I LOVED THE MUSIC!! Kill Bill Volume 1 Movie Reaction!!

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[@iKvetch558]

As I understand it, you are basically correct. Tarantino could not get away with the amount of blood and gore he wanted to show and keep from getting an NC-17 rating...so to keep his R rating, he used segments of black and white film, and used animation for O-Ren's origin story. Also, scalping is removing the hair OVER the skull...so The Bride was being very extra with the amount of skull she took off! LOL

[@t0dd000]

And he made the blood spray throughout ridiculous (comic book like) for the same reason.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Agreed! I’m not really a huge fan of over the top violence, but it more or less worked for me here. The black and white probably did help me though 🤣

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

If I remember correctly, her brain is fully in tact after being scalped... skullcapped... skulled... capped? Skullped! That's it, skull + scalped 😄😁 But not a shred of brain matter - not one brain cell - had been taken off the top, even though it was obviously a clean, straight swipe that took off her skullcap. 😅😂 I'm sorry, I just find it funny that such a flat cut across the top of the cranium left her brain whole, and wholly unharmed.

[@maggieellis2303]

You know why he guessed correctly about the reason for the b/w / anime? Cuz he’s a friggin’ ninja.

[@danholmesfilm]

@@CasualNerdReactions You're gonna love Vol. 2 :)

[@botz77]

She had her gun inside a Kaboom! cereal box. Kaboom! Cereal. That's hilarious.

[@susanbotwinski5584]

I caught that too!! I'm not sure if I noticed before! 😂 That's awesome.

[@josephirizarry5195]

Hilarious and nutritious

[@bryanCJC2105]

One of the best cliffhangers and what made it so awesome was that it was unexpected and it was delivered so coolly and casually.

[@BrianSmithNow]

I still get chills from remembering the audience response of "Ohhhhhhh!" at the end.

[@moonlitegram]

There's deeper films out there. But in terms of pure style and entertainment, I think this film takes the cake for me. Even having seen it so many times over the years, its still a blast to watch. Glad you enjoyed it too!

[@Anthony-ip4gu]

That scream when she realizes she lost her baby is terrifying and so heartbreaking

[@helpmeImpoor5314]

I felt that in my soul

[@BigGator5]

"One more thing, Sofie... is she aware her daughter is still alive?" BOOM! That's how you do a cliffhanger!! 😎 Fun Fact: Despite being bleeped out in the film, the name of The Bride (Uma Thurman) is revealed on her plane tickets. Batter-Up Fact: The shot where the Bride splits a baseball in two with a samurai sword was done for real on the set. It was done by Zoë Bell, Uma Thurman's stunt double. Boom! Head Shot! Fact: When Chiaki Kuriyama (Gogo) was shooting the scene where she flings her ball and chain out, she accidentally hit Quentin Tarantino on the head as he stood by the camera. Casting Notes Fact: 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.

[@davidmcleod5133]

Been waiting for this reaction! Kill Bill is one of the few perfect films ever made, in my opinion.

[@Scary__fun]

It's really good but could have done with some editing. Chapter 4 about meeting Hattori Hanzo could have been a short scene, it drags. Volume II has even more scenes that could have been cut. Sometimes Quentin's fanboyism gets in his own way by putting Sonny Chiba in for stuff that could have been left out or having Bill talk about comic books in Volume II.

[@davidmcleod5133]

@@Scary__funNope.

[@marktracy1721]

Your right 👍👍👍

[@epicsshadesmaster-animatio4398]

Definitely I actually felt bad for sleeping on it for so long

[@dancouver23]

The music in Tarantino movies is always next level but this one was special, it's a master class in how to score a movie.

[@D-Rv8iv]

There is the version on KZbin which is the two movies edited together properly, using the Japanese versions visuals. It’s called ‘kill bill: the whole bloody affair’ and all the parts that were black and white are in their original colour. It’s really good.

