THE WORLD OF QUENTIN:

Tarantino Behind the Camera in Beijing (RICK LYMAN, September 5, 2002, NY Times)

Yohei Taneda, the production designer for the film's Asian sequences, tried to explain the look of the film and the experience of working with Mr. Tarantino. "There is a reality to 'Kill Bill,' but it is not the reality of the world," he said. "It is the reality of Quentin's world, and that is a somewhat different place. We are in Tokyo, we are in Okinawa, we are in a Chinese temple, but at all times, really we are in the world of Quentin."

Essentially, "Kill Bill," which is being made by Miramax Films, is a revenge story--set in a pop-cultural blend of samurai movies, urban action flicks and spaghetti westerns. Ms. Thurman plays The Bride, awakening from a five-year coma to track down the man who put her there, Bill (David Carradine, star of the television series "Kung Fu"), her former boss and lover, and the band of female assassins who work for him (played by Lucy Liu, Viveca Fox and Darryl Hannah, among others).

Few movie-going experiences can possibly match seeing Reservoir Dogs at the Biograph in Chicago, the theater where Dillinger was gunned down in the midst of a gangster flick. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 30, 2002 10:25 PM