December 2025

All Roads to Kill Bill

An interactive 3D influence network mapping every film that fed into Kill Bill — and every film it spawned. 200+ nodes, live force simulation. Built with React, Three.js, and TMDB.

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What It Is

A live, interactive 3D force-directed graph of Tarantino’s cinematic DNA. Every film that influenced Kill Bill is a node. Every film Kill Bill influenced is a node. The edges between them are labeled with the specific thing borrowed — a shot, a score cue, a narrative structure, a character archetype.

Drag nodes. Spin the graph. Click a film to see its poster, its genre cloud, and its full connection list.

Explore It

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How It Was Built

The data pipeline started as the Tarantino Influence Graph — a Python scraper that pulled 37 films from TMDB, extracted relationships via Firecrawl, and built a fully-linked Obsidian vault.

The visualization layer is React + Three.js using a 3D force simulation. Each node is positioned by the physics engine; genre clusters naturally emerge from the graph structure. The film poster images are loaded directly from TMDB’s CDN.

The Obsession Layer

Kill Bill samples more aggressively and more specifically than almost any other film. It’s not just “influenced by” — it’s shot-for-shot homage, score lifted wholesale, character types duplicated. The graph makes that visible in a way a Wikipedia list never could.

Tools that helped

React

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