{"id":5112,"date":"2009-08-31T21:36:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2009-09-01T05:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T13:31:48","slug":"inglourious-basterds-quentin-tarantino-2009-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=5112","title":{"rendered":"Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=49\" >Kathleen Amboy<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at Camino Real Cinema in Goleta.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fr2day.com\/images\/page_image\/inglourious-basterds-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"  width=\"210\" height=\"325\"\/>What if Adolf Hitler and three of his top men in the SS, such as Goebbels, Goring and Bormann could be terminated all at once by the handiwork of Jewish-American soldiers?\u00a0 Such is the premise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0361748\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Inglourious Basterds<\/em><\/a>; a highly-charged, exciting war film.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly not a huge fan of Brad Pitt, I&#8217;ve determined he&#8217;s a great character actor.\u00a0 Pitt plays Lt. Aldo Raine from Tennessee, who is the leader of a group of rogue Jewish-American soldiers.\u00a0 These soldiers\u00a0are fearless and have been instructed that they have a debt to collect 100 German scalps.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Feared by the Germans, Raine&#8217;s men execute every German soldier and officer they go after, save for one who is then sent back to warn the others, but marked for life first with the carving of a swastika in his forehead &#8211; CLASSIC!<\/p>\n<p>Intercepting the news that top SS officers will attend a Nazi propaganda film premiering in Paris, the British Allies come up with a plan\u00a0to assassinate these officers at the theater using Raine&#8217;s men as backup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the owner of the theater in Paris has hatched plans of her own,\u00a0to blow-up\u00a0the theater using reels of old nitrate film and carry out revenge on the Nazi party responsible for exterminating her entire family.<\/p>\n<p>Enormous homage is paid to Sergio Leone as well as a bit of John Ford and others in this film &#8211; but it works.\u00a0 It&#8217;s great fun to hear the Ennio Morricone-sques soundtrack and to observe Tarantino&#8217;s stylized camera angles &#8211; it&#8217;s what going to the movies is all about.\u00a0 The lines are witty, well written and the humor perfectly timed.\u00a0 Keep your eye out for Melanie Laurent, an exceptional actress who plays Shosanna Dreyfus the theater owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Kathleen Amboy.\u00a0 Viewed at Camino Real Cinema in Goleta. What if Adolf Hitler and three of his top men in the SS, such as Goebbels, Goring and Bormann could be terminated all at once by the handiwork of Jewish-American soldiers?\u00a0 Such is the premise of Inglourious Basterds; a highly-charged, exciting war film. Admittedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}