Umm...how'd she survive being shot in the chest by Budd? - Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) Discussion

[–] Mangled (22) 6 years ago

Almost immediately after he shoots her Bud tells her when she's lying on the ground that "ain't nobody a bad ass with a double dose of rock salt that deep in their tits" and how much that shit must sting.

So it's not lead shot. Maybe try paying attention to the film rather than looking at your phone all the time hmm?

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[–] pepetoony (1536) 6 years ago

I wasn't looking at my phone, hun. I heard the 'rock salt' comment but I'm not a redneck so I had no idea what it meant. Perhaps if I *had* looked it up on my phone, I'd have known.

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[–] Burk48917 (10979) 6 years ago

The "rock salt" comment,meant he used rock salt... because that's what he said. Seems like a child could figure that out within the context of dialogue. Not sure what being a redneck has to do with it,but maybe you should befriend a couple so they can teach you how to put 2 and 2 together for a simple concept such as listening to the movie.

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[–] Mangled (22) 6 years ago

No that's not fair.

They're much better off going onto a forum and presenting their lack of basic understanding and comprehension as if they've just discovered a massive illogical plot hole that no one else who has ever seen the film has been clever enough to notice.

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[–] pepetoony (1536) 6 years ago

Again, for those of us who aren't gun nut Trump supporters, the term "gun salt" means nothing to us. I was watching this movie with another person who also didn't know what it was, and was also wondering how she'd survived the gunshot to the chest. So I'm clearly not the only one. Thanks for your condescending responses! MAGA, amiright?

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[–] Burk48917 (10979) 6 years ago

Con·text
ˈkäntekst/noun:
parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning.

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[–] Mangled (22) 6 years ago

Please, sweetie ... "Gun salt"?

I know its hard for you, try reading these comments again, rock salt.

Rock. Salt. You put it in a grinder and sprinkle it on your food.

As regards to being a gun nut, I'm not even American and Trump can go eat a dick. You deserve him seeing as you were dumb enough to elect him, amiright?

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[–] KD637 (488) 6 years ago

Jesus Christ, what a retard.

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[–] pepetoony (1536) 6 years ago

Reported for using the 'R' word.

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[–] prolelol (1420) 6 years ago

It wasn't a bullet, I think it was just rock salt packed in there.

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[–] EricCartmanBrah (426) 6 years ago

Logic and Tarantino are incompatible. Even if it was just Rock Salt, there's no way she would be able to survive the infectious wound for so long. And have strength to punch herself out of a coffin, or have tons of sand falling in to the wound...

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[–] AP (5258) 6 years ago

The same movie also features a kung-fu monk who is thousands of years old and can balance on the tip of a sword. This movie was never meant to be realistic.

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[–] avortac4 (3458) 3 years ago

"The same movie also features a kung-fu monk who is thousands of years old and can balance on the tip of a sword."

If we're talking about the same scene, he doesn't balance on the TIP of a sword, but the blade.

Second of all, it's not the 'balance' that's miraculous here, it's that he's apparently lightweight all of the sudden - being able to control your weight is also not only plausible and feasible, it's been done (there was a tiny man that could make himself so heavy, not even 'strongmen' could lift him off the ground at all, unless he wanted it to happen - he could alter between 'easy to lift' and 'impossible to lift').

It's not that big a stretch to make yourself lighter just as well as heavier. It IS a bit 'fantastic' element, but not 100% implausible or impossible. People can even levitate, if they're spiritually cultivated enough (very rare and extremely difficult to achieve, but still possible - there are many ancient stories, depictions and illustrations to this effect).

Considering this guy didn't have a TV, the internet, etc. and had plenty of time, and was a master of Kung Fu and 'energy arts', he would obviously have a much higher chance for this type of success.

So this is much more realistic than the wound + coffin-stuff. Even if she somehow healed her wound with energy or shielded herself from infection, the mechanics of 'upwards digging with nowhere to put the displaced soil' are very puzzling to me.

