Back in 2003, when Quentin Tarantino’s first Kill Bill film, Kill Bill Vol. 1, came out, we all knew the production’s complicated saga: The director and his star, Uma Thurman (who had come up with the concept together), had intended to make one giant martial-arts revenge movie, but it wound up being so long that it got split into two pictures. By the time Kill Bill Vol. 2 came out a few months later, many of us felt that this division was the right solution. Both movies were excellent, but they were so tonally different from each another. Vol. 1 was a vibrant, no-holds-barred, mixed-media action fest, while Vol. 2 was more elegiac, sadder — a minor-key slow burn leading to a long, talky but ultimately moving finale. Plus, the entire story was already so episodic, constructed of c

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