The Legend of Pai Mai
David Carradine and Uma Thurman Lyrics

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"The Legend of Pai Mei" David Carradine: Once upon a time in China Some believe aro…
The Legend of Pai Mei David Carradine: Once upon a time in China Some believe aro…
TRULY AND UTTERLY BILL Now, When it comes to you And us I have a few unanswered…

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@tenebrosforsetti.7998

3y↑3

@Tychus Enfield Larsson TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.TRULY,TRULY ALL ABSOLUTELY BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY UNIMAGINABLE TRANSCENDENT TRANSCENDENTAL BOUNDLESSNESS LEVELS OF AMAZINGLY AMAZING AMAZINGNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE,VERY NICE.
JAEDEN ABNER D'SA. NICE,VERY NICE.

@LunaticReason

6y↑103

Pai Mei/Bak Mei (White Eyebrows) was based off a real life person and there is a Kung fu style named after him. His story as I know it but not to be taken as historical fact.

He was one of the Five Elders of the Shaolin Temple and partly responsible for its fall. During this time the Ming Dynasty had become corrupted and would be easily overthrown by the Manchurians(Qing dynasty). The leader of the Temple Hong Mei(Red Eye Brows) died and was succeeded by fellow monk Jee Sin. (possible jealousy for being passed over?) Their was contention at the temple between the two as to whom they would they would support the corrupt Ming or foreign Qing?

The Manchurian's had trouble suppressing the revolt of the Xilufan and so the Shaolin aided them with no loses but this ended up making them look like a potential threat and so two ministers plotted their destruction and although they where unable to convince the Kangxi emperor whom was grateful for their aid where able to sway his successor the Yongzheng emperor to attack the temple.

The other elders survived the massacre and would find safety at other temples for the time being Bak Mei was initially sent to Spy while his brothers and sisters prepared for rebellion but the more he saw, the more he realized their attempt would be fruitless and so he betrayed them in exchange for the his life and the lives of his students by agreeing to lead their imperial forces against his former temple.

Hated for his betrayal Bak Mei would be hunted by the surviving rebel monks and would have to go into hiding, converting to Taoism.but those whom confronted him would die at his hands,.

Finally Jee Sin and Bak Mei would meet face to face again and to spare bloodshed among all those whom followed both men decided they would end the conflict in single combat between the two. The two fought long and hard with Bak Mei the victor broke Jee Sin's neck.

Later Wu Ah Phiew(not sure his story) and Hoong Man Ting a student of Hoong Hei Khoon a layman(non religious monk) taught by Jee Sin would avenge their master and masters master by killing Bak Mei in combat.

Initially Hoong Man Ting's wife Fong Wing a superb fighter of her own would try to convince them to seek peace over violence but Bak Mei's betrayal was so great that it could not be unavenged and so she made her husband promise that regardless of the outcome that this would be end of the conflict.

The two men killed Bak Mei in combat and retired as martial artists promising to live hermetic of seclusion and pacifism.

Later in life Hoong Khoon in his eighties would find a young girl fainted on their doorstep and so he and his wife adopted her. Acting a dutiful daughter she would act as if to serve him tea but would strike him with the Phoenix Eye punch a move synonymous with the Bak Mei style.

Instead of taking action on this girl, he remembered his wife's wisdom about vengeance never ending so he accepted his karma and died peacefully.

All comments from YouTube:

@Bananaboy994

6y↑2.7K

I love, that Tarantino does not show the story but rather lets David Carradine narrate it in its entirety. It could have made for an awesome action scene, but with the vivid narration, everyone has an own story of Pai Mei in his head, as it is with legends.

@bartholen

5y↑42

Or to look at it in another way: he's telling, not showing. Which is basically the antithesis of storytelling in any visual media.

@Neuroneos

4y↑35

@Tuomas Vanne You're like the student in school who sticks by what the book says no matter what...

@perfectionbox

4y↑10

And we get to see Uma Thurman looking gorgeous

@EmyN

4y↑7

Also Bill and Beatrix moment

@gabehcuodsuoitneterp203

4y↑4

It definitely builds the tension for when The Bride first meets him.

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@ossian1977

5y↑4.7K

I love it that we re just ok with Pai Mei being at least 1000 years old.

@ziweiyuan

4y↑306

@You Know Who I Am In the original Kill Bill shooting script Bill says, "Once upon a time in China, some believe around the year, one-double-knot-three," but for whatever reason it would up being "double-aught-three" in the final print. That still makes Pai Mei pretty goddamn old, but not 1000.

