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"Inglorious Basterds" Revealed
"Fuck you and your jew dogs." With dialogue like that, it must be "Inglorious Bastards," aka "Inglorious Basterds," the not-yet-shot Quentin Tarantino penned and to-be-directed script that makes its online debut here at ANIMAL (PDF doc)[UPDATE]. I just got through reading all 165-pages of this World War II-themed wackadoodle tale, and it's a doozy. Rumors abound it could be a fake, but it sounds like authentic Tarantino to me. One thing's for sure: Quentin, your spelling is fucking atrocious.
A mix of bloody mayhem-filled scenes and politically incorrect dialogue that takes down whites, blacks, and Jews alike, the ensemble-ish tale sort of follows the highfalutin mission of a group of murderous Jewish-American soldiers who like bashin' in heads with bats, carving Swastikas in foreheads, and "Killin Nazi's."
The screenplay consists of five "chapters": "Once Upon a Time... Nazi Occupied France," "Inglorious Basterds," "German Night in Paris," "Operation Kino," and "Revenge of the Giant Face." It's not clear what the studio heads currently reading these pages will think when they encounter lines like, "That's what we need, pigs that can root out jews," or notes that intone, "WE JUST SEE A SUPER QUICK SHOT OF Goebbels FUCKING Francesca DOGGY STYLE," but nevertheless there's something relentless compelling about a Hollywood player who dares to write scenes that end with this kind of reveal: "During her conversation and strudel with the man that exterminated her entire family, shosanna pissed herself."
On the one hand, "Inglorious Basterds" offers a comedically cartoonish, eye-poppingly surreal micro-vision of a war that never was. At the same time, Tarantino takes on a bigger story--about the relationship between Hollywood and movie stars, heroes and murderers, and what happens to filmmaking in a world where Joseph Goebbels dreams of becoming David O. Selznick. "Inglorious Basterds" is a mess, but nobody can deny the beauty of a war movie that ends in a "literal red rain of legs, arms, heads, torsos, and asses." -Reverse Cowgirl
by Susannah Breslin on July 18, 2008
Comments (8)
omg I think I love you! Been looking for this for awhile... your Reverse Cowgirl Blog is one of the best on the net right now, by the way. great stuff.
= christopher
Posted by christopher calicott | July 18, 2008 8:15 PM
Who gives a flying fuqk about the spelling?!? Tarantino can spell and write in obscure and obscene ancient sanskrit with the talent HE'S got! "Q" is da MAN!
Posted by reservoir mutt | July 19, 2008 10:24 AM
Dear Reservoir Mutt:
You're a fucking idiot.
Dear Reverse Cowgirl:
Nice analysis.
Posted by C_Anne | July 20, 2008 8:30 PM
c_anne is so mean D:
Posted by observah justin | August 6, 2008 8:29 PM
OMG!! I CAN'T WAIT!!! IT'S GOING TO BE THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!!! I LOVE QT!!
Posted by quentin tarantino fan | August 12, 2008 1:11 PM
brad pitt is god
fight club
seven
burn after reading
jesse james
curious case of benjamin button
this
oceans 11 ( not the other two)
12 Monkeys
Babel
Snatch
and he's the only good part of the Tarantino written True Romance as Floyd
Posted by bradpittisgod | August 17, 2008 1:49 AM
I read the script last night. It fucking sucks.
Posted by Dan | August 28, 2008 1:16 PM
thanks for providing us with Brad Pitt's lackluster flimography and for again proving to us that he's just an "okay" actor - perhaps on the level of a Charlie Sheen or the like.
And no - he was not the "best part" of True Romance, fuckwad - it was what we in fact call, A GOOD MOVIE.
Suck my cock. It's 9 inches long - you'll like it.
Posted by Johno | August 28, 2008 1:47 PM