Comic-Con Flashback: Why Kill Bill Rules
There may never be a bigger film geek also entrusted with actually making movies than Quentin Tarantino. His magnum opus, Kill Bill, stands as one of history's greatest homages -- as well as being a kick-ass action movie. Here's why we love this Comic-Con favorite.
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By Matt Patches April 20, 2011 |
| 10 | Training with Pai Mei |
Pai Mei is well into his hundreds, but the old man can still whoop the ass of anyone who doesn't get off his lawn.
The Bride strolled in to Pai Mei's zen place looking for training, but what she got was her ass handed to her in ways that would make Cirque du Soleil performers' jaws drop. Arms don't bend that way...unless you've trained with Pai Mei.
| 9 | Training Montage! |
Speaking of training -- WHO'S READY FOR A MONTAGE!!!!
No hero in any genre can train to become who they really are without a handy dandy training montage (I think Team America pretty much set that in stone). Beatrix Kiddo gets her own Karate Kid-esque martial arts training, replacing Mr. Miyagi's patient, metaphorical exercises with serious tests of strength.
| 8 | Rising from the Grave |
This may be, hands down, one of the more badass tasks set in front of any cinematic warrior.
Kiddo, shot in the chest and buried several feet underground in a coffin, realizes the only way she's going to survive this tricky situation is to use her board breaking skills to crack through the top and dig her way to safety. Sound horrifying and a little claustrophobic?
Yeah, a little bit.
| 7 | Swirlie |
Call it a cat fight and you risk having your head stuffed in a toilet by a samurai master.
The Bride's second encounter (first out of a coma) with Elle Driver is a brutal fight, as the two ladies bat the hell out of each other in Bud's cramped trailer. The spar takes a turn for the wet when Kiddo grabs Elle by the hair and continuously dunks her head into the toilet.
Swirlies are only a dirty form of fighting if someone forgot to flush.
| 6 | Squishing Elle's Last Eye |
Now that's a low blow. The end of the two female assassins' fight features one of the gorier moments in Tarantino's two-parter: The Bride, in a finishing move to match Mortal Kombat, plucks Elle's remaining eye from her skull, drops it to the floor, and smushes it like a bug.
Elle's reaction says it all: she did not see that one coming.
