Goofs for
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The many continuity lapses and other apparent technical errors are a matter of deliberate stylistic choice in this pastiche of 1970s "B" action movies.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: No drug company makes an injectable medication that is red. When you inject a medication, be it inter-muscular [IM] or intravenous [IV], when you insert the needle before injecting, you must draw the plunger back a little bit looking for blood in the syringe and press the plunger down to remove air, as bubbles in the blood stream can give you much pain. (Intramuscular injections of B-12 are a light red, but this would not be used to murder someone.) However, Elle didn't need to be injecting a drug into the Bride's IV. Basically, *anything* injected into a vein that wasn't created for that purpose would kill somebody. Even some drugs that are safe to inject into tissues could kill a person intravenously if the dosage were changed. That red fluid could have been any number of liquids drawn up into a syringe - it didn't have to be a drug.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the kitchen scene, when Vernita shoots, the shot hits the wall on the left of the Bride, the one beside the cupboard, but after she throws her knife at Vernita, the impact point on the left wall has disappeared, and moved to the wall to the right of the Bride.
  
  

• Continuity: In Vernita Green's kitchen you see that the Bride is wearing a knife holster around her leg. The camera moves away and them back on the Bride and the holster is gone. The camera moves away and then back to the Bride and the holster is back on her leg.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At The House of Blue Leaves, when O'Ren sticks her dagger into the banister just before the Crazy 88 arrive, you can see that the banister is actually two separate pieces of wood, allowing for easy insertion of the blade.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Bride fights with Vernita Green in the kitchen scene, she plunges her dagger through the table, barely missing Vernita. In the next shot, she jumps over the table, chasing Vernita back to the living room. In the 'jumping over table' shot, the handle of the dagger can clearly be seen, still sticking out of the bottom of the table. In the next shot, the living room, the Bride is holding her dagger again, without having it pulled out of the table.
  
  
• Continuity: When "#2" shows the picture of her daughter, she holds by the top/side between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: This may have been intentional, but in the shot of the airliner (a model) in flight towards the end of the film, the wires holding it up, are visible through the strange red mist.
  
  
• Continuity: During the second hospital scene, when Buck enters the room, we see the door behind him shut before he stares around the room. When the Bride is pulling him to the doorway to ask questions and slam his head, the door is open.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When the Bride boards the airplane she has the samurai sword with her in the cabin. Obviously, this wouldn't happen in reality. This is a stylistic choice for this film. The couple sitting directly behind The Bride have a sword as well, and a third sword can be seen.
  
  
• Continuity: When The Bride and O-Ren Ishii are fighting in the courtyard in the House of Blue Leaves, The Bride suffers a serious cut to the back and falls to the ground. Even though the close shot of her wound shows heavy blood loss, when The Bride stands back up in the next wide shot, there is no evidence of blood in the snow anywhere in the area.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the Bride chops the top of O-Ren Ishii's head off, you wouldn't be able to see her brain protruding out the top of her skull. The top of her brain would be in the bit of skull removed.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the "Origin of O-Ren Ishii" sequence, during the introduction of the character Sofie Fatale, the voice-over says Sofie is to O-Ren's right, when actually Sofie is to the camera's right, or O-Ren's left.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During the fight scene between the Bride and Vernita Green when Vernita tries to impale the kitchen knife into the Bride on the dining table, you can see the rubber blade roll upwards as it strikes the tabletop.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Immediately before the Bride awakes from her coma, there is a buzzing mosquito that lands and bites the Bride. The sound played is that of a common housefly, whereas in actual fact the beating wings of a mosquito produce a constant, almost perfect F-sharp.
  
  
• Factual errors: The subtitles for Cottonmouth's speech say, "Whom in Okinawa made you this steel?" In correct English grammar, it should be "who," not "whom." In Japanese, they are the same word, "Dare."
  
  
• Errors in geography: The wedding is supposed to take place in El Paso, Texas. However, a Joshua tree is clearly seen outside the chapel. Joshua trees only grow in the Mojave desert in California and in Arizona.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the Bride has Sophie in the trunk of her car (a blue Nissan 300zx), the shape of the trunk is inconsistent. The 300zx is a coupe with a flat trunk perimeter. In one of the scenes, we can see the front of the trunk protrude down like that of a sedan. The trunk is not the shape of the car Sophie is supposed to be in.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Gogo hits the Bride on the chest with the iron ball, the bride has her mouth filled with blood. At the next scene she has nice white teeth.
  
  
• Factual errors: The details of Bill shooting The Bride are very detailed: hammer hitting primer, powder exploding in the cartridge, bullet exiting the rifled barrel of the pistol. But the bullet isn't spinning as one would do when exiting a rifled barrel.
  
  
• Continuity: When O-Ren beheads Boss Tanaka, she stands on the table and gives her speech in English. All this time, her hands are empty and moving with her words. Without bending down, she suddenly has Boss Tanaka's head in her hand when saying "Just like this f-cker here!"
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Elle Driver uses her mobile phone while standing next to The Bride's life-support machine. Mobile phones interfere with hospital equipment. - Cell phones disrupt some hospital equipment, but not all. More likely it would affect the readings of a heart monitor than a "life-support machine". A conversation of a few seconds might have no effect on the machine whatsoever. In any case, Elle would not have been concerned about this.
  
  
• Continuity: When O-Ren slings blood off of her blade after beheading Boss Tanaka, the blood splatters on a Yakuza boss to O-Ren's right. The very next slide shows no sign of this blood splatter on the Yakuza boss.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the Bride climbs out of the Pussy Wagon after 13 hours you can see water dripping from the passenger side of the truck where it had been just washed for the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: In the anime-sequence when O-Ren is about to kill the man in the limousine, we can see her nails are painted red, but when she shoots, her nails are clean.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Hatori Honzo writes "Bill" on the fogged window and Kiddo erases it shortly after, you can see fogged-over smudged wipe marks as well as part of the letter 'B' where the scene had been done over numerous times.
  
