Pai Mei

Nah we had a packed house, and all I heard were a few belly laughs and giggles. It was cool, I definitely enjoyed it as much as Kill Bill 1 - although my friends I watched it with said it was "too slow" yadda yadda yadda (typical idiot comments like that)

I never got why him stroking his beard was so funny, but apparently everyone else did. Can anyone explain why?

Well, is like a funny gesture. If you watch some classic Kung fu movies you'll notice characters that resemble Pai Mei tend to be serious. Whereas Pai Mei stands alone becuase of his style.

Yes, it was funny, but not fall-out-of-your-seat-and-laugh-your-f*cking-ass-off funny.

I found it amusing, but I also don't understand why it's hilariously funny. It's not funny in the sense that people should be rolling in the aisles, and yet... they were. I just loved the dialouge between The Bride and Pai Mai, and some of the things he said, the beard part wasn't his only funny quality.

Originally posted by WindDancer
Well, is like a funny gesture. If you watch some classic Kung fu movies you'll notice characters that resemble Pai Mei tend to be serious. Whereas Pai Mei stands alone becuase of his style.

Well, I can't speak for the audience that was on your theather when Pai Mei came out on screen. But Pai Mei has charisma when teaching the Bride Kung fu. Old master living on a mountain with a deadly reputation sounds cool.

Originally posted by eleveninches
In a flashback scene, bill tells beatrix a story of pai mei set in 1008. So is he about a thousand years old???

It was 1003, sorry 😮

HE MAKES VOLUME 2.........HE IS THE GREATEST CHARACTER IN EITHER OF THE MOVIES!!!!!!!!

I found an old poster with Pai Mei picture in it. Check it out:

http://www.gunners1.demon.co.uk/clanofwhitelotus.jpg

thnkss 4 the link winddancer

Originally posted by WindDancer
After watching KB vol.2 last night. I couldn't get the character of Pai Mei outta my head. I don't know if many of you will agree with me, but Pai Mei is a very funny character!!!

If QT ever decides to make a spin off movie about Pai Mei. I will be there ready to watch it! I love this character!!! Gordon Liu did a good job portraying this character.

Agreed. Pai Mei was hilarious.

Again, my theater thought the beard thing was funney. I did not get it. I thought carrying the watter up the steps, and him hating women was funney, and the eat like a dog part was funney, but I missed the humor in the beard thing. Can anyone enlighten me? Also, again I ask, how does he compare to the original Pai Meis. I am sure QT put a slight twist on him. But, if we have not seen his normal character, we can not know how he chnaged for the film. QT does that. He takes an icon figure,a nd changes them slightly, sometime to make a serious point, and sometime to make it funney. We need to know more about the original Pai Mei to fully get all QT had in mind.

Here is another pic of Pai Mei (Fist of the White Lotus 1980)

Just walking through best buy i noticed a lot of dvds with characters that resembled Pai Mei, i doubt they were all him though.

Yeah, some resemble Pai Mei. But I'm sure those are different characters than Pai Mei. Same style different character.

Even the guy in WindDancer's sig looks like him except for he is bald.

YAY!

Originally posted by Myth
Even the guy in WindDancer's sig looks like him except for he is bald.

lol! They do look alike. Only difference is that the Master of the Flying Guillotine is blind. 😄

Hmm... perhaps you should check out Fist of The White Lotus with Gordon Lui. Pai Mei was not invented for the Kill Bill movies. Like Hattori Hanzo he was an adopted character from old Kung Fu flicks and television series. Great film if you like the character Pai Mei.