"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" - Tarantino Style
The Bride: You know, for a second there, yeah, I kinda did.
O-Ren Ishii: Silly rabbit. Trix are for kids.
My yard, on the other hand, immediately brought to mind the battle scene from Tarantino’s “Kill Bil: Vol 1" where O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Lui) and The Bride (Uma Thurman) battle to the death in a snowy Japanese style courtyard. The scene is visually stunning, soft snow falling, the clacking of a bamboo fountain, and the soft sound of Hatori Hanso steel as it cuts through skull and brain mass. 
Truly one of the best partial decapitation scenes ever in a motion picture, and to my memory, the only one that features woman fighters. O-Ren underestimates the Brides prowess with the samurai sword and taunts her with the classic line “Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords…” She regrets such taunting moments later, when the Brides steel cleaves through her skull, revealing to the audience a pretty good view of her thought organ, and collapses serenely into the snowscape.
So anyway, that’s what snowy evenings in my yard bring to mind. I have to get me one of those clacking fountains.
posted by adman at 7:55 p.m.
4 Comments:
I watched Alien Vs. Predator last night, in which there's a lovely partial decapitation scene -- of an alien, mind you, not Lucy Lu. Isn't it amazing how everything all links together? Snow, decapitation, aliens.... it's all a rich tapestry.
I got a clacking bamboo fountain from Coombs last summer, at a reasonable price. Just so you know.
Yes, your yard IS rather reminescent of that scene. One of my favourite fight scenes ever really.
The snow this year brought me three paid snow days so it's not all bad, but this morning shovelling snow out in my driveway the weather was bringing to mind the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee".
You call that snow? WE have snow!
Mom
It always amazes me at what you come up with. Up here in the Great Bear Rainforest, reading your Blog is always our Sunday evening entertainment.
By the way, no snow here!!!
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