For a month and a half, KILL BILL concerned itself with the scenes in the hospital, with Uma in a coma, and various bits and pieces: a parking garage, an airport, stuff like that.

Finally, I got the call to go to Lancaster, out in the desert, where they’d built a pretty little chapel for the wedding rehearsal scene which is the constantly flashed-back-to centerpiece of the film.  The first day there, I waited around until almost sunset, to play The Silent Flute, off-camera.  It turned out it wouldn’t play at all.  The poor thing had finally gone completely south, from all the cracks it had in it as a result of using it as a weapon in Circle of Iron and Dune Warriors. I switched to the flute I’d made for Kung Fu, The Movie. That worked fine, until the next day, when I had to tell Quentin.  He thought about using The Silent Flute anyway, and putting in the sound later, but then decided it wouldn’t be as much fun as having the music “live’, and reasoned that, come-to-think-of-it, it would be cool to have a flute from one of the Kung Fu shows. Read the rest of this entry »