{"id":649,"date":"2009-07-17T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T02:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=649"},"modified":"2009-07-17T01:07:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T15:07:15","slug":"inglourious-basterds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Inglourious Basterds: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied France"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inglourious Basterds, <\/em>entirely apart from having a title that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painful to type, entirely separate from the not-entirely-favourable reception it had at Cannes, is Quentin Tarantino\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest movie.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m too young to really remember him being cinema\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enfant terrible<\/em>, and I recall being sent upstairs by my aunt while she and my brother watched Reservoir Dogs<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c unfortunately, the TV was at the bottom of the stairs so I could hear every damn word she was protecting me from \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but I know his work, if not overly well.<\/p>\n

I realise that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s becoming a sort of recurring motif for me, labelling things as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not movies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d … but Tarantino doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so much make \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not movies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as he does \u00e2\u20ac\u0153genre movies<\/em><\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c films in bold and italics. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re more movie than movie.<\/p>\n

Tarantino is in the business of making replicants, is what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying.<\/p>\n

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I saw this trailer for it at Bruno<\/em>, and immediately afterwards my occasional comrade said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that looks shit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. But it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to my eyes. It looks somewhat splendid, and I say that as someone who thought that Death Proof<\/em> was self-indulgent clap trap only partly redeemed by a great ending. As Tony said to Dittman, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tarantino, man!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

There don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to have been a lot of World War II movies out of America lately, particularly not ones that have dealt with Nazi fighting adventures.\u00c2\u00a0 Spike Lee had his, which never saw release here and, in the interest of academic honesty, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be bothered looking up the name of it. The other was Bryan Singer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Valkyrie<\/em>, which dared to answer the question \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how do you make an assassination plot against Hitler boring?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Inglourious Basterds, <\/em>on the other hand, is unambiguous: it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about the olden days when people were allowed to kill Nazis on film and do so in elaborate and bloody ways. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so bad about that? It looks fun, and it looks like once again Tarantino has indulged his love for film. Some may say that Kill Bill Volume 2 <\/em>was better than the first, but what I most remember about it was that the credits doubled as the credits for Volume 1<\/em>, and reminded me of how much fun I had the day I saw it.<\/p>\n

Inglourious Basterds <\/em>features everything that anyone could ever ask of this type of movie: Brad Pitt shooting Nazis, and at least a little bit of participation from Samuel L. Jackson. What could possibly go wrong? This is me setting up a hubristic goal: I am going to see Inglourious Basterds<\/em> and I am going to enjoy it. 2009 has been so disappointing and underwhelming so far that it has to deliver.<\/p>\n

It should also be noted that the trailer I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve posted above is slightly different to the one I saw, but largely the same, and totally different to the most widely available trailer which makes the movie look boring as all get out. I know that some \u00e2\u20ac\u201c my father, for one -\u00c2\u00a0 think that one shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t treat Nazi Germany as a simple matter of gung ho guns, render it a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153boy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adventure, but I think that, as long as we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try to deny it, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right to try to get as much out of the experience as we can. By rendering Hitler ridiculous \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no one better at that than Mel Brooks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we disrespect not the memories of those who died in the war, but those of Hitler himself.<\/p>\n

Please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t disappoint me again, Mister Tarantino: I know you have the power, through this movie, to save my American summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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