So there I was. Looking at my laptop's screen. Struggling... finding ideas, living a dreadful morning with limited creativity. And then, it came to me! A realization! [Plays some notes on the flute] My work wasn't getting done, and I was bored as fuck. Hours were mere minutes, minutes were nothing but seconds. I was fast by being slow. The work... Was unfinished [plays the flute again].
@@youknowwhoiam2771 In the original Kill Bill shooting script Bill says, "Once upon a time in China, some believe around the year, one-double-knot-three," but for whatever reason it would up being "double-aught-three" in the final print. That still makes Pai Mei pretty goddamn old, but not 1000.
Pai Mei is at the peak of physical fitness and maintains that via specific intense targeted training. This reverses the effects of cell damage, effectively allowing continual life by halting and even reversing the process of ageing.
I love how you can tell just on Uma Thurman's face how long before the main story this takes place. She's not only head over heels in love with Bill, but also visibly younger, cockier and more naive.
She looks very phsycially soft here too, I don't know if it's the makeup artist work or just the acting. Either way, yes, the difference is obvious, not just in attitude but also in behaviour.
I love, that Tarantino does not show the story but rather lets David Carradine narrate it in its entirety. It could have made for an awesome action scene, but with the vivid narration, everyone has an own story of Pai Mei in his head, as it is with legends.
@@smlchristian3 as I said a psycho and a coward.. A psycho bc the punishment is exaggerated for the fault committed (if it even was a fault) and a coward bc he has like the super secret formula to have super powers so they were no match for him and thus he was not a brave person
@@pablodono7227 Don't insult ancient Chinese traditions or the people who devote their lives to them. They know how to inflict pain and kill you in ways we've likely never thought of.
The way he interacts with Beatrix is just so calm and sweet. Really charming and yes I know their relationship is also toxic. But things in the beginning was quite nice like this scene.
Fun Fact, the actor who portrayed Pai Mei in Kill Bill played the hero who killed the very same legendary Pai Mei (who in turn is based on the chinese folklore hero Bak Mei) in the 1977 film Fists of the White Lotus, referenced by name in Bill's story. In the latter, the twin brother of the original Pai Mei mastered the "Hundred Pace Palm" technique, to which the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart was inspired by Tarantino really knows his Kung Fu flicks
A quote from this rattled into my consciousness at 4 this morning. The baby woke at half three. "At first I tried to console her, only to find she was inconsolable". What followed next was the massacre of all three remaining hours of sleep at the tears of a one year old.
An assassin telling a story with a flute, he must have really loved her, but not bad enough to understand her wish to have a child free from an assassin’s life.
I love how the legend of Pai Mei foreshadows the future, The five finger palm technique that was used on Bill, Ellie's defiant eye being plucked out, and I also love how it references the past as well, the massacre of the monks, the massacre of El Paso, the miscommunication between the Monk and Pai Mei, the miscommunication between Beatrix and Bill. All tied nicely togehter.
I have so many favorite lines from the Kill Bill 2 movie.. Beatrix to Elle: Bitch, you don’t have a future! Esteban to Beatrix: How else is he ever going to see you again? Budd to Bill: That woman deserves her revenge.. and we deserve to die..
People were impressed when they realized he trained her how to rip out someone's eyeball (Elle) and were really impressed when they realized he also trained her to do the exploding heart technique. (Bill) ☠️
I always found there to be such depth behind her reason not to tell Bill that she learned the five Point Palm technique. If she ever admitted it to Bill, wouldn't this mean that she is a fighter on the level of Pei mei, wouldn't this had changed his mind about trying to kill her knowing she was such an elite warrior? Or perhaps she never told him because in her heart she'd hope that at some point she can have some life of normalcy with him, and didn't want his clearly frail ego to distance himself from her after learning she was the better warrior. I guess it's poetic that he thinks about her as the better one in his last moments.
I think she didn't tell him because a part of her was keeping it in reserve if she ever needed to use it against him, which is why she cried and said she was a bad person when he asked why she never told him. Even though she loved him, she is a killer and she had a killer's instincts, which she felt bad about since it further verified everything that came out in their final dialogue.
She didn't want to hurt Bill's feelings by telling him about Pai Mei teaching her the 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart technique. Therefore, Beatrix didn't tell him until the near end after he had witnessed her utilizing the technique on him. When Bill asks her why she didn't tell him, she claimed she didn't want to hurt him and called herself a horrible person.
@@j.martinez8767 That uncertainty is what made Kiddo better than everyone else, she had always been created to be the best killer among them, so for her to have a conscience and understand that no matter how ingrained it is, her accepting that her career is wrong is what brings her hero arc to a full circle.
