12 Huge Movie Mysteries That Are Still Unsolved

Don't you want to know how he got those scars?

Inglourious Basterds Aldo Raine
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Want to hear a dirty joke? "A gorgeous blonde lady walks into a bar, naked, with a poodle under one arm and two foot salami in the other. She places the poodle on the table, and the bartender says, 'I suppose you won't be needing a drink?' And the lady replies -"

Well, you'll never know, because The Breakfast Club never gave us Bender's punchline and that's where all of the charm of that sequences comes from. It's funny because it's the defiant act of a film-maker, provocatively neglecting the one duty we've come to expect as an audience: to give us answers.

We've all been bred to believe that story-tellers by their very nature will tell their stories and leaving details out means only that they weren't important. But what if there are some missing details that absolutely are important? What if those story-tellers fail to explain mysteries that then go on to eat away at the audiences for years?

12. Why Did Hattori Hanzo Hate Bill? - Kill Bill

Hattori Hanzo
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Hattori Hanzo must have had a serious grudge against Bill in Kill Bill.

Think about it: when we (and the Bride) first meet him, we learn that he is no longer in the sword-making business. In fact, he hasn't created a single new sword in 28 years when he took a blood oath before God to stop making instruments of death. In other words, his vow was all-but unbreakable.

All the Bride has to do to convince him to turn his back on his blood oath with actual God, is to tell him that she's going after Bill - his former student. He even reasons that God would understand temporarily breaking his oath in the interest, which seemingly confirms that he and Bill have SERIOUS unfinished business.

What could be so bad that God would allow wilful defiance of him? And why weren't we given that information? Wouldn't it have helped advance Bill's mythology even further?

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