  
• Factual errors: Chapter Four, "The MAN from OKINAWA", implies that Hattori Hanzo was from Okinawa, when in fact, he is from Mikawa, Japan. The proper grammar would be "The MAN *in* OKINAWA".
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When O-ren Ishii's motorbike guard is in the tunnel, you can hear the pitch rise and drop. The first time this happens, the motorcycle is at a fixed point with respect to the camera. In reality, the sound implies that the source is moving toward and then away from the observer, due to the Doppler effect.
  
  
• Continuity: The Bride cuts of the scalp from Oren's head. It falls to the ground with long hair. So does Oren in the scene after next.
  
  
• Continuity: Oren's eyes are blue in the beginning of the film. In the later part of the film, they are brown.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Bride and Gogo face off. Gogo is shown twirling her mace like weapon counter-clockwise from the side, and clockwise from the front.
  
  
• Continuity: When we see the death list for the first time, all the people's names are written in black ink, but when the Bride is seen to be writing the list on the plane, near the end of Volume one, she uses red ink to write all the names.
  
  
• Plot holes: The bride spends 13 hours in Buck's car in the hospital parking garage. After the vanishing of a 4 year coma patient and the brutal murder of two people in a hospital, the garage and a victim's car are very likely to be subject of the authorities' interest and investigation within this period of time.
  
  
• Continuity: O-ren's hands change positions when she opens her sword.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When The Bride is in the back of Buck's Pussy Wagon, she says, "As I lay in the back of Buck's truck, trying to will my limbs out of entropy... ." The term that should have been used would have been atrophy, not entropy. (Some argue that entropy is perfectly acceptable as a term describing disrepair or disorder: actually, by the second principle of thermodynamic, "entropy" is just the tendency of a thermic system - thence a human body - to release heat and energy into outer ambient when not restrained).
  
  
• Continuity: When the bride fights the Crazy 88s. she unmasks a young kid who gives up. she throws him into several others, who land into a pool of bloody water. After the scene where she fights with the lights off, she narrowly avoids killing the same kid. He is fully dry, and his white dress shirt is stain free. She then chops his sword into pieces, he gives up and she spanks him.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the film, The Bride lifts Sofie Fatale from the trunk of a car and throws her down a snow-covered hill in front of Tokyo General Hospital's emergency entrance. During the fall, we can clearly see that Sofie is missing only one arm, her left, and that her right arm and hand are intact and appear to be in a black glove. However a bit later in the film (but earlier chronologically), in the "trunk interrogation" scene, The Bride warns that she will cut off parts of Sofie's body if she refuses to answer questions. The Bride yells, "Give me your other arm!". We only hear this (and Sofie's cries) in the US cut, but in the Japanese cut we see The Bride actually cut off Sophie's right arm at the forearm.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When The Bride is questioning Buck, her lips appear to have lipstick on them. It is possible that Buck put the lipstick on her due to the fact he was 'selling' her to his customers and wanted to keep her looking good.
  
  
• Continuity: When "The Bride" travels to Okinawa, she finds Honzi behind the bar in a small restaurant. At one point, aggravated at his employees slowness with regards to following his kitchen orders, Honzi takes a large knife from behind the counter and throws it behind him, where it lands perfectly into the knife holder mounted to the wall. At this point the shot changes to one that is further away and at a slightly different elevation. Honzi then reaches behind him to grasp for another knife out of that same rack, but the knife he had just thrown, however, is now lodged at a much different angle than it was just moments before.
  
  
• Continuity: When The Bride kills Miki after lifting him up in the air with the sword pieced through his stomach, she throws him into the pool. In the top angle shot in which he is thrown into the pool, there is not a single drop of blood on his shirt.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILERS: Although we believe the many continuity errors to be either deliberate or, at least, left in as a matter of stylistic choice, you might be interested to know about some of them: - When Vernita Green attempts to shoot The Bride and discharges the firearm in the cereal box at her, the bullet makes a hole in the wall behind her to her left, in the adjacent room. In the next shot after the Bride has thrown her knife, the hole in the wall is to the Bride's right. - When Hatori Hanzo throw his knife to the magnetic knife holder behind him, it ends up pointing to the ceiling. But in subsequent shots it is pointing left or right. - When the Bride is walking in the airport in Tokyo, just before her fight with O-Ren Ishii, her hair is short, about shoulder length, but in all the following scenes it is obviously a different hair style and longer. - In the "Origin of O-Ren Ishii" sequence, after she (O-Ren Ishii) kills Matsumoto and one of the bodyguards, as she shoots the other guard, the color of his suit changes from blue, to brown, and back to blue again. - In the House of Blue Leaves, just before the Bride fights Gogo, the Bride kills members of the Crazy 88 gang; however, when she is then confronted by the entire Crazy 88 gang after her fight with Gogo, the same actors/actresses in the previous fight are used again. - When O-Ren throws a dart at the bride it makes a hole in the door, but when she lowers herself down again, it is gone. - When Vernita Green is getting the towel to hand to The Bride, the towel jumps from one hand to the other between shots. - When Elle Driver changed into her nurse's outfit and prepares the fatal shot for the Bride, she removes the needle cover and places the syringe on a napkin on a tray. When she enters the Bride's room, however, she again uncaps the syringe before inserting it into her IV.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: O-Ren beheads Boss Tanaka, when she says in Japanese "So that you understand how serious I am... .”. In the next shot (look from her front), the way she holds the sword is different between shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: SPOILER: The Bride cuts Buck's Achilles' tendon with her knife, but in following scenes there's not a drop of blood around his foot.
  
  

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