Never said it had to be. I was just saying that I had people telling me non-stop how great it was so I was sort of disappointed when I got a good popcorn muncher when I was expecting to be blown out of the water.
This seems to be the right place for a question that has been kicking around in my head for a while… in Vol 1, when Hattori Hanzo is giving the Bride her sword, he says something like ‘I have made "something to kill someone’’’.
Every time I saw that I noticed that ‘something to kill someone’ was in quotation marks. Why? Is he just being ironic and understating the brilliance of his work? Or is he quoting somebody? If so, who?
He was quoting himself. He made a vow to God never again to make “something to kill someone”, and 28 years later, breaks the vow.
Come to think of it, I don’t think it is Bill because the sword wasn’t a Hanzi sword… just a copy. If you look closely it didn’t have the lions crest at the base of the blade ala the other HH swords.
I don’t think it was butcher knives, just knives in general. With the comment B gave about “Weapon of choice,” I always figured that she was going around killing the Vipers with their own specialized form of combat. So, even though Bill, Budd, and O’Ren all used swords, V used knives and therefore, B only came at her with a knife as opposed to her sword. The fight definitely would have been over a lot quicker if she had, but judging from the fight scene itself (and all subsequent ones), it doesn’t seem like she was all that skilled in close combat anyway (sure she had some training, but she got her ass thrown around quite a lot).
Thanks for starting this thread Biggirl. I just saw it for the first time Saturday too and was wondering some of the same things.
Also, did she sit in the P wagon for 13 hours just to wait for her toes to start working again? It seemed awfully dangerous (for all the reasons previously mentioned) yet I didn’t see that time period benefit the script in any other way.
Now, here’s my dumb question and I hope the answer isn’t too embarrisingly obvious… why did Bill even want to kill her and her entire wedding entourage in the first place? Why was the character of her slain husband not more fully developed? I don’t remember her revenge being for anything more that what they’d done to her. I don’t remember her saying “This is for my husband” (or family) when she extracted her revenge.
It was a fake wedding. The deputies say as much. They don’t go into the hows ans wherefors. I think Vol 2 does that.
Also, she’s pretty pissed that the father of her child shot her in the head. That would piss me off too. Especially if she believes he killed her baby in the process.
it wasn’t a fake wedding. it was the wedding rehearsal. they just happened to be wearing their tuxes and gowns.
this is pretty much the reason given in the second movie for killing the bride . . .
bill and uma were lovers. she got pregnant and decided to leave the divas through letting bill believe she was dead. when he found out she wasn’t and that she was going to marry someone, he “overreacted” a little.
I’m pretty sure that Beatrice makes a comment about butcher knives in particular regarding the weapon of choice.
However, there is one glaring inconsistancy (well, maybe not so glaring, but I remember numbers…).
In the introduction to O-Ren Ishii the bride concludes (paraphrased) “… where she participated in the massacre of 9 innocent people. Her big mistake? She should’ve killed 10!”
However, when the sheriff arrives at the chapel he asks his son how many people were killed (again paraphrased): “Nine, including the wedding party, the preacher, the preachers wife, hell, they even killed that old colored fella who played the organ.” This was before they found out that the Bride was still alive. Ergo, there were 8 people killed and 1 survivor.
Of course, I never bothered to count the party in vol. 2 so I’m not too sure who is correct. But one of them is wrong.
JohnT,
She was including her unborn the sheriff was not.
Ahhhh. That’s right. :smack:
The reason the Sheriff counted nine but The Bride counted ten is simple: the bride believes her baby is also killed. The Sheriff is not counting the unborn child (he only sees nine bodies there) but The Bride sure does.
Sorry… didn’t see there was a second page when I replied to that post (at the bottom of page one, pretending to be the last post to those too dimwitted to notice there are two pages).