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Watching old Shaw Bros movies (and LADY SNOWBLOOD) has ruined whatever enjoyment I used to get out of KILL BILL Volume 1 (the only one of the two parts I really enjoyed) I tried to re-watch it....like LADY SNOWBLOOD he just cribbed outright and stuffed white people into the roles...like whole ass shots and scenes and blocking are the exact same...may as well have just credited Toshiya Fujita for them...

BUT....

While I still dislike Part 2...that Hong Kong film education has given me a MASSIVE appreciation of the whole Pei Mai sequence where Shaw Bros. regular Gordon Liu plays the master teaching her Kung Fu....and I mean it's also copying the Shaw Bros superior work...(the "show me your skills" scene with the sword is really just the merchant tea cup scene from DIRTY HO with weapons)...but at least it tries to be interesting, and getting to watch Liu in one of his last major roles playing an elder statesmen to the young upstart that he started his career as, is super poetic. I realize he's in Part 1 two under a mask as a Crazy 8, but his role in Part 2 is just a love letter to the roles that made him what he was. If I give Tarantino nothing else (and I do NOT like that man)....I'll give him props for giving Liu one last chance to shine for casual western audiences (he was in a few other roles in HK before his 2014 forced retirement) who might not otherwise have seen him and see how brilliant he is. Similar to Ang Lee getting Chang Pei Pei back into a role that hearkened to her COME DRINK WITH ME days in CROUCHING TIGER...

Anyways, the movies didn't change, I did.