{"id":390,"date":"2003-10-26T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/culture\/film\/kill_bill.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"kill_bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2003\/10\/26\/kill_bill","title":{"rendered":"Kill Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike Steve<\/a>, who hated Kill Bill<\/a>, (and like Ebert<\/a>, who gave it his top rating<\/a>), I loved Kill Bill, Volume 1<\/a> (see also Kill Bill<\/a> at IMDB<\/a>, which curiously already has a listing for Kill Bill, Volume 2<\/a>). <\/p>\n

I’m perhaps influenced by Tarantino’s introduction to Iron Monkey<\/a>, a film which Tarantino brought to the United States<\/a>. Tarantino is clearly a disciple of masters like Woo-ping Yuen, and in Kill Bill<\/i>, he shows he now has achieved a respectable level of mastery. <\/p>\n

One of my favorite quotes from Tarantino’s interview in Iron Monkey describes how the kung-fu film can’t be only a comedy, or an action film, or a drama, or a love story: the audience for the kung-fu film demands all these things in one sitting. Tarantino achieves this sort manic roller coaster ride in Kill Bill<\/i> (okay, well, maybe it’s not much of a love story, but it has everything else). <\/p>\n

I’m reminded a bit of modern jazz artists like Wynton Marsalis, whose every note is a tribute to their heritage. Marsalis may not be as “original” as was Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie, but he’s still a lot of fun to listen to, and his technical mastery exceeds that of his musical mentors. <\/p>\n

Tarantino may not be “original” in Kill Bill<\/i>, but I believe originality is highly overrated—and essentially impossible. In fact, the premium on novelty is a modern invention. In the past, artists sought not to do what had never been done, but rather to perfectly imitate their forerunners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike Steve, who hated Kill Bill, (and like Ebert, who gave it his top rating), I loved Kill Bill, Volume 1 (see also Kill Bill at IMDB, which curiously already has a listing for Kill Bill, Volume 2). I’m perhaps influenced by Tarantino’s introduction to Iron Monkey, a film which Tarantino brought to the United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}