Kill Bill references...

[glen]

The most obvious, to me, was the one to Bruce Lee in his last film, where he wore the same yellow jumpsuit as Uma.

 

[0roo0roo]

kill bill influences thread , has some pics
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=277837

THE GEEK'S GUIDE TO KILL BILL

Quentin Tarantino established his movie-geek cred with his 1992 debut Reservoir Dogs, a thriller that copped classic moves from Hong Kong actioner City on Fire, noir classic The Killing and '70s heist flickThe Taking of Pelham One Two Three. His cinephilia reaches berserk levels in Kill Bill. Here are some of the movies you'll find inside Quentin's meta-grindhouse epic:

* Battle Royale (2000): Tarantino wrote the role of O-Ren's bodyguard Go Go Yubari for Chiaki Kuriyama, who played a similarly murderous schoolgirl in Kinji Fukasaku's bloody satire. Kill Bill's soundtrack includes excerpts from the scores of several brutal Fukasaku yakuza movies, as well as film music by Isaac Hayes and Bernard Herrmann. (The Bride's musical motif is Quincy Jones' theme for TV's Ironside.)

* Drunken Master (1978): Before contributing his fighting finesse to The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and now Kill Bill, Master Yuen Wo-Ping choreographed and directed this hit for a pickled Jackie Chan.

* Jin-Roh (1998): One of many sterling anime films by Production I.G., the company that created the harrowing sequence in which O-Ren witnesses the murder of her parents.

* Lady Snowblood (1973): Besides borrowing Meiko Kaji's theme song (you can hear it when the Bride flies into Tokyo), Tarantino owes much of Kill Bill's storyline and sexual politics to Toshiya Fujita's samurai movie about a steely female avenger.

* Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975): The titular weapon inspired the mace-like contraption that Go Go uses to get medieval on Uma's ***.

* The Street Fighter (1974): Sonny Chiba's sideburns never looked cooler than in this action classic. In Kill Bill, the Japanese tough guy plays Hattori Hanzo, the swordsman who makes the Bride's blade.

* They Call Her One Eye (1974): Daryl Hannah's Elle Driver owes her eyepatch to the heroine of this banned-in-Sweden rape-revenge movie.

* The 36 Chambers of Shaolin, a.k.a. The Master Killer (1978): One of numerous kung-fu classics actor Gordon Liu made at Shaw Brothers (the Hong Kong studio's Shaw Scope logo is Kill Bill's first image). Liu plays one of O-Ren's masked henchmen in Vol. 1. In Vol. 2, he is Pei Mei, the 100-year-old Shaolin monk who shows the Bride how to raise the movie's body count into the upper three-digits.

It's from Eye magazine, website www.eye.net


big general killbill
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=277881&perpage=25&pagenumber=2 some in there i didn't get.

ebert points out a few too, some which i missed. http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-killbill10f.html there are tons

even a gogo thread
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=277391

its a film geek kill bill thread rampage on rt forums.

 

[glen]

very interesting!

 

[new2AMD]

Amazing what you can find.

 

[glen]

No one else has mentioned the Bruce Lee reference, astonishing!
Let me find a picture to show you what I am talking about.

Bah... I can't find a nice color screen shot, but you can tell here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/GameofDeath-1008085/preview.php
Now, if I can remember why Bruce Lee was wearing that ridiculous Yellow and Black sort of 70's sweatsuit, maybe I can figure out if there is a deeper meaning in Uma's wearing of it other than simply paying homage to Bruce.

 

[new2AMD]

I believe its been covered and it wasnt trying to be subtle. It was an obvious use.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: new2AMD
I believe its been covered and it wasnt trying to be subtle. It was an obvious use.

Right, I would not catch anything subtle untill I saw the film 20 times. It is so obvious that I am surprised more folks are not keyed into it.

 

[geno]

My friend who went to see the movie with me named numerous references to Ninja Scroll, never seen it myself though. His take on the movie was that it was a live action anime, hence the wacky blood-spraying effects

 

[new2AMD]

Does that yellow- and black-striped jumpsuit the hero wears look familiar? Then you're one of those people who've seen Game of Death, a Bruce Lee movie in which the martial-arts master has the...same jumpsuit!

 

[wnied]

The thing that makes me laugh most about Tarantino, is his whole career is based off of copying other peoples work and trying to pass it off as his own originality, simply because he uses it in a different context in his movies.

Buy a bottle of Coke, take off the label, make your own label, put it on the bottle, resell the bottle to others as your own.
~wnied~

Tarantino = Filmschool Fanboi wannabe.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: wnied
The thing that makes me laugh most about Tarantino, is his whole career is based off of copying other peoples work and trying to pass it off as his own originality, simply because he uses it in a different context in his movies.

Buy a bottle of Coke, take off the label, make your own label, put it on the bottle, resell the bottle to others as your own.
~wnied~

Tarantino = Filmschool Fanboi wannabe.

Well, for one he is not trying to pass it off as his originality.
It is a literary device called allusion.

People as far back as Shakespere, the Greek playwrites, and further back all did it.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: wnied
The thing that makes me laugh most about Tarantino, is his whole career is based off of copying other peoples work and trying to pass it off as his own originality, simply because he uses it in a different context in his movies.

Buy a bottle of Coke, take off the label, make your own label, put it on the bottle, resell the bottle to others as your own.
~wnied~

Tarantino = Filmschool Fanboi wannabe.

lol wtf are you talking about. tarentino himself has been one of the most influencial directors of the last few years. how many directors have copied him after pulp fiction... too many to count.

everyone builds on others. when film first came out, directors didn't do cuts, they filmed from one perspective continuously as if you were watching a play. they thought any cuts would confuse an audence

 

[Babbles]

Hell, I thought it was pretty obvious that Taratino was making this movie as a homage to other flicks, not to take any sort of credit.

And, like somebody mentioned, tons of movies have ripped off, or rather tried to, Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs.

 

[Sid59]

bump for a good thread.

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: wnied
The thing that makes me laugh most about Tarantino, is his whole career is based off of copying other peoples work and trying to pass it off as his own originality, simply because he uses it in a different context in his movies.

Buy a bottle of Coke, take off the label, make your own label, put it on the bottle, resell the bottle to others as your own.
~wnied~

Tarantino = Filmschool Fanboi wannabe.

Actually that's Puff Daddy.

Tarantino was on a radio station last week and he all he kept saying was how he made this movie as a tribute to his favorite movies.