Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, a former assassin who swears revenge on her ex-teammates (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they leave her for dead. Her journey takes her to Tokyo, where she battles the yakuza.
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This is a revenge story, maybe even a love gone wrong story, a story told in flashbacks without a straight timeline. A movie story where the action sequences have different stylings. For instance, O-ren’s origins are told comic book style, the massacre at El Paso seems like a Western, the encounter with Vernita almost seems like a modern family drama, and the fight scenes are told in black and white, black light, and even a touch of traditional Japanese.
The Massacre at El Paso sets the tone of the revenge story, and the most important plot point for this and the next movie. We learn that Ms. Uma Thurman has a hit list and she’s methodically running through it, with the climax of this movie being the battle with O-ren, the leader of Yakuza, and her personal army, The Crazy 88s.
Through flashbacks we see how Uma acquires her signature weapon, how she ended up in the hospital, why she’s at Vernita’s house, and who is on her hit list. Two of her hit list are dealt with in this movie, I already gave away one of them, but her ultimate target is the titular character: Bill.
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