Kill Bill Belle

The following is what I think should be the plot for Kill Bill 3, or what I think will be called Kill Belle, the next movie in Tarantino’s Kill Bill series.

As the title suggests, I think Tarantino should (and most likely will) focus more on Nikki Belle and B.B.--the daughter of Black Mamba and Copperhead. That said, and without further ado, here are the basic plot points as I imagine them:

1 The last Kill Bill movie ended where this movie will start: Elle has no eyes, millions of dollars (at least), and is more desirous of revenge than ever. Nikki (who witnessed her mother's brutal death) now lives with her father. And Beatrix is together with the child she fought so hard to get back.

2 Elle kills Nikki Belle’s father, without Nikki’s knowledge, and then comes for her (though not to kill). Elle adopts her instead, training her in the art of killing and teaching her to lust for blood as much as for revenge.

3 Like many scenes and characters in the previous films, the training sequence will be taken from (/inspired by) Lady Snowblood. In particular, Elle will train Nikki by having a rope tied to them both—which compensates for her lack of vision at the same time teaching Nikki that she must fight. There is no running away from her chosen fate in life as a servant of revenge. And Elle does not kick or hit this poor girl softly. So, she must learn, she must do so quickly, and she must become as ruthless and cold-hearted as her master.

4 At around the same time that this is happening, Beatrix and B.B. (who is as one would expect from her name—combining Bill and Beatrix—a natural killer like her parents) are living together somewhere in China. Beatrix reluctantly at first trains B.B. in the arts, and viewers see some of this in their chess games (though the scene will be filmed so that only the back of their heads are seen—-making it easy for viewers to assume that it is Elle talking to Nikki).

5 Beatrix (who viewers think is Elle) teaches Nikki two things in these scenes. One, she notes the importance of choosing the battlefield, and two, the danger in being or showing mercy. As an aside, both will talk with each other in Chinese--again in order to keep their identities hidden from viewers.

6 Nikki Belle’s life as well as her training has molded her into a ruthless, blood-hungry killer. Elle has succeeded in the first part of her quest to get revenge on Beatrix—but she has created a monster. Elle confronts Nikki about her killing of two of the many younger students studying at the academy and is rudely rebuffed. A final confrontation occurs, this time started by Nikki who inquires knowingly about the untimely death of her father. Then Elle, like the teacher she herself killed, meets her death via the hands of a student.

7 With her father’s death avenged, and the lust for blood ever stronger, Nikki decides to make her move against Beatrix—at last avenging the death of her mother. Nikki kills most of the guards with ease but Beatrix told the truth long ago: she was waiting. A (nightingale) floor awakens Beatrix in time to defend herself from the would-be assassin. A fight ensues and though Beatrix does not go easy, go she does.

8 As the camera scans far away from the final death blow delivered by Nikki Belle we see what looks like the curly-haired back of Nikki rushing to the scene. The camera moves around though, and if viewers didn’t make the connection after spotting the chess board in Beatrix’s house, they realize now that the young girl seen {at the movie’s start) learning strategy and being taught the dangers of allowing an iota of mercy to seep into one’s actions, is none other than B.B. herself.

9 B.B. wants to deliver justice, swiftly and brutally, but Nikki Belle is well-armed and B.B. has no weapons on hand. B.B. decides to wait and choose the battlefield so that (however difficult it may be) she can kill Belle.

10 The grounds of the academy are dimly lit when B.B. arrives. A few guards are killed, not with any enjoyment or anger showed towards them, but with a calm, steady approach. As she enters the main courtyard, however, a laugh is heard growing louder and louder. Bright lights suddenly illuminate the courtyard, with B.B. standing (calmly as ever) in the middle.

11 Nikki Belle says she too was waiting for the daughter of a deceased mother, just as Beatrix was, but that she has more than just a few guards. At this point, twelve fierce-looking college age students step out from the main building—and, in front of them, 12 more very-young and thoroughly evil looking students take their places a step or two ahead of their older peers. As they all advance towards B.B,. Nikki (who, like many villains, taunts and counts on the heroine believing mercy is a good thing) warns her not to hurt the kids, for they are young and mean no harm.

12 B.B. however is more bad-@ss than her mother. She is smart enough to know the result of any mercy shown to evil, and she uses the five-finger exploding heart technique to dispose of every last one (just like Pei Mei was said to have done).

13. As Nikki then runs to meet B.B. in combat as the last student is being finished off—letting her emotions overcome what should have been caution—B.B. unleashes a blinding gas (which doesn’t affect her due to the glasses she has had on), pulls out a sword, and decapitates Nikki Belle on the spot. “This is where the cycle of violence ends,” says B.B. slamming her Hattori Hanzo sword into the bloody ground as she calmly walks away.

Update: Vivica A. Fox wants a role in Kill Bill 3--or, in my dreams, Kill Belle--saying in a December 2011 interview that she hopes she can play the part of Nikki's mother in a flashback sequence. IMDb has a tentative release date of the movie as 2014. Won't be long!