Kill Bill

When the bride is buried, you develop specific sympathies towards the main character. Quentin Tarantino, the director, uses the different techniques of the scenes to covey different emotions, one of which being through the m.e.s. The m.e.s is everything crucial and important about each scene.

In the scene the bride is buried, Quentin Tarantino uses sound to develop your feelings towards the characters. Before the bride is buried, the music is calm, depressing and slow. The effect the writer brings towards the audience is the feeling of sadness, as you cannot do anything about this terrible event. When the bride is finally buried the music halts, and the sounds of scrapes and screams comes in. This is where Quentin Tarantino achieves to make “fear” the theme of the scene. After the scene of the bride being concealed in the coffin, she starts to stumble out, punching her way through the top cover of the coffin, making it sound that with every punch, the bride is closer to escape. Then, the coffin busts open, and the sound, is deliberately emphasized to focus on the escape. This is when the bride escapes from beneath the ground, and there is a trumpet playing, to convey happiness and peace, which ends when the hand vanishes.

Another crucial component in the burial scene are the costumes. Before the bride is put in the coffin, the man whom places her inside, the use of techniques in camera position, and the way the man is displayed, gives us a powerful, as well as making us feel powerless, when we see the cowboy. There is absence of light, which creates an claustrophobic fear, and makes us think that the bride will die. The close- up view of the bride with the torch shows the futility of what she is conspiring her escape, trying to keep her cool. This causes us to feel sympathy towards the bride. But in the next scene everything is different and the audience just knows that she will escape. The bride then gets out, with a bleeding hand, develop a sense of pain, and of she has to go through. We feel that she is in a great deal of pain, and we compare ourselves with her, wishing we were even close as not only physically, but also mentally strong as her. Lastly, this scene drops the weight from our hearts when the bride at last climbs through the soil. The graveyard where she was buried is deserted. She is covered in dirt, which shows us what she had to go through in order to escape the coffin to her surface, again, making us sympathize with the bride.

The lights focus the coffin, when it is nailed shut, to show importance and contrast to this event. This coveys the tone and theme of fear to the audience, because we are certain that the bride will die. The first time she turns on the lights, the lights are dimmer, but the afterwards they are bright. After the flashback, the light from the flashlight is much brighter in the second scene. During the bride’s escape, the lighting on her face shows how determined she is, making us feel proud and feel positive feelings towards her. It is still a late hour, which shows that the bride has broken out of the darkness and emerged victoriously into the light.

Overall, the burial scene in Kill Bill had 3 main factors in order to persuade the audience to think of the bride in a sympathetically way. The techniques Quentin Tarantino uses to achieve this are sound, specific camera angles and lighting. These three combined makes us sympathize with the bride, and think of her more highly than we did before.