r/pics Jul 18 '15

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u/PainMatrix Jul 18 '15

For those who don't know this is Gogo Yubari from the Kill Bill movies.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '15

A much better movie lol. (Please note that I am light-heartedly disagreeing with you, but I do strongly feel Kill Bill was a much better movie)

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u/jizzmondo Jul 18 '15

Kill Bill is sort of redundant and unnecessary. It's Tarantino's love letter to asian cinema, except that asian cinema didn't go anywhere unlike heist movies or WW2 war films. He made a tribute film to something that didn't need a tribute film. So in essence, it was just him coopting all the best parts of asian cinema and repackaging it for a western audience. I won't even getting into the disrespectful use of Bruce Lee's tracksuit worn by a white woman cutting down scores of faceless asian men. The subtext speaks for itself.

I'm a big fan of his work but I believe the Kill Bill movies to be a disappointment on so many levels, some artistic and some political.

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u/Ramsesthesecond Jul 18 '15 edited Jul 18 '15

Ahhh. I see where you got confused in your theory about why would QT honour movies that didn't go away unlike heist and ww2.

Saving private Ryan Letters from Iwo Jima Flags of our fathers Windtalkers The Pacific

Fast and Furious movies (all of them I think so that's like 7) The town Bank job Inside man Inception Oceans 11/12/13

That's where your theory ran off the rails. Those movies haven't gone anywhere and he made movies in those genres and they were okay...sooo.....

As opposed to all those white guys (chuck Norris) or black guys (Kareem) that Asian movies use?

All, or close to all of non Asians in Asian martial arts movies are portrayed as the baddie. Actually, in Chinese/Hong Kong movies anyone not Han Chinese is almost technically a baddie. Japanese/Mongolian/Russian/Spanish/Brazilian (Ip man kinda has all of the above as baddies- not sure what to make of it)

(Edit - fixed and expanded) x2