Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair what does the new Tarantino cut offer?

"That's all changed with this weekend's debut of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, a four-and-a-half-hour version of the movie hitting over 1,000 screens across North America. Tarantino made long movies before and after Kill Bill; features that run over two-and-a-half hours make up the vast majority of his filmography. But in the early 2000s, Kill Bill represented a major pivot for the film-maker, away from his then-signature crime dramas with healthy helpings of black comedy."

"Tarantino and his Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman cooked up the character of the Bride Q & U are named as providers of the source material in the credits as a pregnant ex-assassin who becomes the victim of a vicious wedding-eve attack from her ex-boss/lover (that would be Bill) and their lethal colleagues (those would be the other four on her death list five, a phrase whose rhythm recalls Fox Force Five, the fictional TV pilot Thurman's character in Pulp Fiction once starred in)."

Kill Bill was re-integrated into a single feature as early as 2006 but that version only played at Cannes and rare runs in Tarantino-owned Los Angeles theaters and never reached home video. The newly debuted Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair runs four-and-a-half hours and is playing on over 1,000 North American screens. The film marked a pivot for Tarantino, moving from crime-comedy dramas toward a vivid, color-driven homage to kung fu, exploitation, and revenge cinema. The Bride is a pregnant ex-assassin who survives a wedding-eve massacre, wakes from a coma years later, and pursues brutal revenge.

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