History Film / KillBill

* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: The Bride's calling-out of O-Ren at the House of Blue Leaves using her {{Catchphrase}}. In Japanese.[[hottip:*:The Japanese she uses here is ''"Shoubu wa mada tsui janai yo!"'', which roughly translates to "This battle's not over yet!"]]

** In the original script, although the Bride was still honorable, she did have occasional 'reason over honor' moments -- most notably, TBride actually planned to snipe Bill from far away, under the justification that he originally called a bushwhack on her and she was just repaying the favor. She didn't go through with it because [[spoiler:she saw B.B. through the scope and realized that her daughter was still alive]].

-->~ '''The Bride'''

-->-- '''The Bride'''

'''''KillBill''''' is a revenge drama chock-full of QuentinTarantino's favorite things: westerns, samurai movies, martial arts, pop-culture references, {{Action Girl}}s, and [[FootFocus close-ups of women's bare feet]]. ([[AuthorAppeal Don't ask about]] [[{{Fetish}} that last one]].)

While the film was originally conceived as one complete movie, it was split into two parts (''Vol. 1'', released in 2003, and ''Vol. 2'', released in 2004). Watching them together earns you a nice four-hour action romp filled with deliberate over-the-top violence which is just plain [[RuleOfCool cool.]] There are plans for [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521225/ a third movie in 2014.]]

[[ListOfFilmReferencesInTarantinosFilms Here]] is a partial list of the innumerable references to other films in ''Kill Bill''.

!!''Kill Bill'' provides examples of:

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The katana owned by the Bride is so sharp, its creator claims that "If on your journey, you should encounter God, [[BlasphemousBoast God will be cut."]] (The line could also be seen as a reference to the Buddhist belief that to obtain enlightenment, one has to destroy all obstacles on their path, including the Buddha himself -- "If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha".)

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Her meeting with Bill. Bill ''does'' shoot the Bride eventually... With a truth-serum gun. On the Bride's end, killing Bill wasn't really [[RuleOfCool the point]]. She obviously wanted to make peace first.

-->'''Bill:''' He hits you with his fingertips at five different pressure points on your body. And then he lets you walk away. But once you’ve taken five steps, your heart explodes in your body, and you fall to the floor, dead.

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** Perhaps most notable, the live action film adaptation of ''LadySnowblood". Aside from the general similarities in the plot, Vol. 1 uses the film's theme song, and many shots, especially [[spoiler: O-Ren Ishii lying on the ground after her death]], are strikingly similar to those in ''Snowblood''.

* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: The Bride's calling-out of O-Ren at the House of Blue Leaves using her {{Catchphrase}}. In Japanese.[[hottip:*:The Japanese she uses here is ''Shoubu wa mada tsui janai yo!'', which roughly translates to "This battle's not over yet!"]]

* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: The Bride's calling-out of O-Ren at the House of Blue Leaves using her {{Catchphrase}}. In Japanese.

* {{MIB}}: The Crazy 88s, who are apparently a simultaneous ShoutOut to TheGreenHornet and ''TheMatrix'' (Yuen Wo Ping was the fight choreographer for all three ''Matrix'' films and ''Kill Bill'').

** The Bride gets this TWICE. First, she is repeatedly raped while comatose from her assassination attempt, and then she is BuriedAlive. [[IGotBetter She gets better]] both times.

* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: PlayedForDrama when the Bride's legs have wasted away from disuse.

* WorthyOpponent: Each of the [=DiVAS=] expresses grudging respect for the Bride in the course of the two films.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Played with. The Bride is a mass-murderer who, in her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, has killed, hacked off parts of, and tortured her former colleagues, moving coldly onto her next target without even waiting for the blood to stop pooling beneath the chopped-up bodies, but when Elle reveals that she killed the Bride's Master, she ''[[BeyondTheImpossible gets even more]] [[BerserkButton fucking pissed!]]''

** Pai Mei is justified though- he easily avoids The Bride's blade and defeats her [[BeyondTheImpossible while being completely unarmed]].

* WorldOfHam

While the film was originally conceived as one complete movie, it was split into two parts (''Vol. 1'', released in 2003, and ''Vol. 2'', released in 2004). Watching them together earns you a nice four-hour action romp filled with deliberate over-the-top violence which is just plain [[RuleOfCool cool.]] There are plans for a third movie in 2014.

* HeroicSociopath: The Bride.

''KillBill'' is a 2003/2004 revenge drama chock-full of QuentinTarantino's favorite things, such as westerns, samurai movies, martial arts, pop-culture references, {{Action Girl}}s, and [[FootFocus close-ups of women's bare feet]]. ([[AuthorAppeal Don't ask about]] [[{{Fetish}} that last one]].)

Originally conceived as one film, it was split into two parts, ''Kill Bill Vol. 1'' and ''Kill Bill Vol. 2.'' Watching them together earns you a nice four-hour action romp filled with deliberate over-the-top violence that is just plain [[RuleOfCool cool.]] (A "complete" version of the film, sometimes referred to as ''Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair'', was planned for a home video release -- but it has yet to come to fruition.) There are plans for a third movie in 2014.

The story is told in "chapters" and in the non-linear fashion [[SignatureStyle that is common in Tarantino films]] such as ''PulpFiction'' and ''ReservoirDogs''.

The movie centers around an {{action girl}} known primarily as [[NoNameGiven the Bride]], codename Black Mamba, a former assassin who wants to give up her lifestyle, and [[IJustWantToBeNormal pursue a life of normalcy]]. Her former crew, [[MurderInc The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad]], isn't too happy with that; on the day of her wedding rehearsal, they crash the church and slaughter the entire wedding party and the groom, then [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat the ever loving crap out of the Bride spaghetti-western-style]] for good measure -- then their leader, the eponymous Bill, walks up to the Bride and puts a bullet in her head right after she tells him that she's pregnant with his child. Four years later, the Bride wakes up from the coma that bullet put her in, the memories of that day still fresh. The Bride vows to get her revenge on her former teammates and Bill; soon after her escape from the hospital, she starts running down a hit list of her former associates -- and anyone who happens to get in her way -- while leaving Bill for last...

[[ListOfFilmReferencesInTarantinosFilms Here]] is a partial list of the innumerable references to other films in ''KillBill''.

!!This film provides examples of:

** [[KungFu David Carradine]] as a kung fu expert.

** Gordon Liu, who appears as Johnny Mo in "Volume 1", and Pai Mei in "Volume 2", starred in "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin". The style of the Bride's training regimen is modeled after "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin". Also the Wu-Tang Clan's debut album is named in honor of "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin", "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)". The RZA, the creative force behind the Wu-Tang Clan composed the original music for "Kill Bill".

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The katana owned by the Bride is so sharp, its creator claims that "If on your journey, you should encounter God, [[BeyondTheImpossible God will be cut."]] (The line could also be seen as a reference to the Buddhist belief that to obtain enlightenment, one has to destroy all obstacles on their path, including the Buddha himself -- "If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha".)