She couldn't even trust Bill with their baby and left him the moment she found out she was pregnant. So I think deep down, she always held a sort of wariness against Bill. Maybe it was one of Pai Mei's teaching. To not be trusting of others, even Bill. Or maybe the years of assassination hardened had her heart even against Bill.
This story is a homage to the original "Fist of the White Lotus" movie where the Pai Mei in Kill Bill plays the Shaolin Monk in that movie who kills Pai Mei. There's also a scene where Pai Meis men massacre Shaolin Monks and they even have the exploding heart technique too. Dope classics both movies.
Pai mei is the pettiest and most POWERFUL person in the Universe, the deadliest combination of all. Snake is certainly not the first person who tried to poison him over the 1000 years, so I don't believe he can be killed that easily.
Probably David Carradine's best scene in a movie, ever. Tarantino is a master at casting the right person in the role destiny created for them.Consider all the main characters, and think of someone else playing that character, difficult, isn't it.
i disagree. DC’s best scene was in the wedding chapel. amicable niceties as a facade, but raging jealousy and anger boiling underneath. every gesture and comment he made while talking to the bride gave a sense of foreboding and dread oozing with contrived congeniality, while the bride tried hard to hide her fear and apprehension.
Bill tells the story of how Pai Mei murdered 60 monks over one of them essentially not saying "good afternoon" to him, and Uma Thurman's face is this the entire time: 2:13
Pai Mei made the exception for Beatrix because her quiet determination and humility earned his respect during the harsh training. Thus, he teaches her the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart technique.
He sounded so exasperated, frustrated, disappointed, and sad as he said that. It's like he once asked Pai Mei and Pai me responded with the typical 'i teach no one' response. He looks fed up. He is bitter.
I first got to know David Carradine through Kung Fu the legend continues in 1993. Him with the flute, the slow speaking style and the Shaolin background. David channels that background in this dialogue because it's so damn cool. It holds you. Even though he is playing a character completely, galactically opposite to Kwai Chiang Caine, you really want to listen. Brilliant performance. RIP legend.
It occurs to me that every element of this scene has an innate simultaneous life/death dichotomy. Light/dark. Beauty/brutality. Except for the flute... The desert landscape itself is beautiful, it's also a harsh and brutal environment where only the strongest meanest creatures can survive. The fire. Fire is the first building block of humanity, we need it, it sustains human life, it's beautiful, and it kills and consumes and it's a horrific way to die. Life and death at the same time. The sky. Night represents death, yet the night sky in the desert is incredibly beautiful at the same time. A beautiful woman in the firelight, and she's also a savage killer. Beauty and brutality at the same time. Bill, with his incredible voice playing beautiful music and reciting a beautiful story, and he's a ruthless killer... The only exception is the flute. Is Tarantino making a statement about how music is transcendent? It rises above and it's apart from these concerns? Or, maybe that flute has been used as a weapon to bludgeon someone to death?
The flute using these tones has been used in a lot of Hollywood kung fu productions as a way to impart a ethereal(spiritual) feel to the scene. David Carradine was in a kung fu tv series (played the character Caine) in the early 1970s and has a long history with the instrument.
Pai Mei/Bak Mei (White Eyebrows) was based off a real life person and there is a Kung fu style named after him. His story as I know it but not to be taken as historical fact. He was one of the Five Elders of the Shaolin Temple and partly responsible for its fall. During this time the Ming Dynasty had become corrupted and would be easily overthrown by the Manchurians(Qing dynasty). The leader of the Temple Hong Mei(Red Eye Brows) died and was succeeded by fellow monk Jee Sin. (possible jealousy for being passed over?) Their was contention at the temple between the two as to whom they would they would support the corrupt Ming or foreign Qing? The Manchurian's had trouble suppressing the revolt of the Xilufan and so the Shaolin aided them with no loses but this ended up making them look like a potential threat and so two ministers plotted their destruction and although they where unable to convince the Kangxi emperor whom was grateful for their aid where able to sway his successor the Yongzheng emperor to attack the temple. The other elders survived the massacre and would find safety at other temples for the time being Bak Mei was initially sent to Spy while his brothers and sisters prepared for rebellion but the more he saw, the more he realized their attempt would be fruitless and so he betrayed them in exchange for the his life and the lives of his students by agreeing to lead their imperial forces against his former temple. Hated for his betrayal Bak Mei would be hunted by the surviving rebel monks and would have to go into hiding, converting to Taoism.but those whom confronted him would die at his hands,. Finally Jee Sin and Bak Mei would meet face to face again and to spare bloodshed among all those whom followed both men decided they would end the conflict in single combat between the two. The two fought long and hard with Bak Mei the victor broke Jee Sin's neck. Later Wu Ah Phiew(not sure his story) and Hoong Man Ting a student of Hoong Hei Khoon a layman(non religious monk) taught by Jee Sin would avenge their master and masters master by killing Bak Mei in combat. Initially Hoong Man Ting's wife Fong Wing a superb fighter of her own would try to convince them to seek peace over violence but Bak Mei's betrayal was so great that it could not be unavenged and so she made her husband promise that regardless of the outcome that this would be end of the conflict. The two men killed Bak Mei in combat and retired as martial artists promising to live hermetic of seclusion and pacifism. Later in life Hoong Khoon in his eighties would find a young girl fainted on their doorstep and so he and his wife adopted her. Acting a dutiful daughter she would act as if to serve him tea but would strike him with the Phoenix Eye punch a move synonymous with the Bak Mei style. Instead of taking action on this girl, he remembered his wife's wisdom about vengeance never ending so he accepted his karma and died peacefully.
