Anticipating Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds"...

THIS THREAD WILL GO WELL

Oh, yeah - here's the second picture they've got on that page. Good lord, man:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44558000/jpg/_44558765_quentin2_body1afp.jpg

"I'm not trying to be on the edge, I'm not trying to go against the grain or anything, I'm just telling my stories and I've been lucky enough to actually find an audience."

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44770000/jpg/_44770655_tarantino226_getty.jpg

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u257/hash52/popeye.gif

Let me just ask a somewhat loaded question:

If all of the swords in Kill Bill were lightsabers instead - but nothing else were different - how would you feel?

-- Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, October 10, 2003 8:56 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Come to think of it, he's looking pretty Richard Kiel in those pics!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2006/11/20/bfkiel20.jpg

"modern, in-your-face" ________ is like Tarantino movie pitch Mad Libs

I would love to see Quentin Tarantino's Popeye.

"I'm not trying to be on the edge, I'm not trying to go against the grain or anything, I'm just telling my stories and I've been lucky enough to actually find an audience."

-- Tracer Hand

why is this being requoted?

Because it's one of the oldest interview clichés in the book? There's a whole thread dedicated to musicians' variations on this line on ILM.

He was speaking at the Provincetown Film Festival - where he received a special Filmmaker on the Edge award at the weekend, and was clearly pleased his script was all wrapped up.

I've been waiting a while for a WWII movie that doesn't look like a period piece, but I don't know if I'm too happy about Tarantino doing it.

I think there's a chance it'll be really fucking good, but I'm not holding my breath.

no, don't hold your breath, you'll fall over.

The Thin Red Line is good at not being a period piece.

looking forward to tropic thunder, this not so much

I guess Sam Fuller wasn't "in yr face" enough?

Kelly's Heroes, yo

i'm looking forward to this!

Just found the screenplay online...

Link?

he just finished it didn't he?

I found it here...

motherfucker cannot spell to save his life

sure is an illiterate mothefucker. so is PTA. enjoying it so far though.

apparently the title really is spelt "basterds"

yeah i don't get that as not even the orig was spelled that way

It's not going to be the original (piece of shit, I'd bet) anymore than Grindhouse was grindhouse.

Apparently "bastards" would keep it from being displayed on posters, marquees, etc., in places that have profanity regulations.

and if you believe that...

What rescued cult figures (a la Pam G, Forster, D Carradine) will be in this?

