INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS REVIEW

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 25, 2009, 08:51 AM | #

Who created the mental retard Quentin Tarantino?

I don’t watch Jewish anti-Euro-race propaganda in any form.

In the other thread they’re talking about how he who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind.  Who’s sowing the wind right now?  I’ll leave that to everyone’s imagination.

Posted by Englander on August 25, 2009, 09:42 AM | #

I had hoped this crap wouldn’t make it as far as MR (he has posted it elsewhere), but here it is, making the front page look bad.

Posted by Texam on August 25, 2009, 09:48 AM | #

An actually worthwhile review from TOQ Online:

http://www.toqonline.com/2009/08/inglourious-basterds/ 

The most prominent of the Basterds is played by Eli Roth, just another degenerate Jewish director of repulsive horror films. Roth plays the “Bear Jew,” who beats Germans to death with a baseball bat. He is the funniest thing in the entire movie, with his pouting, prissy mouth, drag queen makeup, and shiny brilliantined coiffure. Roth’s large, hairy body (anybody can take steroids) looks menacing until one hears his high, hysteria-edged voice. There was laughter in the audience every time this castrated gorilla opened his mouth on screen.

Too shallow to realize that he was playing a monstrous buffoon, Roth really got into the role, praising Inglourious Basterds as “kosher porn” (is there any other kind?). He really gets off on fantasies of killing Nazis: “It’s almost a deep sexual satisfaction of wanting to beat Nazis to death, an orgasmic feeling. My character gets to beat Nazis to death. That’s something I could watch all day. My parents are very strong about Holocaust education.” They sound like lovely people, and I am sure they are really proud of what a successful boy Eli turned out to be.

Other Jews were equally smitten: Tarantino’s producer, Lawrence Bender,  told Tarantino, “As your producing partner, I thank you, and as a member of the Jewish tribe, I thank you, motherfucker, because this movie is a fucking Jewish wet dream.” Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the film’s executive producers, also reportedly enjoyed the film’s theme of Jewish revenge.

Posted by Texan on August 25, 2009, 09:49 AM | #

Spelled my name wrong. Sweet.

Posted by Texan on August 25, 2009, 09:56 AM | #

Roth is really big on hating Germans:

When the extreme horror auteur Eli Roth visited Germany to promote his 2005 hit, “Hostel,” journalists asked how he dared make such a sexually sadistic movie. Roth, now a still-boyish 37-year-old, had already cemented his reputation as one of the most successful directors to push the so-called “torture porn” genre to grisly new heights; “Hostel” pushed it even further with its tale of smug American college students who become the playthings of wealthy sadists abroad. The filmmaker was used to criticism for his over-the-top depictions of impalings, decapitations and blow-torching, but Roth — who has numerous relatives who died in the Holocaust — became enraged when German journalists asked him to justify those grisly scenes. “I said, ‘This movie is nothing but [cinematic] magic tricks, but your grandparents turned my ancestors into furniture. Into lamp shades.’ I went on and on; I couldn’t stop myself. I couldn’t believe they took that kind of self-righteous position.”

Roth’s psychiatrist father defends his son’s torture porn:

Eli exemplifies what Plato often said — that the good dream of what the bad do. Basically the imagination handles all uncomfortable impulses and thoughts. In his everyday life, Eli is extremely well behaved…. In his creative work, you see the other side of his imagination.

LOL!

Posted by Frank on August 25, 2009, 10:17 AM | #

Have the Aryans devolved their Heidegger being into Nubians?

Posted by jamesUK on August 25, 2009, 11:35 AM | #

@Fred Scrooby

So I take it you wo’t be playing the game online.

“... everyone is encouraged to nurture their inner soldier by playing Inglourious Basterds: The Game. Pick up your bat and fight like Sargent Donny Donowitz, aka: “The Bear Jew” played by actor, director and writer Eli Roth.”

http://www.hotindienews.com/2009/08/19/107126

Naomi Pfefferman - Jewish Journal

August 18, 2009

... About two years ago, while writing “Inglourious Basterds,” Tarantino asked [Eli] Roth whether Jews believe in the concept of absolution. “The idea of mercy or forgiveness, not in the religious sense, but in a human sense — that’s where my humanity tends to go,” Tarantino said. “When whites held blacks in slavery, they both were in bondage, and both needed to be freed from the system, so that’s where I was coming from in a way.” But, he said, Roth told him “Absolution is a Catholic concept. F—- that. There is no sorry, no forgiveness possible.”

