When the movie was conceived and launched, intermarriage between African-Americans and Caucasians was still illegal in fourteen states. Towards the end of production, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Loving v. Virginia. The Loving decision was made on June 12, 1967, two days after the death of Spencer Tracy, who had played a "phony" white liberal who grudgingly accepts his daughter's marriage to a black man. In Loving, the High Court unanimously ruled that anti-miscegenation marriage laws were unconstitutional. In his opinion, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, "Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man', fundamental to our very existence and survival. To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under the American Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State." Interestingly, Kramer kept in the line of the African-American father played by Roy Glenn, who tells his son played by Sidney Poitier, "In sixteen or seventeen states you'll be breaking the law. You'll be criminals." This was probably because Kramer realized that, despite the change in the law, the couple would still be facing a great deal of prejudice requiring a stalwart love for their marriage to survive, which was the message Tracy's character gives in an eight minute scene that is the climax of the movie. The scene summing up the theme of the movie was the last one the dying Tracy filmed for the movie, and it was the last time he would ever appear on film. It took a week to shoot the scene, and at the end, he was given a standing ovation by the crew. He died seventeen days after walking off of a soundstage for the last time.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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"Beatrix" and "Bill" both start with the letter "B", hence the naming of their daughter "B.B." There are also other "B.B." references. For example, the opening song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" by Nancy Sinatra, also when Beatrix sees B.B. and Bill for the first time, Bill points a toy water pistol and yells "Bang! Bang!"
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Before Chapter Six was changed from "Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?" to "Massacre at Two Pines", Samuel L. Jackson's wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, was supposed to play a character named L.F. O'Boyle, a casino owner, who Bill personally dispatches, after toying with her.
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Choreographer Woo-Ping Yuen was originally set to play Pai Mei, but could not fit it in with his choreography, so Quentin Tarantino considered playing it himself for a little while, before picking Chia-Hui Liu for the part.
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As The Bride is walking under a very bright sun through the desert just before the trailer incident, the music played is "Sunny Road to Salina", composed and performed by French 1960s crooner Christophe. Later on, The Bride is told that Bill's hacienda is "on the Road to Salina", a reference to the film, in which the aforementioned track was originally heard, Road to Salina (1970).
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Quentin Tarantino: [long take] The "Massacre at Two Pines" ends with the camera following The Bride down the aisle away from Bill to the altar. We then "float" away from the altar, down the aisle, past Bill, out the door to the awaiting members of the DiVAS. Once they enter, the camera cranes up off the ground where we hear the pandemonium inside the chapel until finally fading out. All in a single take.
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The scene in which Budd opens the case to reveal a black mamba, that bites him in the face, was inspired by, and borrowed from, Venom (1981), in which Susan George opens a crate containing a black mamba that bites her in the face.
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Robert Rodriguez scored this movie for one dollar. Quentin Tarantino said he would repay him, by directing a segment of Rodriguez's project Sin City (2005) for one dollar.
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The film is a departure from most of Quentin Tarantino's films, in that several real-life products and brand names appear in the movie. Tarantino usually makes an effort to avoid product placement in his films.
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The movie poster in Budd's trailer is for the Charles Bronson classic Mr. Majestyk (1974). That movie title is also mentioned by Drexl in the Quentin Tarantino-scripted True Romance (1993).
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Although he's a famously skilled and prolific killer, the character of Bill is not shown killing anyone on-screen. The only person he wounds on-screen (Beatrix) survives.
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The film's entire first reel is presented in black and white.
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In Reservoir Dogs (1992), Michael Madsen's character attempts to kill a cop by dousing him with a can of gasoline, intending to burn him alive. In this movie, the same gas canister can be seen in Budd's (Michael Madsen's) trailer as The Bride attempts to enter.
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Although "Kill Bill" was meant to play as a whole movie, this movie is unofficially Quentin Tarantino's first sequel.
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DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino (cereal): Quentin Tarantino features old boxes of cereal in his movies, in the final scene, there is an old box of Lucky Charms on the table in the hotel room.
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Daryl Hannah improvised the scene where Elle Driver's eye gets removed by Beatrix Kiddo, and she goes "nuts". She did this because she thought it would make Quentin Tarantino laugh. He did, and that scene was in the final film. She sustained injuries from breaking so many things in the bathroom.
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Originally, the Kill Bill films were planned as one epic four hour film.
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Though never revealed in the film, the production photos reveal Bill's license plate number on his car: JE2336.
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Bo Svenson (as Reverend Harmony) was one of the stars of The Inglorious Bastards (1978).
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Elle Driver's fate remains unknown. It's possible Elle Driver may had got fatally poisoned by her Black Mamba which she used to kill Budd.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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