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If Tarrantino could have resisted the pop schlock this could have been right up there with Pulp Fiction...buuut, that's hindsight.
First of all, Pitt is an ensemble member not a featured lead. There is an amazing cast of characters with dialogue and story line spread around equally. If anything, Christoph Waltz (Austrian actor) was the default lead and performed dramatically well in his scenes as the "Jew Hunter" of France. He was deadly clever in "Chapter One" in a prolonged interrogation with a French diary farmer in his country house. This opening scene sets the mood for an almost 100% dramatic film....but not to be thanks to Quentin.
Subsequent chapters showed the basterds in action and the actual bloody mayhem was somewhat subdued compared to what it could have been. The humor was punched up by Pitt's character and his Tennessee (by way of Texas) accent and it provokes spontaneous laughter from time to time when it becomes "inopportune".
Diane Kruger and Melanie Laurent dress up the screen with their very different characters as actress/spy and vengeful Jewess. And both have what seems to be "overly long" scenes to their credit.
I never would have expected Tarrentino to tackle a subject with such a serious historical background as there is a lot of room to look totally foolish or disrespectful to history. I suspect his few concessions to pop culture (labeling characters on screen) was to remind us he didn't want us to take him deadly serious.
It's entertaining and worth a see.
NO GRITS NO GLORY
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I'd almost given up on Tarantino. Grind house almost played like self parody. I'd become tired of movie characters that talked like they were in Pulp Fiction. That one was great and original, but so much of what followed seemed to be just variations on the theme. Lowlifes, lots of profanity, B-movie and obscure pop music references, obscure pop music soundtrack.
And so when I read that this one was long and talky, I almost skipped it.
But it surprised me. The dialogue here is quite brilliant. The level of profanity is so low as to be almost nonexistent. There are no long disquisitions on pop culture. Instead, there is a German officer whose dialogue fits with his persona of sophistication, erudition and extraordinary cunning. And there is Brad Pitt's character, who is southern and single-minded about killing Nazis. And there is an SS officer in a tavern, a suave British secret agent- and they play verbal cat and mouse and it works.
Nothing is condensed here, the scenes are allowed to build and flow and people talk a lot. But it did not drag for a single moment for me.
And then there are moments of violence, as would be expected, and they encompass almost everyone, but this is not an action movie at all.
At least 1/2 the dialogue is in German and French. In America, this would usually be commercial poison, but the Pitt/Tarantino combo seems to have sold tickets.
For my money, his best since Pulp Fiction and an unexpected return to form. And yes, Tarantino loves movies, the British agent is a movie critic and the plot turns on a movie theater in Paris and a movie made by Goebbels.
bleep
that were very good.
Another talky Tarintino film that was a little overdone but the 2.5 hours flew by pretty quickly, there really were no flat spots to speak of.
It concluded with a satifying ending and even got in a foot scene. The women are beautiful, Pitt was engaging (though almost a cameo) and the Nazis and Gestapo were evil.
Not quite as good as I hoped for (based on the reviews) but one of the better movies this year.
thanks
Phil
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