Podcast 113: Kill Bill: Volume 1

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Kill Bill: Volume 1 Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino

The 3 Guys Podcast

Recorded on 5/13/2023

Here comes the Bride. This week we are reviewing the Martial Arts Masterpiece “Kill Bill: Volume 1” starring Uma Thurman. Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS!

The 3 Guys Rating

4.8/5

Notes From The Show

  • Quick Synopsis

  • Released: October 10, 2003

    Directed By: Quentin Tarantino

    Written By: Quentin Tarantino

    Stars: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks and a bunch of other actors.

    Plot: After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.

    Taglines: In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill.
    Here comes the Bride.

    How did this movie do?
    Budget: $30 Million
    Box Office: $181 Million

  • Casting

    • Quentin Tarantino only had Uma Thurman in mind to play The Bride.

    • 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 (2000) and immediately changed O-Ren into a Chinese-Japanese-American, so that Liu could play the part.

    • Warren Beatty was originally offered the role of Bill. After turning it down, he suggested to Quentin Tarantino that he use David Carradine.

    • Quentin Tarantino has said in interviews that had Warren Beatty taken the part of Bill, the character would have been more of a suave, James Bond-type.

    • Jack Nicholson, Kurt Russell, Mickey Rourke, and Burt Reynolds passed on playing Bill.

    • According to Uma Thurman, Quentin had her watch three movies in preparation for this film: John Woo’s The Killer (1989), Coffy (1973) (Starring Jackie Brown (1997) star Pam Grier), and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964).

  • Trivia

    • The Bride’s yellow outfit was inspired by the outfit worn by Bruce Lee in his final film, Game of Death (1978).

    • When Chiaki Kuriyama (Gogo) was shooting the scene where she flings her ball and chain out, she accidentally hit Quentin Tarantino on the head as he stood by the camera.

    • 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 five minutes.” It is exactly four minutes and fifty-nine seconds from the time she steps forward, and the music cues, until the fatal blow of the duel. From the time she says “five minutes” until the fatal blow, it is precisely five minutes and thirty seconds.

    • They really did cut a baseball in half with a sword, but it was done by Uma’s stunt double.

    • 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.

    • Christopher Allen Nelson, who worked on the special effects, revealed in an interview that over four hundred fifty gallons of fake blood were used in the two Kill Bill movies.

    • Despite being bleeped out in the film, the name of The Bride is revealed on her plane tickets to Okinawa and Tokyo.

    • Approximately $60,000 of the movie’s budget was used on swords and sword accessories.

    • DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino): (long take): After The Bride leaves O-Ren’s door at the House of Blue Leaves (when Go-Go returns inside) the camera follows her down the stairs through the bar, past the kitchen, into the ladies room. We then go out of the ladies’ room, back to the stairs and follow Sofie Fatale along the exact same path to the ladies’ room, ending with the ring of her cellphone. The shot is done in a single, unedited take.

    • The infamous long take scene took six hours to rehearse, and was shot in seventeen takes. After that, Steadicam operator Larry McConkey was rumored to have passed out from exhaustion.

    • DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino): (Red Apple cigarettes): When the Bride arrives at the Tokyo airport, she walks in front of a Red Apple cigarettes advertisement. Red Apple is a “Tarantino brand”, one of several fictional products that are often seen in his films. Julie Dreyfus (Sofie Fatale) is the Red Apple model.

    • DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino): (bare feet): Lucy Liu is barefoot as she runs to kill Boss Tanaka. The band at the House of Blue Leaves is barefoot. The Bride is barefoot as she escapes from the hospital, and tries to regain control of her legs. Uma Thurman’s bare feet were introduced in Pulp Fiction (1994) before her face is shown.

    • The church scene was shot in the Mojave Desert outside of Lancaster, California. Keep an eye out during this scene for cameos by Samuel L. Jackson as the dead organ player and Bo Svenson as the preacher.

    • The license plate for Buck’s truck is a Texas plate that reads PSY WGN. When the movie is shown on network television, and the name of the truck is edited to “Party Wagon”, the license plate remains the same.

    • Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) whistles the theme from Twisted Nerve (1968) while entering the hospital. The whistling from Bernard Herrmann’s composition is isolated until Elle enters a changing room.

    • The Bride refers to Bill’s assassins as the vipers. Their formal title is “The Deadly International Viper Assassination Squad”. Or, for short THE DIVAS.

    • The members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are all named after snakes. Bill drives a De Tomaso Mangusta. “Mangusta” is Italian for “Mongoose”, which are well-known for their ability to fight and kill venomous snakes, particularly cobras.

    • On the wall of the House of Blue Leaves are the letters Q and U. These refer to the first names of Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, as the creators of The Bride.

    • The line “My name’s Buck, and I’m here to fuck” was taken from the opening line in Tobe Hooper’s horror/exploitation film Eaten Alive (1976). Robert Englund’s character says “The name’s Buck, and I’m rarin’ to fuck.”

    • The members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are all named for snakes: Sidewinder, Black Mamba, Cottonmouth, Copperhead, and California Mountain (King) snake. Of the five, only the kingsnake is non-venomous.

    • Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) has been speculated as one of Quentin Tarantino’s inspirations behind the film. Quentin Tarantino admitted in an interview that he is a Xena fan. He praised the show for its action, storytelling, and the magnificence of Xena’s backstory.

    • CAMEO: Quentin Tarantino: When The Bride stands over the remains of the Crazy 88s, a masked Quentin Tarantino is among them.

    • According to David Carradine, the man in the animé flashback who kills O-Ren’s father was a younger Bill.

    • When The Bride is walking towards the stairs, in the House of Blue Leaves, to fight the first round of bodyguards, you see a shot taken from underneath through the glass floor. The soles of her shoes read “Fuck U”.

    • Bill calls The Bride by her last name, Kiddo, in the film’s opening scene. The audience, not knowing her last name, is meant to assume it is simply a term of endearment.

    • Body Count: ninety-five.

    • 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 Trix 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.

Released: October 10, 2003

Directed By: Quentin Tarantino

Written By: Quentin Tarantino

Stars: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Sonny Chiba, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks and a bunch of other actors.

Plot: After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.

Taglines: In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill.
Here comes the Bride.

How did this movie do?
Budget: $30 Million
Box Office: $181 Million

  • Quentin Tarantino only had Uma Thurman in mind to play The Bride.

  • 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 (2000) and immediately changed O-Ren into a Chinese-Japanese-American, so that Liu could play the part.

  • Warren Beatty was originally offered the role of Bill. After turning it down, he suggested to Quentin Tarantino that he use David Carradine.

  • Quentin Tarantino has said in interviews that had Warren Beatty taken the part of Bill, the character would have been more of a suave, James Bond-type.

  • Jack Nicholson, Kurt Russell, Mickey Rourke, and Burt Reynolds passed on playing Bill.

  • According to Uma Thurman, Quentin had her watch three movies in preparation for this film: John Woo’s The Killer (1989), Coffy (1973) (Starring Jackie Brown (1997) star Pam Grier), and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars (1964).
  • The Bride’s yellow outfit was inspired by the outfit worn by Bruce Lee in his final film, Game of Death (1978).

  • When Chiaki Kuriyama (Gogo) was shooting the scene where she flings her ball and chain out, she accidentally hit Quentin Tarantino on the head as he stood by the camera.

  • 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 five minutes.” It is exactly four minutes and fifty-nine seconds from the time she steps forward, and the music cues, until the fatal blow of the duel. From the time she says “five minutes” until the fatal blow, it is precisely five minutes and thirty seconds.

  • They really did cut a baseball in half with a sword, but it was done by Uma’s stunt double.

  • 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.

  • Christopher Allen Nelson, who worked on the special effects, revealed in an interview that over four hundred fifty gallons of fake blood were used in the two Kill Bill movies.

  • Despite being bleeped out in the film, the name of The Bride is revealed on her plane tickets to Okinawa and Tokyo.

