Kill Bill and the Curious Case of "The Whole Bloody Affair"

 The Whole Bloody Affair  is the official name for the integral cut of Kill Bill, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and has yet to see a release on DVD/Bluray or Theatrically (unless you visited the New Beverly Cinema for the week of March 27 – April 2 back in 2011).

Quentin Tarantino originally wrote Kill Bill, his ode to Spaghetti Westerns and Shaw Bros Kung-fu films, to be one big movie but it was cut in two volumes when it turned out to be too long.

Those of you lucky enough to get your hands on a copy of the "Japanese" release of Kill Bill Vol. 1, bore witness to a fully colored "House of Blue Leaves" fight scene, bloodier anime sequence along with additional material that was cut from the North American release.

Back when Q.T. was working hard on Inglourious Basterds he said in an interview with Sci-FiWire, that he'll be adding one more scene to the already, four-plus-hour cut of the film,

“I need to do one thing with it, though… I’m not going to monkey around with the movie itself, but we’ve actually done a whole new section for the anime as the last thing [we added]. I actually wrote a much longer script for the anime section during O-Ren’s revenge chapter. Remember the guy with the long hair that kills her father? It’s like, what happened to that dude? Well, I wrote it and it was the biggest, most elaborate thing I wrote-her taking him down.”

He went on to say that he was going to go right into "The Whole Bloody Affair" after Basterds...

Well, since then, Inglourious Basterds went on to blow the minds of countless audiences around the world and is now available on home-video, we now have the complete version of "GRINDHOUSE" on Blu-ray and just a few days ago photos of "Django Unchained", Tarantino's new film, were released to the public. So something tells me we wont be seeing The Whole Bloody Affair on store shelves anytime soon.

However, there has been a list of changes that were compiled from the few people that have been privileged to see official screenings of The Whole Bloody Affair, along with what Q.T. has said on the longer cut of the film.

Here it is...

• No "klingon proverb" quote. Instead will be a dedication 
• Chapters will remain in order
• House of Blue Leaves fight scene will be in color & cut differently 
• Gorier anime scenes 
• Completely new 7 minute anime scene added
• Various other scenes slightly altered 
• Sofie Fatale loses more limbs 
• No "baby" cliffhanger ending from Vol.1 
• Music-accompanied intermission between the two parts 
• Volume 2 is not different

If you search Amazon you'll find evidence of a possible bootleg that was sold which is crazy in my opinion. Another little known fact is that, just like the fan edits of Star Wars The Phantom Menace that hit the web back in 1999, there are people that took it upon themselves to splice together Vol.1 (Japanese version) and Vol.2 to created their own homemade "The Whole Bloody Affair". I think that there's enough proof that people really-REALLY want to own this, almost mythical cut of the film. I for one am one of those people.

[source] SciFiWire, ScreenRant

-Brian Lansangan
-Eric Chacon