KILL BILL

Todo depende de la duración de la película, porque si está sobre las tres horas me parecería una verdadera "estafa" que nos hagan pagar dos entradas, pero si es de una duración considerable no me importaría.

He leído que la película tiene una duración de 200 minutos. Por ello la van a partir en dos películas de 100 minutos cada una. Por mi parte, da lo mismo que la partan en dos de cien que la dejen de 200. Como si dura 400.

200 minutos se pueden ver en cine perfectamente. ¿Alguien se acuerda de Gigante, Los diez mandamientos o Hamlet de Kenneth Brannagh?

Tienes toda la razón, aunque también creo que esto es una herramienta de marketing puro. Aparte de poder sacarnos dos entradas por la película en cuestión (a mi personalmente no me importa poder ir dos veces al cine para ver una película de Tarantino en tan poco tiempo), evitan que la gente no frene sus ganas de ver la película por su duración. Hay gente que piensa que una película de 200 minutos se hace muy pesada y bla, bla, bla...

Lo único que quiero es que las estrenen con poco tiempo entre una y otra. Por cierto, acabo de leer esto en Buscacine:

Tarantino parte en dos su nuevo film "Kill Bill"

La espera nueva cinta de acción de Quentin Tarantino, "Kill Bill", quedó tan larga que sólo podrá llegar a los cines en dos partes, que se estrenarán con varios meses de separación. Para sorpresa de la industria cinematográgica, el jefe de la productora Miramax, Harvey Weinstein, aceptó esta solución y renunció a la drástica reducción del film prevista en un primer momento.

En Estados Unidos, la primera parte de "Kill Bill" se estrenará el 10 de octubre. La fecha del estreno de la segunda parte aún no se determinó. En total, la cinta con Uma Thurman como peligrosa asesina, rodada en gran parte en China, durará más de tres horas. Tarantino contribuyó notablemente al éxito de Miramax con su película "Pulp Fiction" (1994).

Hasta ahora se saben muy pocos detalles del nuevo film del director estadounidense, cuya anterior película, "Jackie Brown", data de 1997. Se estima que su presentación mundial se producirá en el marco del Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia.

No olvideis que por la venta del DVD también nos sacarán el dobele de pasta...

La primera crítica (CON MUCHOS SPOILERS) de KILL BILL sacada de www.aint-it-cool-news.com:

About a week ago, my girlfriend went to see Pirates of the Carribean at the Boston Common theater when a Miramax rep asked if she'd be interested in going to a test screening for an upcoming Miramax release. Knowing her boy to be a movie geek, she asked what it was for.

"Quentin Tarantino's next film, 'Kill Bill'"

Fast forward to last night. We got to the Landmark Theater in Kendall Square about an hour before they were letting people in and hung out with the crowd. They were screening it for men and women ages 18-39. We all filled out the obligatory card saying we weren't associated with the film industry, and that we wouldn't review it either in print or online. I'm going to break what I agreed to for this simple reason: People need to know now how much "Kill Bill: Volume One" will stick two fingers in their ass and fucking rock them in October.

At 7:30, the man himself, Quentin Tarantino, greeted with wall-shaking applause and sporting a Battle Royale t-shirt, addressed the crowd. He said that since this cut was made, he's done a few more cuts and he's happy with how it is now. He then sat, how fucking great is this, right near me in the fucking audience. Now, I gotsta warn you, this is one o' them spoiler reviews.

The flick opens with the "Shaw-Scope" logo of the great martial arts films of the 70s, backed up by, what sounds like, porn music.

Uma, in black and white, beaten and bloody, is staring past the camera. She looks in agony. A hand wipes blood off her face with a handkerchief with the name "Bill" on it. The voice of David Carradine is telling her shit about how he's sorry but she had this coming. "You must think me sadistic," he says. "Well, get ready to see me at my most sadistic." A gun is brought to her head. Before Uma can get her last dying words out BLAM. Shot with the brutality of a snuff film.

Now, in color, it's years later and Uma's at some suburban home. When Vivica A Fox answers the door, the music starts. Now, not just any music. As most of you already know, this movie is about Uma getting revenge against the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (Darryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A Fox, and Michael Madsen. And, of course, their leader, Bill) who beat and shot her and left her for dead. When Uma sets her eyes on one of these villains, this amazing, 70s wakka-cha-wakka via the synthesizers cranks up. RZA did the music for this, and godammit if his soundtrack didn't rattle my balls. With a brassy sound that would make James Brown come. I want this soundtrack the second it comes out so I can listen to it all day. The kinda music that puts a slide in your stride and a dip in your hip.

Anyhoo, a fight breaks out between the two. Now, despite the fact the Yuen Wo-Ping is credited as the Martial Arts Advisor in this film, do not expect "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." There is no beauty to the violence in this. It's as if Quentin realized that too many films joined the bandwagon of showing martial arts as this beautiful dance number and forgot that it also entails two or more trained warriors going at it with edged weapons. Brutal, brutal stuff. Thank god we all got to see it before the MPAA does the dirty things it does to it.

So, their fight ends when Vivica's young daughter comes home from school. They go into the kitchen for coffee and talk about when they did to Uma four years ago. Vivica, while pouring cereal for her daughter, takes a shot at Uma with a gun she concealed in the cereal box and Uma finishes her with a throwing knife. Unfortunately, her daughter witnesses this to which Uma says, "If you're still sore from this years from now, I'll be waiting." Uma leaves, hopping into her bright yellow tricked-out truck with the PUSSY WAGON painted on the back, and crosses Vivica's name (Copperhead) off a list. Already crossed out is "Cottonmouth".