I always like to explain the consequences of an action I think is completely irrational or absurd and then conclude with “ .. and that will be the story of you.” It always gets a double take
Everytime I watch this video, I always get a feeling this story of Pai Mei was inspired from the history of Chanakya. Chanakya, a poor Brahmin, on being insulted by the mighty king Nanda, from whom even greek conqueror Alexander feared and retreated, plotted an elaborate revenge, vanquished the entire royal family of the Nandas and ended up replacing king Nanda with Chandragupta Maurya and thus architecting beginning of the glorious Mauryan dynasty in India.
Plot twist, Pai Mei was totally his secret crush and he was so overcome with emotion that he noticed him that he couldn't think straight until they had passed each other, and by then it was too late. He almost turned and got his attention just to nod at him but realized that would be idiotic, so he ran home with his tear ducts and nasal passage overproducing secretions all the way. The next day he was so angry with himself for blowing his chance so badly that he vowed he would finally make the move and send a letter to Pai Mei professing his long burning love. Unfortunately Pai Mei came before the mail man and the rest is history... they left the love letter part out of the legend because it was private and some of the old timers found it pretty gay tbh
I've read that the flute he is using is the same one that he used in the movie "Circle of Iron" when he played a blind beggar/guide. Whether it really is, is hard to say. Carradine had several flutes.
There once was man who played with his flute. He played with his flute in a hotel room. He knew how to play with that flute in the most perfect way. He knew how to make that flute sing. He made it sing in a secret way that only he and his wardrobe knew.
Her smile is painfully radiant. If I were him I'd be legit uncomfortable with the knowledge that I'd have to play opposite her eventual hatred. She just....fucking /glows/ love here.
Kinda interesting how the Pai Mei story of him killing all the monks at the temple is similar of how Beatrix killed the entire 88 crazy gang in their lair
I love how when first watching this movie you almost join Beatrix and assuming that it's a joke. And I love that how when you finally see pie Mei he is ultra badass
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i need one of these flutes next time my boss needs an explanation why i didnt get my work done over the weekend...
Handcrafted replica by Forrest Flutes for only $80. Pretty impressive! As close as you can get to Carradine's since he hand made his own.
Yasssss
So there I was. Looking at my laptop's screen. Struggling... finding ideas, living a dreadful morning with limited creativity. And then, it came to me! A realization! [Plays some notes on the flute]
My work wasn't getting done, and I was bored as fuck. Hours were mere minutes, minutes were nothing but seconds. I was fast by being slow.
The work... Was unfinished [plays the flute again].
@@juanchocorleone ruclips.net/video/GX1RHrj7IP4/видео.html You need to have a phone handy as well so you can play this at the end for emphasis.
Juancho Corleone Genius! Come work for me now!
I love it that we re just ok with Pai Mei being at least 1000 years old.
@@youknowwhoiam2771 In the original Kill Bill shooting script Bill says, "Once upon a time in China, some believe around the year, one-double-knot-three," but for whatever reason it would up being "double-aught-three" in the final print. That still makes Pai Mei pretty goddamn old, but not 1000.
Pai Mei is at the peak of physical fitness and maintains that via specific intense targeted training. This reverses the effects of cell damage, effectively allowing continual life by halting and even reversing the process of ageing.
It was supposed to be "one-double-eight-three" instead of "one-double-aught-three", so 1883, making Pai Mei on the other of 100 years old.
I find it almost insulting that he was stupid enough to let Elle poison his food. A guy like that would have eyes on her 24/7.
