"Each and every man under my command owes me 100 Nazi scalps," drawls a daintily-mustached Brad Pitt. "And I want my scalps!"
Sir yes sir! Nazi scalps, coming right up. The trailer for Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s World War II uh, saga? drama? violence orgy? — I’m not sure yet what the proper term is — aired on Entertainment Tonight last night, and lo, it was dazzling. (And so far available online only in this cruddy bootleg. The entertainment lords giveth; the entertainment lords taketh away.) UPDATE: You can watch the full HD trailer here (still not embeddable, though).
According to ET, Pitt plays the leader of squad of "ruthless Jewish-American World War II fighters who infiltrate Nazi-occupied France, spreading fear through Hitler’s Third Reich." Pitt’s ragtag team includes horror trend-setter Eli Roth (shown bat in hand, ready to bludgeon a kneeling Nazi), former Freaks and Geeks geek Samm Levine, and The Office‘s BJ Novak (looking super-intense).
Given the staggering number of WWII-set movies that came out in recent months, I thought I’d maxed out for a little while. But Tarantino’s trademark is his ability to reappropriate and reimagine a genre – samurai movies with Kill Bill, for example, or ’70s pulp horror with Grindhouse — and I’m incredibly curious to see his stroll down this well-worn path. Everything in a Tarantino version becomes more stylized, more outrageous, brighter, bigger, bloodier, sometimes sillier. Sure, the quick blip at the end of a cape-wearing Hitler screaming "mine, mine, mine!" "nein, nein, nein!" seems more "Springtime for Hitler" than intense drama, but count me in either way.
IB is set to open Aug. 21.
Nein! Nein! Nein! not mine mine mine.
“Springtime for Hilter…..and Germany!!!”
LOL you just made my day!!
i must say that this is perhaps the first tarantino film that the trailer doesn’t intrigue me at all. I remember when Kill Bill and Planet Terror trailers came out, I was blown away by both, especially Kill Bill. This snippet seemed very ordinary.
Here’s hoping it’s not as awful as his last two movies.
Yahoo’s got the full trailer, without the crappy entertainment tonight voiceovers or cuts
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808404206/video/11988602/standardformat/
i think it looks good…but I like everything
Uh…Nate, his last 2 movies were Grindhouse/Death Proof and Kill Bill 2 and both were excellent. Death Proof is a movie that gets better every time I see and might actually be my favorite Tarantino movie so far. Kill Bill was amazing and I watch it every time it is on TV. Part 2 might have been a bit of an action let-down after Part 1, but it actually boasts a better story than Part 1 and doesn’t have an annoying cartoon in the middle of it. Can’t wait for this movie…it’s going to be great like everything else Q.T. has done so far.
I don’t see Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2 as two different movies.It’s all one movie and I’m still waiting for it to be released on dvd as such.
Ugh, think this will be a mess.
Can’t wait for this! I think Tarantino has a way of exciting anyone geekish about movies, whether it be martial arts/samurai flicks, blaxploitation, exploitation, spaghetti westerns; surely he can work the same magic for a war movie.
QT has built up an absurd amount of credit with me so I’m in. And when he isn’t in Oscar-bate movies Pitt is awesome in more stylized movies (Fight Club, Kalifornia, Snatch, Seven) He has a presence that will serve the movie well. Anyone who thinks Grindhouse or the Kill Bills were inferior either don’t realize the type of artist QT is or have a distinct taste that he will never fit. Dude is awesome.
In response to Kevin–I totally agree, Death Proof, and the entire Grindhouse feature is incredible! And Kill Bill Volume 2 is fantastic as well, and I think I actually enjoyed it slightly more than the first volume, probably because I grew up watching more of the Sergio Leone westerns and didn’t discover Kurosawa (and subsequently Onagoto and Inagaki) until well into my high school years. But, I didn’t think the relative absence of action didn’t hold the movie back too much. There was still an equal sense of fervor about it all, even without B****** Kiddo fighting off the Crazy 88.
I agree Phil. KB Vol.2 is more muted but a bit more artfully done than Vol 1 (not that the anime, and weird camera angles weren’t cool) And really, what director would have the balls to make Vol 2 of his same story alomost completely different in tone and scope. If Vol 1 was a speeding, screaming thrill ride, then Vol 2 was a slower, whispering completion of a journey. He may mashup things from other genres, but he clearly makes them his own.
That looks AWESOME.
I was completely distracted by Brad Pitt’s accent and Ryan from The Office. Hope the movie’s good enough that I can get past that.
Kevin, I know which movies were his last two. Both were little more than a series of homages to movies that don’t work outside their own fanboy trappings, strung together by Tarantino’s imitation of the dialogue that made Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction great. I’m hoping that Inglorious Basterds is his first attempt in more than eight years to tell an actual story and not more bragging about his knowledge of old and obscure genre films.