Considering how "Inglourious Basterds" ends, it might be a little surprising to learn that writer/director Quentin Tarantino did in fact care about the movie's sense of realism. Sure, the movie takes some creative liberties with its decision to let Hitler get machine gunned to death in a movie theater around a year before his actual demise, but it's also quick to subvert the usual unrealistic tropes you'd see in a typical war movie.
"I wanted to stay away from all the silly war-movie clichés that I never bought into," Tarantino explained in a 2009 interview for Rotten Tomatoes. "You know, those scenes where a bunch of guys have to take out a guard, so they very lightly strangle him and that takes care of that... They kill a German soldier and all of a sudden, not only is there no blood on his uniform, or even a bullethole, but it...
"I wanted to stay away from all the silly war-movie clichés that I never bought into," Tarantino explained in a 2009 interview for Rotten Tomatoes. "You know, those scenes where a bunch of guys have to take out a guard, so they very lightly strangle him and that takes care of that... They kill a German soldier and all of a sudden, not only is there no blood on his uniform, or even a bullethole, but it...
- 12/14/2022
- by Michael Boyle
- Slash Film
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