The setting shots of "Kill Bill vol.1 and vol.2" are all bloody brides. At the wedding, the bride and groom and all the guests were wiped out, and even the old black playing the piano was not let go. What a grudge! Who did this TM! ?
In fact, there is no need for the Texas father and son gods who have a special accent to stick out their horses. I want to know with my hair that only the bride’s ex-boyfriend can do this.
Why did he do this? Because of love or hate?
That must have it all. The theme music of "Kill Bill" is undoubtedly "Bang Bang", AKA "My Baby shot me down", I can't believe this song was not written specifically for "Kill Bill". This song actually points out the reason for this murder-Baby stands for love, and shot stands for hate. How do men and women connect from love to hate? There is also a jealousy in the middle. Love, hate and jealousy are the core of "Kill Bill".
Love, hate, and jealousy are also three swords made by Hattori Hanzo. They are all weapons of murder. Which one is the strongest? "If you want to compare Hanzo swords with other swords, then all other swords are not Hanzo swords." Therefore, they can only be compared.
Is Bill dead?
Before starting to pull the film, emphasize the fact that Bill is not dead, or at least not sure whether he is dead or not. Quentin gave many hints in the film.
First, in the last scene, when Beatrix used the lost "five thunders through the palm" to Bill, Bill asked her: "White eyebrows really taught you five thunders through the palm?" The bride shook her head and replied. : "Of course he did". In the film, Bai Mei never mentioned "five thunders piercing the palm of the heart", only Bill said this trick to Beatrix on a camping night. Adults will make up some messy stories when coaxing children to sleep, so it's actually hard to tell if there is such a trick. In movies, things that are not shown to you but are said through actors or subtitles are generally not true. Beatrix's head shaking was another hint, and Baimei might not have taught her this trick at all.
Secondly, after Beatrix and BB escaped, BB watched TV in the hotel room, and Beatrix cried in the bathroom. It is hard to distinguish between crying and laughing. He said "Thank you" while crying. Who is she thanking? I think she is thanking Bill for letting her live the life she wants.
Finally, the easter egg at the end of the cast, the name of the actor who played the killer has been crossed out. The bronze-headed snake Vivica A. Fox was crossed out, the fish-eating viper Liu Yuling was crossed out, the desert rattlesnake Michael Madsen was crossed out, the California mountain snake Daryl Hannah was crossed out, and the last Bill AKA snake trapper David Carradine was It was not crossed out, but was marked with a question mark, which is another hint.
I tend to think that the reason Bill didn't die more is that it would be more interesting if he didn't die. If Bill dies, the story of "Kill Bill" will become a cliché story of when it's time to repay the injustice. From the bloody bride to the five thunders, Bill and Beatrix have not grown up in the past few years. If Bill is not dead, it means Beatrix has let go of hatred, Bill has let go of jealousy, and only love is left. This is a very romantic romance.
Bill's Revenge
In my impression, none of the brides and grooms in non-comedy films with wedding scenes has a good ending. For example, "The Godfather 1" begins with the wedding of the godfather's daughter. At the end, Mike kills his brother-in-law, leaving behind a mad sister, and his own Sicilian wife is also killed by Qiu Jia; "The Graduate" ends with Ben's snatch of relatives. , This film is messy, he snatched the current girlfriend who was having the wedding in front of his ex-girlfriend (the bride's mother), and then the two of them fled the scene by bus in confusion; the first half of "Deer Hunter" was passionate and crazy At the grand Russian wedding, people sang Katyusha to see off the groom and two best men who were about to go to the front line in Vietnam, and then the scene changed. The three brothers were imprisoned by the Viet Cong, one amputee, one amnesia, and one severe PTSD; "Natural Murderer" may be the only exception. The wedding is so romantic that no one has come before, but the male and female protagonists in that movie are not normal people...