@spudhead169

4y↑340

Pai Mei is at the peak of physical fitness and maintains that via specific intense targeted training. This reverses the effects of cell damage, effectively allowing continual life by halting and even reversing the process of ageing.

@dirdib69

4y↑208

It was supposed to be "one-double-eight-three" instead of "one-double-aught-three", so 1883, making Pai Mei on the other of 100 years old.

@We_Are_Borg_478

4y↑434

I find it almost insulting that he was stupid enough to let Elle poison his food. A guy like that would have eyes on her 24/7.

@rustywilson3127

4y↑2

Manuel Pirino 🤣🤣🤣

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@z.s3072

3y↑1.1K

I love how kiddo appears so vulnerable, eager, and naive here prior to her training, you can also tell how deeply infatuated she is with bill.

@jrewing1512

3y↑29

Before she got knocked up.

@blarghinatelazer9394

2y↑19

Well, her name IS Kiddo.

@janetairlines1351

7y↑1.6K

if i passed pai mei walking down the road, and, in a practically unfathomable display of generousity he were to nod at me, i would nod the fuck back!

@urmama54

7y↑10

curious george

@MrStressedOut

3y↑82

even if he didn't, I'd still bow my head for letting him grace me with his presence

@tychusenfieldlarsson206

3y↑26

You would. But concept of respect in eastern culture is different than yours. Younger salutes the elder.

@tenebrosforsetti.7998

3y↑3

@sethevans5318

3y↑10

Screw nodding I’d bow down and get the fuck out of his way

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@shindean

5y↑337

I always found there to be such depth behind her reason not to tell Bill that she learned the five Point Palm technique. If she ever admitted it to Bill, wouldn't this mean that she is a fighter on the level of Pei mei, wouldn't this had changed his mind about trying to kill her knowing she was such an elite warrior? Or perhaps she never told him because in her heart she'd hope that at some point she can have some life of normalcy with him, and didn't want his clearly frail ego to distance himself from her after learning she was the better warrior. I guess it's poetic that he thinks about her as the better one in his last moments.

@savadaflava1120

4y↑80

I think she didn't tell him because a part of her was keeping it in reserve if she ever needed to use it against him, which is why she cried and said she was a bad person when he asked why she never told him. Even though she loved him, she is a killer and she had a killer's instincts, which she felt bad about since it further verified everything that came out in their final dialogue.

@j.martinez8767

4y↑39

@Michael Collins She also said she didn't know why. Maybe because she knew deep down Bill would have taken it as an insult.

@ladyfire44

4y↑22

She didn't want to hurt Bill's feelings by telling him about Pai Mei teaching her the 5 Point Palm Exploding Heart technique. Therefore, Beatrix didn't tell him until the near end after he had witnessed her utilizing the technique on him. When Bill asks her why she didn't tell him, she claimed she didn't want to hurt him and called herself a horrible person.

@shindean

4y↑26

@Jorge M. That uncertainty is what made Kiddo better than everyone else, she had always been created to be the best killer among them, so for her to have a conscience and understand that no matter how ingrained it is, her accepting that her career is wrong is what brings her hero arc to a full circle.

@tiaaaron3278

2y↑19

She couldn't even trust Bill with their baby and left him the moment she found out she was pregnant. So I think deep down, she always held a sort of wariness against Bill.

Maybe it was one of Pai Mei's teaching. To not be trusting of others, even Bill. Or maybe the years of assassination hardened had her heart even against Bill.

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@Euroviking86

3y↑856

I love how you can tell just on Uma Thurman's face how long before the main story this takes place. She's not only head over heels in love with Bill, but also visibly younger, cockier and more naive.

@Ronin3453

3y↑18

Very much indeed.

@jrewing1512

3y↑46

And she more jovial and optimistic.

@whitealliance9540

3y↑25

Whimsical, especially when she fights pei mei the first time her facials were very shocked. I loved the contrast

@tiaaaron3278

2y↑26

She looks very phsycially soft here too, I don't know if it's the makeup artist work or just the acting. Either way, yes, the difference is obvious, not just in attitude but also in behaviour.

@JacobRivera168

1y↑54

I love how the legend of Pai Mei foreshadows the future, The five finger palm technique that was used on Bill, Ellie's defiant eye being plucked out, and I also love how it references the past as well, the massacre of the monks, the massacre of El Paso, the miscommunication between the Monk and Pai Mei, the miscommunication between Beatrix and Bill. All tied nicely togehter.