We're then shown Texas, four years ago. The guy who played the sheriff in the opening scene from "From Dusk Til Dawn" is responding to to a mass homicide at a church, where Uma, along with a minister, some guests, and her future husband, are lying in pools of blood. Despite shot in the head, Uma lives on.

She's now comatose in a hospital, and Daryl Hannah is dispatched to off her. She wears an eyepatch and, as she disguises herself as a nurse, she puts on a white eyepatch with the Red Cross on it. Seconds from injecting her with poison, Bill calls to intervene. He feels it's dishonorable to kill her in her sleep. If she is ever to wake...that's a different story. However, being comatose ain't too good. An orderly is pimping her out at $75 bucks a fuck and you get the idea he's been doing it for a while now. Uma wakes up, and fucks up both the orderly/pimp and the john, and crawls out, taking the orderly's keys. This, my friends, is how she got Pussy Wagon.

One problem: entropy. Her legs ain't working. So as she sits in Pussy Wagon and tries to will her big toe to wiggle (Genius stuff), we are treated to the anime origin of Lucy Liu's character, "Cottonmouth". Quentin, after the screening, said it was done by the studio that did "Ghost in the Shell", though the style looks like a cross between "Blood: The Last Vampire" and "Aeon Flux". See, Lucy was the army brat daughter of a mixed race parentage. One Chinese, one japanese. When a Yakuza ganglord kills her mother and father with her in the room, she gets revenge and becomes the most feared assassin in Tokyo. End flashback, back to Uma trying to wiggle that toe.

So off to Okinawa for Uma as she meets Sonny Chiba. It's great to see Sonny Chiba (Last I saw him was the awe-inspiring Storm Riders, a great movie that my old scumbag manager at a video store got me into) back in a flick, and he's brilliant as a retired samurai swordsman, now running a restaurant with his friend. Uma persuades him to make her a sword, as she tells him it will be used to defeat an old pupil of his. Sonny knows she means Bill, and creates for her the greatest sword he's ever crafted. "If God stands in your way...than God shall be cut," he says. Now it's off to Tokyo, to deal with Lucy and her henchmen.

If the movie wasn't violent enough already, this is where it gets gruesome. In what felt like a thirty-minute fight, Uma takes on Lucy's Crazy 88 fighters, her bodyguard GoGo (the girl from Battle Royale with the fucked-up nose), and then about 50 more guys. This is the fight that's shown the most footage of in the trailer. Arms, feet, heads, hands...everything gets hacked off in this fight. This is the one that will give the MPAA a stroke. Now, I've seen some fucked up shit in my day, but this takes the cake. Arguably the most violent fight seen I've seen in a film, animated or live-action. Blood sprays, people scream in pain. No person gets stabbed or slashed and falls dead. Everyone feels what just happened to them. In one grotesquely comic bit, Lucy's assistant (played by Julie Dreyfus, a French actress who looks like the clone of Monica Bellucci and Kristen Davis) has her arm hacked off and continues, for the rest of the battle, to squirm around on the floor as blood gushes. This all culminates as Lucy and Uma go at it samurai style in a snow covered Japanese garden, where Lucy is scalped, and falls dead.

Kristen Bellucci-clone is tortured (Bye, Arm #2!), interrogated, and dropped off at a hospital by Uma. She is left alive to tell Bill what she told Uma. As Uma says, she want Bill to know what she knows. And she wants Bill to know that she knows what Bill knows she knows.

Cut to black. Volume one is over.

All in all, incredible film. Truly incredible. Not his best film, I gotta give that to "Reservoir Dogs", but without a doubt it's now my favorite movie of his. It has a level of violence not seen in cinemas in ages. A little light in the story department, but that's OK. It works for this. This is a movie you watch for the action and the Tarantino-cool, not for the story craftsmanship. After the screening, Quentin and RZA were shaking hands and thanking everyone who came by. He said Volume 1 is due for October, and Volume 2 in January. I told him that this movie taught me how to love again. I don't know what in the fuck that means, but I was too blown away by what I'd just seen to find a clever way to say "thank you" and "congratulations".

Cheers,

Peeshypunk

Resumiendo: una pasada.

Teaser poster:

Según he visto en el nuevo trailer el Volumen II se estrenará en febrero del 2004 en USA.

El estreno de Tarantino lidera las taquillas en norteamerica

La nueva película del director de culto Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill, protagonizada por Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), se ubicó tras su estreno como el film más taquillero del fin de semana en Estados Unidos y Canadá, según cifras preliminares de la industria.

La primera parte de Kill Bill recaudó 22,7 millones de dólares. Los críticos elogiaron el primer trabajo del director en seis años como "extraordinariamente entretenido" y "calculado hasta el detalle", aunque también se quejaron de que la cámara se apaga justo en el momento de mayor suspenso. Ya está previsto que Kill Bill 2 se estrene en febrero próximo en los cines norteamericanos.

La comedia School of Rock, con Jack Black ("Alta Fidelidad") como un profesor auxiliar que intenta convertir a sus alumnos en estrellas de rock, cayó, en su segunda semana, al segundo lugar del listado.

La comedia romántica Intolerable Cruelty, con George Clooney y Catherine Zeta Jones, quedó en el tercer puesto.

En tanto, Mystic River, la película sobre un complot asesino de Clint Eastwood protagonizada por Sean Penn, estuvo el fin de semana en sólo 13 cines estadounidenses, pero recaudó la extraordinaria cifra de 45.000 dólares por sala.

Después de la débil semana anterior, Hollywood logró recuperarse y mejoró el resultado de las taquillas del mismo fin de semana el año anterior en un ocho por ciento.

Noticia extraida de buscacine.