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Referenced in Kill Bill?

posted 20 years ago by rudgerlight
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I just saw some of this film the other day and I couldn't help but notice a scene that reminded me very much of Kill Bill. The sequence where Bruce Lee rolls around on the ground with his nunchaku hitting the legs of the students in the dojo looked very much like the sequence where Uma Thurman rolls around on the ground with her sword cutting off all the Crazy 88's legs. Both sequences end with a shot of the people holding their legs writhing in pain, but I didn't notice Kill Bill being listed as a film that references this one. I have yet to submit something to this site, so I didn't want to make an assumption without being sure. Perhaps this is the wrong board to ask, but is the sequence in Kill Bill referencing this film or another?

[–] beaverboy_88 19 years ago

Yea, I saw that to.
It should be on the kill bill movieconnections thought.
This movie came out 30years earlier.

[–] subatomic212 19 years ago

I would have to agree because when I saw "Kill Bill" I thought the same thing. "Kill Bill" was a homage to Asian Martial Arts cinema who is to say Tarantino did not slip that in there for fans of the genre.

[–] Nebula_One 19 years ago

This is a direct reference to Chinese Connection/Fists of Fury, as well as the jump suit Uma Thurmon wore was a direct reference to Game of Death.
Kill Bill was largely paying homage to 1970's Kung fu films, and who would be more recogniseable than Bruce Lee?

[–] rand219 19 years ago

I felt like the scene where the students circle around him was also in kill bill

[–] malachiX2000-1 19 years ago

Yes the birds eye view shot of them circling the Bride is taken directly from this film.

[–] keyser021 19 years ago

Almost every single shot in every single Tarantino film is an homage(differing from a crib or style bite in that its done in great taste) to an early film, genre, or author. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs are basically Elmore Leonard stories(most Leonard novels have gangsters putting things in trunks) and Jackie Brown was a film version of Rum Punch. In fact, I doubt Tarantino would be Tarantino if Elmore Leonard wasn't Elmore Leonard. They are completely symbiotic. Thus the Bruce Lee shots in Kill Bill as well as the Hatori Hanzo mythology and the Death List and the Chick with the Eye Patch, or Four Rooms being a take on the Jerry Lewis 'The Bellboy', all done before, but all put together again in a very stylistic and creative way. Tarantino is great!

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[–] simbob4000 12 years ago

It's not, or at least it wasn't the main influences on that fight, the 1970 Jimmy Wang Yu movie The Chinese Boxer is. Which I'm guessing was also a influence on this movie.