re. QT

[rich]

danke.

At the climax of Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, Inglourious
Basterds, which is set during World War II and which is concerned, at
least superficially, with Jews, you get to witness a horribly familiar
Holocaust atrocity—with a deeply unfamiliar twist. A group of
unsuspecting people is tricked into entering a large building; the
doors of the building are locked and bolted from the outside; then the
building is set on fire. The twist here is not that Tarantino, a
director with a notorious penchant for explicit violence, shows you in
loving detail what happens inside the burning building—the desperate
banging on the doors, the bodies alight, the screams, confusion, the
flames. The twist is that this time the people inside the building are
Nazis and the people who are killing them are Jews.
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only an American of this generation could come up w/ this. I challenge
anyone to compare this scene w/ the atrocity committed in Klimov's
Come and See where a whole village is put down in similar way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMcwRzKRtVM (parts 11 and 12)  no
subtitles but u don't need to know the words.

rich

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Kai Frederik
Lorentzen<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> http://www.newsweek.com/id/212016
>
>>
>> Quentin Tarantino is having what Martin Amis readers might call a
>> "Yellow Dog" moment - something which happens when, following a
>> worrying, mid-to-late period of creative uncertainty, a once
>> dazzlingly exciting artist suddenly and catastrophically belly-flops,
>> to the dismay of his admirers.
>>
>> rich
>>
>