40:20 Notice that the way she kills Bill is by "breaking" his heart, which is thematically beautiful because they were once lovers.

This movie is a GREAT example of a well written, strong female lead who isn't perfect, who has to struggle, who makes you feel for her. THIS is what a strong female lead is

David Carradine did a great job portraying Bill. I wouldn’t say I felt bad for Bill in his final scene because he had it coming, but I do appreciate the layers that Carradine’s performance and Tarantino’s writing/directing added to the character

The actor that plays the pimp Esteban is the same actor who played the lead sheriff in Kill Bill Vol 1. The transformation is so amazing usually no one spots it. Michael Parks is his name.

Elle was the only member of the Deadly Vipers who WASN'T named after a venomous snake (California Mountain Snake is non-venomous), but... she made up for it by using poison and venom in her attacks.

The actor who played Pai Mei is Gordon Liu. He is a martial artist/actor best known for his 70's martial arts films, most of which were of him becoming a master of Shaolin kung fu. He also played the masked man who had his leg cut off at the knee in the banister fight in Kill Bill 1. As the scenes show, he has amazing acrobatic ability (yes, they used wires, but look at how smooth it was). The crazy zooms were something you saw in classic martial arts films, as is the training montage, the mannerisms, the beard stroking, the insane eyebrows, etc.

8:55 Budd is ready to die, is broken and done. Doesn't mean he wants to die. Hes just accepting and ready

The $64,000 Question was in reference to an old 1950’s game show called The $64,000 Question. It’s basically synonymous for the big question.

I've always felt that despite killing bill, the bride still loved him. Just in a super messed up way

Budd was a super interesting character. Seemed to be atoning for his life in a miserably ascetic way, respected The Bride’s desire for revenge but still denied it to her. He’s also the only one she doesn’t come at out in the open like she does with O-Ren and Vernita, and Bill. Instead she opts to be a sneaky lil sneak for Budd, and even then he sees it coming and gets the best of her. That being said if Ellie hadn’t double crossed him and snaked his ass, The Bride would have caught him off guard in that trailer the next morning. Would have been an interesting fight.

They kept the Bride's name bleeped out, because the audience thinks that Bill calling her 'kiddo' - a childish nickname - is meant in disdain. He is actually calling her by her real surname; Beatrix Kiddo. It's also a trope of some Asian martial arts films, to keep the protagonists name a secret until the time is right for the reveal.

The statement Bill made is related to a Trivia show where contestants had to answer questions to win money. The top prize as well as the name of the show was the $64,000 question! 👍😉👍😉😊😊👱‍♀👱‍♀👗👗👠👠❤❤

From what I remember, the scene that was traumatic for Uma Thurman was actually a scene where she ended up wrecking a car and, industry standard, would have had a stunt person do it, but Tarantino pushed her to do it herself and she actually got injured and it reportedly put a real downer on their very friendly working relationship

So the reason Beatrix answers Bill, “Because I’m a bad person?” is because she admitted to herself that she kept the Five Point Exploding Heart technique to herself believing she would one day use it on Bill-the man she loved. That is kind of the conflict of her character in the movie, and the point that Bill makes about her during the film’s climax. Even though Beatrix wants to leave her life of crime, a fundamental part of her nature is a killer. And she cannot divorce herself from it. Just like when Bill says it felt good for her to kill all the men who were defending Oren Ishii, she reluctantly admits the truth.

Trivia dump- Pai Mei is based on the founded of a form of kung fu that translates to "White Eyebrow." He was known for them. He was also said to be highly disreputable. The descriptions of the man were clearly an influence on this character. If you watch the training montage, a good portion of it is practicing the eye-pluck. Elle's code-name was California Mountain king snake, which is a non-venomous snake that often eats other snakes. The shotgun bud used was loaded with rock salt. This breaks easily and doesn't usually survive the g-force of the acceleration in a shotgun. It's also much lighter, so it doesn't have the momentum to push through once it hits something. It's like someone throwing a ping pong ball at you instead of a golf ball. The salt will get stuck in the skin and muscle rather than penetrate to the organs. The sixty-four thousand dollar question is a reference to an old game show. You answer questions for prize money. I don't remember if there were 6 or 10 but each one was worth twice as much as the one before. The $64,000 question was the one for all the money.

