Need A Fix

The recent weekend turned out okay, especially last Saturday. Saturday was pretty another round of consultation and brain-storming for the Twilight Empires and peripheral Blaqueguard stuff. There happens to be a measure of inter-connectedness with the things with those two projects since they happen in the same universe. Besides those exchanges of idea, it was also a moment of recalling and reminiscing the old high school days since the topic of 80's music was brought into the discussion thanks to the recent wave of remakes that sets upon our listening shores everywhere.

In spite watching Kill Bill around 1.8 times so far, it seems to me that I can't seem to get enough of it. It can be compared to an accident site, one tries to look away at it but gets the bizarre, twisted urge to look at it. Some movies can do that to you. Besides kick-ass swordplay, knife-fighting and a kawaii schoolgirl with a mean streak, my mind keeps imagining siege scenes from whatever siege event in some books I read because of LOTR:ROTK, another movie I may consider watching again even though I'm not sure of surviving another 3 hour sit-through of it. There are tolerances to a viewer as how long a movie they can watch you know.

With the mention of Kill Bill, I just happened to acquire the Kill Bill soundtrack CD at the local CD shop. I was excited to be able to hear at last "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Santa Esmeralda in its entirety. Went to that track upon getting home and popping in into the CD player. I guess I begin to realize I'm a bit of a sucker for Spanish guitar or Flamenco music, more so in an action movie with duel scenes. The CD also contains also contains two dialogue tracks that were taken from the movie. One is the explanation of O-Ren as to the mention of her heritage after beheading Boss Tanaka. The other one is where Bill and Sophie were talking of her ordeal by Black Mamba's hands. So for those Julie Dreyfus fans, you'll have your listening pleasure.

I did some slight digging on IMDB and sniffed around at the message board and discovered mentioned that the original script for Kill Bill had a slightly different structure. It also purported that Go Go Yubari has a younger sister, by one year, by the name of Yuki Yubari. There was supposed to be a more of a vengeful gun battle scene between Black Mamba and Yuki where Yuki received the news last of Go Go's death by Black Mamba's hand. The scene also calls for the Pussy Wagon, Black Mamba appropriated from Buck, was shot up under sustained firing by an Uzi in Yuki's hands. Parts of the dialogue used between Go Go and Black Mamba in the House of Blue Leaves duel was supposed to be done for Yuki and Black Mamba. Here's a sample:


THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
I know you feel you must avenge
your sister. But I beg you...walk
away.

Yuki giggles.

YUKI (JAPANESE)
You call that begging? You can beg
better than that.

Another amusing bit to seen is in the dialogue after Yuki gets clipped by Black Mamba's return fire during this gun battle scene. It goes like this:

YUKI (JAPANESE)
You fucking bitch! You shot me in
my breast! They're not fully
developed yet, you fucking asshole!
Now I'm always gonna have a dimple!

The Bride answers Yuki back with an imitation of Yuki's
giggle, which makes the youngin blow her top.

YUKI (JAPANESE)
Piss me off!

She fires her machine gun around the corner, tearing up
everything around the Bride.

When the young girl stops firing, the Bride yells;

THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
Yuki, in about two minutes there's
going to be an army of police here.
So if you're gonna kill me, now's
the time.

From her hiding place, Yuki snorts a line of baby blue
powder. It gives her energy.

THE BRIDE (O.S., ENGLISH)
So what's it gonna be bitch?

Slapping a new clip in her machine gun.

YUKI (JAPANESE)
That fucking does it!

Another interesting bit that would have been done to illustrate that existence of Yuki was also supposed to be with Sophie's interrogation scene in the car trunk flashback. It goes like:

THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
Okay, first things first. Where was
the other Yubari sister? Yuki?

SOFIE (JAPANESE)
Yuki's sick. She went home early.

THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
Do tell? What's wrong with her?

SOFIE (JAPANESE)
She has a cold.

THE BRIDE (JAPANESE)
Awwww poor baby. What do you think
she'll do when she finds out what
happened?

SOFIE (JAPANESE)
She'll wail with grief.

SHOCK CUT TO

YUKI YUBARI upon hearing the news of her sister's death...

She SCREAMS!

BACK TO SOFIE

SOFIE
She'll drink excessively.

BACK TO YUKI
Big bottle of sake in her mouth pointed bottom up.

BACK TO SOFIE

SOFIE
She'll start trouble.

BACK TO YUKI
sitting at a bar in drunken stupor. An OLDER JAPANESE MAN in
a business suit sits next to her at the bar...he puts the
make on her.

BUSINESS SUIT (JAPANESE)
Do you like Ferraris?

Yuki staring out into space, says with a drunken voice;

YUKI (JAPANESE)
Ferrari...Italian trash.

She slowly turns to face the older Japanese man in the
business suit.

YUKI (JAPANESE)
Do you find me hot?

The man in the business suit giggles at her boldness; she
gets annoyed;

The scene of her drinking and causing an older guy a lot of pain and possibly death was carried into the part describing Go Go's lack of age made up by madness bit in the voiceover.


I guessed the Yubari sister angle was nixed in the 1st Vol. unless it is yet to be seen in the second volume since Chiaki Furayama's name is still listed for it when I checked IMDB last time. If the possibility still exists then, Go Go fans would rejoice at her reappearance, no matter how brief it'll be again.

I'll still think it over as to indulge another round of watching LOTR:ROTK or Kill Bill before a new movie shows up by this coming Wednesday, "The Last Samurai" starring Tom Cruise may be next on my watchlist since it also starred Hiroyuki Sanada, aka Henry Sanada. That Japanese actor appeared in "Ringu" and a certain 80's tokusatsu show that is borrowing a lot of influence from Star Wars.

I filled enough for my quota on this post. Till next time. Picks up daisho set and straps them on and walks back into the doghouse. "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" playing.