Quentin Tarantino Dealt with Hitler, But Can He Deal with the Holocaust Museum?
The audience’s reaction to both the director and the film was, by in large, positive with the notable exception of the yenta behind Partisans of Vilna who did her best to get Tarantino to lose his cool with a series of inane questions and plugs for her own two-plus-decade-old Holocaust documentary ("Oy, will she shut up already?", cringed the 75-year-old Museum docent sitting next to me.)
Anyway, here are some of my favorite moments from the evening. Beware: spoilers ahead.
On the Jewish Basterds’ mission to blow up a movie theater filled with Nazis and themselves in the process:
"I actually like the parallels that the Basterds are, for all intents and purposes, suicide bombers going into the theater to blow up the premiere and the fact that it is a military-slash-civilian endeavor that they are blowing up."
On writing:
"That’s my thing, my dialogue. It’s not poetry, but it kinda is. It’s not music, but it kinda is. It’s not rap, but it kinda is, it’s not standup comedy, but it kinda is. It’s all those all together."
On the film’s fantastical premise:
"I stop short of calling it a fantasy. I present it in this fairytale kind of thing as far as for the masses to take in, but that’s not where I’m coming from. Where I’m coming from is my characters changed the course of the war. Now that didn’t happen, because my characters didn’t exist, but if they had existed, everything that happens in the movie is possible."
On the climax of the film:
"I set up scenes and I jerk you off to have a climax. And in this movie I jerked you off and I fucked with the climax… At some point those Nazi uniforms went away and they were people being burned alive. I think that’s part of the thing that fucks with the catharsis. And that’s a good thing."
On the Basterds:
"The reason that [Basterds leader Lt. Aldo Raine] wants to create a group of Jewish soldiers is that it’s a holy war. You can point at the gentiles and say, ‘Hey they have the luxury of being soldiers, you have a duty to be warriors.You’re fighting a holy war against an enemy that want to wipe your race off the face of this fucking earth and you have no obligation other than to be a warrior.’"
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submit a comment08.14.09 at 12:08 pm
It is true. As the mom or grandmother of anyone who reads Heeb can tell you, we do all have a “duty to be worriers.”
Freudian slip?
08.14.09 at 12:08 pm
Jewish suicide bombers?? Now I really can’t wait to see this film.
08.14.09 at 4:08 pm
Partisans of Yenta
08.14.09 at 4:08 pm
Sounds like a movie about my mother-in-law.
08.14.09 at 8:08 pm
@norman lol
this film looks like it is going to be pretty wild and NOTHING like history..
11.21.09 at 6:11 pm
This film was awesome but nothing like history.
12.31.09 at 1:12 am
Agreed.
01.24.10 at 8:01 pm
But soooooo good.
02.22.10 at 7:02 pm
Melanie Laurent is a goddess!
02.23.10 at 3:02 am
So weird.
02.24.10 at 2:02 am
Wish I were there.
03.02.10 at 12:03 am
This event sounds cool.
03.05.10 at 10:03 am
Good luck Sunday night, Quentin.
03.06.10 at 1:03 pm
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (pronounced /ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ/; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). His films have earned him an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d’Or Awards and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy Awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time.[1]
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Sitting on stage with the film’s star, French actress Mélanie Laurent, in front of the 400 or so occupying virtually every seat in the auditorium.