@estrangedstrayed6274

2y↑96

Fun Fact, the actor who portrayed Pai Mei in Kill Bill played the hero who killed the very same legendary Pai Mei (who in turn is based on the chinese folklore hero Bak Mei) in the 1977 film Fists of the White Lotus, referenced by name in Bill's story.

In the latter, the twin brother of the original Pai Mei mastered the "Hundred Pace Palm" technique, to which the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart was inspired by

Tarantino really knows his Kung Fu flicks

@GothamKnight84661

And you don't know his name? damn you're so disrespectful! It's Gordon Liu aka Lau Kar Fai!

@estrangedstrayed6274

1y↑2

@@TheDarkKnightisrising2039 His name is Robert Paulson

@12rens

3y↑581

Pai Mei sounds like a really cool en relaxing guy to hang out with, with no ego problems at all

@alext5497

2y↑32

Suppression of the ego is a purely western phenomenon.

@retromagic5020

2y↑15

You just heard a story of this man NOT kill, MASSACRE 68 Monks because One didn’t respect his nod and you think he’s Relaxing.

@12rens

2y↑26

@ReTroMagic Sarcasm.....

@retromagic5020

2y↑4

@12rens sorry, brain didn’t pick it up at the time😅

@markhunter3533

2y↑6

@ReTroMagic only 68? That sounds pretty chill to me, and he did spare their families if they had.

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@rhapsody710

3y↑168

As you listen to Bill describe the technique and tell the story, you realize that this is exactly how he is going to die.

@belle6631

I knew that, precisely when it happened later in the movie!

@jaymthesn5981

Not really... Because Pai Mei won't waste his time with Bill.

@natural_law

35w

spoiler alert lol

@madzerincognito9732

29w

@@jaymthesn5981????

@aristrosa

5y↑321

The way he interacts with Beatrix is just so calm and sweet. Really charming and yes I know their relationship is also toxic. But things in the beginning was quite nice like this scene.

@brettbaxter7882

4y↑30

Until he shoots her in the face.

@godzilla4005

4y↑51

He's the snake charmer after all

@jrewing1512

3y↑8

@Brett Baxter That's because she fake her death and led him believe he was dead.

@vidproquo918

3y↑32

He's a narcissist and a psycho himself. They usually are charming. Give them a minute and put them under stress. Then exit quietly and quickly

@rickkcir2151

3y↑929

monk doesn’t return the nod
Pai Mei: “and I took that personally”

@Chokblaar

3y↑37

So you have chosen, death

@lo-rez

3y↑12

Literally

@whitealliance9540

3y↑36

Me: holds door open for you
Dude: says nothing
Me: have you ever heard the legend of pei mei??

@rileykaplan3470

37w↑3

@@whitealliance9540 😂

@nvader6

21w↑3

“I…overreacted.”

@TheShaheen123

3y↑146

I love her smile in this scene. Its filled with love to Bill.

@jrewing1512

3y↑11

If it wasn't for the pregnancy she would never leave Bill or that lifestyle.

@TimOaks

9y↑2K

Story-telling at its finest.

@Wastelander1972

6y↑25

Tarantino 101.

@StevenCBlah

6y↑8

That was actually an awful story

@garcalej

5y↑9

The best.

@guiapq

4y↑12

@StevenCBlah but it's a notable one. that's what matters

@temarcuscooper1062

3y↑2

👍.

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@1ginner1

5y↑73

Probably David Carradine's best scene in a movie, ever. Tarantino is a master at casting the right person in the role destiny created for them.Consider all the main characters, and think of someone else playing that character, difficult, isn't it.

@MrDeadhead83

2y↑3

Originally, Tarantino wanted Warren Beatty as Bill

@darthvirgin7157

2y↑2

i disagree.

DC’s best scene was in the wedding chapel.

amicable niceties as a facade, but raging jealousy and anger boiling underneath. every gesture and comment he made while talking to the bride gave a sense of foreboding and dread oozing with contrived congeniality, while the bride tried hard to hide her fear and apprehension.

@donvitotv

Taken from "circle of iron"

@1ginner1

@MrDeadhead83 Yeah I heard that as well and he wanted Dolly Parton as The bride.

@hafizo_kurosaki2259

4y↑86

Imagine if Pai Mei has his own movie, he would be one of the best anti hero ever

@M0butu

4y↑43

You won't believe it: He already has, several even. Just search "White Lotus".

@JnEricsonx

3y↑28

@M0butu Even more so because the guy playing him, Gordon Liu, had FOUGHT that same character in some of his movies, in a bit of irony.

