INGLOURIOUS
BASTERDS
With
Brad
Pitt,
Mélanie
Laurent,
Christoph
Waltz,
Michael
Fassbinder,
Eli
Roth,
Diane
Kruger,
Til
Schweiger,
B.J.
Novak,
Mike
Myers,
Martin
Wuttke,
Julie
Dreyfus
Written
&
Directed
by
Quentin
Tarantino
This
is
WWII
according
to
Q.T.
And
what
an
exhilarating
alternative
ride
it
is!
With
his
love
of
exploitation
movies
fused
onto
his
psyche,
Tarantino
takes
the
viewer
on
a
slow-burning
excursion
through
Nazi
occupied
France
with
flashes
of
extreme
violence
and
ample
lashings
of
humour
-
his
version
of
movies
like
The
Dirty
Dozen.
The
Inglourious
Basterds
are
a
group
of
American
soldiers
with
their
sole
purpose
being
to
drive
fear
into
the
hearts
of
Nazi
soldiers.
They
do
this
by
scalping
their
victims
and
leaving
the
rare
survivor
with
a
not-so-friendly
reminder.
Their
reign
of
terror
leads
towards
their
ultimate
goal
of
getting
Hitler,
but
there
is
another
component
to
the
story
-
the
notorious
Nazi
Colonel
Landa,
in
charge
of
fulfilling
Hitler's
plan
(brilliantly
played
by
Christoph
Waltz,
nabbing
the
Best
Actor
award
at
Cannes)
massacred
a
Jewish
family
in
rural
France,
but
one
of
the
girls,
Shosanna,
escaped.
Years
later
she
runs
a
cinema
in
Paris
where
a
patriotic
German
movie
(featuring
a
real
German
hero)
is
set
to
have
its
premier
(at
the
behest
of
said
hero,
who
happens
to
be
smitten
by
her).
These
characters
converge
for
one
hell
of
a
finalé
of
vengeance,
justice
and
unbridled
mayhem,
rewriting
history
in
the
process.
In
true
Tarantino
fashion,
protracted
dialogue
scenes
are
commonplace,
but
add
to
the
film's
appeal
and
in-depth
character
development.
The
characters
are
often
beyond
colourful,
like
that
of
Lt.
Raine
(Pitt),
who
is
pretty
much
hilarious
throughout
with
his
old-school
macho
style,
while
fellow-director
and
Tarantino
chum
Eli
Roth
(Cabin
Fever
and
Hostel)
plays
the
baseball
wielding
Lt.
Donowitz.
Anyone
who
may
have
thought
Tarantino
to
be
out
of
his
depth
can
rest
assured,
as
this
is
one
rip-roaring
movie
set
to
be
the
year's
favourite
for
many.
While
watching
this,
one
can
almost
feel
that
everyone
involved
had
an
absolute
blast
making
this
movie.
PS.
This
time
Tarantino's
toe-fetish
comes
in
the
shape
of
the
camera
lingering
on
the
digits
peeping
from
a
plaster
cast
of
the
double-agent
assisting
the
Bastreds,
actress
Bridgett
von
Hammersmark
(who
got
injured
in
a
fantastic
bar-room
stand-off
scene).
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