Inglorious Basterds 2009 by Sungjin In

Title/Year; Inglorious Basterds 2009
Director/Birth Country/Year Born; Quentine Tarantino. 1963
Budget; 70 million

Gross; 321 million (Dec, 2009)

Synopsis; During WWII French is occupied by German Nazis and U.S sends group of Jewish troops to assassinate Hitler. Meanwhile owner of theater Shosanna Dreyfus, with personal motif also caries out plan to assassinate Hitler and other Nazis who came to her theater.

Narrative and Visual Keywords; Dark, violent, revenge, hollocost.

Characterization/ Dialogue; Every character has very strong personality with one common enemy to hate, gathered under Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) with strong Southern accented hillbilly.

Camera/lighting/editing technique; A bit of faded color to give the historical feel to it.
Political/ Social Commentary; Portraits alternative history. Kosher porn.


Historical Relevance/ Recognition; military costumes and weapons were well researched. Plot-wise, it is portrait of alternative history came from question ‘what if?’

Notable Collaboration; Brad Pitt


Random fact, Etc;

            It is spelled Inglorious bast’E’ds

People thinks this is remake of 1978 ‘inglorious bastards’. Although the title of the film was inspired by The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato) (1978). While Tarantino is a huge fan of this macaroni combat classic, his Inglourious Basterds has evolved from being a similar men-on-a-mission war film to something very different.

In the scene where the Basterds are in the forest interrogating their Nazi prisoners, one prisoner refuses to give up the Nazi position and basically asks for death. When Raine calls for Sgt Donowitz (Eli Roth) to "execute" the prisoner, Donowitz exits a cave and walks into plain view. When Donowitz is standing at the cave entrance, you can see Raine's shotgun and the words "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS" carved into it.

Everybody knows what have happened during WWII, and what Nazi did. This is very fancy noir movie with humor. Even the violence in the movie was very intense, still seems to be somewhat acceptable to the audiences, considering the fact that Basterds are a bit hypocritical at saying Nazis are evil, cold blooded killers when they themselves are doing the same things to Nazis. Catharsis is the best part of the movie.