Like I said before I was expecting great things from Tarantino’s latest flick and I’m glad I’m not disappointed. <movie-critic-like-comment>A must see…, …if you watch one film this year make sure it is Kill BIll</movie-critic-like-comment>
No reallly this film is really good without doubt the best film this year. I have been doing some browsing on the topic and it would seem there are various thoeries about why Kill Bill has been split in to 2 volumes, and why a majority of scenes in the American and European prints are in Black and White.
The main reason is plainly because of censorship, it would seem that the Asian cut of the film does not have any black and white scenes at all. Also another thing I think Kill Bill was always meant to be a single 3 hour film, however because of the violent content of the film I think Tarantino realised that he had to split the film up so that it would get by the censors. Without a doubt a 3 hour flick with more than 50% scenes of violence would have got an X-rating in the US, meaning that it would not rope in as much money as an NC-17 rated film.
The whole manga anime scene is clearly an addition. Also I suspect the second film will also feature a scene relating to the tail of O-Ren Ishii. Clearly it is Bill who is the swordsmen that killed her father and since Lucy Liu is listed in the cast listing for Volume 2 meaning some sort explaination of there alliance is going to be given. So basically I think this whole sub-story is some thing Q dreamed up after he had thought up the rest of the film. Another thing to note is that Q has not appeared in the story yet, I’m sure he has cast himself as something, I personally think he is going to be ‘The Groom’, also Samuel L. Jackson is in the second film, obviously a significant role. I suspecting the training scene from the trailler will be present in the second film, it is clearly in the one month gap in Japan in the first film. I can’t wait only 4 months to go!
Oh, also did I mention the soundtrack is fantastic as well, Tarantino’s usual mix of old and newish stuff. Funnily enough I just saw the new Chemical Brothers video the other day it’s basically video samples taken from a Kung-Fu series or movies and cleverly edited together, they have even manipulated the faces of the characters to match the words of the song, and the track is quite good which is pretty freaky combination these days.
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