Kill Bill 1+2 audio head scratcher

[Ryan Gallagher]

Shot in the dark. But in showing Kill Bill Vol.1 and Vol.2 tonight....

Vol1 had two center channel loud-ish "tones" (about half a second each) near the beginning where the daughter shows up off the school bus. I noticed as well as our lighting engineer and thought it was very strange. Did not happen again.

Vol2 had exactly the same sound (but only one occurrence) at almost exactly 17min in, where Bill is talking outside the trailer. Still rolling that one so TBD if there are more.

UUID: urn:uuid:d35dcda1-3f94-4e4d-bd21-db31824b5944 Content Title: KILL-BILL-VOL1_FTR-1_S_EN-XX_US_51_2K_MRMX_20120920_FKI_OV Content Kind: feature Duration: 01:50:40

UUID: urn:uuid:7d91b24b-d227-40d4-8d62-ee42e1a6d1ed Content Title: KILL-BILL-VOL2_FTR-1_S_EN-XX_US_51_2K_MRMX_20120920_FKI_OV Content Kind: feature Duration: 02:16:51

Vol 2 instance definitely appears to stomp on Bill's dialog so my instinct is they are not supposed to be there.

Okay this might be in the films, the internet seems to think that is maybe the case (although the internet perhaps refers to other intentional noises), if it is not intentional or coming from the DCP it means our AP20 is doing something I've literally never heard before.

Anyone encountered that before, or with these titles in particular? If my keys are still good without ejecting I'll backtrack after the audience leaves and at least make sure it's repeatable in the same spot in the film. If so i'm gonna say weird DCP/mix or editing artifact that snuck in. But I would have also assumed if a mistake, would have been caught/fixed by now?

[Ryan Gallagher]

Only my Vol2 key was valid after the show. But definitely in the DCP, at 00:16:50-ish. Almost sounds like a censor beep, there did appear to be the word fucking behind it. I should have recorded it to share but shut down already. :-(

[Ryan Gallagher]

Ah, it just took the right query to find the answer. “Tone” was not the right word, “censoring” was a more fruitful search.

Hard enough to follow in the booth to realize all occasions were actually “bleeping” Beatrix’s name for intentional reasons to build suspense.

To my ear it did not sound like a classic broadcast bleep, it just sounded like a stray tone, which certainly made me take note. None of my cohorts interpreted it as a bleep either downstairs.

[Marcel Birgelen]

There is some intentional "bleeping" in Kill Bill... Tarantino isn't shy to break the 4th wall now and then...

[Ryan Gallagher]

Since I didn't include them in the OP here are the offsets:

Vol. 1 (last 5 of UUID: b5944)

KILL-BILL-VOL2_FTR-1_S_EN-XX_US_51_2K_MRMX_20120920_FKI_OV

Run Time: 02:16:51.4 Start of Credits: 02:09:57.21 Start of Crawl: 02:09:57.21

Vol. 2 (last 5 of UUID: 6d1ed)

KILL-BILL-VOL1_FTR-1_S_EN-XX_US_51_2K_MRMX_20120920_FKI_OV

Run Time: 01:50:40.23 Start of Credits: 01:43:13.18 Start of Crawl: 01:43:35.8

I should also mention Vol.2 has the following credits sequence, I unfortunately did not notate the times of each of these elements.

Cast credits with video clips,
Zooming "Kill Bill" graphic,
a b/w "Music Video" of Beatrix driving for one song,
finally a credit cards.
the actual CRAWL
Another "Kill Bill" at the end of the crawl.
THEN A HIDDEN short scene take/outtake at the very end.

Our balcony is treacherous in the dark and people were already starting to try to leave because it was very late, so I gave them our lowest houselights as the music video started. In a perfect world they would have waited until at least the credit cards.