Monday, September 13, 2004

I hate Budd
Sorry for scaring you/others yesterday, Sara. I just had some excess frustration after spending so much concentrated time helping my mom with typing, scanning and re-sizing pictures, translating a text into English twice because of power failure, and then finally printing out the entire thing in all its essay-ness that needed to be in today.

Stress levels were sky-rocketing and its epicenter was in my room, my waterhole,
my sanctuary *dramatic pose*. Hrm, quite.

Anyway, Shin gave me some therapy and then I had a good night's sleep, followed by a very relaxed breakfast this morning. So we're in the clear ... until mom comes home with the corrections she need to make and the whole circus rolls into town again. Pluh.

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Kill Bill vol II Notes
Budd is an ass. I agree with Elle's sentiments on him. He's a coward as well, and his 'philosophical preaching' is just a glossy cover on his craptastic attitude. Budd's death might've been my favourite, hehe.

(Vernita puts on an act and tries to do a 'double-whammy stab in the back' on the Bride, so I ain't got no love for her either. Their fight was good, though.)


I'd go so far as saying that Bill is the most sympathetic villain in the movie[s], if it wasn't for O-Ren.

[O-Ren does not display any regret for her actions, but she does (eventually) show respect. In doing so she acknowledges the Bride's quest on some level. Their fight is also the only one that doesn't start with an ambush (I don't count Sophie as an ambush), so even though O-Ren is aware of her opponents strength (why else would she send her band in first ?) she faces the Bride head-on. That makes her the most respectable and sympathetic villain character, in my humble and silly opinion.]

I do think Bill comes in at a close second. Despite his little tricks. The actor who plays him is also very charismatic and he portrays Bill lovingly. On one hand he comes off as a twisted bastard, but at the same time I can appreciate his actions and reasoning. There are a lot of dimensions to Bill *nods*


And Elle ... *grins* That woman lit up the screen. I haven't seen many of Darryl Hannah's movies, but this is by far the best performance she's done in my recollection. The fight scene with her and Uma Thurman was so funny, both in dialogue and in action ^__^


Pai Mei, lol. Too cool for words :p The weirdness of having something so heavily Asian influenced, combined with the American style, made that little story arc bizarre. But in a good way, hehe.

I thought he looked familiar but it took me until watching the extra features to realise who he was *hits head* That was the case with Esteban too !

Seriously, that was some acting. And the nods back to where the Bride woke up is hilarious. The glasses, "Where is Bill ?", the ... vehicle, heh. It tied everything together real nice ^_^


One of my favourite scenes (if not my absolute favourite scene) is the one with only the Bride, at the end. (I won't say where or what happens, because I'm too lazy to put things in spoiler tags.) The entire movie up to that point was just funny, but right then and there you sort of stopped for a moment and thought about this whole 'roaring rampage of revenge' and what had happened from where we were first introduced to the Bride and where she ended up. It was just perfect.



This isn't some brilliant review of the movie, but the movie itself is ~_^

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