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Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt) trailer released
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ToyMachine228
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Alucard said:
Yeah, I tend to take World War II films pretty seriously. The part of the trailer where the guy is running down the hall with a M60 unloading...Not to keen on that. I know QT isn't one for realism at times, but that's just lame. This isn't Grindhouse.
Solo said:
He's not a racist, at least I personally don't think so. It's just bizarre that he manages to insert racism into the most awkward of moments, examples being; Dead nigger storage, Sicilians are spawned from niggers, his description of Black workers in Reservoir Dogs, referring to the Piano Player (Samuel L. Jackson!) as a negro fella in Kill Bill, etc. It doesn't really bother me, I personally anticipate the 'racial scene' when watching his movies for the first time, it just comes off as unneeded and bizarre :lol
ToyMachine228 said:
It's not all like that, it's definitely not as serious as most War films, but it's definitely not ridiculous to the point of campyness. If you were able to stomach Kill Bill then you'll be able to stomach Inglorious Basterds.
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"Nazi ain't got no humanity... and they need to be destroyed"
So good.
So good.
That trailer did absolutely nothing for me, except give me an uneasy feeling Inglorious may be heading down similar territory as Deathproof. As in Tarantino is simply at a point were he is indulging himself without any wider focus.
I think Jackie Brown proved he is often as his most effective when he reigns his natural instincts in.
I think Jackie Brown proved he is often as his most effective when he reigns his natural instincts in.
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The full quote from which the trailer dialogue is ripped from the script:
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Brad Pitt as Cotton Hill.
I thought it was hilarious and will definitely see it.
I thought it was hilarious and will definitely see it.
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Everyone who is only misspelling the 2nd word is letting Tarantino off the hook for being borderline-illiterate.xbhaskarx said:
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harSon said:
You mean the first scene of the movie where a guy who calls himself "The Jew Hunter" says (paraphrasing) 'negros are gorillas' before proceeding to do a 2 page monologue on the similarities between jews and rats?
Classic Tarantino, really. Still, this is how nazis really thought, so the dialogue cannot be faulted.
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master15 said:
As you know, JB is my favourite QT film, but you have to read some of the script, mate. The focus sprawls sometimes, but it's definitely not heading in the Death Proof direction.
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The casting alone has me interested. I wish Simon Peg was in it as well, as was originally planned.
I think too many people are assuming this movie is going to be 100% serious. The teaser makes it pretty clear that it isn't.
I think too many people are assuming this movie is going to be 100% serious. The teaser makes it pretty clear that it isn't.
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Who's the guy with the swastika on his head?
A very nice trailer breakdown from Empire magazine. Quentin Tarantino also adds some background on some of the images really like the feel his going for in this one.
The Inglourious Basterds trailer is finally, officially online and here's everything you need to know about Inglourious Basterds - not only from Empire's resident expert Damon Wise, but also from our old friend Quentin Tarantino. Yes, we persuaded the director to talk us through his most recent opus, and explain just what is going on... Like that famous misspelled title. But why the extra u in Inglorious? "I can't tell you!" says Tarantino mysteriously. "But the 'Basterds'? That's just the way you say it: Basterds."
The Line-Up
The opening shot, like most of the trailer, comes from 'Chapter Two: Inglourious Basterds'. That's Chapter Two of the film's five-chapter script (there are also quite a few snippets of Chapter Four: Operation Kino in there as well). This is the very beginning of that chapter, in which Sgt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) is assembling a crew of violent Nazi hunters to instil fear into the Third Reich. These are the actual Basterds that you will see in the movie: you will note that there is no Arnold Schwarzenegger and no Sly Stallone. "I never threw any of those names around, alright!!" protests Tarantino.
Eli Roth
The Hostel director has been a controversial choice to play Boston-born Donnie Donowitz, who, with Pitt's character, was the first of the original Basterds that Tarantino came up with. "There was always Donnie, and there was always Aldo," he says. "But after that, I had to come up with some more characters. After Donnie and Aldo, I wrote those characters and then I auditioned for them."
Brad Pitt
"My name is Lt Aldo Raine... and I need me eight soldiers." Using this scene so early in the trailer is a bit of cheat, since it actually takes place some 20 minutes into the movie. Pitt's character is a Southern redneck whose efforts to bring down the Nazis will ultimately dovetail with plans made by the British and a German double agent, as well as a revenge plot conceived by one of the Nazis' surviving victims. "He's wonderful," Tarantino enthuses. "We've wanted to work together for a long time and this was just the right one, completely. I didn't really consider anybody else."
