possible, considering that Talentino isn't that known for keeping safety in mind when making his films.
@@heiveldboy The arm twist is quite funny since an arm twist like that is 101 for martial arts such as Ju-Jitsu traditional, so she couldn't have been that proficient as there's a lot of easy get outs of a grab like that.
Sounds effects, remove them and it becomes much less believable.
He really did warm up to her in the end, teaching her the "...exploding heart technique" When she found out her master was poisoned you could see how much she wanted revenge for his death. One helluva of a movie!
I love how he calls her Mandarin lousy after just one word lmao
And that one word was pronounced abysmally. So “lousy” was polite.
He's a master. Can figure out a style by a move. Can asses the language by one word. Can see the calligraphy skill with one swipe.
she can speak japanese, though. XD
he's speak CANTONESE jerk!!!.........not mandarin......
he's speak CANTONESE jerk!!!.........not mandarin......
"Like all yankee women, all you can do is order in restaurants and spend a man's money." Nice inside joke referencing Uma's character in Pulp Fiction.
That's NOT a joke, it's a FACT!
I work in a restaurant and most can't do that without screwing it up 3 or 4 times. And that's just ordering the sauce.
@@mistersmith3986😂😂😂😅😅😅😅 yup!
Lots of golddiggers out there..
@@dialduane😂😂😂
I love that the dedication, focus, and commitment displayed during her training actually sets her apart from the other assassin's, and ultimately above them in the end.
Assassins is a plural and it needs no apostrophe! Also, never place a comma before a conjunction.
@@SpeccyMan lol "never". You're completely wrong, dingdong. Commas are always placed before conjunctions when the sentences can stand independently. If you're going to be pedantic, at least be in the ball park.
@@SpeccyMan Your English is lousy, it causes my eyes discomfort.
I think she was just terrified of pissing off Pai Mei.
You saw how he snatched out els eye
Funny how he was more offended by the brick attack than he was with the groin kick.
I feel like it was the kick was at least attempted in front of him, while she tried the brick hit while he had his back turned
Yeah, honorable fighting means fighting the person in front of you but fighting when the back is turned is a coward and sore loser kind of fighting.
Not just honor. Anger and overconfidence gets you killed. By taking her arm he's saying " I had 100 opportunities to kill you, remember that next time you decide to swing at me like a toddler"
@@patrickirish8091, yeah he spared her only one time. Next time, she won’t be so lucky and just be dead.
@@patrickirish8091 to be fair HE CHALLENGED HER not the other way around, she was trying to be humble, and literally groveling at his feet. He insulted japanese people(whom she respected because she learned the samarai sword albeit from Bill) he also degraded her in every way possible before hand.
Pai Mei is not some humble wise Miagi sensei type he is a certified A-hole with an ego the size of a skyscraper backed by unrivaled power and no one to keep him in check.
I can but not that close. “Then you can’t do it! “ 😂😂
😂😂😂😂
what pai mei meant was there was no middle ground...it is either you can or you can't ...basically pai mei is shredding her ego....and building it back up...
Haha, I love her flinching reaction when he screams in her face 😆
This is like the rude version of Yoda's "Do. Or do not. There is no try."
What's great is that she CAN do it from some distance, which means she already is more of a badass than virtually any human ever.
😂😂 right anything is possible
Pei Mei is a godly character. And his character is acted to perfection.
I love how he'd played by this guy who actually fought in the white lotus
"He hates Caucasians, despises Americans, and has NOTHING but contempt for women. So in your case, it might take a while." - this part always cracks me up lol
He also hates Japanese.
The funny part is he taught her the one move he never showed anyone. So he didn't despise her.
He taught her the secret ultimate move because Kiddo sticks through it regardless of how difficult master is and the hardship of the training, and she kept improving her skills
@@refulgent_fanta Taught her the pluck the eye out move too. Elle wasn't expecting that.
@@refulgent_fanta Cause unlike most Yankee women, she humbled herself to get in line and earned his respect
She proved him wrong with merit
I absolutely loved this part, Gordon liu played Pai Mei to perfection.
