The theme was also used in Bloody Struggle (1972), My 12 Kung Fu Kicks (1979) and The Invincible Armour (1977). during the switch to black and white the main theme from Day of Anger (1967) by Riz Ortolani is played briefly. When O-Ren retreats Super 16 by Neu! is heard which was used in Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976). The music in the House of Blue Leaves fight even uses the same cues which many Kung-Fu films used illegally. In in lieu of an original score or production music, the films would use pop music or the score from from Blaxploitation films or Spaghetti Westerns. The use of music in the film in many ways matches the use of music in Kung Fu/martial arts films of the Shaw Brothers and such. If I can't play certain roles because mainstream Americans still see me as Other, and I don't want to be cast only in 'typically Asian' roles because they reinforce stereotypes, I start to feel the walls of the metaphorical box we AAPI women stand in." Liu wrote she "feels fortunate to have moved the needle" for Asian and Asian-American actresses in Hollywood because "Hollywood frequently imagines a more progressive world than our reality." I could have been wearing a tuxedo and a blond wig, but I still would have been labeled a dragon lady because of my ethnicity. Fox or Daryl Hannah a dragon lady? I can only conclude that it's because they are not Asian. As Liu asked, "'Kill Bill' features three other female professional killers in addition to Ishii. For Liu, calling the O-Ren character a Dragon Lady doesn't make sense when writer-director Quentin Tarantino populated a lot of "Kill Bill" with similarly-minded female assassins. In an essay titled "Hollywood Played a Role in Hypersexualizing Asian Women," writer India Roby defines the Dragon Lady as "cunning and deceitful" and a character who "uses her sexuality as a powerful tool of manipulation, but often is emotionally and sexually cold and threatens masculinity." Roby then cites O-Ren as a contemporary example. Lucy Liu wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in April 2021 to push back against Teen Vogue for calling her "Kill Bill" villain, the Yakuza leader O-Ren Ishii, a recent example of Hollywood's harmful Dragon Lady Asian stereotype.
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