Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Uma Thurman: The Bride
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Quotes
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O-Ren Ishii : [sword lifted] Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.
[as The Bride gasps]
O-Ren Ishii : You may not be able to fight like a Samurai, but you can at least die like a Samurai.
The Bride : [stands up] Attack me... with everything you have.
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Copperhead : So I suppose it's a little late for an apology, huh?
The Bride : You suppose correctly.
Copperhead : Look, bitch... I need to know if you're going to start any more shit around my baby girl.
The Bride : You can relax for now. I'm not going to murder you in front of your child, okay?
Copperhead : That's being more rational than Bill led me to believe you were capable of.
The Bride : It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.
Copperhead : Look. I know I fucked you over. I fucked you over bad. I wish to God I hadn't, but I did. You have every right to want to get even.
The Bride : No, no, no, no, no. No, to get even, even-Steven... I would have to kill you... go up to Nikki's room, kill her... then wait for your husband, the good Dr. Bell, to come home and kill him. That would be even, Vernita. That'd be about square.
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The Bride : It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.
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[first lines]
Bill : Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to. You know, Kiddo, I'd like to believe that you're aware enough even now to know that there's nothing sadistic in my actions. Well, maybe towards those other... jokers, but not you. No Kiddo, at this moment, this is me at my most...
[cocks pistol]
Bill : masochistic.
The Bride : Bill... it's your baby...
[BLAM!]
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Bill : If you had to guess where she was headed next, what would be your best guess?
Sofie Fatale : Guessing won't be necessary. She informed me. She said that I could keep my wicked life for two reasons...
[flashback]
The Bride : As I said before, I've allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons. And the second reason is so you can tell him in person everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know. And I want them all to know they'll all soon be as dead as O-Ren.
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Hattori Hanzo : What brings you to Okinawa?
The Bride : I'm here to see a man.
Hattori Hanzo : Oh yeah? You have a friend living in Okinawa?
The Bride : Not quite.
Hattori Hanzo : Not a friend?
The Bride : I've never met him.
Hattori Hanzo : Never? Who is he, may I ask?
The Bride : Hattori Hanzo.
Hattori Hanzo : [Serious, switches to Japanese] What do you want with Hattori Hanzo?
The Bride : [Japanese] I need Japanese steel.
Hattori Hanzo : [Japanese] Why do you need Japanese steel?
The Bride : [Japanese] I have vermin to kill.
Hattori Hanzo : [English] You must have big rats if you need Hattori Hanzo's steel.
The Bride : [English] ... Huge.
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[the Bride drags Buck's head to the doorjam]
The Bride : [screams] Where's Bill?
[slam]
The Bride : Where's Bill?
[slam]
Buck : [weakly] Please stop hitting me...
The Bride : WHERE'S BILL?
[slam]
Buck : I-I don't know who Bill is!
The Bride : BULLSHIT!
[another slam; then she notices the words "BUCK" and "FUCK" tattooed on his knuckles, and suddenly has a flashback from her coma]
Buck : Well, ain't you the little slice of cutie pie they said you were. "Jane Doe," huh? Well, we don't know shit about you, huh? Well, I'm from Huntsville, Texas. My name is Buck, and I'm here to fuck, ha-ha-ha...
[back to the present]
The Bride : [gently] Your name is Buck, right?
[Buck's eyes widen]
The Bride : [getting angrier] And you came here to fuck, *right*?
Buck : Wait a minute... WAIT A MINUTE-!
[and with a scream of effort and one mighty slam, Buck is dispatched to the hereafter; she goes through his pockets and finds a large pair of sunglasses, puts them on, then finds a set of car keys with a keychain that says:]
The Bride : "Pussy Wagon." You *fucker*...
[one last slam]
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O-Ren Ishii : You didn't think it was gonna be that easy, did you?
The Bride : You know, for a second there, yeah, I kinda did.
O-Ren Ishii : Silly rabbit.
The Bride : Trix are...
O-Ren Ishii : ...for kids.
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O-Ren Ishii : [in Japanese; subtitled] For ridiculing you earlier, I apologize.
The Bride : [in Japanese; subtitled] Accepted.
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The Bride : [voiceover narration] As I lay in the back of Buck's truck, trying to will my limbs out of entropy, I could see the faces of the cunts that did this to me and the dicks responsible. Members all of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other, that not only does God exist, you're doing His will.
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The Bride : Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle your big toe. Wiggle your big toe.
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The Bride : [English] I've kept you alive for two reasons. And the first reason is information.
Sofie Fatale : [French] Burn in hell, blonde bitch! I'll tell you nothing!
