Los Angeles, USA, 1984.
Quentin Tarantino is 21 years old, he dropped out of high school, mixed with society, worked odd jobs, achieved nothing, did nothing...
Quentin often went to the disc shop to rent films...
One day, the boss asked him: Why don't you come to work in the store?
Quentin did not hesitate, he replied: "Okay!
Quentin in his youth
During this time as a clerk in a video store, Quentin watched a lot of movies...
He especially likes B-movies, Italian Westerns, Hong Kong kung fu films, Japanese sword and sword films, and various erotic films...
After Quentin watched a lot of movies, he suddenly felt that looking around, Hollywood was full of stupidity, and none of them could fight...
Soon after, Quentin quit his job at a video store...
He stepped into Hollywood and decided to turn the movie scene upside down...
Movie jianghu, no more peace...
In 2002, Quentin Tarantino was 39 years old...
He's no longer the reckless hairy guy he was...
At this moment, he has become a successful person in the secular sense...
He holds two masterpieces, "Falling Water Dog" and "Pulp Fiction", and is recognized by the world as a young talent, a weird genius and a cutting-edge director...
However, in the depths of Quentin's heart, he still believes that Hollywood is stupid everywhere, and most commercial movies are repetitive routines, which should have been spurned by the audience long ago...
Poster of Pulp Fiction
This year, he decided to make a new film...
He's going to use this movie to overthrow all Hollywood routines...
He wants women to be the only protagonists and really strong...
He wants to make blood rush like a river, and violence as beautiful as a work of art...
He wants to stunned the audience...
Poster by illustrator RUIZ BURGOS
He wants to use this film to pay tribute to italian westerns, Hong Kong kung fu films, Japanese sword and sword films, Japanese anime, Akira Kurosawa and Wu Yusen, Bruce Lee and Liu Jiahui...
He wanted to put everything he loved deeply into this movie.
The movie is: Kill Bill.
She, is a professional killer...
Recently, she has been nauseous and vomiting, and menstruation has not come for a long time...
She felt that she might be pregnant...
She bought a pregnancy test stick and she had to wait 90 seconds to know the result...
She looked through the mirror at her smooth abdomen, and it was hard to imagine how her stomach bulged...
She pinched her breasts, imagining what she would look like to feed her baby in the future...
90 seconds, is the time when the pregnancy test stick appears...
She has killed many people, experienced a lot of life and death, but she has never experienced such a tense 90 seconds...
When the time came, the pregnancy test stick appeared blue lines...
In this instant, her coldness as a professional killer disappeared...
The tenderness of motherhood will come to mind...
She did not hesitate, she gave up everything, she fled the killer group ...
Three months later, the town of Twin Pines, Texas, USA...
In the sparsely populated desert, there is a church that is holding a wedding when there is a shooting and bloodshed...
When the police arrived, they found that 9 people had been killed at the scene, including: the groom, the priest, as well as the groom's parents and relatives and friends...
The only survivor, is the bride...
Although the bride's head was shot at close range and she was more than three months pregnant, she miraculously survived...
This case, known by the media as: Twin Pines Town Wedding Chapel Blood Case.
Although she survived, she became a vegetative person...
Since the police could not find her identity, they gave her a code name: Bride.
In this way, the bride lay unconsciously in the hospital bed for four years, relying on nutrient solutions to survive...
For four years, she was repeatedly raped by the hospital nurse...
This has even developed into a business where the client only needs to pay 75 yuan to get a 20-minute rape opportunity...
Late one night four years later, when another client paid 75 yuan to prepare to "rape the corpse"...
The bride wakes up...
She touched her stomach, and the child was gone...
Since she is no longer a mother, then she can only turn back into a killer...
She slashed the prostitute lying on top of her, activating her numb legs...
She is about to embark on a bloody journey of revenge...
She clearly remembered that there were five enemies who had killed at the wedding chapel that day...
The culprit is named: Bill.
Quentin once said: Only ten movies in this life...
