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When "Kill Bill Vol. 1" was released 10 years ago, on October 10, 2003, it was billed as a "roaring rampage of revenge." While movies often fail to live up to their over-inflated taglines, this was not one of them. Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked tale of vengeance had everything you'd want in a revenge fantasy: a head getting slammed in a doorway, limbs chopped off by samurai swords, and even a man's heart exploding. (Huh, this film feels way more violent when you list them out like that.)
Yet, despite its title, "Kill Bill" wasn't all about death and destruction. In fact, one of the movie's most memorable moments doesn't involve violence at all. It involves an all-girl Japanese surf rock group called the 5.6.7.8's. Their appearance before the showdown at the House of Blue Leaves, where our heroine, Beatrix Kiddo, stabs her way through 88 yakuza,...
When "Kill Bill Vol. 1" was released 10 years ago, on October 10, 2003, it was billed as a "roaring rampage of revenge." While movies often fail to live up to their over-inflated taglines, this was not one of them. Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked tale of vengeance had everything you'd want in a revenge fantasy: a head getting slammed in a doorway, limbs chopped off by samurai swords, and even a man's heart exploding. (Huh, this film feels way more violent when you list them out like that.)
Yet, despite its title, "Kill Bill" wasn't all about death and destruction. In fact, one of the movie's most memorable moments doesn't involve violence at all. It involves an all-girl Japanese surf rock group called the 5.6.7.8's. Their appearance before the showdown at the House of Blue Leaves, where our heroine, Beatrix Kiddo, stabs her way through 88 yakuza,...
- 10/10/2013
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
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