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Quentin Tarantino Unveils 'Inglorious Bastards' To 4 Major Hollywood Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Tarantino has just gone out with his long-anticipated script about World War II. I hear it's gone out to Universal, Warner Bros, Paramount, and Sony. Not only is Lawrence Bender attached to produce Inglorious Bastards, but here's the weird thing sources are telling me: Harvey Weinstein also will be producing as well but not financing it though his The Weinstein Co wants to distribute it domestically to pocket the fee. This certainly adds fuel to those rumors that The Weinstein Co is having movie money woes. grondhouse1.jpgAfter all, one of the ways that The Weinstein Co attracted investors was by hyping its creative connection to the Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill 1 & 2 writer/director who has long made a lot of money for a lot of people. But will Harv's investors profit from the connection? Let's not forget that The Weinstein Co produced and financed Quentin's last pic Grindhouse/Death Proof that tanked at the box office because of Weinstein's own admission that he erred in releasing it in the U.S. market as half of a too-long 3-hour, 12-minute double-feature. (UPDATE: QT and Harvey Weinstein lunched very visibly at Ago on Melrose today. Just in case anyone thought they weren't working together...)
This latest Tarantino epic, originally for Miramax and originally set for 2001, has been so long in the works that some people thought it might never see the light of day. Tarantino himself has described it as a Spaghetti Western meets World II film that's an homage to 1967's The Dirty Dozen and its derivative, the more extreme 1978 Italian movie Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato (released in the U.S. under the title Inglorious Bastards) about a group of soldiers on their way to be executed who get the chance of a reprieve. Tarantino's script comes out just as the Enzo G. Castellari inspiration is heading to DVD. In a BBC documentary done around the time of Pulp Fiction's release, Tarantino said that he always wanted to do a "guys on a mission" film. As usual, there's a lot of secrecy surrounding this Quentin project sent out by William Morris.
UPDATE: I've just confirmed that Quentin Tarantino is talking to Brad Pitt to star... And Harvey Weinstein will produce it with Lawrence Bender...
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/quentin-tarantino-unveils-inglorious-bastards/ (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/quentin-tarantino-unveils-inglorious-bastards/)
IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/) | Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglorious_Bastards_(2009_film))
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My favorite director strikes again! I can't wait to see how this one will turn out :bow:
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Script for Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards Surfaces!
Will the news on Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards ever cease? Right after our last update on the production earlier this week, news hit that Brad Pitt is being eyed for the lead and that Taratino is, in fact, keeping Bastards at The Weinstein Company (despite hope that he wouldn't considering their missteps with Grindhouse). Today is probably the best update of all, however, because Latino Review and Vulture scored copies of the script! Tarantino's Dirty Dozen-inspired WWII epic will follow eight Jewish soldiers sent behind enemy lines who are lead by Lt. Aldo Raine (the possible role for Pitt). To give you a sense of Tarantino's twisted tale, Raine tells his men: "Every man under my command, owes me, one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y’all will git me, one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred Nazi's or you will die trying." This is going to be amazing!
Raine's instructions aren't necessarily the primary directive for this ass-kicking clan of Jews, however. Rather, the "hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee" leads his men (the "Bastards") on Operation Kino, which involves heading into Paris to attack a premiere for a new propaganda war movie put on by one of Hitler's close associates, Joseph Goebbels. Hitler and most in his high command are expected to attend. Tarantino weaves in a subplot to the story, as well, which surrounds a young girl, Shosanna, bent on revenge; her family was murdered by the Nazis, and she coincidentally ends up running the movie house. The two plots collide in what I can only imagine is a spectacular, bloody spectacle.
These events are spread across 165 pages and five chapters - Chapter One: Once Upon a Time…Nazi Occupied France; Chapter Two: Inglorious Basterds [sic]; Chapter Three: German Night in Paris (to be filmed in "French New Wave Black and White"); Chapter Four: Operation Kino; Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face. Chapters One and Three focus on Shoshanna, whereas two and four the Bastards. Chapter Five brings them all together. Besides Aldo and Shoshanna, we have a glimpse of some of the maniacal characters Tarantino has created: Sgt. Donny Donowitz is known as the "The Bear Jew", and his trademark is smashing Nazis skulls with a baseball bat. The lead antagonist (besides the ever-present Hitler) is Col. Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter". One can only imagine the scale and evil of this bad-ass.
If you're interested in reading more, I would suggest you head over to Latino Review or Vulture. El Mayimbe has posted a speech from the script straight from the mouth of Lt. Aldo Raine aka Aldo the Apache and it's pretty incredible to read. It feels pointless to say, but this project sounds completely off the charts. Tarantino, in fact, said previously that Bastards will probably contain his best dialogue to date! And as El Mayimbe describes it, "If you took the bad guy swagger of Reservoir Dogs, the uber coolness and structure of Pulp Fiction, throw in the revenge angle of Kill Bill, set it in World War II – you get Inglorious Basterds." Is there anyone not excited for this?
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/07/10/script-for-quentin-tarantinos-inglorious-bastards-surfaces/
Script previews:
http://www.latinoreview.com/news/exclusive-a-look-at-the-script-for-tarantino-s-inglorious-bastards-4978
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/07/weve_got_quentin_tarantinos_in.html
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Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards Ends Up at Universal
This is minor news, but considering we always mention everything that involves Quentin Tarantino, I thought I should comment on it as well. Variety has announced that Tarantino's WWII epic Inglorious Bastards has landed at Universal. The studio has partnered with The Weinstein Company to distribute the film. Shooting is scheduled to begin in the fall in Germany and France and Tarantino will hopefully have a cut ready by Cannes next May. Casting is still not official, but we mentioned previously that Tarantino is eyeing both Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. Now that Tarantino is working with a much larger studio, I think Inglorious Bastards has the potential to hit big with mainstream audiences.
