Kill Bill - Volume 2

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Movie
German title Kill Bill - Volume 2
Original title Kill Bill: Vol. 2
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Country of production United States
original language English , Cantonese , Chinese
Publishing year 2004
length 131 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Quentin Tarantino
script Quentin Tarantino
production Lawrence Bender
music Robert Rodríguez ,
RZA
camera Robert Richardson
cut Sally Menke
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synchronization
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Kill Bill - Volume 1

Kill Bill - Volume 2 is an American action film from Quentin Tarantino in the year 2004 . It continues the plot of Kill Bill - Volume 1 (2003) .

action

Opening credits

A black and white scene shows Beatrix Kiddo in an open convertible. In the monologue straight into the camera (breakthrough of the fourth wall ), she explains that her revenge is almost over and that only one person is on her list. She is now on the way to Bill to kill him.

Chapter 6: The Two Pines Massacre

The section, also in black and white, shows the wedding rehearsal for Kiddos in Two Pines. The bride leaves the church when she hears a flute playing outside and runs into Bill. A debate takes place between the two, but it remains open. Bill goes to church with the bride and meets her groom there. Kiddo introduces Bill as her father, who has just arrived from Australia. Bill feigns the guests that he is happy with them and lets Kiddo believe that he has come to terms with the separation. Outside, however, Budd, Elle Driver, O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green gather and enter the church heavily armed. Immediately afterwards a wild shooting can be heard from inside the building.

Chapter 7: The lonely grave of Paula Schultz

Bill meets with his brother Budd and warns him about kiddo. The rundown Budd lives in a caravan near Barstow ( California ), his job as a bouncer in a strip bar he loses because of his tardiness. When he returns to the trailer, the trained killer suspects the danger and lies in wait with his shotgun. He succeeds in overpowering the attacking kiddo with a shot in the upper body with rock salt and injecting her with an anesthetic. Then he calls Elle Driver and offers her kiddos katana for a million dollars. Driver agrees and asks Budd to murder Kiddo as cruelly as possible. Budd transports Kiddo with his pickup truck to a cemetery, puts her in a coffin and buries her alive in a grave that an assistant dug earlier. The tombstone is named "Paula Schultz".

Chapter 8: The Cruel Teaching of Pai Mei

In her coffin, Kiddo remembers the time with martial arts master Pai Mei, to whom Bill sent her for training. Before starting the training, Bill advises that Kiddo should obey all Pai Mei's instructions without contradiction, otherwise he will tear out her eye or kill her. In this scene, Bill tells that Pai Mei is the only one who has mastered the deadly " five-point pressure heartblast technique ", which he does not pass on to anyone. Despite the aversion and brutality of the racist, misogynistic and anti-American Pai Mei, she manages to get through the training with him with extreme willpower.

After Kiddo has overcome her initial panic in the coffin, she frees herself from her bonds with the help of a razor that she kept hidden in one of her boots. With targeted punches at a short distance, the technique of which she learned from Pai Mei, she smashes the lid of the coffin, digs her way up and emerges from the grave smeared over and over with dark earth. She makes her way back to Budds trailer.

Chapter 9: Elle and Me

Kiddo is just arriving in the mountains above the trailer when Elle Driver drives up there to buy the katana sword Kiddo captured from Budd. After a conversation with Driver, Budd opens the suitcase with the million dollars and takes out the wads of banknotes. Under the top layer, however, a black mamba lurks hidden by Driver , which bites Budd in the face. Budd dies within minutes. Driver notifies Bill of his brother and kiddo's death over the phone.

When Driver wants to leave the trailer, she is surprised and attacked by Kiddo. There is a fierce duel between the two women in the trailer, in the course of which Kiddo finds the allegedly sold katana sword from Budd in the trailer. In response to Kiddo's question about the loss of her eye, Driver, who was also in training at Pai Mei, said that she called him "disgusting old monkey" and that he tore out her right eye, which is shown in a flashback. Driver goes on to say that she then poisoned the martial arts master. This increases Kiddo's anger and the two women resume the fight. Kiddo tears out the left eye with the sudden grip Driver learned by Pai Mei and crushes it with his bare foot. She leaves the trailer, in which the screaming and flailing Driver, blind and alone with the Black Mamba, remains.

