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Fourthcoming: Inglourious Basterds

#1 Post by Antoine Doinel » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:44 am

So, Inglorious Bastards, will be like a "modern, in-your-face" World War II epic.
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#2 Post by Mr Sausage » Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:05 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote:So, Inglorious Bastards, will be like a "modern, in-your-face" World War II epic.
Besides The Thin Red Line, what modern WWII movie hasn't been "in-your-face"?

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#3 Post by Antoine Doinel » Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:19 pm

I think by "in-your-face" he means, "will contain extended, pointless scenes of characters discussing various aspects of pop culture minutiae".

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#4 Post by Tom Hagen » Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:02 pm

Mr_sausage wrote:Besides The Thin Red Line, what modern WWII movie hasn't been "in-your-face"?
Letters from Iwo Jima
Antoine Doinel wrote:I think by "in-your-face" he means, "will contain extended, pointless scenes of characters discussing various aspects of pop culture minutiae".
That could actually be interesting, if QT kept the references contemporaneous with the film. I would love to see him try to write riffs on Frank Sinatra, Fantasia, and Edward R. Murrow.

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#5 Post by Antoine Doinel » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:12 pm

Tarantino is pitching Inglorious Bastards to four studios, and looking at Brad Pitt to star. Harvey Weinstein will produce but has balked at putting his own money into this thing.

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#6 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:14 pm

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#7 Post by moviscop » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:40 pm

I just can't wait to see what he does with the dialogue. If it is half as good as Pulp Fiction's was, then it should be extraordinary.

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#8 Post by margot » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:42 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote:Tarantino is pitching Inglorious Bastards to four studios, and looking at Brad Pitt to star. Harvey Weinstein will produce but has balked at putting his own money into this thing.
10 years ago this movie would've been released by New Line

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#9 Post by moviscop » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:07 pm

Don't worry about New Line, they have "Journey to the Center of the Earth" with Brendan Fraser, they are good.

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#10 Post by Zumpano » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:19 pm

Antoine Doinel wrote: Harvey Weinstein will produce but has balked at putting his own money into this thing.
I think the line is that Weinstein doesn't have the money to put into this thing.

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#11 Post by Antoine Doinel » Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:53 pm

Even if he did (and Harvey certainly has the means to get financing if he really wanted to put his money into this film), he wouldn't put a dime behind any big budget Tarantino project after the financial disaster of Grindhouse.

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#12 Post by moviscop » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:23 am

They also decided to sell the films separately which was a bogus idea. Talk about a bunch of people unwilling to buy Death Proof because they thought it was "too slow."

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#13 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:45 am

moviscop wrote:They also decided to sell the films separately which was a bogus idea. Talk about a bunch of people unwilling to buy Death Proof because they thought it was "too slow."
Although, I think the tide is turning as far as appreciation of those two films go. I don't think I'm the only one who preferred Planet Terror in the theater but found Death Proof to be the superior film after revisiting them on DVD.

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#14 Post by Antoine Doinel » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:52 am

moviscop wrote:
Antoine Doinel wrote:Even if he did (and Harvey certainly has the means to get financing if he really wanted to put his money into this film), he wouldn't put a dime behind any big budget Tarantino project after the financial disaster of Grindhouse.
They also decided to sell the films separately which was a bogus idea.
They only sold the films separately after the combined films as a "grindhouse experience" failed to connect with audiences.

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#15 Post by exte » Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:51 pm

If Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and half the guys rumored to be in this film agree, I don't see financing to be an issue at all... It sells itself.

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#16 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:08 pm

Is Michael Madsen still attached?
exte wrote:If Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and half the guys rumored to be in this film agree, I don't see financing to be an issue at all... It sells itself.
There was a rumor floating around that he was trying to get both Schwarzenegger and Stallone for it. QT himself later squashed it in an online article I read somewhere a few years ago.

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#17 Post by pianocrash » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:20 pm

NYMag has the script? Maybe?

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#18 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:42 pm

"This whole Chapter will be filmed in French New Wave Black and White"
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#19 Post by moviscop » Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:50 pm

domino harvey wrote:
"This whole Chapter will be filmed in French New Wave Black and White"
vom
godard meets tarantino. sick dude!

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#20 Post by Oedipax » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:16 pm

moviscop wrote:godard meets tarantino. sick dude!
Godard already 'met' Tarantino and told him, more or less, to get lost.

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#21 Post by MyNameCriterionForum » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:35 pm

Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face

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#22 Post by filmnoir1 » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:40 pm

Tarantino will simply bastardize a vitally important element of the American experience and thus complete his transformation from a mediocre director into that of a nostalgic cash machine a' la George Lucas. The sad part is that this film and Tarantino's reputation will only be enhanced by all the people who go to see this film with no knowledge that he is merely imitating all the prior WW II films he has gorged on while working at the video store, rather than providing a unique and interesting approach to thinking about WW II and its connections to the current climate of the world.

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#23 Post by moviscop » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:42 pm

Oedipax wrote:
moviscop wrote:godard meets tarantino. sick dude!
Godard already 'met' Tarantino and told him, more or less, to get lost.
i'm not surprised, godard, while an amazing filmmaker, is quite the asshole.

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#24 Post by Antoine Doinel » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:45 pm

Tarantino has the handwriting and spelling of a five year old. Also, the concept of the film which has a bunch of Nazi scalping soliders running around Tarantino's cinematic wet dream sounds unbelievably lame. Tarantino has just stunningly redefined self-parody.

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Tarantino leaked this script to NYMag himself.

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#25 Post by moviscop » Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:54 pm

This is very interesting.

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Quel maledetto treno blindato

Fred Williamson was in "From Dusk Till Dawn" and I find it hard to believe that Tarantino, being the huge film buff that he is, didn't buy every film the man had made after hearing he would be starring in the film. Including the film "Inglorious Bastards" seems to be fashioned after, Deadly Mission.

Not to mention, the film's name in the US was Inglorious Bastards

I smell something funny.

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