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Kill Bill Goes For Real Strip Club Look & Feel
October 2, 2003

What does Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, Kill Bill (opening in theaters October 10), have to do with strip clubs?  Not all that much, but as with Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown, the movie contains the required throw-away strip club scene, which has very little to do with the plot, but it allows Quentin and the film crew to take over a strip club and have a good time.  Hey, why not?  If I was a big time movie director, I'd do the same thing too.

I haven't seen either volume of his latest movie, but according to the script, there is a strip club called the "My-Oh-My Club" somewhere, and Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs) plays a down-and-out strip club employee (more like janitor slash floater) named Budd, and Uma Thurman (known as "The Bride") comes to get her revenge. She's apparently pissed-off at Budd for some reason.  Maybe he didn't count her lap dances correctly.

According to sources, the Bill crew used Sam's Hof Brau, a Los Angeles strip club, for these strip club scenes.  There's also a scene inside the strip club office, where a dancer and the owner of the club talk about something.  First, the crew took pictures of the entire office, then returned with replacement props for everything in the room.   In the above picture, photographs of kids of the owner were replaced with movie prop pictures of other kids (presumably, kids that had signed a release form), and all products on the desk were replaced with identical items with fake product names.

In the next picture, the clothes were props, as well as all the small items on the shelves and desk, including the desk and chairs.  I don't know anything about the movie business, but I would have thought somewhere in a movie studio lot would be a fake strip club, with a fake office, with all the fake props already installed.  What do I know?  I guess if you really want the "real" strip club feel in a movie, you have to use one.

On a side note, Daryl Hannah, who played a stripper in Dancing at the Blue Iguana is also in this movie.  However, she does not play a stripper here.  Interestingly, in Iguana, Daryl's character mentions Pulp Fiction as she's getting arrested by a cop.  Hmmm.  Maybe a good way to get cast in Tarantino's movie.  Smart move.