My favorite chapter is The Cruel Tutelage of Pei Mei. Magical sequence. A brilliant extended scene. One of my favorite scenes of all time. The scene between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken in "True Romance" is a close second. Both written by QT.

It's like meditation for Budd doing some regular human stuff including cleaning toilets. Hiding in sheep as a wolf. Letting them feeds their egos on him. Humiliating by them doesnt hurt Budd. Oppositely he feels more regular person each time. As I said: Kinda meditation or redemption. Who knows...

That dramatic zoom that caught you off guard is one of the many ways, like the excessive sound effects, that the martial arts scenes were paying homage to old Shaw Brothers' martial arts movies.

Saw this movie when it came out. During the burial scene the audience was completely silent, and the room totally black.

Looking it up, Beatrix apparently killed 44 of the Crazy “88” To mostly quote a comedic animated version of Tarantino about why Beatrix’s name was bleeped: “When Bill killed her husband and her baby and her whole family, he killed her identity.”

The "Elle and I" chapter title gag went right over my head on the 1st watch. It finally clicked on like the 10th rewatch.

28:56 I always thought that the perfect ending to that scene would be seeing that same snake she used to kill Bill's brother, to slowly start slithering it's way to her as she's scrambling around on the floor screaming, awaiting for her death in similar fashion.

Side trivia - the actor playing Larry, the strip club owner, is Larry Bishop, son of comedian Joey Bishop, who had been a member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack." Larry had been known for making several biker films in the late '60s, and after this movie was made, Quentin produced a retro-style biker movie that Larry directed, HELL RIDE, again starring Michael Madsen. In addition, Larry went to the same high school as Rob Reiner, and they worked together as a comedy team for years before he broke out as an actor and director himself. And another mutual classmate of theirs was Albert Brooks, director of LOST IN AMERICA star of BROADCAST NEWS and DRIVE, and voice actor in FINDING NEMO.

One detail I always loved that nobody ever mentions is that all the main characters have a double letter somewhere in their name. Bill, Beatrix Kiddo, Hattori Hanzo, Vernita Green/Jeanie Bell, O-Ren Ishii, Budd, Elle, and B.B.

The part about Pai Mei “doesn’t teach anyone the Exploding Heart technique”, I think Pai Mei does teach it but ONLY to certain people. He taught it to Uma Thurman’s character but not to Bill as he could sense ‘the darkness within Bill’ and that Bill was not a good person and would not use it responsibly. Thus Pai Mei probably lied and just told Bill he doesn’t teach it. That’s my theory anyway 😅

Someone can correct me if I'm remembering this wrong, but I believe Tarantino said in an interview that Sam Jackson's character in this movie is Jules from Pulp Fiction, living the drifter life he told Vincent that he was going to pursue. My memory is that he didn't confirm it as canon, he allowed it as a possibility. It would make sense considering all the other character connections between his various movies.

Bill is played by David Carradine, a legendary martial arts tv hero from the 70's. Fun fact, in Pulp Fiction, when Samuel Jackson's character has his moment of revelation and says that he is going to "wander the earth like Caine" he is referring to the TV series Kung Fu (72-75) where the main character Caine is played by David Carradine. Tarantino just loves to pull his own childhood idols out retirement and give them roles. You can just imagine how cool the reveal of Bill was in volume 2 for those of us who still remembered Carradine from our childhoods.

Not a franchise. It was supposed to be 1 movie but the studio didn't think people would sit through that long of a film.

Pai Mei claimed Beatrix’s arm and hand as his. So Pai Mei technically broke her out of the coffin, took Ellie’s other eye, and delivered the five point palm exploding heart technique to Bill.

I still remember seeing this in the theater with my buddy who saw Vol. 1 with me. When she says "Kill Bill" and the title card came up just saying Vol. 2 the whole theater was either cheering or laughing or both. What a way to get everyone ready for a good time!

