Visible crew/equipment: When Vernita Green dies in the kitchen, during a close up, we can see a bright light reflected off the sweat on her neck. This is a crew light, as all the other light in the room is natural, coming from the window facing the other way, so it couldn't be reflected.
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
1 visible crew/equipment mistake
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, David Carradine, Julie Dreyfus
Continuity mistake: When The Bride is slashed on the upper back by O-Ren in their fight scene she collapses and lands on her back in the snow. After she gets up and the fight continues, there is no blood spot on the snow where she was lying. (01:29:55 - 01:31:10)
Vernita Green: I fucked you up. I fucked you up bad, I wish to God that I hadn't, but I did. Be that as it may, I know I don't deserve your mercy or forgiveness, however, I beseech you for both on behalf of my daughter.
The Bride: Bitch, you can stop right there. Just because I have no intention of killing you before the eyes of your daughter does not mean that parading her around in front of me is gonna inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business, and not a goddam fuckin thing you've done in the subsequent four years, including getting knocked up, is gonna change that.
Trivia: Anybody else catch the "square" thing? Uma Thurman did the same thing in Pulp Fiction.
Question: In the House of Blue Leaves, why does the lady manager switch off the lights during the fight between the Bride and the Crazy 88?
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Answer: From what I understand the reason for the lights being off is the same reason for why the previous scene was done in black and white; to decrease the amount of 'graphic violence' in the movie in an attempt to keep an 'R' rating. I would assume that they had him shut off the lights for that scene as just another method to accomplish that task.
I believe the original question was asking why was it done within the context of the film (i.e. why did the character shut off the lights) not why was it done in reality. My best guess is that the manager switched off the lights thinking the 88 had a better chance of killing the bride if she couldn't see. True, they couldn't see either but there were so many of them one could possibly have gotten to her.