Kill Bill/Trivia


 * Acting for Two: Gordon Liu plays both Johnny Mo and Pai Mei; Michael Parks plays both Earl McGraw and Esteban Vihaio.
 * Actor Allusion:
 * Gogo stabbing a man in the crotch is a reference to Chiaki Kuriyama's iconic crotch-stab scene in Battle Royale.
 * Darryl Hannah has a similar spastic attack as she did in Blade Runner.
 * David Carradine as a kung fu expert.
 * Michael Bowen also died of head trauma in a doorway in Night of the Comet.
 * Sonny Chiba reprising his role as Hattori Hanzô.
 * The Danza:
 * Larry Bishop plays Larry Gomez.
 * In terms of surnames, you have Helen Kim as Karen Kim.
 * One of Us: If Bill reads Superman, he can't be all that bad.
 * Real Life Relative: "Son Number One" is Parks' real-life son.
 * Science Marches On: The Myth Busters tested as to whether it's really possible for a person to punch their way out of a coffin buried deep underground, with the conclusion that it isn't: even the world's most skilled boxer wouldn't be able to punch a hole with that little space for drawing the fist back to create enough force, and before they'd manage to create a crack the air would have run out anyway. And even if a person did manage to punch through, they would immediately be buried and suffocated in dirt.
 * What Could Have Been:
 * Tarantino originally intended it to be one long movie, with an intermission.
 * In the original script, Gogo was a pair of Creepy Twins: The silent one at O-Ren's side and the Axe Crazy one at the bar. After the quiet one (Gogo) is killed, the crazy one (Yuki) stalks The Bride all the way to Pasadena (that's her in the ice cream truck in Vol. 1). Yuki takes some ultra-steroids that Bill's cooked up and goes after The Bride with guns and bombs and blows up the Pussy Wagon in the process, but dies of an overdose before killing her. The Bride is so shaken that she calls Hanzo for reassurance and then calls a certain Nurse Bonnie to fix her up. Bonnie is hysterical and claims she "got out of that a long time ago," but like Hanzo is ultimately not immune to The Bride's charms. This is still referenced in the final cut: when the Bride meets Esteban in a convertible, he says that Bill said she would be driving a truck. She simply replies that her "Pussy Wagon died on her." There's also the Narm-ish variation of The Bride confronting Bill in a wedding dress for their final showdown.
 * There are rumors that the original script called for Beatrix kill O-Ren via decapitation (which would have been a Karmic Death for O-Ren, given how often she killed people that way). It was scrapped because that would have made O-Ren's dying words - recanting her previous refusal to believe that the sword was an authentic Hanzō sword - impossible.
 * Warren Beatty was who Tarantino had envisioned as Bill. Michael Madsen was originally going to play Johnny Mo.
 * In one version of the script for Volume II, Pai Mei's lips would be speaking Cantonese while his voice (dubbed by Tarantino) would be in English, imitating a bad dub job.
 * The biggest one is yet to come--the planned third volume, which Quentin is planning to film and release in 2014. So that Nikki would have time to grow up.