[@butkusfan23]

“Never occurred to me there might be a gun in the CEREAL box” Did you notice the name of the cereal? “Kaboom” 😊

[@chadlynch1551]

The thing with blood fountaining during the sword fights is something that was common in old samurai films. It goes back to an early black and white samurai movie where a blood squib was prepped wrong. The scene called for the lead character to slash another samurai with his sword, killing him, and have a reasonable amount of fake blood spurt out as he fell. Because it wasn't rigged correctly, the squib ended up gushing out this tremendous fountain of fake blood. Instead of reshooting the scene, they left in. It was ridiculously over the top, but it looked cool. Eventually other directors started to imitate it, to one degree or another, in many of their own samurai films. Think of it as a kind of samurai version of the Wilhelm scream. Including it in the Japanese fight scenes here was a sort of homage to that.

[@Darth-Lesbian]

That’s ridiculously awesome. As a semi random side note we used to have a group of Japanese kids from a preschool come to our pumpkin patch every October and they were always my favorite customers. Super polite and clean and neat. And they were the only group who had their kids line up their shoes out of the walking path before going to play on the bouncy houses. Most kids (and parents unfortunately) just left them wherever and I was always moving them out of places people would trip over them but these guys had their kids trained to politely line their shoes up out of the way before running off and it was the cutest thing. Nicest and most well behaved 3-4 year olds I ever dealt with 😂

[@CarolinaCharles777]

Awesome reaction Chris! Tarantino has made no secret about his love of Brian De Palma films, and this movie is filled with tributes to him: long tracking shots, split screens, overhead shots, etc.

[@damarelo27]

The movie was scored by RZA. He’s the de facto leader of the Wu-Tang Clan and their main producer. Musical genius! Great reaction! Looking forward to part 2.

[@sca88]

The fountain spray he got from late 60's to 70's Japanese cult films, 'Pinky Violence' and gangster. Some of the songs in this film were taken from of those films.

[@MetastaticMaladies]

I love this movie (including part 2), I’ll never get tired of watching it

[@francisbartoszewski2284]

With the black and white scene, I would like to point out that this is not the case for every country. In Japan the age ratings aren't as strict so the film over there has that scene in full colour, I own a Japanese copy of the dvd where it is like that. It's incredible.

[@torontomame]

I love your reaction at the very end, when Bill says that about the daughter. Because when I watched this in the theater I also gasped aloud.

[@eddietucker7005]

This was made with the intention of being like a early 1970’s Kong fu movie, the old spaghetti westerns, so the music fits the style. Even the “Feature Presentation” at the beginning was of that time period. Quinten and Uma wrote this together while filming “Pulp Fiction”. You still need to see Tarantino’s “Four Rooms”. Be prepared to laugh your buttocks off!! 🤣

[@DuncanEvans-t7q]

I heard a rumour that for the crazy 88 fight, he knew be censored if not black and white, but apparently it in full colour in Japanese version

[@asiahenry7798]

I have seen this film over 50 times, and I just noticed something that I will share once you watch Vol 2.

[@shainewhite2781]

YES!! My favorite part is when she fights off the Crazy 88's, slicing and dicing them left and right.

[@danholmesfilm]

10:55 "It's literally raining blood" Me: Not yet... 11:27 "It's raining blood again!" Me: Not yet...

[@Saniala]

The right music playing at the right time is such an important part of the style that it really wouldn't be anywhere near the same without it.

[@MichaelEvans-i2r]

So "Jackie Brown" is Quinton Tarantino's adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel "Rum Punch", and now that you've watched that, it would probably be worth it to check out the 1998 Steven Soderbergh film "Out of Sight", which adapts Leonard's novel of the same name. Leonard would often have supporting characters he introduced in one novel show up as supporting characters in other novels, and this is a tradition that the two film adaptations try to invoke.