He was perfect for the role , he probably understood this character better than anyone, considering his history.
Agreed
that is sonny
@monkadelic13 sonny Chiba played hattori Hanzo, not pei mei.
He also played Johnny Mo in Volume 1
I love how the typical music from 70's kung fu movies plays during their fight.
Composed by the one and only RZA
I like how he understands every word she says but out of principle only speaks cantonese.
I'm more impressed that Beatrice understands his Cantonese
@@eldarius237 nah she can read the subtitles 😜
@@Brianlp32 especially as she hardly can say a word in Chinese 🙈
He is hundreds of years old. Somewhere along the line he likely learned a lot of languages both out of natural curiosity and to understand a foes mind better. Doesn't mean he will use that language.
I think he’s speaking Mandarin though
7:49 I just love how he asks if she's interested in becoming this OP after all inflictions of pain and insults. This sudden question really shows that such sadism is not his primary intent. He really is interested in raising a better warrior.
oh yes, I remember seeing this in theaters and thinking the same thing. The only way she can become this powerful is to understand
He may hate Caucasians, despise Americans, and have nothing but contempt for women, but he respects hard work and tenacity.
The sadism is not for its own enjoyment, it has a purpose to reveal if humility is there and possible.
yes...boot camp. Their job is to strip ANY civilian thought, and train warriors. But sadly not this generation. It truly is some kind of alchemy - change something into something else.
I've noticed that he flicks his beard softly when she's learnt something
"From here you can get an excellent view of my foot" LMAO
That was awesome!
Master Pei Mei was 🐐 status 💎🫡
SHIEEEET ! Dat was funny af !
Truly disrespecting her 😂
That's what my neighbors wife said when I had her spread eagle!!!
When you meet the final boss when you're a lvl 1 street thug
More like the person who programmes the game!
@Lazraven hahahha truth! @gimmickstreet oooh that's a cool way of looking at it!
Yep, this joke isn't extremely overdone
@@johnnymcblaze but this time it makes sense
Every hit is a miss, you get killed so quickly you don’t even know what he hit you with
8:13
"Can you do that?"
"I can but not that close"
"THEN YOU CAN'T DO IT!"
hahahahah
shieeet lel. Dude is savage af !
Gordon Liu uses the same facial expressions he used in the shaw bros films from the 70s. It's pretty great. I assume tarantino asked him to.
When he had her arm it really felt like he was experiencing an internal dilemma of whether to break it or not depending on her answers. Very powerful moment in this scene.
I was mortified when he asked if she could speak Cantonese and she responded that she can speak Japanese.
Right!? I'm half vietnamese myself and the only thing I know asians are always racist against is their neighboring asians 😂 the japs and Chinese especially it's blood feud that's been going on for ages and ww2 made it 100x worse
Me too...ruined the whole movie
@@anthonysfogliano-cd2bg I was so upset I started vomiting and never stopped. The nurses in the hospital hate me.
Same. Of all the things to say to a Chinese man!
“I asked you to show me what you know…and you did….NOT A GODDAMN THING!!!!” 😂😂
The whooshing sound of basic body movements is hilarious 😂
I only just now realized why Pai Mei tortured Bea at the end and that's cause she literally tried to hit him with a brick and cheap shot him just cause she was getting cooked by him and felt embarrassed/frustrated..........very dishonorable by her.
🤦🏽♂️ how did I not see this before?!?!
"cooked"?
@@JamesBond-fg6bt It means Pai Mei was giving Beatrix a free lesson in getting her ass whooped!
I feel like it would have ended that way either way. Pai Mei was baiting her on purpose, he set her up and was expecting her to take a cheap shot so that he could teach her the first lesson. I’m basing this off of a few things but mainly because he said “that is the beginning” .
