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ACTION/ ADVENTURE/ WAR
Cast: Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Ciane Kruger, Mike Myers, Maggie Cheung, Sam L.Jackson
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release: August, 2009 (The Weinsten Co./ Universal)

Inglourious Basterds is an ambitious project of Quentin Tarantino which has been stored for long time. Basterds script isn’t done yet since a decade ago then forces TQ to do another film, such as Kill Bill 1- 2, Grind House: Death Proof until he becomes a special guest director in Sin City. After finishing Grindhouse in 2007, QT seriously completed Basterds then finally started shooting in October 2008 in Germany and France. The Weinstein Company one again supports and succeeds in bringing this movie to the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in Mei 2009. Basterds will be launched on August 21st 2009 and at the same time being the last of summer movies competition.

QT claims that he is eager to make a unique, different and spectacular war movie. QT calls it as spaghetti- western with World War II background. The title it self was inspired by a war movie in 1978 directed by Enzo Catellari, an Italian director, with almost the same title The Inglourious Bastards or Senza Gloria cast by Bo Svenson and Fred Willaimson. Admitted by QT, this film is considered valuable and there are some improvement from both plot and characterization that the film script cannot be finished on time. Deemed to be his best film script, it also contains the elements of Dirty Dozen, Where the Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarone or Cross of Iron.

Maybe the theme is controversial, particularly in establishing the chosen Jewish- American soldiers which is ready to fight Nazi. Yet, QT argues that this movie is an epic and filled by racial element as well as Barbaric war from each entrenchment. The Jewish, Nazi, French, British and American armies are cruel in war. As a main selling point, QT performs Brad Pitt as the leader of the Basterds (Jewish- American army) who isn’t the real Jewish. Besides, there are also Diane Kruger, Maggie Cheung, Mike Myers and Sam L. Jackson. Unfortunately, Leonardo DiCaprio voids starring the leader of Nazi as well Bradd Pitt’s worst enemy.

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