[@josephirizarry5195]

Best theater experience of my life. So nice I went twice. And the second time I was NOT sober

[@sirsancti5504]

The "square" in Pulp Fiction turned into a rectangle after the movie went 16:9. I saw it (loooooong ago) in the original 4:3 and it was, indeed, a square. =)

[@robertcampomizzi7988]

8:52 That is the theme song for The Exorcist

[@74gould]

LOVE this movie! :) I remember seeing this in the theater on opening weekend with a group of friends, and when the credits rolled, people were cheering. It was such a fun experience. Everyone was 100% into it... (probably didn't hurt that we had all enjoyed a few adult beverages beforehand... haha)

[@awakeningcry]

Funny... after I came round from surgery to remove a brain tumour, it was my right leg that I could move first; it took 3 weeks to get the full range of movement in my right arm

[@Darth-Lesbian]

I swear Quinten Tarantino must have been specifically born and bred to make movies because it seems to come as naturally to him as breathing comes to us.

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

2:16 oh yes, it is definitely an interesting song. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), written by Sonny Bono for Cher. At first, I was very upset that they didn't use the original version by Cher, but after awhile I realized... yeah, this more haunting version fits than Cher's first recording from the '60s, which is more upbeat-ish. But he could've used her '80s haunting rock ballad... which is, by far, the BEST version of the song - other than the live version from her farewell tour.

[@duvall5jd]

Isn’t the version the movie used by Nancy Sinatra?

[@duvall5jd]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS MOVIE!

[@brunka09]

Awesome, love your reaction! Waiting for you watching second part.

[@iceprincess2134]

You never know what you're going to get beyond a lot of violence and feet.

[@jimhaggard7436]

You get more information from Volume 2, but yes, Uma was Bill’s lover, despite the thirty year age difference between them. When she discovers she’s pregnant she leaves him to protect her baby as she no longer wants to be an assassin. She attempts to marry the first man that comes along before the baby is born. Bill tracks her down on her wedding day and with the help of his brother Bud and the VIPER squad, massacre everyone in attendance (including Samuel L. Jackson’s character who was originally supposed to be his character Jules five years after Pulp Fiction) and put Uma in a coma for four years.

[@themoviedealers]

In Pulp Fiction, Jules says he's quitting the life and will just "walk the earth, like Caine in Kung Fu.". That part was played by ...BILL. David Carradine. It's the Tarantino circle of life 😂

[@fr1day2]

Not a major spoiler, you can see The Bride's real name when she shows her ID at customs. Also, freeze frame when you see the undersoles of her sneakers as she's walking on the glass floor in The House Of Blue Leaves to get an interesting message.

[@gggooding]

Cute, lil detail: Vivica Fox's gun hidden in the box of cereal...it was "Kaboom!" cereal.

[@d.k.6361]

In several of his movies, Tarantino's characters execute justice against an evil that could never be obtained in the usual way. I guess it is extreme fantasy revenge. Thanks for reviewing this movie.

[@susanbotwinski5584]

Great reaction Chris! I could of watched another half hour of you Thanks. Fantastic movie. 👏👏

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Well, I guess I’ll post another half hour next week with part 2 :)

[@susanbotwinski5584]

😂👏👏

[@robovike]

"It's default give up." :)

[@darrylcarden1851]

Was just watching one the other day that Tarantino wrote but didn’t direct I think you would really like. Give “True Romance” a watch some time

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Definitely planning to work my way over to his written works once I’ve made it through his directed films.

[@damarelo27]

You should start with True Romance. It’s his first major work and it’s AMAZING!

[@charlieeckert4321]

22:17 The bald man she is fighting will appear again in Part 2 playing Pai Mei.

[@sword4005]

it went black and white because the movie was imitating old samurai black and white movies from japan

[@Jonathan-ug9yu]

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is Tarrantino's magnum opus. That's my Tarantino hot take.

[@jeffburnham6611]

The Man from Okinawa is my favorite chapter. It's simple and doesn't have the normal Tarantino brutality or gore.

