Inglorious Bastards (2009)

[Dave Monroe]

QUENTIN'S GIFT TO NAZI HATERS

February 17, 2009 --

QUENTIN Tarantino's new war movie, the strangely spelled "Inglourious
Basterds," is shaping up to be the blood-spattered antidote for anyone
who's depressed by the recent torrent of Holocaust movies - it's one
big slaughterfest in which hundreds of Nazis are gleefully executed in
the most gruesome ways possible.

"If you thought Nazis died in 'The Dirty Dozen,' brother, you ain't
seen nothing yet," film critic Harry Knowles - who visited the German
set of the Harvey Weinstein-produced picture - writes on Ain't It Cool
News. "There are a [bleep]load of Nazis dying. Seriously."

In the movie, Brad Pitt heads up a team of "Bowery Boy Jews seemingly
right from the heart of Hell's Kitchen" who are out to collect 100
Nazi scalps each, according to Knowles. The plot goes from broad
comedy to outright horror. In one scene, a soldier played by Eli Roth
takes a bat to one Nazi, which ended up "splattering Nazi-brain blood
all over me and my script, even though I was a good 15 to 20 feet
away," Knowles says. (Roth's casting is a bit of an inside joke as
he's also the director who grossed out audiences with the torture-porn
shocker "Hostel.")

In another scene, actor Omar Doom, who's described as looking like a
"young Al Pacino," effortlessly scalps some Germans while
machine-gunning others.

An insider said: "The Nazis really get their comeuppance. It's a big
change from all the downbeat Holocaust films over the holidays,"
referring to "The Reader," "Valkyrie," "Defiance," "Good," "Adam
Resurrected" and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas."

Tarantino told Empire magazine that one Scene, set in a basement bar,
will resemble " 'Reservoir Dogs' but with Nazis and in German." He
adds: "The Basterds are acting like the Apaches in a no-win
situation."

The flick - which co-stars Mike Myers, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane
Kruger, Cloris Leachman and Rod Taylor - is set to debut at the Cannes
Film Festival this spring.

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