Inglourious Basterds

 

Inglourious Basterds 2009

• Director: Quentin Tarantino
• Also seen by this director: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Django Unchained, Inglourius Basterds, Kill Bill 1&2, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs
• Based on a book: no
• Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbinder, Diane Kreuger, Daniel Bühl,
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Brad Pitt – Ad Astra, World War Z, The Tree of Life, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, Babel, Troy, confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Friends, The Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Meet Joe Black, Twelve Monkeys, Seven, True Romance, Thelma and Louise
• Christoph Waltz – Alita Battle Angel, Django Unchained, Spectre, The Zero Theorem, Carnage
• Eli Roth – Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Great Gatsby, Inception, Shutter Island, Blood Diamond, The Aviator, Catch Me If You Can, Gangs of New York, Beach, Titanic, Marvin’s Room, Romeo and Juliet, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, This Boy’s Life
• Michael Fassbender – X-Men, Macbeth, Prometheus, Jane Eyre, Fish Tank, Hunger,
• Diane Kreuger – Good-bye Bafana, Copying Beethoven
• Daniel Brühl – Alone in Berlin, Woman in Gold, Ladies in Lavender, Good-bye Lenin
• Why? Tarantino
• Seen: Once before. Now 2 October 2020      

       An SS officer Hans Landa (Waltz) arrives at an isolated farmhouse in occupied France hunting Jews. One of the family hiding there, Shosanna (Laurent) escapes.

       US Lt Aldo Raine (Pitt) is putting together the Basterds, a troop of eight Jewish soldiers, to kill Nazis as cruelly and brutally and torturously as possible. They become feared and hated by the Nazis.

       And then there’s the cinema plot. Tarantino loves to change history. Wouldn’t it be nice?

       It’s Tarantino, and it’s a great film, but it’s not quite Django Unchained which we watched last week (Hal disagrees, likes this one even better). Waltz however is worth a few stars of his own, as evil here as he was beneficent in Django with much the same acting. He got an Oscar for this one too.

 4* of 5 (Hal says 5*)