It was shot in black and white because Quentin Tarantino was terrified of getting an X rating in the US/Canada. That alone can kill profits and cause the movie to fail.
This sequence is a reference from the ending of "Yojimbo" (1961) where a horrified would-be gangster is spared and told 'Children shouldn't play with swords. Go home to your mother and live a long life eating gruel!' You can see him earlier in the sequence at 2m17s.
I was watching him I thought wait a minute something's different, And then I kept watching and I'm like wait a minute. Where's the black and white part.
The high polished finish removes stress raisers (and helps with cleaning). This is helpful with hardened steel, as cracks start from such imperfections.
I know Tarantino did it on purpose and all, but lol, truly the epitome of “everyone stand in a circle and wave your weapon around ineffectually until the hero is ready to kill you” style fighting.
Well , you have the fact that they were not as good as advertised , the intimidation factor of them knowing her crazy reputation , them fearing hitting each other and being hit and of course her being really fucking good .
There was something so awesome about how ridiculous the entire fight was that made it so perfectr! It was like u lost urself in the campiness and just enjoyed the goriness of it all
My favorite part is that amidst all this bloodshed and confusion The Bride never loses focus on her target and as the crazy 88 are being dispatched she quickly realizes that her window of opportunity is closing as O-Ren leaves the stage. You can see the sheer absolute panic in the Brides eyes as she leaves. and then the massacre isnt about protecting herself from assault but instead to pursue her target. Real easy to simply glance over but its little details like that, that tie the narrative and the action together.
@@elementblue780 bro shes hacking away at a million particles of blood splashing the screen to stop for 5 seconds to show her eyes is a blink in the movies timeline.
@@elementblue780 and when i say little detail its to accentuate the action. we couldve had a five munutes speech about how oren doesnt dcosider her worthy or whatever. btu there wasnt. She walks off screen and only the brides eyes can follow her.
I love that when the restaurant owner switches off the lights, the background is blue, reminding us the place is called The House of blue leaves. Even if in black and white, I wish Tarantino had not cut this on the US release. I REALLY wish he would release an anime about O-Ren or Gogo Yubari.
The blue is kept in the us release it originally switches to black and white when she pulls out the eye, and back to color when she gets a closeup on her face right before the lights go out
Kudos to the Bride for sparing that kid who wants to be seen to be brave in front of his peers, he just lacks confidence and surrenders twice, but both times she spares his life!
Love how the woman owner of the restaurant is freaking out at the end about all the carnage. Almost slipping and falling down from all the blood and severed limbs laying around. Funny.
I lived down the street from the restaurant that inspired this restaurant. There is no dance floor in the real thing; there is actually a open kitchen and bar in its place. Stairwells and the wall decor are just about the same still. And the tatami rooms are indeed on the second floor. No screens though.
Funny “watered down” is a great pun for this cause they had to substitute the typical blood effect, due to running out of the normal corn starch blood also it worked better to spray around. Part of the reason for it being in black & white originally was to mask that effect and ratings feared to kill the box office. The black and white does work for that classic martial art film feel,but yeah the extended version gives some great extra bits especially the kid getting his mask cut off so Beatrice realises later that he’s a child.
@5:33 in the shown-in-theaters version, this is when she blinks 👁️ and the color comes back on…. And then the lights go off and they’re all black silhouettes on blue backdrop. Brilliant use of colors throughout, of course :)
I love how when Beatrix makes that one dude swallow the other dude's eyeball that she just ripped out, the camera cuts to Sophie being grossed out by that! It's f*cking hilarious!
With all of Quentin's feet fetishes, he has never made a movie I didn't like. This was a masterpiece; one of Uma's best roles. Quentin always does great story telling. This Japanese uncut version is awesome.
You can see the Pai Mei training in full effect in this scene. The way she makes her body light as a feather, the eye pluck, the unreal acrobatic jumping, everything he did to her in KB2 when they first met.
I cannot believe this movie is actually 20 years old now😮. Wow times were much more simpler then, anyways this movie changed my life as a movie fan and made me see film in a different way. And also it made me a Tarantino fan😎. I was 13 then and I still love this film
This seems to be a reference from the ending of "Yojimbo" (1961) where a horrified would-be gangster is spared and told 'Children shouldn't play with swords. Go home to your mother and live a long life eating gruel!' You can see him earlier in the sequence at 2m17s.