Apparently the final choice came down to Paramount and Universal. Unfortunately they chose the wrong studio. I'm not the only one who can clearly see that Warner Brothers and Paramount are kicking the most ass out of any of the major studios at the moment. Universal is good, but not great, they've got some marketing problems. Paramount, on the other hand, not only has incredible marketing, but always strongly supports their big movies and it shows in the end. Just think of every major hit this summer and it's most likely one of those two. Universal has been struggling recently and I just hope they've got it in them to give Inglorious Bastards the support it needs. I really don't want to see another Children of Men…
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/07/29/quentin-tarantinos-inglorious-bastards-ends-up-at-universal/
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Brad Pitt is officially a 'Bastard'
Brad Pitt has closed his deal to star in "Inglorious Bastards," the WWII drama that Quentin Tarantino will direct for the Weinstein Co. and Universal. Additionally, Nastassja Kinski is in early talks to play one of the sole female roles in the film. Casting the German-born actress jibes with Tarantino's habit of resuscitating dormant careers. Kinski, who has stayed away from mainstream American films for nearly a decade, would play a German movie queen.
Much of the pic's dialogue is in French or German, and subtitles will be used, though Pitt will speak English in his role as a Tennessee hillbilly who assembles a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to take on the Nazis. Simon Pegg, David Krumholtz and B.J. Novak are also in talks to join the project. Pegg would play a British lieutenant, while Krumholtz and Novak would play Pitt's underlings.
Pic begins production Oct. 13 in Germany. Tarantino, who wrote the script, is aiming to complete the film and have it ready for next year's Cannes Film Festival. Lawrence Bender is producing, with Erica Steinberg and Harvey and Bob Weinstein as executive producers. Pilar Savone is associate producer. Deal puts Pitt back in business with Universal; apparently he and the studio have patched things up following his last-minute exit from "State of Play" late last year.
Under the terms of Tarantino's deal, he receives 20% of first-dollar grosses. That percentage can be reduced if a first-dollar gross star like Pitt joins the cast, though it's unclear if Tarantino is ceding any of his points to the star. Bender said casting should be complete in about a week or two. Eli Roth will play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, and Tarantino is locking in the other actors to play the soldiers who make up the Bastards team. Tarantino regular Tim Roth had been in contention to join the cast but couldn't work out the scheduling because of his upcoming TV series "Lie to Me."
While Pitt will be working for the first time with Tarantino as director, he does have on his resume a small but memorable turn as a stoner in the Tony Scott-directed "True Romance," a script that Tarantino wrote between "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction."
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990231.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
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Is this the movie where Britney will play a lesbian stripper?
There was something on the news last night, but I didn't pay attention, only picked up her name and starring in Tarentino movie.
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I either love or hate the guys films, but he's gone all out for the awful title this time. :lol:
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Christoph Waltz and Diane Kruger Join Inglorious Bastards!
Two more new casting announcements today for Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. One of them is for the lead character Hans Landa, aka "The Jew Hunter", which was rumored to be Leonardo DiCaprio's role for a while. Instead of DiCaprio, German TV actor Christoph Waltz will be taking on that role. And instead of the previously announced Nastassja Kinski, actress Diane Kruger (who we know most from the National Treasure movies) will be taking on the role of Bridget Von Hammersmark. Two more solid casting announcements to continue progress on filling up Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. These announcements finally seem official, considering the cast changes weekly on this film.
There wasn't much mention of these two in Kevin's article looking at the script reviews for the film, but obviously both are key characters. Waltz will be playing the German lead and I'm under the impression that Kruger must be playing his love interest? It doesn't really matter to me, because I'd rather be surprised by story than instantly aware of all that happens. As we've mentioned before, Inglorious Bastards looks better and better every week and it's supposed to start shooting in Europe sometime this fall. We'll keep you updated as Tarantino finishes filling up the eight "Bastards," considering he's only officially cast four of them so far: Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, B.J. Novak, and Samm Levine.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/08/29/christoph-waltz-and-diane-kruger-join-inglorious-bastards/
Is this the movie where Britney will play a lesbian stripper?
There was something on the news last night, but I didn't pay attention, only picked up her name and starring in Tarentino movie.
No. That was 'Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!' remake which apparently ain't happening.
Tarantino's 'Faster, Pussycat' Remake Isn't Happening
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Months after "Variety" columnist Liz Smith claimed that Quentin Tarantino had plans to remake Russ Meyer's B-movie classic "Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!," rumors continue spread about the project – false rumors.
The mysterious project popped up on the adult industry's radar earlier this month when the New York Post's Page Six reported that Tera Patrick had been cast in the lead role.
Near the beginning of 2008, Smith said that Tarantino had his eye on three mainstream stars for the movie: Kim Kardashian, Eva Mendes and Britney Spears. This week, British tabloid the Telegraph repeated the Spears story, adding that Tarantino was in talked with two other "Hollywood stars" to join the cast.
But it looks like the project is a dream. Both the New York Post and the Telegraph cited unnamed sources, and a representative for Spears denied the report.
“Though she definitely intends to explore acting roles down the road, right now she’s concentrating on recording her next album,” Spears' representative said.
Representatives for Patrick declined to comment on the casting news to XBIZ, as did Tarantino's camp.
The assiduously updated Internet Movie Database doesn't list the project on Tarantino's profile page. Movie blogger Drew McWeeny of Ain't It Cool News also devoted some time to dismissing the rumors.
"When someone tells you that [Tarantino] cast Tera Patrick or Britney Spears in his new remake of ["Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!"], they are (A) lying, (B) mistakenly listening to someone who is lying, or (C) just inclined to repeat any nonsense they are told."
Finally, Tarantino himself told MTV's Movies Blog that the story about the "Pussycat" remake was "complete bullshit."
http://www.xbiz.com/news/97604
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A friend just showed me a news article about an upcoming open audition for the movie in Potsdam/Berlin on 20. & 27. September in Babelsberg Filmstudios.
They are specifically looking for pale skinned natural blonde men between 20-45 (military experience is a major plus, NO PIERCINGS), women and children and handicapped (arm and leg amputed) people.
I'm still trying to convince him to go xD
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cut off your leg and go!
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Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Starts Shooting in Germany
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds began principal photography last week on location in Germany. The ensemble cast of Inglourious Basterds includes Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sönke Möhring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet and Cloris Leachman.
