Kill Bill: Volume 2: Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah)

Comments for death : Kill Bill: Volume 2: Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah).

Wasn't there a Mexican standoff? This IS Tarantino. (it's amazing that the Bride didn't smoke! I guess she wanted to protect her baby so she never started.)

yes, it should be a Mexican standoff, i tihnk i must have missed that off!!

Nice entry (but isn't the big box o'money the more likely motive for Elle's murder of Budd?---I mean, did Elle ever discourage Budd from killing The Bride? I don't recall this). Anyway, I notice that this entry and the one I wrote up for Bill use slightly different film titles. It might be good to make those the same.

thanks for the spot AARGH! it is important to align the film titles so people dont have a million an one variations of the film title spelling to seach for....

Bill's entry has been amended.

AARGH! Wrote:
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> Nice entry (but isn't the big box o'money the more
> likely motive for Elle's murder of Budd?---I mean,
> did Elle ever discourage Budd from killing The
> Bride? I don't recall this). Anyway, I notice
> that this entry and the one I wrote up for Bill
> use slightly different film titles. It might be
> good to make those the same.


That was one reason, but she most certainly says to Budd while he dies that she regretted the fact she allowed someone like him to kill the Bride in such an unhonourable way, and that she "deserved better". I think that was her main motivation.

Well, this is sort of true. But Elle doesn't say that she regretted the fact the the Bride was killed in a dishonorable way. She just says that her big regret is that the Bride was killed: "by a bushwackin scrub alkie piece of shit like you. That woman deserved better."

She doesn't mention honor, or the way the Bride was killed. And she doesn't suggest that she's killed Budd as a penalty for any transgression of honor.

But more importantly, we are supposed to know that Elle is lying when she says this, even if she's trying to persuade herself that she regrets not facing the Bride. Before getting bitten the Elle's snake, Bud asked her whether she felt relief or regret now after the Bride's death, knowing that Elle's true answer would have been "relief." But lies, saying "regret."

We know that Elle wanted to kill the Bride with a syringe while she was unconscious, but was stopped from doing so by Bill. We know that she killed Pei-mei with poisoned fish heads. And most importantly, Elle gave Bud specific instructions to kill the Bride while she was incapacitated, and to make her suffer as long as possible beforehand. All Budd's done is to follow Elle's instructions. And how "honorable" was the way Elle dispatched Budd, after-all?

So Elle's speech here is just bs. She's by far the least honorable of the Deadly Vipers, and a fair fight with the Bride was, in all honesty, the last thing she'd want.

In the process of adding screenshots, I've substantially rewritten this review, meaning some of the above comments no longer apply (AARGH!'s are spot on though).

I've removed ironic, as having your eye plucked out when you only have one left is only ironic in the Alanis Morrisette definition of the word, and the snake at the end is just Own Weapon, not really ironic.
Mexican Standoff has also been removed as it doesn't actually happen.

Martial Arts, Strangulation (Elle is caught in a very nice choke at one point) and Drowning have all been added.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2006 12:30AM by old bluffer.

What about "Dismemberment" for the eye?

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> What about "Dismemberment" for the eye?
I'm not sure, but I did think about that. I might change the definition for dismemberment to include lesser appendages such as fingers and ears etc, in which case it would definitely apply.