There's no
Kill Bill Vol. 1/Vol. 2 thread on The Raven, despite it being the most Indiana Jones of Tarantino's Grindhouse movies.
Okay that's a stretch, but for much of the films Beatrix Kiddo is the woman with no name. Hanzo calls her the "yellow-haired warrior", in recognition of Eastwood's 'Blondie'. And we know that at an early stage Indy was partially inspired by that character.
Indy's single-minded purpose, mercenary nature, fortune-seeking, disregard of human life and hunger for revenge were ideas played with by Lucas to varying extents throughout his four films. Yet they were always tempered by a self-imposed code of conduct. Maybe not utterly moral, but higher than that of his rivals.
And here we have Beatrix Kiddo/The Bride, codename Black Mamba.
Watching
Raiders of the Lost Ark is like watching a near-perfect adventure film. I say "near-perfect" as it's best not to speak in absolutes, but
Raiders has such great characters, scenes, situations, dialogue and music.
And when I watch
Kill Bill it's like watching a near-perfect fusion film. It has all the positives I ascribe to
Raiders, plus some others: Grindhouse, Spaghetti Western, Japanese influence, 1970s Kung-fu films, Bruce Lee's
Game of Death, and Pai Mei and Earl McGraw who link these films to a wider fictional universe of films (i.e. those from Shaw Brothers, and Tarantino and Rodriguez' own
Planet Terror,
Death Proof and
From Dusk Till Dawn). By association, and some twisted sense of reality, there are vampires in Beatrix' world. (Just as there are in Indy's, if you believe the one-eyed man!)
And to bind it all together
Kill Bill is the best of comic book melodrama set in a world that isn't quite our own. A simple tale of bold motives told extremely well. Which brings me back to
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Tarantino tells his tale in non-linear time. We see first the bold strokes of character in
Vol. 1, and in
Vol. 2 we see the events that made them so conflicted.
With that in mind, the story of Indiana Jones could be expressed as
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Vol. 1) and
The Temple of Doom (Vol. 2).
In October 2009 Tarantino expressed his intentions to make
Vol. 3:
Director Quentin Tarantino reveals Kill Bill 3 plans for 2014
American director Quentin Tarantino revealed his intention to film Kill Bill Vol.3 for a 2014 release on the Italian talk show Parla Con Me. Starring American actress Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol.1 and Kill Bill Vol.2 were released in 2003 and 2004, earning a total of over $332 million worldwide. Tarantino announced that he preferred a 10-year break to take place between Vol.2 and the proposed Vol.3, to allow the lead character time to "have a break." Tarantino has alluded to Kill Bill Vol.3 in the past, hinting that the storyline may center around the revenge of Nikki Green, the four-year-old daughter of assassin Copperhead (American actress Vivica A. Fox), who is witness to her mother's murder in the first Kill Bill.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...or-2014-release-movie-news-recap-1796842.html
I look forward to his near-perfect version of
The Last Crusade (Vol. 3).