Inglourious Basterds reunites Tarantino with Academy Award-nominated editor Sally Menke, Academy Award-winning director of photography Bob Richardson, and production designer David Wasco. Joining Tarantino for the first time is Academy Award-nominated costume designer Anna Sheppard.
Academy Award-nominee Lawrence Bender is producing Inglourious Basterds. Erica Steinberg and Lloyd Phillips, and Bob and Harvey Weinstein are the film's executive producers. The co-producers are Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter. Pilar Savone is the associate producer.
The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures, through its newly formed International Studio, are co-financing and co-presenting the film with TWC handling domestic distribution and Universal handling international distribution. The two companies are partners on the project.
Zehnte Babelsberg Film, a subsidiary of Studio Babelsberg AG, is producing Inglourious Basterds. The film will shoot at Studio Babelsberg as well as in Berlin, Saxony and Paris.
Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna 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…
Inglourious Basterds will be released worldwide in 2009.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/10/14/quentin-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds-starts-shooting-in-germany/
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Ennio Morricone Scoring Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds?!
This could be the greatest bit of news since Quentin Tarantino first announced that he was actually making Inglourious Basterds! An Italian site called IGN (via the Tarantino Archives) is reporting that legendary composer Ennio Morricone, who was honored at the Oscars last year, has agreed to score Inglourious Basterds. The news has since disappeared from the Tarantino Archives because it wasn't 100% confirmed, which makes some sense because Tarantino and Morricone have had an interesting working relationship over the years. Every great war movie has a phenomenal score (Saving Private Ryan had John Williams) and Morricone seems like the perfect guy for Basterds. If only this were confirmed and true!
We'll all be anxiously holding our breath hoping that this news turns out to be true in the end. Anyone who saw Morricone accept the Honorary Award at the Oscars last year knows that he's a composer who deserves so much more recognition than he typically gets. In fact, anyone who has seen The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or Days of Heaven or Cinema Paradiso or The Mission or The Untouchables (or any of the hundreds of movies he has scored) knows how utterly amazing his music is. Would it fit in Inglourious Basterds? I definitely think so! From what I know of the film and Tarantino's style, Morricone is the perfect fit for it! He definitely hasn't retired yet, so let's hope that this wasn't just one big, exciting rumor.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/11/10/ennio-morricone-scoring-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds/
Tarantino + Morricone = :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:
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Inglourious Basterds Gets an Official August Release Date
The Weinstein Company has officially set the release date for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds as August 21st, 2009. The only other films also slated for release at that time include Final Destination: Death Trip 3D and the comedy The Goods: The Don Ready Story. Tarantino's films have never been the biggest box office hits. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 opened on October 10, 2003 and earned $70 million at the box office; Kill Bill: Vol. 2 opened on April 16, 2004 and earned $66.2 million. It's very likely Inglourious Basterds will also have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in early May as well.
As excited as I am for Inglourious Basterds, I'm also considerably concerned about The Weinstein Company's plans for it. This decision to slate its release in late August is the first of many decisions that I fear may eventually hurt the potential success of this movie. But all that aside, I'm sure Tarantino has made a great movie in the end and we'll get to see that no matter when TWC puts it out. I only just wish movies like this were marketed as well as they should be. But then again, we haven't seem much actual marketing for this yet anyway. We'll leave you with an updated synopsis for those who have never read the script.
Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna 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…
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/12/31/inglourious-basterds-gets-an-official-august-release-date/
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My friend, who went to the auditions in September, got a call on wednesday from the talent agency that had held the auditions. They said he shoulld show up for filming the next morning and filming would take from thursday til tuesday (excluding the weekend).
But he couldn't get off work and school after such short notice.
There went the chance to become a famous extra in a Tarentino movie.
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Maggie Cheung Rues No Cooperation with Pitt
Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung will star in Quentin Tarantino's World War II film "Inglourious Basterds," the actress has said.
Cheung, 44, who has settled down in Beijing with her German architect boyfriend Ole Scheeren, went back to Hong Kong over the weekend to promote a brand she endorses, Star Daily reported.
The Cannes best actress told the newspaper she would only appear in a couple of scenes. However, the role would be challenging because she has to speak French.
Written and directed by the Oscar-winning Tarantino, the film will be led by Brad Pitt as the leader of eight Jewish-American soldiers. Cheung will play a French woman who owns a cinema in Paris.
"My character is very interesting," Cheung was quoted as saying, "But it's a pity I wouldn't be able to star in a scene together with Brad Pitt."
The film is set for release at next year's Cannes Film Festival in May.
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/11/17/1261s424677.htm
Hooray for Maggie Cheung appearance! :twothumbs
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First Official Footage from Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds!
Apparently the rumors are true - Entertainment Tonight is showing the first full trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds tomorrow night. In advance of that debut, they've aired a very short teaser for the trailer, which features about 25 seconds of our first look at Inglourious Basterds. This is obviously a very exciting and grand debut, as this is nearly ten years in the making, and it was less than a year ago when Tarantino announced that he was actually making this and he's already put together a trailer. So without further ado, let's get on with it! Check out the first footage from Inglourious Basterds!
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "the Basterds" are chosen to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris that is targeted by soldiers.
Inglourious Basterds is both written and directed by the infamous Quentin Tarantino, of everything from Reservoir Dogs to Pulp Fiction to Kill Bill to Death Proof previously. The Weinstein Company and Universal have partnered to bring us Tarantino's WWII masterpiece in all of its brilliant glory. Inglourious Basterds will officially hit theaters worldwide on August 21st later this year after its premiere at Cannes.
Video:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/02/10/first-official-footage-from-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds/
OH SHIT! Brad Pitt is the man! :theking
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TadvFY3rA8
:twothumbs
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Quentin Tarantino Recaps the Inglourious Basterds Trailer
With the arrival of the new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen teaser today and the Taking of Pelham 123 and Angels & Demons trailers last week, I'm apprehensively wondering if the teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds got lost in the mix of things. I thought it looked pretty badass, although it definitely wasn't what I was expecting, but that's Tarantino for you. As a way of revisiting the trailer again this week, and to provide some additional explanation, I thought I'd feature some of the more exciting quotes from Empire's frame-by-frame discussion with Quentin Tarantino about the trailer.
