French Film Critique: Inglorious Bastards
Film Critique
Inglorious Basterds is an intense action thriller with a comedic twist put together by director Quentin Tarantino. The movie is somewhat violent but real fantasy of what many people wish would have happened to Adolph Hitler during World War 2. Inglorious Basterds is the story of a small group of Jewish-American soldiers assembled by Lt Aldo Raine played by Brad Pitt. This group of soldiers are ordered to strike fear into the hearts of soldiers of the Third Reich by brutally killing Nazis. Eventually Lt Aldo Raine and his men cross paths with a women named Shosanna played by Mélanie Laurent. Shosanna is a French-Jewish woman whose family was murdered by Nazis while they occupied France when she was younger and she now runs a movie theater in Paris. The plot of the movie intertwines both Shosanna and the Jewish-American soldiers in an attempt to assassinate Hitler during a movie premiere inside her theatre. The film concludes with Shosanna being shot while in the projection room, but even though she is killed her mission is not a failure. Lt Aldo’s men complete their mission in the assassination of Hitler in a final gory act as they unload their machine guns on him insuring his death.
I found the movie entertaining and very easy to watch as with most of Quentin Tarantino’s films. The strength of this movie is that it has many scenes that build enormous tension leaving the audience on the edge of their seats. One of the most suspenseful scenes involves a Nazi character known as the “Jew Hunter” played by Christoph Waltz entering the house were Shosanna and her family are hiding. He enters the house questioning the French owner if he knows of anyone who may possibly be harboring Jews. The scene closes with the “Jew Hunter” ordering his Nazi soldiers to shoot out the floorboards were Shosanna and her entire family is hidden. Shosanna luckily escapes with her life but the rest of her family unfortunately does not.
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Inglorious Basterds is an intense action thriller with a comedic twist put together by director Quentin Tarantino. The movie is somewhat violent but real fantasy of what many people wish would have happened to Adolph Hitler during World War 2. Inglorious Basterds is the story of a small group of Jewish-American soldiers assembled by Lt Aldo Raine played by Brad Pitt. This group of soldiers are ordered to strike fear into the hearts of soldiers of the Third Reich by brutally killing Nazis. Eventually Lt Aldo Raine and his men cross paths with a women named Shosanna played by Mélanie Laurent. Shosanna is a French-Jewish woman whose family was murdered by Nazis while they occupied France when she was younger and she now runs a movie theater in Paris. The plot of the movie intertwines both Shosanna and the Jewish-American soldiers in an attempt to assassinate Hitler during a movie premiere inside her theatre. The film concludes with Shosanna being shot while in the projection room, but even though she is killed her mission is not a failure. Lt Aldo’s men complete their mission in the assassination of Hitler in a final gory act as they unload their machine guns on him insuring his death.
I found the movie entertaining and very easy to watch as with most of Quentin Tarantino’s films. The strength of this movie is that it has many scenes that build enormous tension leaving the audience on the edge of their seats. One of the most suspenseful scenes involves a Nazi character known as the “Jew Hunter” played by Christoph Waltz entering the house were Shosanna and her family are hiding. He enters the house questioning the French owner if he knows of anyone who may possibly be harboring Jews. The scene closes with the “Jew Hunter” ordering his Nazi soldiers to shoot out the floorboards were Shosanna and her entire family is hidden. Shosanna luckily escapes with her life but the rest of her family unfortunately does not.
As far as weaknesses in the