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Film character

Fictional character

Beatrix Kiddo The Bride
The Bride in Kill Bill: Volume 1
First appearance	Kill Bill: Volume 1 ()
Last appearance	Kill Bill: Volume 2 ()
Created by	Quentin Tarantino Uma Thurman
Portrayed by	Uma Thurman
Full name	Beatrix Kiddo
Alias	Black Mamba Arlene Machiavelli The Bride Mommy
Gender	Female
Occupation	Assassin
Children	B.B. (daughter)
Nationality	American

Beatrix "the Bride" Kiddo (codename: Black Mamba) is the protagonist of the martial arts films Kill Bill: Volume 1 () and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (), directed by Quentin Tarantino. She is portrayed by Uma Thurman. In , Entertainment Weekly named the Bride the 99th-greatest character of the preceding 20 years, and in Empire named her the 23rd-greatest film character of all time.

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Beatrix "the Bride" Kiddo (codename: Black Mamba) is the protagonist of the martial arts films Kill Bill: Volume 1 () and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (), directed by Quentin Tarantino. She is portrayed by Uma Thurman. Her name is not revealed until the second film.

Arlene machiavelli biography wikipedia Each member of the squad had one area they excelled at over the others, Black Mamba's was blade master, specifically katana's as a favored weapon. Bill approached her, yet just as she began to reveal to him that the baby was his, he shot her in the head, leaving her for dead. Interview with Quentin Tarantino. The final scene shows the two of them on the road laughing, beginning their new lives together.

The Bride was once a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, an elite group of assassins. She is trained by the martial arts master Pai Mei and becomes the right hand of Bill, her boss and lover, provoking the envy of another Deadly Viper, Elle Driver. When the Bride discovers she is pregnant with Bill's child, she abandons the Deadly Vipers so her baby can have a better life, and becomes engaged.

Bill, assuming her fiancé is the father, orders them assassinated at the chapel and shoots her in the head.

The Bride survives and falls into a coma. Bill aborts an order to have her assassinated in the hospital, considering it dishonorable when she cannot defend herself.

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The Bride awakens from the coma years later and is horrified to find that she is no longer pregnant. She tracks down the Deadly Vipers, including O-Ren Ishii, now the leader of the Tokyo yakuza, and exacts revenge under the assumption that her child died during her coma. In Mexico, the Bride tracks Bill to a hotel and discovers that their daughter B.B.

is still alive, now four years old. The Bride kills Bill using the five-point-palm exploding heart technique, taught to her by Pai Mei. Beatrix leaves with B.B. to start a new life.

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Writing

According to Thurman, she and Tarantino created the Bride during the filming of Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction, in which she starred.^[1] Thurman provided the Bride's first name and Tarantino her last name.^{[citation needed]}

Tarantino developed many of the Bride's characteristics for the character of Shosanna Dreyfus for his film Inglourious Basterds, which he worked on before Kill Bill.

Originally, Dreyfus would be an assassin with a list of Nazis she would cross off as she killed. Tarantino later switched the character to the Bride and redeveloped Dreyfus.^[2]

Tarantino said he saved most of the Bride's character development for the second film: "As far as the first half is concerned, I didn't want to make her sympathetic.

I wanted to make her scary."^[3] Thurman cited Clint Eastwood's performance as Blondie in the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as an inspiration; in her words, Eastwood "says almost nothing but somehow manages to portray a whole character".^[4] Tarantino said that he "loves" the Bride and that he "killed himself to put her in a good place" for the ending.^[5]

Cultural influence

In , Entertainment Weekly named the Bride the 99th-greatest character of the preceding 20 years,^[6] and in Empire named her the 23rd-greatest film character of all time.^[7] In , researchers named a new species of parasitic wasp, Cystomastacoides kiddo, after her, saying it was inspired by "the deadly biology [of the wasp] to the host".^[8][9] The American basketball player Kobe Bryant adopted the Bride's codename, "Black Mamba", for himself.^[10] The American actress Evan Rachel Wood played a character inspired by the Bride and another of Thurman's characters, Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction, in a stage musical based on Tarantino's films, Fox Force Five and the Tyranny of Evil Men.^[11] The character was later portrayed by Lindsey Gort in a production.^[12]

Analysis

The essay "Visual Representations of Violent Women", by the academics Yuko Minowa, Pauline Maclaran and Lorna Stevens, argues that the Bride displays both masculine and feminine elements, which the authors feel is gender-subversive.

The authors compared the Bride to the painting Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder, and wrote that Kiddo "represents defamiliarization and affirmation of women's entitlement to violence through the visualization of excessive vengeance".^[13]

The academic Erin Harrington identified the Bride as an example of "monstrous motherhood" and a protective "Mama Bear", noting that her actions in the second film are motivated by the discovery that her daughter is alive.

The reveal of the Bride's name in the second film assists her transition from "thwarted bride to wronged mother" or an agent of vengeance to a protective mother, before settling on a more docile, maternal role once the danger has passed and her goals are achieved.^[14]

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