Manuel Pirino 🤣🤣🤣
if i passed pai mei walking down the road, and, in a practically unfathomable display of generousity he were to nod at me, i would nod the fuck back!
curious george
even if he didn't, I'd still bow my head for letting him grace me with his presence
You would. But concept of respect in eastern culture is different than yours. Younger salutes the elder.
@@tychusenfieldlarsson206 TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NICE,VERY NICE.
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NICE,VERY NICE.
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NICE,VERY NICE.
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NICE,VERY NICE.
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NICE,VERY NICE.
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NICE,VERY NICE.
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NICE,VERY NICE.
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NICE,VERY NICE.
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Screw nodding I’d bow down and get the fuck out of his way
I love how kiddo appears so vulnerable, eager, and naive here prior to her training, you can also tell how deeply infatuated she is with bill.
Before she got knocked up.
Well, her name IS Kiddo.
@@blarghinatelazer9394Beatrix Kiddo
I wish she and Bill could raise their daughter together
*monk doesn’t return the nod*
Pai Mei: “and I took that personally”
So you have chosen, death
Literally
Me: holds door open for you
Dude: says nothing
Me: have you ever heard the legend of pei mei??
@@whitealliance9540 😂
“I…overreacted.”
I love how you can tell just on Uma Thurman's face how long before the main story this takes place. She's not only head over heels in love with Bill, but also visibly younger, cockier and more naive.
Very much indeed.
And she more jovial and optimistic.
Whimsical, especially when she fights pei mei the first time her facials were very shocked. I loved the contrast
She looks very phsycially soft here too, I don't know if it's the makeup artist work or just the acting. Either way, yes, the difference is obvious, not just in attitude but also in behaviour.
Pai Mei sounds like a really cool en relaxing guy to hang out with, with no ego problems at all
Suppression of the ego is a purely western phenomenon.
You just heard a story of this man NOT kill, MASSACRE 68 Monks because One didn’t respect his nod and you think he’s Relaxing.
@@retromagic5020 Sarcasm.....
@@12rens sorry, brain didn’t pick it up at the time😅
@@retromagic5020 only 68? That sounds pretty chill to me, and he did spare their families if they had.
The nod... Was not returned.
*cancer flute*
translation: " shit got real."
:nod:
man, Pai Mei was a little bitch
"Like" # 666. Your Welcome ;)
I love, that Tarantino does not show the story but rather lets David Carradine narrate it in its entirety. It could have made for an awesome action scene, but with the vivid narration, everyone has an own story of Pai Mei in his head, as it is with legends.
Or to look at it in another way: he's telling, not showing. Which is basically the antithesis of storytelling in any visual media.
@@bartholen You're like the student in school who sticks by what the book says no matter what...
And we get to see Uma Thurman looking gorgeous
Also Bill and Beatrix moment
It definitely builds the tension for when The Bride first meets him.
Story-telling at its finest.
Tarantino 101.
That was actually an awful story
The best.
@@StevenCBlah but it's a notable one. that's what matters
👍.
Imagine if Bill went:
Have you ever heard the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?
It's not a story Pai Mei would tell you.
And Beatrix would reply
And what pray tell is the tragedy of Darth plaguies the wise
I would totally listen
"The motives of the monk remain unknown. What is known are the consequences......"
Pai Mei was a psycho, that's the consequence
Motive? Pai Mei felt insulted that his act of generosity wasn't acknowledged or appreciated. Consequence? Death.
@@smlchristian3 as I said a psycho and a coward.. A psycho bc the punishment is exaggerated for the fault committed (if it even was a fault) and a coward bc he has like the super secret formula to have super powers so they were no match for him and thus he was not a brave person
@@pablodono7227 Don't insult ancient Chinese traditions or the people who devote their lives to them. They know how to inflict pain and kill you in ways we've likely never thought of.
@@smlchristian3 🤣🤣🤣
I love her smile in this scene. Its filled with love to Bill.
If it wasn't for the pregnancy she would never leave Bill or that lifestyle.
The blow that he did after he says, “the nod was not returned”. Brilliant 👌🏽
The lesson: Good manners are a social must.
The way he interacts with Beatrix is just so calm and sweet. Really charming and yes I know their relationship is also toxic. But things in the beginning was quite nice like this scene.
Until he shoots her in the face.
He's the snake charmer after all
@@brettbaxter7882 That's because she fake her death and led him believe he was dead.
He's a narcissist and a psycho himself. They usually are charming. Give them a minute and put them under stress. Then exit quietly and quickly
I'd sit by a fire and listen to David Carradine tell stories forever.
Well, you could have had David Carradine not died jacking off while chocking himself, but that is another story. lol
Sure you could've held the rope for him, just watch out for jiz...
@@sphinxrising1129 it's a possibility he was murdered
It has been reclassified as a murder investigation long ago.
