How did The Killer, Lady Snowblood, and Coffy all inspire Uma Thurman's The Bride in Kill Bill?
The Big Picture It’s always fun to dive into the homework a director gives an actor prior to filming their collaboration, especially when that director is a religious cinephile like Quentin Tarantino, who just prior to shooting Kill Bill, gave star Uma Thurman three classic action movies from different parts of the world so that she could embody the Bride with all her fury.
‘Coffy’ Is THE Blaxploitation Classic Quentin Tarantino’s appreciation of the blaxploitation genre should be evident from his revival of Pam Grier’s career in 1997’s Jackie Brown, but no one resembles the titular lead character of Jack Hill’s Coffy like the Bride. Itself a female-driven revenge story, the film follows Nurse Flower Child “Coffy” Coffin’s one-woman crusade against inner-city drug rings to extract revenge on the dealing population in the wake of her late sister’s overdose.
For her final revenge, after almost falling for another one of his lies, Coffy shoots him where it hurts the most: his manhood. This form of revenge, hyper-specific to the character she’s enacting it upon, would carry over into Kill Bill, where every major villain that the Bride dispatches is done in a way that doesn’t just send them to the afterlife, but personally eviscerates them on a spiritual level, something much more satisfying to watch than a character’s simple death.
Unfortunately for Lady Snowblood, it gets darker… Her mother dies at childbirth but not before insisting that her child be trained to murder the men who raped her and murdered her husband. This child is therefore grown up to fight a battle that she herself had no part in, living with an urge for vengeance that can never be satisfied. She is wrath incarnate.
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