An example of how kung fu training can be... I obviously dont have copyright of movie but i like training vids, and this one little scene of Tough Kung Fu Trains for a blonde, Uma Thurman :D
"Since your arm now belongs to me, I want it strong" This is such a cool fucking line. After disgracing her, he tells her he's fully committed to making her strong.
@@HaydenLau.You Chinese people need to just write the correct damn translation of what he says instead of teasing us all the time with "he's actually much more insulting"😂😂
@@jihigh482 I'm not going to translate an eight minute video. I'll give you an example though, when he says "your so called kung fu is really quite pathetic" what he actually said was "you're weaker than a cripple, try again, trash" And the word cripple in Cantonese also carries the connotation of trash.
"He hates Caucasians, despises Americans, and has NOTHING but contempt for women. So in your case, it might take a while." - this part always cracks me up lol
He taught her the secret ultimate move because Kiddo sticks through it regardless of how difficult master is and the hardship of the training, and she kept improving her skills
well, Pai Mei must have liked her from the first meeting: she got pissed off and showed it, fought him, and tried to hit him with a brick in the back of his head ...this is the most fun he had in a long while. He liked the feisty character.
Well, apparently he was training her to be more proficient than Bill from the start. He didn't show let alone teach Bill that dancing on the enemies sword technique. Then he tells her at the start of the training, "what do you do if the enemy is three inches in front of you? Curl into a ball or do you put your fist right through him? Those both sound far more deadly than the five pointed palm exploding heart technique!
I think he was able to assess her potential. By his standards he knew she had never had a proper master and although she was “amateur at best” he couldn’t attribute her weaknesses to her own shortcomings. He saw her skill set she had acquired from the inferior training and knew it he would have the ability to improve her. He also saw how she carried herself as a person and saw her willingness to do what was required to improve. Her tenacity was apparent.
Right!? I'm half vietnamese myself and the only thing I know asians are always racist against is their neighboring asians 😂 the japs and Chinese especially it's blood feud that's been going on for ages and ww2 made it 100x worse
what pai mei meant was there was no middle ground...it is either you can or you can't ...basically pai mei is shredding her ego....and building it back up...
7:49 I just love how he asks if she's interested in becoming this OP after all inflictions of pain and insults. This sudden question really shows that such sadism is not his primary intent. He really is interested in raising a better warrior.
yes...boot camp. Their job is to strip ANY civilian thought, and train warriors. But sadly not this generation. It truly is some kind of alchemy - change something into something else.
He really did warm up to her in the end, teaching her the "...exploding heart technique" When she found out her master was poisoned you could see how much she wanted revenge for his death. One helluva of a movie!
Not just honor. Anger and overconfidence gets you killed. By taking her arm he's saying " I had 100 opportunities to kill you, remember that next time you decide to swing at me like a toddler"
@@patrickirish8091 to be fair HE CHALLENGED HER not the other way around, she was trying to be humble, and literally groveling at his feet. He insulted japanese people(whom she respected because she learned the samarai sword albeit from Bill) he also degraded her in every way possible before hand. Pai Mei is not some humble wise Miagi sensei type he is a certified A-hole with an ego the size of a skyscraper backed by unrivaled power and no one to keep him in check.
Uma is such a great actor. Here she has the eager happy face of a teenager hoping to succeed, no hint of what’s to come. All in her facial expressions. So great.
@@user-yg1cs3ov9y I understand your point. However, some people believe those who act should be referred to as actors regardless of their gender. No doubt you could make case for/case against.
@@Capcoor you can go look up any dictionary the word actor was and still is reserved for a male. just because some woke person want to make every word gender neutral doesn't mean the world has to follow his insanity
remind me of the legendary Bajiquan master Li Shuwen, unbeatable during his lifetime, killed a lot of kungfu masters in duels, later were killed by poison by one of the family members of the master he killed.
I love that the dedication, focus, and commitment displayed during her training actually sets her apart from the other assassin's, and ultimately above them in the end.
@@SpeccyMan lol "never". You're completely wrong, dingdong. Commas are always placed before conjunctions when the sentences can stand independently. If you're going to be pedantic, at least be in the ball park.
When he had her arm it really felt like he was experiencing an internal dilemma of whether to break it or not depending on her answers. Very powerful moment in this scene.
No one has issues with strong women protagonists when they are well written characters who have flaws weaknesses and overcome hardships and earn the success they achieve.
I just realised that's why I hate feminist rhetoric to a degree. Sure if the best person for a role is overlooked because of prejudice then that's outrageous. But often they look at someone who's worked themselves to the bone to reach the top, and disregard that struggle because "he only got there because he's a man". Jealousy.