Thanks for uploading this in color OP. I coulda never guessed the kid she spared was present early on in the fight(2:17), and how the bald general actually has two swords cause all this while i thought it was just a holster. Really goes to show how detrimental color is for us the viewers to process what we're seeing!
The rage inside for being turned back from someone used to be trust is really immense. I always admire the aesthetical way the bride hold her samurai sword. All her calmness to comprehend the situation is as fine as trained samurai. This part is such a gold.
Eyeball was in the original, the throat bit definitely wasn’t, also the kid getting his mask cut off wasn’t in the western cut. He only showed up when they chased her upstairs and the lights go out.
@@kg356 Indeed! When he first showed that Eagle Claw to Beatrix at the beginning of her training, my first thought was: "it's going to suck for whomever is on the receiving end of that!" And sure enough, a throat gets ripped out, courtesy of that training.
That she spends most of her time fighting above / at the center of a zen rock garden is a beautiful bit of symbology and a visual reference to the various martial arts which teach the practitioner to be the peaceful center around which violence may occur, without destroying the center; the eye of the storm. Zen rock gardens are created specifically to be a place of peaceful contemplation, of mindfulness, of... Zen. It's a nice bit of staging.
Overkill? Tarantino? Of course not. Uma was specifically trained to find every possible artery in the human body and to sever them. In quick and efficient sequence of course.
this scene is all about how the person with a big revenge in the heart is ready to fight against the whole world if it is needed and does not have to think even twice about it no matter what. For him does not exists the amount of challenge, number of obstacles and hardships which may come. He has just one aim - to revenge and he is ready to bear any price. He is ready to go and fight against the Budha himself if needed.
I've heard that if the theatrical release didn't make that sequence in black and white and actually kept it in color, Vol. 1 would've had an NC-17 rating instead of R.
Tarantino wanted the first movie to be a Western, within Japan. Epic deep speeches, second meanings, and - drawing inspiration from Westerns, Japanese samurai movies, and anime - the "one man army" scene. But he's also a director that loves tributes and homages. What better time to put in a Wilhelm scream @3:00 , @5:05 ?
As a child, I watched this scene in the director's cut. Years later, I rewatch Kill Bill and instead of this masterpiece I see a black and white scene with cut out fights. I already thought that this scene never existed at all and I imagined it. I'm glad to finally watch it in its entirety again. It gives a lot of coolness points to Beatrix Kiddo and features a phenomenal performance from Uma Thurman.
I agree with you although I think both looked cool in their own ways, this movie was already gory and adding so many blood to it - in this scene - was too much for me but of course we were talking about the whole original production of it so we deserved to see the color version too ʜᴇ ₕₑ ʰᵉ ᕼE😁 the black and white felt more artistic and comical to me which was cool🖤🤍
This scene looks MUUUUUUUCH BETTER in colour.☺️👌😁👍
It was shot in black and white because Quentin Tarantino was terrified of getting an X rating in the US/Canada. That alone can kill profits and cause the movie to fail.
@@largol33t1 they also ran out of fake blood and had to resort to water.
But in my territory it's full colored
@@nintendomaster6430yeh you can see the water 3:20.
@@OllieX123 That's what I said!
“Except you Sofie! You stay right where you are.” Brings to mind that line from Django Unchained “Not you Stephen… You right where you belong.” 😂
just like the close up to the leader of the 88 is the same thing used in django
The boy without mask, his mother must be very grateful
Not if she had to clean his underwear
She spared his life twice!
This sequence is a reference from the ending of "Yojimbo" (1961) where a horrified would-be gangster is spared and told 'Children shouldn't play with swords. Go home to your mother and live a long life eating gruel!' You can see him earlier in the sequence at 2m17s.
2:17
@@borbetomagus probably a naughty student in school , hanging out with gangs and ended up joining crazy 88
Basically she spared the kid's life twice, at 2:20 and at 7:00
I can't believe The Bride made that kid cry after spanking him with the blade of her katana!! 🤣
Crazy 87 then really
It's not just the colour; there are way more decapitations in this version.
