Kill Bill, Vol. 2

[joeallonby]

on 4/22/04 7:02 AM, Kumpe at kumpe3000 at gmx.de wrote:

> joeallonby wrote:
>> Yeah, I saw that resemblance. I brought it up on another forum. The Bride's
>> blond  ninja woman routine more closely resemble D.L than the other female
>> asskickers popping up all over pop culture. Molly Razorgirl seems to be more
>> of an influence on Trinity and the various television versions though I
>> haven't seen "Alias". Emma Peel? Catwoman? La Femme Nikita? Dark Angel? Luna
>> Moth? Christie Love? They all seem kind of cartoonish though....
> 
> I would say so too, Tarantino's Bride is very D.L. like. The notion of the
> female ninja killer has been around for a while. Two that seem influential
> to me are, Gibson's Molly "Razorblade" Million and Miller& Sienkiewicz's
> cartoonish Elektra. I would link Molly to Trinity and and Elektra to D.L..
> Sienkiewicz is always so pynchonized, and the whole
> CIA-stratocruiser-piracy thing is there. Or was it there before Vineland?
> Christian.
> 
> 
The first time I saw "The Matrix", I made the Molly/Trinity connection in
the first five minutes. The whole movie seemed so Gibsoneque that I couldn't
believe that he didn't get a writing credit.