![]() The Bride’s first kill, Vernita Green (Vivica A. (At his peak, even Austin Powers parodied his wire-work.) It was Yuen’s signature balletic, lighter-than-gravity fight style that Tarantino wanted a piece of - especially obvious in the incredible Crazy 88 fight scene. Having cut his teeth choreographing for Hong Kong stars like Sammo Hung, Yuen became the toast of Hollywood after his work on The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. There was a time in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s when the name Yuen Woo-ping seemed, in action movie circles, to be everywhere. Play it while doing any menial domestic chore to make even ironing 400% more exciting. The sound of the coolest car alarm you’ve ever heard, this wailing siren - accompanied by a zoom-to-close-up each time The Bride spots an end-of-level boss - was written by Quincy Jones for classic wheelchair-using-detective show Ironside. 1 remains QT’s most gloriously colourful film. It creates a thrilling visual cartoonishness. It comes through in the cartoonish violence and the pulpy internal logic – but it’s the colours that make it instantly clear that we’re in a hyperreality: the impossibly-green green of Vernita’s lawn, the popping yellow accents of the slide, the eyesore that is The Bride’s ride (more on that below). The signs are clear from early on that Kill Bill isn’t set in our world, but a parallel, heightened version of it. As legend has it, he heard the pan-flute-heavy ‘The Lonely Shepherd’ by Zamfir while dining at a Thai restaurant. 5) The RZA-assisted soundtrackīee-obsessed Wu-Tang rapper turned Hollywood power player RZA, who would end up making his own (less good) martial-arts film with The Man With The Iron Fist, collaborated closely with Tarantino on the outstanding, hyper-eclectic soundtrack. Every guitar twang feels amplified, Sinatra’s warm vocals ringing out with crisp clarity. (“Bill… it’s your ba-” is all The Bride can get out, before her ex-lover shoots in the head.) And then, it’s straight into ‘Bang Bang’ – the stark, monochromatic title sequence soundtracked by Nancy Sinatra’s stripped-down ballad. ![]() When the film proper begins, it does so with a bang. 1, The Bride will deliver the voiceover diss that Sofie Fatale is “dressed like she’s a villain on Star Trek”. So the closest we’ll ever get, it seems, is this hilarious epigraph, “Revenge is a dish best served cold”, attributed to Spock’s ilk. ![]() Here are 88 reasons we’re still crazy about Kill Bill.įamously, QT worked on a Star Trek movie a few years back, but alas, it failed to make it through the Kobayashi Maru exercise that is the Hollywood development process. 1 sliced its way onto the cinema screen, Team Empire presents an epic celebration of a QT movie like no other. Two decades later, it still stands as a cinematic totem – a loving homage to decades of movies past, a postmodern collage of influences as only Tarantino could deliver, and a pulse-pounding blast that only grows bolder and brighter with every passing year. 2 made their way into the world – the most colourful, cartoonish, creatively explosive movies QT has ever made. With his Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman, Tarantino went big – so big that the studio demand his ‘rip-roaring rampage of revenge’ be chopped into two separate movies. And it all came under a title that wasn’t just a neat name, but a directive – its own two-word narrative pitch: Kill Bill. In the six years since Jackie Brown hit the screen, the filmmaker best known for his devotion to dialogue had been working on something completely different – a four-hour action epic, swirling his love of old kung fu movies, revenge westerns, anime flicks, and his ongoing fascination with pop cultural ephemera into his most experimental and adrenaline-pumping work. Two decades ago, Quentin Tarantino unfolded an odyssey. ![]()
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