21 Facts From Behind the Scenes of Kill Bill Vol. 1

Fuel your quest for vengeance with these fun facts from Tarantino's masterpiece.

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    Yellow - GO FOR THE KILL DM @poppingremlins KILLBILL THE FOURTH FILM BY QUENTIN TARANTINO MERUAY According to Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman in the DVD documentary, the idea for doing "Kill Bill began during the filming of Pulp Fiction (1994). The two began talking about the kinds of movies that they would like to do, and Quentin said he would like to do a 70's style kung-fu flick, Uma came up with the film's opening shot of her beaten up and wearing a wedding gown.
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    Photo caption - ehlins Although The Bride has Hattori Hanzo craft her a sword to exact revenge against Bill and the Vipers, she only uses the blade to killO-Ren Ishi.
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    Face - @poppingremlins Gogo Yubari is not a real Japanese name. "Gogo" derives from Mach Go Go Go (a.k.a. Speed Racer), a Japanese animé that Quentin Tarantino liked when he was young. Yubari is the name of a small town in Hokkaido, northern Japan, that is famous for melons and film. Tarantino's first visit to Japan, was to showcase Reservoir Dogs (1992) at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.
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    Sitting - @poppingremlins The shot where the Bride splits a baseball in twowith a samurai sword, was done for real on the set. It was done by Zoe Bell, Uma Thurman's stunt double.
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    Text - @poppingremlins The infamous long take scene took six hours to rehearse, and was shot in seventeen takes. After that, Steadicam operator Larry McConkey was rumored to have passed out from exhaustion.
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    Face - @poppingremlins On the The Making of Kill Bill' (2003), Tarantino noted that the split-screen scene, where Elle is about to enter The Bride's room and kill her, was an homage to Brian De Palma.
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    Priesthood - @poppingremlins Shin'ichi Chiba makes katanas in real life, In the movie, his character Hattori Hanzo is a renowned katana maker, who has taken a blood oath to never create an instrument of death again.
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    Photo caption - @poppingremlins The island of Okinawa is widely regarded among the Japanese as the single worst place in all of Japan to get decent sushi, so Tarantino's decision to have Hanzo operate a sushi restaurant in Okinawa was an excellent decision, since it permitted Hanzo to leave his former life behind, and not be bothered by those who tried to seek him out, after having taken his blood oath.
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    Land vehicle - Quentin Tarantino owns the "Pussy Wagon" and drove as his everyday vehicle to promote the release of Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004). He licensed use of it for the Missy Elliott music video, Im Really Hot talso appears in the video for "Telephone" by Lady Gága and Beyoncé Knowles. "@poppingremlins PUSS Y OMAGGN PSY HGN
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    Archery - When Chiaki Kuriyama (Gogo) was shooting the scene, where she flings her ball and chain out, she accidentally hit Quentin Tarantino on the head, while he stood by the camera. @poppingremlins 46
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    Photo caption - Christopher Allen Nelson, who worked on the specialeffects, revealed in an interview that over 450 gallons of fake blood were used in the two Kill Bill. movies. @poppingremlins
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    Event - @poppingremlins The members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are all named after snakes. Bill drives a De Tomaso Mangusta. "Mangusta" is Italian for "Mongoose", which are well-known for their ability to fight and kill venomous snakes, particularly cobras.
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    Poster - YOODITremlins Quentin Tarantino originally intended to cast a Japanese actress to play O- Ren Ishii, but before casting began, he saw Lucy Liu's work in Shanghai Noon (2000) and immediately changed O Ren into a Chinese-Japanese American so that Liu could play the part
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    Camera operator - @poppingrens To entice Robert Richardson to work on the project Quentin Tarantino had the script sent to his house on Valentine's Day 2002... along witha bouquet of roses
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    Face - @poppingremlins In the early stages of filming, O-Ren was supposed to be decapitated at the end of her battle with the Bride, but it was changed, because she would have never known that the Bride's sword was truly a Hanzo sword had she been beheaded.
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    Dance - poppingremlins Stunt woman Zoe Bell injured her back while working on this film, but didnt mention it, for fear of being replaced
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    Text - At the beginning of the fight scene between O-Ren and The Bride, after O-Ren says, in Japanese, "I hope you saved your energy. If you haven't you may not last five minutes.", it is exactly 4 minutes and 59 seconds from the time she steps forward, and the music cues, until the fatal blow of the duel. @poppingremlins
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    Event - @popingremlins This film and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)-are.the only Quentin Tarantino films in which there is no mention of the "N" word.
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    Text - @poppingremlins The characters streaming down the left side of the screen, in the opening scenes, are Japanese kanji and hiragana, and they readHana yome ga kuru, hana yome ga kurus"Ora "The Bride is coming, the Bride is coming," over and over again.
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    Text - @poppingrem s The black and white photography in the Crazy 88 fight scene is ultimately 'known as a homage to 70s and 80s U.S television airings of kung fu movies. Black and'white (as well as black and red), were used to conceal the shedding of blood from television censors. Originally, no black and white photographic effects were goingto be used (and n the Japanese version, none are), but the MPAA demanded measures be taken to tone the scene down. Tarantino merely used the old trick for
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    Photo caption - @poppingremlins In order to achieve the specific look of Chinese "wuxia (martial arts) film of the 1970s, Quentin Tarantino gave Director of Photography Robert Richardson an extensive list of genre films as a crash-course in the visual style they used. The list included films by genre-pioneers Cheh Chang, and the Shaw Brothers. Tarantino also forbade the use of digital effects and "professional" gags and squibs. As such, he insisted that bloody spurts be done in the fashion made
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