The tone is set in an opening scene, where The Bride lies near death and a hand rubs at the blood on her cheek, which will not come off because it is clearly congealed makeup. There must be presence, physical grace, strength, personality and the ability to look serious while doing ridiculous things.
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(All of the major characters except Bill are women, the men having been emasculated right out of the picture.) "Kill Bill, Volume 1" is not the kind of movie that inspires discussion of the acting, but what Thurman, Fox and Liu accomplish here is arguably more difficult than playing the nuanced heroine of a Sundance thumb-sucker. Someone has to win in a fight to the finish, and as far as the martial arts genre is concerned, it might as well be the heroine. You can sense Tarantino grinning a little as each fresh victim, filled with foolish bravado, steps forward to be slaughtered. Is that because of the level of her skill, the power of her focus, or the depth of her need for vengeance? Skill, focus and need have nothing to do with it: She wins because she kills everybody without getting killed herself. Do they get their name from the Crazy 88 blackjack games on the Web, or from Episode 88 of the action anime "Tokyo Crazy Paradise," or should I seek help? The Bride defeats the 88 superb fighters (plus various bodyguards and specialists) despite her weakened state and recently paralyzed legs because she is a better fighter than all of the others put together. There is a sequence here (well, it's more like a third of the movie) where The Bride single-handedly wipes out O-Ren and her entire team, including the Crazy 88 Fighters, and we are reminded of Neo fighting the clones of Agent Smith in " The Matrix Reloaded," except the Crazy 88 Fighters are individual human beings, I think. Lurking beneath everything, as it did with " Pulp Fiction," is the suggestion of a parallel universe in which all of this makes sense in the same way that a superhero's origin story makes sense. The characters consist of their characteristics. The motivations have no psychological depth or resonance, but are simply plot markers. The movie is all storytelling and no story.
If you think I have given away plot details, you think there can be doubt about whether the heroine survives the first half of a two-part action movie, and should seek help.
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Fox) and O-Ren Ishii ( Lucy Liu), and in "Volume 2" will presumably kill Elle Driver ( Daryl Hannah), Budd ( Michael Madsen) and of course Bill ( David Carradine). She has wiped out Vernita Green ( Vivica A. She reverses the paralysis in her legs by "focusing." Then she vows vengeance on the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, and as "Volume 1" concludes, she is about half-finished.
Is QT thinking of Emily Dickinson, who heard a fly buzz when she died? I am reminded of Manny Farber's definition of the auteur theory: "A bunch of guys standing around trying to catch someone shoving art up into the crevices of dreck." The Bride is no Emily Dickinson. She survives for years in a coma and is awakened by a mosquito's buzz. In the opening scene, Bill kills all of the other members of a bridal party, and leaves The Bride ( Uma Thurman) for dead. His story is a distillation of the universe of martial arts movies, elevated to a trancelike mastery of the material. The movie is not about anything at all except the skill and humor of its making. "Kill Bill, Volume 1" shows Quentin Tarantino so effortlessly and brilliantly in command of his technique that he reminds me of a virtuoso violinist racing through "Flight of the Bumble Bee" - or maybe an accordion prodigy setting a speed record for "Lady of Spain." I mean that as a sincere compliment.
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