Brad Pitt turns Nazi-killing commando in Tarantino bloodfest

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The first trailer of Quentin Tarantino's latest film, which stars Brad Pitt as a Nazi-killing commander, was released today.

Inglourious Basterds sees Pitt play Lt Aldo Raine, commander of a unit whose mission is to kill and dismember Germans during the Second World War.

The film - inspired by 1978 Italian war movie The Inglorious Bastards - follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into France to spread terror among the Nazi occupiers.

The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a cinema in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Based on the trailer, which is nearly two minutes long, cinemagoers will be in for the usual bloodthirsty and violent Tarantino style seen in his previous work, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill films.

In the teaser, Pitt tells his troops: 'We are going to be doing one thing and one thing only. Killing Nazis.'

Speaking over a sinister rock soundtrack, he continues: 'We will be cruel to the German. And through our cruelty they will know who we are.

'They will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disembowelled, dismembered and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us.'

He continues: 'Each man under my command owes me 100 Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps.'

The trailer also shows clips of incredibly violent scenes. The strapline reads: 'You haven't seen war, until you've seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino.'

Inglourious Basterds features a large cast including Pitt, Mike Myers and Samuel L. Jackson and is due to be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

It is scheduled for release in Britain in August.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/artic...s-Basterds.html

You know this is going to be good!

[Jasman0717 9]

We will probably see it on HBO or Showtime in a year or two

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Quentin Terrortino

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I'm not terribly keen on tarantino - I thought his movies up until Jackie brown held together nicely and were tightly written, but he's gotten pretty self indulgent since then. Kill bill was probably the worst and arguably plagiarist if you've seen the original movies that it references.

That dialog sounds pretty ott I have to say.

[rclouse 0]

Oh my God this is going to be violent. Hopefully get the wife to watch the kids then.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I'm not terribly keen on tarantino - I thought his movies up until Jackie brown held together nicely and were tightly written, but he's gotten pretty self indulgent since then. Kill bill was probably the worst and arguably plagiarist if you've seen the original movies that it references.

That dialog sounds pretty ott I have to say.

I get an image of Quentin snickering at his own movies.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I Tarantino.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I'm not terribly keen on tarantino - I thought his movies up until Jackie brown held together nicely and were tightly written, but he's gotten pretty self indulgent since then. Kill bill was probably the worst and arguably plagiarist if you've seen the original movies that it references.

That dialog sounds pretty ott I have to say.

I get an image of Quentin snickering at his own movies.

Maybe - I get the impression that he's in love with his own mythology and I think his work has to some extent devolved into self-parody.

[Peikko 1,575]

I find his work self indulgent. I also think it's somewhat dodgy to take an actual historical event and turn it into something it was not. That rather plays into the hands of the holocaust deniers, in my opinion. Not that I would censor what is made, I just think it's important that people make the distinction between historical fact and these kinds of absurd fictionalizations.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I'm not terribly keen on tarantino - I thought his movies up until Jackie brown held together nicely and were tightly written, but he's gotten pretty self indulgent since then. Kill bill was probably the worst and arguably plagiarist if you've seen the original movies that it references.

That dialog sounds pretty ott I have to say.

I get an image of Quentin snickering at his own movies.

Maybe - I get the impression that he's in love with his own mythology and I think his work has to some extent devolved into self-parody.

Much like John Waters, except I can understand a Terantino film.

I find his work self indulgent. I also think it's somewhat dodgy to take an actual historical event and turn it into something it was not. That rather plays into the hands of the holocaust deniers, in my opinion. Not that I would censor what is made, I just think it's important that people make the distinction between historical fact and these kinds of absurd fictionalizations.

Like, Oliver Stone, or Francis Ford Copola, or Michael Moore

Edited February 18, 2009 by Mister_Bill

[Peikko 1,575]

The romanitization of war is well known and to some extent people understand that it goes on. What is rather more problematic is this departure into a truly fictonal account but using the vehicle of a historic event that is well known, if by name only. Most war stories that depict the 2 world war are at least based in real events, even if these events have been sensationalized.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The romanitization of war is well known and to some extent people understand that it goes on. What is rather more problematic is this departure into a truly fictonal account but using the vehicle of a historic event that is well known, if by name only. Most war stories that depict the 2 world war are at least based in real events, even if these events have been sensationalized.

Like, The Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes, Castle Keep, Where Eagles Dare, Catch-22, What Did You Do During the War Daddy?

Edited February 18, 2009 by Mister_Bill

[Peikko 1,575]

No, not like that. The essential notion of all these films is that there is a common good that that is worth fighting for, and that the fight for it is tempered by an unwillingness to take steps that dehumanize those who seek to end the brutal regimes. I think that's something that runs through all war films - there was no attempt by anyone in authority to usurp the notion of human decency. For example not even all Nazis agreed with the extermination programs let alone foot soldiers who for the most part were more or less unaware of many of the terrible things that went on and this side of the enemy is often portrayed in war films. So, while all war is brutal, necessarily so, there has never been an attempt to suggest that war is essentially meaningless violence. It could be argued that it is, but I am not sure a film like this is an argument so much as an indulgence.

[Peikko 1,575]

Mind you, I haven't seen this film, of course, but such such was my conclusion with Pulp Fiction, that morality was disposed of as unnecessary to the enjoyment of pure violence with no explanation or motivation.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Certainly there is a problem with historical inaccuracy in fictionalised depictions of WW2 - U571 portrayed the U-Boat Commando raid as something that was carried out by the Americans rather than the British, and that Mel Gibson vehicle - The Patriot fabricated British atrocities during the War of Independence by drawing on things the nazis did in WW2.

I think the worst example in recent years was that movie '300' which reduced the Zoroastrian Persian Empire to sub-human beastmen - and conveyed some pretty blatant fascist subtexts (which has as much to do with Frank Miller's work than with the director's intent).

I've not seen the original movie that this Tarantino flick is inspired by so I'm not entirely sure what the premise is. But I am familiar with a lot of the original grindhouse sources that Tarantino references - and while it can be argued that he's making them his own, he has quite blatantly stolen a number of his characters from old Hong Kong martial arts films. Case in point - the Lucy Liu character from Kill Bill is identical to Lady Snowblood, even down to the costume and the music played during the duel at the end.

My problem with the new stuff is that in many cases the original films were better than what Tarantino did with them.

Edited February 18, 2009 by Paul Daniels