Tarantino goes for Bang, Bang

Quentin Tarantino is using Nancy Sinatra’s version of the song Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) for the dramatic opening scene of his two-part Asian martial arts thriller Kill Bill.

Tarantino, who used the Stealers Wheel hit Stuck In The Middle With You in Reservoir Dogs and Dick Dale’s Miserlou in Pulp Fiction, couples Bang, Bang with an image of Kill Bill’s star, Uma Thurman, in full bridal regalia, lying wounded in a church.

“I think you’ll have a hard time hearing that song after seeing the movie and not thinking about the bride lying in the church,” the writer-director tells the Los Angeles Times.

“It’s the opening credits. That was in my head six years ago when I first came up with Kill Bill. Along with the whole story I came up with the idea of using that in the opening credits.

“One of the things I do when first thinking about a movie is go into my record collection and find the opening credit sequence, music the movie will work to the beat of.”