There’s a longer version of this fight scene ?????
@@jamesscanlan6240 I couldn’t see any besides the one we clearly see. Can you point them out for me I’m curious?
I was watching him I thought wait a minute something's different, And then I kept watching and I'm like wait a minute. Where's the black and white part.
At 7:42, the last swordsman fell into the "bloodbath".
I like how she used her sword as a mirror to see what she was up against before the carnage began.
That is called having eyes in the back of your head.
Ridiculous.
pai me training
The high polished finish removes stress raisers (and helps with cleaning).
This is helpful with hardened steel, as cracks start from such imperfections.
no. I think Quinton told her where they all would be.
"uncut" version
I'll give you a big hand for that comment. Or would you prefer a leg? Your choice, plenty to go around.
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@@ddelaney712 Do we get to keep our heads?
Halah khonthol
Lol I couldn’t imagine if would be the cut one
I know Tarantino did it on purpose and all, but lol, truly the epitome of “everyone stand in a circle and wave your weapon around ineffectually until the hero is ready to kill you” style fighting.
Well , you have the fact that they were not as good as advertised , the intimidation factor of them knowing her crazy reputation , them fearing hitting each other and being hit and of course her being really fucking good .
Hesitation
still tho, great movie
Yes, that was the idea.
Hesitation is defeat!
There was something so awesome about how ridiculous the entire fight was that made it so perfectr! It was like u lost urself in the campiness and just enjoyed the goriness of it all
She was one angry woman
My favorite part is that amidst all this bloodshed and confusion The Bride never loses focus on her target and as the crazy 88 are being dispatched she quickly realizes that her window of opportunity is closing as O-Ren leaves the stage. You can see the sheer absolute panic in the Brides eyes as she leaves. and then the massacre isnt about protecting herself from assault but instead to pursue her target. Real easy to simply glance over but its little details like that, that tie the narrative and the action together.
I use to notice that too. That's when she went absolute ape shit
The whole scene is just stupid. As is the movie. As is everything this hack named Tarantino makes.
Little detail? They literally stop the action for like 5 seconds to make it glaringly obvious that she sees O-Ren leaving and starts panicking...
@@elementblue780 bro shes hacking away at a million particles of blood splashing the screen to stop for 5 seconds to show her eyes is a blink in the movies timeline.
@@elementblue780 and when i say little detail its to accentuate the action. we couldve had a five munutes speech about how oren doesnt dcosider her worthy or whatever. btu there wasnt. She walks off screen and only the brides eyes can follow her.
I love that when the restaurant owner switches off the lights, the background is blue, reminding us the place is called The House of blue leaves. Even if in black and white, I wish Tarantino had not cut this on the US release. I REALLY wish he would release an anime about O-Ren or Gogo Yubari.
Maybe he didn't have a choice. The US censors might have told him. European and Asian censors are more lenient than American censors.
Hollywood people are extremely delicate, they want everything to be clean, even fight scenes.
It would have gotten an NC17 rating which would have killed its wide release
The blue is kept in the us release it originally switches to black and white when she pulls out the eye, and back to color when she gets a closeup on her face right before the lights go out
It is a sad story about how Pai Mei shaved off his beard and mustache and Beatrix didn't recognize him, cut off his leg and killed him.
He also shaved his head, dropped sixty years and changed his face, voice and race :-D
pai mei died to elle driver... she poisoned his fish heads.. it says it in the second movie lol
@@anthonygrantano-5009Its the same actor. Gordon Liu.
They know @@anthonygrantano-5009
Kudos to the Bride for sparing that kid who wants to be seen to be brave in front of his peers, he just lacks confidence and surrenders twice, but both times she spares his life!
She seems to be telling that boy.... "Fight me only when you're older!"
@@gabrieldjatienza6971 or not to be messing with gangs, he's not about that life
Love how the woman owner of the restaurant is freaking out at the end about all the carnage. Almost slipping and falling down from all the blood and severed limbs laying around. Funny.
