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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Kill Bill: Volume 1 |
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A team of assassins massacre a church full of people attending a wedding of one of their former members, the bride.
However, the bride survives and spends 4 years in a coma. She wakes to find the baby she was carrying gone. She vows revenge on the assassins and their master, Bill.
The bride's first target is Vernita, whom she kills in front of her daughter.
The bride then travels to Japan where Bill's former master and sword maker, Hattori, comes out of retirement to make her a special sword.
Her next target, O-Ren, is in Japan and is the head of a criminal empire. In order to get to O-Ren the bride must fight her way through dozens of swordsmen. She defeats them and after a short battle she kills O-Ren.
The bride then returns to America to continue her vengeful rampage.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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A woman used to be part of an assassination squad lead by a man named Bill. On her wedding day the party is ambushed and everyone is killed. She is shot and left for dead, but she survives and ends up in a coma. Four years later she wakes up. She makes a list of the five people from the assassination squad and plots her revenge. She then goes after each member one by one. She starts out in Japan where she does sword training and has to face a gang of 88 people. This is part one of a two part series.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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A pregnant Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) is left for dead at her wedding. After four years in a coma, she wakes to seek revenge for her loss. She journeys to the Far East, learns to wield a sword like an expert and slashes through all her enemies to end in bloody triumph.
--Sherrie Mills, Resident Scholar
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"The Bride" (Thurman) used to be a member of an elite team of female killers called the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (DiVAS). Four years before, she left the team to marry the love of her life in a small Texas town, but her former colleagues and their boss, "Bill," showed up at the wedding and slaughtered everyone, including the pregnant bride. Shot in the head, she remained in a coma for four years. When she awoke, the Bride vowed revenge on them all, and in this 2003 movie (the first of two), she faces down Copperhead (Fox) and Oren-Ishii, aka Cottonmouth (Liu), who has since become yakuza boss of Tokyo. Writer-director Tarantino's movie is an exercise in pure, joyous style, with homage to Hong Kong kung fu movies, Japanese anime (Ishii's background is told all in cartoon), TV shows like "The Green Hornet" and "Ironside," previous Tarantino movies and characters, and even Trix cereal. There are considerable balletic fight scenes as well as a lot of comic but over-the-top gore.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) wakes from a coma four years after a team of assassins attempt to kill her on her wedding day. With the loss of her unborn child she seeks revenge for what they did to her. This movie explores the relationship between gender, violence and maternity with action packed scenes and exaggerated violence. This is not for the faint hearted as there are explicit references to rape, torture and pedophilia as well as more blood, dismemberment and murder than you could summon if you went to a slaughter house.
--Solace, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Kill Bill: Volume 1 |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 66%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 12%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 22%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
If a cartoon...
- part real, part animated
Combat acrobatics/martial arts?
Yes
Kind of movie
- combat acrobatics/bullet time
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- killer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- is very quick
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, straight (woman)
Body type
- skinny (woman)
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Body type
- average (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- skinny (woman)
- average (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Other Asian
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Texas
- Southwest
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
- hundreds
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- diced
- impaled
- decapitated
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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