If Dannez Hunter’s case didn’t pivot so erratically around Jewish conspiracies and such, he may have had a half-valid point about Tarantino plagiarizing a part of his idea. Having read the actual affidavit, it looks like every rational comment is diluted with buckets of crazy. Read more »
Quentin Tarantino has just purchased New Beverly Cinema, saving the struggling moviehouse from becoming a Super Cuts. The landmark is one of Los Angeles’s few cool culture hubs, but is it in danger of being smothered with Grindhouse kitsch or will the new landlord leave some breathing room for auteurs and masters? Read more »
Tomorrow at the at the downtown Los Angeles Upper Playground Gallery, Tarantino-heads can buy a limited edition, Basterds-themed art print for $300 a pop. Artists David Choe, Alex Pardee, Jeremy Fish, Sam Flores and many others have created their own versions of the Inglourious Basterds movie posters, available on a first come, first serve, one-per-buyer basis with the profits going to Haiti relief. Read more »
While chatting up Harvey Weinstein at some big Upper East Side to-do, foot fetishist/cinema recyclist Quentin Tarantino leaned on a $1m Rosenquist painting and nearly ended it. It wasn’t personal this time.
Like many an American celebrity afraid of damaging his/her image as an uncompromising artiste, Quentin Tarantino tries to keep his hooch hawking on the Q.T. here by shooting ads overseas, in this case in the most alcoholic country in the world. He doesn’t look very happy about it! Explaining how he came up with the idea to use Tarantino, Ali Mammadov, creative director of Dewar’s Russian ad agency Global Point says (translated badly by Google): “Some whiskey is positioning itself for big companies, some emphasis on broad-line, and Dewar’s – this whiskey for successful intellectuals.” Quentin is seen in the Motherland as a “successful intellectual?” Any ANIMAL readers know Russian? We’d love to read the translation of these fake Tarantino quote headlines (click ads). I’m guessing they’re not as snappy as Pulp Fiction dialogue. |Images: adme.ru|
Illustrator Tyler Stout was commissioned by the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema to create custom movie poster-style prints for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Although they quickly sold out, he will be offering a few more on his official website, stay tuned. Bonus: jump for Print Mafia’s “Hitler Target” screen print, which is, ugh, also sold out. Read more »
It’s hard to believe that a Tarantino script like this can somehow turn into the crappy trailer above. The Inglourious Basterds screenplay looked like it had a lot of potential and the makings of a great movie. Well after viewing the trailer maybe not. You would think that Harvey Weinstein would have learned after the dismal failure that was Grindhouse, but it’s not entirely his fault, Brad Pitt’s ridiculously unconvincing Southern accent should certainly take a big chunk of the blame when this thing bombs.
A while back we took a look at the authentic script for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film, “Inglorious Bastards,” about a crew of revenge-seeking, Jewish American soldiers on a mission to kick some serious Nazi ass during World War II. The film has reportedly begun filming in Germany and more details on the cast besides Brad Pitt have been released. The director will be pulling actors from some of his previous films with the supporting cast including Julie Dreyfus (Kill Bill), Eli Roth (Grindhouse), plus Omar Doom and Michael Bacall (Deathproof). Although there’s been a rumor of a possible name change back to the original misspelled version “Inglourious Basterds,” (IMDB has it as “Basterds“) here’s the teaser poster spelled correctly, complete with a big ol’ bullet hole right where the swastika usually sits on the iconic and thoroughly evil, Reichsadler emblem.
Nearly two weeks ago, ANIMAL posted what appeared to be the screenplay for Quentin Tarantino’s much talked about “Inglorious Bastards” (this site now hosting the PDF doc). A sprawling, surreal, super-violent piece of World War II porn, the story focuses on a band of blood-thirsty Jewish-American soldiers who are totally into “Killin Nazi’s.” Was the script real or fake? Judging by the hand-scrawled cover and rampant spelling mistakes—from “Inglourious Basterds” to an American city the auteur refers to as “Bostin”—it seems nobody but Tarantino would send out such a hot mess of a 165-page script chock full of lines like “Hey, stick your treason up your poop hole” and “Fuck you and your jew dogs” and expect to sell it. Now, with a possible deal with Universal on the table, Weinstein Co. has delivered a cease and desist to ANIMAL, ordering the script be removed—and in doing so confirmed the script is, in fact, a real Tarantino. In the words of Weinstein’s lawyer, Peter Hurwitz: “Pursuant to the provisions of the DMCA, I am writing to you to request you immediately disable access to the script for our film ‘Inglorious Bastards,’ which has not been authorized to be used on your or any other website at this time.” The official script-removing legalese after the jump.
“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.”
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