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...travel to the source. Portions of the movie will be filmed in Mexico and the U.S., but almost all of Kill Bill's Asian scenes, including those set in Japan, were shot in Beijing in a studio that Mao Zedong built to produce propaganda pictures. Lounging on a bar stool on the set of the House of Blue Leaves, Tarantino admits that realizing this sequence?in which Thurman eviscerates a grand total of 76 masked stuntmen?is the biggest challenge of his directorial career. "I want it to be to kung fu fights what the Apocalypse Now 'Ride...
...piano and he looked sideways at the camera, eyeballed it the way he has looked at those girls in the Arkansas beer joint, and then he began to play the piano and howl about the shaking that was going on. He rose, still pounding, and he kicked the piano stool back. It shot across the stage, tumbling, skidding... Steve Allen laughed and threw the stool back, then threw other furniture, and Jerry Lee played some high notes with the heel of his shoe. Then he stopped and looked at the camera sideways again. Neither he nor Steve Allen had ever...
...gotta do, honey, is kinda stand in one spot,/ Wiggle around just a little bit,/ And that's when ya got something, yeah") - and finally, after the caressing, the orgasm, the imperious "Shake it, make it shake!" as the piano pumps like a marathoner's heart, the stool goes rush-stumbling across the floor and the listener rises in exhausted exaltation...
...Jerry Lee did as he was bid that night; he went on before Chuck Berry. He had the crowd screaming and rushing the stage, and when it seemed that the screams had grown loudest and the rushing most chaotic, he stood, kicked the piano stool away with violence, and broke into 'Great Balls of Fire.' As the screaming chaos grew suddenly and sublimely greater, he drew from his jacket a Coke bottle full of gasoline, and he doused the piano with one hand as the other hand banged out the song; and he struck a wooden match...
...just too damn stubborn to die. He may see the Oldies Show of rock 'n roll pioneers as a last-man-standing competition, in which he is determined to outlive Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino and other pretenders to the throne - the jewel-encrusted piano stool - he always believed was his. You know what he said back in 1977 when he heard Elvis had died? "Another one outta...