I think “Lone Wolf McQuade” with Chuck Norris and Davis Caradine. All the movie is a mix of spaguetti-western, martil arts and mafia. And the music is pretty much Morricone. Enjoy
I just watched a movie on TCM called “Wings of the Eagle” and it has a scene where a paralyzed John Wayne lies face-down on a hospital bed and says something along the lines of “you have to move your toe” over and over and over.
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The Guardian actually took tarantino.info’s very own Kill Bill references page. Damn me so proud ;D
the work paid off after all
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They also called you a nerd
This might have been mentioned, but the O-Ren sniper scene that is played during her backstory is an homage to The Professional Golgo 13 a.k.a. the greatest anime ever.
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This movie has a lot more references than that.
-The movie opens with 5 masked men who enter a house and shoot down a family. The trailer even says “The bandits who killed 5 defensless people made one big mistake. They should have killed 6” Didn’t The Bride say a voiceover similar to this in the script/trailers?
-ORen’s dad’s killer has a skull ring that’s reminiscent of the emblem that Lee Van Cleef’s character wears
-Theme music is played when The Bride reveals herself to O-Ren-The zoom seen here pre-dates the Shaw Zoom of the mid-70’s
-The flashback montages are filmed in similar fashion with an extreme closeup of the eyes. Followed by a bright orange/yellow glow. With images superimposed over each other on what happened on that “fateful day”
-Lee Van Cleef’s character even says “Somebody once wrote that revenge is a dish that has to be eaten cold”
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What is the song called during the scene where The Bride revleals herself to O-ren?
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Its the theme to Death Rides a Horse by Morricone. The actual song title is “From Man to Man”.
This has already been mentioned, but QT explains more in detail about where he got the idea for the split screen sequence in Volume 1:
TARANTINO TALKS KILL BILL
EXPLAINS HIS "LITTLE BRIAN DE PALMA SCENE"
It seemed logical that the split-screen sequence in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1, where Daryl Hannah dons a nurse’s uniform and whistles a Bernard Herrmann melody while carrying a deadly syringe down a hospital corridor, was inspired in great part by a combination of Brian De Palma’s Sisters and Dressed To Kill. On the new DVD release of the film, Tarantino even calls it his “little Brian De Palma scene.” But the filmmaker tells Premiere that this particular split-screen sequence was inspired by the trailer for a John Frankenheimer film-- a scene in the trailer that was cut and scored differently than it was in Frankenheimer’s film. Tarantino explains that he does not duplicate other directors’ shots when he references their films in his work, but rather “a feeling in the shot or an aspect about the shot I liked.” He then explains how he has a collection of 35mm trailers from movies, particularly from the '70s, and how these trailers are works of art in and of themselves in that they used techniques that Tarantino likens to the work of Godard. Having seen the films that these trailers promote, Tarantino claims that many of the scenes or sequences shown in the trailers are not in the actual films. “It’s just in the trailer,” he tells Premiere:
There’s this one trailer for Black Sunday by John Frankenheimer that has a scene in it that’s done differently than it is in the movie. It’s amazing. There’s a scene in the movie-- it’s like, you know, killer terrorist shit-- where Marthe Keller is going to kill Robert Shaw, who works for the Israeli Army. He’s in the hospital, so she dresses up like a nurse with a syringe full of lethal injection, and she’s going to go into his hospital room and inject him. Well, in the movie it’s an okay sequence, but not really that special. They don’t really milk it that much. It’s routine.
But in the trailer for the movie, when it gets to showing us that sequence, they do the whole thing in split screen. And where they just had natural sounds playing in the movie, they have John Williams’s Black Sunday theme [humming the tune] pulsing through the whole trailer, so it’s just ticking beats to the images. This is not in the movie anywhere. This is one of the best split-screen sequences I’ve ever seen.
So for Kill Bill, I say, "We’re doing this when Elle Driver shows up at the hospital."
And then I have another, like, weird movie reference in there because I have Daryl Hannah whistling-- she learned how to whistle Bernard Herrmann’s theme to this movie called Twisted Nerve. And the thing is, when she leaves the frame, the Bernard Herrmann score kicks in, you hear the same theme done in this lush Bernard Herrmann melody, and then it goes into split screen and it looks like I’m doing an homage to Dressed To Kill-era De Palma.
Bernard Herrmann scored two De Palma films: Sisters (1973) and Obsession (1976). Daryl Hannah made her film debut in De Palma’s The Fury (1978), which was scored by John Williams. One character, Bobbi, steals a nurse’s uniform to wear in De Palma’s Dressed To Kill (1980). Sisters and Dressed To Kill each feature memorable split-screen sequences. Want to check out the trailer for Black Sunday? You won’t find it on Paramount’s widescreen DVD version, which features no extras-- not even the film’s trailer. Maybe Tarantino will show it to you in his home theater.
