2 made their way into the world – the most colourful, cartoonish, creatively explosive movies QT has ever made. With his Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman, Tarantino went big – so big that the studio demand his ‘rip-roaring rampage of revenge’ be chopped into two separate movies.
And it all came under a title that wasn’t just a neat name, but a directive – its own two-word narrative pitch: Kill Bill. In the six years since Jackie Brown hit the screen, the filmmaker best known for his devotion to dialogue had been working on something completely different – a four-hour action epic, swirling his love of old kung fu movies, revenge westerns, anime flicks, and his ongoing fascination with pop cultural ephemera into his most experimental and adrenaline-pumping work.
Two decades ago, Quentin Tarantino unfolded an odyssey.
