The director of the 67th Academy Awards-winning film Pulp Fiction Quentin. Another of Tarendilo's works, "Kill Bill", is also full of the absurd personal style of the ghost director: neat and meticulous editing, extension of individualism, bloody but not at all offensive scenes, according to netizens commented that "there is no moment of cold field".
The film does maximize Quentin's personal style, more intensely than Pulp Fiction. If you take a person's age as an analogy, "Pulp Fiction" is a young man who is in his prime, then "Kill Bill" is a middle-aged man with a big belly, who already has a stable direction in life and mature thinking.
The story told in the film is roughly: a female killer who has been successfully whitewashed is washed in the blood of her former lover and her own black boss at her wedding. After surviving, she was determined to take revenge. The heroine takes revenge all the way, kills and fights, and there are a lot of action scenes that fill it. Different from the tender and dashing figure of the woman shown in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", this film is a real fight. Killing people and beheadings, the heroine was still beaten and the corners of her mouth rolled over the ground. This is also a point in the director's personal style: absolute equality, female personality without any deliberate sculpting, and men are pursuing what they want. In addition to not defining women, the director also did not define "violence". There are murder plots in the film that must have "squirting blood", cutting off arms, spraying blood; cutting off heads, spraying blood, really spraying, like water guns. The director also depicts these scenes with an exaggerated and entertaining attitude, so there is a plot of casually cutting off other people's heads and removing other people's eyeballs to turn black and white.
don't let me be misunderstoodsanta esmeralda - kill bill, vol. 1 (original soundtrack)
It must be mentioned that the soundtrack of this film comes from the film soundtrack collected by the director. The music of the film is cheerful and compact, rhythmic, with a bloody and exciting picture, which eases the tense atmosphere of the camera language, makes the narrative rhythm smooth and stable, and has a similar effect in "Pulp Fiction". And the combination of such a soundtrack and the picture mentioned above can only be described as strange and bizarre, and these "strange" music is the soul of the whole movie - assuming that without this music, then this movie is just a film full of bloody violence and intense excitement. And this kind of rhythmic and cheerful music, prompting visual and auditory to achieve an absurd and tense violent aesthetic effect after the contrast fusion. The heroine of the film is an American, but the weapon she uses is a Japanese samurai sword, and the final revenge success uses the "kung fu" learned in China. The film involves the culture of various countries, and the author does not know much about Japan, but I think the insertion of the Chinese part in the second part is a bit abrupt. In the film, the "White Brow Hero" lives deep in the mountains, has a very strange temper, and wears very bad clothes (... ), do not allow others to say that he is not good. Wuxia novels more or less have such character settings, but the movie only shows the feeling of "strange" with white eyebrows, rarely expresses the culture of my Great Heavenly Dynasty, and finally he was killed, and did not introduce why the female protagonist came here to study. This episode is entirely a village-like insertion, flawed... Flawed..... Talking about editing, it is very detailed and neat overall. Combined with multi-camera shooting, the camera switching shows the actor's actions coherently and completely, plus this film is also mostly the sound of the same time, the footsteps of walking, the sound of cicadas and birdsong in the summer, which is very comfortable.
Although the music is not original, and many of the shots are imitations, it is said to be a tribute to the old films of the Shaw Film Company, but the "Kill Bill" series is a good movie, at least the suspenseful setting is really "no cold field". Finally, feel free to feel the composition and lighting of this picture.