7 Quentin Tarantino Movie Plots That Really Happened

7. Woman Gives Birth In A Coma

Of all his cinematic output to date, Kill Bill volumes 1 and 2 are undoubtedly Tarantino's most "movie movie" films. Where his previous works had managed to integrate his myriad influences pretty subtly, Kill Bill was his chance to go hog wild and pay obvious homage (or just straight up ripping off) his favourite films, pinching sound cues from old Shaw Brothers martial arts films, doing a de Palma split-screen scene straight out of Carrie, and even pulling in characters from films he watched during his time as a video store clerk in the eighties. Between that, the sprinkler-style blood splatters and martial arts wire work, nobody would suggest that Kill Bill is going for gritty realism. The one scene that truly horrifies on a visceral level, and is shot without the same flashy colour schemes and visual flair as the later parts, is when Uma Thurman's The Bride is still in a coma. After being shot in the head by former lover Bill, poor old Beatrix Kiddo is in a coma for four years. During that time she is almost assassinated by Daryl Hannah's Elle Driver, which gets called off at the last minute, and is routinely raped by hospital orderly Buck (he likes to fuck). The big reveal, however, is that The Bride - who was pregnant when she went into the coma - is no longer with child. Kill Bill is mostly pretty silly and tongue-in-cheek, but the scene of Thurman waking up, clutching her flat stomach and howling is truly heart-wrenching. Because the baby probably died, right? Nobody gives birth during a coma! Except people totally have. In 2010 24-year-old Chastity Cooper managed to give birth to a healthy baby girl, despite being comatose following a car accident for virtually the whole pregnancy. No word on her involvement with the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, mind.