@o-wolf

39w↑1

*best Villains ever

@bradebronson8835

4y↑104

This story is a homage to the original "Fist of the White Lotus" movie where the Pai Mei in Kill Bill plays the Shaolin Monk in that movie who kills Pai Mei. There's also a scene where Pai Meis men massacre Shaolin Monks and they even have the exploding heart technique too. Dope classics both movies.

@GothamKnight84661

1y↑1

And his name is Gordon Liu! damn!

@scottpartridge6870

5y↑2.6K

i need one of these flutes next time my boss needs an explanation why i didnt get my work done over the weekend...

@VinceVanZan

5y↑63

Handcrafted replica by Forrest Flutes for only $80. Pretty impressive! As close as you can get to Carradine's since he hand made his own.

@barbraseville8984

4y↑9

Yasssss

@juanchocorleone

4y↑151

So there I was. Looking at my laptop's screen. Struggling... finding ideas, living a dreadful morning with limited creativity. And then, it came to me! A realization! [Plays some notes on the flute]

My work wasn't getting done, and I was bored as fuck. Hours were mere minutes, minutes were nothing but seconds. I was fast by being slow.

The work... Was unfinished [plays the flute again].

@DomIstKrieg

4y↑6

@Juancho Corleone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX1RHrj7IP4 You need to have a phone handy as well so you can play this at the end for emphasis.

@zackiinu7194

4y↑6

Juancho Corleone Genius! Come work for me now!

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@alexanderg1935

3y↑29

This scene always comes to mind when I hold the door for someone and they don't say thank you.

@Artisan1979

2y↑6

I first got to know David Carradine through Kung Fu the legend continues in 1993. Him with the flute, the slow speaking style and the Shaolin background. David channels that background in this dialogue because it's so damn cool. It holds you. Even though he is playing a character completely, galactically opposite to Kwai Chiang Caine, you really want to listen. Brilliant performance. RIP legend.

@capnskiddies

2y↑33

A quote from this rattled into my consciousness at 4 this morning. The baby woke at half three. "At first I tried to console her, only to find she was inconsolable". What followed next was the massacre of all three remaining hours of sleep at the tears of a one year old.

@jamietodd2560

4y↑526

I'd sit by a fire and listen to David Carradine tell stories forever.

@sphinxrising1129

4y↑15

Well, you could have had David Carradine not died jacking off while chocking himself, but that is another story. lol

@mauricehurender6233

4y↑3

Sure you could've held the rope for him, just watch out for jiz...

@stillnessinmotion81

4y↑15

@Sphinx Rising it's a possibility he was murdered

@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443

4y↑8

It has been reclassified as a murder investigation long ago.

@googlesucks925

@Sphinx Rising do you believe everything you hear on the grape vine?

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@MrElPoderozo1

7y↑357

I grew up watching Kung fu and always loved when he played the flute. Anybody else felt the sameway?👍

@kaveson101

7y↑9

Maybe it's because YOU play the"SkinFlute"

@MrElPoderozo1

7y↑3

kaveson101. Dude your sick!😁

@evrettej

6y↑3

MrElPoderozo1 same here my friend. It's a sign of a true fan. They usually have the flute in old school Kung Fu movies.

@jamiejobs1128

6y↑1

MrElPoderozo1 you're*

@sarahlindsay7767

6y↑1

I loved the flute and his voice

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@RobertEskuri

4y↑170

People were impressed when they realized he trained her how to rip out someone's eyeball (Elle) and were really impressed when they realized he also trained her to do the exploding heart technique. (Bill) ☠️

@j.martinez8767

4y↑25

She was truly wise beyond her years and Pai Mei saw that.

@mikeyhetfield

4y↑12

She blew him.

@khabriel

4y↑7

And a random yakuza guy during the 88's crazy fight 😉

@bannedaccount3752

3y↑28

Her arm belonged to him (Pai Mei), and he wanted "his" arm to be strong.

@edvinparmeza1298

2y↑7

Deep down inside, Pai Mei somehow knew that she was not an average yankee money-spending woman

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@MrFennmeista

2y↑14

One does not receive the unfathomable gesture of Pai Mei's nod without most graciously reciprocating a nod in return

@ScottAlvin

3y↑270

Imagine if Bill went:

Have you ever heard the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?

@andmicbro1

2y↑10

It's not a story Pai Mei would tell you.