@@sphinxrising1129 do you believe everything you hear on the grape vine?
Man, David's voice is soothing!
asmr
@@Vleeslucht Yes, he and Michael Parks were doing ASMR before we knew what ASMR was lol
Was
Not as soothing as strangling yourself while choking the chicken.
@@yawgmoth6568 a man of culture, I see.
Fun Fact, the actor who portrayed Pai Mei in Kill Bill played the hero who killed the very same legendary Pai Mei (who in turn is based on the chinese folklore hero Bak Mei) in the 1977 film Fists of the White Lotus, referenced by name in Bill's story.
In the latter, the twin brother of the original Pai Mei mastered the "Hundred Pace Palm" technique, to which the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart was inspired by
Tarantino really knows his Kung Fu flicks
And you don't know his name? damn you're so disrespectful! It's Gordon Liu aka Lau Kar Fai!
@@GothamKnight84661 His name is Robert Paulson
Respect
If you flash him, even for an instant, a defiant eye, he'll pluck it out
Gamezob just ask elle.
He's not a eunuch. He has just mastered bollock concentration.
California Mountain Snake found this out the hard way....
Whenever I cut an avocado in half, I hold up the half with the seed and imagine that, just for an instant, it flashed me a defiant eye.
Lol 😂
A quote from this rattled into my consciousness at 4 this morning. The baby woke at half three. "At first I tried to console her, only to find she was inconsolable". What followed next was the massacre of all three remaining hours of sleep at the tears of a one year old.
As you listen to Bill describe the technique and tell the story, you realize that this is exactly how he is going to die.
I knew that, precisely when it happened later in the movie!
Not really... Because Pai Mei won't waste his time with Bill.
spoiler alert lol
@@jaymthesn5981????
An assassin telling a story with a flute, he must have really loved her, but not bad enough to understand her wish to have a child free from an assassin’s life.
"Only to find out Pai Mei was inconsolable."
I love how the legend of Pai Mei foreshadows the future, The five finger palm technique that was used on Bill, Ellie's defiant eye being plucked out, and I also love how it references the past as well, the massacre of the monks, the massacre of El Paso, the miscommunication between the Monk and Pai Mei, the miscommunication between Beatrix and Bill. All tied nicely togehter.
“And that will be the story of you”
Of the mountainous catalogue of great Tarantino lines, that simple one my be my favorite.
and that would be the story of you django
I have so many favorite lines from the Kill Bill 2 movie..
Beatrix to Elle: Bitch, you don’t have a future!
Esteban to Beatrix: How else is he ever going to see you again?
Budd to Bill: That woman deserves her revenge.. and we deserve to die..
People were impressed when they realized he trained her how to rip out someone's eyeball (Elle) and were really impressed when they realized he also trained her to do the exploding heart technique. (Bill) ☠️
She was truly wise beyond her years and Pai Mei saw that.
She blew him.
And a random yakuza guy during the 88's crazy fight 😉
Her arm belonged to him (Pai Mei), and he wanted "his" arm to be strong.
Deep down inside, Pai Mei somehow knew that she was not an average yankee money-spending woman
Imagine if Pai Mei has his own movie, he would be one of the best anti hero ever
You won't believe it: He already has, several even. Just search "White Lotus".
@@M0butu Even more so because the guy playing him, Gordon Liu, had FOUGHT that same character in some of his movies, in a bit of irony.
*best Villains ever
I always found there to be such depth behind her reason not to tell Bill that she learned the five Point Palm technique. If she ever admitted it to Bill, wouldn't this mean that she is a fighter on the level of Pei mei, wouldn't this had changed his mind about trying to kill her knowing she was such an elite warrior? Or perhaps she never told him because in her heart she'd hope that at some point she can have some life of normalcy with him, and didn't want his clearly frail ego to distance himself from her after learning she was the better warrior. I guess it's poetic that he thinks about her as the better one in his last moments.
I think she didn't tell him because a part of her was keeping it in reserve if she ever needed to use it against him, which is why she cried and said she was a bad person when he asked why she never told him. Even though she loved him, she is a killer and she had a killer's instincts, which she felt bad about since it further verified everything that came out in their final dialogue.
@@savadaflava1120 She also said she didn't know why. Maybe because she knew deep down Bill would have taken it as an insult.
She didn't want to hurt Bill's feelings by telling him about Pai Mei teaching her the 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart technique. Therefore, Beatrix didn't tell him until the near end after he had witnessed her utilizing the technique on him. When Bill asks her why she didn't tell him, she claimed she didn't want to hurt him and called herself a horrible person.