Final Chapter: Face to Face

Now in search of Bill, the last person involved in the massacre, Kiddo drives to Mexico. She learns his address from the old brothel owner Don Esteban, who temporarily raised the fatherless Bill as a substitute for father. When Kiddo breaks into Bill's house armed in the evening, she surprises Bill and their 4-year-old daughter BB while playing. After BB goes to sleep, Kiddo and Bill discuss how they want to resolve their argument. However, since Bill still has a few questions for Kiddo that he would like to have truthfully answered, he injects her with a truth serum with a stunning weapon . Through the association with Superman and his feeble camouflage character Clark Kent, he explains to Kiddo that as a born killer she was not made for the bourgeois life into which she wanted to flee. His big question is why Kiddo wanted to leave him.

Another flashback shows Kiddo carrying out a murder assignment. Since she felt sick on the morning of the journey to the site of the attack, she does a rapid pregnancy test in the hotel room - the test is positive. The assassination victim found out about the murder and in turn sends a killer against Kiddo. Kiddo narrowly escapes the counterstrike and can convince the opponent of her pregnancy and the fear for her unborn child.

As the discussion between Bill and Kiddo continues, they both draw their katana swords and fight each other. Bill knocks the sword out of her hand, with the following counter-attack Kiddo catches his sword with her empty scabbard. Kiddo then hits him five times on the chest with his fingertips - Pai Mei had taught her the "five-point pressure heartblast technique". Then the fight is over. Although Bill seems to have taken no damage, blood is slowly flowing from the corner of his mouth. Bill and Kiddo say goodbye to each other, Bill takes five steps into the garden and collapses dead.

With her sleeping daughter in her arms, Kiddo leaves the house and drives away. The next morning, BB is sitting in front of the television in a hotel room and watching cartoons while her mother lies crying on the floor in the adjoining bathroom. Her crying becomes more and more of a laugh and she says “thank you” several times before wiping off her tears and going to her daughter to watch TV with her. The film ends with the fade-in of the sentence “ The lioness has rejoined her cub. And all is right in the jungle. "(" The lioness has her cub back. And in the jungle everything is fine. ")

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was - in contrast to its predecessor - an independent film. However, the "self-centered filmmaker" should have cut out about 30 minutes to make the film "leaner". The film contains less action than the first part, but more dialogues. Try to "build up" the characters of Beatrix Kiddo and Bill. Berardinelli wrote that Uma Thurman played her role better than in the first part, which had a wider range than in the first part. David Carradine seems "relaxed" and "mature". Michael Madsen is “laconic as always”, Daryl Hannah plays a killer “against her type”.

The Lexicon of International Films wrote that the film was "full of quotations and cross-references". He fascinates with “the furious use of numerous cinematic means”, proves to be a “ambiguous experiment” and, through David Carradine, also “pays tribute to American television history”.

Awards

David Carradine and Uma Thurman were nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 2005. David Carradine, Daryl Hannah and the film for Best Action Film won the Saturn Award in 2005 . Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino (both as director and screenwriter) and Perla Haney-Jardine were nominated for the Saturn Award .

The four nominations for the Teen Choice Award in 2004 included one for Uma Thurman and one for a fight scene. Daryl Hannah and Uma Thurman won the MTV Movie Award in 2005 for a fight scene . Uma Thurman and the film for Best Picture were nominated for the same award. David Carradine, Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah and the film for Best Picture were nominated for the 2005 Golden Satellite Award .

The film won the Taurus Award in two categories in 2005 and was nominated for the same award in a third. Quentin Tarantino was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005 for compiling the soundtrack . Sally Menke was nominated for the American Cinema Editors Award ( Eddie ) in 2005. The film was nominated four times for the British Empire Award in 2005, including for Best Picture , for directing by Quentin Tarantino and for portraying Uma Thurman.

Voice actor

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Andreas Pollak on behalf of Berliner Synchron GmbH .

