KILL BILL VOLUME 1 - 2 (Quentin Tarantino - Uma Thurman)

Kill Bill Volume 1

Kill Bill vol. 1 è un film del 2003, scritto e diretto da Quentin Tarantino. È la prima parte di Kill Bill.
L'idea del film nacque sul set di Pulp Fiction, nel 1994. Tarantino e Uma Thurman, attrice protagonista in quel film, pensarono al film proprio ricordandosi la storiella del pilota che Mia raccontava a Vincent nel locale. Sul set della scena, Tarantino e Uma si accordarono sul da farsi per il film e pensarono che per la prima volta la donna dovesse essere mostrata con il volto imbrattato di sangue: da qui «La sposa imbrattata di sangue».
Dopo Pulp Fiction, però la Thurman e Tarantino divisero le loro strade; Uma continuò la sua carriera, Tarantino si dedicò a Niente di nuovo sotto il sole, un episodio della serie E.R. - Medici in prima linea. In questi anni Tarantino mise da parte il copione di Kill Bill per dedicarsi a un film di guerra (Bastardi senza gloria, uscito nel 2009), per poi trarre dal libro Punch al rum (Rum Punch) di Elmore Leonard il film Jackie Brown. Dopo tre anni da Jackie Brown, il regista incontrò nuovamente Uma Thurman e pensò di poter riesumare lo script di Kill Bill che entrambi avevano iniziato a realizzare. Tarantino pensò di girare Kill Bill come regalo di compleanno per i 30 anni compiuti da Uma. Dopo l'inattesa gravidanza della donna (il regista non rinunciò comunque a voler girare con lei) iniziarono le riprese del film.
Nonostante abbia girato un'unica pellicola, per stessa ammissione del regista, i due film (volume 1 e Kill Bill volume 2) hanno degli elementi caratterizzanti. Se il secondo volume è più "occidentale", ispirato allo spaghetti-western, a Sergio Leone e a tutti i suoi miti ispiratori, questo primo film appare invece più proteso verso l'oriente, con le atmosfere da film di kung-fu, con riferimenti a film con Bruce Lee e capolavori del genere come Cinque dita di violenza. Non a caso, la versione giapponese del film contiene una dedica al regista nipponico Kinji Fukasaku, regista particolarmente ammirato da Tarantino per il suo stile violento e dinamico.
La sequenza in stile anime narrante il passato di O-Ren è a cura di Production I.G., studio d'animazione giapponese famoso per Ghost in the Shell.


"La vendetta è un piatto che va servito freddo"

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Kill Bill Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts action film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the first of two Kill Bill films produced at the same time, and was followed by Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004). It was originally set for a single theatrical release, but with a runtime of over 4 hours, it was divided into two films. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who seeks revenge on an assassination squad led by Bill (David Carradine) after they try to kill her and her unborn child. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success.
A woman in a wedding dress, the Bride (Uma Thurman), lies wounded in a church, having been attacked by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. She tells their leader, Bill (David Carradine), that she is carrying his baby. He shoots her.
Four years later, the Bride goes to the home of Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), planning to kill her. Both women were members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, which has since disbanded; Vernita now leads a normal suburban family life.The women fight briefly until Vernita's daughter comes home from school. Her daughter Nikki is sent to her room. The women talk it out agreeing to a knife fight that night. She tries to kill the Bride with a pistol hidden in a box of cereal, but the Bride throws a knife into her chest, killing her. As the Bride pulls the bloody knife from out of her chest, Nikki walks in and the Bride tells her, that if she grows up and still feels raw about it, the Bride will be waiting.
In a flashback, the Bride lies comatose in hospital. Deadly Viper Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) prepares to assassinate her via lethal injection, but Bill aborts the mission at the last moment, considering it dishonorable to kill the Bride when she cannot defend herself.
The Bride awakens from her four-year coma and is horrified to find she is no longer pregnant. A hospital worker, Buck, has been raping her while she was comatose. She kills him, takes his truck, and teaches herself to walk again. Resolving to kill Bill and all four members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, she picks her first target: O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), now the leader of the Tokyo Yakuza.
The Bride travels to Okinawa to obtain a sword from legendary swordsmith Hattori Hanzō (Sonny Chiba), who has sworn never to forge a sword again. After learning that her target is his former student, Bill, he agrees to forge his finest sword for her.
The Bride tracks down O-Ren at a Tokyo restaurant and defeats her Yakuza army, including the elite Crazy 88 and O-Ren's bodyguard, schoolgirl Gogo Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama). She duels with O-Ren in the restaurant's Japanese garden and scalps her.
The Bride tortures O-Ren's assistant and Bill's protege Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) for information about Bill, but leaves her alive as a threat. Bill asks Sofie if the Bride knows her daughter is alive.