@@j.martinez8767 That uncertainty is what made Kiddo better than everyone else, she had always been created to be the best killer among them, so for her to have a conscience and understand that no matter how ingrained it is, her accepting that her career is wrong is what brings her hero arc to a full circle.
She couldn't even trust Bill with their baby and left him the moment she found out she was pregnant. So I think deep down, she always held a sort of wariness against Bill.
Maybe it was one of Pai Mei's teaching. To not be trusting of others, even Bill. Or maybe the years of assassination hardened had her heart even against Bill.
be so funny if the monk was blind
unlikely Pai Mei sees all!
Pai Mei was lucky not to meet with Satoichi!
be so funny if he wasn't even a monk.
No, Yu is blind
Pai Mei would have wrecked Zatoichi
This story is a homage to the original "Fist of the White Lotus" movie where the Pai Mei in Kill Bill plays the Shaolin Monk in that movie who kills Pai Mei. There's also a scene where Pai Meis men massacre Shaolin Monks and they even have the exploding heart technique too. Dope classics both movies.
And his name is Gordon Liu! damn!
One does not receive the unfathomable gesture of Pai Mei's nod without most graciously reciprocating a nod in return
This scene always comes to mind when I hold the door for someone and they don't say thank you.
Pai mei is the pettiest and most POWERFUL person in the Universe, the deadliest combination of all. Snake is certainly not the first person who tried to poison him over the 1000 years, so I don't believe he can be killed that easily.
"Did he just fail to see the generous social gesture ..." Great monologue.
I grew up watching Kung fu and always loved when he played the flute. Anybody else felt the sameway?👍
Maybe it's because YOU play the"SkinFlute"
kaveson101. Dude your sick!😁
MrElPoderozo1 same here my friend. It's a sign of a true fan. They usually have the flute in old school Kung Fu movies.
MrElPoderozo1 you're*
I loved the flute and his voice
Probably David Carradine's best scene in a movie, ever. Tarantino is a master at casting the right person in the role destiny created for them.Consider all the main characters, and think of someone else playing that character, difficult, isn't it.
Originally, Tarantino wanted Warren Beatty as Bill
i disagree.
DC’s best scene was in the wedding chapel.
amicable niceties as a facade, but raging jealousy and anger boiling underneath. every gesture and comment he made while talking to the bride gave a sense of foreboding and dread oozing with contrived congeniality, while the bride tried hard to hide her fear and apprehension.
Taken from "circle of iron"
@@MrDeadhead83 Yeah I heard that as well and he wanted Dolly Parton as The bride.
Bill tells the story of how Pai Mei murdered 60 monks over one of them essentially not saying "good afternoon" to him, and Uma Thurman's face is this the entire time: 2:13
"Let me tell you about this watch."
*Plays flute*
Asian Parenting Level: Normal
copycat XD
M&Mario from what I have seen in anime his parenting level should be warm and affectionate
It's the same with a Sicilian father .
4:17 I always loved that little circle with the flute
Could Tarantino have cast a better Bill?
Masterful performance!!!
I consider this the best five minutes in cinema. Just perfect.
Bill's voice is weirdly soothing, yet sadistic at the same time. Who else aggres?
He’s evil and compelling at the same time.
I must say I aggres, quite often actually
@@alexstathopoulos165 you are quite agreesive.
bills voice is quite masoschistic
Easily my favourite trantino scene. David is a master story teller 😗
He teaches no one...well think again Bill
Pai Mei made the exception for Beatrix because her quiet determination and humility earned his respect during the harsh training. Thus, he teaches her the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart technique.
@@ladyfire44 i like to think that beatrix was his favorite student, so thats why he taught her
That technique is just a coolstory, it never was. So, Kiddo didn't kill Bill
He sounded so exasperated, frustrated, disappointed, and sad as he said that. It's like he once asked Pai Mei and Pai me responded with the typical 'i teach no one' response. He looks fed up. He is bitter.
Pai Mei is petty and vindictive AF. 😂
frfr🤣
I've been watching these Kill Bill clips the whole day, I might've watched the full movie.
Bruce Lee : Jeet Kune Do
Pai Mei stroking his white beard : That was cute
Ultimate badassery 🔥
She’s so smitten by him.
David Carradine is one of my all-time favourites
David's voice is smooth..great storyteller.
The massacre would've been a great animated sequence!
Thrilltiger Same as the animated sequence of cottonmouth right?
Indeed
Yes and the actor who plays Pai Mei in Kill Bill played a monk in that movie.
@@alexgeorge3068 a
It's based on an old pai mei movie.
