As we all know, Quentin is a talker and doesn’t like linear narrative. The film has a very personal style and has many fans. I personally like his films very much, because there are many attractive factors in his films. I have seen an analysis before. , It's about Quentin's movies, those big dialogues, many times like meaningless small talk, how not to make people boring. It's very interesting, and because I recently watched Kill Bill again, the super-long fight scene before the heroine's final battle against Ishii Oren made me particularly observe how Quentin uses the unit, music, color, fight. Light and other elements to attract and retain the audience.
When the heroine came to the pub where Ishii Oren was located, she entered the final chapter of the film in a very individualistic, heroic and very comical way. The heroine did not choose a sneaky assassination, but a message from the French woman Sophie. Provoking a battle to publicly declare war, so naturally, she needs to deal with many characters of small minions before she can reach the big boss. Comparing this part of the battle with my previous movie viewing experience, I will say that it is the same as the little minions. The fight takes up a lot of space (17 minutes long), and the director put a lot of effort into filming this very restrictive violent fight scene. This battle has three stages (three units).
The first is the bloody opening. The heroine cuts off Sophie's arm directly, and cuts off the first minion who rushes up. Then the guards around Ishii Olian rushed up, all of which were quickly resolved by the heroine, and then the first paragraph. The highlight: He Guoguo's duel. Guoguo's background has been explained before, a super high combat power without empathy, but in stark contrast to this, she is only a seventeen-year-old high school girl, her slightly innocent cruelty and viciousness make her. People are frightened and looking forward to the next battle, and she does not disappoint people. Her moves are fierce and vicious, and her moves are deadly. But the heroine is the heroine after all, and she also has super strength, but more importantly, she has the determination to take revenge at all costs, so under the condition of being chained and blocked, she survived in desperation and narrowly won the outcome. As a result, the climax of the first paragraph came to an end, and the heroine and Ishii looked at each other from the air. At this time, we thought, we should duel with Ishii next, right? But no, the unexpected roar of motorcycles sounded outside the door, and Ishii smiled slyly.
"You don't think it's that easy, do you?" the villain asked with a sneer, as if he was also asking the audience.
So next, the heroine had to fight with the enemies who poured in and the number was a multiple of the previous level. The fight in this section was extremely bloody and violent. And when the heroine pulled out one's eyeballs, the picture suddenly turned black and white! Some people say that it became black and white because the later plot is too bloody, but I don't think it is. This is more of the director's aesthetic purpose. It also achieves another effect, that is, the audience is just about to get tired visually from the sudden change from color to black and white. At that time, I felt that my eyes were completely new, and when I watched such a bloody plot, the picture was black and white, the blood plasma was like chocolate sauce, and the almost massacre scene became as unreal as black and white comics, which indeed weakened the cruel violence. By the way, the music score before the beginning of this section is also very interesting. When the heroine was surrounded, they confronted each other, but the music was brisk and full of rhythm. After that, the battle became fierce, the heroine went into battle, and the music was also joyful. , In addition, the fighting sound after the black and white picture is very retro, reminiscent of the ancient Hong Kong martial arts films.
In the third stage, the battle moved to the second floor and entered a room. The heroine's eyes clicked like a switch, and the picture changed back to color. At this time, the proprietress turned off the switch, and behind the window paper next to the room was A blue light, so the fight in this section turned into a silhouette style again, which was eye-catching again, but this section of the battle did not last long, the heroine quickly solved everyone and there was only one left, and the lights were timely again. Lights up, so the heroine saw that the one who was holding the sword in front of her and shivering was just a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old child, and then unexpectedly, the heroine chopped his samurai sword into pieces, and then hit him with the back of the sword. His ass: "I told you not to learn to be a gangster! Go back and find your mother!" So the boy ran away, crying while running. This sudden comedy clip can be said to be just right, because after the heroine has dealt with all the minions, we all know that she is about to fight the big boss, but before the boss, there is such a funny episode, in fact, Invisibly, it is releasing the audience from the tense fight in front of them and relaxing a little, because in the final battle, we will start to sweat for the heroine again.
In these three units, Quentin set small climaxes and highlights in each unit, made the picture as good-looking as possible, and fully used various elements: music, color, light, and arranged the plot of the fight to be interesting. And the twists and turns made this seventeen-minute fight not boring at all, and it firmly pressed me on the sofa.
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