@a-dub6434

1y↑1

And Beatrix would reply
And what pray tell is the tragedy of Darth plaguies the wise

@josegonzalezgonzalez3486

27w

I would totally listen

@st0n3p0ny

2y↑18

It occurs to me that every element of this scene has an innate simultaneous life/death dichotomy. Light/dark. Beauty/brutality. Except for the flute... The desert landscape itself is beautiful, it's also a harsh and brutal environment where only the strongest meanest creatures can survive. The fire. Fire is the first building block of humanity, we need it, it sustains human life, it's beautiful, and it kills and consumes and it's a horrific way to die. Life and death at the same time. The sky. Night represents death, yet the night sky in the desert is incredibly beautiful at the same time. A beautiful woman in the firelight, and she's also a savage killer. Beauty and brutality at the same time. Bill, with his incredible voice playing beautiful music and reciting a beautiful story, and he's a ruthless killer... The only exception is the flute.

Is Tarantino making a statement about how music is transcendent? It rises above and it's apart from these concerns? Or, maybe that flute has been used as a weapon to bludgeon someone to death?

@kreterakete

I like your words

@Libertoso

Lmao you can't help but love people's pretentious and nonsensical analysis of every single thing Tarantino does

@st0n3p0ny

@El Libertoso your mother

@0sgtmay0

1y↑1

The flute using these tones has been used in a lot of Hollywood kung fu productions as a way to impart a ethereal(spiritual) feel to the scene.
David Carradine was in a kung fu tv series (played the character Caine) in the early 1970s and has a long history with the instrument.

@LunaticReason

6y↑103

@bufordt.justice7777

5y↑2

Get a life.

@JackCaz

5y↑20

Buford T. Justice Moron

@sheogucci

5y↑17

@Buford T. Justice asshole

@shivamsharma-gg3iv

5y↑2

Tnx

@mikediao15

Wrong

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@dou5689

1y↑8

Pai mei is the pettiest and most POWERFUL person in the Universe, the deadliest combination of all. Snake is certainly not the first person who tried to poison him over the 1000 years, so I don't believe he can be killed that easily.

@gerardcollins80

4y↑32

I love that Tarentino always includes a moment in his movies where someone narrates, and then finishes their monologue with "and that will be the story of you."

@tiaaaron3278

Can't remember anything else like that from his movies

@gerardcollins80

2y↑2

@Tia Aaron Django Unchained. When the butler is telling Django his fate as a mining slave.

@kickpublishing

2y↑2

My gran always used to say that after issuing some sort of danger warning.

@The_Isaiahnator

3y↑34

Pai Mei is petty and vindictive AF. 😂

@natural_law

35w↑2

frfr🤣

@ghostface9171

6y↑7

Everyone who's ever played pai has done a good job

@nanan6793

3y↑41

Could Tarantino have cast a better Bill?

Masterful performance!!!

@GinaSigillito

3y↑15

I consider this the best five minutes in cinema. Just perfect.

@ajt725

26w↑1

The blow that he did after he says, “the nod was not returned”. Brilliant 👌🏽

@johnchaney5386

4y↑7

PAI MEI IS AWESOME HIS PERSONALITY IS EXACTLY THE WAY I FEEL AND LIVE HE IS COMPLETELY DESENSITIZED LIKE THE WORLD HAS MADE ME IF I HAD TO TEACH ANY ONE TRAINING I WOULD TEACH EXACTLY LIKE PAI .

@vuilnisgod4388

3y↑4

You good?

@bababooie125

3y↑4

You ok Mate?

@geraltofrivia9424

Easy with the caps lock, dude

@guadalupeflorian7913

4y↑28

An assassin telling a story with a flute, he must have really loved her, but not bad enough to understand her wish to have a child free from an assassin’s life.

@salinacarter1342

2y↑2

Can you imagine being buried in a box six feet below...ALIVE? This is truly when her training by Pai Mei showed its success!

@stevenjackson3442

3y↑17

"Did he just fail to see the generous social gesture ..." Great monologue.

@Kharn526

7y↑605

Man, David's voice is soothing!

@Vleeslucht

6y↑19

asmr

@TheGonzoArt

5y↑6

@PEANUT Yes, he and Michael Parks were doing ASMR before we knew what ASMR was lol

@danielroman9871

5y↑2

Was

@yawgmoth6568

5y↑6

Not as soothing as strangling yourself while choking the chicken.

@birdman1200

4y↑3

@Yawg moth a man of culture, I see.

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@benjaminknotts745

2y↑4

I always like to explain the consequences of an action I think is completely irrational or absurd and then conclude with

“ .. and that will be the story of you.”
It always gets a double take

@811chelseafc

4y↑133

“And that will be the story of you”

Of the mountainous catalogue of great Tarantino lines, that simple one my be my favorite.