Although the whole vol.1 is about revenge, the theme of the film is love. Let's take a look at the final shot of the film-the bride in blood. After a little thought, you can understand that this shot is actually Bill's perspective, so the entire movie should be viewed from Bill's perspective. If we look at the story of "Kill Bill" from Bill's point of view again, the story of "Kill Bill" will be very different. The whole "Kill Bill" is actually Bill's careful arrangement.
Before we start talking about "the theme of love", we need to clarify the relationship between Beatrix and Bill. Of course they are lovers, but there is also a father-daughter relationship. Kiddo is not a pseudonym, it is Beatrix's real name. There is a ticket here as proof. The name Kiddo implies the psychological father-daughter relationship between the two. In this relationship, the two have never been equal. On the eve before Bill introduced Beatrix to learn art from Baimei, the two were telling stories by the bonfire. Bill was sitting and Beatrix lying down. This is the feeling of a father telling a "bedtime story" to his daughter. After Beatrix finally found Bill, the two had a wonderful discussion about the difference between Batman and Superman. In this scene, Bill sits tall and Beatrix sits short, which is still an asymmetric relationship. In the film, only the relationship between the two in the two scenes of the church and "Five Thunders Through the Heart" is equal, and a lot of mirror lenses are used to express this equivalence.
Let us return to the starting point of the story time, which is the first scene of Vol.2-Chapter 6: The Massacre of Shuangsong Chapel. The theme of this scene is revenge, but it is not Beatrix's revenge, but Bill's revenge. Let's see how Bill gets irritated? If you really understand it, you will find that the psychological excitement of this scene is far beyond the bloody scene of Vol.1, which is very exciting.
First of all, Bill's appearance was very unusual. He was sitting and short, while Beatrix's position was high. This was the only inversion of the power relationship between the two. Beatrix was the one who had the initiative, and she deceived Bill.
Bill's dress is more formal than the groom. To some extent, he should be the groom. The scene is black and white, fully highlighting the black dress of the groom and the white wedding dress of the bride. Then the two people gradually walked in. The camera started from the feet. Bill was wearing cowboy boots and Beatrix was wearing sandals. It was clear who came prepared and who was about to be killed. The next shot is a head-to-head mirror lens of the two, both of the same height, but in fact David Carradine is 5 cm taller than Uma Karuna Thurman, and Bill also wears taller cowboy boots. This lens is obviously well designed. In the positive and negative dialogue shots, even the back of the head of the person facing away from the camera takes up half of the picture. In addition to being equal, the absolute symmetry also implies that the two people are actually a natural pair.
Then the two walked into the church, and the bridegroom appeared, a mirror image of Bill and the bridegroom. The two people stretched out their hands at the same time, and there was a sound when the hands collided, which was a strong handshake. The handshake between men is actually a rivalry. Everyone wants to give each other a strong handshake and overwhelm each other in momentum.
Beatrix joined the screen, but was on Bill's side. In this set of front and back shots, Beatrix has always been in the same frame with Bill, and some of the actions of the two are quite intimate, which is abnormal. This also implies that Beatrix loves Bill rather than the "groom". The bride became the lubricant in this conversation. She introduced Bill as her father. From a psychological point of view, she did not lie. The match between the two was explained as the match between the father and daughter. But have you considered Bill's feelings?
The bridegroom's unknowingly deep line changed everything completely, "You should give her away." TMD give her away and should! This is a wonderful line, and it is also a line to find death. Marrying a daughter is a sad thing in both Eastern and Western cultures. The good cabbage that has been raised so hard is taken over by pigs. Few mothers-in-laws are satisfied with their daughter-in-law, and father-in-laws are rarely satisfied with their son-in-law. It is human nature. Bill's lover and daughter were gone overnight, and he was snatched away by someone who was tens of thousands of miles away from him in all aspects, and Nima asked me to "give her away"? ! I guess normal people want to slaughter this church, but most people don't have the ability to think about it, but that's Bill, AKA Snake Charmer, he has this ability.
The next thing is more exciting, the annoying groom is gone, Beatrix puts on the veil to face Bill, and gives the last kiss. She is the most beautiful bride, but it is a pity that the bridegroom is not Bill, so sad!
