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Movie: The Inglorious Basterds

October 31, 2009 on 8:26 am | In Movies | No Comments

First glance: Oh, another WW2 movie.

First whispers from a random review: Tarantino. Doing a war movie. With very little pew-pew. Sounds odd, but intriguing.

Another look: So it’s a fictional story about a team of Jewish black-ops killing Nazis in Germany. I can accept that.

At the end of the first viewing: HOLY CRAP!! This isn’t a war movie! It’s an alternate time-line fantasy!

The movie is all about the Tough Guys. Everyone’s a tough guy talking tough. Oozing menace / charm / power / vanity / authority through dialogue. And this made it extremely interesting and very, very fun to watch!

The strong-as-oak man-of-the-land facing off a German detective hunting Jews. The stereotypical drill sergeant shout-talk. Intimidation of Nazi captives. An SS officer sniffing out British spies. A war hero sweet-talking a French belle. Or just eating and talking about strudels.

Lots of very interesting face-offs with high stakes verbal dueling. Every scene well acted.

There must be an odd dozen and more fantastic quotable quotes in the movie. If the dialogue didn’t keep shifting between English, German, French and Italian. High points for realism. But a little annoying perhaps.

The ending blew me away…

With Hollywood being so Jewish, I’m surprised that a movie like this never materialized much earlier. It’s like everybody in Hollywood just flipped Germany the Bird.

One word to describe this movie? I’ld go with SCHADENFREUDE.

“Schadenfreude is German for: taking delight in the misery of others.”
“Schadenfreude. Taking delight in the misery of others. That IS German.”
~~~ Lyrics from Avenue Q ~~~