Glorious Basterds? P.1

Tarantino has always been hollywood's 'dark horse', a demon taking conventional ideas of cinema and perverting them into quite possibly some of the best films of the last few decades...From the raw energy expressed in Reservoir dogs to the comic book nature of Kill Bill. this man seems to be the master of taking any genres he wants and making it his own playground, and now we have his World War 2 epic....Inglorious basterds! World War two has been something of sacred ground....with Spielberg pulling our heart strings and others keeping it a subdued affair. While scenes in 'basterds gave it a Schindler's list quality, with the first chapter about the Jew hunter fitting into that mould.

The film begins with the traditional morricone-like western music which notifies you that you are in fact watching a Tarantino film. In this chapter there is a french family, being visited by 'Jew-hunter' or newcomer Christoph Waltz, who throughout the film plays the brilliant villain...who not only handles himself with a type of 'kindly' evil, but also surprises you even at the end...
The film goes on to introduced the stars: the inglorious basterds themselves who are shown as an Apache style squad of various killers...at this point something familiar pops up...the opening line out of the men in the squad is taken straight from the 'dirty dozen', an almost identical picture in themes to Tarantino...like all his films this will be stuffed full of movie references which will leave the majority of watchers confused. So the camera pans up onto a 'basterd' scalping a dead Nazi...and Tarantino's much anticipated world war 2 epic is rolling...and according to the director:

"It'll be epic and have my take of the sociological battlefield at that time with the racism and barbarism on all sides"