History Trivia / KillBill

** Tarantino stated he would have loved to write a scene with Elle Driver and Beatrix growing fifty feet tall and fighting. Which would of course be a reference to the remade [[Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman]], featuring the same Creator/DarylHannah in the main role.

** Tarantino stated he would have loved to write a scene with Elle Driver and Beatrix growing fifty feet tall and fighting. Which would of course be a reference to the remade [[Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman]], featuring the same Daryl Hannah.

** Tarantino stated he would have loved to write a scene with Elle Driver and Beatrix growing fifty feet tall and fighting.

** Gordon Liu plays both Johnny Mo, the head general of the Crazy 88 in volume 1 and Pai Mei, Beatrix's old Chinese mentor in volume 2.

* CastTheExpert: The brothel segment, where the Bride meets with Esteban Vihaio, was the last scene of the movie to be shot. It was filmed at a Mexican brothel, and all of the female extras, were prostitutes that worked there.

* ContinuityError: When O-ren beheads Boss Tanaka, she uses a reverse grip style to do the deed initially. The camera lingers on her looking at the headless Yakuza boss for a few seconds, too, as HighPressureBlood sprays into the air, but when the camera cuts to a front shot from the head of the table where her lieutenants sit, the sword is suddenly held in a standard grip as she lowers it to start her speech about what'll happen to anyone who brings up her heritage as a negative.

** According to ''The Kill Bill Diary'' (written by Creator/DavidCarradine), the movie that The Bride and her daughter would watch, was originally going to be ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''. When Creator/{{Disney}} wouldn't allow it, Quentin decided to have them watch an episode of ''WeternAnimation/SamuraiJack''. But, the film featured in the final cut (or overheard, as we only see their faces as they watch), is ''Film/ShogunAssassin''.

* WordOfDante: According to Creator/DavidCarradine, the man in the animé flashback who kills O-Ren's father was a younger Bill.

** According to ''The Kill Bill Diary'' (written by Creator/DavidCarradine), the movie that The Bride and her daughter would watch, was originally going to be ''Disney/TheAristocats''. When Creator/{{Disney}} wouldn't allow it, Quentin decided to have them watch an episode of ''WeternAnimation/SamuraiJack''. But, the film featured in the final cut (or overheard, as we only see their faces as they watch), is ''Film/ShogunAssassin''.

** Gordon Liu plays both Johnny Mo in volume 1 and Pai Mei in volume 2.
** Michael Parks plays both Earl [=McGraw=] and [[FakeNationality Esteban Vihaio]].

* FakeMixedRace: The half-Japanese, half-French Sophie Fatale is played by the fully French Julie Dreyfus. Likewise, the half-Japanese, half-Chinese American O-Ren Ishii is played by the fully Chinese-American {{Creator/Lucy Liu}}.
* FollowTheLeader: In the original script, the fight between Beatrix Kiddo and Elle Driver was supposed to resemble her fight with O-Ren Ishii. Creator/QuentinTarantino revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he changed it the day after catching a showing of ''Film/JackassTheMovie'' at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas.

* FollowTheLeader: In the original script, the fight between Beatrix Kiddo and Elle Driver was supposed to resemble her fight with O-Ren Ishii. Creator/QuentinTarantino revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that he changed it the day after catching a showing of ''Film/JackassThe Movie'' at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas.

** In the original script, Gogo was a pair of CreepyTwins: The silent one at O-Ren's side and the AxCrazy one at the bar. After the quiet one (Gogo) is killed, the crazy one (Yuki) stalks The Bride all the way to Pasadena (that's her in the ice cream truck in Vol. 1). Yuki takes some ultra-steroids that Bill's cooked up and goes after The Bride with guns and bombs and blows up the Pussy Wagon in the process, but dies of an overdose before killing her. The Bride is so shaken that she calls Hanzo for reassurance and then calls a certain [[Film/PulpFiction Nurse Bonnie]] to fix her up. Bonnie is hysterical and claims she "got out of that a long time ago," but like Hanzo is ultimately not immune to The Bride's charms. This is still referenced in the final cut: when the Bride meets Esteban in a convertible, he says that Bill said she would be driving a truck. She simply replies that her "Pussy Wagon died on her." There's also the Narm-ish variation of The Bride confronting Bill in a wedding dress for their final showdown.

** Creator/MichaelMadsen was originally going to play [[FakeNationality Johnny Mo]].
** Creator/RicardoMontalban was the original choice for Esteban.

** The biggest one is yet to come--the planned ''third'' volume (with the story potentially either focusing on "the revenge of two killers whose arms and eye were hacked by Uma Thurman in the first stories," or a daughter's revenge story), which Quentin [[FlipFlopOfGod has gone back and forth on whether he's filming it]]. As of 2018, things don't look good: in a 2014 interview, Tarantino mentioned plans to retire after directing his tenth film; ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'' (2019) will be his ninth film, leaving just one more chance for Volume 3 to see the light of day. The possibility of a third volume had already been called into question by this point, given Uma Thurman's estrangement from Tarantino.

** The biggest one is yet to come--the planned ''third'' volume (with the story potentially either focusing on "the revenge of two killers whose arms and eye were hacked by Uma Thurman in the first stories," or a daughter's revenge story), which Quentin [[FlipFlopOfGod has gone back and forth on whether he's filming it]]. As of 2018, things don't look good: in a 2014 interview, Tarantino mentioned plans to retire after directing his tenth film; ''Film/OnceUponATimeInHollywood'' (2019) will be his ninth film, leaving just one more chance for Volume 3 to see the light of day and undermining the chances of a possible [[UpToEleven fourth]] volume, where BB would get revenge on the Bride by killing Nikki (who would have killed the Bride in the third volume). Though the possibility of even a third volume had already been called into question by this point, given Uma Thurman's estrangement from Tarantino.

** Quentin Tarantino considers the now-infamous car stunt to be the biggest mistake of his life, especially when Uma herself spoke how ''terrible'' the stunt was and how it lead to damage to her body, along with her beliefs that Weinstein ''caused'' the problems with that sunt.

* PropRecycling: The Tokyo miniature sets were leftovers from ''GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack''.

* PropRecycling: The Tokyo miniature sets were leftovers from ''Film/GodzillaMotheraAndKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack''.

* PropRecycling: The Tokyo miniature sets were leftovers from ''Film/GodzillaMothraAndKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack''.

** ...which is HilariousInHindsight when you recall that the Bride used <spoiler>the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique</spoiler> to kill Bill, and her sword didn't have anything to do with it.

** ...which is HilariousInHindsight when you recall that the Bride used [[spoiler]]the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique[[/spoiler]] to kill Bill, and her sword didn't have anything to do with it.

** The biggest one is yet to come--the planned ''third'' volume (with the story potentially either focusing on "the revenge of two killers whose arms and eye were hacked by Uma Thurman in the first stories," or a daughter's revenge story), 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.

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