Kill Bill: Vol. 1 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Kill Bill: Vol. 1

[willard]

In an interview, Quentin Tarantino stated that the Raquel Welch western Hannie Caulder (1971) is one of his influences behind the film. In that film, Hannie Caulder becomes a vengeful gunwoman after her husband is murdered, and when she is raped by the three outlaws responsible. In this film, The Bride (Thurman) seeks vengeance upon Bill, and the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, after they wronged her at her wedding, in which her husband-to-be, and the wedding guests, were slain, and The Bride was raped by Buck, while in her coma.

[beth]

Quentin Tarantino was a big fan of the Japanese movie Battle Royale (2000), so he cast Chiaki Kuriyama (who played Takako Chigusa in Battle Royale (2000)) as Gogo Yubari.

[lena]

The final fight scene in Django Unchained (2012), in which Django (Jaime Foxx) tells Steven (Samuel L. Jackson) to stay right where he is mirrors the scene in which The Bride tells Sophie Fatale to stay right where she is in the aftermath of the sword battle with the Crazy 88.

[gabriel]

This film and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) are the only Quentin Tarantino films in which there is no mention of the "N" word.

[fred]

The music sampled for "Ode to O-Ren Ishii" is the title track from the film The Psychic (1977). Since an instrumental version is not included on the soundtrack, it has become an increasingly popular download.

[maureen]

The line that O-Ren and The Bride speak together in the House of Blue Leaves, "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids", refers to an advertising slogan for Trix breakfast cereal. It is also a cryptic reference to The Bride's name, which in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) is revealed to be Beatrix Kiddo.

[jim]

The paintings on the walls of Vernita's (Vivica A. Fox's) house, in the opening scenes, were provided by visual artist Rodney Grier, brother of Pam Grier, the star of Tarantino's earlier film Jackie Brown (1997).

[jeffrey]

The scene in which The Bride (Uma Thurman) kills Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), and the "I'll be waiting" speech she makes to Nikki (Ambrosia Kelley), mirrors a similar scene from another revenge film, The Punisher (1989). In a similar scene from that film, Frank Castle (Dolph Lundgren) says to Tommy Franco, "Because if you don't... I'll be waiting", when he kills his father Gianni (Jeroen Krabbe).

[nora]

Quentin Tarantino revealed in an interview that the music used in Kill Bill was all from other films. He used music from his soundtrack collection.

[kristina]

At the beginning of the fight scene between O-Ren and The Bride, after O-Ren says, in Japanese, "I hope you saved your energy. If you haven't, you may not last five minutes." It is exactly four minutes and fifty-nine seconds from the time she steps forward, and the music cues, until the fatal blow of the duel. From the time she says "five minutes" until the fatal blow, it is precisely five minutes and thirty seconds.

[javier]

Quentin Tarantino originally intended to cast a Japanese actress to play O-Ren Ishii, but before casting began, he saw Lucy Liu's work in Shanghai Noon (2000) and immediately changed O-Ren into a Chinese-Japanese-American, so that Liu could play the part.

[duane]

Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) has been speculated as one of Quentin Tarantino's inspirations behind the film. Quentin Tarantino admitted in an interview that he is a Xena fan. He praised the show for its action, storytelling, and the magnificence of Xena's backstory.

[marc]

The name the sword maker, Hattori Hanzo, is also the name of a samurai who was a warrior for a would be emperor, Oda Nobunaga, in the year of 1570.

[tom]

The Bride's yellow outfit was inspired by the outfit worn by Bruce Lee in his final film, Game of Death (1978).

[tammy]

Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) whistles the theme from Twisted Nerve (1968) while entering the hospital. The whistling from Bernard Herrmann's composition is isolated until Elle enters a changing room.

[kenzi]

Quentin Tarantino: When The Bride stands over the remains of the Crazy 88s, a masked Quentin Tarantino is among them.

[brent]

To entice Robert Richardson to work on the project, Quentin Tarantino had the script sent to his house on Valentine's Day 2002, along with a bouquet of roses.

[richard]

On the wall of the House of Blue Leaves are the letters Q and U. These refer to the first names of Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, as the creators of The Bride.

[jeffrey]

The sunglasses The Bride (Uma Thurman) takes from Buck (Michael Bowen) at the hospital are the same style Christian Slater wore in True Romance (1993), also written by Quentin Tarantino.