KILL BILL (Chingonized)

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Kill Bill is PART ONE of my fan-edit-tweaking of Grindhouse (2007) by treating past & future movies as part of a larger (what-if) trilogy arc by filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

Naturally, any sincere Grindhouse-arc would organically cover 70s martial arts films, then jump to horror films (the double-feature part being a fun way to mix things up from last time), and then finally go back in time to Westerns-- as the violent old west in the 70s was a great time for Grindhouse exploitation. That said, the final theme was hard to call, because what of exploitation war films like "A Dirty Dozen"(1967)? Maybe as an encore, I will do 'a military one' at some point provided a good enough idea for a fan edit comes along. But for now...

Included would be:

+"Kill Bill"(2003-4) edited down to a 3-hour grindhouse movie, which in many ways it already was in its 4+ hour form, and a grindhouse trailer for Sonny Chiba's "Street Fighter"1974. Did some original stuff with this one, so it's not just another Kill Bill edit. It's a radical re-imagining in many respects, given Tarantino's occasional voiced regret over the years for the movie not being "more of a ride". I'm hoping that it's his way of owning up to the lack of coherence in the storytelling department there. It was something he alluded to in a filmmakers panel when discussing the success of the movie Avatar (you can find it on YouTube). So this movie as I have re-edited is now closer in spirit to what I feel like Quentin was after. By first finding the drama of the story (which I felt like was lacking in the original films), and paring down the movie around it just enough, the thrill ride carries us nicely along with a feeling I hadn't gotten from a Tarantino film since "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs". Using the style and language of "Grindhouse"(2007) in hindsight helped me reframe the whole narrative & approach to Kill Bill, to give us a more bonefide cinema experience from a place of restraint and discipline. "From Dusk Till Dawn"(1996) and Kill Bill were obviously these nice examples of early Tarantino & Rodriguez already evolving in the direction of creating this lovely Grindhouse language for their movies. So I'm just the translator here, giving us a re-translation of sorts using their cinematic Rosetta Stone.

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Coming up next! *in my best Stan Lee voice*

+PART TWO.... "Grindhouse"(2007) (with the extended "Planet Terror" film, a 70 minute "Death Proof because it's not all that great to begin with, but I was able to sorta make work in the context of the double-feature format here, as a third act of sorts, MORE fun trailers for Grindhouse-inspired movies which have since been released like "Hobo With A Shotgun"(2011) and "Black Dynamite"(2009). Re-incorporating some of the footage from actual followup movie spinoffs like "Machete"(2010) back into this film, that (again!) had since been released for real since Grindhouse came out in 2007. Overall, with more parody-like trailers and overall content included the movie now has a nice "Kentucky Fried Movie"(1977) vibe to it.

+And PART THREE "Grindhouse 2"(2015) A western themed featuring a horror western titled "Valley of the Starving Fleas" which is a hybrid of "The Hateful 8"(2015) and "Bone Tomahawk"(2015) which both feature Kurt Russell who is reimagined as the same character in both, and the movies are re-edited into a single film that plays like a western gothic "From Dusk Till Dawn"(1996) with the tonal shift from the first half to the second. I enjoyed the challenge here as I am NOT a big Hateful 8 fan as I felt like "BoneTomahawk" was the movie it wanted to be; which was released a few years later, and is underrated AF. Good storytelling there. Also included some fun western Grindhouse trailers to kick this off, including "A Fist Full of Machete".

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