This could impact on the level of bookings over succeeding weeks. Goodwill and reputation could be affected also.
If this is "funny" to you please turn in your human race card. You're not a member.
I lived down the street from the restaurant that inspired this restaurant. There is no dance floor in the real thing; there is actually a open kitchen and bar in its place. Stairwells and the wall decor are just about the same still. And the tatami rooms are indeed on the second floor. No screens though.
@@OroborusFMA You can’t understand a Kill Bill movie if you can’t understand why that is humorous.
yes yes, gotta have some humor after all that bloodshed.
SO much better than the censored, watered down American version! Ya just gotta love it.
Funny “watered down” is a great pun for this cause they had to substitute the typical blood effect, due to running out of the normal corn starch blood also it worked better to spray around. Part of the reason for it being in black & white originally was to mask that effect and ratings feared to kill the box office. The black and white does work for that classic martial art film feel,but yeah the extended version gives some great extra bits especially the kid getting his mask cut off so Beatrice realises later that he’s a child.
The scene changes, the choreography, the music and the dynamite screen presence of Uma puts this down as one of the greatest martial arts films ever.
Your f@#£in joking,it's pure 💩,you must be 12 years old?
Just look on the statists. You are not right xD
Music??
@@Cypher-sn3bt yes all statics make sense or define something is good or not 👍
"...puts this down as one of the greatest martial arts films ever."
That's a rather bold statement dude.
@5:33 in the shown-in-theaters version, this is when she blinks 👁️ and the color comes back on…. And then the lights go off and they’re all black silhouettes on blue backdrop.
Brilliant use of colors throughout, of course :)
I love how when Beatrix makes that one dude swallow the other dude's eyeball that she just ripped out, the camera cuts to Sophie being grossed out by that! It's f*cking hilarious!
Holy shit that's what happens! I always thought she jabbed his throat or something, that's a fantastic detail.
With all of Quentin's feet fetishes, he has never made a movie I didn't like. This was a masterpiece; one of Uma's best roles. Quentin always does great story telling. This Japanese uncut version is awesome.
You can see the Pai Mei training in full effect in this scene. The way she makes her body light as a feather, the eye pluck, the unreal acrobatic jumping, everything he did to her in KB2 when they first met.
I think it absolutely hilarious how the assassins just keep pouring out of everyone. Reminds me of clowns coming out of that little car at the circus.
😅
I believe that was the intention.
I cannot believe this movie is actually 20 years old now😮. Wow times were much more simpler then, anyways this movie changed my life as a movie fan and made me see film in a different way. And also it made me a Tarantino fan😎. I was 13 then and I still love this film
I can’t believe I’ve never watched this unedited version… omg what a masterpiece…. Top tier Kung Fu movie… TOP TIER
I'm pissed right now... Where does one own a version with this scene?
@@RealKingGoreyou can find a version called Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
I found it@@dovesofwar1777
6:35
"Go home to your mother !"
このお説教するシーン本当に好きｗ
Muy chistoso
That’s what I love about Beatrix she gives other 2nd chances to turn back and choose good in life instead of choosing evil forever
This seems to be a reference from the ending of "Yojimbo" (1961) where a horrified would-be gangster is spared and told 'Children shouldn't play with swords. Go home to your mother and live a long life eating gruel!' You can see him earlier in the sequence at 2m17s.
@@Kingsombra21Yeah she gives Go-Go Yubari a chance to walk away even though she knows what psycho Go-Go is 😮
One of the best fight movie scenes ever.
Thanks for uploading this there was some scenes that i missed and I wanted the fight to have color!
planning this scene must have been a nightmare, the camera movements, the sounds, the sword fight sequences,,,, pffffffffffff what geniuses
This is one of the most clever fight scenes I've ever seen.
Lol
Lmao. It is anything but clever
I find it very silly. And it's supposed to be. And it does it wonderfully
@@goolgepl2112 making the scene silly is a very clever move don't you think?
Thanks for uploading this in color OP. I coulda never guessed the kid she spared was present early on in the fight(2:17), and how the bald general actually has two swords cause all this while i thought it was just a holster. Really goes to show how detrimental color is for us the viewers to process what we're seeing!
