Kill Bill - Pussy Wagon Keychain

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Ability over Appearance: Quentin Tarantino originally intended to cast a Japanese actress to play O-Ren Ishii, but before casting began, he saw Lucy Liu's work in Shanghai Noon, and immediately changed O-Ren into a Chinese-Japanese-American so that Liu could play the part. When the first grade teacher (Venessia Valentino) takes roll, she calls out one real-life name: Marty Kitrosser. Martin Kitrosser has served as script supervisor on all of Tarantino's films. A shot of The Bride stabbing two Crazy 88s at once using her own sword as well as another Crazy 88's sword. At the beginning of the fight scene between O-Ren and The Bride, after O-Ren says, in Japanese, "I hope you saved your energy. If you haven't you may not last 5 minutes", it is exactly 4 minutes and 59 seconds from the time she steps forward and the music cues, until the fatal blow of the duel. The Bride goes to Okinawa to obtain a sword from the legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō, who has sworn never to forge a sword again. After learning that her target is Bill, his former student, he crafts his finest sword for her. The Bride travels to Tokyo to find another Deadly Viper, O-Ren Ishii, now the leader of the Tokyo yakuza. After witnessing the yakuza murder her parents when she was a child, O-Ren took vengeance on the yakuza boss and replaced him after training as an elite assassin.

In Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madsen's character attempts to kill a cop by dousing him with a can of gasoline, intending to burn him alive. In Kill Bill Vol. 2, the same gas canister can be seen in Bud's (Michael Madsen) trailer as The Bride attempts to enter.Pai Mei punching through a wooden plank, leaving a round hole as opposed to "regular" wood splinters, may be a reference to this ability, attributed to several martial arts masters - among them Masusatsu Oyama (founder of the Kyokushin school of karate) who, in martial arts folklore, is said to have punched such a hole in an oak door to grab the wrist of a burglar trying to enter his house a b Downey, Ryan J. (October 13, 2003). " 'Kill Bill' Slays Box-Office Competition". MTV. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012 . Retrieved June 29, 2011. Cast the Expert: The brothel segment, where the Bride meets with Esteban Vihaio, was the last scene of the movie to be shot. It was filmed at a real Mexican brothel, and all of the female extras were the actual sex workers employed there.

Hattori" means "weapon" in a feminine context in the Hindi language, the modern form of Sanskrit language, the ancient language for Hinduism and Buddhism. The line that O-Ren and The Bride speak together in the House of Blue Leaves - "Silly rabbit / Trix are for kids" - refers to an advertising slogan for breakfast cereal. It is also a cryptic reference to The Bride's name, which in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) is revealed to be Beatrix Kiddo. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) - Video Sales". The Numbers. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018 . Retrieved September 10, 2018. Upon capturing The Bride, Budd utters the line "I just caught me the cowgirl ain't never been caught.". This is a reference to The Driver (1978) in which Bruce Dern says, "I'm gonna catch the cowboy that's never been caught."

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Julie Dreyfus speaks three different languages in the movie. She speaks fluent Japanese until the end where she speaks in her native French to insult the Bride (Uma Thurman) and then in clear English when she talks to Bill. In real life, Julie Dreyfus is trilingual. As The Bride wanders Hattori Hanzō’s hideout, she eyes his katana collection like a kid in a candy shop. Here, she reaches out, tantalized by the weapon before her —before, in one fell swoop, it is taken away (“These are not for sale”). Alike begged Laura to buy her a strap-on in Dee Rees’“Pariah;” here The Bride has traveled halfway around the world in pursuit of her very own katana-as-phallus.

In the original script, Bill told the Bride the story of Pai Mei in the jeep on the way to the temple. The woman playing Mrs. Harmony is stuntwoman Jeannie Epper, featured (along with Zoë Bell) in the documentary Double Dare (2004). Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to the 1973 film Lady Snowblood, grindhouse cinema, martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation and spaghetti Westerns. It features an anime sequence by Production I.G. Volume 1 is the first of two Kill Bill films made in a single production. They were planned as a single release, which Tarantino split into two films to avoid having to cut scenes. Volume 2 was released six months later. Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a former assassin who swears revenge on a group of assassins ( Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their leader, Bill ( David Carradine), who tried to kill her and her unborn child. Her journey takes her to Tokyo, where she battles the yakuza.

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Although The Bride has Hattori Hanzo craft her a sword to exact revenge against Bill and the Vipers, she only uses the blade to kill O-Ren Ishii. The name Johnny Mo is a reference to the Chinese director of Hero (2002), Yimou Zhang, whose name when spoken would sound almost the same. It’s not a good ride for that,” Tarantino said. “It’s cool and it’s fun every once in a while to take it out for a Sunday drive. But I wouldn’t run errands in it.” In one version of the script for Volume II, Pai Mei's lips would be speaking Cantonese while his voice (dubbed by Tarantino) would be in English, imitating a bad dub job. Quentin Tarantino owns the "Pussy Wagon" and drove as his everyday vehicle to promote the release of Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004). He licensed use of it for the Missy Elliott music video, "I'm Really Hot". It also appears in the video for "Telephone" by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Knowles.