Kill bill

Kill Bill is a two-part American action thriller film released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, which was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Kill Bill, which was originally intended to have a one-time theatrical release, but lasted for more than four hours, was separated into two volumes: Kill Bill: Volume 1, released at the end of 2003, and Kill Bill: Volume 2, released at the beginning of 2004. Both films were well received by critics, many highlighting his directing style and his homage to genres. movies like Hong Kong martial arts movies, samurai movies, spaghetti westerns, girls with guns, and revenge.

In 2011, the two films were spliced together and, along with a lengthy animated sequence, were released under the title Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair at the New Beverly Cinema, in Los Angeles, California.

Synopsis

The story is presented in ten chapters (five for each volume), in a non-linear way, using the racconto, common in Tarantino films.

In Kill Bill: Volume 1, a pregnant woman, identified as the Bride, is butchered and shot in the head at her wedding rehearsal in a small south Texas church by his former comrades from the Deadly Viper Assassin Squad, a group of professional assassins working for the highest bidder, revenge, drug gang warfare and political assassination. For the revenge of her ex-boyfriend, Bill, who was abandoned by the Girlfriend and tried to get away from the gang, to start a new life away from violence.

After falling into a deep coma for four years, waking up to find that she no longer has her unborn baby, she escapes from the hospital and begins an immediate revenge against all the murderers who participated in the church massacre.

Throughout the film, she will take revenge on her first targets, even traveling to Japan to exact revenge on a female assassin who has since retired from the gang to now participate as the leader of the yakuza criminal syndicate. In the end, she faces off against the yakuza gang that defends her in a Japanese nightclub, showcasing the traditions of samurai warriors fighting in a great battle with katanas against more than 50 yakuza assassins. He cuts off their limbs, arms, and legs with his new katana built by a Japanese katana-making legend, and warns them that the wounded can leave, but their severed limbs now belong to her, according to an old tradition of the samurai.

He kidnaps a woman who was his victim's lawyer and lover and takes her to a hospital to be treated for his severed arm with his katana in the nightclub, with a warning message to his enemies, to tell them everything that happened in the party room, what she saw with her eyes and that she will look for them to take revenge.

In Kill Bill: Volume 2, after clearing his first obstacles, he tries to get to Bill, his main target.

Title

Kill Bill can be literally translated into Spanish as "Matar Bill". However, bill in English also means "account" or "receipt", so a freer translation (to appreciate the double meaning) would be "Settle accounts". On the other hand, in Japanese the "l" from "r", and the title reads "キル・ビル" (Kiru Biru). The verb kiru (切る) means "to cut" or "slice," as is done in the movie with the katana.

Cast

The Whole Bloody Affair

Tarantino announced at the 2008 Provincetown International Film Festival that a single theatrical version of the two volumes called Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair with an extended animated sequence was scheduled for release in May. 2009. Showings of the full film began on March 27, 2011 at the New Beverly Cinema. The The Whole Bloody Affair version of the film ran for a week at the aforementioned theater in Los Angeles, and verified to be the original print that premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, before the decision was made to cut it into two volumes due to its approximate four-hour length. The New Beverly screening even retained the French subtitles necessary to present an English-language film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Differences in that version compared to the separate volumes included the "old Klingon proverb"—introduced at the beginning of Volume 1—was not shown, though a dedication to filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku was in its place; the anime sequence is slightly longer with more gore; The battle in The House in the Blue Sheets is in color, which was rendered in black and white for the US release of Volume 1 only; Sofie Fatale lost both arms; the revelation that the daughter of the Bride is alive at the end of Volume 1 is not present, the black and white scene at the beginning of Volume 2 was not shown, while a small interlude is instead musical that leads directly to Chapter 6.

Future sequel

Tarantino spoke to Entertainment Weekly in April 2004 that he is planning a sequel:

"Oh, yeah. I was initially thinking this would be my "Trilogy of the dollar". I was gonna make a new one every ten years. But I need at least fifteen years before I do it again. I already have all the complete mythology: Sofie Fatale will get all Bill's money. She'll raise Nikki, who will face the Bride. Nikki deserves his revenge every bit as much as The Bride deserved his. I could even shoot a couple of scenes to get the actresses at this age. »

According to Tarantino, details have surfaced about two potential sequels, Kill Bill: Volume 3 and 4. According to the article, “Bennett Walsh said at the Shanghai International Film Festival, the third film involves the revenge of the two assassins whose arms and eyes were smashed by Uma Thurman in the first stories. The article adds that the "fourth installment of the martial arts action film will deal with a ring of retaliation and daughters avenging the death of their mothers".

Quentin Tarantino said that, after the completion of Grindhouse, he wants to make two Kill Bill anime movies. One would be an original story about Bill and his mentors, and the other would be an origin story starring The Bride. The latter is more likely to be a prequel, but would also follow the rumor (sequel) reported in Entertainment Weekly in April 2004.

On October 1, 2009, at the Morelia International Film Festival, while being interviewed on an Italian television show after being asked about the success of the two Kill Bill films, Tarantino indicated to the presenter, stating: « You haven't asked me about the third one”, which led to the woman asking if there would be a third Kill Bill movie being produced, to which he replied: “Yes”, and declaring: “The Bride will fight another one! time!". On October 3, 2009, he predicted that Kill Bill: Volume 3 would be his ninth film, and would be released in 2014. He said that he intends to make another unrelated film before checking it out. as his eighth film. He confirmed that he wished for ten years to pass into the Bride's last conflict, in order to give her and her daughter a period of peace.

In a promotional interview for the release of Django Unchained he said "I don't know if Kill Bill volume 3 will ever be filmed. We'll see...although it probably won't". However, in July 2019, Tarantino said that he had spoken with Thurman about a possible sequel, adding, "If any of my movies are going to follow up on any of my other movies, it's going to be a third Kill Bill." In December, Tarantino added that he had talked to Thurman about an "interesting" idea; for a new movie. "It would take at least three years, but it is certainly on the table."