Summary:
Awakening from a coma, four years after being left for dead at the hands of a ruthless band of assassins, The Bride seek revenge. A prime example postmodern culture. Quentin Tarantino’s fourth film is a bloody smorgasbord of pastiches and homages to Asian action cinema and Spaghetti Westerns.
Analysis:
“This movie reshuffles the elements of the classical Hollywood Western, along with elements of other genres of mass culture, in complicated ways that suggest an allegory appropriate to the age of globalization.” (Mcgee, 2007:236)
“Quentin Tarantino makes movies for movies' sake. An unapologetic pulp scribe, Tarantino thinks nothing (or is it everything?) of dropping scores of allusions to the beloved pop culture of his youth into his movie-universe comedy-tragedies. It's all part of the arch postmodernism that makes this loony, nostalgia-act promoter who he is: repellent child to some, cult hero to others.” (Canavese, 2008)
Canavese, P. (2008) Groucho Reviews Kill Bill, Volume 1. http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/1570 (Accessed on:--.--.--)
Release:
2003
Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Screenplay by:
Quentin Tarantino
Produced by:
Lawrence Bender
Genre/subgenre:
Martial Arts, Chanbara, Exploitation, Rape Revenge, Spaghetti Western
Country:
United States
Cast:
Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, David Carradine, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sonny Chiba
Selected Director Filmography:
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol 1, Kill Bill Vol 2, Deathproof, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained
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