You may find this hard to believe but Kill Bill: Volume 1 was my first film of Quentin Tarantino. Though at the time I never really heard of him as well as I was never truly introduced to his work even though I see the preview of Pulp Fiction and yet I didn't know that was his film. Really it was around the time Once Upon a Time in Mexico was release directed by Robert Rodriguez and he mentioned him being a friend though again I had no clue that he's a famous writer and director. And the fact that Kill Bill 1 is twenty years old, I figured well now's the time to go back and watch this great revenge movie. Since this is a Quentin Tarantino movie, I'm going to keep my David Carradine jokes to a minimum because any movie Quentin Tarantino's done has always been amazing well except for Death Proof. Oh, did you know David Carradine died from auto-erotic asphyxiation?
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride (Uma Thurman), wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill (David Carradine) attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an inhabitable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies.
To really understand Quentin Tarantino is to understand a man whose watched a lot of movies growing up upon which he did, even worked at a movie rental place which housed a tone of movies and to make a long story short he watched pretty much all of them and yet the man is pretty much one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and he's only made nine movies so, important lesson if your wanting to make movies yes pick up a camera and do it but most importantly when it comes to writing and finding your genre or choice of movie, basically watch any movie you can muster from every classic movie to every b-movie and any recent movies that come out. The development of the Kill Bill goes back during the production of Pulp Fiction for which was the first movie with Uma Thurman was in, during the course of shooting Uma's scenes both Quentin and Uma we're talking about wanting to make a revenge movie with the style of a Kung-Fu movie and the collaboration went on and on though through the course of life Tarantino went on to Jackie Brown then wanted to make a WWII movie. Then through the course of 2000-2001 Tarantino reunite with Thurman who at the time became a mother for which inspired him to write that into Thurman's character. At the time when I was a young naive kid, I never quite understood the movie in terms the style of the movie or a kung-fu sense of a movie in which the movie is based on and if you haven't seen a ton of seventies style of martial arts films this was pretty much a love letter to that genre. The interesting fact is that this movie is indeed one whole story once you watch volume 1 and 2, though at the time the movie was a whole four hours so you really couldn't release this movie whole, so you'd have separate the films and luckily both films were released six months prior to the first films release. The thing that makes Quentin Tarantino such a great director is that he's able to take actors don't have in a sense much of a film career and will get to David Carradine in the second movie because he's in a good portion of the second movie but Vivica A. Fox and Lucy Liu whose been in a few movies I like but when it comes to Fox this movie is the only one I can watch, okay getting back on track, what Tarantino does such a great job in is that he's able to cast actress like Fox and Liu with the ability that they can act in the way where they can be iconic I mean sure Liu at the time was infamous for Charlies Angles but when it comes to this movie she really shines in playing a villainous Yakuza boss who will kill without mercy and Tarantino has that unique ability to get these actors to act out these complex characters and will dive into that when we get to Kill Bill Volume 2 later. The fact that the movie is only one hour and fifty-two minutes not once did I touch my phone while the movie was going granted I had to stop the film to go take a piss or research something on my phone but through the course of the whole movie I was focused on Thurman's character arc through the final frame of the movie and looking forward to re-watching the second part of the film. If I had to pick a film or two that you would most certainly watch from Quentin Tarantino's filmography it would most certainly be Kill Bill films and Pulp Fiction but then again all of his films are great (except for Death Proof) so it's like picking his favorite kid you can't really answer that question, I can't find it anywhere in terms of streaming the movie for free but if you have the money I would highly recommend ordering the Kill Bill films on Blu-Ray or DVD which ever player you have and I promise you when saying this that it will be worth your time especially if you like streams of blood going everywhere in a ridiculous fashion.
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