Benefit of Re-viewing Movies
Mood:  chatty
Topic: movies
I was watching Pulp Fiction again after watching Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2 and it seems to be that Bruce Willis uses a Hatori Hanzou sword when he fights Zed and the shop owner. If Quentin is setting up a Tarantino-verse, (and after all Vincent Vega is the brother of the crazy Vega in Resevoir Dogs and he was even going to make a movie call the Vega Bros that was a prequel to both) then how does this make sense? I mean, Hanzou swords aren't a dime-a-dozen.
*****SPOILER WARNING: If you haven't seen Kill Bill you may not want to read on ************
Well, here's my theory: when Bill goes to warn his brother about The Bride coming to kill him, he angers Bill by saying that he pawned his sword. At first I thought he was just saying that to hurt Bill because it seems that sometime in the past they had a fight. On his sword it says, "To my brother, the only other man I ever loved" so I thought he was saying this to spite Bill. Afterall, when the girls are fighting the sword is there for The Bride to use. Here's my revised timeline. The movie makes it seem as though The Bride shows up that night. Whether she shows up that night or later on, we still don't see what he does in the meanwhile. I content that his character had indeed pawned the sword to the owner of the store in Pulp Fiction. Afterall, PF takes place in LA and KB must be near there because Bill flees to Mexico. So after Bill warns him, he goes back to the shop. The owner is dead and his sword is lying there since Wallace's men would have had no need for the sword and wouldn't know what it was worth. He picks it up and then dips out.