She calls Bill and tells him that the Bride has killed Budd and that she has killed the Bride, using the Bride's real name: Beatrix Kiddo. In the present, the Bride uses Pai's techniques to escape from the coffin and claw her way to the surface.Įlle arrives at Budd's trailer and kills him with a black mamba hidden within the money for the sword. Pai ridicules and torments her during training, but she eventually gains his respect. Bill takes the Bride to Pai's temple for training. Years earlier, Bill tells the young Bride of the legendary martial arts master Pai Mei and his Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, a death blow that Pai refuses to teach his students properly used, the attack is reputed to leave an opponent able to take only five steps before dying. He seals the Bride inside a coffin and buries her alive. He calls Elle Driver, another former Deadly Viper, and arranges to sell her the Bride's unique sword for $1 million. Having been warned by Bill beforehand, he incapacitates her with a non-lethal shotgun blast of rock salt and sedates her. Bill shoots the Bride in the head, but she survives and swears revenge.įour years later, the Bride, having already assassinated Deadly Vipers O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green, goes to the trailer of Bill's brother and Deadly Viper Budd, planning to ambush him. Bill − the Bride's former lover, the father of her child, and the leader of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad − arrives unexpectedly and orders the Deadly Vipers to kill everyone at the wedding rehearsal. The pregnant Bride and her groom rehearse their wedding. It grossed $152.2 million worldwide on a production budget of $30 million. Like its predecessor, Volume 2 received positive reviews. Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as an homage to grindhouse cinema including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation, and spaghetti westerns.
They were originally set for a single release, but the film, with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. Volume 2 is the second of two Kill Bill films produced simultaneously the first, Volume 1, was released six months earlier. Fox) and their leader Bill ( David Carradine), who tried to kill her and her unborn child. It stars Uma Thurman as the Bride, who continues her campaign of revenge against the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad ( Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A.
Kill Bill: Volume 2 is a 2004 American neo-Western martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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