A Description Of The New Quentin Tarantino Movie Trailer For “Kill Bill”
It opens with a shot of an airplane flying overhead. Then the music kicks in (wish I could tell you where it’s from because it does ad quite a bit to the kick-ass nature of the whole thing). Screen goes black and in big, red block letters it reads “MIRAMAX FILMS PRESENTS”. Fade out. “THE 4TH FILM”. Fade out. “BY QUENTIN TARINTINO”. Fade out. Then you hear Quentin say “Action!” in the background as a figure wearing motorcycle leathers opens a car trunk. Quick cut to Lucy Liu walking down a hallway with what looks to be her badass entourage behind her (including pre-teen girls in sailor outfits). Cut to Uma on the back of a motorcycle riding through the streets of Japan/China. Cut to an extremely brief shot from some sort of soirĂˆe. Cut to Uma, with her back to the camera, sitting at a bar. Another card comes up; it reads: “UMA THURMAN”.
Now come the goodies. We cut to Uma in her yellow Game of Death Jumpsuit defending herself form a middle-aged Bald guy dressed in black with a mask (like the one worn by Jet Li in “BLACK MASK”) wielding a katanna in each hand. Cut to an extremely close-up of a sword/katanna being unsheathed. Cut to a stare down between a bloodied-looking Uma and Lucy Liu , who is looking mighty virginal in white while snow is falling all around. Cut to a bald black guy dressed in maroon doing some might fancy sword work. Cut to a dirty-faced Uma punching some lady (Daryl Hannah?) who’s coming at her with a staff. Cut to Uma, now in street clothes, fighting a different woman who is coming at her with a frying pan in a kitchen. Cut to a black and white shot of Uma with splotches of blood on her face looking
We get a crane shot. It starts at eye level on Uma and it slowly raises to the rafters so that we can see that there are something like 25 bad guys surrounding her, all with swords drawn. Uma then raises her sword, indicating she’s ready for’em. Pause. She makes one tiny, defiant movement and (now back to the crane shot where we can see everyone from above) the whole circle of bad guys literally take a synchronized, fearful step back. It’s sooooooo cool. Anyway, moving on the screen goes black and once again we get big, red block letters but this time they read: “IN THE YEAR”. Fade out to someone with blonde hair (pretty sure it’s Hannah again) doing a flying kick. Cut to: “2003”. Fade out to an axe flung end over end that whizzes by Uma’s head. Cut to: “UMA THURMAN”. Fade out to Uma doing some sort of flip. “WILL”. Fade out to more martial art swordplay but now in silhouette. Cut to: “KILL BILL”. Fade out to a profile shot of Lucy Liu; she says, “You didn’t think it was going to be that easy, did you?” It then cuts to a profile shot of Uma who responds with, “You know for a second there, I kind of did.” And for the last shot we cut to Uma running up the banister of a staircase to intercept a bad guy with her sword.
End of (one fan-freakin’-tastic) trailer .
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