Ingloreius Basstids: Drama, comedy, and pop schlock . . .

Posted by mr grits on August 21, 2009 at 16:07:33

If Tarrantino could have resisted the pop schlock this could have been right up there with Pulp Fiction...buuut, that's hindsight.

First of all, Pitt is an ensemble member not a featured lead. There is an amazing cast of characters with dialogue and story line spread around equally. If anything, Christoph Waltz (Austrian actor) was the default lead and performed dramatically well in his scenes as the "Jew Hunter" of France. He was deadly clever in "Chapter One" in a prolonged interrogation with a French diary farmer in his country house. This opening scene sets the mood for an almost 100% dramatic film....but not to be thanks to Quentin.

Subsequent chapters showed the basterds in action and the actual bloody mayhem was somewhat subdued compared to what it could have been. The humor was punched up by Pitt's character and his Tennessee (by way of Texas) accent and it provokes spontaneous laughter from time to time when it becomes "inopportune".

Diane Kruger and Melanie Laurent dress up the screen with their very different characters as actress/spy and vengeful Jewess. And both have what seems to be "overly long" scenes to their credit.

I never would have expected Tarrentino to tackle a subject with such a serious historical background as there is a lot of room to look totally foolish or disrespectful to history. I suspect his few concessions to pop culture (labeling characters on screen) was to remind us he didn't want us to take him deadly serious.

It's entertaining and worth a see.

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Topic - Ingloreius Basstids: Drama, comedy, and pop schlock . . . - mr grits 16:07:33 08/21/09 (3)

fabulous entertainment - tunenut 19:15:27 08/25/09 (0)

isn't that BASTERDS? nt - dave c 21:21:39 08/22/09 (0)

there were about 4 long tense scenes - PhilJ 20:45:31 08/22/09 (0)

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