Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" Not a Typo
New synopsis and confirmed title as production commences.
Now that filming has begun on Quentin Tarantino's upcoming WWII-spaghetti western remake of Enzo Castellari's Inglorious Bastards, we've got a new synopsis and confirmation that QT's cheekily "misspelled" title is actually official. Mark your calendars for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds!
When Tarantino's script made its way around the internet last summer, many simply thought he was a poor speller. Not so, according to the Weinstein Co. and Universal Pictures, who today confirmed the title after releasing a new synopsis for the 2009 film:
"Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.
Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own..."
Tarantino's international cast includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mike Myers, Eli Roth, Cloris Leachman, Rod Taylor, Daniel Brühl (The Edukators), Samm Levine (Freaks and Geeks), Til Schweiger (King Arthur), B.J. Novak (The Office), Michael Fassbender (300), Mélanie Laurent (Days of Glory), Michael Bacall (Death Proof), Omar Doom (Death Proof), Julie Dreyfus (Kill Bill Vol. 1), August Diehl (The Counterfeiters), Richard Sammel (Casino Royale), Christian Berkel (Black Book), and more. The film reunites Tarantino with Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 cinematographer Bob Richardson, longtime production designer David Wasco, Oscar-nominated editor Sally Menke (Pulp Fiction), and producer Lawrence Bender.
Inglourious Basterds will be released in 2009, and will possibly debut at the Cannes Film Festival.
vitajex on 10-14-2008 12:09 PM
Reading that script was like reading an 8th grade English project. The title was not even close to being the only misspelled word. There were grammar errors, incomplete thoughts, and so on. It confirmed for me the fact that Tarantino cannot write, little did I know it was figuratively AND literally.
And for all of the fanboys who will no doubt pounce on this anti-Tarantino post, I hate to break it to you, but just about EVERY single thing you think that Tarantino did was cool, was stolen from other movies. From whole plots (Reservoir Dogs vs. Ringo Lam's City of Fire) to characters (Esmeralda Villalobos, the taxi-driver from Pulp Fiction is lifted whole-cloth from Curdled, even played by the same actress.)
I've said it before, and I still believe it: Tarantino is cinema's version of Girl Talk. Not to say there isn't artistic value in mash-ups, but no one will describe their production as 'song-writing'.
jokerboy1991 on 10-14-2008 01:08 PM
So, Tarantino has even said he was a bad writer and that he needs to people to clean up his grammar, even Roger Avary has said so. Plus u gotta remember that the script always changes during a movie, so if the script is messy I'm sure it will be fixed if not then that awesome editor will clean it up. Yeah Tarantino does steal a lot of stuff, but he still has originality in all his movies. This will be epic and awesome, I bet will get part I in the summer, June I bet.
Some guy you dont know on 10-14-2008 01:12 PM
Who are you again?
whiskeyriver on 10-15-2008 06:16 AM
Who are YOU, "BruceCampbell", to ask who HE is? What, do you own Rotten Tomatoes or something? In this Bruce Campbell theocracy, does he not have a right to express his opinions regarding Quentin Tarantino?
No. Of course not. So knock it off.
bastard_guy180 on 10-14-2008 02:12 PM
shatap
Mr.Wayne on 10-16-2008 09:48 AM
This is for Vitajex.
I don't know if anyone else has pointed this out or not, but CURDLED was released in 1996 by Tarantino's video release label ROLLING THUNDER PICTURES. PULP FICTION was released in 1994. The cab driving character in question in PULP FICTION was not a rip off of CURDLED, she was used in CURDLED after PULP FICTION.
You can have whatever opinion of Tarantino you want, but if you are going to berate him, call him a hack or whatever you want, but at least do a little checking on your information first before you make statements like....."the taxi-driver from Pulp Fiction is lifted whole-cloth from Curdled, even played by the same actress"....because clearly this chicken didn't come before the egg.
It would go a long way in making your statements credible if they were accurate.
Mr.Wayne
vitajex on 10-16-2008 10:23 AM
Actually, the 1996 movie was a remake of a 1991 student short film of the same name directed by the same director, starring the same actress. Esmerelda Villalobos first appeared in a film in 1991, three years before Pulp Fiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curdled_(film)
"It would go a long way in making your statements credible if they were accurate."
Marc S. on 11-4-2008 07:27 AM
Thanks for confirming what I already knew and tried telling friends who think Tarentino is a "genius". They thought he was so original in Reservoir Dogs with Mr. Pink, etc., when that was already used in the films Clue and before that The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3.
The only thing I can say in his favor is his use of dialogue.
Other than that he steals from other films and people think it's so original.
Reminds me of when people thought that the Jim Carey film The Truman Show was so original while it was nothing more than a remake of a Twilight Zone episode. I guess if you successful at stealing ideas from previous films, and get away with the plagiarism, you're considered an artistic genius while you're really just a hack with lots of money behind you.
eddiejc1 on 02-15-2009 06:57 PM
"And for all of the fanboys who will no doubt pounce on this anti-Tarantino post, I hate to break it to you, but just about EVERY single thing you think that Tarantino did was cool, was stolen from other movies."---vitajex
Why do you think a director has to be 100% original to be good? Many of the great directors---Welles, Ford, Hitchcock---borrowed ideas from their predecessors as well as their contemporaries. No less of an artist than Pablo Picasso said, "Good artists copy. Great artists steal."
Edward J. Cunningham
Rockville, MD