[@themoviedealers]

Sonny Chiba very charismatic.

[@LordVolkov]

Oh, btw Chris, the 'Fox Force 5' idea is also toyed with in one scene of Spice World 😉

[@vicegrips188]

The Fargo series is the only thing close to the production as Quinten’s films, Noah Hawley who wrote/directed/produced/ect. also created my favorite series “LEGION” and will soon be working on an “Alien” anthology series Frank Scott comes in after with the series “godless” and queen’s gambit” which were both great ✌

[@aylaedip8141]

Loved this😂 xx Is 'A Good as it Gets' on it's way. Thank you hun xx

[@CasualNerdReactions]

It’s on its way, I moved it because I noticed several other reactors either just released kill bill or about to so I wanted to get ahead of some of them 😅. Also I still have a copyright claim on as good as it gets and i’m trying to figure out a different way of editing it. All the scenes are important. It’s too good of a movie to chop down 😭

[@CasualNerdReactions]

But yea, December 16th for sure.

[@aylagregg1962]

Thank you for the reply it's much appreciated🌼 cant wait for this as I think it's one of the best roles J N ever played. Apparantly a sequel was in the works but they never went ahead it. Am glad too .. its bittersweet but a total gem of a movie !!!!Have a great weekend. Love n hugs 💜

[@rxtsec1]

Great reaction, hard to decide which is my favorite Tarantino movie but this is up there

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I guess it was maybe my third or fourth time watching, before I realized that Buck christened his truck "😺 Wagon" because he'd purchased it with the proceeds of his sex-trafficking.

[@Angelicwings1]

I adore this film series.

[@vincecomuna]

I may have a crush on this man.... just a tiny bit.

[@duvall5jd]

Honestly same

[@TTM9691]

One of the best reactions ever for Kill Bill, and I'm not even a huge Kill Bill fan (although parts of it I love) ( basically the first halves of both parts!). Really looking forward to part 2! Luckily there was a Part 2 reaction from vkunia that I hadn't watched yet, so I did a rare Kill Bill reaction double feature! (It really is one movie. Everyone knew he was working on this movie "Kill Bill" and it wasn't until the last minute that it was suddenly announced it was going to be two movies. I will say that the audience response to the opening of Kill Bill 2 was something I will always remember. "....I'm gonna Kill Bill!" Roar of the crowd as the music goes crazy and "Vol. 2" comes up. Ha! Thanks, Chris!

[@sirsancti5504]

Also: The whole thing was supposed to be one single movie, but it got too long for theaters (and we know how QT is stubborn about cutting out stuff), so it was divided into 2 volumes.

[@Col_Fragg]

The only significance of the B&W is to secure an R rating rather than an NC-17 rating. As someone else mentioned the version released in Japan has the scene in glorious color.

[@kimtalley4496]

From what I understand the yellow outfit with a black stripe is an homage to bruce lee in entering the dragon.

[@richardedgerton1852]

The soundtrack while she is shown in that and on the bike momentarily resumes Green Hornet where Lee was Kato.

[@boqndimitrov8693]

this is how hanzo swords became a legend! ❤

[@dqan7372]

Enjoyed that. Looking forward to 2.

[@jffcrt6290]

Uma Thurman's character is the stranger with no name, much like Clint Eastwood was in those Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns.

[@larindanomikos]

I think you're right about the black and white. I think they would have to limit it or lose their rating.

[@kimtalley4496]

It cracks me up every time when she spanks the boy with her sword.

[@moreanimals6889]

Wait till you see volume 2!!!! 😃😃😃😃

[@TampaCEO]

These 2 movies were actually filmed as ONE movie. During editing however, Tarantino refused to cut out all of the great scenes. And nobody would buy a 5 hour film. So he brilliantly cut it into 2 parts. Part 2 answers all of your questions. To me, it's also a better film. There's a lot more dialog and better acting. Also some new characters. You will definitely enjoy it.

