The Bride of course improbably survived the massacre, awakened after a long coma, and in the first film set to avenge herself against the Deadly Vipers and Bill. (Bill is deeply offended that she plans to marry a used record store owner and lead a normal life.)

He's played by David Carradine in a performance that somehow, improbably, suggests that Bill and the Bride had a real relationship despite the preposterous details surrounding it. Bill was responsible - Bill, who she confronts on the porch of the chapel for a conversation that suggests the depth and weirdness of their association. That's one of the ways he gives his movies a mythical quality the characters don't talk in mundane everyday dialogue, but in a kind of elevated geekspeak that lovingly burnishes the details of their legends, methods, beliefs and arcane lore.įlashbacks remind us that the pregnant Bride and her entire wedding party were targeted by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad in a massacre at the Two Pines Wedding Chapel. There is a lot of explaining in the film Tarantino writes dialogue with quirky details that suggest the obsessions of his people. The movie opens with a long closeup of The Bride ( Uma Thurman) behind the wheel of a car, explaining her mission, which is to kill Bill. He isn't copying, but transcending there's a kind of urgency in the film, as if he's turning up the heat under his memories. Web sites have already enumerated his inspirations - how a sunset came from this, and a sword from that. The movie is a distillation of the countless grind house kung-fu movies Tarantino has absorbed, and which he loves beyond all reason.

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