The seventh edition of Beyond: The Cary Film Festival in Cary, North Carolina, is set to kick off on September 5 at the Cary Theater. Part of the line-up will see the festival’s screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1, in association with 3 Chambers Fest, with the film screened with a live scene-by-scene music score by Shaolin Jazz.
The first half of a two-volume diptych, Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 released in 2003, unleashing a revival of classic Asian cinema tropes infused with his groundbreaking and often audacious style. In the film, Uma Thurman stars as an unnamed Bride whose life of repose and impending motherhood and marriage is violently upended by her former employer, Bill, played by the late David Carradine. Having survived the ordeal following a four year coma, the Bride plots course for vengeance against the people who murdered her fiance and wedding party, and left her for dead.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is also half of the director’s fourth movie in an on-going ten-film streak, and also stars Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, and Julie Dreyfus, along with appearances by Gordon Liu, Chiaki Kuriyama, and Jun Kunimira. Additionally, the film is also celebrated for its explosive action sequences assembled by a team shephereded by action legend Yuen Woo-Ping, with its most key action scene filtered in black-and-white in the U.S. to dilute the effect of its violence and gore, an otherwise R-rated affair not suitable for children.
The film will be presented with a live scene-by-scene score by Shaolin Jazz, mixing elements of funk, soul, hip-hop, rock, and more. The duo’s co-founder, DJ 2-Tone also promises his usual array of techniques and sound bites to accentuate different moments in the film ranging from aggressive fight scenes to subtle love scenes.
“This isn’t just playing a DJ set during a movie. We incorporate the music with the movie so you can still follow the plot and hear the dialogue,” says Shaolin Jazz co-founder DJ 2-Tone. “You might have one scene using a song with lyrics and another using instrumental beds underneath. It’s weaving music over and under the film audio, just scoring the film, scene by scene.”
Doors open at 7:30 PM at the a Cary Theater with concessions available for purchase from Brew Coffee Bar. Head over to Etix for ticketing info, and click here for more details on the festival!