@anton_c8gur

3y↑4

and that would be the story of you django

@AgentAO7

I have so many favorite lines from the Kill Bill 2 movie..

Beatrix to Elle: Bitch, you don’t have a future!

Esteban to Beatrix: How else is he ever going to see you again?

Budd to Bill: That woman deserves her revenge.. and we deserve to die..

@FUN-fy5dd

5y↑443

"The motives of the monk remain unknown. What is known are the consequences......"

@pablodono7227

3y↑13

Pai Mei was a psycho, that's the consequence

@smlchristian3

3y↑10

Motive? Pai Mei felt insulted that his act of generosity wasn't acknowledged or appreciated. Consequence? Death.

@pablodono7227

3y↑9

@The SHIZAMuel as I said a psycho and a coward.. A psycho bc the punishment is exaggerated for the fault committed (if it even was a fault) and a coward bc he has like the super secret formula to have super powers so they were no match for him and thus he was not a brave person

@smlchristian3

3y↑6

@Pablo Dono Don't insult ancient Chinese traditions or the people who devote their lives to them. They know how to inflict pain and kill you in ways we've likely never thought of.

@pablodono7227

@The SHIZAMuel 🤣🤣🤣

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@gamezob

7y↑704

If you flash him, even for an instant, a defiant eye, he'll pluck it out

@janetairlines1351

7y↑103

Gamezob just ask elle.

@alexgeorge3068

6y↑28

He's not a eunuch. He has just mastered bollock concentration.

@casualobserver3145

4y↑5

California Mountain Snake found this out the hard way....

@Phishkisses

4y↑23

Whenever I cut an avocado in half, I hold up the half with the seed and imagine that, just for an instant, it flashed me a defiant eye.

@casualobserver3145

Lol 😂

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@whitealliance9540

3y↑1

This is my favorite scene from ANY movie and ive seen it all from "here comes mr jordan" to "valley of the wolves" which is a banned iraqi movie... Ive seen it all and this one scene and umas smile as the fire caresses her face and Carrodene is playing the wooden flute, telling his legend of pei mei.
Its amazing. Gentle and beautiful.

@harborwolf22

39w↑1

"... and that will be the story of you."

Goddamnit, what an amazing performance.

@souloftheage

4y↑14

Uma Thurman is an outstanding actress.

@jimmysexson164

Uma Thurman’s smile is priceless. The sweetest smile i’ve seen in a movie in a long time

@danield4547

If you read the original script, QT even put in the notes how good of an actress she is.

@XionLuis

3y↑11

David Carradine is one of my all-time favourites

@Asher_Tye

3y↑74

The lesson: Good manners are a social must.

@ZakiyaMariposa

6y↑6

Bill's best storytelling begins at 0:25

@kaysree71

3y↑13

Everytime I watch this video, I always get a feeling this story of Pai Mei was inspired from the history of Chanakya.

Chanakya, a poor Brahmin, on being insulted by the mighty king Nanda, from whom even greek conqueror Alexander feared and retreated, plotted an elaborate revenge, vanquished the entire royal family of the Nandas and ended up replacing king Nanda with Chandragupta Maurya and thus architecting beginning of the glorious Mauryan dynasty in India.

@Automobiliana

3y↑1

The way Uma Thurman smiles in this clip 🥰

@lordslongo1775

3y↑1

Moral of the story. Show respect to your elders. Especially if they are as powerful of Pai Mei.

@Dwip_po_po

41w↑1

She’s so smitten by him. I can see why she let Bill finish because he literally is the goat. He’s that guy .

@cardnial_omega6701

5y↑167

Bill's voice is weirdly soothing, yet sadistic at the same time. Who else aggres?

@gabecollett

4y↑12

He’s evil and compelling at the same time.

@alexstathopoulos165

4y↑1

I must say I aggres, quite often actually

@M0butu

4y↑1

@Alex Stathopoulos you are quite agreesive.

@bbb-dk7pz

bills voice is quite masoschistic

@Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo

6y↑36

Easily my favourite trantino scene. David is a master story teller 😗

@enlightenones3863

1y↑9

I tell this story to my kids before bed time and they love it lol

@gatobrujo8726

2y↑6

4:17 I always loved that little circle with the flute

@josef2012

50w↑1

"And that will be the story of you..." Beautiful 🙏

@MB5rider81

3y↑1

I love how when first watching this movie you almost join Beatrix and assuming that it's a joke.
And I love that how when you finally see pie Mei he is ultra badass

@thetavibes9021

6y↑1.3K

The nod... Was not returned.

