Title/Year: Inglorious Basterds/2009
Director/Birth Country/Year Born: Quentin Tarantinto/US/1963
Budget: $70 Million (USD)
Gross: $320,389,438 (USD)
Synopsis: An alternate history of the WW2 era featuring a team of Jewish-American soldiers and a French-Jewish cinema owner, both planning to kill Hitler and other Nazi political leaders.
Narrative and Visual Key Words: Ultra Violence, Nazi, Swastika, Cinema, Paris
Characterization/ Dialogue: There are many nationalities portrayed and therefore almost as many accents. French, German, Southern American, etc.
Camera/Lighting/Editing Technique: POV shots, Muted Colors, Crane Shots, Shots that Move Between Rooms
Political/Social Commentary: A fantastical fever dream using the WW2 setting as a base for an almost Jewsploitation Movie.
Historical Relevance/Recognition: It is really more of an alternate reality rather than a realistic portrayal of history. However the time was well researched in regard to costuming, sets, and props.
Notable Collaboration: Sally Menke edited Inglorious Basterds. She edited all of Tarantino's films until her untimely death.
Random Fact, Etc.: Originally Tarantino wanted Leonardo DiCaprio to play villainous Hans Landa. Luckily he decided he wanted to have an older German actor play the role and gave it to the amazing Cristoph Waltz instead.
POV: There is no "main character" per se. However the main thrusts of the movie are maintained by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), who is accompanied by The Basterds, and Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) the French-Jewish cinema owner.
Identity: This movie is all about the fantasy of being a powerful Jew in WW2 Europe and taking revenge on their Nazi oppressors.
Morality: The ultra violent Basterds can always be forgiven mainly because of their targets. Nazi's are almost universally reviled so it makes the deaths they meet more fulfilling than appalling.
Memory: This film isn't true to history at all (The early assassination of Hitler anyone?), but it is a way of dealing with negative residual feelings surrounding the Nazi movement. Who doesn't love seeing the Nazis get brutalized?
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/
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