"Real Wild Women"

The movie Kill Bill I think shows an extreme idea of "Real Wild Women." The lead character, played by Uma Thurman, was a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, lead by her lover Bill. When Thurman's character realizes she is pregnant with Bill's child, she decides to escape her life as a killer. She flees to Texas, met a man, and on the day of they're wedding is gunned down by an angry and jealous Bill. Four years later, Uma Thurman's character wakes from the coma, and discovers that the life and baby she longed for are gone. She then sets out on a revenge mission to kill each member of the squad, especially Bill.  

In Kill Bill, the women are both the heroes and the villains."Female road outlaws have usually been represented either as innocent girlfriends and wives, who stand by their man and suggest the hope of peaceful family alternatives, or as a femme fatale, who betray the male protagonist and the family ideal out of greed" (Boozer). I think that Kill Bill actually represents both of Boozer's female gender roles. The main roles are filled by women with traditional gender expectations and stereotypes. The Bride (Uma Thurman) is pregnant and is thus poised to take on the traditional roles of wife and mother. It is when she is prevented from doing so, by her attack, that she becomes enraged and heartless, as if taking on the role of a mother and wife is what would have made her happy and complete. O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) is the head of Tokyo organized crime, in a reversal of traditional Japanese sex roles. Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox) plays the traditional housewife and mother role, but is likewise strong and self-assertive, protecting her home and family in the way that a husband might, with violence and physical strength. Despite some of the reversals, the film bears an apparent underlying conventional view on gender and sex roles. 

I think Quentin Tarantino, the writer and director of the film, portrayed his characters as being independent, strong, and a bit feminist in its gender ambiguity. Uma Thurman's character behavior ranges from stereotypical female, as a blushing bride, to a masculine satire as a sword wielding assassin.