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Apr. 24th, 2004 at 10:33 AM

Saw Kill Bill Vol.2. LOVE the film! LOVE! Thank you Quentain Tarantino for making this film. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Budd is pretty cool.

Elle, the skinny bitch, is just awesome.

PeiMei is Teh Shit.

Bill is sorta, kinda, well, really sweet, and a geek (and Tarantino is so trying to live through him).

But it is The Bride that Rocks My World. Mummy, I want to be her when I grow up.

I never thought I'd be thankful for all film/context English units I had to do, but damn, they paid off. And thank the gods that I grew up watching '70's/80's American cop dramas, and KungFu films from the same era. And YES, there was comic reference, YES! I understood, and spotted most of them! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

You don't need to know any of the above to enjoy the film (the action and the gore is enough). But ohhh, if you know all the culture references/icons, know the different film styles, and can recognise the different camera angles Tarantino uses from the different eras (he used FILM NOIR!) it make everything that much more awesome, that much more enjoyable.

The only thing I wasn't too strong on was the music, for which,

petronia is much better suited at explaining.

I LOVE this film! And Tarantino is right, the film shouldn't be viewed as a separate entity from the Vol.1, the two films are one. Deal with it.

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petronia.livejournal.com wrote:

Apr. 23rd, 2004 09:18 pm (UTC)

Oh, yes. One of the best movies to talk over with cinematography or film studies majors ever. <3

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Apr. 23rd, 2004 10:09 pm (UTC)

Absolutely. I didn't realise he was purposely imitating film noir until Vol.2.

Beatrix, in black and white, driving in her car, and doing an exposition for the film with the fake background. It was only then my brain went, 'OMG, Tarantino is a b/w/detective story nut. OMG!' See, if my film studies lecturer had realised it took me until Vol. 2 to have figured it out, she'd have shook her head in disappointment.

PaiMei was the perfect nod to every 70s/80s HongKong KungFu film that was produced, and what made me so damn impressed was the fact Tarantino went with the mid close-ups to the filtered colouring, and hell he even managed to throw in the stereotyped plot. Elle's betrayal was a classic.

Watching Elle and B's fight in the caravan made my day. The camera work, the split screen, the close-ups! SQUEE! I was all OMG I haven't seen a camera being worked liked that since the 'WonderWoman' television series (and *koff*TJHooker*koff* William Shatner), and the 'Avengers' (LOVE them!).

And Bill's rant on the Superman mythos was pure Tarantino. Only a geek my friend, a geek who truly loves comics in all its glorious form could analyse Superman like that. The movie was like every piece of pop-culture that I grew up with being mixed together, and coming up with a perfect finish. Gods, the man is genius to be able to pull everything together and make it work.

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