  • Approximately $60,000 of the movie’s budget was used on swords and sword accessories.

  • DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino): (long take): After The Bride leaves O-Ren’s door at the House of Blue Leaves (when Go-Go returns inside) the camera follows her down the stairs through the bar, past the kitchen, into the ladies room. We then go out of the ladies’ room, back to the stairs and follow Sofie Fatale along the exact same path to the ladies’ room, ending with the ring of her cellphone. The shot is done in a single, unedited take.

  • The infamous long take scene took six hours to rehearse, and was shot in seventeen takes. After that, Steadicam operator Larry McConkey was rumored to have passed out from exhaustion.

  • DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino): (Red Apple cigarettes): When the Bride arrives at the Tokyo airport, she walks in front of a Red Apple cigarettes advertisement. Red Apple is a “Tarantino brand”, one of several fictional products that are often seen in his films. Julie Dreyfus (Sofie Fatale) is the Red Apple model.

  • DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino): (bare feet): Lucy Liu is barefoot as she runs to kill Boss Tanaka. The band at the House of Blue Leaves is barefoot. The Bride is barefoot as she escapes from the hospital, and tries to regain control of her legs. Uma Thurman’s bare feet were introduced in Pulp Fiction (1994) before her face is shown.

  • The church scene was shot in the Mojave Desert outside of Lancaster, California. Keep an eye out during this scene for cameos by Samuel L. Jackson as the dead organ player and Bo Svenson as the preacher.

  • The license plate for Buck’s truck is a Texas plate that reads PSY WGN. When the movie is shown on network television, and the name of the truck is edited to “Party Wagon”, the license plate remains the same.

  • Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) whistles the theme from Twisted Nerve (1968) while entering the hospital. The whistling from Bernard Herrmann’s composition is isolated until Elle enters a changing room.

  • The Bride refers to Bill’s assassins as the vipers. Their formal title is “The Deadly International Viper Assassination Squad”. Or, for short THE DIVAS.

  • The members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are all named after snakes. Bill drives a De Tomaso Mangusta. “Mangusta” is Italian for “Mongoose”, which are well-known for their ability to fight and kill venomous snakes, particularly cobras.

  • On the wall of the House of Blue Leaves are the letters Q and U. These refer to the first names of Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, as the creators of The Bride.

  • The line “My name’s Buck, and I’m here to fuck” was taken from the opening line in Tobe Hooper’s horror/exploitation film Eaten Alive (1976). Robert Englund’s character says “The name’s Buck, and I’m rarin’ to fuck.”

  • The members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are all named for snakes: Sidewinder, Black Mamba, Cottonmouth, Copperhead, and California Mountain (King) snake. Of the five, only the kingsnake is non-venomous.

  • Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) has been speculated as one of Quentin Tarantino’s inspirations behind the film. Quentin Tarantino admitted in an interview that he is a Xena fan. He praised the show for its action, storytelling, and the magnificence of Xena’s backstory.

  • CAMEO: Quentin Tarantino: When The Bride stands over the remains of the Crazy 88s, a masked Quentin Tarantino is among them.

  • According to David Carradine, the man in the animé flashback who kills O-Ren’s father was a younger Bill.

  • When The Bride is walking towards the stairs, in the House of Blue Leaves, to fight the first round of bodyguards, you see a shot taken from underneath through the glass floor. The soles of her shoes read “Fuck U”.

  • Bill calls The Bride by her last name, Kiddo, in the film’s opening scene. The audience, not knowing her last name, is meant to assume it is simply a term of endearment.

  • Body Count: ninety-five.

  • 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 Trix 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.