For those of you that haven't read the screenplay, Inglourious Basterds is split into 5 different chapters (read more about them here). "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 WWII iconography." While we know that this is about the titular group of Jewish-American soldiers who wreak havoc on the Germans, this is a bit of a misconception, as the story actually focuses on the character Shosanna Dreyfus, played by French actress Mélanie Laurent.
"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." Shosanna's family is killed by the Nazis and she flees to Paris, where she takes on a job running a movie theater. It's here where everything eventually comes together. The Germans decide to show their latest propaganda film there and the Basterds, aware of the plans for the premiere, make their way towards the theater.
One of the pivotal scenes in the film, as seen above, is the La Louisiane bar scene, in which British soldier Lt. 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, but with Nazis and in German. It's a 23-minute scene, and instead of that warehouse they're in a little basement bar." That's a comparison that should make any Tarantino fanboy giddy, but we'll have to wait to see it in all of its glory. And we'll have to see if it's more exciting than the diner scene in Death Proof.
"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." There isn't too much of this shown in the trailer, besides just a few tidbits like the shot above or the shot of Diane Kruger pointing the gun off screen, but those combined with Tarantino's enthusiasm have already made me excited to see the scene. It's only just one small part of it all, featured in "Chapter Four: Operation Kino."
That brief black and white portion of the trailer is actually from the "film-within-a-film" titled Nation's Pride that is part of "Chapter Three: German Night In Paris." It's a propaganda piece created by Joseph Goebbels, starring Frederik Zoller (Daniel Brühl), a famous German sniper who is known and celebrated for killing many Russian soldiers in combat. The actual film was directed by Eli Roth and is shown in snippets throughout Inglourious Basterds. Nation's Pride is somewhat of a centerpiece within the film and it's what is being shown at Shosanna's movie theater (as previously mentioned). "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."
As for characters, Tarantino explains which two he always had in his mind: "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." He's talking specifically about Sgt. Donnie "The Bear Jew" Donowitz, played by Eli Roth, and Lt. Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt, who are easily the two most memorable characters from the trailer. "When he's on set, he's Aldo," Tarantino says of Pitt. "He doesn't really break character. When you talk to him about other stuff, he talks in Aldo's voice."
While the trailer may not have been exactly what everyone was expecting to see, I still thought it was an exciting first look at what Tarantino has been shooting over the last few months. However, we can't forget that this was just a teaser trailer, and we're still going to see at least one or two more full trailers by the time Inglourious Basterds hits theaters in August. Special thanks to Empire for the awesome interview with Tarantino. Although the screenplay has made the rounds, I think there is still a lot to be discovered within Inglourious Basterds, as is evident from this trailer, and I can't wait to see what's revealed next.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/02/16/quentin-tarantino-explains-the-inglourious-basterds-trailer/
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Fucking badass! :yep:
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Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Confirmed for Cannes!
At the Cannes Film Festival last year, Quentin Tarantino boldly stated that he would be back "next year" with Inglourious Basterds in hand. Of course, we all took that statement as his word that he would actually make the movie, which did happen. But I always thought that was a bit of a crazy thing to say, unless he had someone inside that had already guaranteed him his admittance before he had even shot the film or finished the script. Whether it was actually BS or not, Variety has confirmed that Inglourious Basterds did indeed make it into Cannes, and will be premiering "in competition" during the fest.
Tarantino won a Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1994 for Pulp Fiction, but hasn't won any awards since then, however he has been invited back as a member of the jury multiple times. Pixar's Up was announced was the opening night film a few weeks ago. The remainder of this year's Cannes line-up will be announced on April 23rd. I have been confirmed and will be attending Cannes in May. This makes me quite excited, as two of my most anticipated movies are now premiering there, so look forward to my reviews. Universal and The Weinstein Company will debut Inglourious Basterds in theaters officially in the US on August 21st.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/04/02/tarantinos-inglourious-basterds-confirmed-for-cannes/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/04/02/tarantinos-inglourious-basterds-confirmed-for-cannes/)
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Vanity Fair photoshoot
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http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/05/inglourious-basterds-portfolio200905 (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/05/inglourious-basterds-portfolio200905)
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Quentin Tarantino on American Idol | Unrated footage from Inglorious Basterds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4DHfXDRATo#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)
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http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/02/new-inglourious-basterds-poster-brad-pitt-is-a-basterd/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/02/new-inglourious-basterds-poster-brad-pitt-is-a-basterd/)
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http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/04/new-inglourious-basterds-poster-eli-roth-is-a-basterd/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/04/new-inglourious-basterds-poster-eli-roth-is-a-basterd/)
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I saw a trailer for this yesterday. I didn't pay much attention before, but now I wanna check this out.
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Does Tarantino Have More Basterds Tricks Up His Sleeves?
With Inglourious Basterds premiering on May 20th at Cannes next week, more mainstream press coverage has been starting to appear all over the place. Over at the NY Times in particular, they've got a set visit feature, delving further into the production and Quentin Tarantino's crazy mind. But at the very end, they say something very interesting. It reads: "Not to mention a shelved subplot about African-American soldiers stuck behind enemy lines. 'I have a half-written prequel ready to go if this movie's a smash,' he said." Whoa, wait a minute, Tarantino's got a prequel already ready to go? What exactly is this all about?
Thanks to our friends at The Playlist for first pointing this out. They also did some research and found an old 2007 interview with Tarantino at the UK's Telegraph where it was mentioned "Tarantino is also planning a new genre, a form of spaghetti western set in America's Deep South which he calls 'a southern.'" I doubt that's the same Inglourious Basterds prequel that was mentioned above, but it's at least a connection of sorts. We already know that Tarantino likes to talk about prequels a lot (he keeps saying he wants to make that Kill Bill prequel soon, too) so maybe this is just more of that madness.
