After posting about The King and I and Anna being a strong woman, I get to write about Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 and the strong women that is portrayed in this film- Black Mamba! Uma Thurman plays a bad ass chick in this film who is also know as the Bride. She is one tough cookie that would probably kill me (if she was not just a character in Quentin Tarantino's imagination) if she heard I referred to her as a tough cookie.
I like these movies because the story is well written and put together. The story kind of jumps around in a way that keeps things interesting but it is organized at the same time with chapters for us as viewers to keep things straight. Plus there are some great characters in this movie and AWESOME fight scenes. Lots of fake blood and sick death scenes. Some of it is unrealistic, ok well all of it is movie magic so not real. But I like to think that how O-Ren Ishii died is both realistic and movie fantastic. The over the top, graphic type of fighting and death with some sweet back flips and such makes movies like these pretty cool in my book.
The story is about the Bride and her almost untimely end at her wedding rehearsal. Then we follow the story about how she gets revenge against the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. Our Bride travels all around so there is a lot of different scenery to enjoy and she has some different kick ass martial arts skills that are fun to watch as well. Watching movies like this makes me think that I can kick some ass and when the movie is over I jump up with my hands now classified as deadly weapons. Anyone who touches my popcorn or gives me the stink eye-BAM-they are getting karate chopped to the face! The Bride, who we learn later is named Beatrice, has some complications with this Deadly Viper Squad. She and Bill seem to have had some previous "complications" in their relationship that makes the movies even more interesting.
Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 really need to be watched together. So I did watch them together and I did not watch them in reverse order. I thought it would be odd to watch Vol. 2 before Vol. 1. But in retrospect these two movies are really just one long movie that bounces around so much that I could have watched them that way and it would not have made a difference!
As an RA planning this program there are lots of different ways you could plan this one. You could go the obvious route and teach some self defense or some mixed martial arts with these movies. Since there is so much violence in these films you should really be able to get some strong self defense moves out of it.
You could also think outside the box and maybe do a laundry program about getting different things out of ones dirty clothes- so much dirt in these movies too. Tobacco spit, black mamba venom, grave dirt, gun shot residue, blood, all of these things are in the clothes of these actors and we could all benefit from learning how to remove stains like these.
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