![]() ![]() As soon as Beatrix lays eyes on Vernita, we get the memetic music sting (a fragment from Quincy Jones’s theme from Ironside) that is still used to signify white-hot rage on TikTok. It starts with her walking up to the now-retired assassin’s Pasadena home. Take the aforementioned scene where the Bride kills Vernita. Case in point: the SZA song “Kill Bill.” These movies may or may not side with the main character and her violent ways, but audiences stan.Īnd it’s not hard to see why. They’ve been swallowed up by the “Good for Her” cinematic universe, the loose coalition of movies that fans, especially on the internet, celebrate for showing bad girls getting shit done. But they are actually nihilistic, yakuza-movie-inflected meditations on how violence only begets more violence (with iconic soundtracks). 1) have lodged themselves in the pop-culture subconscious as badass-chick “ I’m killing boys” propaganda with iconic soundtracks. But that gray is overshadowed by the bright yellow of the Bride’s jumpsuit and her kick-ass katana fights.īoth Kill Bills (but especially Vol. The Bride herself admits she lacks basic human “mercy.” Taken as a whole, the arc of her journey is morally gray. Vernita and others on Beatrix’s kill list, like O-Ren Ishii, Budd, and even Bill, become somewhat sympathetic right before their deaths. It’s a fatalistic outlook, and something of a bummer once you come to empathize with people on both sides. Go Go’s twin sister, Yuki, was originally going to try and take down Beatrix in a “huge gunfight.” Vengeance in Kill Bill is a hydra cut down one head and three rise up in its place. In fact, after landing a knife in Vernita’s chest, Beatrix invites Nikkia to exact her own revenge someday if she “still feels raw about it.” And there was even more vengeance in original drafts. She isn’t deterred from her plan by the well-being of Vernita’s daughter, 4-year-old Nikkia. Four years later, Beatrix plots her revenge on those murderers, including Vernita Green. She gets engaged, but Bill, her jilted ex-lover, enlists his group of assassins to murder Beatrix’s entire wedding party and almost kills her. Beatrix Kiddo wants to escape her life of violence for her unborn daughter’s sake. Let’s examine the plot of Kill Bill for an example. Tarantino fills his face (and our screens) with cool crimes of violence, and the coolness of those crimes undermines the director’s ambivalence toward that violence. In the Futurama episode “Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV,” an act break begins with this tag: “You’re watching Futurama - the show that does not advocate the cool crime of robbery!” That’s Quentin Tarantino’s whole career in a nutshell. ![]() Head to Vulture’s Twitter to catch the live commentary. This week’s selection comes from Vulture writer Bethy Squires, who will begin her screening of Kill Bill Vol. But that gray is overshadowed by the bright yellow of her jumpsuit and kick-ass katana fights.įor the next few weeks, Vulture will be selecting a film to watch with our readers as part of our Friday Night Movie Club. Produced by a team of pop-culture specialists and enhanced by numerous anecdotes, Cult! movies tells the secrets of the places that made the history of cinema.The Bride’s quest for vengeance is morally gray. What if we also took you behind the scenes of the making of the Hobbits’ village of Lord of the Rings ? Visit the building of Blade Runner before stopping at Hogwarts and finally landing in Jurassic Parkin the middle of the Hawaiian archipelago. Shiver in the real haunted house of Amityville and discover the terrifying anecdotes of the making of Apocalypse Now in the Philippines. The latter are sometimes as exciting as the feature films themselves.ĭid you know that the cemetery where the final duel of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was built from scratch and that no body lies there? Or that the bus of Into The Wild has been moved to discourage fans from spending the night there? From the story of the construction of The Bridge on the River Kwai to the incredible encounter during the shooting of the last scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusadeembark on an exciting world tour with the greatest stars of the seventh art. Since the dawn of cinema, films have invaded the world and highlighted sometimes unexpected places.
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