By Scott Hamilton

We're going to have to wait until October for Quentin Tarantino's fourth film, Kill Bill, to hit theaters, but the teaser trailer is out now. (You can see it at quicktime.com.) Perhaps even more than his previous films, Kill Bill is an homage to the exploitation film of the 1960s and 1970s. Want to get up to speed before the movie comes out? Here's some movie suggestions, based on scenes that you can see in the teaser. There are minimal spoilers here, unless you count character names.

In roughly the order the scenes appear in the trailer:

The opening shot of the trailer is an airplane passing very low over a city. Before 1998, planes landing at Hong Kong's airport had to fly extremely close over the buildings to land at the city's airport. Such low-flying planes were a prominent feature of Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express (1994), a movie that was released by Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures.

In many shots Uma Thurman is wearing a bright yellow tracksuit with black stripes. This is of course a reference to the famous tracksuit Bruce Lee wore in the few scenes of Game of Death that the martial arts legend actually finished filming. In the Kill Bill trailer we also see Uma sporting a matching motorcycle helmet. While Lee meant the tracksuit to represent the fact that his character owed allegiance to no traditional martial arts school, the finished Game of Death (1978), and nearly all of that film's rip-offs and imitators (True Game of Death [1981?] and New Game of Death [1980?] to name just two), suggested the Bruce Lee character got that outfit by stealing it from one of the villain's motorcycle-riding thugs. .

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