I’d seen Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill twice before this week: once as it was originally released, in two films six months apart, and the second, 10 years later, as a four-hour single-film version subtitled The Whole Bloody Affair. But seeing it again this week, in an even longer version of the Whole Bloody Affair cut, I found myself brought up short by its very first shot, where the camera lingers on Uma Thurman’s battered, bloody face as a man’s voice asks from offscreen, “Do you find me sadistic?”

That line hits harder in the wake of a 2018 New York Times article in which Thurman revealed that she was seriously injured during the making of the film after Tarantino persuaded her, against her initial objections, to shoot a dangerous stunt, insisting that she drive a modified car

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