I first got to know David Carradine through Kung Fu the legend continues in 1993. Him with the flute, the slow speaking style and the Shaolin background. David channels that background in this dialogue because it's so damn cool. It holds you. Even though he is playing a character completely, galactically opposite to Kwai Chiang Caine, you really want to listen. Brilliant performance. RIP legend.
28 people did not return 'the nod'.
LMFAO!! 😂
They're all dead, now....RIP
Lol
The wood in that fire has to be the strongest wood in history. They never even moved.
It is HollyWood hahhahaa
This movie is my happy place.
It occurs to me that every element of this scene has an innate simultaneous life/death dichotomy. Light/dark. Beauty/brutality. Except for the flute... The desert landscape itself is beautiful, it's also a harsh and brutal environment where only the strongest meanest creatures can survive. The fire. Fire is the first building block of humanity, we need it, it sustains human life, it's beautiful, and it kills and consumes and it's a horrific way to die. Life and death at the same time. The sky. Night represents death, yet the night sky in the desert is incredibly beautiful at the same time. A beautiful woman in the firelight, and she's also a savage killer. Beauty and brutality at the same time. Bill, with his incredible voice playing beautiful music and reciting a beautiful story, and he's a ruthless killer... The only exception is the flute.
Is Tarantino making a statement about how music is transcendent? It rises above and it's apart from these concerns? Or, maybe that flute has been used as a weapon to bludgeon someone to death?
I like your words
Lmao you can't help but love people's pretentious and nonsensical analysis of every single thing Tarantino does
@@Libertoso your mother
The flute using these tones has been used in a lot of Hollywood kung fu productions as a way to impart a ethereal(spiritual) feel to the scene.
David Carradine was in a kung fu tv series (played the character Caine) in the early 1970s and has a long history with the instrument.
Uma Thurman is an outstanding actress.
Uma Thurman’s smile is priceless. The sweetest smile i’ve seen in a movie in a long time
If you read the original script, QT even put in the notes how good of an actress she is.
When walking past people I give a slight respectful nod. Most the time it's returned but sometimes......
How unfathomably generous of you.
I assume they're autistic why no response
Pai Mei/Bak Mei (White Eyebrows) was based off a real life person and there is a Kung fu style named after him. His story as I know it but not to be taken as historical fact.
He was one of the Five Elders of the Shaolin Temple and partly responsible for its fall. During this time the Ming Dynasty had become corrupted and would be easily overthrown by the Manchurians(Qing dynasty). The leader of the Temple Hong Mei(Red Eye Brows) died and was succeeded by fellow monk Jee Sin. (possible jealousy for being passed over?) Their was contention at the temple between the two as to whom they would they would support the corrupt Ming or foreign Qing?
The Manchurian's had trouble suppressing the revolt of the Xilufan and so the Shaolin aided them with no loses but this ended up making them look like a potential threat and so two ministers plotted their destruction and although they where unable to convince the Kangxi emperor whom was grateful for their aid where able to sway his successor the Yongzheng emperor to attack the temple.
The other elders survived the massacre and would find safety at other temples for the time being Bak Mei was initially sent to Spy while his brothers and sisters prepared for rebellion but the more he saw, the more he realized their attempt would be fruitless and so he betrayed them in exchange for the his life and the lives of his students by agreeing to lead their imperial forces against his former temple.
Hated for his betrayal Bak Mei would be hunted by the surviving rebel monks and would have to go into hiding, converting to Taoism.but those whom confronted him would die at his hands,.
Finally Jee Sin and Bak Mei would meet face to face again and to spare bloodshed among all those whom followed both men decided they would end the conflict in single combat between the two. The two fought long and hard with Bak Mei the victor broke Jee Sin's neck.
Later Wu Ah Phiew(not sure his story) and Hoong Man Ting a student of Hoong Hei Khoon a layman(non religious monk) taught by Jee Sin would avenge their master and masters master by killing Bak Mei in combat.
Initially Hoong Man Ting's wife Fong Wing a superb fighter of her own would try to convince them to seek peace over violence but Bak Mei's betrayal was so great that it could not be unavenged and so she made her husband promise that regardless of the outcome that this would be end of the conflict.
The two men killed Bak Mei in combat and retired as martial artists promising to live hermetic of seclusion and pacifism.
Later in life Hoong Khoon in his eighties would find a young girl fainted on their doorstep and so he and his wife adopted her. Acting a dutiful daughter she would act as if to serve him tea but would strike him with the Phoenix Eye punch a move synonymous with the Bak Mei style.
Instead of taking action on this girl, he remembered his wife's wisdom about vengeance never ending so he accepted his karma and died peacefully.
Get a life.