About The Movie From IMDB

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | October 10, 2003 (United States) 8.2
Director: Quentin TarantinoWriter: Quentin Tarantino, Uma ThurmanStars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl HannahSummary:

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Cast

Uma Thurman
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The Bride
David Carradine
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Bill
Daryl Hannah
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Elle Driver
Michael Madsen
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Budd
Lucy Liu
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O-Ren Ishii
Vivica A. Fox
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Vernita Green
Julie Dreyfus
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Sofie Fatale
Chiaki Kuriyama
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Gogo Yubari
Shin'ichi Chiba
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Hattori Hanzo
Chia-Hui Liu
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Johnny Mo
Michael Parks
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Earl McGraw
Michael Bowen
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Buck
Jun Kunimura
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Boss Tanaka
Kenji Ôba
...
Bald Guy (Sushi Shop)
Yuki Kazamatsuri
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Proprietor
James Parks
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Edgar McGraw
Sakichi Sato
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Charlie Brown
Jonathan Loughran
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Trucker

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Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, Japanese, FrenchBudget: $30,000,000 (estimated)
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8.2
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | October 10, 2003 (United States)
Director: Quentin TarantinoWriter: Quentin Tarantino, Uma ThurmanStars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah
Summary: After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
Countries: United StatesLanguages: English, Japanese, French
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Quotes

Hattori Hanzo: Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, And like a forest it's easy to lose your way... To get lost... To forget where you came in.

Budd: That woman deserves her revenge and we deserve to die.

O-Ren Ishii: [sword lifted] Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.

[as The Bride gasps]

O-Ren Ishii: You may not be able to fight like a Samurai, but you can at least die like a Samurai.

The Bride: [stands up] Attack me... with everything you have.

[last lines]

Bill: One more thing, Sofie... is she aware her daughter is still alive?

[first title card]

Title Card: "Revenge is a dish best served cold" - Old Klingon proverb.

Copperhead: So I suppose it's a little late for an apology, huh?

The Bride: You suppose correctly.

Copperhead: Look, bitch... I need to know if you're going to start any more shit around my baby girl.

The Bride: You can relax for now. I'm not going to murder you in front of your child, okay?

Copperhead: That's being more rational than Bill led me to believe you were capable of.

The Bride: It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.

Copperhead: Look. I know I fucked you over. I fucked you over bad. I wish to God I hadn't, but I did. You have every right to want to get even.

The Bride: No, no, no, no, no. No, to get even, even-Steven... I would have to kill you... go up to Nikki's room, kill her... then wait for your husband, the good Dr. Bell, to come home and kill him. That would be even, Vernita. That'd be about square.

[first lines]

Bill: Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to. You know, Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know that there's nothing sadistic in my actions. Well, maybe towards those other... jokers, but not you. No Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most...

[cocks pistol]

Bill: masochistic.

The Bride: Bill... it's your baby...

[BLAM!]

The Bride: It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.

Hattori Hanzo: [in Japanese; subtitled] I am finished doing what I swore an oath to God 28 years ago to never do again. I've created, "something that kills people." And in that purpose, I was a success. I've done this because, philosophically, I am sympathetic to your aim. I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut.

Bill: If you had to guess where she was headed next, what would be your best guess?

Sofie Fatale: Guessing won't be necessary. She informed me. She said that I could keep my wicked life for two reasons...

[flashback]

The Bride: 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 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.

O-Ren Ishii: [after she cuts off Tanaka's head, in Japanese] So you all will know the seriousness of my warning, I shall say this in English.

O-Ren Ishii: [in English] As your leader, I encourage you from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you're unconvinced that a particular plan of action I've decided is the wisest, tell me so, but allow me to convince you and I promise you right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo. Except, of course, the subject that was just under discussion. The price you pay for bringing up either my Chinese or American heritage as a negative is... I collect your fucking head. Just like this fucker here. Now, if any of you sons of bitches got anything else to say, now's the fucking time!

[pause]

O-Ren Ishii: I didn't think so.

O-Ren Ishii: [calmly, in Japanese] Gentlemen, this meeting is adjourned.

Hattori Hanzo: What brings you to Okinawa?

The Bride: I'm here to see a man.

Hattori Hanzo: Oh yeah? You have a friend living in Okinawa?

The Bride: Not quite.

Hattori Hanzo: Not a friend?

The Bride: I've never met him.