@@vinsanity982 I agree, I feel like if she tried some shit like that again it would end way worse; but I doubt he wouldve antagonized/baited her like this throughout her training, unless he had to humble her again aha
07:17 " It's my arm now. I can do what i please."_pai mei It was pai mei's arm on her body that threw that knife, chopped off that head, plucked that eyeball, punched its way out of a grave and five point finger exploding heart technique the fck out of bill and everyone else on her list. this movie is a masterpiece
... chopped off that head ... (Place the adverb closer to the verb!)
soeones gotta start somewhere
Smatter the beans brah
I love that part at 4:46, his look is like “you dare engage me in combat!?” 😂
Omae wa mou shindeiru
"You court death?"
@@Andriy_Sklyar nani?!
If he didn't like her, she would be dead
FAFO
I didn’t think too much about it before but I imagined this guy knew what Bill and his gang were all about. They were bad people, all of them but he took them in and trained them anyway. It just makes his character more interesting. Maybe he was an old man so bored and full of knowledge and experience that he’s willing to train anyone who had the grit and determination to follow thru.
Nah, he just did what the script and director told him to do...
@godbluffvdgg That doesn't mean there isn't a deeper history to the character.
Pai mei is also the bad guy that's probably why he trains a bunch of thugs
@@godbluffvdggYou m0r0ns going around TH-cam telling people that it's "just a movie/show" are so pathetic lol don't forget to remind people who still study Romeo & Juliet that "it's just a play". Fvcking idiot
Dont they explain that he murdered an entire temple because one of the monks didnt greet him?
She wouldn't even take that hoodie off before she engaged with a 1000 year old legendary killer!
When Bill pulled away she tried to be cute and dainty. The instructor was an absolute MONSTER!
Peace, been reading the comments and did see anyone shout out the Legend, Gordon Liu. Shaw Brothers movies was my childhood. Gordon Liu my favorite. Peace
All that skill and he gets taken out by a poisoned fish stew
We'll all die someday you know...Skilled or not.
Theatricality and deception, this guy is immortal, he let her think he's dead.
But he may have crawled out of the grave later just like Beatrix.
remind me of the legendary Bajiquan master Li Shuwen, unbeatable during his lifetime, killed a lot of kungfu masters in duels, later were killed by poison by one of the family members of the master he killed.
@@David-cs9zoexactly
I don’t know why but “rise and let me look at your ridiculous face” might be the funniest barb Pai Mei threw due to its simplicity and pettiness
"lol, look who's talking!!!", would have been a nice burn. either way the movie is so ridiculous, it actually makes you laugh.
@@giornikitop5373lol the movie would have ended right there if she had said that, and they would've had to redact Volume I
No one has issues with strong women protagonists when they are well written characters who have flaws weaknesses and overcome hardships and earn the success they achieve.
nOoO uR juS a bIgoTphObiSt...
*pearl clutching intensifies
I just realised that's why I hate feminist rhetoric to a degree. Sure if the best person for a role is overlooked because of prejudice then that's outrageous.
But often they look at someone who's worked themselves to the bone to reach the top, and disregard that struggle because "he only got there because he's a man". Jealousy.
@@RJALEXANDER777 Dont worry. im sure you might get laid again before you die. Ever considered hookers?
No one asked
Well yeah, since it's a rarity for women to earn what they have. *cough* child support *couch*
Pai Mei is a master. I don't think the people he trained before could ever understand the mind of a master. It's a different thing that they acquired some training from him.
I don't know but he doesn't appear condescending to me in this clip. He's a genius and easily bored, has his personal views and takes only his art seriously.
Everything said in the beginning about him turns out to be false.
He agreed to train her immediately. I just felt right from the beginning that he liked her immediately.
Ridiculing her was a way of assessing her personality.
Only Murricans complain about such things. Asians find Master being normal like this
@@sopek1427 Agreed. It's just a different philosophy. A master devotes his life to something....be it even something mundane. It's more than "picking up a skill". You want to be a bartender? It's more than mixing drinks. It's understanding how flavors combine. How things compliment each other? The balance of these things.
Yet the perspective in the West is - just a bartender. The same can be said for so many other skillsets. Landscaping, plumbing, making coffee, etc.