"Revenge is a dish best served cold"  

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Regista-Director: Quentin Tarantino
Fonti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill_Volume_1 - http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill_vol._1

Kill Bill vol. 2

Kill Bill vol. 2 è la seconda parte di Kill Bill, quarto film del regista americano Quentin Tarantino, con Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks e Perla Haney Jardine nella sua prima apparizione cinematografica.
Quentin Tarantino stesso, regista della pellicola, ha asserito che - nonostante lui abbia girato un'unica pellicola - il volume 1 e il volume 2 hanno degli elementi caratterizzanti: infatti, se il primo volume è più orientale, dedicato ai film di kung-fu, allo Yakuza film e a tutti i suoi miti ispiratori, il volume 2 appare invece proteso verso l'occidente, con le atmosfere da spaghetti-western, con riferimenti a film di Sergio Leone, la presenza di almeno sei tracce della colonna sonora eseguite da Morricone (tratte tra l'altro dalla Trilogia del dollaro e da altri film più o meno conosciuti), e una dedica finale allo stesso Leone, a Charles Bronson e a Lee Van Cleef.

« Ho ucciso tante persone per arrivare fin qui. Ma ne devo uccidere ancora una. L'ultima. Quella da cui sto andando ora: la sola rimasta in vita. E quando sarò arrivata a destinazione, io ucciderò BILL. »
(La Sposa nei titoli di testa)
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Kill Bill Volume 2 is a 2004 martial arts action film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the second of two volumes that were released several months apart. It was originally scheduled for a single theatrical release, but was divided into two films with its running time being over four hours. Kill Bill Volume 1 was released in late 2003, and Kill Bill Volume 2 was released in early 2004.
The story follows a character initially identified as "The Bride", a former member of an assassination team who seeks revenge on her ex-colleagues who massacred members of her wedding party and tried to kill her. Her actual name is revealed in Volume 2.
In a flashback set before the events of Volume 1, the pregnant Bride and her groom rehearse their wedding. Bill, her former lover, father of her child, and leader of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, arrives unexpectedly. On Bill's orders, the Deadly Vipers kill everyone at the wedding, but the Bride survives and swears revenge.
Four years later, the Bride has already assassinated the former Deadly Vipers Vernita Green and O-Ren Ishii. She goes to the trailer of Bill's brother and former Deadly Viper Budd (Michael Madsen), planning to ambush him. Budd is expecting her and shoots her in the chest with a shotgun blast of rock salt, then sedates her. He calls Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), another former Deadly Viper, and arranges to sell her the Bride's Hanzō sword for a million dollars. He seals the Bride inside a coffin and buries her alive.
In a flashback, Bill tells the young Bride of the legendary martial arts master Pai Mei (Gordon Liu) and his Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, a death blow that Mei refuses to teach his students. Bill takes the Bride to Mei's temple to be trained by him. Though Mei initially ridicules her, she gains his respect. In the present, the Bride uses Mei's martial arts techniques to break out of the coffin and claw her way to the surface.
Elle arrives at Budd's trailer to buy the sword. Budd dies after being bitten by a black mamba Elle hid with the money. She calls Bill and tells him that the Bride killed Budd, and that she has killed the Bride. She uses the Bride's real name: Beatrix Kiddo.
As Elle exits the trailer, Beatrix ambushes her and they fight. Elle, who was also taught by Pai Mei, reveals that she poisoned him after he plucked out her eye. Beatrix plucks out Elle's remaining eye and leaves her screaming in the trailer with the black mamba.
Beatrix tracks Bill to the Mexican countryside, and discovers that their daughter B.B. (Perla Haney-Jardine) is alive and well, now aged four. She spends the evening with Bill and B.B. After Beatrix puts B.B. to bed, Bill shoots Beatrix with a dart containing truth serum and interrogates her.
In a flashback, Beatrix is on a mission to assassinate Lisa Wong. She discovers she is pregnant with Bill's child. She is confronted by Karen Kim, an assassin sent by Lisa Wong to kill Beatrix. When Karen learns Beatrix is pregnant, they agree to abort their missions and go home.
In the present, Beatrix tells Bill that she left him and the Deadly Vipers to give their child a better life. She disables Bill with the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, which Pai Mei secretly taught her. Bill makes his peace with her and dies. Beatrix leaves with B.B.

"As I said before, I've allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons. And the second reason is so you can tell him [Bill] in person everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know they'll all soon be as dead as O-Ren."
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Regista-Director Quentin Tarantino
FONTI: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill_vol._2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Bill_Volume_2