Hattori Hanzo: Never? Who is he, may I ask?

The Bride: Hattori Hanzo.

Hattori Hanzo: [Serious, switches to Japanese] What do you want with Hattori Hanzo?

The Bride: [Japanese] I need Japanese steel.

Hattori Hanzo: [Japanese] Why do you need Japanese steel?

The Bride: [Japanese] I have vermin to kill.

Hattori Hanzo: [English] You must have big rats if you need Hattori Hanzo's steel.

The Bride: [English] ... Huge.

O-Ren Ishii: [her last lines] That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword.

O-Ren Ishii: You didn't think it was gonna be that easy, did you?

The Bride: You know, for a second there, yeah, I kinda did.

O-Ren Ishii: Silly rabbit.

The Bride: Trix are...

O-Ren Ishii: ...for kids.

[the Bride drags Buck's head to the doorjam]

The Bride: [screams] Where's Bill?

[slam]

The Bride: Where's Bill?

[slam]

Buck: [weakly] Please stop hitting me...

The Bride: WHERE'S BILL?

[slam]

Buck: I-I don't know who Bill is!

The Bride: BULLSHIT!

[another slam; then she notices the words "BUCK" and "FUCK" tattooed on his knuckles, and suddenly has a flashback from her coma]

Buck: Well, ain't you the little slice of cutie pie they said you were. "Jane Doe," huh? Well, we don't know shit about you, huh? Well, I'm from Huntsville, Texas. My name is Buck, and I'm here to fuck, ha-ha-ha...

[back to the present]

The Bride: [gently] Your name is Buck, right?

[Buck's eyes widen]

The Bride: [getting angrier] And you came here to fuck, *right*?

Buck: Wait a minute... WAIT A MINUTE-!

[and with a scream of effort and one mighty slam, Buck is dispatched to the hereafter; she goes through his pockets and finds a large pair of sunglasses, puts them on, then finds a set of car keys with a keychain that says:]

The Bride: "Pussy Wagon." You *fucker*...

[one last slam]

The Bride: [spanking a young member of the Crazy 88s with her sword] This is what you get for fucking around with Yakuzas!

[with a last spank, lets him go]

The Bride: Go home to your mother!

O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese; subtitled] For ridiculing you earlier, I apologize.

The Bride: [in Japanese; subtitled] Accepted.

Hattori Hanzo: [in Japanese; voice-over] For those regarded as warriors, when engaged in combat the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God, or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.

The Bride: [voiceover narration] As I lay in the back of Buck's truck, trying to will my limbs out of entropy, I could see the faces of the cunts that did this to me and the dicks responsible. Members all of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other, that not only does God exist, you're doing His will.

The Bride: Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle your big toe.

Elle Driver: Hello, Bill.

Bill: What's her condition?

Elle Driver: Comatose.

Bill: Where is she?

Elle Driver: I'm standing over her right now.

Bill: That's my girl. Elle, you're gonna have to abort the mission.

Elle Driver: WHAT?

Bill: We owe her better than that.

Elle Driver: NO YOU DON'T! YOU DON'T OWE HER SHIT!

Bill: Will you keep your voice down?

Elle Driver: [whispering] You don't owe her shit!

Bill: May I say one thing?

Elle Driver: Speak.

Bill: Y'all beat the hell out of that woman, but you didn't kill her. And I put a bullet in her head, but her heart just kept on beatin'. Now, you saw that yourself with your own beautiful blue eye, did you not? We've done a lot of things to this lady. And if she ever wakes up, we'll do a whole lot more. But one thing we won't do is sneak into her room in the night like a filthy rat and kill her in her sleep. And the reason we won't do that thing is because... that thing would lower us. Don't you agree, Miss Driver?

Elle Driver: I guess.

Bill: Do you really have to guess?

Elle Driver: [sighs] No. I don't really have to guess. I know.

Bill: Come on home, honey.

Elle Driver: Affirmative.

Bill: I love you very much.

Elle Driver: I love you, too. Bye-bye.