I only just now realized why Pai Mei tortured Bea at the end and that's cause she literally tried to hit him with a brick and cheap shot him just cause she was getting cooked by him and felt embarrassed/frustrated..........very dishonorable by her.
I feel like it would have ended that way either way. Pai Mei was baiting her on purpose, he set her up and was expecting her to take a cheap shot so that he could teach her the first lesson. I’m basing this off of a few things but mainly because he said “that is the beginning” .
@@vinsanity982 I agree, I feel like if she tried some shit like that again it would end way worse; but I doubt he wouldve antagonized/baited her like this throughout her training, unless he had to humble her again aha
For those that think she landed a blow at 6:41, I don't think that counts as a blow because it looks like he was expecting it, allowed her to do it, and used it as a trap to then attack.
I didn’t think too much about it before but I imagined this guy knew what Bill and his gang were all about. They were bad people, all of them but he took them in and trained them anyway. It just makes his character more interesting. Maybe he was an old man so bored and full of knowledge and experience that he’s willing to train anyone who had the grit and determination to follow thru.
@@godbluffvdggYou m0r0ns going around RU-vid telling people that it's "just a movie/show" are so pathetic lol don't forget to remind people who still study Romeo & Juliet that "it's just a play". Fvcking idiot
07:17 " It's my arm now. I can do what i please."_pai mei It was pai mei's arm on her body that threw that knife, chopped off that head, plucked that eyeball, punched its way out of a grave and five point finger exploding heart technique the fck out of bill and everyone else on her list. this movie is a masterpiece
Pai Mei is a master. I don't think the people he trained before could ever understand the mind of a master. It's a different thing that they acquired some training from him. I don't know but he doesn't appear condescending to me in this clip. He's a genius and easily bored, has his personal views and takes only his art seriously. Everything said in the beginning about him turns out to be false. He agreed to train her immediately. I just felt right from the beginning that he liked her immediately. Ridiculing her was a way of assessing her personality.
@@sopek1427 Agreed. It's just a different philosophy. A master devotes his life to something....be it even something mundane. It's more than "picking up a skill". You want to be a bartender? It's more than mixing drinks. It's understanding how flavors combine. How things compliment each other? The balance of these things. Yet the perspective in the West is - just a bartender. The same can be said for so many other skillsets. Landscaping, plumbing, making coffee, etc.
I mean, Bill honestly could have been doing that thing where you tell people that your cat doesn't like people when in reality it's a cuddly li'l guy and then they feel like they're really special when your cat warms up to them immediately. Pai Mei is just a big grumpy kitty who is really good at Kung Fu.
Peace, been reading the comments and did see anyone shout out the Legend, Gordon Liu. Shaw Brothers movies was my childhood. Gordon Liu my favorite. Peace
The unspoken rule of any swordsman is that you do not draw a blade unless you fully intend to use it. When he told the Bride to pull the sword, she knew that he was telling her it was fight time. Pai Mai was impressed she understood.
This scene is still the best parody/homage of all those martial arts movies/manga/anime out there, from Kickboxer/Bloodsport to Kung Fu and Dragon Ball.
I love how he was content to insult and you with her, until she started fighting dirty and void of skill or honor. But once she did, he ended it quickly.
Canto speaker here. I find some of the translation not accurate. Below is my attempt for a better version? More like a direct translation. I’m not good with English, so my vocabs are probably limited. Haha. 2:19 Your han language is very bad. I cant understand a word. In fact it hurt my ears. If I don’t tell you to speak, you do not speak. Your Han language is good or your cantonese? 2:33 Wo speak Japanese… 2:36 I am not asking you about Japanese language, or about Mongolian language. I am asking do you know Cantonese (Guang Dong Language) 4:06You look out of breath. Must be from the few hundred something steps up and feel tired. I think you are only silly, your overall health are very weak as well. 5:05 if I lose to you, then today I’ll kneel down and call you master. 5.25 You seen my kung fu. Now try my leg technique. 5.48 Even a cripple is stronger than you. Again, you garbage. 5.57 I’ve given you the opportunity to demonstrate your kung fu knowledge. I see you know absolutely nothing. 7.50 Do you want to learn the kung fu style that I used earlier? I guess that’s all. The rest are okay. K.tks.bye
2:15 The one leg kneel came about in middle aged Europe. When knights kneeled to the king, their armor was so heavy, they could only kneel on one leg so they could get back up. She should have kneeled with both legs.
