Tarantino. Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino

And here we go! One of my favorite director, author and filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino. You won’t find hundreds thousands of movies directed by Tarantino, no. There are few, but mark my words every sing film, that was directed by this filmmaker has turned to cult film. Which reminds us, that “the quality of the movie is over the quantity”. Well my work for today is not to tell you the whole biography of Quentin Tarantino, you can easily find the needed information on internet. In this article we will mostly concentrate on his brilliant work, on “Inglourious Basterds”

Inglourious Basterds, challenge films of this genre. The trailer of the film showed us a saturated action war fighter, in which a group of American Jews exterminates the Nazis. But in reality, it turned out that the film is about a different things. Gunfires take about 15 minutes, the remaining two hours is intensely dramatic dialogues. This film laughs at the militants, and shows how stupidly clichés look in an action movies, to which we are so accustomed.

Most of the action movies have a certain rules, which they follow like – the main character must be smarter and stronger than everyone else, we look at him, admire him, want to be like him. – secret agents can easily infiltrate the ranks of the villains, learn their plans, trace all around the fingers and break any conspiracy. But in the Inglourious Basterds every thing is different. The villain is smarter than any of the heroes. And cheap tricks like dressing up, which usually work in other movies, don’t work in this one, and the hero immediately caught in a scam.

This film critics all the films of this genre. Tarantino says, that violence in movies is neither good nor evil. It’s violence. It is wrong to speculate on a sense of patriotism, to make you root for any side. This film is not like a classic war movie or a classic action movie, it is more like a Western, where there are no good or bad guys, where the hero is going through a scrape and as nothing had happened goes into the sunset.

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