![]() ![]() Although he eschews the trademark street jive in favour of portentous samurai speak, the irony is laid on thick. Mercifully, Tarantino uses every artifice to remind you it's just a movie, folks! These visual twists include a scene of silhouetted swordplay that owes as much to the Hollywood musical as to the art of Bunraku (Japanese puppet theatre). An ex-DiVA herself, she quit the racket to play happy families, only to wind up with a bullet in her melon.īut getting to Bill is a bloody business. They are The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, headed by Bill - played from the neck down by David Carradine. Mesmerising, she sweeps across the Pacific to exterminate "the vermin" who gunned her down on her wedding day. He deifies Uma Thurman as a McQueenesque icon of cool. Combining the balletic choreography of Hong Kong chop-socky with the operatic bombast of a spaghetti western (and throwing in a little Japanese animé), Tarantino elevates the B-movie to A-grade pop art - ripping off other people's films with inimitable style. ![]() Six years after Jackie Brown, he delivers this savage fairytale guaranteed to blow you away. ![]() After all, it's a Quentin Tarantino flick. "Kill or be killed." It's the dilemma facing The Bride, aka Black Mamba (aka Uma Thurman), in Kill Bill, and you just know which way she'll go. ![]()
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