... A good friend of Tarantino, Roth (see story on Page 12) is best known as the director of the ultra-violent torture-porn films “Hostel” and “Cabin Fever.”

... [Roth] invited Tarantino to a seder, to show him how Jews view their historical persecutors. So, in 2007, Tarantino sat at Roth’s Passover table and listened to a discussion of how the Exodus relates to the Holocaust and other world events ...

http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2009/08/hollywood-ultraviolence-and-sexual.html

Posted by jamesUK on August 25, 2009, 11:40 AM | #

@Fred Scrooby

Yet you probably didn’t mind the 30 or so films and TV programs that depicted Serbs as evil genocidal Nazis while Albanian and Bosnian Jihadist terrorists as innocent victims.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 25, 2009, 12:40 PM | #

”@Fred Scrooby Yet you probably didn’t mind the 30 or so films and TV programs that depicted Serbs as evil genocidal Nazis while Albanian and Bosnian Jihadist terrorists as innocent victims.”  (—JamesUK)

JamesUK, my problem with you, and the reason I see you as of almost zero interest with respect to the job that lies before us, is you discount race.  You are one of these people who are not able to see race, apparently.  And no, the key to understanding and defeating race-replacement is not geopolitics.  You can attempt to communicate with the commenters on this board till the cows come home, you’re not going to get through the fundamental barrier consisting of their ability, and your inability, to see race.  Don’t try to play geopolitics with me, please.  Were the race issue solved and my attention turned to pure geopolitics I’d run rings around your abilities in that domain, I don’t mind telling you.

Posted by ha on August 25, 2009, 12:51 PM | #

and not this central european mixed look

Like Hoffmeister himself.

Posted by Balducci on August 25, 2009, 01:50 PM | #

It is a movie produced by the chosen , folks. Do not go to the cinema and do not watch it. Hollywood filth, produced by the chosenite filth; appealing to fithy and scabrous minds. We have to be living in an insane world to allow such rottedeness to invade our living space. The garbage movie has apparently been gist to Constantine’s mills , sprouting forth his poetic license ,which would make a Goethe look amateurish.

Posted by Loriver on August 25, 2009, 02:27 PM | #

Not related to the review:

Are there any MR readers who copied and saved articles from JWH’s Western Biopolitics blog, before it closed?

It would be helpful to me and possibly others if his work could be made available (on a file-sharing service) - anyone please?

Posted by Fr. John on August 25, 2009, 02:29 PM | #

Yes, but is it (like Constantine’s inconstant prose) ‘art’?

Posted by James Bowery on August 25, 2009, 04:05 PM | #

Balducci, I haven’t seen it and didn’t particularly plan on seeing it but I suspect it is what I like to call an “over-extended phenotype” of Jews.  This is the kind of self-indulgence that really can backfire with a “vengence”.

Posted by Robert Reis on August 25, 2009, 05:33 PM | #

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v73P2ntLWP0&NR=1

Saga - “Krigarens själ” (The Warrior’s Soul) Learn about the real heroes at Omaha Beach on D-Day

Posted by Templar on August 25, 2009, 09:51 PM | #

An actually worthwhile review from TOQ Online:

Drat, I was hoping to post that this morning but I had to run off to work…

But yes, that is a very interesting review. I’ll be curious to see what, if any, sort of effect the actual performances in the film, combined with the rather disturbingly fulsome praise from Jewish critics and other media insiders, will have.

“… everyone is encouraged to nurture their inner soldier by playing Inglourious Basterds: The Game. Pick up your bat and fight like Sargent Donny Donowitz, aka: “The Bear Jew” played by actor, director and writer Eli Roth.”

I’m not much into video games these days, but recently, I’ve started to make a point of playing only Wehrmacht whenever I happen to be on Call of Duty multiplayer. 

Posted by jamesUK on August 25, 2009, 10:08 PM | #

@Fred Scrooby

What are you talking about I don’t discount race on the contrary I put it in a geo-political perspective as events in Europe effect us eventually just like WW1 and WW2.

You don’t seem to mind replacing traditional Christian culture and replacing it with Islamic mosques through organised terror.

And I don’t consider Albanians white or white orientated or Bosnian Islamic regime that doesn’t mind mixing Arabs with ethnic Bosnians.

It already has an effect on Europe as the Madrid bombing was organised and the explosives used were from Bosnia as well as every other alleged terrorist attack and organisation which operates in Europe has there routes in Bosnia in the early 90’s.

