Interesting idea. Not knowing the bride's name until the 2nd film has (I'm guesing) same purpose as why I labelled all of the characters with all these comic book names in the vid. It makes it unrealistic - should I have emphasised the fact that these were all real women then I think the video would have been insufferable. In Kil Bill 1 she is a comic book character - almost entirely 2d. The second movie adds that well-needed extra dimension in oh so many ways.
The mute idea is interesting - in the older exploitation flicks it is mostly horrendous: the women should have no voice so they have their voice removed. The two Japanese films also have characters that don't say much at all - they just stare venemously (Kill Bill 2 makes reference to this). The only woman who really does any talking is Pam Grier in her two movies but that's because it's a Blaxploitation movie and attitude is paramount. She still has to crawl deep into the seedy world that she despises before she can have any revenge and even then, as with all these movies, it can never overcome the fact that the audience have come to see her tits.
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Date: 2005-08-24 02:53 pm (UTC)The mute idea is interesting - in the older exploitation flicks it is mostly horrendous: the women should have no voice so they have their voice removed. The two Japanese films also have characters that don't say much at all - they just stare venemously (Kill Bill 2 makes reference to this). The only woman who really does any talking is Pam Grier in her two movies but that's because it's a Blaxploitation movie and attitude is paramount. She still has to crawl deep into the seedy world that she despises before she can have any revenge and even then, as with all these movies, it can never overcome the fact that the audience have come to see her tits.