i dont know if you tried but kneeling with both legs like that is really uncomfortable and it was done on purpose. its supposed to make your legs numb after a while so you couldnt stand up easily and attempt on the emperor's life
There is on his character, he’s an established character from the older Chinese movies. You should be able to find a history video on him if you search RU-vid
As others have stated he is based on a character in old martial arts movies, when Bill is by the campfire explaining Pai Mai to Beatrice that’s basically Tarantino telling you about the films that Pai Mai is in. Also shortly after KB 2 came out Tarantino had a plan for a film about Bill’s past and the three father figure that raised/trained him. Those being The pimp lord (can’t remember his name) Okinawa sword smith Hatori Hanzo and Kung Fu master Pai Mai. He wanted it to be animated I think. But it never happened and with David Carradines passing it was cancelled.
Pai Mai's lines to me are the best lines QT ever wrote for any of his characters in any move. Gordon Liu's delivery is also simply perfect. Just like Sony Chiba, who played Hattori Hanzo in Volume 1, he was at the time a huge star in Far East, including China, but both were virtually unknown in the West. This movie and their relatively small but crucial roles opened them to the wider audience.
i remember when this was leaked online. my father came down from a nother state for a few days he absolutely loved this movie. He would say remember that movie when that girl snatched out that other girls eye. !? makes me laugh every time these clips come up in my feed. we used to watch these Chinese junk fu movies in the 80’s. he said that dude is still playing that flute. 😂😂😂😂
A Chinese teacher of any discipline is like this, for real. They’re very hard on you. Similar in that you have to earn their respect by being ultra respectful to them and through doing as they say and do to get better and better, once you’re good and they can see you do it the way they showed you. You have their respect. If you are lazy and displease them they don’t bother as much with you as the others and you lose out on small secrets and advantages that they would show you if you were respectful to them.
I remember after watching the first Kill Bill movie and thinking "wow, she is WAY too strong and OP", and loving the spectable of the first movie and all of its action. The second film I didn't like as much but loved for different reasons. I loved how it defied my expectations where I thought "how could they top the first movie?" they couldn't. So they went a different path by giving us an Origin story about how she became such a legendary warrior, and strongest woman alive. I always thought it was funny how Uma portrayed the Bride as being so doe wide eyed towards Bill while she's still supposed to be in love with him. I can KIND OF buy it.. but as soon as he's gone, the disappointment begins.
I love that Tarantino is near my age, which means we both grew up watching the same cheesy kung fu movies. What an homage this is. Beautifully executed, down to the authentic cheesy music track.
How can these have not won an Oscar? The accuracy of the cinema is just on a level that most can only dream of. Seriously, this is the perfect hero movie.
Looking back at this so many years I think I understand what he's doing here: he's breaking her ego. While I'm sure that he's having a lot of fun insulting and humiliating her, I think it has a purpose. Kiddo believes that she's a strong assassin already. She's good in Tiger Crane and very good with a sword. Pai Mei specifically attacks and insults those skills and when she's angry he humiliates her in combat. In a hard way he's showing her how limited her skills are. Only when she truly understands, when she's crying from all that pain, does he end the session and say that her training begins. At that point he feels she is truly ready to learn.
When he stand still on tip the sword I am holding, I am done with the challenge bullshit. I will be like Siifffuuuuu, Siiffuuuuu!!! Please grace me with your art!!!
Pei Mei is the ultimate kung fu master. I would bet money that he could beat any other action movie fighter with ease. Ip man, bruce lee, yuri boyka, bone, ong bak. They are all great fighters in their own right, but they are simply not on the same level as pei mei. Pei Mei is literally a taoist immortal at this point. Pei Mei is on another level he wins every time.
bold statments sayking IPMAN even jackie chan this guy cant beat but man ylu put them all out there- pei mei wouldnt stand a chance from anyone on your list tbh cuz he cant jump on swords
@@monkadelic13 Not really. Pei Mei is so skilled he is practically mythical. He is a taoist immortal basically. He conquered death. None of the aforementioned fighters could even hurt him. Pei mei is a master of the golden armor technique. Or he can make all parts of his body invulnerable to any form of melee attack except for maybe one. And that one area is only vulnerable at certain parts of the day when he concentration is weak. Pei Mei had reached the level where he was manipulating the chi forces of the world. Tuned into the vibrational frequencies of the earth itself. He was a master of qigong after all. He can literally deflect punches and kicks with his fucking chi! Ip man is good but he can’t levitate backwards or achieve agelessness through qingong mastery. When it comes to power scaling, it aint even close.