Chapter 6 ends with a beautiful long shot. The scene starts from the bride and groom, slowly moving outside the door, Bill becomes a bystander at the wedding, at this time the four assassins walk into the church with guns to kill. The four killers are all in black, they are the projections of Bill's heart.
Here is the truth of the logic of the drama. The ex-boyfriend slaughtered his ex-girlfriend's wedding. It was incredible but reasonable. Bill just did what everyone wanted to do but didn't dare to do. Quentin has been pursuing the truth of drama logic, even his most nonsensical film "Unscrupulous Bastard" also follows the rigor of drama logic. If there were really war heroes like Fredrick Zoller, then Dr. Goebbels would probably really make a movie like "The Honor of the Country". After all, he once ordered Marshal Rommel (who was still a major general at the time) to direct "Victory on the Western Front" and the Führer attended the premiere. If this step is reasonable and reasonable, then the Allied forces do have a chance to put the Nazi senior officials together at the premiere. It seems nonsensical, but it is not a complete fantasy. Quentin has indeed done a lot of homework in screenwriting. Unlike Stephen Chow's comedy, Quentin is a real absurdity.
The last suspicious point in Chapter 6, does Bill know the consequences of his shooting? He is going to kill Beatrix? Or just want her to be in a coma for four years, to show her some color?
I don't think he really wanted to kill Beatrix. In the final scene, Bill and his daughter BB had a conversation like this
Bill: "I shot Mommy"
BB: "Why? Did you want to see what would happen?"
Bill: "I knew what would happen to Mommy if I shot her. But I didn't know when I shot Mommy, what would happen to me."
BB: "What happened?"
Bill: "I was very sad."
I knew what would happen to Mommy if I shot her. This is a wonderful line. My understanding of this line is that Bill knew that Beatrix would not die, but would be in a coma for 4 years and then wake up. This sounds a bit unreasonable, but in a world where people can live for thousands of years with five thunders piercing the palm of the heart, such a setting is not so nonsense. Bill "killed" Beatrix because he left without saying goodbye to Beatrix and found a gangster who suddenly got married in a thunderous manner. In love, he failed and he wanted revenge. His revenge was not the church massacre, but the arrangement of the entire journey, allowing Beatrix to die and come back to life, killing all the way, and finally "Kill Bill". This is not my nonsense. There are many hints in the film that this is Bill's arrangement, so I won't list them all.
In "Kill Bill Vol.1", there is a close-up of Bill Hattori Hanzo sword, with a prajna on the scabbard. Prajna is a kind of ghost in Japanese legend. It belongs to the resentful spirit. The origin is that people (usually women) are jealous and cause their souls to leave their bodies while they are alive, and their souls can attack or even kill themselves. People. At this time, if the soul can return to the body and restore its rationality, this state is called "generation". When hatred occupies all the mind and cannot restore rationality, the person will transform into a ghost, that is, "prajna".
In the end, Bill let go of his jealousy after revenge, he did not become a prajna. In the end, Beatrix also let go of her hatred, and she did not become a Prajna, which was actually a happy ending. If Beatrix killed Bill, this perfect ending would be destroyed.
Love is understanding and letting go
All the character creation in "Kill Bill" was done in vol.2, and the killers are all flesh and blood, so in fact "Kill Bill" is not so superficial, at least not a pure film. The only flat character is the second killer of Beatrix (the first one in the order of the movie), the bronze-headed snake, but the image of this character is actually a mirror image of Beatrix. A Beatrix. Logically speaking, the bronze-headed snake should be the hardest to find. She changed her name and last name, but the desert cobra Budd didn't even change her name. The eldest brother wanted to die and didn't bother to hide her name.
