…that’s because he wipes the blood off his lip with his sleeve.
I knew that. 8)
In the “Face to Face” chapter, Bill’s sword is upside-down on the sword-stand. Katana should traditionally be displayed edge-up; they are worn edge-up through the beltand displayed the same way. Bill’s sword was on the stand edge-down like a Tachi - a style of Japanese sword that predates the Katana and was for use on horseback like a cavalry saber - should be displayed.
Conversely, in the “Man from Okinawa” chapter, there were swords in Hattori Hanzo’s rack that looked like Tachi (from the style of mounting, and the curvature) but none of these were displayed edge-down as they properly should be.
There is loads of stuff on the internet about the differences between Katana and Tachi and the different customs for displaying them, see http://home.earthlink.net/~steinrl/nihonto.htm for a good guide.
Don’t know if this has already been addressed, but the location of Budd seems to have conflict. In one scene it seems like he’s in El Paso:
Bill: "You hawked a Hattori Hanzo Sword!?!? That was priceless!"
Budd: "Not in El Paso it ain’t …"
then, later, there’s that scene with Elle Driver talking on the phone to Bill, saying that if he ever wants to pay his respects to the Bride, he’d go to such and such cemetery in such and such, California
maybe when he said El Paso, he meant that when he was in El Paso he sold it, rather than saying “Not in El Paso [here] it ain’t”
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Don’t know if this has already been addressed, but the location of Budd seems to have conflict. In one scene it seems like he’s in El Paso:
Bill: "You hawked a Hattori Hanzo Sword!?!? That was priceless!"
Budd: "Not in El Paso it ain’t …"
then, later, there’s that scene with Elle Driver talking on the phone to Bill, saying that if he ever wants to pay his respects to the Bride, he’d go to such and such cemetery in such and such, California
maybe when he said El Paso, he meant that when he was in El Paso he sold it, rather than saying “Not in El Paso [here] it ain’t”
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That isn’t a mistake.
From the dialogue, we should assume that Budd sold the sword when he was in El Paso, Texas (probably during the same time he was there to kill The Bride).
I rarely find mistakes in films, but this one really caught my attention, I don’t know if it was mentioned though or not:
When Oren Ishii and the bride are having their sword fight, and Oren cuts Uma’s back; Uma falls on the snow, but when she stands back up, there’s no blood left on the ground
This isn’t a mistake in the movie, but I am going to post it.
I was watching the DVD extras for Kill Bill Vol 1 and in the section Tarantino Trailers there is a trailer called ‘Volume 1 Bootleg Trail’ and right at the end of it there comes up a black screen with white writing of everyone connected with the film and in the cast list it says Darryl Hannah instead of Daryl Hannah.
I noticed this earlier today when I accidently paused the DVD. Nothing big but just a wee mistake.
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I rarely find mistakes in films, but this one really caught my attention, I don’t know if it was mentioned though or not:
When Oren Ishii and the bride are having their sword fight, and Oren cuts Uma’s back; Uma falls on the snow, but when she stands back up, there’s no blood left on the ground
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The blood had not made it that far yet
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The blood had not made it that far yet
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Oh poo… and just when I thought I spotted a mistake…
QT doesn’t make mistakes
This isn’t an error or mistake, but it’s an impossibility in real life time. I don’t know anyone who can drive from El Paso, Texas to Barstow, California in what seems a couple of hours to burry someone. Even more amazing that someone could walk from Barstow to El Paso in also a few hours. It’s a really cool thing in a movie, and it works in the case of Kill Bill, but on average it takes almost half a day to drive from California to Texas. It’s taken me around 15 hours to drive from Los Angeles to El Paso, with no real stops (just gas stops and to eat) and thats with not much traffic.
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This isn’t an error or mistake, but it’s an impossibility in real life time. I don’t know anyone who can drive from El Paso, Texas to Barstow, California in what seems a couple of hours to burry someone. Even more amazing that someone could walk from Barstow to El Paso in also a few hours. It’s a really cool thing in a movie, and it works in the case of Kill Bill, but on average it takes almost half a day to drive from California to Texas. It’s taken me around 15 hours to drive from Los Angeles to El Paso, with no real stops (just gas stops and to eat) and thats with not much traffic.