Hirschberg And Zimmerman
Two more Basterds, Private Hirschberg (Samm Levine) and Private Zimmerman (Michael Bacall), are revealed in the line-up. They seem mild, but looks can be deceptive. Offscreen is Sgt Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), a German renegade who defected after killing 13 Gestapo officers.
Nation's Pride
This is a teasing snippet of 'Chapter Three: German Night In Paris'. This black-and-white footage is from a film-within-the-film called Nation's Pride, a propaganda film being made by Joseph Goebbels, starring Frederik Zoller (Daniel Bruhl), a famous German sniper. Says Tarantino, "He's a little bit based on Audie Murphy [an American GI who became a Western star after a biopic was made of his wartime heroism]. And just like Audie Murphy, he's about to become a movie star."
Around The Table
This is the very beginning of the movie and is taken from 'Chapter One: Once Upon A Time In Nazi-Occupied France'. A formidable Nazi, Col Landa, aka the Jew Hunter (Christoph Waltz), is tracking down the whereabouts of the missing Dreyfus family, who he thinks are being hidden in this rural farmhouse. "Each chapter in this movie has a vaguely different look, and a different feel, and the tone is different in all of them," says Tarantino. "The opening chapter truly feels like a spaghetti western, but with World War Two iconography."
The Field
This is Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), daughter of the Dreyfus family, a Jewish girl who escapes the SS and flees to Paris. Pay attention, because Shosanna, and not Aldo Raine, is the closest thing this film has to a lead character. "Shosanna was always a main character," says Tarantino. "One of the biggest changes in my conception of it from way back when until now - in fact, hands down the biggest thing - is that, in the original version of this script, Shosanna was more of a kind of movie character. She was badass. But the thing about that was, I did that with The Bride in Kill Bill. So I started making her more like a real girl in this situation."
The Nazi Badge
Intones Raine, "We will be cruel to the German...". Indeed they will! Not only do the Basterds steal military insignia as trophies, they also scalp their victims. "The Basterds are acting like the Apaches in a no-win situation," says Tarantino. "That's what they're trying to do: they're trying to win a psychological guerilla war against the Nazis."
Branded
This is Private Butz wearing "a little somethin' you can't take off", courtesy of Aldo Raine. In this scene, Butz is telling an irate Adolf Hitler about his lucky escape from the Basterds.
Nazi Chicks With Guns
This is an excerpt from the epic La Louisiane bar scene, in which British soldier Lieutenant Archie Hickox (Michael Fassbender) goes to meet his contact, double-agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), while the Basterds stand guard. "The La Louisiane scene is like a reduced Reservoir Dogs," says QT, "but with Nazis and in German. It's a 23-minute scene, and instead of that warehouse they're in a little basement bar."
Blue Angel
Kruger's Von Hammersmark is a presence in the movie long before she makes an entrance, her face appearing on many movie posters that line the streets. She is a big star in Germany, the equivalent, perhaps, of a Marlene Dietrich. "I like the idea that it's the power of cinema that fights the Nazis," says Tarantino. "But not just as a metaphor - as a literal reality."
Bar Fight!
This mini-Reservoir Dogs scene, set in a tiny, claustrophobic basement bar, is one of Tarantino's proudest achievements in the movie. "La Louisiane is a huuuuge deal, I think the biggest deal I've ever done, in any of my movies. I always said that once we'd done the La Louisiane, then... everything else won't exactly be easy, but it will appear easy after La Louisiane. And we'll be able to do a great climax because we've done the La Louisiane."
Batter Up!
Donny Donowitz may actually be the fiercest of the Basterds - says Aldo: "Watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies." Tarantino claims he won't be pulling punches. "If you think the script's violent," he grins, "then you'll think the movie's violent."
Shoot 'Em Up
This is a scene from Chapter Two, in which the Basterds ambush a Nazi patrol. "I wanted to stay away from all the silly war-movie cliches that I never bought into," says Tarantino. "Y'know, they have to take out a guard, so they very lightly strangle him and that takes care of that. They kill a German soldier and all of a sudden, not only is there no blood on their uniform or even a bullethole, it miraculously fits them when they put it on! All that kind of stuff."
