Kill Bill
vol.1
Music selection
Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina
Decimus Junius Juvenal ● Music: some people don''t like the big and fat
Kill scene at the House of Blue Leaves for it unrealistic bloodshed, for its absurdity. But Tarantino was simply referring to that absurd bloodshed of the 70s kung fu movies with the condoms filled with red fluid, in the 70s they were doing it, because they didn''t know any better, he did it because of his great respect for the history of cinema, and for the 70s particularly. Still even that absurd showdown can look absolutely fabulous and really beautiful if you are watching it to the right music. It is unbelievable how the attitude changes the moment you put the right
soundtrack. We had converted DVD to MPEG1 (our video editor works with MPEG only) and added to the scene our own soundtrack, and presented it to our friends: even the most pacifistic of all, the greatest bores ever, were watching spellbound. They repeated it at home too: WinDVD playing the movie, WinMediaPlayer playing the song, well, two songs to be precise. One of them is Cliff Richard''s "Do You
Wanna Dance?" (it should be Cliff Richard''s with those drumbeats, not The Beach Boys'' or anyone else''s), another Johnny Tillotson''s "Poetry In Motion". When the Crazy88 circle THE BRIDE "Do You Wanna Dance"
starts, the first words "Do you wanna dance…" should match THE BRIDE''s first lunge, the whole fight looks like music video then, ironical and violent one. The song lasts 2:14, when it ends the original soundtrack should play with its "Nobody But Me", then when the lights go down (everything is black & blue then), and THE BRIDE is circled again upstairs, "Poetry in Motion" plays: "When I see my baby, what do I see? Poetry. Poetry in motion.", at these words she starts slashing bodyguards again, then it goes even better: "Her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide…"When she is one-on-one with the little boy, music stops, when Johnny Mo attacks her: "I love every movement, there is nothing I would change..." and so on, it ends when THE BRIDE chops off his leg. For Kill Bill vol.2 Jody Reynolds''s "Endless Sleep" is good. Kelley has a funny version for Death Proof also, but I find it inappropriate: when Stuntman Mike starts chasing the girls with Zoë on the hood – The Offspring''s "Spare Me the Details", then – "Pretty Fly For a White Guy", when the girls are getting even – Boomkat''s "The Wreckoning", and for Kill Bill vol.2 – Jody Reynolds''s Endless Sleep.
Kill Bill vol.2 Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. Bishop Beilby Porteus The resource: "10 Mistakes of Quentin Tarantino or What They Call Good Acting", by Kelley Florence and Jennie Oakley at LULU.com
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