The document provides an overview of the crime fiction/action thriller film "Kill Bill" directed by Quentin Tarantino. It summarizes the narrative structure, characters types including the protagonist Beatrix Kiddo and antagonists, and Tarantino's distinctive directorial style with attention to mise-en-scene, camera techniques, editing, sound, and how these elements are used to portray the characters and build tension throughout the film.

1. KILL
BILL
GENRE –
Crime Fiction/
Action/
Thriller

2. NARRATIVE – CHARACTER
TYPES
Helpers
• Hattori Hanzo –
creates a weapon for
Kiddo to kill bill.
• Pai Mai –
• Trains Kiddo to kill bill.
Protagonist/Hero –
Beatrix Kiddo A.K.A
Black Mamba/ The
Bride – Challenging
stereotypical hero
gender.
Antagonists –
•
Vernitta Green
(Copperhead)
•
Elle Driver (California
Mountain Snake)
•
Budd (Sidewinder)
•
O-Ren Ishii (Cottonmouth)
•
Bill (Snake Charmer)

3. NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
•
Part 1: Equilibrium, slowly builds up towards the climax in
part 2 using intense music. Fades are used in between
shots to keep subtlety, titles introduce audience to the
director ‘QUENTIN TARANTINO’, this happens at the
beginning to attract viewers because Tarantino is
renowned for producing brilliant movies.
•
Part 2: Music climax’s as the title: ‘UMA THURMAN’
(protagonist) comes on screen, this is where the
disruption begins, cut edits are used in between clips in
this part to meet the pace of the trailer. We see a lot of
action which suggest the main genre of the film. Key
characters are introduced e.g. helpers and antagonists,
all the antagonists are introduced one after the other.
•
Part 3: Music dies down to how it was in part 1, we see
the protagonist gaining more control over the situation
and attempting to fix the disruption, titles are still being
used in between clips to inform the viewers about details
of the film, as the film begins to climax the main title ‘KILL
BILL’ is shown and the trailer comes to an end.

4. CAMERA AND MISE EN SCENE
•
Tarantino has kept a lot of attention to detail in this film, we’re
shown this through the Mise en Scene of the trailer e.g. the iconic
jumpsuit that the protagonist wears, this is a very bold, contrasting
costume which brings a lot of attention to the hero and helps us
depict her from the crowd during fight scenes e.g. when she is
fighting ‘The Crazy 88’ they all wear black and white suits, this has
been purposefully set up so that she can stand out as much as
possible.
•
In the shot in the top left we see her riding a motorbike and
wearing a helmet which are both the same colour and pattern as
the suit. The yellow and black stripes have been used as the main
colour scheme of the film, all these conventions help bring more
iconography to the film.
•
Tarantino has challenged stereotypical action films by giving the
characters old fashioned weapons to fight with e.g. samurai
swords, knives, maces etc. Whilst fighting in modern day
settings/locations. This makes a change to the usual gun shoot
outs which last a few seconds, Tarantino has spread the action in
the trailer out further whilst also making it more intimate and tense.
•
Tarantino has used out of the ordinary camera techniques to make
the footage more postmodern, for example canted angles, birds eye
views, extreme close up’s, handheld shots/zooms.
•
When presenting the antagonists, they have used low angles to
portray them as dominant and intimidating, whereas a lot of the
shots of the protagonist are from higher up to make her look
smaller and vulnerable.

5. EDITING AND SOUND
•
Slow motion is used to make some of the shots last for a
longer period of time so that we can see everything in view, it
also creates more tension/mystery e.g. in the shot in the
bottom right, we see the protagonist fly over our screen in
slow motion whilst the camera is spinning. This creates
disorientation and mystery as to what is going on in the
scene.
•
Titles like the image in the middle are used in this trailer, here
they have used black and yellow to maintain the colour
scheme of the film, they
•
Standard edit cuts are used in between most of the shots to
match the pace of what is going on, but in a few other shots
where the pace is slow, a graduated fade is used.
•
Most of the sound is non-diegetic, including the music and
SFX that is used to enhance what is happening on screen e.g.
sword clashes, punches etc.
•
The music used in this trailer has become very iconic due to
the film and the scenes that it is played in, it is so well known
that a lot of pastiches are made from it.