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Did you spot this hidden link between “Pulp Fiction” and “Kill Bill”, both made by Quentin Tarantino? A cycle dedicated to the American director is to be found on the Arte replay platform!
From his beginnings, Quentin Tarantino got into the habit of slipping into details and other winks in his films in order to connect all his works. But the filmmaker sometimes went further, especially when he announced one of his future films in a simple line of dialogue by Pulp Fiction.
No one paid attention to this replica of Pulp Fiction, and yet …
In his feature film released in 1994, Tarantino introduced Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman), like the wife of a mafia chief, but also as a failed actress. During her meeting with Vincent Vega (John Travolta), the young woman thus evokes her recent shooting of a pilot who was never ordered in series.
The pitch of this pilot is as follows: several murdered women working for the same man. Each has a particular talent, and the episodes of the program were therefore supposed to highlight their different combat techniques that Mia Wallace describes as follows: a blonde at the head of the team, an Asian specialist in martial arts, a black follower of explosive traps, or even a nymphomaniac French.
When a dialogue line in Pulp Fiction becomes a double-Film of Tarantino
Does that remind you of anything? Yes, it is about the story of Kill Bill, released in two parts (2004 and 2005). In this diptych signed Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman camps the bride, a former hitman left for dead by his former partners. Awakened from a coma of several years, she decides to settle the accounts of her partners one by one, then to kill the team leader – and incidentally his former lover: Bill (David Carradine).
And who are the targets of the bride? La Blonde Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), Chef Yakuza O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu), the African-American Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) or the French Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus). In ten years, Tarantino, however, added a man in the team – Budd (embodied by Michael Madsen) – and greatly expanded the story of his characters.
This link between the two films is obviously not a coincidence, and for good reason: the idea of Kill Bill came to Tarantino during discussions with Uma Thurman during the shooting of Pulp Fiction. Although she is not a co-series of the film, the American actress is however in the credits as a designer of the characters and the original story with Quentin Tarantino.
Kill and three other Films by Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown, Boulevard de la mort and Reservoir Dogs) are currently available on the platform de replay arte.tv.
