Has it ever been stated why the Bride leaves Budd's trailer with Elle still alive? She could have easily finished her off in a few seconds after taking Elle's second eye. As she tells Vernita in Vol. 1: "It's mercy and compassion I lack, not rationality."
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Because killing her would've been merciful.
She left a crazed woman alive and blind in the middle of nowhere. Her death is either going to be slow and excruciating or her recovery will be slow and excruciating. Killing her would've ended her suffering and torment right there and then.
In the original script, their battle is a sword fight similar to the one between Beatrix and O-Ren in that they briefly bond and bury the hatchet as Elle bleeds to death from being slashed in the neck.
In the actual context of the story, it wouldn't work because it unintentionally suggests all the female members of the Deadly Vipers are, to an extent, repentant about what happened where the men are mostly unsympathetic. It was smart on Tarantino's part to have the most steely one (O-Ren) be the truly honorable and repentant one while Elle (Beatrix's underwhelming shadow) be worse than the men. Not only that, but leaving her alive completely blinded in the same manor their tutor took her first eye in a trailer they've trashed with a deadly snake slithering around guaranteed Elle would suffer horribly, whether she escaped from the trailer alive or in a bag.
Thats a good assessment. Also, unlike the other snakes except Budd maybe, Elle was not playing "fair" in the sense that she had no qualms to use sneaky ways like poison and deception to kill Pai Mai and her fellow warriors. So, she kind of got what she deserved.
share"in the same manor their tutor took her first eye"
She was left in a trailer, not in a manor.
Unless you're making a grammatical blunder, meaning to say 'manner', but referring to a mansion of sorts instead.
You think leaving her flopping around hysterically with both eyes plucked out of her head in the middle of the desert, merciful?
shareThe scene was dumb for this reason. No way would she have been able to take her eye like that. The woman was a ninja, a world class martial artist. Even if Uma was even more skilled no way you could just reach out and grab her eye while she is armed with the sword and in full concentration. No way the difference in skill would be that extreme.
shareKiddo finished her training, earning the respect of Pai Mei so much that he taught only her hidden techniques. Elle killed Pai Mei during her training. The difference was that extreme, Elle would have died fighting the crazy 88 even with a Hanzo sword.
shareElle wouldn't have lasted 60 secs against Go Go either
sharewhy do you say that? Beatrix couldn't beat Elle on one-on-one combat. Elle was as good as Beatrix (maybe better)
shareThe scene was dumb for this reason. No way would she have been able to take her eye like that. The woman was a ninja, a world class martial artist. Even if Uma was even more skilled no way you could just reach out and grab her eye while she is armed with the sword and in full concentration. No way the difference in skill would be that extreme.Beatrix had already done the same thing to a yakuza in the first movie, so her ability was established. This fate seems fitting for an enemy who's already missing an eye, and on top of that, it was a great way to end the conflict (swords locked, no way out, etc.)
You didn't address any of the actual points.
"All we know about Elle is that she killed Pai Mei, most likely before her training was even complete."
It's so stupid that a 'grand master' would let himself be killed like that, and not suspect a thing. Even if he can't see the future, he should have SOME kind of intuition about this crazy bítch, and never let her dominate him in any way, especially in ways where she could murder him. I would never eat or drink anything that particular hag would offer me, for example. But a Kung Fu grand master doesn't feel intuitively that something is wrong whenever that hag is in his presence? What?
It's so dumb that Uma's character can defeat the one-eyed hag, while she defeated the grand master, who also could easily defeat Uma's character.
""No way the difference in skill would be that extreme.""
"it's clear Beatrix was the better trained of the two."
These two statements are not in contradiction, and your explanation doesn't add anything. We all know she's better trained, in fact, that's EXACTLY what the first statement implies! There IS a difference in skill, but it shouldn't be THAT EXTREME.
You did not address this at all, just went back to the already known and implied fact.
Is this your first time in these discussion boards?
She probably wanted her to suffer. She's now permanently blind, is alone in a camper van with a deadly snake, which is in the middle of the desert. But if I was her I would have killed her anyway because who knows if she would have survived and come back for vengeance. She will have to live her life always looking over her shoulder
shareBecause she's a blind woman in the middle of nowhere. She's going to die anyways. Might as well make it a slow painful one.
Officially Canadian for 27 years. Never heard "aboot."
She left Elle alive out of spite. Killing her would've been a merciful act. When she said, "b*tch, you don't have a future." - I think she was referring to Elle becoming blind for the rest of her life. I mean, I think Beatrix actually intended on snatching out her other eye in the final showdown. If you watch the scene closely, as Beatrix is getting ready to leave, she looks at Elle, almost like she feels bad for her. But then again, she doesn't kill her. So I guess that was Beatrix's form of revenge on Elle. Instead of killing her, she scarred her for life.
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