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September 25, 2014 11:09 AM   Subscribe

KillBillreference is a YouTube account (apparently defunct) that curates clips of a handful of the movies that Quentin Tarantino has drawn reference from. Primarily these are references from Kill Bill, but other movies like Pulp Fiction sneak in as well. For example, Elle Driver's whistle song as it first appeared in Twisted Nerve, the music from O-Ren Ishii's origin story as it first appeared in I Lunghi Giorni Della Vendetta, an eye plucking scene from Five Fingers of Death, and Mia's square gesture from Pulp Fiction as originally performed by Betty Rubble.

Full disclosure, I stumbled on this account looking for The Batusi scene.
posted by codacorolla (10 comments total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
Everything is a Remix did something similar a few years ago.
posted by octothorpe at 11:16 AM on September 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


This is like a sandwich of wonderful to me! Thank you!

Can't watch until after work, though..... DAMMIT!
posted by IAmBroom at 11:16 AM on September 25, 2014


Related:

A while back, a multi-part documentary on creativity, inspiration, and homage called "Everything is a Remix" was put out on the internet. One part mentioned Kill Bill, and later did a longer take on it. It's fairly interesting.
posted by tocts at 11:17 AM on September 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


He also used a song was from the Japanese film All About Lily Chou-Chou which came out only two years prior to the first Kill Bill movie. Kaifuku Suru Kizu. It seemed like a strange inclusion to recontexualize something that was, at the time, so recent.
posted by cazoo at 11:24 AM on September 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


Mia's 'Square' Gesture does not have it's roots in the 'Flintstones'... Does it? I'd be interested to know what the real root of that gesture is, honestly. Imma dig around a bit - my gut is that it comes from Goddard but I don't know why I think that.
posted by From Bklyn at 11:30 AM on September 25, 2014


That is possible. Whoever this person is they aren't very verbose. At most there's a sentence description and a little bit of guess work.
posted by codacorolla at 11:36 AM on September 25, 2014


There's nothing from Lady Snowblood? *Disappointment*

Apart from the time-fractured revenge plot structure, you have the shot from below to the faces of the people you want to take your revenge on, and the fight with O-Ren in the House of Blue Leaves is also full of influences, from the snow to O-Ren's white kimono to the bloody theme song by Meiko Kaji, who also does the song used in the end credits of Vol. 1 (from the movie Female Prisoner Scorpion).
posted by sukeban at 11:38 AM on September 25, 2014


Google-ing "Mia Wallace's gesture" leads to a Slate article I can't seem to link directly to but makes a pretty convincing case that it comes out of cartoons (and the Muppets!) originally. This is a very cool 'account'/ collection of videos
posted by From Bklyn at 11:45 AM on September 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


Independent observations:

Dario Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome contains a scene which inspired two different bits from two different Tarantino movies. In The Stendhal Syndrome, Asia Argento's character foils an attacker by biting his lip, a la the fate of Buck's "customer" from Kill Bill Vol. 1; she then escapes by running, to which the would-be killer reacts by pointing his gun but then refusing to fire, for his own reasons. This of course resembles how Hans Landa reacted to the escape of Shoshanna in the opening of Inglourious Basterds.

In Kill Bill Vol. 1, the Bride says "GO HOME TO YOUR MOTHER!" in the exact same way as the famous line from Desperate Living.

In Kill Bill Vol. 2, after the Bride escapes from her coffin, we see her walking towards the camera, emerging from the shimmering desert air, as Morricone-esque music plays. This shot, and its music cue, come from Road to Salina, starring Mimsy Farmer and Rita Hayworth.
posted by Sticherbeast at 12:15 PM on September 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


Mia's 'Square' Gesture does not have it's roots in the 'Flintstones'... Does it?

The square gesture, no. The dotted square that appears on the screen, yes.
posted by dgaicun at 4:48 AM on September 26, 2014 [1 favorite]


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