(from DePalma ala Mod)
There’s one important movie missing in Seb’s big list: “Navajo Joe” from 1966, directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Burt Reynolds. A bloody revenge Spaghetti Western with a scene where Burt is throwing an axe into an enemy’s head just like in the HOBL showdown from “Kill Bill”. Very cool movie. I hope we get a DVD release soon.
Cover? Here we go:
In Vol-2, there were a few moments in the “Pei Mei” chapter that reminded me of Drunken Master where Simon Yuen thunks Jackie in the head during training, "Are you ready to learn?"
Plus Karen Wong was dressed like the villianess in Sonny Chiba’s Streetfighter.
I’ll see if I catch more on my 2nd viewing.
Should we start a new references thread for Volume 2?
Anyway…
Elle’s line “I killed your master, and now I’ll kill you” is a Kung Fu staple.
The Bride getting shot with the drugged dart and slobbering as she yelled reminded me of the bloody Mr. Orange screaming at the tortured cop in Reservoir Dogs.
Pai Mei is a historical figure adapted to Kung Fu Cinema, mainly as the villian of the movie. Here he is much more comical. The Bride getting her foot stuck in his crotch, and his “light as a feather” moves are trademarks of his used in many of his movies.
"Before that strip turned blue, I would have got on a motorcycle and jumped onto a speeding train for you."
Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh’s famous stunt at the climax of Police Story 3.
The Bride sticking her hand out of the grave is similar to the one in Carrie
The dirty bride approaching the cafe, each step letting out another cloud of smoke, was very much like “Pig Pen” from Charlie Brown. QT’s second Peanuts reference.
The shot at the beginning where the bride is walking out of the wedding chapel reminded me alot of the final shot of The Searchers.
sumbody posted this:
" Forgive me if I’m wrong but I searched the sight for “wings of eagles” and found no reference. I printed off the film references and went through them. When I watched Kill Bill Vol 1. the first obvious reference I picked up was the Bride in the Pussy Wagon attempting to get movement in her feet which I thought was a direct reference to the 1957 John Ford movie in which John Wayne plays aviator Frank “Spig” Wead and when crippled after a fall lays in a hospital bed going
“I’m gonna move that toe” which he eventually does. I thought this reference was far more obvious than some of those cited.
Unicorn5"
does anybody have a link to that Volume 1 reference list that had the pics of the movie covers and does anyone know if it has been updated for Volume 2?
After the DIVAS shoot everybody and the camera pans out, it’s similiar to the crane shot during the flashback scene in Once Upon a Time in the West. The sound of the bells is also similiar to the end of the flashback scene when Charles Bronson falls from underneath his brother and immediately Harmonica shoots Frank.
Yeah, pretty close. Then there’s the shot of B watching Elle driving in to Budd’s place from the top of the mountain. Similar to a shot in Once Upon A Time In The West, of Frank Wolf’s character Brett McBain. When he’s at the well, just before his family is massacred. I think it’s even more similar than the famous shot of Fonda.
I DON’T KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN MENTIONED BUT DEATH RIDES A HORSE HAS A FEW DIRECT SIMMILATARITIES
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CLOSE UP OF THE KIDS EYES REMEMBERING, THE MEN WHO
KILLED HIS FAMILY, LOUD MUSIC
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THE LINE REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD
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AND OF COURSE THE THEME USED IN THE MOVIE
compare:
guy gets his dick cut off in I Spit On Your Grave as main character closes the bathroom door and castrated guy yells out curses and thrashes around, eventually jumping out the window
Elle Driver gets her eye plucked out in Volume 2 as the Bride walks away and eventually closes the trailer door, as Elle yells out curses and thrases around in the trailer
just watched raising arizona last night, first time since i was
about 10. The fight scene in the trailer i think is an homage
of a kind to the trailer fight in RA.
I noticed in RA they kept bumping into stuff, also John Goodman throws Nick Cage through the living room bathroom wall, I think QT just exageratted the constrictions of a trailer more so in Kill Bill. Definately think the idea might have come from RA, since he is a coen bros. fan.
There’s one scene in Shogun Assassin where 3 lady ninjas attack the main character and he hits them with his sword and waits a second, and then they all fall down. Similiar to the scene in Volume 1 where everybody stands still after Uma hits them and then taps the sword and they fall down.
What’s really funny about the scene where Bill tells B.B. Shogun Assassin is too long is that it’s actually only 77 minutes in length. If that’s too long, then what kind of movies does B.B. usually watch? Academy Award Winning Short Films?