Posted on 08/20/2009 9:12:21 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Anyone who follows Hollywood at all should know that Quentin Tarantino’s newest film, Inglorious Basterds, is being released tomorrow. This film is a project that Tarantino had talked about making as long as I can remember, and he finally pulled the pin. Last night’s Red Eye shed some light onto the new film, explaining how it is a fantasy for Jewish people about killing Nazis.
Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld said:
“Do you have to go back in the past and find bad guys? Aren’t there people right now in the world that want to kill Jews that Tarantino could have made a movie about?”The short answer is yes, of course. However, Tarantino wanted to remake 1978’s Inglorious Bastards, which was a weird spaghetti war film that played like a combination of westerns of the 1970s (High Plains Drifter) and war films of the 1960s (The Dirty Dozen).
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Debbie Schlussel loved it after having bashed it before she saw it. And she usually doesn’t like left-leaning movies.
“If I had a gun and a 12-year-old kid broke into this house,” he told the critic J. Hoberman in a 1996 interview, “I would kill him. You have no right to come into my house…I would empty the gun until you were dead.”
good luck with that idea
Heard an excerpt from the film today. Brad Pitt (one of the most overrated actors in Hollywood) sounds about as genuine as Valveeta cheese.
For a commentary from an insider:
Lee Marvin: That Glorious Bastard
Posted By Kurt Schlichter On August 4, 2009 @ 6:55 am In Classic Hollywood, culture, film | 154 Comments
Only a tiresome poseur like Quentin Tarantino could think that the Hollywood pretty boys he cast in his soon-to-be released opus The Inglorious Basterds are convincing movie tough guys. Where is Lee Marvin when we need him?
You’ve probably experienced the Basterds publicity blitz. Brad Pitt looks like he stepped out of a Calvin Klein underwear ad. Folks I know who have been around him say he really is a pleasant and laid-back guy, and these are hardly the characteristics of a beady-eyed killer. Creepy Eli Roth, taking some time off from directing his degenerate torture movies, is just a leering clown - he looks like he should be squatting in the back of his Ford panel van offering Tootsie Rolls to passing tweens. And B.J. Novak? The guy is a hilarious writer and is really funny in The Office , but I’m not buying this cat as the scourge of the Third Reich.
In contrast, Lee Marvin’s tough guy legacy lives on despite the fact that his body rests with thousands of other heroes in Arlington National Cemetery. He earned that right when he was wounded fighting the Imperial Japanese Army in the Pacific as a Marine private. His Purple Heart is 100% USDA certified proof positive of his prime badassary. Who is the Hollywood tough guy of today who can dare step up to the Lee Marvin plate and take a swing?
Nobody.
Marvin got discharged from the Corps, came home and started doing crummy odd jobs to support himself - his willingness to work instead of freeloading off of others is itself an anachronism in today’s entitlement culture. He found acting and appeared in various supporting roles until he starred in a hit television series (M Squad) and moved on to bigger roles. He even won an Oscar for Cat Ballou. Serving his country, working hard, honing his craft and winning the recognition of his peers - Lee Marvin’s career had a lot in common with that of fellow all-American badass Ernest Borgnine.
How tough was the on-screen Marvin? He brawled with the Duke in Donovan’s Reef and stalked Chuck Bronson as a Mountie (!) in [9] Death Hunt. His classic performance as the grizzled First Infantry Division squad leader in The Big Red One has inspired legions of American sergeants.
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Check him out in 1967’s Point Blank. As Walker, a single-minded human tsunami of violence, he smashes through the psychedelic Sixties’ Summer of Love with his .357 and mantra of “I want my money!” This flick works for me on several levels. As a soldier, I respect his character’s fearsome firepower choices; as an attorney, I find his character’s single-minded focus on getting paid inspiring.
Remade in 1999 as the tepid Payback, Point Blank was harder-core than any of the watered-down, focus-tested, suit-neutered, glorified filmstrips that limp out of the studios today and pretend to be edgy.
For sheer cinematic awesomeness, his performance in The Dirty Dozen as Major Reisman, leader of the cutthroat band of condemned convicts on a mission to solve the Nazi overpopulation crisis, is never going to be matched. It’s actually unfair to even use it as a standard against which to measure subsequent action films. In the teachable moment regarding action movies that accompanies the release of The Inglorious Basterds, The Dirty Dozen would be Sgt. Crowley’s Full Moon beer while Little Quentin’s movie would be the President’s Bud Light.