[@nickvaldez2500]

They switched to black and white….. oooop nvm you answered the question before I could finish typing this ❤️

[@douglascampbell9809]

If you want to see where the spray comes from I suggest you watch a film referenced in another Tarantino film. The film you should watch is Shogun's Assassin (1980). A compilation of some scenes of the Lone Wolf And CUb series of samurai films.

[@firstsurname7099]

Think you really need to go Kurosawa (not some weird yankie grindhouse compilation thingy - plus I'd hope nowadays folk'd watch the original films Shogun's Assassin came from, in order to understand them) to understand the blood spray etc., innit

[@douglascampbell9809]

@@firstsurname7099 I like the originals as well but I wanted the tie in.

[@Cifer77]

YES!

[@AprilGabrielle]

I wish you were watching Vol. 2 right now as well!

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Making it public next Saturday! Excited to share it.

[@aryssobral]

Not gonna lie i would love animation movie about some of the "snakes"

[@anthonyleecollins9319]

Not only would the movie be different with different music, these songs are now permanently linked to these images (well, for me -- but I'm sure I'm not the only one). If I hear "Battle without Honor or Humanity," for example, that scene plays in my head. And, yes, the black&white in the fight scenes was for ratings in the United States. International DVDs (at least some) have full color through that scene.

[@Patti-sg1fv]

And now onto volume 2?

[@DugTheDog]

16:06 Green Hornet. Bruce Lee. You should check it out.

[@the_nikster1]

you've gotta watch Vol 2 ASAP. from what I understand, Vol 1 and Vol 2 were meant to be one film but it was too long so Tarantino had to split it into two films. once you see Vol 2, you'll see what I mean. Kill Bill Vol 1 and Vol 2 is my favorite Tarantino film, hands down. and yes, the music is so iconic at this point and absolutely makes the movie. thanks for the reaction, Chris! 😃

[@827honey1]

I believe the story is they ran out of blood so Quentin went with black and white for that scene. Uma is absolutely incredible as the bride. I can't see anyone else doing the part justice with the necessary toughness and vulnerability. I like the bride's code of honor just as Bill stated in the beginning when he told Elle not to poison her and why the bride is not shy to let them know she is coming she isn't going to dishonor herself or them and catch them unawares or defenseless. Looking forward to your thoughts on part 2 and the change of tone.

[@eshuorishas9987]

Lol love it. Jokes aside it was that it was gonna be nc17 if in color. So dumb. My buddy got the overseas version which is still in color.

[@827honey1]

@@eshuorishas9987 Yeah it was a nice break even if not intended.

[@lordwalker71]

Tarantino owned the Pussy wagon, not sure if he still does or not but it also made an appearance in the lady Gaga video for the song telephone.

[@HuntingViolets]

Lucy Liu is just amazing in this (I know she's not the star, but she's my star).

[@crouchingotter]

The black and white is due to censorship in western cinema. Thankfully there is a Japanese version of the film in full colour (but there’s no subtitles for the Japanese dialogue)

[@couch.patati-patata]

Back when everyone carried katanas on planes.

[@rowenatulley852]

I hope you do Vol. 2 soon . . .

[@tree6787]

I love these movies❤

[@jimtatro6550]

This movie is amazing but it is only the first half of one film, this one centered on the action, the second focuses more on the story.

[@rama30]

True this would have been NC-17 if all in color but another reason is they used every last drop of fake blood for like a 500 mile radius. The Japanese cut of the film stays in color and half the shots of blood is just water. Also, the American cut plays the scene as 95% serious. The Japanese cut involved more comedy.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

Get ready. You ain't seen NOTHING yet.!!! LOL Great reaction tho. Be safe man.

[@larindanomikos]

He borrowed the split screen thing from Brian DePalma who borrowed it from Alfred Hitchcock.

