With the Toronto International Film Festival fast approaching, Beyond the next will be all film and film related funtimes for the months of August and September!
The first film to kick off the cinema celebrations is INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (IB).
Quentin Jerome Tarantino and Eli Roth showed up to introduce the film. It was quick, messy and over before I could blink an eye. Roth told everyone Tarantino was a god and that he loved working on the movie..Wow, that's a revelation. Thanks for being so insightful about the movie we are about to see. It was cool to see Tarantino in all his glory for two and a half minutes..I was hoping for a Q&A, but immediately following the intro, he got on a plane for the NY premier and Eli Roth held it down for a few questions. Can we talk about Tarantino being on American idol.
I was confused by this and a little dissapointed. Ok, sorry, back to the movie.
To be honest, I was expecting it to be mediocre. I didn't think Dianne Kruger and Brad Pitt could really pull off what the trailer was selling; sophistication, revenge and yet another attempt at cross pollinating film periods/gengres. I pretty much ate my assumptions within the first 15 minutes of the movie. Inspired by 1978's "Quel maledetto treno blindat" (Inglorious Basterds), Tarantino's IG was filled with kick ass suspense, top notch acting and more than a handful of "creative kills". IG is based In Nazi-occupied France during World War II. The main storyline revolved around a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" who are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. They excel at their task and I may have spent more time looking at my neighbor to the left in the theatre trying to avoid some of the more gruesome kills scenes like the eye gouging or back skull stabbing.
IG's main storyline is actually not the main highlight for me. What made me leave the theatre saying, "Wow that was one of the most bad ass, entertaining and enlightening movies I have seen in a long time" was the way the other storylines married with the Basterds and that each characters personal history with the occupation allowed for a group of amazing stories, of which, each could fill a script for a full movie.
In addition to the layers of deep and diverse experiences, the movie gives the viewer the ability to sympathize and empathize with the occupied Jews during that time; making you almost beam watching the SS and Gestapo pay for their Sin's in some of the most inglorious fashions!
All the actors were stellar, story was satisfying, sets and shooting location were perfect and Tarantino yet again takes mixed genres to the next level. With strong lighting, immaculate makeup and a tip of the hat to war films of years past, IB is a triump in every way. I hope it spreads the world entertaining all and leaves the viewer wishing IB was not a fictional story, but inspired by true ones.
http://www.inglouriousbasterds-movie.com/
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