Marvin was totally fearless, including when he should have been afraid. He did a terrifying musical, [14] Paint Your Wagon, and even had something of a hit song - Wanderin’ Star. Sadly, that little ditty sounds like a duet between Tom Waits and a drunken leaf blower, but it did lead to Marvin being paid homage to by The Simpsons - another great honor he shares with Ernest Borgnine.
In his personal life, his shacking up with his girlfriend led to a lawsuit that led to the creation of the legal concept of “palimony,” empowering a new generation of golddiggers. And politically, according to the always accurate Wikipedia, he was a liberal Democrat - hey, nobody’s perfect. But if you get shot fighting for this country, dude, for all I care you can vote for a transsexual Marxist cocker spaniel that buys into global warming.
Hollywood needs to look harder for its tough guys because the new ones just can’t cut it. All the fake blood and stylized mayhem in the world are no substitute for the hard edge of real life experience that WWII vets like Lee Marvin and Jimmy Stewart - I should say, Brigadier General James Stewart - brought to their roles. Today, the critics’ favorite director sends boy toys, torture pornographers and comedians to battle the SS. Yawn.
If Tarantino really wanted to kill Nazis, he could just bore them to death with his endless, pseudo-academic dissertations on so-bad-they-are-just-plain-bad B-movies. Too bad Eisenhower didn’t have a videotape of QT sounding off at Cannes about his personal artistic vision to use to soften up Omaha Beach. But fortunately for us, he had men like Lee Marvin.
I watched an interview with Tarantino. Guy is definitely lithium poor.
Ping
I’m not too thrilled with Tarantino’s films but I’m looking forward to seeing this one Sunday ....
They also co-star in “Emperor of the North” - one of the most under-appreciated films ever.
Shit, he even mentions Borgnine but leaves out Emperor of the North Pole...
“Tell them your story. Make ‘em weep. You could have been a meat-eater, kid. But you didn’t listen to me when I laid it down. Stay off the tracks. Forget it. Its a bum’s world for a bum. You’ll never be Emperor of the North Pole, kid. You had the juice, kid, but not the heart and they go together. You’re all gas and no feel, and nobody can teach you that, not even A-No.1. So stay off the train, she’ll throw you under for sure. Remember me for that. So long, kid.”
That was weird...
“Oh, save me from the Presbyterians!”
heeheehee
I don’t recall seeing Emperor of the North. I may have because my mother was a great fan of cinema, and my sibling has always loved those films.
jessduntno, I’m sure Schlichter could have gone on all day mentioning the true war heroes in film of yesteryear, but I get the point he’s making.
I recall watching special features for the film Saving Private Ryan. Hanks wanted the other actors to spend around one week carrying the gear our boys had to pack in WWII (heavy packs and all), and live out in the wild, if you will. Those panties were crying about it, and we’re talkin’ one or two WEEKS of “roughing it”.
Pampered pretty boys wouldn’t recognize chivalry if it came up and bit ‘em on the arse.
I’ll stick to the real films.
M Squad was one of my favorite TV shows. iirc it was set in Chicago. I always thought Lee Marvin played the tough guy better than anyone in hollywood during his time.
Lee Marvin not only played a tough guy, he was a tough guy.
Audie Murphy is a true American hero as was Hayden. As a matter of fact, we were just talking to our children about Murphy’s bravery on the battlefield as well as his career in film.
I’ve seen Kalifornia, and I question his ability. Playing psycho isn’t necessarily a stretch for most pretty boys in Hollywood.
Now, playing a Nazi w/a weak accent, or an Irishman w/a weak accent, or an Englishman w/an accent that was so unconvincing, Ang Lee decided not to cast him as Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is more than enough proof for me to describe Pitt as one of the most overrated actors in the bus.
The only film that showcased any depth of talent was Snatch. Fight Club was marginal. Generally, Pitt plays Pitt in films.
He made a pretty tough villain , too. Liberty Valance.
I for one have absolutely loved all of Tarantino’s movies except Jackie Brown and this one looks to be just as good.
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