[@JAYWALKER1000]

This movie aried on network televison - the back of the truck ready PARTYwagon.

[@Alan_CFA]

Like the cliffhanger?

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I hear some folks say that part 1 and part 2 are simply a convenient division of a single film, but I disagree. The tone, or 'framing'(?) of the second is different... The first I'd characterize as an homage to Martial Arts films coming out of Hong Kong around the 1970s, while the second feels to me much more like one of the Westerns of that time or the decade before.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

Excellent points. I think it could have been a single film and edited in a way that feels cohesive, but once Quentin decided to separate them he really leaned into giving them their own unique characteristics.

[@renlessard]

Vol 2 is stylistically very different. I love both but I prefer Vol 2

[@godzillaprime]

Lmao, your smile fading away at the beginning Also, Buck is Batmans partner in Jackie Brown

[@rahbeat9785]

good stuff

[@rama30]

I wish O-Ren's brain had popped out when she fell over.

[@tfpp1]

I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who at least "questions" the fact that this movie contains more Spanished-influenced, Mexican-sounding music for moments that are clearly . . . Asian. Like, I'm looking around saying to myself "does anyone else notice that incongruity?"

[@davidg5506]

Tarantino loves Westerns, and he loves combining aspects of different genres. I think the incongruity is intentional.

[@tfpp1]

@@davidg5506 I don't disagree with you. I think until I realized his style more and more over the years, I didn't understand why he did it, that's all. But it's definitely a unique artistic choice.

[@joshnorris6238]

Don't go into part two expecting as much craziness. It's still amazing, but it's more about the story than action.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

If I remember correctly I think I actually said part one had the action and part two had the story 😅

[@gregkirby9059]

they showed the list and we know O-ren is dead

[@johankaewberg8162]

The first music is copied from The Chaos Engine, a computer game.

[@couch.patati-patata]

Whimperrrr

[@ItsLexy]

I believe this might have been the first Tarantino movie I watched fully (I'm fairly certain I'd seen parts of Reservoir Dogs on tv but I was young and didn't pay too much attention) and while I don't think it's his best film nor is it my favorite now (both those spots are filled by Inglourious Basterds for me), it holds a special place. I really appreciated how the female characters all kicked ass without being heavily oversexualized for the male gaze. That was such a rare thing for movies at the time, if two women fought each other it was always orchestrated that they both looked pretty, that the fight looked sexy, and that bothers me. None of that goes on here. When these women fight, they fight hard, they get just as hurt, messy, and sweaty as male action protagonists do. None of the moves they do are designed nor shot in a way to show off the actresses bust or butts either. I was immediately attached to that, even though at the time I was disturbed by just how violent it was. Now that I'm older and have rewatched it(as well as unfortunately seen a lot more real life violence), I think the violence is just over the top enough that it's cartoonish. It no longer bothers me.

[@Braincleaner]

it went black and white cos the movie was looking at an NC-17, so QT cut nothing, just made it black and white and it got an R.

[@surlycanadian]

The whole Fox Force Five element that fans latch onto is a bit forced. Other than the fact that there are five on the team, there are no similarities between Fox Force Five and the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. FF5 are supposed to be all women, DVAS is not. FF5 are all secret agents not assassins and we don’t have descriptions or names of FF5 that Mia mentioned that match up well at all. Tarantino may have used FF5 in premise as an inspiration, but if he did, he then went and changed every aspect of them other than the number of team members.

[@oscardiggs246]

To me, the foot thing is QTs commentary on the way other movies focus on T&A. Arbitrarily focusing on a body part and concocting reasons to put the camera near them is silly, and he is pointing it out. I think if it was really a foot fetish, he would be embarrassed to keep doing it after he’s been called out about it so often. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think he is too good at what he does, everything is so intentional, I can't imagine him screwing up his films by doing something with as little meaning as a personal kink.

[@CasualNerdReactions]

I really like that idea!