Kill Bill: Vol. 1
When Vincent Vega postulate Mia Wallace out for dinner at Jack Rabbit Slim ’s inPulp Fiction , he ask her about her unawares - lived playing vocation . Mia claims that starring in a failed TV cowcatcher was her “ fifteen minute . ” Vincent does n’t watch TV , but thanks to Jules ’ originally explanation , he knows the aim of a original : to see if there ’s interest in a TV series before develop more than one episode . So , curious to know what could have been , Vincent ask Mia to delineate the series .
The title of the show wasFox Force Five . Mia played one member of aCharlie ’s Angels - flair team of female spy going on gamey - stake undercover commission . A X subsequently , when Quentin Tarantino ’s action - pack epicKill Billhit theaters , fan find a few similarities between the martial humanities two - parter and the failedFox Force Fivepilot describe in Tarantino ’s early picture show .
Starring Mia Wallace
The most obvious parallel betweenFox Force FiveandKill Billis that they both star Mia Wallace . After becoming an overnight movie mavin with her turn as Mia inPulp Fiction , Uma Thurman reunite with Tarantinoto play the Bride in two contribution ofKill Bill . It ’s possible that Thurman ’s carrying into action inKill Billis anInception - same functioning within a performance , playing Mia Wallace playing the Bride .
Thanks to the complicated explanation of how the Tarantino - verse whole works , the Bride could be played by Mia Wallace herself in some meta twist of destiny . The more grounded movies likeReservoir DogsandPulp Fictiontake stead in one human beings andthe genre - beat back films likeKill Billexist in another world that theDogs / Pulp - verse characters look out on the big screen in their own motion picture house .
The Deadliest Woman In The World With A Knife
Mia describes herFox Force Fivecharacter , Raven McCoy , as “ the deadliest womanhood in the world with a knife , ” which sounds an awful lot like Beatrix Kiddo . The Bride might not have been raised by circus performers like Raven McCoy was , but she certainly screw her way around a blade . Her technique with a sword is so far-famed that fabled swordsmith Hattori Hanzō total out of retreat just to forge her a new weapon .
Another one of Raven McCoy ’s defining characteristics was her dearest of dad jokes . She would ’ve rattled off a dissimilar joke in every episode , but since they only made one sequence , she only ever tell one gag ( about a family of tomatoes ) . The Bride ’s predilection for humor is n’t as well - established as Raven McCoy ’s , but she does deliver a few snappy one - liners , like quoting the Trix commercial before her climactic showdown with O - Ren Ishii .
One, Two, Three, Four, Five Of Us
When Mia tells Vincent the title of her show and he ’s bemused by it , she excuse what it means , one Holy Writ at a meter : “ ‘ Fox , ’ as in we ’re a caboodle of foxy doll . ‘ Force , ’ as in we ’re a force to be reckon with . ‘ Five , ’ as in there ’s one , two , three , four , five of us . ” The title is pretty self - explanatory – the series has five main characters who aggregate force to defeat bad guys .
Given the sprawling nature of Tarantino ’s ensemble , Kill Billnaturally has more than five charactersin its melodic phrase - up . But the movie does have two distinctive groups of five mass : there are five members of Bill ’s Deadly Viper Assassination Squad ( the Bride , Budd , O - Ren Ishii , Elle Driver , and Vernita Green ) and five names on the Bride ’s handwritten “ death list ” ( Budd , O - Ren , Elle , Vernita , and Bill ) .
The Team
The direction that Mia describes the squad member and their specialties inPulp Fictiondoesn’t quite line up with the form ofKill Bill , but there are a few key similarities . On top of the Bride herself being “ the pestilent charwoman in the human race with a tongue , ” every other assassin on the Deadly Viper team has a analog in the ensemble ofFox Force Five .
agree to Mia , the titulary team inFox Force Fivehas a blond leader ( both of the Deadly Vipers ’ leaders – first the Bride and later Elle Driver – had blonde hair ) , a Nipponese kung fu master ( this one pedigree up with atomic number 8 - Ren Ishii ) , a smuggled demolition expert ( this one line of credit up with Vernita Green , although she ’s not established to be a destruction expert ) , and a Gallic woman ( this one seam up with Sofie Fatale , O - Ren ’s attorney and confidant who was present at the wedding party chapel service massacre ) .
High-Concept Action Thriller
The narration ofKill BillandFox Force Fivehave a lot in plebeian – they ’re both report about a squad of cause of death and their rake - drenched exploits – but the overall genre , style , and tone of bothKill BillandFox Force Fiveare precisely the same , too . These are n’t works of socially conscious realist drama likeMoonlightorManchester by the Sea .
alternatively of trying to entrance the foible of everyday life and meet the audience on a bass , human level , Kill BillandFox Force Fiveare body of work of dreamer amusement with a high - construct premise and plenty of volatile spectacle . There ’s more than enough way for both in the cinematic landscape . audience take to bemoved by moving-picture show likeMoonlight , but they also need to be thrilled and entertained and transported into pulpy genre worlds like theKill Billuniverse .
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