We also know that it took a very long time for Inglourious Basterds to finally get made (there's a great article over on TotalFilm.com about that). In fact, even though he's been talking about Basterds since the start of this decade, he only ever finished the script last year. So how could he even have a prequel already half-written? As crazy as Tarantino is, I doubt this is just a joke. Which is why I'm curious if he has some more tricks up his sleeves? Who knows what he's up to. Though we will find out in the next few weeks if Inglourious Basterds is all that it's cracked up to be. So stay tuned for plenty more from Tarantino soon.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/10/does-tarantino-have-more-basterds-tricks-up-his-sleeves/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/10/does-tarantino-have-more-basterds-tricks-up-his-sleeves/)
‘Bunch of Guys on a Mission Movie’
“THIS ain’t your daddy’s World War II movie,” Quentin Tarantino said with a grin, standing on a street corner here that had been scrubbed of 21st-century signposts to become the set of “Inglourious Basterds,” his new film about a band of Jewish-American soldiers on a scalp-hunting revenge quest against the Nazis.
Although it was mostly shot at Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, Germany, the movie’s subtitle is “Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France.” So on a three-day sojourn in Paris in December, Mr. Tarantino and his bi-continental moviemaking coalition commandeered a 1904 bistro with peeling paint, Art Deco stained glass and a wall of windows overlooking an intersection of identifiably Parisian streets in the 18th Arrondissement.
“We had to have a scene to sell the audience that we’re in France,” Mr. Tarantino said. “This is it.”
“Inglourious Basterds,” which is to have its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20, is Mr. Tarantino’s first movie since “Death Proof,” half of “Grindhouse,” a double feature and box-office flop that he directed with Robert Rodriguez, and his first solo feature since “Kill Bill Vol. 2” in 2004.
Mr. Tarantino calls “Inglourious Basterds” his “bunch of guys on a mission movie.” Judging by the script, it should have the crackling dialogue, irreverent humor and stylized violence that are hallmarks of his work.
“You’ve got to make a movie about something, and I’m a film guy, so I think in terms of genres,” he said. “So you get a good idea, and it just moves forward and then usually by the time you’re finished, it doesn’t resemble anything of what might have been the inspiration. It’s simply the spark that starts the fire.”
The spark that led to “Inglourious Basterds,” starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mike Myers, Eli Roth and a large international cast, can be traced to Mr. Tarantino’s storied days as a video-store clerk in Manhattan Beach, Calif. (The inspiration for “Reservoir Dogs,” “Jackie Brown” and other Tarantino movies can also be traced to that time.)
“The guys at Video Archives were like, ‘Quentin, maybe one of these days you’ll make your ‘Inglorious Bastards,’ ” Mr. Tarantino said, referring to the (conventionally spelled) 1978 Enzo G. Castellari film. “But they hadn’t even seen the movie, all right, it was just a great title. I love the movie, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not a remake,” he said, of his version.
“It will be in the original category at the Oscars,” he added optimistically.
Lawrence Bender, who has produced all but one Tarantino movie, said he was surprised when Mr. Tarantino called last summer to announce he had finalized the long-gestating “Basterds” script and wanted to finish the movie in time for Cannes. Mr. Tarantino won the top prize there, the Palme d’Or, in 1994 for “Pulp Fiction.”
“He’s read me all kinds of stuff over the years,” Mr. Bender said, “but I always assumed it was something he was going to have and never do.” (Mr. Tarantino is known for taking plenty of detours on the way from one movie to the next. He has directed episodes of television shows, including “CSI,” acted in and produced other people’s movies, and has been a guest judge and “mentor” on “American Idol.”)
A six-month research period for “Basterds” several years ago “paralyzed my writing for a while,” Mr. Tarantino said. He thought of making a World War II documentary or teaching a college course and even plotted out a 12-hour mini-series. Then in January 2008 he said he decided to “take one more crack at seeing if I could make this a movie,” he said. “I wasn’t out to teach a history lesson. You can turn on the History Channel — which might as well be called the Hitler Channel. I just wanted to tell my story and have the same freedom I would have telling any story. I want the act of writing to be so fulfilling that I have to question do I want to even make the movie.”
Mr. Tarantino’s unedited script was circulating online within days after he completed it. “This was so personal to me, misspellings and all,” he said, mentioning that he had typed it with one finger on the same 1987 Smith Corona word processor that he used to produce “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction.” “I mean I’ll proofread it when we publish it.”
Not that he’ll change the title. “Basterds should be spelled with an e,” he said. “It sounds like it has an e.” He shouted, “Basterds! Basterds!” in what sounded like a Boston accent: more “BAS-tids” than “BAS-terds.” (As for the spelling of “Inglourious,” Mr. Tarantino said: “I can’t tell you stuff like that. It’s a movie thing.”)
A man with a walkie-talkie tugged on Mr. Tarantino’s arm. “Sorry, I’m getting the vaudeville hook,” he said, and went inside the bistro to shoot a scene in which Shosanna (the French actress Mélanie Laurent), a young Jewish woman in hiding and running a Paris cinema, sits across a café table from an unsuspecting Nazi soldier and matinee idol (the German actor Daniel Brühl) trying to win her affections. Mr. Tarantino watched the actors like a patron spying on a couple across the room, barely glancing at the nearby monitor.
“I’m looking through the viewfinder when I set up a shot,” he said between takes, “but I watch the performance and listen to it. Otherwise the monitor is directing the movie.”
Like 70 percent of “Inglourious Basterds” this scene was being performed in French and German, which is just one of the reasons this isn’t your daddy’s World War II movie. “When you see the Germans speaking English with a German accent or sounding like British thespians, it just seems very quaint,” Mr. Tarantino said. “That’s one thing I don’t want this film to have. If Spielberg hadn’t made ‘Schindler’s List’ yet, I joke, I like to think that after our movie he’d be shamed into doing it in German.”
(Executives at the Weinstein Company said the heavy use of subtitles did not give them pause. “Tarantino is a universal language,” said Tom Ortenberg, president of theatrical films.)
Mr. Brühl said it was the director’s non-sacred approach to Germany’s painful history that attracted him to the role.
“I’m curious to see how it’s going to be received in Germany,” Mr. Brühl, 30, said, placing the movie in the tradition of Ernst Lubitsch’s “To Be or Not To Be” (1942) and Charlie Chaplin’s “Great Dictator” (1940). “If a comedy is intelligent and has depth, it’s a very legitimate way to talk about Fascism in Nazi Germany, which was also a big show — and if you think about it, very ridiculous.”
