La Mariée était en noir (The Bride Wore Black) (1968)
Directed By: François Truffaut
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My Rate: 4/5
I was surprised to learn that this film is the archetype of Kill Bill's plot. How intelligent Tarantino is.! Kill Bill is just another intelligent hybrid movie! As you may guess, the story is like this:
In the wedding day, when the bride and the groom come out of church with the guests around them, out of nowhere the groom is shot and the despondent bride pledges a revenge the other day in the same church. She finds the the killers' names and addresses and makes her "DEATH LIST FIVE" and crosses out the names one by one. But of course there's no sign of Tarantino violence or martial action in this film. The bride is a woman and uses the women's tricks to seduce her victims and commit her cold blooded revenge.
This is the second time that I see the original model of a quite new film that is based "totally" upon the older one. Fortunately both new films worked great and were more interesting for today's taste. The other one was Abre Los Ojos by Alejandro Amenabar which is remade by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky. Certainly Abre Los Ojos is a genuine film but it has some small flaws in the ending scene when the main character, César, is going up and down the building to figure out that the building is not real. In Vanilla Sky these kind of small flaws were patched, and of course some unique sense of sadness is imbued in the film with great selection of music used in it. About Kill Bill no further explanation is needed that it quenches the today's audience need to watch bloodshed, suspension and thrill.
In the wedding day, when the bride and the groom come out of church with the guests around them, out of nowhere the groom is shot and the despondent bride pledges a revenge the other day in the same church. She finds the the killers' names and addresses and makes her "DEATH LIST FIVE" and crosses out the names one by one. But of course there's no sign of Tarantino violence or martial action in this film. The bride is a woman and uses the women's tricks to seduce her victims and commit her cold blooded revenge.
This is the second time that I see the original model of a quite new film that is based "totally" upon the older one. Fortunately both new films worked great and were more interesting for today's taste. The other one was Abre Los Ojos by Alejandro Amenabar which is remade by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky. Certainly Abre Los Ojos is a genuine film but it has some small flaws in the ending scene when the main character, César, is going up and down the building to figure out that the building is not real. In Vanilla Sky these kind of small flaws were patched, and of course some unique sense of sadness is imbued in the film with great selection of music used in it. About Kill Bill no further explanation is needed that it quenches the today's audience need to watch bloodshed, suspension and thrill.
3 comments:
I must completely disagree with you this time. Both "Kill Bill" and "Vanilla Sky" are poor remakes of the films you're commenting (Well, "Kill Bill" is not exxactly a remake). I can't see any flaws in "Abre los Ojos", but in "Vanilla Sky"... "Vanilla Sky" is the simplified/eased version, everything is thoroughly explained, what made me quite angry. And about "Kill Bill"... I thought it was nice to see, but it doesn't have much, fights apart.
Well I think you should watch that last scene in Abre Los Ojos that I've mentioned, again. It doesn't work in my opinion. But in Vanilla Sky it is corrected. About over explanation you may be right because I saw Abre Los Ojos with a poor subtitle, and I couldn't get the dialogues atmosphere of the film correctly.
About Kill Bill, I agree that it doesn't have much, of course because it's not original anyway, but I want to stick to Roger's quote: "in the finished article the only thing that's important is whether it moves you or not".
Both Kill Bill and Vanilla Sky were more moving for me than their predecessors, I think. :)
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