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Lord Soth Misunderstood Genius

Something interesting.....

I found this while browsing through moviemistakes.com, I'll just quote it verbatim.

All of the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are named after snakes, however Elle Driver's codename, California Mountain Snake, is the only non-venomous snake of the bunch. This is perhaps a cute Tarantino-esque reason for her inability to poison Black Mamba in her sleep.

Interesting, isn't it? Makes sense, too.

Furious Angel Senior Member

😱 Awesome.

Elle is great, absolutely awesome! Not many people know ''cottonmouth' is a snake 😎

eleveninches God of my own world

Is nt bill the only one not named after a snake. I think his codename is "snake charmer" or something like that.

jtpimp_24r Junior Member

that's great

That is actually very interesting. I hope that Tarantino wrote it that way for this purpose. It would just be another way to show the sheer genius of his writing.

Lord Soth Misunderstood Genius

Originally posted by eleveninches
Is nt bill the only one not named after a snake. I think his codename is "snake charmer" or something like that.

Yes, his code name is Snake Charmer. But he isn't really a member on the DiVAS, he's the leader. And since all the others are named after snakes, Bill is the 'Snake Charmer,' because he is their leader, and because he 'bedded' at least one of them.

roundisfunny Senior Member

No moss growing on you.

TrAnCeDuO Cyan-Assassin

its weird that elle used the black mamba...when thats

Spoiler:
beatrixes

name...

roundisfunny Senior Member

She couldn't use the California Mountain Snake, since, as it's already been pointed out, it's non-venomous. Anyway, it was probably just supposed to be symbolic about how "Black Mamba", one way or another, got them all.

TrAnCeDuO Cyan-Assassin

(i know i just now figured it out)
i know i just couldnt help notice the irony in that...

Lord Soth Misunderstood Genius

Originally posted by roundisfunny
No moss growing on you.

Being in my caffinated and exhausted state, I'm not sure what you mean by that....

Ice Mario Bold Adventurer

Re: Something interesting.....

Originally posted by Lord Soth
This is perhaps a cute Tarantino-esque reason for her inability to poison Black Mamba in her sleep.

Err, no. She went psycho when Bill called off the mission. Elle wanted to do it, there was no cuteness there at all.

Lord Soth Misunderstood Genius

What does being cute or psycho have to do with it at all?! All that was being said was that Elle did not poison The Bride, and Quentin made an obscure allusion to that by making her code name that of a non-venemous snake. Simple as that

subhuman79 Junior Member

Hey,

About California mountain snake (as in the snake, not Elle), I might be wrong, but doesn't it eat other snakes? That'd make sense with Elle character as well, since she did off Budd and tried to kill Beatrix as well.
Also, Elle using a black mamba to kill Budd was a handy way to get off the hook when she told Bill "let's just say he let a black mamba into his trailer.." or something like that. So no blame for her 🙂