"Imagine you're wandering through the cemetery casually" Like you do iirc Pai Mei literally translates as "White Eyebrows"

ROCK SALT instead of Shotgun Pellets..... Less lethal but ALOT more painful! And since the salt is embedded in your skin, lasts for quite awhile and can't just be washed off. "ESTABAN" was also the chief of Police in Part 1... He got to reprise the Chief in the Double Feature "Death Proof" and "Planet Terror". Back in the "Splatter House" type films, it was common practice to re-use the same characters/actors from film to film and Tarantino loved doing "Homages".

$64,000 wasn't a random number, it was a tv show reference. The ending left the possibility of a third movie, Elle Driver? She didn't die, we assume she did, neither did Sofie. I could see them teaming up to get back at "The Bride". But then again Quintin said he was done making movies so who knows. Great reactions.

The eye scene is the worst. Whenever I think of Kill Bill I think of the yellow suit and the squished eye 😂

It's funny how Quentin can get you to feel sorry for a murdering assassin ( Beatrix) lol

Thanks, Vikunia, for cleaning up for me what was in the can. I’ve seen this scene more that 30 times and never figured it out! I really enjoyed your reaction.

I always love how she saved the 5 point heart technique for Bill. She knew it was the one thing he'd never see coming.

The Kill Bill franchise is probably my favorite movie of all time. My mom always found it deplorable I loved a "bloodbath" movie so much, having mostly only seen clips from the first movie. On the evening of my wedding's eve, she agreed to watch the Bill and BB part of the Vol.2 with me so she could understand what I loved so much about these characters and the cast's wonderful performances. To this day, there's a framed oversized poster of Vol.2 in my house's main staircase, next to my wife's Harry Potter one hehe. I'm really glad you enjoyed it as much as you did. I sent my wife a screenshot of your thumbnail saying "that's clearly the eye scene" before I even read the video's title hahhahah

The 64,000 Dollar Question was a game show in the '50's. It was basically the prototype for Who Wants to be a Millionaire where the contestants would answer a series of incrementally harder questions for more and more money with 64K(about 700k today) as the final prize. Not a reference a lot of younger folks would get, don't feel bad there.

the scene in kill bill volume 2 that uma was not happy about is when she is driving the convertable she ALLMOST died because tarantino insisted that she drive at at least 40MPH down a windy country road so her hair would flow properly and at an unexpected corner uma lost controll and crashed frontally into a tree causing her severe concussion and damaged both her knees. "KILL BILL: Vol. 2 (2004) | Uma Thurman Car Crash Video"...

Seen several reactions to this movie, and even though everyone knows Bill is not "Arlene's" father, everyone cringes when they kiss on the lips.

Elle: Hey Bill, your brother is dead. She put a black mamba in his camper. Bill: And how do you possess this information? Why are you there? I thought you two don't like each other. Did you see the snake? You are mighty sure it's a black mamba.

"The $64,000 Question was an American game show broadcast in primetime on CBS-TV from 1955 to 1958, which became embroiled in the 1950s quiz show scandals." (Wikipedia)

Elle's use of the black mamba was a tribute to the warrior she respected.

V: how is the valet driver not noticing the samurai sword?😅 The valet driver: hold up she didn't have a child when she arrived!😳

Just to let you know that Tarantino is supposedly working (or not working) on a part 3, The story involves the daughter from the 1st movie seeking revenge for her mothers death. Tarantino wasn't looking to another one but the fans have been clamoring for a sequel since Vol. 1 came out.

"That's a random number..." The $64000 Question was a game show back in the day 😅

36:06 The $64,000 Question was a television game show in the mid-1950s that was similar to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, except there were no lifelines, no multiple choice, and the contestant got to choose the one category for all the questions. ($64k in 1955 is equivalent to more than $800k today.)

Similarities between John Wick and Kill Bill 1) both have a 4 letter name in them, two 4 letter words each 2) both have a secret society of assassins 3) both have an insanely skilled assassin that tried to retire 4) both assassins lost their family 5) both assassins go on revenge sprees out of grief 6) both have old associates help them out of respect 7) awesome choreography combat of 1 vs 100 8) cool ceiling height camera shots 9) both assassins have a notorious nickname 10) both assassins forced back into the game 11) both secret societies respect rules and their image 12) both have a charming old man as the overseer or whatever 13) protagonists actually get injured a lot 14) protagonists encounter most difficulty when fighting an old associate assassin 15) both have a huge brawl in a dancing place with funky music in the back let me know what i missed

Fun fact I learned from a native speaker who reacted to this movie: Pai Mei translates to White Eyebrows.

