Kill Bill

USA, 2003.

Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Music Selection & Original Music: The RZA
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Producers: Quentin Tarantino, Lawrence Bender, E. Bennett Walsh
Director: Quentin Tarantino

Genre: Action (blood and violence)

Narrative

Uma Thurman plays a man called “bride” of the female killer, her cherished children, Bill was the assassination of their respective organizations want to leave, so their wedding was organized slaughter of heads of Bill and their henchmen, the first Department shot a whole in a coma for 4 years to start chasing after waking action. Describe the scene to kill the film footprint, from California, Mexico, to mainland China, Hong Kong and Japan. Martial arts film the active role of women living in a Japanese restaurant 25 minutes too amazing fight scenes, the actress nearly bit the face of the attacker, stabbed, and blood spattered at the scene of the bloody start radiance.

Themes

The film director, the story is divided into titles, the first chapter: “The second list of five people”;the second chapter: “Assault on five steps of the bride” the third chapter :”Big Sister Lotus in the background”the fourth chapter :”The Man from Okinawa”; the fifth chapter: “house of life and death battle Aoba”.

Titles: (Memories Death – Hospital) Bill begins with the heroine and his gang were beaten, shot in the head scene. Then is by the commencement of revenge.

Part 1: This section is to carry out revenge. Known as “Copperhead”Killer is a black female married housewife, her to kill the list in second place. Actress drive to start the witch hunt in his home.

Part 2: This section for the flashback story. Black Cobra actress nicknamed was a “deadly viper assassination organization” a member of the organization they want from their wedding in the Bill, a pedestrian was killed, detectives rushed to the crime scene (a church) that the bride Dead, coma four years after the hospital was finally wake up. Bill, another killer, dressed as nurses for the murder of bride and sneak into the hospital failed. The nurses whistling, dressed in white, the cross symbol on the eyeshade.

Part 3: This section for the flashback story. This section tell about “The deadly snakes” members Yuki how to become a gangster’s experience in Japan. The story of her parents were killed a child witnessing the beginning, this fragment is presented by the way of hand-drawn animation. The narrative at the beginning of the Royal Lotus as the center, left and right, the relevant figures appear as if the comic-like. Then, hours later from the palace of lotus eyes hiding under the bed curtain, the lens is still about camera work by the way: from the left eye saw the gangster from the left to see their loved ones.

Part 4: This section is to carry out revenge. Actress went to Japan, revenge, revenge to the cast before the sword master to seek for the knife. Actress in a restaurant a dialogue with the Japanese samurai, tool selection, and the warrior heroine guidance.

Part 5: Actress went to Japan about to start a life and death battle. She by a plane present a unusual sky blood red, there are arguments to interpret feelings of revenge involving actress. Actress wearing yellow tights there, (with Bruce Lee similar clothing). When enemies met in the middle of the red light signal is deliberately arranged under way to exaggerate the red light bathed the ground. This description of the fight scenes, gore, violence, revenge and hatred.

Editing:

The editing style in Kill Bill series is no-linear. The film popularized the use of a large number of re-combination of elements of new ideas, a blend of Hong Kong, Shaw Brothers kung-fu, martial arts films, Japanese samurai movies, horror, Japanese animation, comic books, strong women in films like Revenge and other elements. In the animation, comic books, film animation to join a long movie about ten minutes. During this animation, there are emerging from the mouth of the export figures of the screen text language.

In the application of horror films, beginning in the film in black and white close-up depicts the heroine's face bloodied, and the use of breathing to create a tense atmosphere, reminiscent of black and white theme of vampire-related movies.

The film will also cut into several fragments of the story, the use of temporal dislocation editing techniques, a large settlement in the sub-chapter headings, each paragraph in different ways to break the story flashbacks or recall of time and space, the use of color to the story sound clip or other means of convergence have to lay out the screen or the story more lively and diverse. The film is like a cultural collage, focusing from the fusion of aesthetics and innovation breakthroughs.

Special camera work

This repeated use of the feature film, a scene in slow motion and multi-angle shooting. It is a combination of a variety of lens, including long shot, medium shot, close up and extreme close up. In the fight scene in which the use of a variety of lens switching, more vivid demonstration of the actress’s hatred. Local feature to give viewers visual impact, gore, violence, terror.

Color and Sound:

This film shows a good use of color diversity, which are commonly used colors: black, white, green, yellow, red, blue, orange and so on.

The beginning of the film using a black and white, with a close-up actress head injury, creating a climate of terror and bloodshed. Black and white is also used in the memories of the past practice of using film.

Revenge of the fragments in the red element is used several times. Red stressed the danger of bloody revenge mood. Yellow is main color in this film, the actress wore yellow tights, fighting in the snow scene and the scene in sharp contrast. Showing revenge’ passion and killer’s cold. Blue is cool color, here is applied to the hospital scenes and fight scenes. Hospital with a touch of blue in the desolate, a quiet. The fight reflects the blue of a great use of murderous, a life and death of the border. Green is the color of nature, there is peace, a symbol of security. According to the story, after the fight scenes of view, this green has to create a “calm before the storm” symbol.

Sound:

In the film the outset heroine portrayed in black and white close-up blood-stained face, and use breathing to create tension. In addition, the arrangement of the music, there are many mixed elements. For example: When Dagro. Hannah ready to play nurse to murder, the population became popular in the 60s child star Meryl blowing. Halls whistle; In the Japanese restaurant arena Age Ge-style girl bands; There Nancy. Siona bend before the hippie era of sub-theme song sung by《Bang Bang , My Baby Shot Me Down》.

Genre and Codes:

Kill Bill is a mixed genre movie. It is combines action, martial arts, violence, gore, crime and other types of expression. This type of hybrid approach can more than give the audience a stronger visual impact, and real experience.