In the fight between Beatrix and the copper-headed snake, Beatrix wore a dark yellow leather jacket and Onitsuka Tiger sneakers, and used a SOG double-edged dagger; the copper-headed snake wore a blue-violet sports top and blue-violet sneakers, which looked almost the same with one Kitchen knife. Judging from the color circle, the colors of the jackets of the two men are exactly the opposite colors, and the weapons are similar. The mirror lens was used twice in this fight, one was when the two confronted each other with a knife, and the other was a conversation between the two and the daughter of the copper-headed snake. The rhythm was completely disrupted by the child. This is exactly what Beatrix has experienced. Bronze-headed snake married a doctor, successfully retired from the world, and completed the transition from killer to Mommy, and her daughter was 4 years old, at the age of BB. These are all implying that with the wedding as a starting point, Beatrix's two life possibilities.
Finally, the copper-headed snake took out a pistol from the donut box and shot Beatrix. In the chaos, Beatrix threw a knife to kill the copper-headed snake. This delivers two messages:
1. The days of the copper-headed snake are not so stable. Who would hide a pistol in a donut box? Or she, as Bill said, is a Nature born killer, always ready to fight.
2. Beatrix didn't have pity for the self he used to be, and all he could do was kill the copper-headed snake improperly in front of a child.
Therefore, the first scene of the film actually tells us that Beatrix is impossible to live a peaceful life, and she has no pity for the "colleagues" who washes hands in Golden Basin, and even feels good when killing people. The first scene of the film is the "Blood Bride", and then this "Blood Bride" recreates a "Blood Church" tragedy, which is contradictory.
This contradiction can be seen everywhere in the film. In the final scene, Bill talked about the difference between Superman and Batman Spiderman. In the final analysis, he was saying that Beatrix is a nature born killer. Bill knew that she could not lead a peaceful life. Escape and marriage were just her wishful thinking. Bill points out that Beatrix is just a killer bee trying to pretend to be a worker bee.
Bill: Did you really think your life in El Paso was gonna work?
Beatrix: No
The bloody bride is not embarrassed, she is embarrassed only after being seen through. So Beatrix loves Bill. Could she talk about it with the kid at the record store? Impossible, they are not people in the same world, what can killer bees and worker bees have in common?!
In the end Bill chose to let go. When Beatrix used (or pretended to use) "Five Thunders", Bill wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"How do I look?"
"You look ready"
Quentin really writes lines, this is the most romantic line I have ever seen. But Ready for what? Ready to die? In romance films, it should be Ready to let it go.
Another mirror image of Beatrix
Although "KillBill" is the best romance movie, it is not pure love, and Bill has more than one lover.
In addition to the bronze-headed snake in "Kill Bill", Beatrix has another mirror image, which is the California Mountain Snake. There are many similarities between this character and Beatrix. They are both blonde and blue-eyed, and Bill likes blonde, which is emphasized many times in the film. The film suggests that the California Mountain Snake is also Bill's lover.
1. In the scene in the hospital, Bill praised the California Mountain Snake "That's my girl". The California Mountain Snake's voice has changed, and the joy of joy has emerged from the screen.
2. After Budd and Beatrix were both dead, the California Mountain Snake called Bill to accompany him. It was self-evident.
3. California Mountain Snake used to learn martial arts with Baimei. It can be seen that the growth trajectory is similar to that of Beatrix. What we don't know is when she learned martial arts, most likely after Beatrix was in a coma. Bill said that Baimei agreed to accept Beatrix as his apprentice because he needs a companion like all the old bastards. Isn't Bill himself? To some extent, the California Mountain Snake is Beatrix's substitute.
4. The California Mountain Snake knew she was just a substitute, so she didn't like Beatrix. She might have been in the hospital on her own, at least not Bill's order. It can also be seen that after Beatrix was in a coma, Bill was still very concerned about her.
5. Every time the California Mountain Snake and Beatrix are together, they use split screens, which is a naked hint of the lens language.
Hi, there is actually no good person in this film. In Budd's words, it means: We all deserve to die.
After talking so much, I actually only talked about some scraps, my favorite Budd and Ishii Yulian didn't say anything about it. This movie is really new and amazing!
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