And this is why I tell people QT would fuck his own movies up if it wasn’t for the people he cast. They bail him out all the time.
Tarantino hated this Kill Bill Vol. 2 scene initially because Michael Madsen insisted on using this hat.
He bought it in Mexico while filming a Western and started wearing it to rehearsals to shape Budd’s washed-up cowboy vibe.
Tarantino even told him to ditch it (and cut his hair). Madsen ignored him and kept showing up in it anyway.
So Tarantino rewrote the strip club scene on the day—adding the boss’s “shit kicker hat” rant just to call it out.
Madsen later said he “owed half [his] performance to that hat.”