Script To Screen: “Kill Bill: Vol. 1”

An action scene from early in the 2003 movie Kill Bill: Vol. 1, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.

IMDb plot summary: The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her — a team she was once part of.

The scene from the script:

Here is the scene from the movie:

What did you notice in the translation from script to screen? Differences? Interesting use of language to convey eventual visuals?

One of the best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script to Screen, a Go Into The Story series where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.