QT's Inglorious B@stards in production...

jamesbondagent007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7468868.stm

Quentin Tarantino has just finished his screenplay for the long-thought-dead project, Inglorious B@stards, a World War II, Dirty Dozen-esque 2-part epic.

He is already moving into pre-production, as he wants to have it done within the next 11 months so that it can appear at Cannes 2009.

Dan Same

Interesting. I like QT alot. As a matter of fact, he is one of my favourite directors (Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 are two of my favorite films) but as a person, he annoys the hell out of me.

I hope that, unlike Guns N Rose's Chinese Democracy, this film does get made and is fantastic, but I hope that QT doesn't do any interviews.

Barry Nelson

Th only QT films I liked were Kill Bill 1 & 2 and as Dan said, as a person, he is very annoying. I like WWII films and I liked the Dirty Dozen so who knows, but something tells me his take will be something very different.

Napoleon Plural

Why is he annoying as a person? ?:)

Alex

Hmmm, I've just read this article, and while it mentions The Dirty Dozen as inspiration, no where in the entire piece is there any reference to the - ahem, original 1977 movie that pompous & conceited old Tarantino is remaking!

Unbelievable.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglorious_*******s_%281977_film%29

Alex

Sorry. The profanity filter refuses to allow the wikipedia article. But here's the one sheet.



The title translates to "That damned armored train". But you know us yanks and our inclination for title altering imported flicks.

Andy A 007

Alex wrote:

Hmmm, I've just read this article, and while it mentions The Dirty Dozen as inspiration, no where in the entire piece is there any reference to the - ahem, original 1977 movie that pompous & conceited old Tarantino is remaking!

Unbelievable.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglorious_*******s_%281977_film%29

Actually, Tarantino isn't remaking. This movie is simply the inspiration for his title. Tarantino's Inglorious B@stards will be more of a tribute to many different WWII movies. And even if it was a remake, I don't see what the big fuss is. I mean, we all know that every movie QT makes is pure genius anyway.

If you ask me, this is a piece of really exciting news! I've been waiting for this movie forever!!

Dan Same

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Why is he annoying as a person? ?:)

The reason I regard him as annoying because he comes across to me as incredibly narcissistic and arrogant. He thinks the Bond producers owe him credit for bringing CR to the screen; he thinks he's the world's formost authority on cinema and although he does know alot, I don't think he knows as much as he thinks he does; he has seen alot of films (more than most people probably) but he is incredibly arrogant about it. I suspect that one reason he inserts so many references into his films is because he just loves that he has seen all these films that the audience members haven't.

The thing about QT is that although, I think he is a magnificently talented filmamker, I do not consider him to be the greatest director in the world. However he probably regards himself as the best director since Orson Welles. He is so cocky (not in a good way) that I just want to punch him.

One last comment on QT; Martin Scorsese, who has probably forgotten more about cinema than QT has ever learned, and who is arguably a vastly superior filmmaker (although that's nothing against QT), comes across as the complete opposite. I'm not suggesting that QT be falsely modest, but perhaps he could learn from someone like Scorsese and not be so downright annoying! X-(

Loeffelholz

QT is a former video store clerk made good---I love that story.

And I tend to love (or really like) all of his films: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the two Kill Bills are all great times at the movies...and Jackie Brown is good too, although (for me) to a slightly lesser extent. I did give his and Rodriguez' Grindhouse films a deliberate miss, as they didn't really intrigue me at all (perhaps some day ).

My ticket for IB is pre-sold B-) QT may be the most derivative (albeit successfully) filmmaker of his generation, but he knows how to show his audience a good time.

As for his personality...well, fortunately I've always been able to separate an entertainer's personality (and his/her politics!) from his/her actual product. Otherwise, I'd likely never go to the cinema...and that would be a tragedy

Dan Same

Loeffelholz wrote:

As for his personality...well, fortunately I've always been able to separate an entertainer's personality (and his/her politics!) from his/her actual product. Otherwise, I'd likely never go to the cinema...and that would be a tragedy

Don't get me wrong, I do separate QT's personality from his films. It's just that come the release of Inglorious B@stards, I would simply prefer not to see or read any interviews featuring him.

Loeffelholz

Dan Same wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I do separate QT's personality from his films. It's just that come the release of Inglorious B@stards, I would simply prefer not to see or read any interviews featuring him.

Well...good luck with that! One of the most dangerous places on Earth to be is between QT and a press junket microphone or camera! )

Napoleon Plural

Well okay, I never found QT that obnoxious. Look at it another way, he makes good copy for an interviewer albeit because he likes the sound of his own voice.

I never took his CR claims personally, it's true he was into the project looooooooooong before Mickey and Babs woke up to it, we're talking late 90s. His comment about the new CR was just an aside really, no biggie.

That said, until Alex posted I never realised that QT's film was a remake, I mean why? Why not do something totally different with the same theme, though maybe he will.

Anyway, along with Alex's Circus of Horrors, I have reserved the film (the original) on my rental list... {[]

jamesbondagent007

Alex wrote:

Hmmm, I've just read this article, and while it mentions The Dirty Dozen as inspiration, no where in the entire piece is there any reference to the - ahem, original 1977 movie that pompous & conceited old Tarantino is remaking!

Unbelievable.

Actually, Quentin knows the director of the original film, Enzo Castellari, personally, and has watched the original with the guy. It inspired him to do a more modernized take on it, but not a remake or sequel--more of a spiritual continuation. Castellari knows about Tarantino's film, loves the idea, and fully supports it.

Alex

The only beef I had was the writer not mentioning anything about the original source.

And I just looove those pictures! 8-)

scaramanga1

I love QT films but I just hope this film isn't just a gory bloodfest -but has a decent tale behind it. Kill Bill 1 was awesome and that's the calibre of movie I want to see -where if there has to be blood and gore it is done artfully and not too in your face.

Napoleon Plural

Not great reviews for IG at Cannes. The Guardian don't like it but then Derek Malcolm used to be the Evening Standard if I'm correct, and he's not too cool. Could be the wrong kind of bad taste, a movie like this. Sort of puts me in mind of those Comic Strip Presents... comedies of the 1980s, or that Churchill comedy with Christian Slater as the cigar chomping one.

Dan Same

Peter Bradshaw hated it, and he described himself as a QT fan so I take his review more seriously than if he weren't a QT fan. I can't say that this is a big film for me. I will see it, but there are several other films which I'm looking forward to more.