21:59 "Imagine you're like wandering the cemetery at night... CASUALLY" lol

And now, uma Thurmans real life daughter is an amazing up coming actress, and prime time for a part 3!

Many of the songs are from 60's and 70's Japanese cult films and Spaghetti Westerns. The overall feel of films also draws from those 2 film genres.

37:59 Michele Yeoh actually jumped a motorcycle onto a speeding train in the Jackie Chan movie Supercop.

Good thing Pai Mei didn't hear you calling him those things. You'd probably lost both eyes! Or he just would have killed you on the spot. They didn't hide Beatrix Kiddo's name. In the opening scene when she walks out of the wedding chapel and sees Bill playing his flute, he calls her "Kiddo". You just don't pick up on it until later.

The $64,000 amount that Bill mentions ("Here's the $64,000 question...") is from an old game show that used to be on TV in the late 1950s.

What you have to remember about Bill is that he isn't excusing himself - he knows what he is, and he has this detached rationale for his actions. He doesn't really care what people think when it comes to the morality of his actions, because he knows he is immoral.

I lost count of how many people who have repeated Bill's view on Superman, ignoring the fact that Bill's critique is coming from a character that's a sociopath and very Lex Luthor like.

Back in the day, before you were born, there was a TV game show, called, "The $64,000 Question". That name became synonymous with the most important question somebody is going to ask.

$64,000 Pyramid was a tv show where people answered trivia questions for money, like Jeopardy. The top prize, if I remember right was “The $64,000 Question”.

35:19 Superman wasn't born Superman. He was born Kal-El. After arriving on Earth his adoptive parents renamed him Clark Kent. Only after the Kryptonian symbol on his uniform was mistaken for the letter "S" did he acquire the nickname "Superman".

Budd was the most dangerous assassin, he got her even after she went full ninja on him And wasn't killed in a fight , was killed by betrayal

Kill Bill is one film released by the studio in two parts so I don't understand why QT has only one more film to make of his promised ten. My hope is that after Quentin's next movie he reveals that he has one more in the tank before retiring.

"you're just a jerk" dude is an assassin sociopath, who would have thought

To answer your question about what had just happened when Pai Mai got kicked in the groin: he is a Eunuch and thus highly resistant to such attacks.

LOL. "The $64,000 question" was a fifties game show (the early version of The Million Dollar Question). $64,000 was the "last" and hardest question. From that it became the phrase (which you apparently never heard). Extra trivia point: It was a crooked game. They even made a movie about it (a very good movie): Quiz Show (1994). Starring John Turturro and Ralph Fiennes. Directed by Robert Redford.

Everyone gives Bill a hard time for what he did, but put yourself in his shoes. His favorite person in the world, the woman he loves, ran away with his unborn child to marry someone else. On top of that, she made him think she was dead, which made the shock of discovering her pregant and cheating on him even harsher. The dude definitely overreacted, and what he did was wrong, but my god, Bea is no hero. In fact, imo Budd said it best: "We deserve to die... but, then again, so does she."

Great movie. And once again, proof that ONLY Quentin Tarantino knows what to do with Michael Madsen.

A fun fact only snake lovers know about Elle, is her code name resembles her nature. She’s the only snake amongst them that isn’t venomous but in fact a member of the king snake family. King snakes are known for infamously being snake eaters, particularly eaters of other venomous snakes. Elle is ironically the only one who never finished her training with Pai Mei, the theoretical reason she never got a venomous snake name despite being one of the deadly vipers for her abilities.

the whole jean outfit was all of us in the 70s

Nice outfit. The name ‘pei mei’ means ‘white eyebrow’. He’s from some traditional stories, he appears in lots of classic king fu movies. And there is a real style of authentic kung fu named after him.

Bill’s reference with the $64,000 question is to an old tv game show of that name. It’s now the $100,000 pyramid

"How do you even have that much money on hand?" They're the most elite professional assassins in the world, I don't expect that to be a minimum wage job.

California moutain snake isn't a venomous snake, but she's the only one who keeps poisoning her enemies.