Elle Driver: I might never have liked you. Point of fact, I despise you. But that doesn't suggest I don't respect you. Dying in our sleep is a luxury our kind is rarely afforded. My gift to you.

The Bride: [English] I've kept you alive for two reasons. And the first reason is information.

Sofie Fatale: [French] Burn in hell, blonde bitch! I'll tell you nothing!

The Bride: [English] But I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss. Give me your other arm!

[Sophie screams]

Sushi Bar Assistant: [Japanese] What'd ya want?

The Bride: [English] I beg your pardon?

Hattori Hanzo: [English] Oh..."drink"

[makes drinking motion with hand]

The Bride: [English] Oh, yes, a bottle of warm sake please.

Hattori Hanzo: [English] Warm sake? VERY GOOD.

Hattori Hanzo: [Japanese] One warm sake.

Sushi Bar Assistant: [Japanese] Sake? In the middle of the day?

Hattori Hanzo: [Japanese] Day, night, afternoon, who gives a damn? Get the sake!

Sushi Bar Assistant: [Japanese] How come I always have to get the sake? You listen well... for thirty years, you make the fish, I get the sake. If this were the military, I'd be General by now!

Hattori Hanzo: [Japanese] Oh, so you'd be General, huh? If you were General, I'd be Emperor, and you'd STILL get the sake! So shut up and get the sake!

Hattori Hanzo: [English] Do you understand?

Earl McGraw: Well, this is definitely the work of professionals. I'd guess-timate Mexican Mafia hit squad. Four, maybe five strong.

Edgar McGraw: How can you tell?

Earl McGraw: Well, a sure and steady hand did this. This ain't no squirrelly amateur. This is the work of a salty dog. You can tell by the cleanliness of the carnage. Now a kill-crazy rampage though it may be, all the colors are kept within the lines. If you was a moron, you could almost admire it.

Earl McGraw: Son number one?

Edgar McGraw: Yeah?

Earl McGraw: This tall drink of cocksucker ain't dead.

Earl McGraw: Well, give me the gory details, Son Number One.

Edgar McGraw: It's a goddamn massacre, Pop. They wiped out the whole wedding party, execution-style.

Earl McGraw: Give me a figure.

Edgar McGraw: Nine dead bodies. And we're talking the whole she-bang: bride, groom, reverend, reverend's wife... hell, they even shot that old colored fella that plays the organ.

Earl McGraw: It would appear someone objected to this union and wasn't able to hold their peace.

Copperhead: Look, if I could go back in a machine, I would. But I can't. All can tell you is that I'm a different person now.

The Bride: Oh great. I don't care.

Copperhead: Be that as it may, I know I don't deserve your mercy or your forgiveness. However, I beseech you for both on behalf of my daughter.

The Bride: Bitch, you can stop right there. Just because I have no wish to murder you in front of your daughter doesn't mean that parading her around in front of me will inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business. And not a goddamned thing you've done in the subsequent four years including getting knocked up is going to change that.

Copperhead: So when do we do this?

The Bride: It all depends. When do you want to die? Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow?

Copperhead: How about tonight, bitch?

The Bride: Splendid. Where?

Copperhead: There's a baseball diamond where I coach Little League about a mile from here. We meet there around two-thirty in the morning dressed all in black. Your hair in a black stocking. And we have us a knife fight. We won't be bothered. Now... I have to fix Nikki's cereal.

The Bride: How did you find me?

Bill: [off screen] I'm the man.

Boss Benta: [in Japanese; subtitled] Boss Tanaka! What is the meaning of this outburst? This is a time for celebration.

Boss Tanaka: [in Japanese; subtitled] And what exactly are we celebrating? The perversion of our illustrious council?

Boss Honda: [in Japanese; subtitled] Tanaka, have you gone mad? I will not tolerate this! You're disrespecting our sister! Apologize!

O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese; subtitled] Tanaka-san, of what perversion do you speak?

Boss Tanaka: My father...

[to Benta]

Boss Tanaka: along with yours...

