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• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: As with Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), the many continuity lapses and other apparent technical errors are a matter of deliberate stylistic choice in this pastiche of 1970s "B" action movies.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the Bride is being buried alive, several times a faint reflection can be seen from the head of her flashlight, despite being six feet underground.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Budd is confronted by his boss Larry, the boom mic is reflected in Larry's sunglasses.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: The extreme close-up of the bride's face as she looks down upon Budd's trailer shows the reflection of the cameraman in her eyes.
  
  
• Continuity: Although we believe the many continuity errors to be either deliberate or, at least, left in as a matter of stylistic choice, you might be interested to know about some of them: - When the Bride is trying to escape from the grave, she damages her right hand, which bleeds. When she goes into the coffee shop, her hand is fine. - Bill wipes away some of the blood that's on his face - in the next shot it is gone completely. - Budd's boss scribbles a continuous line through the roster, but in the next shot the scribble is disjointed. - In final scene between the Bride and Bill, the Bride has shoulder length hair. The next morning, her hair is much longer. - During the final conversation between Bill and Bea the label on Bill's bottle keeps rotating between shots. - When Bill hands BB her sandwich, the cutting board is clear of the cut crusts. In the next shot, he cleans the cutting board clear of the crusts to continue making another sandwich. - When Budd kicks the Bride's sword away outside his trailer, it sticks into the side of the garbage can. When it cuts back the sword is on the ground. Cut again, the sword is back in the can. Then you hear Budd pick it up off the ground as he's talking to Elle. - When The Bride enters Bud's trailer her jacket is zipped up. After he shoots her and she's lying on the ground, it's open. - Before the Bride is put into the coffin, her legs are tied with a long piece of skin. In the coffin, they are tied with a belt. - When fighting in Budd's trailer, The Bride sticks Elle's head in his toilet. Later in the fight, you can see the toilet with lid closed and porn mags stacked on it which is quickly followed by a shot with the lid up again when Elle is thrashing around blind. - In final conversation between Bill and Bea at the patio table, the cork bottle top continually changes position between shots. - When Bea is getting ready to sit down on Bill's circular couch in his living room, the wide shot reveals her about to sit down with a red pillow behind her. In the following medium shot, the pillow has moved to her left. - Bill cuts three crusts off BB's sandwich. In the next shot all four crusts are cut off. - When Bea is underground punching a hole in the coffin, there are no knots visible to us on the first punch she gives, though after the first punch, 2 knots are appear. - When Mei Pei shoves the bowl with rice at the Bride, it stops at the edge of the table. In the next shot it is much closer to the middle of the table. - The Band-Aid Elle Driver is wearing on the middle finger of her right hand disappears and then reappears several times during the scene in Budd's trailer home. - When Elle is fighting the Bride, in the beginning, the Bride cuts Elle's face with a TV antenna. But later in the fight, when they both have samurai swords, the cuts not there. - When Bill poses as Arlene's father, he has his hand on the Bride's left shoulder. His hand subsequently disappears and reappears between shots. - In the final chapter where the Bride goes to Mexico for her final showdown with Bill, we see her driving in a convertible with a new, much shorter and blonder haircut. All of the subsequent events show her with the shorter blonder 'do, but then in the final scene (the next morning) where she is with BB in the hotel room, her hair is long and dirty blonde again. - When Budd is talking to Elle in his trailer he rests his right foot on the suitcase of money. In the next shot it's his left foot then back to the right foot again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When The Bride is outside Bud's trailer, she is wearing a tan leather jacket and it is zipped, when she opens the trailer door, there is no jacket. In the next shot, she is wearing an unzipped jacket. When she is on the ground and in the coffin, there is no jacket.
  
  
• Continuity: When The Bride is stuck in the coffin, and starts punching it, the first two times you can see cracks all around the place she hit, then when it comes back for the third and fourth times, all the cracks are gone.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the chapter "Elle and I" starts, we see Elle pass a truck as she drives by. Behind the truck, we see another car coming. However, if you look to the right in the next shot, we see the car never passes by.
  
  
• Continuity: During Elle and Beatrix's fight scene (in Budd's trailer), Beatrix throws a can of tobacco spit in Elle's face. After Elle says "Gross", the spit is not on her face when the camera returns to Elle.
  
  
• Continuity: Esteban Vihaio places his glasses on his book with the temples unfolded. In subsequent shots, the glasses appear folded and finally unfolded again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The bride's hair is longer in the "next morning" scene in the hotel room than it was the night before at Bill's. When Budd shoots The Bride outside his trailer and she flies backwards, the ropes holding her can clearly be seen in white.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Elle calls Budd, you can see her holding a cigarette with her right hand and holding her cell phone with her left. When the camera cuts back to Elle within a second, the positions of the objects she is holding completely switches sides.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Bride rips off the antenna from the TV in the trailer, a bottle of "Black Death Icelandic Schnapps" falls down. In the next scene, the bottle is standing on the TV again.
  
  
• Continuity: About a minute into the Bride/Elle Driver trailer fight scene, Elle sends the Bride tumbling into a wooden rocking chair, thus knocking over a coffee can containing expelled dipping tobacco fluid. When she recovers, the can has somehow been righted and is ready for the Bride to grab and empty in Elle's face.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight between Beatrix and Elle Driver, Elle's boots change from Stiletto heels to normal heels. In the beginning of the fight Elle drives her stiletto heel into Beatrix's foot. Later on, while they are fighting in the bathroom, you can clearly see Elle's boot with a different, western boot style heel.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the fight between Elle Driver and the Bride, the eye patch moves and you can see the reflection of the "missing" eye beneath it.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the wedding rehearsal, the minister's gestures for the seating arrangements are incorrect.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When The Bride is trying to drown Elle in the toilet, you can clearly see the plexiglass in front of the camera (scratches are visible on the sides).
  
  
• Continuity: In Budd's camper, Budd prepares Margaritas for himself and Elle. His prep and pouring are very sloppy and we see the mix splashing all on the cutting board as he pours it into the glasses. Then, as we view him coming around the counter to serve Elle her drink, the cutting board is clean and appears dry.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the scene where Bill shoots Kiddo, the bullet should be "turning or spinning" as it leaves the barrel.
  
  
• Continuity: During the trailer scene when Elle comes to buy the sword, Budd pours the margaritas into the glasses and he spills a copious amount. But when he picks up the glasses, no liquid can be seen on the counter.
  
  
• Continuity: When the bride is stuck in coffin, she hits hard it and her hand gets bloody. In the next scene in the café her hands are clean.
  
  
• Continuity: The scene in Budd's trailer when Beatrice and Elle are fighting. Beatrice rips off the TV antenna and hits Elle in the face, first the cut is on the left side of her face then in the next scene the cut is on the side of Elle's patch side.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the fight scene when Elle Driver retrieves Kiddo's Hanzo sword from down the passageway, she throws off the sheath of the sword, hitting the ceiling lamp behind her and knocking the light out. In the next shot, the light is back on and the lamp is hanging perfectly still.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Black Mamba snake that causes Bud's death was black in color. In reality, its body is not black at all; the name is given to it because of its inky black mouth. Normally, Mambas have a dark olive, olive green, gray brown, or metal color. Some of them have a light band around their body.
  
  
• Continuity: When Budd is preparing to bury the Bride, he dumps a big piece of plywood onto the coffin and nails it down, but plywood is impossible to punch through, so when the Bride goes to punch her way out of the coffin, it's now made of slats, conveniently arranged so that the grain works with her.
  
  

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