Rutledge
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Inglourious Basterds [sic] is an upcoming ensemble war film/spaghetti western written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film has experienced several false starts, but is now in production with several locations in France and Germany. Tarantino plans to complete production of Inglourious Basterds in time for release at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009. Filming began in October 2008.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Two story lines... converge: One follows a group of prisoners-turned-soldiers whose mission is to take down a group of Nazis, and the other follows a young Jewish woman who seeks to avenge the death of her parents by this Nazi group.
Set in Nazi-Occupied France, where American soldiers, French peasants, French resistance and Nazi occupiers all collide. One section of the story (Chapters 2, 4, 5) follows Tennessee-born Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), a man in charge of a brutal American guerrilla-style soldier squadron nicknamed the 'bastards' out on a mission to essentially end the war early. How? By destroying the premiere of a Goebbels-produced propaganda film which Hitler and much of his command are scheduled to attend. The other segment of the story (Chapters 1, 3, 5) focuses on a French Jewish teenager (Mélanie Laurent) who runs the movie theater where the premiere takes place and plans revenge on the Nazis for slaughtering her family.
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Sounds like a "typical" Tarantino film - not subject to norms or precedents, and full of intentionally mixed metaphors drawing heavily on iconic film genres. Definitely wont be a typical WWII film. Worst case, it should be interesting.
From Tarantino: " [It's] my Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare or Guns of Navarone kind of thing."[6] The premise had begun as a Western and evolved into a World War II version of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly set in Nazi-occupied France"
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Two story lines... converge: One follows a group of prisoners-turned-soldiers whose mission is to take down a group of Nazis, and the other follows a young Jewish woman who seeks to avenge the death of her parents by this Nazi group.
Set in Nazi-Occupied France, where American soldiers, French peasants, French resistance and Nazi occupiers all collide. One section of the story (Chapters 2, 4, 5) follows Tennessee-born Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), a man in charge of a brutal American guerrilla-style soldier squadron nicknamed the 'bastards' out on a mission to essentially end the war early. How? By destroying the premiere of a Goebbels-produced propaganda film which Hitler and much of his command are scheduled to attend. The other segment of the story (Chapters 1, 3, 5) focuses on a French Jewish teenager (Mélanie Laurent) who runs the movie theater where the premiere takes place and plans revenge on the Nazis for slaughtering her family.
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Sounds like a "typical" Tarantino film - not subject to norms or precedents, and full of intentionally mixed metaphors drawing heavily on iconic film genres. Definitely wont be a typical WWII film. Worst case, it should be interesting.
From Tarantino: " [It's] my Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare or Guns of Navarone kind of thing."[6] The premise had begun as a Western and evolved into a World War II version of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly set in Nazi-occupied France"