Did you realize that the actor who played Esteban was the same guy as the sheriff who investigated the wedding chapel massacre?

lol, she's so hostile and argumentative...Bill may be the antagonist but he's a pretty likeable character

The name of the show that had the $64,000.00 question was the CBS Quiz show "Take It or Leave It".

I just realised after about 70 watches that pei mei is actually 1000 years old.. how did i miss that

$64,000 question isn't a random number. There was a popular gameshow a few decades ago where that was the top prize.

I have watched many KZfaqr's reactions to Kill Bill volume 1 and 2. I have never seen any KZfaqr or commenter mention the Nancy Sinatra song at the start of the first film. (Bang bang my baby shot me down) Not only hauntingly beautiful, but with at least 1 if not 2 tie ins to the movies. First Bill did come into the church and shoot Kiddo. So "Bang bang, my baby shot me down" fits, but also when she finally confronts Bill in the second film her daughter aka baby "shoots" "her down". I can not be the only one who noticed.

The scene in Volume 1 with O-Ren and Beatrix talking to each other using the Trix rabbit commercial but in actuality they both say her name quite clearly.

When Beatrix takes out Elle's other eye, she uses the arm that Pai Mei said belonged to him. So in a way, Pai Mei took both of Elle's eyes.

32:42 Bill is raising a little psychopath. Good thing Beatrix showed up to take her away

In the intro of the first movie, Bill calls her "kiddo", which is her name. Se we knew how she was called from the start, it was just hidden in the sentence.

"The $64,000 Question" is actually the title of an old game show, like the 50s version of "who wants to be a Millionaire". I'm pretty sure the title was used for a long time in American vernacular, but I guess it died out and got replaced once "Millionaire" came about.

Hearing her attempt to pronounce "tutelage" was A+

Look at Vickie trying to apply normal therapy techniques to the relationship between two assassins.

41:15 i totally think she was mourning Bill, it's a mix of relief and saddness. i think it's pretty clear she loved(s) him.

All the Pai Mei training sequence has been realized to recall the old japanese martial arts movies from the 70s and 80s: the cold lighting, the "dramatic zooms" (often off-centered), the music, the black-on-red scenes... It was like a dive in the past 😊(Needless to say Tarantino is a sucker for that kind of movies).

The scene you are referencing I think is the fact that Uma Thurman was shooting a scene in the blue car she drives to Bill's house and Tarantino urged her to actually drive the car in the scene even though she didn't want to and ended up crashing and getting hurt and there was a big cover up about it and she has pain from it ect.

Kill count. Vol 1: 95 kills. Vol 2: 1 kill...

Something that a lot of people overlook, is that the pimp Estaban and the Sunglasses cop from Volume 1 are the same actor.

I love how you said a guy wouldn't have cared that she was pregnant We have literally already seen a woman who was okay with killing her pregnant in both movies.

“You cannot charm her, Bill” gave me quite a chuckle, considering his codename. 😄 Here’s a question (though maybe not a $64,000 one): have you seen _Quiz Show?_ If not, then I think that would be a very interesting reaction movie for you.

"The 64,0000 Dollar Question" was not a random figure. It was a TV game show back in the 1950s, it was a quiz show where the contestant was asked questions, winning $64 for getting the first one right, then $128 for the second, and so-on, doubling until they reached the top prize of $64,000, at any point they would be out if they got one wrong. It was one of the most popular shows at the time, but it all crashed down suddenly with a scandal. Contestents who were good looking or well-liked by the audience would be given the correct answers in advance,. There is a 1994 movie, Quiz Show starring John Turtorro that gives the story. He uses the term here just to indicate that it's the most important and last question.

‘The side quest was cleaning up poop-water!’

I hope you'll check some episodes of the '70s TV show "Kung Fu" in which David Carradine starred as a Shaolin monk wandering the old west looking for his brother and helping people he met along the way. He does make his own flute in the series and he brought martial arts into public notice. I used to watch it every week.

For some unspoken lore, you should look into the back story of Paula Schulz in the Tarantinoverse...

Cool fact some might overlook - in Vol. 2, she only actually kills one person.

Idon't know if you know who he is, but Tarantino originally wanted Warren Beatty to play Bill. I think it turned out much better this way.