History Trivia / KillBill

* CastingGag: Casting Sonny Chiba as OldMaster Hattori Hanzo.

* ActorAllusion:
** Gogo stabbing a man in the crotch is a reference to Creator/ChiakiKuriyama's iconic crotch-stab scene in ''Film/BattleRoyale.''
** Also, not the first time Buck has [[Film/NightOfTheComet died in a doorway of head trauma]]. Heck, given how big a fan Tarantino is of ''Film/BattleRoyale'', even the famous yellow track suit could be taken as a shout-out to Chiaki Kuriyama's role in that movie. Except [[https://thekungfufan.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/the-yellow-jumpsuit.jpg it's a]] ShoutOut to Creator/BruceLee.
** Creator/DarylHannah has a similar spastic attack as she did in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
** [[Series/KungFu David Carradine]] as a kung fu expert.
** Creator/SonnyChiba reprising his role as Hattori Hanzô.
** Budd is first seen wearing an ensemble identical to the thieves' uniforms in ''Film/ReservoirDogs''
** Gordon Liu, who plays Pai Mei, acted in a trilogy of films which also [[{{HistoricalDomainCharacter}} featured]] Pai Mei, in these instances portrayed by Lo Lieh -- Liu himself never played Pai Mei until Kill Bill. Tarantino was a fan of Liu's work in these films, and even referred to said films in the original script, claiming inspiration for the character from "films that feature Lieh Lo as the old, white-haired, white-eye-browed villain Pai Mei.”

** Uma Thurman has nothing good to say about the film.
** Quentin Tarantino considers the now-infamous car stunt to be the biggest mistake of his life.

* OneOfUs: If Bill reads {{Superman}}, he can't be all that bad.

** Creator/WarrenBeatty was who Tarantino had envisioned as Bill. The character was originally envisioned as suave, [[Franchise/JamesBond James Bond]] type.
** Creator/KevinCostner was offered the role of Bill, but he was busy with ''Film/OpenRange''.

* DeletedRole: Michael Jai White as a martial artist with a score to settle with Bill.

* MissingTrailerScene: While Michael Jai White is featured in the Vol. 1 teaser, his scene did not make it into either film.

* CreatorBacklash: Uma Thurman has nothing good to say about the film.

* DeletedScene: Bill originally had a fight scene with Michael Jai White and his henchmen. See it [[here http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xto5pt_kill-bill-volume-2-deleted-scene_shortfilms]].

* TroubledProduction: Creator/UmaThurman was injured in a car accident during filming, due to Tarantino's insistence on ''not'' using a stunt driver.

** [[{{Creator/DarylHannah}} Daryl Hannah]] has a similar spastic attack as she did in ''Film/BladeRunner''.

** Sonny Chiba reprising his role as Hattori Hanzô.
** Budd is first seen wearing an ensemble identical to the thieves' uniforms in ''[[Film/ReservoirDogs Reservoir Dogs]]''

* DeletedScene: Bill originally had a fight scene with Michael Jai White and his henchmen. See it here http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xto5pt_kill-bill-volume-2-deleted-scene_shortfilms.

** The biggest one is yet to come--the planned ''third'' volume, which Quentin [[FlipFlopOfGod has gone back and forth on whether he's filming it]]. As of 2016, things don't look good: in a 2014 interview, Tarantino mentioned plans to retire after directing his tenth film. The very next year brought ''Film/TheHatefulEight'', his [[ArcNumber eighth]] film, leaving just two more chances for Volume 3 to see the light of day.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: the shot of O-ren's head cut open really doesn't hold up and is clearly a prosthetic.

** The biggest one is yet to come--the planned ''third'' volume, which Quentin [[FlipFlopOfGod has gone back and forth on whether he's filming it]]. As of 2016, things don't look good: in a 2014 interview, Tarantino mentioned plans to retire after directing his tenth film. The very next year brought ''Film/TheHatefulEight'', his [[ArcNumber eighth]] film, leaving just two more chances for Volume 3 to see the light of day.

** There are rumours that the original script called for Beatrix kill O-Ren via decapitation (which would have been a KarmicDeath for O-Ren, given how often she killed people that way). It was scrapped because that would have made O-Ren's dying words - recanting her previous refusal to believe that the sword was an authentic Hanzō sword - impossible.

* ActingForTwo: Gordon Liu plays both Johnny Mo and Pai Mei; Michael Parks plays both Earl [=McGraw=] and [[FakeNationality Esteban Vihaio]].

** There are rumors that the original script called for Beatrix kill O-Ren via decapitation (which would have been a KarmicDeath for O-Ren, given how often she killed people that way). It was scrapped because that would have made O-Ren's dying words - recanting her previous refusal to believe that the sword was an authentic Hanzō sword - impossible.
** Warren Beatty was who Tarantino had envisioned as Bill. Michael Madsen was originally going to play [[FakeNationality Johnny Mo]].

** Also, not the first time Buck has [[Film/NightOfTheComet died in a doorway of head trauma]]. Heck, given how big a fan Tarantino is of ''Film/BattleRoyale'', even the famous yellow track suit could be taken as a shout-out to Chiaki Kuriyama's role in that movie.

** The biggest one is yet to come--the planned ''third'' volume, which Quentin [[FlipFlopOfGod has gone back and forth on whether he's filming it]].

* HeyItsThatGuy
** Hattori Hanzo's assistant is none other than [[Series/SpaceSheriffGavan the original Gavan]], [[Series/BattleFeverJ Battle Kenya]], and [[Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman Denzi Blue]]
** Hattori Hanzo himself is [[Creator/ShinichiChiba Sonny Chiba]]!
** Go-Go once participated in [[Literature/BattleRoyale "the Program" and killed many of her classmates in the process]].
** [[Series/BreakingBad Jack Welker]] was a creepy hospital orderly before he became a creepy Neo-Nazi.
* HeyItsThatVoice: During the anime flashback sequence, it shows that [[LightNovel/KinoNoTabi Kino]] was avenging her parents' death.

* ApprovalOfGod: Some Norwegian amateur actors decided to make a parody of the film titled "Kill Buljo". It became a success in its respective country and Tarantino himself enjoyed it greatly.

* ApprovalOfGod: Some Norwegian amateur actors decided to make a parody of the film titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd24qgtoTm0 "Kill Buljo"]]. It became a success in its respective country and Tarantino himself enjoyed it greatly.