Kill Bill (1, 2), Quentin's fourth and fifth works, was released in North America in 2003 and 2004, respectively, and scored 8.3 by more than 400,000 Chinese audiences, better than 95% of action movies and 93% of crime films...
Some netizens commented: Quentin is really playing a movie! Split screen, animation, black and white are mixed in various styles, plasma spray is cool to the end, and the long shot that is said to be tired of the cameraman, coupled with the finishing soundtrack, has achieved a violent aesthetic classic...
Quentin Detective Class "Qin Song" took a photo with Jiang Wen Some netizens commented that Jiang Wen seemed to be saying: Why are you so good at not going to heaven?
Quentin put all his youthful love into "Kill Bill"...
For example, the subtitle at the beginning of the movie is directly applied to the title of the Hong Kong Shaw film...
For example, he invited his young idol, the legend of Shaw films, liu Jiahui, the protagonist of "Shaolin Thirteen Rooms", to play the role of "Baimei Daochang"...
The character of Bai Mei, cold on the outside and hot on the inside, speaks a standard Cantonese, Liu Jiahui said to Uma Thurman: If you don't know Chinese, just like a dog...
That kind of arrogance of hanging the sky does have a bit of the charm of when he starred in the Shaw movie...
For example, he spends a lot of time telling the history of the Japanese gangster Mirene...
I made a cartoon in the style of a Japanese manga...
The level of production of this animation is so high that it can be completely independently written into chapters, and can even be made into an animated film alone...
Quentin stuffed his thoughts, loves and dislikes, faith and scorn, into this film all these years...
For example, Quentin likes Uma Thurman, who once said: Thurman is to me, just as Gong Li is to Zhang Yimou, or Jeanne Morrow is to Godard...
It is said that this movie is a gift for Uma Thurman's 30th birthday...
For example, Quentin loves gory B-movies and doesn't like computer effects...
So the entire shooting process consumed a total of 450 gallons of fake blood, which is about equal to more than 1600 kilograms...
The stills are too bloody to cause discomfort, so I put a more "subtle" one
For example, Quentin is widely regarded as having a quirk of "foot control", and almost every one of his films has a large number of barefoot close-ups, and this "Kill Bill" is no exception...
In the film, there is a scene of Uma Thurman "talking" to her toes, and the close-up of barefoot is more than 20 seconds long...
It is said that some media asked Quentin whether he had a "foot fetish", and Quentin replied flatly: No!
Some netizens commented: I don't believe it when I killed.
For example, "Kill Bill" is a rare quentin movie in which the line "fucks" less than 100 times, and only says 17 times...
For example, there is a scene in the film where a spit mixed with tobacco juice spits on Uma Thurman's face, which Quentin himself vomited...
Sometimes, he really feels like a mischievous kid...
In the movie, there are anti-routines everywhere, setting contrasts, forcibly reversing...
One second it's like a family movie, the next second it's a kung fu movie, the next second it's a B-movie...
Because of this, the film has been called a "hodgepodge" by some fans...
The passages in the movie like Hong Kong kung fu films, Japanese sword films, Italian Westerns, Japanese anime tributes, spliced in a simple and rough way...
But, that's Quentin...
The Quentin who is extremely disgusted with Hollywood's usual routines, quentin who loves genre movies around the world, Quentin who likes to toss and toss and is keen to fool around...
Only in his films can you see...
The heroic Thurman vs. Chiaki Kuriyama dressed as a Japanese high school girl...
Ting Wen Jing a girl Why did you pick up the meteor hammer?
Liu Yuling under his lens is both strong and beautiful...
Liu Yuling's eyes are so beautiful
He can not only shoot the bloody violence of American B-grade films, but also shoot the implicit mood of oriental aesthetics...
And the bizarre and weird of Japanese anime...
Let's turn the clock back to 1984 again...
That year, Quentin was 21 years old...
He was also a videotape rentalr, always sneaking in during working hours, and he said to himself: One day, I'm going to make a movie of my own.
Nineteen years later, when he was filming Kill Bill...
Time doesn't seem to flow, Quentin hasn't grown up yet, and he never seems to grow up, still the funny boy...