Quentin Tarantino: Definitive Guide To Homages, Influences And References

Kill Bill Vol 2

6. A Fistful Of Dollars

The theme from Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars is played when Budd shoots the Bride with rock salt outside his trailer. This music was also, of course, composed by Ennio Morricone.

5. The Burial Scene

The way the Bride's burial sequence is shot is near identical to a similar scene in City Of The Living Dead (1980). Similarly, the moment she bursts from the soil and clasps for air is a reference to a moment that occurs in Django Kill! (1967). The epic music that accompanies the Bride's escape from the coffin is the theme from L'Arena, a spaghetti western. That music too was composed by Morricone.

4. Paula Schultz

The Bride is buried alive in a grave marked Paula Schultz. This is an apparent allusion the 1968 comic flick The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz. Tarantino would late create a character called Dr. King Schultz for Django Unchained, played by Christoph Waltz.