Beatrix Kiddo Uma Thurman Petra Barthel
Bill David Carradine Frank Glaubrecht
Budd Michael Madsen Thomas Danneberg
Elle Driver Daryl Hannah Andrea Aust
Esteban Vihaio / Earl McGraw Michael Parks Roberto Nunez
BB Perla Haney-Jardine Friedel Morgenstern
Reverend Harmony Bo Svenson Reinhardt Kuhnert
Mrs. Harmony Jeannie Epper Regine Albrecht

background

  • Production costs were estimated at 30 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 149.6 million worldwide, including approximately $ 66.2 million in US cinemas.
  • The second part of Kill Bill has got lower age ratings than the first part in many countries . This is also the case in Germany , where Kill Bill: Vol. 2 is released from the age of 16, part 1 only from the age of 18.
  • David Carradine (Bill) plays the same flute in Kill Bill Vol. 2 that he used as Caine in the television series Kung Fu (1972-1975).
  • In an interview with the New York Times, Quentin Tarantino said that he counted William Witney among his favorite directors, especially for the film The Golden Stallion (1949). In honor of Witney, Tarantino dedicated the film Kill Bill: Vol. 2 to him .
  • The five-point pressure heart explosion technique is a fictitious martial arts technique that is used in the film. The technique consists of a quick succession of five hard hits on specific pressure points on the upper body. After applying the technique, the victim can only take five steps before their heart explodes. This fighting technique has its real background in various martial arts , where certain blows are exercised on acupressure points and the failure of an organ and thus a faint or death of the opponent is intended.
  • One of BB's favorite cartoon series is Samurai Jack .
  • Kiddos Cabrio is a rare Karmann-Ghia Cabriolet, Type 14, built in 1972 by Volkswagen from the factory in Brazil ( Volkswagen do Brasil ). Only 176 of this model were built. At least two vehicles of different years of construction were used during the shoot. Uma Thurman destroyed the first one in an accident while filming and subsequently dropped out for a week to recover. In various settings, the replacement vehicle can be recognized by the seat headrests that suddenly appear.
  • The historical model for the figure of Pai Mei was a martial arts master of the 17th century named 白眉 (Bái Méi) or Pak Mei (Cantonese). The name means "white eyebrow", which is also expressed in the film representation of the figure. Bái Méi is one of the legendary "Five Masters" of the Shaolin monastery at the time, who is suspected of betraying Shaolin to the Manchu government of the Qing Dynasty. In the course of this, the temple was completely burned down in 1675 and very few monks survived.
  • The technique of punching through a wooden board from a short distance, which Pai Mei teaches the bride, corresponds to the "One Inch Punch" of Wing Chun, made famous by Bruce Lee (cf. also Jeet Kune Do ).
  • Samuel L. Jackson has a guest appearance as organist in the chapel where the massacre takes place.

Soundtrack

  1. A Few Words From The Bride by Uma Thurman
  2. Goodnight Moon by Shivaree
  3. Il Tramonto by Ennio Morricone
  4. Can't Hardly Stand It by Charlie Feathers
  5. Tu Mira (edit) by Lole y Manuel
  6. Summertime Killer by Luis Bacalov
  7. The Chase by Alan Reeves / Phil Steele / Philip Brigham
  8. The Legend of Pai Mei by David Carradine and Uma Thurman
  9. L'Arena by Ennio Morricone
  10. A Satisfied Mind by Johnny Cash
  11. A Silhouette of Doom by Ennio Morricone
  12. About Her by Malcolm McLaren
  13. Truly and Utterly Bill by David Carradine and Uma Thurman
  14. Malagueña salerosa from Chingon
  15. Urami Bushi by Meiko Kaji

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Kill Bill - Volume 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2011 (PDF; test number: 97 585 V).
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ^ Kill Bill - Volume 2. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Kill Bill - Volume 2. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on June 26, 2020 .
  5. Business Data for Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  6. entry on imcdb.org (Internet Movie Cars Database), accessed on 11 December 2011th
  7. ^ History . The "big" Karmann - VW Karmann Ghia 1500 . Karmannfreunde Bayern eV, accessed on January 23, 2016 .