The character is, like Kiddo, fierce, driven and intelligent but where Jackie is collected and manipulative, Beatrix Kiddo is troubled and violent. Tarantino has form with films led by empowered women, with Pam Grier a prime example in the title role of Jackie Brown. She plays the unhinged, beautiful Gogo Yubari to perfection, challenging both the audience and Kiddo herself to try and talk sense into her, without luck of course. Tarantino’s casting of Japanese actress Chiaki Kuriyama (who also appeared in Battle Royale) adds to this. It is this aspect of the cult classic on which Tarantino hones in, making it perfectly clear from the start to the finish of his two-part epic that women can be just as psychotic, deadly, unpredictable and vengeful as any man – if not more so. With close to a 50/50 gender divide, the film’s female characters as ferocious and violent as any of their male counterparts. Tarantino has previously cited Battle Royale as one of his all-time favourite films, a fact that sheds a lot of light on some of the influences behind Kill Bill.Ģ000’s Battle Royale focusses on a not-too-distant dystopian future, wherein school children are forced to take part in a competition for survival. In Kill Bill, the filmmaker marries the spaghetti western with a Japanese thriller, combining highly stylised fight sequences with bitter, clever, drawling dialogue. In terms of the action, the fact that this protagonist is a woman is neither here nor there in fact, Tarantino and Thurman worked collaboratively to produce and develop the film, which explains a lot of the Bride’s characterisation. What makes the Kill Bill films different from the director’s previous, ensemble-heavy work, however, is its focus on one clear protagonist – more so than even Jackie Brown. Tarantino is notoriously fearless with dark subject matter, and so blood and gore were to be expected. Volume 1 follows Beatrix “The Bride” Kiddo (Uma Thurman) on her calculated, ambitious quest for revenge.
Kill Bill was as much a threat as it was a treat, showing audiences what the director was truly capable of. Fox) backstory (think about it – we still know almost nothing about her) was made up for in gushing wounds and amputations. That figure will come as no surprise to anyone who’s seen the films, because whatever was lacking in Vernita Green’s (Vivica A.
Here was a man who gleefully spilled 450 gallons of fake blood over the course of filming Kill Bill: Vol 1 and its sequel, Volume 2 one that would happily see hundreds executed, so that one of a small handful of main antagonists could die. But once it hit cinemas, Kill Bill proved to be a baptism of fire, which introduced us to an unapologetically more bloodthirsty, excitable Tarantino. Before Kill Bill: Volume 1’s release, audiences were already acquainted with Quentin Tarantino’s interests in extreme violence and casual drug use.
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