mike meyers

Cast

[edit]The Allies
[edit]The Basterds
Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine aka "Aldo the Apache"[24] , an illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee, who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers. He bears a rope burn on his neck, which will never be mentioned in the film (the script hints that he might have survived a lynching). One of the film´s main protagonists: the character has been described as "a voluble, freewheeling outlaw" similar to Jules Winnfield from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.[25] His first appearance in the film is a subtle homage to George Carlin's The Indian Sergeant routine.
Eli Roth as Sgt. Donnie Donowitz:[22], "a baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter" who is known as "The Bear Jew" among Nazis.[26] Some of them seem to believe that Donowitz is in fact, a vengeful golem. It is rumored that the role was originally conceived for Adam Sandler, who was in talks with Tarantino before declining due to schedule conflicts with the film Funny People.
B. J. Novak as PFC Utivich aka "The Little One"[27]
Til Schweiger as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz: A German-born psychopath recruited by Aldo Raine to kill Nazis.[28]
Samm Levine as PFC Hirschberg [29]
Omar Doom as PFC Ulmer [30]
Michael Bacall as Zimmerman[30]
Gedeon Burkhard as CPL. Wilhelm Wicki, an Austrian Jew [31]
Paul Rust as an unnamed Basterd[23]
[edit]The British
Michael Fassbender as Lt. Archie Hicox, a "snappy and handsome British Lieutenant" and movie buff. He is described in the script as a "young George Sanders type". One of the film´s main protagonists, albeit introduced later in the movie.
Mike Myers as Gen. Ed Fenech: A British "military mastermind" who provides a plot to kill Nazi leadership.[32]
Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[23]
[edit]The Jews (Occupied French)
Mélanie Laurent as Shoshanna Dreyfus: A young Jewish girl on the run. One of the film´s main protoganists.[33]
Léa Seydoux as Young Shoshanna[34]
Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Himmelstein[23]
[edit]The Axis Powers
[edit]The Nazis
Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa: A charming yet sinister pipe-smoking Nazi officer nicknamed the "Jew Hunter" in reference to his keen ability to locate Jews hiding throughout France.[27] The primary antagonist of the film.
Daniel Brühl as Frederick Zoller, A German War Hero starring in Joseph Goebbels newest Propaganda Film[23]
August Diehl as Major Deiter Hellstrom[23]
Sönke Möhring as Private Butz[23]
Richard Sammel as Sgt. Werner Rachtman[23]
Sylvester Groth as Joseph Goebbels[23]
Martin Wuttke as Adolf Hitler[23]
[edit]Other Roles
Samuel L. Jackson as The Narrator[35]
Diane Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark, a popular film star in Nazi Germany and a spy for the Allies.[27]
Julie Dreyfus as Francesca Mondino: Joseph Goebbel's mistress.[36]
Maggie Cheung as Madame Mimeux, a beautiful French woman who owns a cinema in Paris.[35][37]
Ludger Pistor as Wolfgang[23], a role Tarantino added specifically for him.
Christian Berkel as Eric, the Barkeeper[23]
Jacky Ido as Marcel, Shosanna´s beloved and a projectionist at Mimeux´s cinema[30]
Denis Menochet as Perrier LaPadite[30]
Jana Pallaske as an unconfirmed character[38]
Enzo G. Castellari has said that Tarantino "wrote him a small part in the script."[citation needed]

this sounds pretty awes imo

ya i am on the record as being psyched

Mike Myers as Gen. Ed Fenech: A British "military mastermind" who provides a plot to kill Nazi leadership.
Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Yeah, Rod Taylor as Churchill totally!

could be his most idiotic project yet.

max, name 3 Rod Taylor films.

Michael Fassbender is great in the forthcoming Hunger, starving to death as Bobby Sands.

i cant wait for this... even tho there is definitely a chance it will be total shit

Eli Roth as Sgt. Donnie Donowitz:[22], "a baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter" who is known as "The Bear Jew" among Nazis.[26] Some of them seem to believe that Donowitz is in fact, a vengeful golem. It is rumored that the role was originally conceived for Adam Sandler, who was in talks with Tarantino before declining due to schedule conflicts with the film Funny People.

How many shirtless scenes do you think he'll strongarm Tarantino into letting him do?

lol am i not allowed to be psyched for this if i dont know who rod taylor is

god max, don't you know ANYTHING?

xp: YA GOT IT

Hell, I'm stuck after The Birds and The Time Machine.

the birds, time machine, inglourious basterds--thats three

zabriskie point, according to the internet.

dr morbius, name 3 samm levine films

hahaha

max, watching good old movies will lower the status of Tarantino's hommages to shitty old movies in your eyes and ultimately save you Big $$$.

forthcoming?

actually it would be cheaper to watch one tarantino movie than to watch the 30 or so old movies that influenced it

thus saving you Big $$$.

i hate movies actually i never watch them so..... sorry

xp: but not your soul.

fucked up

Just awful.

