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Originally Posted by NewPhin
Watched Inglorious Bastards tonight. I really, really enjoyed it. I'm glad for the mixed reviews, because it lowered my expectations quite a bit to the point that I wasn't even sure going in that I'd like the movie. As such, I ended up loving it.
I'd probably rate it in the top tier of QT movies for my personal tastes. Take out all of his QT film-geek homage nerdiness and soundtrack brilliance and all of the other artsy shit that make him great, and one fact remains: QT can just spin a good ****ing yarn.
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Unlike any other QT movie, this one has intellectual shit going on. Take the climatic theater scene for instance. The Germans are watching a propaganda flick in which dozens upon dozens of enemy soldiers are killed. The crowd hoots and hollars and cheers wildly each and every Allied forces death. Then the twin plans of the Basterds and Ms. Mimeuix come to fruition and the Nazi elite are mowed down with gunfire as the theater burns to the ground. And we, the audience watching a movie, cheer with relish each and every one of the German deaths. In effect QT turned us all into what we so wish violence upon -- our reaction to the Nazis dying is the exact same as the reaction of the Nazi audience watching Allied soldiers die! It harkens back to the speech in the film's first, tremendous scene where Landa remarks that people hate Jews for no real reason, that people just know deep down that they don't like rats/Jews. Well we obviously don't like Nazis; we throw justice overbpard in favor of fiery, bloody revenge.
Think about it: QT could cast any actor he wants. For the role of The Bear Jew, in a film that is largely about violence (and propaganda) in movies, he casts the director of films whose audience adores the "torture porn" of it all. It is not a coincidence.