The screenplay is loaded with movie references and jokes, and intrigues involving actors and film premieres. Hitler’s minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, is portrayed as a typical studio chief. (“People write about the horrible anti-Semitic films,” Mr. Tarantino said, “but most of the 800 movies he made were comedies and musicals.”) And it is safe to say, without spoiling the history-bending penultimate scene, that cinema saves the world.
The production designer David Wasco, who has worked on all but one of Mr. Tarantino’s films, said that while they had labored to reproduce the period using original photographs and documents, “pretty much 90 percent is based on movie references.”
“It’s a Quentin period world,” he added. “That’s what we’re helping him do here.”
Mr. Tarantino said: “All that movie stuff just kind of organically happens. It’s just what I am interested in.”
Late in the day bottles of Champagne appeared on the sidewalk, and Mr. Tarantino called for a toast to honor the 800th roll of film. He circulated, clinking plastic glasses as evening fell over the city, with a word and a smile for everyone.
The Basterds — the film’s Jewish soldiers, given their nickname by the Nazis — hadn’t made the trip to Paris, but their presence could be felt in the grown-out “basterd haircut” (short on the sides and in back, long on top) that Mr. Tarantino was sporting. “The Basterds don’t have the luxury of being soldiers,” he said. “They have the duty to be warriors, because they’re fighting an enemy that’s trying to wipe them off the face of the earth.”
Mr. Tarantino, who was born in Tennessee, said his childhood revenge fantasies centered more on the Ku Klux Klan. “But it’s all the same,” he said. “Once the Basterds get through with Europe, they could go to the South and do it to the Kluxers in the ’50s. That’s another story you could tell.”
Not to mention a shelved subplot about African-American soldiers stuck behind enemy lines. “I have a half-written prequel ready to go if this movie’s a smash,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/movies/10hoha.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/movies/10hoha.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4)
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What Inglourious Music Will The Basterds Be Put To?
So far, what we’ve gotten from Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Inglourious Basterds film have been numerous posters, images and actual footage (including a wicked first trailer). Well, those are all really cool, but one thing we haven’t gotten to know up until this point is the soundtrack for the film - a trademark of Tarantino’s movies in and of itself. Today, thanks to AICN, we have a soundtrack listing for Inglourious Basterds, something any Tarantino fan should be excited to see. The list is from a press release at Cannes, so logically it’s in French. However, the song titles and artists can be read okay, check out the list below:
* The Green Leaves of Summer
(d’après le film ALAMO)
De Dimitri Tiomkin
* The Verdict
(Dopo la condanna)
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par
Ennio Morricone
* L’incontro con la figlia
D’Ennio Morricone
* White Lightning
(Chanson principale du film LES BOOTLEGGERS)
De Charles Bernstein
Interprété par Charles Bernstein
* Il mercenario (ripresa)
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone
* Slaughter
De Billy Preston
Interprété par Billy Preston
* Algeri: 1 novembre 1954
(LA BATAILLE D’ALGER)
D’Ennio Morricone,Gillo Pontecorvo
Interprété par Ennio Morricone,Gillo Pontecorvo
* The Surrender
( La resa )
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone
* One Silver Dollar
(Un Dollaro Bucato)
De Gianni Ferrio
* Bath Attack
(d’après le film L’EMPRISE) (The Entity?)
De Charles Bernstein
Interprété par Charles Bernstein
* Davon Geht Die
Welt Nicht Unter
De Bruno Balz,Michael Jary
Interprété par Zarah Leander
* The Man With The Big Sombrero
De Phil Boutelje,Foster Carling
Interprété par Sam Shelton and the Michael Andrew Orchestra
* Ich Wollt Ich
Waer Ein Huhn
De Hans-Fritz Beckmann, Peter Kreuder
Interprété par Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp
* Cat People
(Putting Out The Fire)
De David Bowie, Giorgio Moroder
* Mystic and Severe
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone
* The Devil’s Rumble
(d’après le film DEVIL’S ANGELS)
De Mike Curb
Interprété par The Arrows
* What I’d Say
Zulus
D’Elmer Bernstein
* Un Amico
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété parEnnio Morricone
* Tiger Tank
De Lalo Schifrin
* Eastern Condors
Rabbia e Tarantella
D’Ennio Morricone
Interprété par Ennio Morricone
Talk about diverse: David Bowie and Ennio Morricone in the same film? I’m there! Inglourious Basterds wouldn’t be a genuine Tarantino movie if it didn’t have a diverse and eclectic soundtrack to go alongside the dialogue and the characters. He has said in interviews before that before he even has word one of a script written he goes into his record collection room and hunts through his thousands of records for music that “feels right.”
Just shows you how important music is to him and his movies... What Tarantino also does beyond just simply choosing music is he manages to take songs that were either forgotten or not known to most people and makes them iconic. With Reservoir Dogs it was Stealer’s Wheel’s “Stuck In The Middle With You” during the infamous ear scene, in Pulp Fiction it was “Misirlou” that played over the opening credits, “Across 110th Street” in Jackie Brown, for Kill Bill it was “Bang Bang (You Shot Me Down)” during its opening credits… I could go on forever.
Beyond the fact that this music info is in French, the songs are pretty obscure and therefore hard to find. The “Green Leaves of Summer” and “Cat People” are easy to hunt down so if they are the only two you are able to find, it gives at least a taste as to the musical thinking Tarantino had when shooting the movie.
