Film: Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2004)
Moment: The Bride takes on O-Ren and the Crazy 88
In perhaps the most prolonged spate of extreme (albeit cartoonish) violence ever in a mainstream non-horror film, Uma Thurman’s The Bride confronts mortal enemy O-Ren Ishi (Lucy Liu) and her army of sword-wielding assassins at the House of Blue Leaves night club, spilling bucket-loads of blood in the process. What follows is a deliriously extended and stylized melee in which practically no one escapes either death or the loss of at least one appendage (or, in O-Ren’s case, a scalp). By the end of the ordeal, the floor of the restaurant is a virtual ocean of crimson – and the audience leaves the theater having witnessed one of the greatest full-throttle action sequences ever filmed.