Critical ResponseFilm : Kill Bill Volume 2Director: Quentin Tarantino

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Film : Kill Bill Volume 2

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Student Name: Matt Durnford

  Kill Bill : Volume 2 as the film title states continues with the plotline from the first movie released last year, following the story of Black Mamba (played by Uma Thurman) getting her revenge on two remaining characters. The film was directed by Quentin Tatantino and released in 2004.

 The film opens with Black Mamba driving a convertible, telling us in a rich, passionately spoken dialogue that she has gotten satisfaction and is now going to “Kill Bill”. This sets the context of the film where she has already killed Vernita, O-Ren Ishii and her henchmen in the first film and now only has to kill two remaining assassins to satisfy her revenge, those being Bill and his brother Budd. In this scene Victoria Alexander from filmsinreview.com describes how the camera shot is an extreme close up of Uma Thurman’s face which is described as being an effective and unique camera detail of Quentin Tarantinos. Victoria Alexander wrote “Every director should study Tarantino’s movies. He adores his characters. He worships them. His sets are all carefully designed and luxuriate in detail. There are no secondary characters in a Tarantino film that merely advance the story. He lavishes attention on everyone.” This is one quality of the film I came to realise myself, where the films audience can empathise and relate with the character on a more deeper level in  the way they are portrayed through the camera. The way Uma Thurman specifically is portrayed in the film, draws the audience in to a point where they are feeling what she is feeling and have a more involved relationship with her and the revenge she seeks. It’s a film device particularly in this scene where she explains her mission which compels us to cheer on her quest to revenge the death of her groom, daughter and loved ones. It is a film making quality that aids to the entertainment of the movie as Black Mamba is the centralised character and heroine in Kill Bill, we are almost at her side in every step she takes.

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Bill tells his brother Budd that Black Mumba is coming to him for revenge. Budd accepts her right to settling the scores and is no longer the assassin he was in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad but a washed out, bouncer living in a trailor. He works in a run-down strip club and subjected to abuse from his manager in humiliating circumstances. In the showdown between Black Mumba and Budd a suffocating end looks inevitable when Budd detains Black Mumba and burries her alive. Her body is spat upon and beaten before threatened with mace. In this scene Tarantino, ...

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