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"Bootleg trailer"

Ok, so it's not really bootleg - just the name given to it.
For Tarantino's "Kill Bill".
Bootleg, why? Because it's more for the exploitation/kung-fu genre fan, the sort of person that has endless number of bootleg movies from the Far East etc etc.

http://www.hinjang.com/images/Kill-Bill_2.mov

The more I see, the more I like

I reckon I'm looking forward to the Pai Mei bit the most.

Looks rubbish. I've seen the cinema trailer, thought it looked like a Troma movie. And the bit where the man stands on the sword (I hope I'm thinking of the right film here...) assured me that at least 90% of it would be neat crap that I wouldn't want to watch.

Isn't it in True Romance where the character played by Christian Slater goes on about a Sonny Chiba movie. In fact, isn't it a Sonny Chiba triple bill that he goes to see on his birthday?

Doesn't that prove that Tarentino got him in for the movie because he's a fan...?

Whilst Tarentino will happily borrow from other cool movies, he'll do it because he thinks they're cool, so he does them justice. He's not the sort to use something just because it's popular. Just look at the soundtracks to him moves so far to see that.

After this comes Inglorious B*stards, it'll be interesting to see how Tarentino does awhat I believe is going to be a war movie?

It'll make geeks wet themselves.

"OVER BLACK
We hear labored breathing.

BLACK FRAME
QUOTE APPEARS:

"Revenge is a dish best served cold"
- Old Klingon Proverb -

QUOTE FADES OUT"

Ta muchly.

http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~alexward/script.htm

Care to link me to the script, Goaty?

Then Shaw Bros is your best place to start. Loads of Sonny Chiba movies rule, I think my personal fav for Shaw Bros is "Mad Monkey Kung-Fu".
It's insane, has a tea-house fight to rival Crouching Tiger and has that OTT white-haired maniac villain with lots of zoom-to-eyes and stroking of beards. An atrocious dubbing.

Sadly, a lot of people think kung-fu films start with Bruce Lee and end with The Matrix.

It's a shame they don't show a few more older kung-fu films on tv, maybe in a late-night channel 4 slot kind of thing.

Whilst I haven't seen many of the older style ones you mention, I have seen clips from many of those old films. They were old compilation films showing loads of fight scenes from various chop-socky films, and many clips had the funny looking old villain with the long white hair and beard combo and the funny dubbed laugh.

It makes me want to check a few non Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan films for a change, the cheesy ones with guys with long white hair, crazy looking wire-fu, cliched looking heroes.

Here's a good link to Shaw Bros & Golden Harvest stuff

http://www.beijingvideo.com/sbstars.html

Check out the "bio" and then villains section, Pai-Mai the tutor from Kill Bill looks familiar non?
It's this level of detail and nods to Bejing cinema that make Kill Bill stand out from bilge like Charlie's Angels/Daredevil etc etc

And anyone my age that grew up watching Kung-Fu The Series, The Green Hornet, Monkey etc will chuckle at some of the references in the script.