The Bride agrees to meet Vernita at night to settle the matter, but when Vernita tries to shoot the Bride with a pistol hidden in a box of cereal, the Bride throws a knife into Vernita's chest, killing her. They engage in a knife fight, which is interrupted when Vernita's young daughter Nikki arrives home from school. Both women were members of the Deadly Vipers, a group of assassins led by Bill, which has since disbanded Vernita now leads a normal suburban family life.

She tells her attacker, Bill, that the baby is his just as he shoots her in the head.įour years later, the Bride, having survived the attack, goes to the home of Vernita Green, planning to kill her. In 1999, a pregnant woman in a wedding dress, the Bride, lies wounded in a chapel in El Paso, Texas. It received positive reviews and grossed over $180 million on a $30 million budget, achieving highest-grossing opening weekend of a Tarantino film up to that point. Volume 1 was theatrically released in the United States on October 10, 2003.

Volume 1 is the first of two Kill Bill films made in a single production they were planned as a single release, but with a runtime of over four hours, was divided in two. It features an anime sequence by Production I.G. Tarantino conceived Kill Bill as a homage to grindhouse cinema, including martial arts films, samurai cinema, blaxploitation, and spaghetti Westerns. Her journey takes her to Tokyo, where she battles the yakuza. Fox) and their leader, Bill ( David Carradine), after they try to kill her. It stars Thurman as the Bride, who swears revenge on a team of assassins ( Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American martial arts film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on a story by him and Uma Thurman.

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