The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen Through the Eyes of a Screen Legend

By David Carradine

David Carradine is Bill--the complex, charismatic master assassin from the critically acclaimed, monstrously successful Kill Bill films. Throughout the filming of Quentin Tarantino's brilliant, violent epic, Carradine kept a daily diary--capturing all the action, the genius, the madness, and the magic that combined to make a masterpiece. More than simply an insider's close-up look at the filmmaking process and the astonishing cast and crew--director Tarantino, star Uma Thurman, and all the other artists whose extraordinary skills helped create something glorious-- The Kill Bill Diary illuminates the fine points of the serious actor's craft, as a truly unique talent takes us along with him on a quirky, breathtaking, no-holds-barred, and altogether miraculous journey. It is a must-own volume for anyone who loves the movies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060823461
• ISBN13: 9780060823467
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Inside Look at a Cinematic Masterpiece!

Carradine's candid detailing of the daily grind of starring as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill is a fascinating and honest look at the process of movie making. As a filmmaker myself, one of the things I most enjoy is the bond formed between cast and crew. When thing's are going well, being on set is like being a part of a secret club that the audience rarely gets to be a part of. This book puts the reader...

It's not bad, it's just very light...

The Kill Bill Diary is sort of a hard book to review. I ended up giving it four stars because it's well written and engaging, but unfortunately very light. Carradine has done a wonderful job of chronicling his time spent working on the film, as well as shedding some light on both his process as an actor and what it's like as an actor to deal with studios such as Miramax (now the Weinstein Company), but the book tends to...

Who Knew Grasshopper Could Write So Well?

David Carradine's KILL BILL DIARY is unlike 90% of celebrity-penned 'behind-the-scenes' books: literate, insightful, witty and downright fun to read. Unlike 98.5% of actors who endeavor to wield a pen and express themselves in words, the man famous for playing "Kung Fu's" Kwai Chang Cain is as gifted a writer as he is a thespian. True, the book reads like a valentine to KILL BILL director Quentin Tarantino (and to a lesser...

Excellent Book David!

Congratulations David on an excellent book. It takes courage to be as open and personal as you are in the Kill Bill Diary.

The quite essential Kill Bill book

Actor David Carradine who plays the lead character in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill has written a detailed, skillfull, highly involved study of those films and his role in them. Reading the pages is like what I would imagine speaking to Carradine himself would be easy going laid back commentary that never strays from a particular day as the book is laid out in sequence from his first meeting with Quentin to that final premier...