I mean, Bill honestly could have been doing that thing where you tell people that your cat doesn't like people when in reality it's a cuddly li'l guy and then they feel like they're really special when your cat warms up to them immediately. Pai Mei is just a big grumpy kitty who is really good at Kung Fu.
Hes ancient tradition- 99 percent of humans are not capable of this training at all - I support his methods
he trained BILL so you are wrong
"What if your enemy is three inches in front of you? What do you do then? Curl into a ball, or do you put your FIST through him?! Now begin!" 🤜🏻👊🏻🤛🏻
For those that think she landed a blow at 6:41, I don't think that counts as a blow because it looks like he was expecting it, allowed her to do it, and used it as a trap to then attack.
more importantly, they had finished the sword fighting. That deal didn't stand anymore
In Karate that the Cobra strike, it's an open palm strike to the throat, which is very dangerous, it can crush someone's windpipe.
Pai Mei is my favorite character in this movie. He is just such a master.
David Carradine and Uma did such great acting in this movie. RIP C. D. Love the actor who played Pai Mei
I want a beard like him
Man I had a good laugh on those sound effects especially when the girl swung her hair and the twist of her legs when she got up. 😂
Ha, old school shit.
The unspoken rule of any swordsman is that you do not draw a blade unless you fully intend to use it. When he told the Bride to pull the sword, she knew that he was telling her it was fight time. Pai Mai was impressed she understood.
Love this part. Pei Mei is a cruel teacher. But he found respect in her.
This scene is still the best parody/homage of all those martial arts movies/manga/anime out there, from Kickboxer/Bloodsport to Kung Fu and Dragon Ball.
Especially Dragonball Evolutions 😊😊😊
I like how when they filmed her training scenes they kinda filmed it like the actual old school kung fu movies from the 70s
That was the major point of this film. To pay homage to Asian Film making interspersed with Spaghetti Westerns
When he said “this arm is mine now” that’s some solid writing for a kung fu master
She repeated that expression when she sliced up the crazy 88s.
Yep, she was the extension of his teachings.
I love training scenes, this one's so legit. haha
Canto speaker here. I find some of the translation not accurate. Below is my attempt for a better version? More like a direct translation. I’m not good with English, so my vocabs are probably limited. Haha.
2:19 Your han language is very bad. I cant understand a word. In fact it hurt my ears. If I don’t tell you to speak, you do not speak.
Your Han language is good or your cantonese?
2:33 Wo speak Japanese…
2:36 I am not asking you about Japanese language, or about Mongolian language. I am asking do you know Cantonese (Guang Dong Language)
4:06You look out of breath. Must be from the few hundred something steps up and feel tired. I think you are only silly, your overall health are very weak as well.
5:05 if I lose to you, then today I’ll kneel down and call you master.
5.25 You seen my kung fu. Now try my leg technique.
5.48 Even a cripple is stronger than you. Again, you garbage.
5.57 I’ve given you the opportunity to demonstrate your kung fu knowledge.
I see you know absolutely nothing.
7.50 Do you want to learn the kung fu style that I used earlier?
I guess that’s all. The rest are okay.
K.tks.bye
2:15 The one leg kneel came about in middle aged Europe. When knights kneeled to the king, their armor was so heavy, they could only kneel on one leg so they could get back up. She should have kneeled with both legs.
i dont know if you tried but kneeling with both legs like that is really uncomfortable and it was done on purpose. its supposed to make your legs numb after a while so you couldnt stand up easily and attempt on the emperor's life
Looking back at this so many years I think I understand what he's doing here: he's breaking her ego.
While I'm sure that he's having a lot of fun insulting and humiliating her, I think it has a purpose. Kiddo believes that she's a strong assassin already. She's good in Tiger Crane and very good with a sword. Pai Mei specifically attacks and insults those skills and when she's angry he humiliates her in combat. In a hard way he's showing her how limited her skills are.
Only when she truly understands, when she's crying from all that pain, does he end the session and say that her training begins. At that point he feels she is truly ready to learn.
It's what the military does in boot camp. Break you down to build you back as a soldier.