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[–] AP (5258) 3 years ago

Way to miss the point. There are multiple unrealistic things happening in this movie, including Pei Mei jumping on the sword. That would be impossible no matter how you try to spin it. Keep in mind, it would also require Bea to be able to hold a full grown man with one hand. And again, that’s one in about a hundred implausible things throughout the entire story.

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[–] Wuchak (8108) 6 years ago

Even if it was just Rock Salt, there's no way she would be able to survive the infectious wound for so long. And have strength to punch herself out of a coffin, or have tons of sand falling in to the wound...

The movie doesn't show her attending to her rock salt wounds after escaping the grave, but it's assumed she did. The movie was long enough as it was and the viewer is expected to "read in between the lines," particularly since her wounds obviously healed properly by the last act.

The movie doesn't show any of the characters going to the bathroom either, but we assume they did.

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[–] EricCartmanBrah (426) 6 years ago

So what? No human being would be able to do what she did beforehand with those injuries.

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[–] Wuchak (8108) 6 years ago

If they properly attended to their wounds they would. It's assumed Beatrix did: Immediately after getting a drink at the diner she acquired the necessary antibiotic ointment & bandages; she may have even consulted a doctor. And then she started to heal.

In real life it wouldn't likely be that easy, but in real life she would've never escaped the coffin either. She was a martial arts superheroine who could literally mow down an army of trained combatants (e.g. the Crazy 88s).

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[–] avortac4 (3458) 3 years ago

"And have strength to punch herself out of a coffin, or have tons of sand falling in to the wound..."

If you have trained your body to be able to punch hard from that kind of short distance, and trained your knuckles and muscles to be able to break wood, then it's at least PLAUSIBLE, that someone would have enough 'strength to punch herself out of a coffin' - or at least hard enough to break the boards (though there shouldn't have been blood, because she's trained her knuckles, so she should've developed so-called 'iron knuckles' that some martial artists have).

It's the DIRT above the coffin that makes the scene unbelievable, and how to dig upwards from that position, while dirt is filling your coffin. Where to put the displaced dirt, etc. The coffin isn't big enough to store all the displaced dirt, so basically she would've had to push Earth a bit towards all directions to be able to dig herself out. To add, she would've had to rub that untreated, probably infected rock salt wound against all that dirt/sand.

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[–] avortac4 (3458) 3 years ago

Now that I have revisited these movies, I have similar questions about her superior survivability.

She must be some kind of Superwoman or Wolverinette, considering she was:

- Unspecified damage that made her mouth bloody before she's..
- Shot in the head
- Sliced in the shoulder (no explanation as to treatment of the wound that might be infected)
- Sliced seemingly 'muscle-deep' in the back (or why would she be so 'immobilized' for such a long time, before suddenly.. healing?) with a katana
- Shot in the chest with rock salt (the VERY least to do here, is to dig the salt out, unless it melted and ended up in her bloodstream? Together with open, infectious wounds that the salt would have left, that would have needed immediate treatment, that much salt inside of your body, regardless if it's of the 'rock' variety or not, can't be healthy on any level)
- Rubbed her (closed?) eyes against hard sand (while digging herself out of the grave - there's no way to avoid that, since the sand and dirt would've been pressed tightly and hard against her body from every direction - of course we're shown the 'sand' is actually the softest possible soil, when she finally slowly struggles out of the grave and has to immediately rest. The 'impossible' part (that we were not really shown well) she had no problem doing very fast, but the very easy part (that was shown perfectly), she had to do extremel slowly for some reason)

- Shot by a dart (that they call 'needle' in the movie) in the leg

Not only surviving all this, but surviving it all without any treatment, disinfectant, bandages, digging out the rock salt and other harmful things, stitches - well, that's just not human.

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[–] cj3333 (1046) 3 years ago

It's also not a fucking documentary.

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[–] bobbydallas (8058) 2 years ago

1. it was rock salt
2. she survived a head shot.. she was obviously superhuman ie a "superhero" as Bill said

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