I can’t wait for this film. What do you think about the Basterd music chosen by Tarantino? Are you familiar with any of the songs? Inglourious Basterds is premiering at Cannes next week and is set to open theatrically on August 21, 2009.
http://screenrant.com/what-inglourious-music-will-the-basterds-be-put-to-ross-8626/ (http://screenrant.com/what-inglourious-music-will-the-basterds-be-put-to-ross-8626/)
Morricone :thumbsup
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Here's the 1st review:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/20/cannes-2009-review-quentin-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/20/cannes-2009-review-quentin-tarantinos-inglourious-basterds/)
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Tarantino Heading Back into the Editing Room with Basterds
Apparently the Cannes reaction wasn't good enough for Universal. Anne Thompson over at Variety published an update from Cannes a few days ago mentioning that Universal is urging Quentin Tarantino to make some changes to Inglourious Basterds before it officially hits theaters in late August. Tarantino has consistently worked with The Weinstein Company for most of his recent films, but Basterds was co-financed and co-produced by TWC and Universal, meaning that the studio has as much say as Harvey Weinstein this time around. And apparently they're not too happy with the feedback from Cannes.
Before its premiere last Wednesday, the running time was one of the most talked about aspects of the film. It was listed in the Cannes guide at 2 hours, 40 minutes, but it actually only played roughly 2 hours, 28 minutes. Most people are instantly assuming that some of the negative criticism stems from its length and are saying that Tarantino needs to trim it down. On the contrary, though, it felt like it was missing a few key scenes (or so I thought). Thompson confirms that Universal wants Tarantino to return "to the editing room post-Cannes to make some trims edits that might include adding a scene, says Tarantino."
He also reminds us that the current run time is "well under his contractual final cut length of 2 hours, 48 minutes." I think I would've preferred seeing the 2 hour, 40 minute version, but I'm sure Universal is getting nervous, since long films don't exactly fare too well at the box office (although there are exceptions). It's also been the on-going theme here at Cannes that films are almost always way too long. Though with Basterds, there were so many different characters and stories, that I felt as if a few weren't developed enough, and that there could have been more. I'll be looking forward to seeing his final cut in August.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/23/tarantino-heading-back-into-the-editing-room-with-inglourious-basterds/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/23/tarantino-heading-back-into-the-editing-room-with-inglourious-basterds/)
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I saw the trailer before the Terminator yesterday. I am looking forward to the extreme violence, Tarantino will never let me down :bow:
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I saw the trailer before the Terminator yesterday. I am looking forward to the extreme violence, Tarantino will never let me down :bow:
When has he let down the public???
Tarantino is GOD :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:
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GUESS WHAT I SAW LAST WEDNESDAY :heart: :heart: :heart:
I've been in LA for the past week and by some amazing fluke, I got tickets to a pre-screening of the movie. It was amazing and everything you would want from a WWII movie directed by God himself, but more importantly:
HE WATCHED THE MOVIE WITH US
That's right, I breathed the same air as my favorite person in the entire world for three whole hours. It was magical and he's such a sweet, genuine person.
Forgetting the way I embarrassingly started crying when he came out and greeted the audience, I'll just say that the movie is well worth your time :twothumbs
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^ wait, who did you see? Pitt or Tarentino?
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^ Tarantino :inlove:
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Tarantino is just an overall really cool guy. I remember when he visited here, he told the news how much he likes the country and Filipinos and you could tell he's always honest.
Saw the trailer for this last week, I can't wait!
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Harvey Weinstein Wants to Cut 40 Minutes from Inglourious Basterds?!
If you haven't been following industry news recently, The Weinstein Company is in a lot of financial trouble. Similar to New Line a few years ago, their survival is somewhat dependent on the performance of three big movies this fall: Inglourious Basterds, H2: Halloween 2, and Rob Marshall's Nine. This wouldn't matter much, except that Harvey Weinstein is attempting to get his hands on Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and cut out 40 minutes of it, according to The Wrap. There have been numerous industry pieces on the TWC situation, but Sharon Waxman's article is the only one that mentions this rumor specifically.
Here's the excerpt from Waxman's piece at The Wrap where it specifically mentions the 40 minute cut.
But here's what we know: the company needs a big hit, and soon. Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds premiered to mixed reviews at the Cannes Festival. Weinstein and co-producer Universal are both trying to convince Tarantino to cut it by 40 minutes. (It's now 2'40", and considered too long a sit, especially for American audiences.)
Waxman actually got the running time wrong, as the version I saw in Cannes ran 2 hours, 28 minutes. This isn't the first time we've heard that Tarantino would be making some changes from the version he showed in France. At the end of the fest, Tarantino started telling press that he would be going back into the editing room for Basterds, potentially adding a new scene before the infamous bar scene in the middle of the movie. All of this is happening because the reaction in Cannes wasn't as positive as they (meaning Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein) had hoped it would be. But they better not cut out 40 minutes of it!
Inglourious Basterds is a very long film for good reason; no one should be expecting to see Tarantino's take on Saving Private Ryan. Thankfully I'm not the only one who is opposed to this. Ben Kenigsberg at Time Out Chicago wrote a piece titled "Don't cut Inglourious Basterds, you basterds!" Here's an excerpt:
All I can say—as someone who thought Basterds was the unquestionable highlight of this year's Cannes competition—is that cutting won't remove what's strange about the film; it'll just ruin its pacing and structure—and probably outrage QT's sizable fanbase. The charge against the movie is that it's "talky" and that too much of it is subtitled to appeal to a mass audience. But if any contemporary filmmaker has proven that large swaths of dialogue can be compelling, even profitable, it's Tarantino.
I couldn't agree more with what Kenigsberg says above. Screw what Harvey Weinstein thinks, I say stick with your gut, Tarantino! Even if Basterds doesn't turn out to be a huge hit in the end because it's so long (and becomes the first nail in TWC's coffin), who cares, in the end everyone will be much more appreciative that Tarantino stuck with his cut and kept true to his vision. I fear that cutting out 40 minutes would ruin the movie, not improve it or bring in a bigger audience. And if that's all that TWC cares about in regards to Basterds, then Tarantino definitely shouldn't be listening to anything they say.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/09/harvey-weinstein-wants-to-cut-40-minutes-from-inglourious-basterds/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/09/harvey-weinstein-wants-to-cut-40-minutes-from-inglourious-basterds/)
Harvey Weinstein :thumbdown:
GUESS WHAT I SAW LAST WEDNESDAY :heart: :heart: :heart:
HOLY SHIT! That's epic! :w00t:
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^ CUTS, WHAT? :angry:
If anything, it seemed like the audience wanted a few scenes added. A lot of questions from the Q & A after the movie were about what wasn't shown. They can't do it, and especially not from the bar scene.