[to Ozawah]

Boss Tanaka: and along with yours, started this council. And while you laugh like stupid donkeys, they weep in the afterlife over the perversion committed today.

Boss Ozawah: Outrageous! Tanaka, it is you who insults this council!

[Throws rag at him]

Boss Ozawah: Bastard!

Boss Tanaka: [Throws rag back] Fuck face!

O-Ren Ishii: Gentlemen! Tanaka obviously has something on his mind. By all means, allow him to express it.

Boss Tanaka: I speak of the perversion done to this council... which I love... more than my own children, by making a Chinese Jap-American half-breed bitch its leader!

[O-Ren quickly runs across the table and cuts off his head]

The Bride: [in Japanese] O-Ren Ishii! You and I have unfinished business!

The Bride: Then give me one of these.

Hattori Hanzo: They're not for sale.

The Bride: I didn't say "sell me", I said "give me".

Hattori Hanzo: [laughs] Why should I help you?

The Bride: Because my vermin is a former student of yours. And considering the student, I'd say you have a rather *large* obligation.

[long pause, then Hanzo walks to the window and writes Bill's name]

Hattori Hanzo: [in Japanese] You can sleep here. It will take me a month to make the sword. I suggest you spend it practicing.

Japanese Businessman: [in Japanese; subtitled] Do you like Ferraris?

Go Go Yubari: [in Japanese] Ferraris... Italian trash.

[Japanese businessman giggles]

Go Go Yubari: Do you want to screw me?

[Japanese businessman giggles again]

Go Go Yubari: Don't laugh. Do you want to screw me, yes or no?

Japanese Businessman: Yes.

[She stabs him in the stomach with a Samurai short sword]

Go Go Yubari: How about now, big boy? Do you still wish to penetrate me?... Or is it I who has penetrated you?

The Bride: [in Japanese] Those of you lucky enough to have your lives, take them with you. However, leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now.

[in English]

The Bride: Except you, Sofie! You stay right where you are!

Hattori Hanzo: Funny, you like samurai swords... I like baseball.

O-Ren Ishii: You might not be able to fight like a samurai, but you can at least die like a samurai.

O-Ren Ishii: Your instrument is quite impressive. Where was it made?

The Bride: Okinawa.

O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] Whom in Okinawa made you this steel?

The Bride: [in Japanese] Hattori Hanzo.

O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] YOU LIE!

[the Bride shows Hattori Hanzo marking on sword]

O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] Swords, however, never get tired. I hope you saved your energy. If you haven't... You may not last five minutes. But as last looks go, you could do worse.

Earl McGraw: Good gravy, Marie.

Edgar McGraw: What'd I tell you, Pop? It's like a goddamn Nicaraguan death squad.

Earl McGraw: You'd better shit-can that blasphemy, boy. You're in a house of worship.

The Bride: Go-Go, I know you feel you must protect your mistress. But I beg you, walk away.

[Go-Go giggles girlishly]

Go Go Yubari: [in Japanese; subtitled] You call that begging?

[serious tone]

Go Go Yubari: You can beg better than that!

Vernita Green: [somewhat to herself, as she gets her daughter's cereal] Black Mamba. I shoulda been motherfuckin' Black Mamba.

Copperhead: So when do we do this?

The Bride: It all depends. When do you want to die? Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow?

Copperhead: How about tonight, bitch?

The Bride: Splendid. Where?

Proprietor: [in Japanese; subtitled] You have to say, "Yes, yes, yes" to any selfish demands they make.

Charlie Brown: [in Japanese] They demand ridiculous things.

Proprietor: Shut up! Do you know what would happen if they heard you?

Charlie Brown: What's gonna happen?

Proprietor: Did you hear about the Tanaka clan? You're gonna get your head cut off.

Charlie Brown: No, I don't want that.

Sushi Bar Assistant: [in Japanese] I'm not bald, okay? I shaved my head.

Sushi Bar Assistant: [in English] Understand?

Earl McGraw: Who's the bride?

