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**Msrwbdas** · 11-19-2005, 08:00 AM

I was watching Kill Bill today and I was wondering if it really is possible for someone to spray that much blood everywhere if they get decapitated or stabbed in their stomach... there is one part when a womans arm gets cut off and for about a minute it looks like a fountain

That scene where Lucy Liu's assistant loses an arm is a direct cop from Kinji Fukusaku's classic Yakuza pic "Jingi Naki Tatakai" (now available in its five volume entirety on Home Vision Entertainment, as "The Yakuza Papers"--the transfer looks great!). Maybe "cop" is too strong a word, since Tarantino did dedicate the film to the late Fukusaku. That would make it homage, ne.

Generally speaking, arterial spray scenes like that are a convention of Japanese action-oriented cinema. Think of the last scene in Kurosawa's Sanjuro which preceded the golden age of grindhouse by a generation and a half. My problem with Kill Bill, at least the first movie, is that it's packed to the gills with visual and audio quotes from Japanese films like Joshu 701: go Sasori (Femal Convict 701, Scorpion) and Lady Snowblood. People who haven't seen these films won't appreciate the director's fan boy collage, and the few enlightened trogolodytes who have will just roll their eyes and say "Oh, that's soooo blatant." So, who was Quentin trying to appeal to anyway?

One possibility is that he made it as a monument to his own love of Japanese exploitation cinema. Can anyone think of an appropriately scurrillous synonym for "self gratifying"?

11-19-2005, 08:00 AM	#3
Msrwbdas Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	I was watching Kill Bill today and I was wondering if it really is possible for someone to spray that much blood everywhere if they get decapitated or stabbed in their stomach... there is one part when a womans arm gets cut off and for about a minute it looks like a fountain That scene where Lucy Liu's assistant loses an arm is a direct cop from Kinji Fukusaku's classic Yakuza pic "Jingi Naki Tatakai" (now available in its five volume entirety on Home Vision Entertainment, as "The Yakuza Papers"--the transfer looks great!). Maybe "cop" is too strong a word, since Tarantino did dedicate the film to the late Fukusaku. That would make it homage, ne. Generally speaking, arterial spray scenes like that are a convention of Japanese action-oriented cinema. Think of the last scene in Kurosawa's Sanjuro which preceded the golden age of grindhouse by a generation and a half. My problem with Kill Bill, at least the first movie, is that it's packed to the gills with visual and audio quotes from Japanese films like Joshu 701: go Sasori (Femal Convict 701, Scorpion) and Lady Snowblood. People who haven't seen these films won't appreciate the director's fan boy collage, and the few enlightened trogolodytes who have will just roll their eyes and say "Oh, that's soooo blatant." So, who was Quentin trying to appeal to anyway? One possibility is that he made it as a monument to his own love of Japanese exploitation cinema. Can anyone think of an appropriately scurrillous synonym for "self gratifying"?
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