One thing we know about the Bride is that “Her side has always been a little lonely.” She has the same quiet expressions and the same threatening demeanor when she wants to reveal it. In the scene where she comes to visit Hattori Hanzo it’s obvious they want a side of her to appear as disguisingly charming to get her way in. In Jeffrey’s interviews we know that his compulsion to kill was almost inherent. We see Bill go on this whole monologue of “being a natural born killer” and how she tries to disguise herself as a “worker bee” when in reality she’ll always be a “renegade killer bee.” We know Dahmer stopped killing for 9 years but accidentally beat a victim to death while he was drugged up and unaware. And we know he tried to become religious but fell back into killing again. Bill comes to a conclusion and asks “Did you really think your life in El Paso was gonna work?” And she responds “No! But I would’ve had BB!”

During the movie we can tell she’s psychopathic but not completely sociopathic. She wants to escape with her daughter from a life surrounded by murder, which she seems to be completely aware of is not right, but she decided to live that way anyway for Bill. In Jeffrey’s interviews he seems to be completely aware the same way and even decided to become Christian. Even with the uncertainty of what will happen with she and her daughter’s compulsions the Bride makes an effort to care for her daughter to have a chance at a normal life in the end.

Even though the Bride was made to be a dramatized character, I wonder if Quentin Tarantino made this connection on purpose. I also really wonder if Tarantino was trying to make part of this movie about how killers like Dahmer have the inherent compulsion to kill. 

Do you think Quentin Tarantino got inspiration from Jeffrey Dahmer for The Bride?