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Script for Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards Surfaces!
July 10, 2008
Source: Latino Review, Vulture
by Kevin Powers
Will the news on Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards ever cease? Right after our last update on the production earlier this week, news hit that Brad Pitt is being eyed for the lead and that Taratino is, in fact, keeping Bastards at The Weinstein Company (despite hope that he wouldn't considering their missteps with Grindhouse). Today is probably the best update of all, however, because Latino Review and Vulture scored copies of the script! Tarantino's Dirty Dozen-inspired WWII epic will follow eight Jewish soldiers sent behind enemy lines who are lead by Lt. Aldo Raine (the possible role for Pitt). To give you a sense of Tarantino's twisted tale, Raine tells his men: "Every man under my command, owes me, one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y’all will git me, one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred Nazi's or you will die trying." This is going to be amazing!
Raine's instructions aren't necessarily the primary directive for this ass-kicking clan of Jews, however. Rather, the "hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee" leads his men (the "Bastards") on Operation Kino, which involves heading into Paris to attack a premiere for a new propaganda war movie put on by one of Hitler's close associates, Joseph Goebbels. Hitler and most in his high command are expected to attend. Tarantino weaves in a subplot to the story, as well, which surrounds a young girl, Shosanna, bent on revenge; her family was murdered by the Nazis, and she coincidentally ends up running the movie house. The two plots collide in what I can only imagine is a spectacular, bloody spectacle.
These events are spread across 165 pages and five chapters - Chapter One: Once Upon a Time…Nazi Occupied France; Chapter Two: Inglorious Basterds [sic]; Chapter Three: German Night in Paris (to be filmed in "French New Wave Black and White"); Chapter Four: Operation Kino; Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face. Chapters One and Three focus on Shoshanna, whereas two and four the Bastards. Chapter Five brings them all together. Besides Aldo and Shoshanna, we have a glimpse of some of the maniacal characters Tarantino has created: Sgt. Donny Donowitz is known as the "The Bear Jew", and his trademark is smashing Nazis skulls with a baseball bat. The lead antagonist (besides the ever-present Hitler) is Col. Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter". One can only imagine the scale and evil of this bad-ass.
If you're interested in reading more, I would suggest you head over to Latino Review or Vulture. El Mayimbe has posted a speech from the script straight from the mouth of Lt. Aldo Raine aka Aldo the Apache and it's pretty incredible to read. It feels pointless to say, but this project sounds completely off the charts. Tarantino, in fact, said previously that Bastards will probably contain his best dialogue to date! And as El Mayimbe describes it, "If you took the bad guy swagger of Reservoir Dogs, the uber coolness and structure of Pulp Fiction, throw in the revenge angle of Kill Bill, set it in World War II – you get Inglorious Basterds." Is there anyone not excited for this?
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Reader Feedback - 14 Comments »
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Hell yes I'm excited. This is going to be epic!
Cedric on Jul 10, 2008
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sounds alright… but i kept on thinking about an over the top version fo edward zwick's defiance starring daniel craig. Bunch of jews killing nazis.
heath on Jul 10, 2008
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Tarantino Murders. Anyone hear about this? Fucking retarded media. Anyway, this movie will be really really entertaining. I'm glad to see he won't let the Grindhouse defunk get him down, which by the way was awesome. If anything, I think he's going to go apeshit with this film. Bring on the old school movie entertainment, baby.
wm on Jul 10, 2008
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Apparently its BastErds (with an E instead on the normal A). Wonder why Tarantino went with that spelling?
Cannot wait for it though, and only one year till its ready too!
Marcus on Jul 10, 2008
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After the self-indulgent inanity of Deathproof and Zoe Bell I doubt I'll ever look forward to QT again. There's always a lot of fanboy hype surrounding QT but let's be honest, he peaked with True Romance and Pulp Fiction and has been getting a free pass since (even Kill Bill doesn't measure up to his earlier work). QT's a bit like the poet in Singles, amusing at first but ultimately vacuous.
RandyG on Jul 10, 2008
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Absolutely cannot wait to see how this turns out.
Nick O. on Jul 11, 2008
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Sounds killer hopefully Tarantino can pull this baby off cause it would be amazing if he did.
Curits on Jul 11, 2008
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Just read the first act of the script with the jew hunter and soshanna, the script seems legit and seems as mentionned everywhere to be kicking some ass big time. Gonna read it today to find out.
chandleyr on Jul 14, 2008
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I'm just a messenger so do'nt shoot me but if you want to stay fresh don't look here
http://digg.com/movies/Inglorious_bastards_leaked_scripts
the word on the street was indeed true, it's one hell of a kickass movie like you haven't seen in a long time. Just passing the link nothing more, feel free not to click ^^
chandleyr on Jul 14, 2008
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The script absolutely rocks. What a brutal and ingenius story.
HANZOSWORD on Jul 17, 2008
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the weinsteins gave money for that. film will be a provocation for every german. film will raise antisemitism. and the weinsteins get what they want. same old story as always…
joe on Nov 25, 2008
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this movie is Jewish Zionist propaganda, just to justify the torture and suffering that the Zionist are inflicting on millions of people around the world. The Zionist are the Nazis and I'm not kidding, they founded Hitler and his socialist party, look it up. Please don't buy anymore of this type of propaganda of hate that these people are feeding you with.
mo on Feb 21, 2009
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mo - you're a GD anti-semite. enjoy life you fucking retard.
hey there on May 3, 2009