Edgar McGraw: Don't know. The name on the marriage certificate is "Arlene Machiavelli." That's a fake. We've all just been calling her "The Bride" on account of the dress.

Earl McGraw: You can tell she was pregnant. Man'd have to be a mad dog to shoot a goddamn good-looking gal like that in the head. Look at her. Hay-colored hair, big eyes. She's a little blood-spattered angel.

Bill: Sofie, Sofie, my Sofie. I'm so sorry.

Sofie Fatale: Please... please forgive my betrayal.

Bill: No more of that.

Sofie Fatale: But still...

Bill: But still nothing. Nothing, except my aching heart, at what she's done to my beautiful and brilliant Sofie.

The Bride: [after quickly dispatching six Crazy 88's] So, O-Ren? Any more subordinates for me to kill?

The Bride: [in Japanese] Go-Go, right?

Go Go Yubari: [in Japanese] Bingo. And you're Black Mamba.

The Bride: Our reputations precede us.

Go Go Yubari: Don't they?

[after Bill tells her not to kill The Bride]

Elle Driver: Thought that was pretty fuckin' funny, didn't you? Word of advice, shithead - don't you ever wake up.

O-Ren (voice): [in Japanese; subtitled] Look at me, Matsumoto. Take a good look at my face. Look at my eyes. Do I look familiar? Do I look like somebody... you murdered?

[looking at the Bride in her coma]

Buck: Price is $75 a fuck, my friend. You getting your freak on, or what?

Trucker: Oh yeah, boy.

[gives Buck the money]

Buck: Now here are the rules. Rule Number One: no punching her. The nurse comes in tomorrow and she got a shiner or less some teeth, jig's up. So, no knuckle sandwiches under no circumstances. And by the way, this little cunt's a spitter. It's a motor-reflex thing. But spit or not, no punching. Now, are we absolutely, positively clear on Rule Number One?

Trucker: Yeah.

Buck: Good. Now, Rule Number Two: no monkey bites, and no hickeys. In fact, no leaving no marks of any kind on her. After that, it's all good, buddy. Now, her plumbing down there don't work no more, so feel free to come in her all you want. Keep the noise down, try not to make a mess. I'll be back in twenty.

[Buck starts to leave, but snaps his fingers and turns back]

Buck: Oh, shit! By the way, not every time but sometimes this chick's cooch will get drier than a bucket of sand. If she's dry, just lube up with this,

[tosses him a jar labeled "VasaLube"]

Buck: and you'll be good to go. Bon Appetite, good buddy.

Nikki Bell: [Nikki comes home from school and sees a wrecked living room, the aftermath of her mother's knife fight with The Bride] Mommy, what happened to you and the TV room?

Copperhead: Oh. That good-for-nothing dog of yours got his little ass in the living room and acted a damn fool. That's what happened.

The Bride: [her first words upon waking from the coma] My baby! My baby!

Hattori Hanzo: [in Japanese] Yellow-haired warrior. Go.

The Bride: [after finally getting her big toe to move] Hard part's over. Now let's get these other piggies wiggling.

Copperhead: We'll have us a knife fight.

O-Ren Ishii: Charlie Brown, beat it.

Hattori Hanzo: [in Japanese] I'm retired.

Sofie Fatale: Burn in Hell you stupid, stupid blonde.

O-Ren Ishii: Your instrument is quite impressive.

The Bride: [voice over] Gogo may be young; but, what she lacks in age, she makes up for in madness.

The Bride: [voice over] It was one year after the massacre in El Paso, Texas, that Bill backed his Nippon progeny financially and philosophically in her Shakespearian in magnitude power struggle with the other yakuza clans over who would rule vice in the city of Tokyo. When the final sword was sheathed it was O-Ren Ishii and her powerful posse.

O-Ren Ishii: [subtitled] TEAR THAT BITCH APART !

The Bride: [voice over] She swore revenge. Luckily for her, Boss Matsumoto was a pedophile. At 11, she got her revenge.

The Bride: Ready?

O-Ren Ishii: Come on.

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