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The Two Pines Chapel
“We’ve done a lot of things to this lady. And if she ever wakes up, we’ll do a whole lot more. But one thing we won’t do is sneak into her room in the night like a filthy rat and kill her in her sleep. And the reason we won’t do that thing is because… that thing would lower us.”
Bill (David Carradine)
The defining scene of Beatrix Kiddo’s (Uma Thurman) wedding, in which she is betrayed by her partners, is shot on the outskirts of Los Angeles, in the Mojave Desert, northeast of Palmdale. Quentin Tarantino, a great film buff, probably knows the building on which he throws his devotion, having seen it in the film True Confessions by Ulu Grosbard.
The small chapel, attached at the time to the Calvary Adventist Church, saw the team take up residence. Rather than exploiting only the façade, to which he adds a large covered wooden porch, the director does not hesitate to film the interior scenes on location, exploiting the typical architecture of the place. The surroundings also allow him to create the perfect illusion. Because in fact, if the filmmaker did not have to drive many hours to find this rare pearl, the action of his feature film is supposed to take place in El Paso, Texas.
The shooting of Kill Bill ends 155 days after it started. In the editing room, determined to release this immense fresco in one part, Quentin Tarantino could not sacrifice some passages and therefore agreed to split his film in two. It also allows him to impose two particular flavors: while the first part is more oriented towards martial arts, the second one is more western.
Quentin Tarantino asked Uma Thurman to watch three films to prepare for Kill Bill: John Woo’s The Killer, Jack Hill’s Coffy, Harlem’s Black Panther,and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars.
The Kill Bill Church
Lost in the Mojave Desert, Twin Pines Chapel is as typical as it gets. The Joshua tree planted right in front of it emphasizes its picturesque character.
Built in the 1920s, this beautiful Mission Revival building was first used as a community hall, then as a school and dance hall. The building did not look anything like it does today. It was not until 1981, for the purposes of the film True Confessions, that the facade, with its bell tower and porch, was built. Seen notably in the video for Road to Nowhere by the Talkings Heads, Twin Pines now serves as a chapel but remains known primarily as an iconic film location.
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