Aldo In Character
Tarantino is full of praise for Pitt's commitment to the role. "When he's on set, he's Aldo," he says. "He doesn't really break character. When you talk to him about other stuff, he talks in Aldo's voice. And because I created the character, it's great to have the guy around all the time."
Heil Hitler?
This is the moment that Adolf Hitler (Martin Wuttke), leader of the Nazi Party and ruler of wartime Germany, finds out about the bloody antics of Aldo Raine and his mysterious crew, fearing that his soldiers are being turned into "superstitious old women" who believe the Basterds have supernatural powers. "I always knew I would have Hitler in it," says Tarantino. "I always knew Hitler would be a character. That was one of the first things I wrote. The Hitler stuff I wrote a long, long, long time ago. But I enjoyed writing Hitler. It was a lot of fun."
The Inglourious Basterds trailer is finally, officially online and here's everything you need to know about Inglourious Basterds - not only from Empire's resident expert Damon Wise, but also from our old friend Quentin Tarantino. Yes, we persuaded the director to talk us through his most recent opus, and explain just what is going on... Like that famous misspelled title. But why the extra u in Inglorious? "I can't tell you!" says Tarantino mysteriously. "But the 'Basterds'? That's just the way you say it: Basterds."
The Line-Up
The opening shot, like most of the trailer, comes from 'Chapter Two: Inglourious Basterds'. That's Chapter Two of the film's five-chapter script (there are also quite a few snippets of Chapter Four: Operation Kino in there as well). This is the very beginning of that chapter, in which Sgt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) is assembling a crew of violent Nazi hunters to instil fear into the Third Reich. These are the actual Basterds that you will see in the movie: you will note that there is no Arnold Schwarzenegger and no Sly Stallone. "I never threw any of those names around, alright!!" protests Tarantino.
Eli Roth
The Hostel director has been a controversial choice to play Boston-born Donnie Donowitz, who, with Pitt's character, was the first of the original Basterds that Tarantino came up with. "There was always Donnie, and there was always Aldo," he says. "But after that, I had to come up with some more characters. After Donnie and Aldo, I wrote those characters and then I auditioned for them."
Brad Pitt
"My name is Lt Aldo Raine... and I need me eight soldiers." Using this scene so early in the trailer is a bit of cheat, since it actually takes place some 20 minutes into the movie. Pitt's character is a Southern redneck whose efforts to bring down the Nazis will ultimately dovetail with plans made by the British and a German double agent, as well as a revenge plot conceived by one of the Nazis' surviving victims. "He's wonderful," Tarantino enthuses. "We've wanted to work together for a long time and this was just the right one, completely. I didn't really consider anybody else."
Hirschberg And Zimmerman
Two more Basterds, Private Hirschberg (Samm Levine) and Private Zimmerman (Michael Bacall), are revealed in the line-up. They seem mild, but looks can be deceptive. Offscreen is Sgt Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), a German renegade who defected after killing 13 Gestapo officers.
Nation's Pride
This is a teasing snippet of 'Chapter Three: German Night In Paris'. This black-and-white footage is from a film-within-the-film called Nation's Pride, a propaganda film being made by Joseph Goebbels, starring Frederik Zoller (Daniel Bruhl), a famous German sniper. Says Tarantino, "He's a little bit based on Audie Murphy [an American GI who became a Western star after a biopic was made of his wartime heroism]. And just like Audie Murphy, he's about to become a movie star."
Around The Table
This is the very beginning of the movie and is taken from 'Chapter One: Once Upon A Time In Nazi-Occupied France'. A formidable Nazi, Col Landa, aka the Jew Hunter (Christoph Waltz), is tracking down the whereabouts of the missing Dreyfus family, who he thinks are being hidden in this rural farmhouse. "Each chapter in this movie has a vaguely different look, and a different feel, and the tone is different in all of them," says Tarantino. "The opening chapter truly feels like a spaghetti western, but with World War Two iconography."