Bad news. I sometimes get the feeling Tarantino's best movies are the ones that had been saved in the cutting room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts9_5331qOk

Bye Sally. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXDeKw40Fcc

xp!

just terrible. RIP.

did anyone notice that this "The Expendables" nonsense that got released this summer bears a frightening close resemblance to Tarantino's original idea for IG...?

apparently he sold the idea to sly stallone for one million dollars

she edited better movies than IB (ie, all the others), RIP

IB is his best movie

the worst news. RIP, sally.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/toddmccarthy/archives/sally_menke_was_an_ace

this is so sad :(

messed up

subtitling in this is endlessly entertaining

rewatched this the other day and it still owns really hard. Somehow the first time around I missed that Emil Jannings is brutally murdered at the end

anybody who likes this movie owes it to themselves to rent "la grande vadrouille" aka "don't look now, we're being shot at"

two of the greatest film comedians of all time, louis de funes and bourvil, wrapping themselves around stock WWII genre tropes with an abandon that even tarantino would envy

This is the one with Terry-Thomas as well, yeah? Sounds gold.

yeah!

"I'll die before the Germans get anything out of me!"

"I totally agree, you'll die before the Germans get anything out of me!"

"you're always very reliable"

finally got around to seeing this, dunno why i put it off so long. some thoughts:

1. Is it really assumed that Landa let Shoshanna go at the start? By the time he draws his gun she's pretty damn far away and I thought the implication was that he knew he wouldn't be able to hit her from there.

2. I don't think I've ever seen so much dialogue between characters where they are overly friendly to each other, but one has a huge secret and the other is suspicious, so he has to just poke and prod for information without giving himself away. Seriously it was like half the movie. I kinda wondered where the card game part of the basement scene would have come into play otherwise.

3. I think overall this is probably QT's best movie. Maybe in a few years I'll think it's Pulp Fiction again but I think the somewhat linear storytelling and deep character development really gave you a good sense of who's who and why you can't really reduce this to "good guys vs. bad guys". Even Shoshanna's revenge plot would have resulted in the deaths of innocent journalists. Obviously you root against the Nazis at every point in the film but to me it's kind of boring to just show Nazis getting mowed down; the one scene (Chapter 2?) with Bear Jew was really all you need before the big finish. I was actually kind of worried after Death Proof that QT had kind of lost it but I think not trying to be clever all the time (which kinda defined Pulp Fiction to me) really serves him well.

Recently learned about the life of actress Lina Basquette (aka Sam Warner's widow), which is kind of a movie in and of itself

She was invited to become a star of cinema per the Führer in 1937, he was a big fan & Leni Reifenstahl met with her initially as a kind of emissary. It reads so weird, but she didn't really know what she was getting into I dont think. (Reifenstahl even threw shade at Warner being a Jew & that didnt stop her signing up) Stayed at Berchtesgarden & was even assaulted by Hitler after she refused his advances at a party. Blech.

But the whole thing was so nuts, like she figured the "horribleness" would just "die down" and anyway she wanted the work & a change of scenery & thought it seemed like a good opportunity

Anyway it sort of reminded me of the actress character in IB, minus the spying

At work today, I got to drop "I'll probably get chewed out. I've been chewed out before." Written and spoken, apt and factual.

Sadly, it was not because I had shot one nazi in the face before mutilating another, higher-ranking nazi, also in the face.

Dare to dream

Today in Film Twitter:

so my INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS review was removed because I said I wanted the Basterds to come back and take care of all the nazis in America right now. I don't see how this is a problem? https://t.co/gbAuSunn7i

— Will (@SilentDawnLB) July 30, 2019

We're not nazi sympathizers. Not a single one of us. We're not even neutral on the issue. Nazism sucks.

— Letterboxd (@letterboxd) July 30, 2019

Tune in next week for another episode of "Neutral About Nazis."

it's fucked up that shoshanna dies before her film is even projected. and that it's by an almost dead zoller who she could've easily finished off when he moaned. Goddammit. I forgot how much that deflates the glorious ending for me, I hadn't seen it since it came out. another thing that came back to me was the feeling that this was oddly rushed and compressed, clearly culled from decades of material and so much that never made it into the movie.

he’s talked about making a miniseries cut with the Basterds’ missions in it as his next project after the Once Upon promo cycle is done

having just rewatched, it cld definitely benefit from more space, but the Basterds stuff that got left in the movie is so slight & cliche-adjacent that he might have slashed it for the best, not just for narrative’s sake

yeah, in that way the movie is mistitled- though Shoshanna's story was always there, the first scene was the first thing he wrote iirc?

whenever Waltz is onscreen, it's unwatchable.