Buford T. Justice Moron
@@bufordt.justice7777 asshole
Tnx
Wrong
I think the Monk was too scared to even look at Pai Mei but none the less, big F up.
That sounds incredibly petty and below someone who is
"infinitely wise"
Bill: he teaches no one the five point palm exploding heart technique.
Kiddo: hold my beer.
Or, Kiddo: hold my Hattori Hanzo sword 🤣👌
Hold my Mamba
Kiddo: speak for yourself Bill
Bill's voice is incredibly relaxing, my ASMR is activated.
Mine too
"... and that will be the story of you."
Goddamnit, what an amazing performance.
Can you imagine being buried in a box six feet below...ALIVE? This is truly when her training by Pai Mei showed its success!
Pei Mei: Omae Wa Mo Shindeiru
Nani?!
😂😂😂
That,s japanese crap to him
我最憎就係日本人架啦
Terminator: hi, omae da, demo, watashi wa?
I always like to explain the consequences of an action I think is completely irrational or absurd and then conclude with
“ .. and that will be the story of you.”
It always gets a double take
One of my favourite scenes in the masterpiece.
Everytime I watch this video, I always get a feeling this story of Pai Mei was inspired from the history of Chanakya.
Chanakya, a poor Brahmin, on being insulted by the mighty king Nanda, from whom even greek conqueror Alexander feared and retreated, plotted an elaborate revenge, vanquished the entire royal family of the Nandas and ended up replacing king Nanda with Chandragupta Maurya and thus architecting beginning of the glorious Mauryan dynasty in India.
I love how Beatrice smiles @ him!
Pai Mei: "And it became personal with me"
Campfire scene reminds me the Snake Charmer hypnotized dangerous snake with flute
Plot twist, Pai Mei was totally his secret crush and he was so overcome with emotion that he noticed him that he couldn't think straight until they had passed each other, and by then it was too late. He almost turned and got his attention just to nod at him but realized that would be idiotic, so he ran home with his tear ducts and nasal passage overproducing secretions all the way. The next day he was so angry with himself for blowing his chance so badly that he vowed he would finally make the move and send a letter to Pai Mei professing his long burning love. Unfortunately Pai Mei came before the mail man and the rest is history... they left the love letter part out of the legend because it was private and some of the old timers found it pretty gay tbh
I've read that the flute he is using is the same one that he used in the movie "Circle of Iron" when he played a blind beggar/guide.
Whether it really is, is hard to say. Carradine had several flutes.
Because of this scene I always make sure I give everyone I pass a slight nod
Am I the only one here who finds it ironic that David Carradine is telling a story about a monk after having played a monk in the Kung Fu series?
Mad Squirrel Mods I don’t see it as ironic because it’s all intentional reference.
That's why he was cast as Bill.
@@josef2012 *And* he played the bamboo flute in that series too. Tarantino is such a goof (in the best way
Moral of the story. Show respect to your elders. Especially if they are as powerful of Pai Mei.
it is bill who taught her the technique without him noticing
A grand martial art master killed an army of monks just cause a monk didn’t give him a ‘what’s up dude’ nod?! DAM
This movie is an unfathomable display of Bill's story-telling skills!! Jesus Christ!!
Everyone who's ever played pai has done a good job
And she thought he was exaggerating about Pai Mei.....lol
There once was man who played with his flute. He played with his flute in a hotel room. He knew how to play with that flute in the most perfect way. He knew how to make that flute sing. He made it sing in a secret way that only he and his wardrobe knew.
his motivations were... well pretty clear, but the consequences, clearer
If the man wasn't dead he'd make a killing narrating audio books 😂
Bill's best storytelling begins at 0:25
I tell this story to my kids before bed time and they love it lol
Her smile is painfully radiant. If I were him I'd be legit uncomfortable with the knowledge that I'd have to play opposite her eventual hatred. She just....fucking /glows/ love here.
Pai Mei is so tough then dies to a poisoned fish
Kinda interesting how the Pai Mei story of him killing all the monks at the temple is similar of how Beatrix killed the entire 88 crazy gang in their lair
do you still go back to that day...?
"And that will be the story of you..." Beautiful 🙏
The slightest of nods must be returned
Kwai Chang Caine, the small grasshopper
So if you use a wheel chair and don't take any steps you can survive it?
It has already affected you
The steps just speed it up
Atleast, what I think
@@mazadancoseben4818 it only kills you after you've taken five steps though, so if you don't walk... It wouldn't.
I love how when first watching this movie you almost join Beatrix and assuming that it's a joke.
And I love that how when you finally see pie Mei he is ultra badass
the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique has got nothing on the Wuxi finger hold.
I always found it very strange that they are lovers and not father and daughter 😅