Kill BillA former assassin, known simply as The Bride (Uma Thurman), wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill (David Carradine) attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fuelled by an insatiable

desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on

her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies.

Narrative- character typesHelpers:Hattori Hanzo- He helps to create a weapon to kill Bill.Pai Mai- He helps to train the bride to kill Bill.

The Protagonist/the hero:Beatrix Kiddo A.K.A the bride/ black mambaShe challenges the stereotypical hero gender of a male. So therefore makes it a postmodernstyle movie.

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Vernita GreenVernita took part in the massacre, killing all those who attended Beatrix and her fiancé's wedding rehearsal.

Elle DriverElle Driver was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, known by her code-name California Mountain Snake Elle had some kind of sexual relationship with Bill, as opposed to Beatrix, who was Bill's girlfriend

BuddBudd was recognized by Bill as "the only man [he] ever loved." He was the only other male Deadly Viper.

O-Ren Ishii was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, known by her code-name Cottonmouth

O-Ren Ishii

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BillBill is the main antagonist in the Kill Bill movie series. He was the leader of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, where he was known by his code-name Snake Charmer. Bill was Beatrix Kiddo's love interest, and the father of her daughter. He was killed by Beatrix, using the Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique.

Narrative Structure• Part 1- equilibrium, gradually builds up to the climax in part 2 by using intense, gripping

music. Fades are used in between the shots to make sure they don’t reveal too much and keep subtlety. The titles then introduce ‘QUENTIN TARANTINO’ first to draw peoples attention as he is a very successful, well known artist and is known for producing excellent movies.

• Part 2, Music climax’s as the title for ‘UMA THURMAN’ appears, this is because she is the main protagonist. This is also where all of the disruption occurs, cut edits are used at a faster pace to excite the audience, a lot of action clips are used suggesting the genre of the film. Key antagonists are introduced one after another to make it more transfixing.

• Part 3, The musics goes back down to how it was in part 1 whilst we see the protagonist trying to fix the disruption and gaining more control. The titles are still being used to inform the audience through out the rest of the trailer in between clips. As the film comes to an end the title ‘KILL BILL’ comes up in the same white, yellow and black colour scheme they used through out, colours that contrast making it edgy and usual, not just following simple colour structures.

Camera and mise en sceneTarantino has paid a lot of attention the detail in this film, he demonstrates this through the Mise en Scene e.g the iconic jumpsuit that the protagonist wears, this is a very bold, contrasting costume which whilst helping her stand out from the crowd also symbolises the famous Bruce Lee. By giving this costume to the lead character it also represents postmodernism as she is female and usually this hero role would be played by a man. This challenges the meta narrative.

In this shot Uma is seen riding a yellow and black motor bike which whilst keeping to the iconic black and yellow theme Tarantino had going on also represents postmodernism by making the female character daring and tough.

Tarantino has challenged stereotypical action films by giving the characters old fashioned weapons to fight with such as samurai swords, knives, maces etc but whilst still fighting in modern settings. This also challenges the meta narrative and makes a change to the usual gun shot kill that takes only a few seconds making his film more excitable and keeps you on the edge.

Tarantino has used unusual camera techniques to make the footage more postmodern. For example he has used canted angles, birds eye views, extreme close ups and hand held shots/zooms.

At the beginning Tarantino used twoextreme close up shots after each other tobreak into the trailer causing a intriguing intense feeling. Whilst also using a gun asthe prop to start with setting the genre as An action film. It is also quite ironic and there isn’t many guns used in the film, Instead they use samurai weapons etc.

When introducing or showing the antagonists Tarantino has used low angle shots to make them look powerful and dominating compared to using highangle shots on the protagonists making them look weak and vulnerable. This is very ironic considering that the protagonists mostly defeat the antagonists throughout the movie.

Editing and soundSlow motion is used to make some of the shots last for longer periods of time so we can see everything in view. It is used to Create more tension and mystery whilst alsoover exaggerating scenes making action clipsmore pronounced and memorable. It is also an example of hyperreality as whilst watching it our brains process it as being ordinary when actually it is an obvious effect.

They use black and yellow for the title screens to maintain The colour scheme throughout the film.

Standard edit cuts are used in between most of the shots tomatch the fast pace action but in a few shots where thepace is slower such as my first image ‘BY QUENTIN TARANTINO’ they use a graduated Fade.

Most of the sound in this trailer is non diegetic including the music and the SFX for the sword clashes punches etc that are used to enhance what is happening on the screen.

The music selected is called ‘Battle without honor or humanity’ by Tomoyasu Hotei. This is a very cliché fighting song and a lot of pastiches are made from it. I think Tarantino used this to make obvious how over exaggeratedhis fight scenes are.