1 woman vs 88 men + katana's = a whole insane bloodbath from zero to HOLY CRAP in 8 minutes.
監督が誰か知らずに観てもタランティーノだろなってわかる作品だよな
それな
The rage inside for being turned back from someone used to be trust is really immense. I always admire the aesthetical way the bride hold her samurai sword. All her calmness to comprehend the situation is as fine as trained samurai. This part is such a gold.
0:05 look it’s Pei Mei
すげー刀だな......
刃こぼれもしないし、切れ味も落ちない。
玉鋼を超えてる
ハロウィン🎃にぴったしやで笑
調理用なら誰でも使ってええな笑
@@デジモンレコード 食事🍴中に観たらゲボ吐くわ。
こんな料理用包丁あったらたまらへん
@@デジモンレコード まな板ごと切れそう
Wusste gar nicht,daß so eine uncut Szene existiert...Geil!
ВаRin 📍🎓🎓🎓
Watching This just reminds me of how good this movie was, loved this movie!!!
Same, I love this movie.
The special effects team worked alot of overtime in this movie
Completely forgot about her plucking one guy’s eyeball out, and literally ripping the throat out of another. Pai Mei taught her well!
That's that Eagles Claw style
Eyeball was in the original, the throat bit definitely wasn’t, also the kid getting his mask cut off wasn’t in the western cut. He only showed up when they chased her upstairs and the lights go out.
@@jammin2575 And part of this was in black and white as well. I now prefer this all color version. The blood splatters show up better!
@@kg356 Indeed! When he first showed that Eagle Claw to Beatrix at the beginning of her training, my first thought was: "it's going to suck for whomever is on the receiving end of that!" And sure enough, a throat gets ripped out, courtesy of that training.
That she spends most of her time fighting above / at the center of a zen rock garden is a beautiful bit of symbology and a visual reference to the various martial arts which teach the practitioner to be the peaceful center around which violence may occur, without destroying the center; the eye of the storm. Zen rock gardens are created specifically to be a place of peaceful contemplation, of mindfulness, of... Zen. It's a nice bit of staging.
Symbolism,not symbology.
How Tarantino enchants me in every single Scene!!👏👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰
Beatrix is so smart, focus, cool, and totally badass fighter. She’s awesome! Love her.🌟🔥🗡️⚔️🥊🧘🏼♀️💛
6:38 Bruh the kid 😂😂💀
And at 2:20
Potentially the best action scene in cinema history. Kill Bill is Tarantino's magnum opus in my opinion.
Amazing when she went full double blade blender mode!!
The story of the *Hwat Ya!* Guy
1:40: Double Swords!
3:03: Round 2
3:24: Matrix Jump!
7:05: Ledge Standoff
I love this movie, I spent some time in Tokyo back in 89/90 the nightclub set was spot on.
When you've seen this scene in full colour, you really don't want to go back to the western release black and white version...
The editing on this scene is epic.
Overkill? Tarantino? Of course not. Uma was specifically trained to find every possible artery in the human body and to sever them. In quick and efficient sequence of course.
Yes. Like the blind prostitute, you have to hand it to her.
Bill: “there wasn’t really 88 of them, they just called themselves the crazy 88s”
Bud: “why is that”
Bill: “I guess they thought it sounded cool”
this scene is all about how the person with a big revenge in the heart is ready to fight against the whole world if it is needed and does not have to think even twice about it no matter what. For him does not exists the amount of challenge, number of obstacles and hardships which may come. He has just one aim - to revenge and he is ready to bear any price. He is ready to go and fight against the Budha himself if needed.
Uma is a beast. Great series.
The actor who plays the bald boss in this clip is the same actor that plays the funny old white haired guy who trained her earlier.
He looks like Billy Corgan
He is gordon Liu hero of the movie named the 36th chamber of shaolin
I've heard that if the theatrical release didn't make that sequence in black and white and actually kept it in color, Vol. 1 would've had an NC-17 rating instead of R.
Tarantino wanted the first movie to be a Western, within Japan. Epic deep speeches, second meanings, and - drawing inspiration from Westerns, Japanese samurai movies, and anime - the "one man army" scene.