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It only seems like a couple of hours…but it is a technique that was first used in The Graduate when Dustin Hoffman was laying out by the pool. It seemed like a couple of hours but was an entire summer. Hence the fact that he followed Mrs. Robinson’s daughter to college. Only moments after he graduated. QT makes no mistakes!
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One of the bigger inexplicable mistakes was dressing Uma Thurman in suit similar to that Bruce lee wore, then arming her with a Samurai sword. For those with an understanding of history, martial arts and their significance to asian culture can understand that that image is more like casting a rabbi in full gala holding a jewish flag. The symoblism in that picture is so contradictory one wonders how tarantino could have missed that. Even his desire to pay homage to Bruce lee is rendered totally rendered pointless.
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How is a rabbi holding a jewish flag considered contradictory?
In the scene where budd tells elle about ‘which r do you feel’ he’s holding his glass in both hands, one shot after, he’s got it in his left hand, and points his right at Elle
1) Kill Bill was meant to bring together the Chinese kung fu fighting styles and Japanese samurai fighting styles among other things. Its not meant to be politically correct in every way. QT was mixing all the international films he loves together making those cool Grindhouse genres part of one big cinematic party.
2) Kill Bill takes place in an alternate movie universe. None of the craziness in it is based on real life. If youre looking at it in that way it won’t make sense.
No error here…
…But I’ve always loved the fact that Copperhead shoots through a box of cereal that’s conveniently named, “Kaboom”.
Just a thought. ;D
Tut
Well, about vanessa williams telling “Nikki” to stay away from the glass- thatshow a mom, in that situation, would say it… I feel anyway. btw its not really that cool of an error, but I have no life and in my stonedness slow-moed the entire fight scense between Uma and “Gogo” and when they’re flying from table to tabl theres a close up of here about to land on it (which is barly of the corner of the table) and then the zoomed out part where she lands in the middle of it… just saying… :-X
there are no errors or mistakes. period!
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One of the bigger inexplicable mistakes was dressing Uma Thurman in suit similar to that Bruce lee wore, then arming her with a Samurai sword. For those with an understanding of history, martial arts and their significance to asian culture can understand that that image is more like casting a rabbi in full gala holding a jewish flag. The symoblism in that picture is so contradictory one wonders how tarantino could have missed that. Even his desire to pay homage to Bruce lee is rendered totally rendered pointless.
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Interestingly enough, this quote drove me to register on this forum, simply so I could make a point here.
I think the one thing that you’re forgetting about the late Bruce Lee is the fact that he took traditional Asian martial arts and totally disregarded every aspect of it that did not appeal to his personal ideas of what martial arts should be, quite similar to what Tarantino has done with film.
"Many see Lee as a model blueprint for acquiring a strong and efficient body as well as developing a mastery of martial arts and hand to hand combat skills. Lee began the process of creating his own fighting system known as Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee’s evaluation of traditional martial arts doctrines is nowadays seen as one of the first steps into popularising the modern style of mixed martial arts."
Putting Uma in the Bruce Lee suit really had no bearing on the fact that she was, in fact, in Japan. Bruce lee was Chinese. Also, the Bride character was trained by Pai Mei, an infinitely powerful CHINESE Martial Arts master.
“The masks worn by the members of the Crazy 88 are the same style that Bruce Lee’s character Kato wore in the TV series The Green Hornet. The music played during the Yakuza and Bride’s heading for the teahouse before the en-masse sword-fight is also a nod to the series, which used Al Hirt’s jazzy trumpet rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” as its theme. These two homages to Bruce Lee’s work combine in the Crazy 88 fight to pit Bruce Lee’s first screen incarnation (Kato) against his last (Game of Death). Bruce Lee was snubbed for the lead role in the Kung Fu TV series in favor of David Carradine (Bill). Kato usually had to wear his black mask and did not get many lines or close-ups with his mask off. Tarantino, paying homage to the success of Asian cinema with Kill Bill, has the vindicated “Game of Death” incarnation of Lee defeating the “Black Mask” version of Lee. And, of course, the film ends with the defeat of David Carradine’s character.”