The great direc­tors fas­ci­nate me in ther own style. Alfred Hitch­cock, Woody Allen, Rob reiner, Char­lie Chap­lin, Frank Darabont, Clint east­wood, Stan­ley Kubrik, Christo­pher Nolan, Coen broth­ers, Spike Lee, John Cur­ran and of course, Quentin Taran­tino. Quentin Taran­tino is very unique in sto­ry­telling. Quentin’s basic rule of story telling is ‘No Rules’. He is very pas­sion­ate about his story and char­ac­ters. Quentin was work­ing in a video store in Tor­rance dur­ing his early years watch­ing almost all the films in his video library. Later he started mak­ing col­lages [ scenes from dif­fer­ent movies ] and make a new film out of it.

The beauty is when he started wirit­ing n direct­ing movies, he adapted his own way per­fectly. I admire his work in ‘Pulp Fic­tion’, felt uncom­fort­able with ‘Reser­voir dogs’,interestingly watched ‘Jackie Brown’, Thrilled in Kill bill series, liked Death proof and so on.Sudden gush of vio­lence, lengthy dia­logues, enor­mous point­ers to music, movies, argu­ments, humour, new stunts, pro­fan­ity [ high level ], girls, drinks, guns are part of his movies. This time [ first time of course ], he has trav­elled back to world war period to make a movie. 

When asked about the mis­spelled­words in the title, he said “It’s Taran­tino way of spelling it.” :)

Plot

The story is set to hap­pen dur­ing the WW-II 1940s. There were many par­al­lel plots worked out to assas­si­nate the high pro­file offi­cers of Nazi and of course Hitler. There was a squad of US sol­diers [ IB ] who plan to exe­cute this mis­sion and young lady [ the­atre owner ] who also par­al­lely tries the same dan­ger­ous plot.

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As I said in Life is beau­ti­ful, every direc­tor has their own way of mak­ing films related to world war II and Ger­many. Inci­den­tally, this film is not about holo­caust or the con­cen­tra­tion camps [ Woodly allen says Amer­ica has all pos­si­ble camps in the sum­mer.. draw­ing, danc­ing, instru­ments.. and the only camp left is con­cen­tra­tion camp :) ]. Com­ing to Quentin, he is always fas­ci­nated towards the minute genre of films and he has tried a film like Dirty dozen, The great escape — a kind of ade­vn­ture set in world war II period.

As usual, the film is divided into chap­ters. The first chap­ter looks like a lengthy con­ver­sa­tion but it’s the charc­ter detail­ing of Colonel Hans Landa [ Christo­pher Waltz] . The reg­u­lar theme of QT is the very lengthy dialoges and the sud­den gush of vio­lent action. It starts in the same way but with an escape of Shosanna, which is linked later. The 1st chap­ter was located beau­ti­fully in countryside.

After a cer­tain time, the film trav­els in full speed towards the cli­max which is mul­ti­ple assas­i­na­tion plots. It has all the pos­si­ble twists and turns by it own. Shoshanna is the the­atre owner and she comes across a Ger­man sol­dier, is mad eas one of the chap­ters of the film. They again men­tion about a lot of French movies of that time. She has a plan in her mind when she hap­pens to meeto Hans Landa, later. The other gang [ actual Bas­terds :) ] of US sol­diers has a plan to kill the first rank offi­cers of Ger­man Army. Brad Pitt has done a sim­ple n neat role in this film — Lt Also Raine. He has a lynch­ing mark in his neck chich comes as part of his char­ac­ter­i­sa­tion. The bar sequence is a slow one [ tests the patience and build the ten­sion as you know what else could hap­pen there ].

The win­ner is Christo­pher Waltz [ Hans Landa role ] — a per­fect vil­lain [ Finest vil­lains of Tamil film are G.Umapathy in Agni natchathi­ram, Arumainayagam/Thilagan in Cha­triyan :) ]. Chris has deliv­ered a neat role and every minute action/dialogue car­ries the cun­ning­ness buried under his smile. Great show Chris .

When asked about mix­ing his­tory and fic­tion, Quentin answered that his char­ac­ters were there in that period, with­out know­ing the his­tory. This movie is mem­o­rable for 2 reaons -

1. First time, I watched a QT movie on big screen [ Devi the­atre ].
2. Out of the 30 odd peo­ple in the the­atre, I hap­pened to sit in the next row where Indian mas­ter cin­e­matogr­pa­hers Ravi K Chan­dran and RD Rajasekar were watch­ing this, on a rainy day !

:)

Toto

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