@TheCaptainnoU

6y↑79

cancer flute

@stormbringer2840

5y↑76

translation: " shit got real."

@DKshad0w

:nod:

@nerdking81

4y↑21

man, Pai Mei was a little bitch

@savagenature1

4y↑2

"Like" # 666. Your Welcome ;)

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@haamishmcgarry

28w↑1

Because of this scene I always make sure I give everyone I pass a slight nod

@hkan1218

3y↑1

David carradine s storytelling and voice is just perfect

@paradisejoe1137

4y↑1

In fact there is a story about Pei Mai or in chinese called Bak Mai...it was in the year 1727..... He was the 7nth shaolin monk and belonged to the 5 oldest in the temple. The Qin were in front of the temple and wanted to invate but the gates were closed and the Shaolin did not want to surrender. Pei Mai was the one who betrayed the Shaolin and opened the gates for their army in the night. They killed the most of the monks and destroyed the temple. And since this days the Shaolin try to avoid the 7. For example in Shaolin Chi Kung you repeat the practice maybe 8 times or 9 times but never 7. Because of this massacre.

@goergebobicles1351

3y↑20

Bill tells the story of how Pai Mei murdered 60 monks over one of them essentially not saying "good afternoon" to him, and Uma Thurman's face is this the entire time: 2:13

@FUN-fy5dd

4y↑61

"Only to find out Pai Mei was inconsolable."

@MyoclonicJerkCough

5y↑8

Plot twist, Pai Mei was totally his secret crush and he was so overcome with emotion that he noticed him that he couldn't think straight until they had passed each other, and by then it was too late. He almost turned and got his attention just to nod at him but realized that would be idiotic, so he ran home with his tear ducts and nasal passage overproducing secretions all the way. The next day he was so angry with himself for blowing his chance so badly that he vowed he would finally make the move and send a letter to Pai Mei professing his long burning love. Unfortunately Pai Mei came before the mail man and the rest is history... they left the love letter part out of the legend because it was private and some of the old timers found it pretty gay tbh

@Doooooooooooood

3y↑2

There once was man who played with his flute. He played with his flute in a hotel room. He knew how to play with that flute in the most perfect way. He knew how to make that flute sing. He made it sing in a secret way that only he and his wardrobe knew.

@Luisfour

his motivations were... well pretty clear, but the consequences, clearer

@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc

"If you flash him a defiant eye, he will pluck it out"

Fantastic foreshadowing

@biggreglikewhat

I love the flash in her eyes when Bill tells her Pai Mei never teaches anyone the technique.

@natural_law

Women want what they can't have. #Eve

@VoiceNerd

9y↑153

Something that most fail to understand is that Quentin Tarantino has a flawless record of films (Deathproof as the weakest, admitted by Tarantino, himself) within his career and truly is the greatest Directors of all time. Yes, most would have their own picks like Spielberg although he has had plenty of iconic films Quentin rarely has any films in his record that miss miserably. Not many can say that.

@AYstrength

8y↑13

+Voice Nerd to think there is a greatest director is just pityful...

@VoiceNerd

8y↑13

Why? I have an opinion and I felt like expressing it. Now, I could be right. I could be wrong. Regardless, it's an opinion. Why is that "pitiful?" Unless you don't understand my position of being a big fan of movies and working as a videographer and independent film maker. If your insulting me because of my position as a fan or just a disregard for others opinion, then I would say your statement, itself, is pitiful.

@andywood375

Although he only wrote it, I thought Natural Born Killers was a low point for Tarantino. Sure, I appreciate that it's a piss-take of how much attention the media gives to murderers, but I think he went too far with it. All of the films that Tarantino directed had some sense of morality about them, but that was completely absent in Natural Born Killers.

@glassjaw2007

sorry but Tarantino is not even close to one of the greatest of history, he is a great storyteller and filmmaker, but his stories are void, and are just a pleasure to watch in a sensory and perverse way, just like Spielberg both hit some psique within, infant wonder and the natural taste for violence...i ask you, what Tarantino movies can teach you about humanity or to be a better human being? Nothing...

@joshb20101

7y↑2

The Real Mr J. Oliver stone directed that. you can't blame Tarantino for stone's typical directing choices

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@spacevertex

5y↑9

One of my favourite scenes in the masterpiece.

@CrooklynKnight

3y↑12

Bill: he teaches no one the five point palm exploding heart technique.

Kiddo: hold my beer.

