On Horror Chick: Why the Heavens Should Crumble If ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Wins (Short Answer: Eli Roth)
Best analysis of the movie I've ever read. And THAT is sincerity.
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On Horror Chick: Why the Heavens Should Crumble If ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Wins (Short Answer: Eli Roth)
Ack meant to say ALEX ROCCO worked his way through the H-wood channels. Brain is liquefying - symptom of too many horror movies.
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On Horror Chick: Why the Heavens Should Crumble If ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Wins (Short Answer: Eli Roth)
You make a very excellent point. But yes, casting a terrible actor as Moe Greene would have put a serious dent in The Godfather. Moe Greene worked his way through the Hollywood channels for a decade before landing a part in Godfather - he was a seasoned actor and he played the part well. The Bear Jew is a character given heavy symbolic weight in the film - it's not a bit part like Dov in Death Proof.
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On Horror Chick: Why the Heavens Should Crumble If ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Wins (Short Answer: Eli Roth)
Haha fair enough! Except this forgettable costume farce might win Best Picture.
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On Horror Chick: Why the Heavens Should Crumble If ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Wins (Short Answer: Eli Roth)
Yes, and the Nation's Pride section was good - in fact, if he'd simply directed that great sequence and not taken a significant role in the film, I'd be writing columns giving him props.
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On Horror Chick: Why the Heavens Should Crumble If ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Wins (Short Answer: Eli Roth)
Ah yes, the "Nazi movies should stop taking themselves so f-cking seriously, it was grim, we get it" argument. If that was Tarantino's goal, Kate Winslet beat him to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEnjiGwVw6o&feature=player_embedded
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On Horror Chick: Why the Heavens Should Crumble If ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Wins (Short Answer: Eli Roth)
Again, you raise interesting points. But ultimately what Tarantino intended with his exploit-the-exploitation memes aren't that relevant. It's the Holocaust. I dont care if it's uncool to consider it a sacrosanct topic, but I do, many others do as well, and I'd imagine on some level so does Roth. As my great aunt used to say, "We'd all have wound up in the same shower rooms." No American director would touch the Rwanda genocide with campy actors and inside jokes - it would be horrific to do so. Why is it cool and clever to pull in all these postmodern B-movie ploys when it comes to Jews killing Nazis? If casting Roth was meant to be some trick or subtle moral statement (which I doubt) then that makes it all the worse.