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This weeks selection comes from Vulture writer Bethy Squires, who will begin her screening ofKill Bill Vol.
1on April 14 at 7 p.m. Head toVultures Twitterto catch the live commentary.
Thats Quentin Tarantinos whole career in a nutshell.
Lets examine the plot ofKill Billfor an example.
Beatrix Kiddo wants to escape her life of violence for her unborn daughters sake.
Four years later, Beatrix plots her revenge on those murderers, including Vernita Green.
She isnt deterred from her plan by the well-being of Vernitas daughter, 4-year-old Nikkia.
And there was even more vengeance inoriginal drafts.
Vengeance inKill Billis a hydra; cut down one head and three rise up in its place.
The Bride herself admits she lacks basic human mercy.
Taken as a whole, the arc of her journey is morally gray.
But that gray is overshadowed by the bright yellow of the Brides jumpsuit and her kick-ass katana fights.
BothKill Bills(but especiallyVol.
- have lodged themselves in the pop-culture subconscious as badass-chick Im killing boys propaganda with iconic soundtracks.
The Bride is now a meme of vengeance.
And its not hard to see why.
Take the aforementioned scene where the Bride kills Vernita.
It starts with her walking up to the now-retired assassins Pasadena home.
They go feral; the noises coming from Vivica A.
Fox and Uma Thurman sound somewhere between speaking in tongues and the grunting of a wild boar.
It sucks, actually!
On the press circuit forKill Bill Vol.
BECAUSE ITS SO MUCH FUN, JAN!
he shoutedon local news.
Hes putting stuff in because its awesome, because it referencesLady Snowblood.
Because Sonny Chiba whips ass.
But what glorious spectacle it is and does Uma Thurman look cool in Bruce Lees jumpsuit, or what?