Old you was a pathetic little civilian bitch. New you is an obedient killing machine that works in a unit
It's hard to fill a cup that's already full
When a level 20 noob wanders too far into the Wilderness.
Ice Barrage
Love how this scene was filmed. The music, the close in shots, the framing. QT clearly paying homage to 70's kung fu films of his youth and enjoying every minute of it. 🥋
I love how he was content to insult and you with her, until she started fighting dirty and void of skill or honor. But once she did, he ended it quickly.
The Eyebrows of the Master always gets me !! Amazing movie and an amazing scene !!
With every stroke of his beard he gains power
7:02 aint got no time for gold diggers here in this temple 😂
I wish there was an entire movie of this guy
If only.
Executioners from Shaolin
There is on his character, he’s an established character from the older Chinese movies. You should be able to find a history video on him if you search TH-cam
There are several.
As others have stated he is based on a character in old martial arts movies, when Bill is by the campfire explaining Pai Mai to Beatrice that’s basically Tarantino telling you about the films that Pai Mai is in.
Also shortly after KB 2 came out Tarantino had a plan for a film about Bill’s past and the three father figure that raised/trained him. Those being The pimp lord (can’t remember his name)
Okinawa sword smith Hatori Hanzo and Kung Fu master Pai Mai. He wanted it to be animated I think. But it never happened and with David Carradines passing it was cancelled.
Amazing character. Has the same energy as Sgt. Gunnery Hartman, if he were Chinese.
While cruel, he is fair, and there is method to his madness. The fight between him and Kiddo is meant to break down her ego and her arrogance. When he speaks to her, you can see her frustration. Even if he started teaching her on the spot, there's a chance it wouldn't stick because she wouldn't take him seriously. He had to flex on her and show her how big the gap was, break her down to the point where she realized how helpless she was against him. He had to "factory reset" her in a sense, so that he could teach her his way from scratch.
It took me so long to realise that pai mei is played by the actor who played the protagonist in the 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Gordon Liu was one of the greatest kung fu actors in Hong Kong who starred in many martial arts movies during the 70s and 80s, by now he in his 70s
Pei Mei understands English but speaking Cantonese 🔥💯🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who knew he was French.
And he talks so much smack about The japanese culture but yet he knows how to speak it
@@tyreidharry8299shows a lot of wisdom and discipline I'd say.
@@chefboiardeeznutz9881 I agree 110%
@Tyreid Harry - Know thy enemy, I assume would be his case.
The Rza soundtrack to the king fu movie is Epic.
It was destined
In the end he loved and respected her as much as he allowed himself to
Pai Mai's lines to me are the best lines QT ever wrote for any of his characters in any move. Gordon Liu's delivery is also simply perfect. Just like Sony Chiba, who played Hattori Hanzo in Volume 1, he was at the time a huge star in Far East, including China, but both were virtually unknown in the West. This movie and their relatively small but crucial roles opened them to the wider audience.
7:28 I love that all his comments was to humble her and make her realize how she isnt nearly as good as she thought. Thats when the progress can start
This has reminded me how much I love this film. Vol 2 was far more enjoyable for me than Vol 1. Gordon Liu as Pai Mei is spot on.
I remember after watching the first Kill Bill movie and thinking "wow, she is WAY too strong and OP", and loving the spectable of the first movie and all of its action.
The second film I didn't like as much but loved for different reasons. I loved how it defied my expectations where I thought "how could they top the first movie?" they couldn't. So they went a different path by giving us an Origin story about how she became such a legendary warrior, and strongest woman alive.
I always thought it was funny how Uma portrayed the Bride as being so doe wide eyed towards Bill while she's still supposed to be in love with him. I can KIND OF buy it.. but as soon as he's gone, the disappointment begins.
i watched this in the theater and ws so pissed off when if cut screen saing kiddo had a child
oh she is WELL deservingly OP
and that is what makes this the best revenge movie ever
Funny quote: Gordon Liu "Pai Mei" was also "Black Bull King" in the 90's tv show version of Journey to the west. He uses a flamenco song when appears.
