Quentin Tarantino

The Basterds are merciless.

Inglourious Basterds (2009) is Quentin Tarantino’s sauerkraut Western.  Rather than the spaghetti scenery of conventional Westerns, we have WWII scenery.  A much-revised WWII.  In Tarantino’s war, the Basterds are a band of Jewish-American soldiers deep behind enemy lines.  Their leader is Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt).  Their goal: to terrorize the Nazis the same way the Nazis terrorized Europe.  Raine orders his men to scalp a hundred Nazis each.  And to relish doing so.  (They will even get a stab at Hitler.) [click to continue…]

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