I forgot to mention this amid my squealing, but the way he used Bowie in the movie? Absolutely classic, I'd put it on the level of Stuck in the Middle With You during the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs :twothumbs
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Italian poster:
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The coolest movie poster I have seen in ages :yep:
If anything, it seemed like the audience wanted a few scenes added. A lot of questions from the Q & A after the movie were about what wasn't shown. They can't do it, and especially not from the bar scene.
They should at least add back Maggie Cheung's scene(s). I'm still pissed off that she was cut out from the movie :thumbdown:
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Damn. I think they might have been making this movie just for me. :lol: All my favorite stuff and by one of my favorite directors.
This and Moon are my most anticipated for the year.
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Inglourious Basterds New Trailer 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=747gRXB4Wps#ws-lq-lq2-hq)
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Harvey Weinstein Berates Bloggers Over Basterds Cutting Rumors
You gotta love Harvey Weinstein. I imagine he'd be more than happy to fight anyone who asks (kind of like Uwe Boll). Right now I'm certain all that's on his mind is making sure that Inglourious Basterds, The Road, and Rob Marshall's Nine are huge hits, or The Weinstein Company may not make it to next year. A month ago, the web was abuzz with a controversial rumor that Quentin Tarantino was being forced by Harvey Weinstein to cut some 40 minutes off of Inglourious Basterds. It seemed hokey anyway, as it came from a very skeptical report on The Wrap. But now Harvey sets it all straight in this GQ interview.
"Those stories are all untrue. There's no fucking way. Here, read my lips: That is nuts. Please don't even write that, it's insanity. There's not even a question of that. Whatever you're reading, it's like some insane blogger… There's no truth to any of this. He's not gonna cut. What he's doing is just reorganizing some scenes. I mean, the guy had six weeks to cut his movie [for Cannes]; most guys take six months. Most guys take a year."
"When I worked with Martin [Scorsese], we'd do eighteen months in post-production. Quentin Tarantino cuts a movie in six weeks? Come on, there's shit on that cutting-room floor that'll blow your brains out. I was telling Quentin the opposite—'You should put that shit back in the movie.' There's scenes with Brad Pitt and the Basterds, and I'm praying he puts that shit back in, ‘cause it's un-fucking-believably great. Listen—this movie will be between two hours and twenty minutes and two hours and twenty-seven minutes. I don't think it's going to be shorter—it's just a question of rearranging. I know he's putting footage back into the movie. I know he's got some cool shit that he didn't get time to address."
I really don't think there is any other power producer in Hollywood who would give you an answer like that to any question you asked them. And that's why I just love Harvey Weinstein. That guy doesn't take shit from anyone and it looks like he was more than happy to tell this guy that those "insane bloggers" were full of shit with that rumor. As I said, it all felt a bit hokey, but I was writing it as a plea in the extreme case that it did turn out to be true. And just to say it, I'm extremely happy to know that Tarantino is not shortening Inglourious Basterds at all and will keep it at least as long as it was in Cannes. Keep on keepin' on, Harvey!
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/25/harvey-weinstein-berates-bloggers-over-basterds-rumors/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/25/harvey-weinstein-berates-bloggers-over-basterds-rumors/)
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Inglourious Basterds International Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20bMX9Y0160#ws-lq-lq2-hq)
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SHIT, THAT LANDA POSTER :jerk: Christoph Waltz, yes please!
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Inglourious Basterds Final Running Time 1-Minute Longer
Well that settles it. Quentin Tarantino has confirmed on Variety's BFDealMemo blog (via The Playlist) that the final finished running time of Inglourious Basterds is a complete 149 minutes. "I've heard these rumors that the studios told me to cut out 40 minutes. These are complete lies. The movie is actually a minute longer, in running time, than it was in Cannes. It was 2:28, without end credits, and now it's 2:29, or 2:32 with end credits." The scene he added was the one that was first mention during Cannes, a filler sequence between when Michael Fassbender is sent to meet the Basterds and the infamous bar sequence.
That new scene helps smooth out that jolt in the progression of the overall story - as the bar sequence and Fassbender's introduction don't fit back-to-back that well. I'm sure he made some other tweaks we don't know about as well; The Playlist is also reporting that Tarantino has added four new music cues. "Harvey wanted me to add more music, he asked me to go through my music collection again and just find a couple more pieces," Tarantino explains. I don't know how these will fit in, but I'm still curious. I'm actually very excited to see this finished, polished cut in hopes that it's slightly better than the version I saw in Cannes.
Another scene that Tarantino added involves a laugh-out-loud moment from the script where it quick-cuts to Hitler's minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels having raucous sex with his French translator. I'll be sure to look out for this, since it wasn't in the version I saw. But don't expect to see that notorious sequence where Eli Roth, aka Sgt. Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz takes his baseball bat around Boston and gets it autographed by all the Jews in his neighborhood. Tarantino says he's putting that "in reserve" and will potentially use it if he ever makes a prequel. Sounds like we won't be seeing it on the DVD at all either. Not only is this good news for everyone who wasn't in Cannes, but it makes me very excited to see this new cut. The more I think back to it, the more I love Inglourious Basterds. I hope it holds up just as well the second time around. And as for that over-two-hours length, don't worry, you'll relish every minute of it.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/07/08/inglourious-basterds-final-running-time-1-minute-longer/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/07/08/inglourious-basterds-final-running-time-1-minute-longer/)
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Interview: Col. Hans 'The Jew Hunter' Landa - Christoph Waltz:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/08/20/interview-hans-the-jew-hunter-landa-christoph-waltz/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/08/20/interview-hans-the-jew-hunter-landa-christoph-waltz/)
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seein this tomorrow, quite excited for it
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http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/08/26/gorgeous-unused-painted-poster-for-inglourious-basterds/ (http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/08/26/gorgeous-unused-painted-poster-for-inglourious-basterds/)
seein this tomorrow, quite excited for it
So, how was it?
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epic movie was epic. tarantino does it again, this movie was fucking amazing. i cant even describe it