Filmed in part in Germany, "Inglourious Basterds" is according to Director Quentin Tarantino a "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography" that was also influenced by the French New Wave.
"This ain't your daddy's World War II movie," Tarantino has said.
The title of the film was inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 movie "The Inglourious Bastards".
From Breitbart News: In the genre-blurring tale -- with David Bowie on the soundtrack -- Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine who heads the squad of Jewish-American soldiers behind enemy lines in German-occupied wartime France.
Aldo tells his men to bring him the scalps of 100 Nazis each, and vows to terrorise the German army with the "disemboweled, dismembered and disfigured bodies we leave behind us....
"This isn't camp, it isn't pulp -- you miss the point using such categories with Tarantino -- but rather a vision never before seen in the nearly exhausted world of cinematic images," the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel wrote.
"It took 65 years for a film-maker, instead of bringing Germany's evil 20th century history to life once more to have people shudder and bow before it, to simply dream around it. And to mow all the pigs down. Catharsis! Oxygen! Wonderful retro-futuristic insanity of the imagination!" "
Back home in these United States of America, while the far right is feeling its oats as the Democrats face the challenges of governance, in Germany the critics are delighted at Tarantino's anti-Nazi blockbuster film that, as one critic has it, has torn up and rewritten the rule book on World War 2 films
More on the German critics from Breitbart News:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.fdc24718ee84a912c2aa2914ba6c8c60.5c1&show_article=1
Village Voice “Inglourious Basterds” Interview with Quentin Tarantino
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-18/news/quentin-tarantino-the-inglourious-basterds-interview?src=newsletter
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUV-bTqm5ss
Its great to see Quentin making a comback...
ReplyDeleteIt is undeniably a Quentin Tarantino film. Himself, at once, an auteur and a passionate love of film in all of its possibilities.
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