Music as the art of seduction. Music that resists and refuses to conform to any assumption. Watch the music video like approach to Salima's Hayek's famous snake dance pulsating to the music played and performed live by the band. There is no background music here. Watch the music take over.
The diegetic whistling of California Mountain Snake turns into the non-diegetic leitmotif whistle that became the famous Kill Bill trademark soundtrack signature. The nonchalant whistle placed within hospital corridors becomes sinister. The dissonant minor key strings, the split screen, the nurse with the eye patch obviously make the viewer predict that something here is amiss. As the nurse enters, the orchestra takes over the theme from the whistle and for a brief moment we are hearing what sounds like a classic music score, but do not let yourself be taken in.
This could be used as an example of music for continuity. Nothing is as simple as it sounds. The last thing one would expect to find in a posh Japanese locale is a female trio jumping in bare feet playing an out of tune Woo Hoo rockabilly song with the patrons dancing to it. If that was not enough the phone ringtone is a Scottish Bagpipe playing Auld Lang Syne. Not a happy new year in Japan at all.
Obviously here is the music theme that completely set Tarantino onto fame: The incredibly impossible Pulp Fiction.
And of course the ironically tense 'Girl You'll be a Woman Soon' with Travolta trying to make up his mind and Uma getting Oded.
A most uncommon choice for a lap dance in Death Proof.
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