Is it because we've since learned that Waltz actually has close to zero range? I think he's great in IG and almost
as good in Django. Outside of those two I've never seen him play anything other than "smirking sleazy guy" a la Hans Landa.

he plays against type in alita: battle angel (kindly doctor with a giant badass rocket hammer) and is pretty good at it

His timing isn't bad during the cafe sequence with Shoshanna; otherwise he giggles and winks through the performance.

xpost I totally forgot about that film.

fuck. that film was somehow always playing on someone’s screen in my line of sight on two transatlantic flights recently. i kept waking up and catching different fragments of it at different points in the film. haunted my thoughts trying to work out what was going on and whether waltz was good, bad, bad-turned-good or good-turned-bad and why the hell the main character was some sort of cgi cartoon and whether it was relevant.

your comment just reminded me i meant to look up what the hell the film was about when i got back and never did.

it's p easily my favorite film of the year but it hits all my elaborate-world-building-sci-fi-with-trans-identity-themes buttons plus very clean and inventive action setpieces and a cheesy, everyone-announcing-their-every-emotion james cameron script

oh ok. i may watch it properly then. i didn’t realise until i looked it up just now it was cameron.

for a sec I thought Brad was describing IB.

he plays against type in alita: battle angel (kindly doctor with a giant badass rocket hammer) and is pretty good at it

Further to Tarantino being okay with using songs from other films, I wonder if he's ever seen Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank? Normally I assume he's seen everything, but that seems extremely un-Tarantino-like. Just like in Hollywood, Arnold's film has a moody, minor-key cover of "California Dreamin'." (Not that the original isn't moody, but the Mama & the Papas always sound major-key melodic to me.) Bobby Womack in Fish Tank, and it's central to the story; I thought the José Feliciano cover in Hollywood was one of the better musical cues.

He programmed a month of films directed by women* in May, opening with two nights of Me And You And Everyone We Know b/w Fish Tank.

(Except Wednesday matinees, which were by women writers, and Friday mdnights are always his own films, but he still managed to make two of those directed by women.)

So I wouldn't be surprised if Fish Tank was on his mind when he chose that song.

(I was purely focused on the film and not even thinking about it having been directed by a woman--no implications in that direction. The film itself--its mood, its pacing, its sparse dialogue--feels worlds away from his work.)

Me And You And Everyone We Know

Quite liked that when I saw it a few years ago--should go back and take another look.

No inferences taken, I just thought it was an interesting month of programming (including things both worlds away from, and moderately close to, his work).

I learnt of the existence of Spheeris’ Hollywood Vice Squad, starring Carrie Fisher, from that calendar, and would urge anyone else not to have their curiosity piqued.

Didn't even realize I was posting on the wrong thread--oops.

still the best. the first of the setpieces is the weakest (and maybe Alfred has worn my defenses down - Waltz's hamminess does get a over the top at times), the second is a masterfully executed slow build, and the third is just perfect. There are a couple of dumb, unnecessary beats - Jackson's brief voiceover, a couple of the Hitler scenes - but by the end all is forgiven. Pitt gets in all the best/funniest line readings.

It always bugged me that in the theater scene he gives all the Nazi leaders name tags except Hitler. Because of the fucking mustache. It just seems so lazy.

Hitler’s not in that scene iirc?

Not in the scene with the nametags, but in the theater scene shortly after. The point stands. The nametags were just so lazy and they might as well be just any made up Nazi stooges.

eh idk Von Hammersmark makes the point that the entire high command will be there but several of them haven't been introduced yet, but I suppose it doesn't really matter knowing who Goering etc are

on a similar note one of the things that bugs me is the few scenes with German that go unsubtitled for no discernible reason