0:38 I get the feeling she wanted to say “I love you “ to bill . But who knows .
Great spot, never saw that!
The Pai Mei actor is the same who was the leader of the "Crazy 88", and many years ago the protagonist (the young apprentice) in "The 36th Chamber of the Shaolin".
Pai Mei breaks his students down both physically and verbally, only to build them back up in his own way.
How can these have not won an Oscar? The accuracy of the cinema is just on a level that most can only dream of. Seriously, this is the perfect hero movie.
I Loved Uma in this! I Loved the Entire Cast but Pai Mai was my FAVORITE Character! 😎
i remember when this was leaked online. my father came down from a nother state for a few days he absolutely loved this movie. He would say remember that movie when that girl snatched out that other girls eye. !? makes me laugh every time these clips come up in my feed. we used to watch these Chinese junk fu movies in the 80’s. he said that dude is still playing that flute. 😂😂😂😂
2:55 LOVE that "sudden close up", very authentic 😂
0:15 the warning shots 😂😂
Pai Mei’s Best Student & Bill’s Reckoning! One of Quentin’s Cinematic Masterpieces!!
@6:50 that spin and laugh was cold asf
You mean this spin 6:09 😂
Funny how he states he hates Japanese when he also plays Johnny Mo, leader of the Crazy 88 yakuza who tried to kill her at the House of Blue Leaves.
Gordan liu was the man he made like 75% of those 70s 80s kung fu flicks the other was mei chan hung
I always liked this scene too. How a true warrior comes down the mountain with a busted lip, "he's ready to talk to you now"... Basically is what happened at the beginning there
“When he tells me you’re done.”
I wonder if Pei Mei uses phone, email, or text to tell Bill this 😂
he sends carrier pigeons !
@@johndthottamFuck that he sends an eagle
Thanks for providing the subtitles
I so wish a man like that actually existed
Well. I suggest you take a trip to the shaolin monastery and get introduced to the beginner student for a trial spar.
Dan pena. But if he taught kungfu
Plenty of them do and this man it’s probably one of them
becareful tons of fake kungfu masters in china or everywhere.
Bidenomics
This is so well done and cool at the same time.
That training course is way off in terms of health and safety and its duty of care to attending students. Leaving himself wide open to litigation.
Better Call Saul!
XD
Good luck being able to say half of that to him
Love to see the idiot who tries to serve him a court summons
Man pai mei punching through that wood effortlessly is so awesome
The best side character ever!
I love that Tarantino is near my age, which means we both grew up watching the same cheesy kung fu movies. What an homage this is. Beautifully executed, down to the authentic cheesy music track.
A Chinese teacher of any discipline is like this, for real. They’re very hard on you. Similar in that you have to earn their respect by being ultra respectful to them and through doing as they say and do to get better and better, once you’re good and they can see you do it the way they showed you. You have their respect.
If you are lazy and displease them they don’t bother as much with you as the others and you lose out on small secrets and advantages that they would show you if you were respectful to them.
Piano 😂
@@euminkong cooking also
And racist too
Yes true. LingLing is their favourite student, because LingLing practices 40hrs a day while still being respectful.
Yes, I watch TwoSet Violin.
The pai Mai sequence plus larena in the end is one of the best movieparts ever.
So we’re not gonna talk about the martial arts sound effects at 6:09 when Uma shook her ponytail?🥋😂
I Love that part!!!
@@FrancisRG You and me both! 👍🏾💯
Little did she know her hand was about to really fuckin hurt.
Yes there's a whole lot of Saturday morning right here. Lol. Then comes the music. Yeah i had to laugh.
I love the way he threw that rock aside
This is what Remo Williams and Master Chiun should've been.
Is this the master that taught her the exploding heart technique ? I forget
Yes, not even bill knows how to do that
The man had to obliterate her ego so that she may be taught what true power is
From the very beginning Pai Mei knows he would teach her the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique.
I wonder who wrote the cantonese script. It's all very natural and just funny and great. However a lot was lost in translation in the sub
Apparently the altered translations were on purpose. :/