@garisbaldeagle

Or, Kiddo: hold my Hattori Hanzo sword 🤣👌

@ruffhausmalinois

Hold my Mamba

@karamsingh982

4y↑1

Not sure if your aware the flute was never meant to be in the movie
Tarantino saw David play it and thought the first scene in vol 2 and this scene be perfect
Great improvisation for a masterpiece of a movie

@greeksun369

37w

Bill was a great storyteller.

@JoseMolina-ij3xx

IT's weird that Pai Mei can fight old age and death for over 1000 years, but all it took was a bit of food poisoning to defeat Pai Mei or at least weaken him enough for the Grim Reaper to come.

@ulrichenry4881

2y↑2

The story starts in the 14th century, so pai mei is practically immortal

@jimkontoroupis7185

this scene had setted off a nightmare for my sister back when we were kids...me pretending to be pai-mei and her the helpless victim
xD

@TheGonzoArt

5y↑8

I wish we would've gotten a scene like this in The Last Jedi, where Luke tells Rey a story that Master Yoda told him in Empire Strikes Back (off-screen of course lol) Woukd have been great to see them meditate by a fire in the dark of night....

But i digress, this scene is so important for any kung fu film.

@streetlawyer

What about the two versions of the Ben temple scene that Luke tells to rey? "By the time I realised I was no match for the darkness rising in him . . . It was too late."
"I saw darkness. I'd sensed it building in him. I'd seen it in flashes during his training . . . "

@michaellrakes5521

Bill has a flair for the dramatic, with his own soundtrack on the flute, narrating his story doesn't he? Still awesome in everyway though

@northseawolf

40w

I love how Pai Mei was already in his 80s, when William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.

@pauldavies9360

2y↑2

I need that flute in my life! Now.

@CB66941

19w

It it incredibly unfortunate what happened to Pai Mei's actor though. Such is life.

@andiamocclash397

47w↑1

The part they leave out from the legend is that the monk was blind and didn't see the ''nod''. Pai Mei was just a bully and wanted to start a fight with the peaceful monks 😥

@stevethepirate2875

4y↑5

I've read that the flute he is using is the same one that he used in the movie "Circle of Iron" when he played a blind beggar/guide.

Whether it really is, is hard to say. Carradine had several flutes.

@abohsukampret

4y↑12

I've been watching these Kill Bill clips the whole day, I might've watched the full movie.

@vicivobooh

5y↑10

David's voice is smooth..great storyteller.

@jordanforever21

4y↑7

The wood in that fire has to be the strongest wood in history. They never even moved.

@UltimoGames

It is HollyWood hahhahaa

@SaltpeterTaffy

50w↑1

2:45 I love the grimness with which Bill says "inconsolable."

@marksnexus

7y↑115

Ultimate badassery 🔥

@devilgamer-rr8639

3y↑3

Kinda interesting how the Pai Mei story of him killing all the monks at the temple is similar of how Beatrix killed the entire 88 crazy gang in their lair

@Throwyourstones

2y↑1

My favorite segment of Kill Bill. Not sure why but Beatrix Kiddo finds herself with the tutelage of Pai Mei.

@pyrotechnick420

6y↑1

I like how he talks about Pai Mei living over a 1000 years ago.
And then Kiddo asks, did he teach you the exploding heart technique?
Most viewers at that point should be like "did I miss something?"

@ShreeNation

Pai Mei is not a person, but an idea and a codename. The techniques of Pai Mei have been taught by generations and the codename adopted.

@RampageYI

The story bill told mirrors their story with the perceived disrespect by kiddo leaving him and the reason being not important to him and being inconsolable and to the massacre at the church to the five palm whatever it’s called being used on him and that’s the story of the bride. Crazy!!!

@Digmer

3y↑1

Bud said this is for breaking my brothers heart ...boy he had no idea how right he was.

@rameeziqbal8711

1y↑1

Pai Mei was inconsolable

@tiaaaron3278

2y↑3

Bill's voice is incredibly relaxing, my ASMR is activated.

@emilypetsche1

2y↑2

Mine too

@PanzerMold

47w↑1

Knowing Pai Mei, the nod of respect was intended to provoke an act of disrespect, no matter how small the slight, Pai Mei was acting on it. He is kind of extreme in that way.
He was looking for a fight, it wasn't much of one.

@DF-eg8vl

We need a Pai Mei in every school and university in the U.S. yesterday.

@SacGhostbusters

47w

So in theory, if someone were to not walk away, could they live? Could Bill have lived if he had not walked away? And would you heal over time?

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