Four reasons why I am looking forward to Tarantino’s INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
Four reasons why I am looking forward to Tarantino’s INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
Mar 04We’ve been hearing about it for so long. Tarantino himself kept dropping hints in interviews dating back to JACKIE BROWN, and so it continued through the promotions of KILL BILL volumes 1 & 2 and even DEATH PROOF… and now, out of (what feels like) nowhere, we have gorgeous posters and a lip smacking teaser trailer to whet our Tarantino appetites.
1. It’s Tarantino in a different era.
We’ve seen him use classic songs and piss-fart around with a few aging techniques for that whole grindhouse effect, but Nazi-occupied France during World War II is probably the last place we would have placed a Tarantino film back when when PULP FICTION was hot.
2. It is going to be interesting to see how he treats his writing style in a period piece.
The teaser gives a little bit away, but the one gripe most Tarantino haters have with the man is that he can only write pop-culture laced ‘boring’ conversations that don’t propel the movie they exist in… I’ll rant about how insanely wrong they are another time. And besides, there may be other, more legitimate reasons to reject Tarantino’s films (which fans just choose to ignore…). Moving on.
3. Brad Pitt.
FIGHT CLUB, OCEAN’S 11, BABEL, SNATCH, INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE… just a few movies to smack in the face of sooks who have a problem with Pitt for whatever reason. The man can act – it may be hard to admit and swallow but it’s fact. I’m pretty confident we’ll be able to add INGLORIOUS BASTERDS to the list once the dust settles.
4. Vintage Tarantino violence/gore.
By vintage, I mean his style of including his type of violent gore in his work, namely: the ear in RESERVOIR DOGS, the sexual interference in PULP FICTION, almost every frame of KILL BILL and the gruesome car wreck deaths in DEATH PROOF.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say that of all the Tarantino teaser trailers, previews and posters, INGLORIOUS BASTERDS is easily the most violent.
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS will screen at Cannes Film Festival in May 2009 before being released worldwide in August 2009.
“I want my scalps!”