The Field
This is Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), daughter of the Dreyfus family, a Jewish girl who escapes the SS and flees to Paris. Pay attention, because Shosanna, and not Aldo Raine, is the closest thing this film has to a lead character. "Shosanna was always a main character," says Tarantino. "One of the biggest changes in my conception of it from way back when until now - in fact, hands down the biggest thing - is that, in the original version of this script, Shosanna was more of a kind of movie character. She was badass. But the thing about that was, I did that with The Bride in Kill Bill. So I started making her more like a real girl in this situation."
The Nazi Badge
Intones Raine, "We will be cruel to the German...". Indeed they will! Not only do the Basterds steal military insignia as trophies, they also scalp their victims. "The Basterds are acting like the Apaches in a no-win situation," says Tarantino. "That's what they're trying to do: they're trying to win a psychological guerilla war against the Nazis."
Branded
This is Private Butz wearing "a little somethin' you can't take off", courtesy of Aldo Raine. In this scene, Butz is telling an irate Adolf Hitler about his lucky escape from the Basterds.
Nazi Chicks With Guns
This is an excerpt from the epic La Louisiane bar scene, in which British soldier Lieutenant Archie Hickox (Michael Fassbender) goes to meet his contact, double-agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), while the Basterds stand guard. "The La Louisiane scene is like a reduced Reservoir Dogs," says QT, "but with Nazis and in German. It's a 23-minute scene, and instead of that warehouse they're in a little basement bar."
Blue Angel
Kruger's Von Hammersmark is a presence in the movie long before she makes an entrance, her face appearing on many movie posters that line the streets. She is a big star in Germany, the equivalent, perhaps, of a Marlene Dietrich. "I like the idea that it's the power of cinema that fights the Nazis," says Tarantino. "But not just as a metaphor - as a literal reality."
Bar Fight!
This mini-Reservoir Dogs scene, set in a tiny, claustrophobic basement bar, is one of Tarantino's proudest achievements in the movie. "La Louisiane is a huuuuge deal, I think the biggest deal I've ever done, in any of my movies. I always said that once we'd done the La Louisiane, then... everything else won't exactly be easy, but it will appear easy after La Louisiane. And we'll be able to do a great climax because we've done the La Louisiane."
Batter Up!
Donny Donowitz may actually be the fiercest of the Basterds - says Aldo: "Watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies." Tarantino claims he won't be pulling punches. "If you think the script's violent," he grins, "then you'll think the movie's violent."
Shoot 'Em Up
This is a scene from Chapter Two, in which the Basterds ambush a Nazi patrol. "I wanted to stay away from all the silly war-movie cliches that I never bought into," says Tarantino. "Y'know, they have to take out a guard, so they very lightly strangle him and that takes care of that. They kill a German soldier and all of a sudden, not only is there no blood on their uniform or even a bullethole, it miraculously fits them when they put it on! All that kind of stuff."
Aldo In Character
Tarantino is full of praise for Pitt's commitment to the role. "When he's on set, he's Aldo," he says. "He doesn't really break character. When you talk to him about other stuff, he talks in Aldo's voice. And because I created the character, it's great to have the guy around all the time."
Heil Hitler?
This is the moment that Adolf Hitler (Martin Wuttke), leader of the Nazi Party and ruler of wartime Germany, finds out about the bloody antics of Aldo Raine and his mysterious crew, fearing that his soldiers are being turned into "superstitious old women" who believe the Basterds have supernatural powers. "I always knew I would have Hitler in it," says Tarantino. "I always knew Hitler would be a character. That was one of the first things I wrote. The Hitler stuff I wrote a long, long, long time ago. But I enjoyed writing Hitler. It was a lot of fun."
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harSon said:
And he always has Sam Jackson in his movies too...
(think he is narrating in this one)
The movie is about Nazis so you have to figure its going to be there.
His older stuff didn't bother me. Most of Jackson's lines from PF and JB were adlibbed by him. And the rest were how some people do talk about other types of people when they aren't around..
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rezuth said:
Except we didn't know anything about the Holocaust until much later in the War. This gives me the impression that the team is dropping in before Normandy.
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Spotless Mind
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I dont know how i missed this trailer.
I hope it's fun in a Black Book sort of way.
:lol That's exactly what i thought. I'm not going to write it off because of a terrible teaser, but still, they chose some crappy stuff to show and i also agree with others that Brad Pitt looks awful in this.rezuth said:
I hope it's fun in a Black Book sort of way.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
This trailer fucking blows but I am going to see this regardless.
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