04-20-2004, 12:37 PM
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#68 (permalink)
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Location: Waterloo, Ontario
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Originally posted by Shady
Vol 2 was definitely awesome. Pai Mei was a fuckin great character. I loved the beard stroking thing.
I did have one complaint:
Spoiler: that neither Budd, or Elle died specifically at the hands of the Bride. I thought that they should have both met their end directly from the Bride to carry on with the whole revenge theme. Budd was killed by Elle, and Elle was left for dead and it was just kind of assumed that she actually died. I liked the "you and I have unfinished business" line that she did for everbody else, but this didn't happen with Budd and Elle. i suppose this may have something to do with the east/west contrasts of each film.
but i consider these complaints pretty minor, and just me being a tad bit picky. but other than that i thought that it was an excellent film, and even better when looking at both volumes as a whole. Tarantino is a god damn genius.
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Spoiler: I also had no problems with the conclusions of Elle and Budd. Not every story must end up like the Game of Death, where the protagonist defeats each boss, one at a time. It has more character this way and is, quite franky, more interesting (and, perhaps more to the point, Quentin's style).
Besides, didn't she get her revenge against Elle? I mean, Elle was left for dead but, even if she survived, she's blind and, for the deadly California Mountain Snake, isn't that a fate worse than death?
It's also unclear how she might die. The black momba didn't touch them during that entire fight scene nor while Elle was picking up the money. I would be more concerned about the fact that Elle is stuck in the middle of nowhere while blind. How long can she live like that?
By the way, tell me if those links show up through the spoiler tag... |
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