Then he wouldn't have had to take five steps, and would've survived. Or he could've just waited a little while. I mean I doubt it lasts forever.
shareI think it's just professional courtesy. The Bride had gotten the best of him, he knew it, and he owed it to her to take those five steps.
He was finished.
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It's the kung pao! George likes his chicken spicy.
I'm thinking that the "five steps" could also be taken as "any movement at all." The act of lifting him into a wheelchair could also kill him. Also, it's a great deal of poetic license--I'm thinking that technique was a killing technique, so Bill would have died in the next couple of minutes anyway.
shareWhere does it say it's about movement?
What if it's about exertion? All he has to do is basically relax, sit around, wait it out, and then he can go on. Body energy systems have a way of fixing their flow, so it wouldn't have lasted that long.
If your theory was right, he would have died even before getting up.
It was not a 'killing technique', it was a very SPECIFIC akupoint- or chakra-manipulating procedure that could've been cancelled - either by a different akupoint manipulation or time.
How would 'lifting someone onto a wheelchair' be as strenuous as 'walking five steps'?
It wasn't explained why it has to be five steps, though. What exactly makes the heart explode by doing 5 steps? He was able to live, breathe, talk and sit for a long time before doing those steps. He could've done it indefinitely.
The only problem is that Beatrix would've probably killed him anyway if he tried to prolong his life too much.
When describing the technique, Bill (I believe...) says that one hit by the technique, your heart explodes after five steps. Once he himself is struck by it, he takes his sweet time getting ready, conversing with Beatrice, buttoning his jacket, and so forth, before walking to his doom. His steps are measured, and he knows where he's going, and the implication is certainly that his fifth step will kill Bill (couldn't resist; I'm not sorry). It's stylized and a bit of kung fu movie cheesiness, but that's what's so great about it. I seemed to be about the next five steps regardless. I doubt there was a cure. If there was and he tried to wait it out, The Bride would've cut him down, I'm thinkin'.
I'm willing to entertain the idea that it could be cancelled, but given the '70s kung fu movie influence, I'm guessing in the Kill Bill mythology it would take an equal or greater master of the martial arts to do some chi-healing. If such a technique existed in that world, (a) Bill seems not to have heard of it (since he never mentions it while discussing Pai Mei), (b) he wouldn't be able to get to it (Beatrix would ice him before he could wait it out), and (c) the benevolent master of healing would be unlikely to bestow such virtue on a snake charmer like Bill, anyway. Just ain't holy enough.
It doesn't warrant explanation. It's just a cheesy kung fu movie technique. It's the kind of thing you have to buy into because it's just the way this world operates. Can't question how John McClane comes up with so many one-liners while he should be sneaking around in vents. It's part of the Action Movie.
You're right: he could have gone indefinitely in that chair, but the Bride wouldn't let him.
I'm going down the board reading all the old topics and every time one makes me think "Holy shit whoever posted this was incredibly retarded" I check and sure enough it was MikeHunt123. avortac4 is a close 2nd place.
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