Not to mention the Balkans has become a black hole for every sort of organised crime activity in Europe.

The problem I have with you is you seem to only limit the discussion to immigration patterns into European countries and we should not discuss it further outside this box.

I think I am more aware of the post USSR geo-political framework than you are.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 25, 2009, 11:02 PM | #

You’re a zero, JamesUK.  A complete zero.  Someone has already told you this is the wrong blog for you.  Your speed is the TeleTubbies blog.  Why not go over there and check it out, and clear out of here.

Posted by onetwothree on August 26, 2009, 01:04 AM | #

Obviously don’t pay for anything from Hollywood

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/127408857/

subtitles: http://www.subtitlesource.org/download/nfo/26097

...the movie was a stylistic mess.  I like to think I have an artistic sensibility and can even enjoy a pro-Jewish movie on that basis (Schindler’s list for example, was a well-done piece of craft.)  But this…eh.  Oddly, it had an effect like Kubrick’s Spartacus where the enemies (Romans as Nazis) came off as civilized and sophisticated compared to the sniveling heroes.

That was neither director’s intention, but it was the effect nonetheless.

Posted by Frank on August 26, 2009, 11:13 AM | #

And I don’t consider Albanians white or white orientated

Lol, don’t tell that to an Albanian.

Posted by Frank on August 26, 2009, 11:15 AM | #

James from UK,

What is your moral core? Do you wish to merely preserve order within Europe or to serve your people or what?

Where’d CC get to? If he cuts out the jokes and the WWII references, he can answer that question really well.

Posted by Captainchaos on August 26, 2009, 07:51 PM | #

JamesUK,

As a professing Christian you should know a man is not saved by faith alone, good works are also needed.  As a Christian you are duty bound to help in any way you can to bring about the conditions in which faith and good works can be maximized.  Those conditions are that of a racially homogeneous context.  Racial diversity breaks down the bonds of trust and community involvement, encourages atomization and self-absorption.  Quite literally, consistent with what you believe, more people will burn in Hell that would not have but for the MultiCult experiment.  Do you want that on your conscience and furthermore to be judged one day for it?  I would hope not.  Also, I’m willing to be you care more for the personal salvation of your family members than for strangers, and that you think that not immoral or shameful.  Likewise, given that your Scottish people, and all Europeans for that matter, are your extended family, you ought put their salvation, and the conditions for maximizing that, ahead of the salvation of Third Worlders.

Posted by Captainchaos on August 26, 2009, 08:12 PM | #

Matthew 10:16:

See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 26, 2009, 10:58 PM | #

Quentin Tarantino is mentally retarded. 

Look at the guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2ukSJFgCM .

Does this guy look intelligent to you?  Does he look dignified?  Admirable?  Moral?  Talented?  Artistic?  Does he come across as profound?  Or is your first reaction on seeing him to ask, Where did the cat drag that in from? 

The Hollywood Jews have got hold of a retarded frontman whom they’re hyping to the skies because he serves their purposes of eating out society’s support pillars.

U.S. whites in the 1880s didn’t want lots of Jews coming into the country because they didn’t want society’s support pillars eaten out.  Those whites weren’t heeded until 1924 and we see all around us the result of that quarter-century of unchecked Jewish immigration.

Posted by jamesUK on August 27, 2009, 04:56 AM | #

@Fred Scrooby

Why I speak the truth.

I find it highly hypocritical that for the past 2 decades we have actively support terrorist in the Balkans and Russia with Soros/NED/EU funded propaganda outlets and NGO’s and organised crime networks that fund these groups to commit there acts like the Beslan massacre which was organised in Bosnia under the supervision of MI6 UN representative Lord Paddy Ashdown (CNS News found a video in 2005of Jihadists training in a school in Bosnia practicing hostage tactics identical to scenes in Beslan in 2004) and we know from 92 that they started training in Bosnia and that the 9/11 hijackers were recruited to fight in Chechnya with financial ties going back to Bosnia which the Bosnians own court in 2002 revealed that Abdullah Bin Laden was running Chechen terrorist training camps there.
Document found in Iraq of possible planned hostage taking in schools in the US prior to Beslan in Iraq by US forces there so there was an obvious fore knowledge by the US and there is a established connection of networks under Zarqawi the Jordanian/Chechen terrorist like the one redirected from Chechnya to Zarqawi in Iraq to blew up the UN building and financed back top the Finsbury park Mosque in London are involved in sex and drug trafficking, body harvesting, Jihadist snuff films, etc to finance there operations. 