But he's also a director that loves tributes and homages. What better time to put in a Wilhelm scream @3:00 , @5:05 ?
The Bride is strong with the force. “So anymore subordinates for me to kill?”
None of them had a Hattori Hanzo sword.
Aside from the full color, I love the little differences in this cut and what the US got
Hahaha...this is SO awesome. The Japanese just had to do it the "right' way lol.
8:34 get the dust pan and brush lady, it’s going to be a long night 😅
0:15 her eyes is lovely
Every enemy's blood pressure is about 110 psi, haha
As a child, I watched this scene in the director's cut. Years later, I rewatch Kill Bill and instead of this masterpiece I see a black and white scene with cut out fights. I already thought that this scene never existed at all and I imagined it.
I'm glad to finally watch it in its entirety again. It gives a lot of coolness points to Beatrix Kiddo and features a phenomenal performance from Uma Thurman.
7:58 マダ イノチガアルモノ! ソレハモッテカエルガイイ！！
血しぶきが凄まじいのにカメラワークがスタイリッシュなお陰でそこまでグロさを感じずに観れる。タランティーノは偉大だね
It makes me laugh that at 2:46 the guy is dead with his tongue out lol
😂😂😂
She was chopping them up she was chopping them down
she doesn't move in vain...every half movement of her brings the death and injuries.
Never knew she sliced her arm with the katana still held to kill the other guy 6:22 😱
Damn. I did not know that.. that’s amazing 🤯
Beatrix Kiddo was tearing the Crazy 88s to pieces!
The axe throw into dudes head that makes him slide back is my favorite shot
ブルース・リー的な不思議シーン沢山あるのも見所ですね
I must say I rather enjoy the Black and white. It brings out more definition and it’s also just cool.
I agree with you although I think both looked cool in their own ways, this movie was already gory and adding so many blood to it - in this scene - was too much for me but of course we were talking about the whole original production of it so we deserved to see the color version too ʜᴇ ₕₑ ʰᵉ ᕼE😁 the black and white felt more artistic and comical to me which was cool🖤🤍
6:50 I like this scene a lot
とりあえず戦うフリして、どさくさに紛れて帰りたいw
The most you see in this scene is cuts, but this is the “uncut” version of course
4:45 gives up fighting legit and uses breaker style
No. He switched to black & white because the MPAA wanted him to tone down the graphic violence.
2:16 This scene does not appear in the theatrical version
Uma Thurman goes through some pretty grizzly and horrifying experiences in these films and she never stops being sexy!
1:56 2:52 1:16 6:20 2:43 2:59 2:13
Wow bill got some cool moves and skills 😮😮
Never knew What I was doing watching this movie when In was Like 5 but All I knew was that the action scenes were mad energetic and still are XD
I love that little sound lmao 5:41
I can see why this would be an uncut version. The cut version is better. It doesn't leave unnecessary scenes in it.
映画DVDはもちろん、サントラも買った❗タランティーノ作品はBGMが実に良いからね👍
My absolute favorite Uma Thurman film. Plus God bless Zoe Bell!
7:34 *Johnny Mo won the exchange here. The plot just demanded him to die.*
Imagine training for so many years, because of their culture, only to get sliced and diced up by the bride.
This part is definitely a classic in the whole film! No doubt
Reminds me of my first trip to Japan
By contrast, on my first and only trip to Japan, I saw no blood at all.
0:35 I thought Gordon Liu was only for this role.
But in the next film he had a major role as a kung fu master pae mei which I came to know late.
good thing they didn't all attack her at once. Might've had a shorter fight
They did tho
@@headcaptainyamamoto7015 no
Bloody masterpiece in history.
4:17 this song was reused in Inglourious Basterds
Classic Movie
Many cuts in this version haha
Hattori Hanzo Sword. Build up was worth it.
this should never have been in black and white
I always find that lady scream and sliding in the blood at the end so funny
Just love when "Black Mamba" tells the survivors of the Crazy 88's that their severed limbs now belong to her.....she is one mean mama....!
She becomes Pai Mei. "your arm belongs to me" scene.
RIP KOBE the black mamba of the NBA.