Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds


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A 'Bleep-load' of Nazis Die in Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt's New Flick

QUENTIN'S GIFT TO NAZI HATERS

Quentin Tarantino's new war movie, the strangely spelled "Inglourious Basterds," is shaping up to be the blood-spattered antidote for anyone who's depressed by the recent torrent of Holocaust movies - it's one big slaughterfest in which hundreds of Nazis are gleefully executed in the most gruesome ways possible.

"If you thought Nazis died in 'The Dirty Dozen,' brother, you ain't seen nothing yet," film critic Harry Knowles - who visited the German set of the Harvey Weinstein-produced picture - writes on Ain't It Cool News. "There are a [bleep]load of Nazis dying. Seriously."

In the movie, Brad Pitt heads up a team of "Bowery Boy Jews seemingly right from the heart of Hell's Kitchen" who are out to collect 100 Nazi scalps each, according to Knowles. The plot goes from broad comedy to outright horror. In one scene, a soldier played by Eli Roth takes a bat to one Nazi, which ended up "splattering Nazi-brain blood all over me and my script, even though I was a good 15 to 20 feet away," Knowles says. (Roth's casting is a bit of an inside joke as he's also the director who grossed out audiences with the torture-porn shocker "Hostel.")

In another scene, actor Omar Doom, who's described as looking like a "young Al Pacino," effortlessly scalps some Germans while machine-gunning others.

An insider said: "The Nazis really get their comeuppance. It's a big change from all the downbeat Holocaust films over the holidays," referring to "The Reader," "Valkyrie," "Defiance," "Good," "Adam Resurrected" and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas."

Tarantino told Empire magazine that one Scene, set in a basement bar, will resemble " 'Reservoir Dogs' but with Nazis and in German." He adds: "The Basterds are acting like the Apaches in a no-win situation."

The flick - which co-stars Mike Myers, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Kruger, Cloris Leachman and Rod Taylor - is set to debut at the Cannes Film Festival this spring.

Nope I just thought that it was pretty terrible the only decent bit was for the car chase - even thou it was also really stupid

Do you understand the point of a Grindhouse film? Out of the two, QT's Death Proof was a lot more realistic to a traditional grindhouse film than what Planet Terror is.

I was watching some news outlet today and they had a critic on talking about this film. Apparently he had recently been invited to the set and he's saying this will be the goriest film ever hands down :laugh:

Awesome :p I can't wait for the gore :p

  • 3 weeks later...

:woot:

Wow. Finally caught the trailer for this (a month late!) in IMDB's main page. This is going to be awesome. I cannot imagine BJ Novak (Ryan The Temp from the US Office) splitting Nazi heads...I completely forgot he was going to be in this movie until I saw him in the trailer!

Also, all of those posters are excellent! Must have them in high res! :D

Probably this will be Pitt's best performance. " We'll be doing one thing and one thing only..... Killin' Nazis. " I hope he is badass.

Yeah this is going to be sooo epic its unreal!

  • 2 weeks later...
Inglorious Basterds - Official Synopsis

Distributor: The Weinstein Company

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Screenplay by: Quentin Tarantino

Produced by: Lawrence Bender

Executive Produced by: Erica Steinberg, Llyod Phillips, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein

Cast: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, M?lanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, S?nke M?hring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Meyers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman

Release Date: August 21, 2009

Synopsis:

Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (M?lanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as ?The Basterds,? Raine?s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich.

Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

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Brad Pitt as the Nazi-hunting Lieutenant Aldo Raine

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Diane Kruger as the stunning German screen actress Bridget von Hammersmark

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M?lanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus

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Femme fatale Kruger lights up in character

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From left, Laurent, Christopher Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa, Omar Doom as P.F.C. Omar Ulmer, Daniel Br?hl as Frederick Zoller, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth as Sergeant Donny Donowitz, Kruger, and Pitt

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