Escaping The Coffin?
Is that possible, especially when she's lying down and has a lot of dirt pouring down on her?
Perhaps Mythbusters did a segment on that.
Oh believe me, the Mythbusters not only busted that entire scene, they busted just about every aspect of it. They busted how:
- you can't break your way out of a wooden coffin in time before the oxygen runs out, even if you're a champion fighter
- even if you could make your way out, the 6 feet of dirt would still suffocate you before you could dig your way out
Just goes to show that Quentin Tarantino is [once again] full of shit when it comes to writing action films.
Interesting, never saw that one. And it was freshly filled, rather loose dirt?
shareOh it was a very entertaining episode. See, they couldn't show clips from the movie for copyright reasons, so they created a cute, anime-like imitation comic of Kari Byron in the yellow suit, busting her way out of the coffin and digging her way out.
They had a champion boxing fighter punch a sensor to record how hard he could do it, and also had a robot with the same strength punch at the coffin lid. Even after the maximum amount of time allowed, the robot just could not break the lid of the coffin open, even without 6 feet worth of dirt on top.
They also built a special rig that had a coffin-sized clear plastic chamber, a trapdoor to represent the hole needed for "The Bride" to climb out, and then there was a chamber above that was 6 feet tall, and rigged to be opened quickly in case of an emergency. Tori Billecci put on an anti-crush suit and a firefighter's oxygen mask, got in the "coffin" chamber, while the upper chamber was filled with dirt. He then attempted to open the trapdoor and try to climb out, but the 6 feet of freshly shoveled-in dirt flowing in was just too much for him. Eventually, they were forced to use the emergency feature on the rig so they could get Tori out safely.
That does sound like a good one. I wonder, within the scope of the film, if these superhuman feats were intentionally written as such to foreshadow that "The Bride" was special enough to have the "mojo" to perform "The Five-Point-Palm Exploding-Heart-Technique" and, in fact, "Kill Bill". It's been so long since I last saw the film. I can't remember if we've been introduced to the idea of the technique yet.
Edit: Just remembered, yes, we have been. I think that's kind of the point lol. She's able to use her training.
My dad and brother both agree that the 5-point exploding-heart move was the most ridiculous thing they'd ever heard of. The only way you can make someone's heart explode was to surgically place some C4 into a person's chest cavity, and then hit the detonator afterwards.
Tarantino made that up for super-exaggerated gore and shock value.
Right. I guess it is supposed to be a superhuman type thing. Actually, now that I think about it, that may be why I have this one a little lower on the QT list than most. I'm not really a super hero movie kind of guy.
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