The Bride : [English] But I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss. Give me your other arm!
[Sophie screams]
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Sushi Bar Assistant : [Japanese] What'd ya want?
The Bride : [English] I beg your pardon?
Hattori Hanzo : [English] Oh..."drink"
[makes drinking motion with hand]
The Bride : [English] Oh, yes, a bottle of warm sake please.
Hattori Hanzo : [English] Warm sake? VERY GOOD.
Hattori Hanzo : [Japanese] One warm sake.
Sushi Bar Assistant : [Japanese] Sake? In the middle of the day?
Hattori Hanzo : [Japanese] Day, night, afternoon, who gives a damn? Get the sake!
Sushi Bar Assistant : [Japanese] How come I always have to get the sake? You listen well... for thirty years, you make the fish, I get the sake. If this were the military, I'd be General by now!
Hattori Hanzo : [Japanese] Oh, so you'd be General, huh? If you were General, I'd be Emperor, and you'd STILL get the sake! So shut up and get the sake!
Hattori Hanzo : [English] Do you understand?
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Copperhead : Look, if I could go back in a machine, I would. But I can't. All can tell you is that I'm a different person now.
The Bride : Oh great. I don't care.
Copperhead : Be that as it may, I know I don't deserve your mercy or your forgiveness. However, I beseech you for both on behalf of my daughter.
The Bride : Bitch, you can stop right there. Just because I have no wish to murder you in front of your daughter doesn't mean that parading her around in front of me will inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business. And not a goddamned thing you've done in the subsequent four years including getting knocked up is going to change that.
Copperhead : So when do we do this?
The Bride : It all depends. When do you want to die? Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow?
Copperhead : How about tonight, bitch?
The Bride : Splendid. Where?
Copperhead : There's a baseball diamond where I coach Little League about a mile from here. We meet there around two-thirty in the morning dressed all in black. Your hair in a black stocking. And we have us a knife fight. We won't be bothered. Now... I have to fix Nikki's cereal.
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The Bride : [in Japanese] O-Ren Ishii! You and I have unfinished business!
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The Bride : Then give me one of these.
Hattori Hanzo : They're not for sale.
The Bride : I didn't say "sell me", I said "give me".
Hattori Hanzo : [laughs] Why should I help you?
The Bride : Because my vermin is a former student of yours. And considering the student, I'd say you have a rather *large* obligation.
[long pause, then Hanzo walks to the window and writes Bill's name]
Hattori Hanzo : [in Japanese] You can sleep here. It will take me a month to make the sword. I suggest you spend it practicing.
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O-Ren Ishii : Your instrument is quite impressive. Where was it made?
The Bride : Okinawa.
O-Ren Ishii : [in Japanese] Whom in Okinawa made you this steel?
The Bride : [in Japanese] Hattori Hanzo.
O-Ren Ishii : [in Japanese] YOU LIE!
[the Bride shows Hattori Hanzo marking on sword]
O-Ren Ishii : [in Japanese] Swords, however, never get tired. I hope you saved your energy. If you haven't... You may not last five minutes. But as last looks go, you could do worse.
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The Bride : Go-Go, I know you feel you must protect your mistress. But I beg you, walk away.
[Go-Go giggles girlishly]
Go Go Yubari : [in Japanese; subtitled] You call that begging?
[serious tone]
Go Go Yubari : You can beg better than that!
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Copperhead : So when do we do this?
The Bride : It all depends. When do you want to die? Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow?
Copperhead : How about tonight, bitch?
The Bride : Splendid. Where?
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The Bride : [after quickly dispatching six Crazy 88's] So, O-Ren? Any more subordinates for me to kill?
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The Bride : [in Japanese] Go-Go, right?
Go Go Yubari : [in Japanese] Bingo. And you're Black Mamba.
The Bride : Our reputations precede us.
Go Go Yubari : Don't they?
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The Bride : [her first words upon waking from the coma] My baby! My baby!
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The Bride : [after finally getting her big toe to move] Hard part's over. Now let's get these other piggies wiggling.
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The Bride : [voice over] Gogo may be young; but, what she lacks in age, she makes up for in madness.
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The Bride : [voice over] It was one year after the massacre in El Paso, Texas, that Bill backed his Nippon progeny financially and philosophically in her Shakespearian in magnitude power struggle with the other yakuza clans over who would rule vice in the city of Tokyo. When the final sword was sheathed it was O-Ren Ishii and her powerful posse.
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The Bride : [voice over] She swore revenge. Luckily for her, Boss Matsumoto was a pedophile. At 11, she got her revenge.
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The Bride : Ready?
O-Ren Ishii : Come on.