@Captainchaos

I’m not a practicing Christian put I think perhaps that maybe Orthodox Christian nationalism is the way to go.
There doesn’t even see to be an overall consensus of what is white among the various WN groups

Christian roots and culture = white

And Orthodox Christianity is definitely

The whole Eurabia thing is totally overblown with regards to immigration.

There is no serious risk of Europe or any state in Europe becoming a third world country especially here in Scotland.

Is Geert Wilders your hero Captainchaos?

@Frank

What is your moral core? Do you wish to merely preserve order within Europe or to serve your people or what?

Both but people here just seem to remark about immigration into certain European countries

Immigration into Europe is part of this globalist one world government system which also includes the global economic system which cheap labour is dependent upon.
Example of which is in the US were Jacob Schiff who financed the Bolshevik “revolution” in Russia financed the founding of NAACP in the US and Marxist Jews lead the civil rights movement.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 27, 2009, 08:18 AM | #

“Quentin Tarantino is mentally retarded.”

So is JamesUK.

Posted by Templar on August 27, 2009, 09:30 AM | #

Steve Sailer’s review is up at Takimag. Check out Tarantino comparing his relationship with Harvey Weinstein to Goebbels’ relationship with Hitler.

Posted by Frank on August 27, 2009, 10:19 AM | #

Re: jamesUK

You’re right, genetics isn’t the only consideration. But it is more important, as I see it, than you seem to be aware. You and your peers are likely hit with a great deal of propaganda to make you think that way.

The US was transformed within a mere 50 years. It had previously been ~90% white, and the percentage of “white” estimated today is overestimated and aged. America is headed for Balkanisation, and Scotland is headed for America.

Posted by Frank on August 27, 2009, 10:23 AM | #

Though a Scot might not like him, Kipling understood the threat well.

Posted by Frank on August 27, 2009, 10:24 AM | #

D’oh, link was supposed to go to The Stranger.

Posted by jamesUK on August 27, 2009, 10:51 AM | #

@Frank

I don’t discount race on the contrary what I say is that immigration issues and the larger geo-political system work hand in hand and have an effect on society especially economic issues.

If a company can make more profit hiring cheap labour from abroad into the country from Mexico or wherever then he will and will make more money than traditional labour hiring companies so that would be the standard to companies to succeed to compete by cutting labour cost who in turn finance politicians, lobby organisations, etc to change immigration laws into countries to exploit cheap labour.

If we support Muslims around the world over Christian inhabitants they will eventually migrate specific sections of there society because of there high birth rate into neighbouring countries.

Good case actually is how Jewish immigrants immigrating from Czarist Russia fleeng pogroms came into the US and went about trying to change the immigration laws of the US. 

There used to be a good video on Google called Hollywoodism how Pale of Setttlement Marxist Jews emigrated to the US and created the concept of immigrant friendly US.

Posted by Frank on August 27, 2009, 11:24 AM | #

If a state raises trade barriers, then it can protect its industry. China, Japan, America and England (at one time), and Germany are all examples of this.

Sorry for misrepresenting your views.

CC,

I was just now talking with a highly educated and successful Republican who detests “socialist” Obama and loves black GOP head Michael Steele. IQ is not the only concern. It’s just impossible that these highly intelligent morons have a lower IQ than the working class activists who tend to be more racially aware.

The flaw is in part the assumption that man is entirely rational. Man isn’t rational - he blocks rational thought and constructs a box to live in. I’m sure someone’s developed that idea further, but that’s my amateur guess at it…

The more education a person has, the more brainwashed he becomes. Maybe the working class folks have more real world experience while the white collar folks live more isolated. I should search to see how others have developed this - there’s always someone who’s taken any idea I have further.

Posted by Frank on August 27, 2009, 11:46 AM | #

JamesUK,

you might be arguing for folks to see and attempt to influence the powers that be as they currently exist, and presently the Western world is very transient and global. I like that approach if that’s what you’re arguing for.

It’s possible for a state to keep out immigrants and harmful trade if it but exercises the will to do so. And similarly, it’s possible for a state to compete for access to resources and goods and technologies if it wishes to.

I’d like to improve the health and purity of Scotland and other parts of the West so they will be more apt to endure for another thousand years, through many cycles of rise and fall.

-

You sound like someone with a fresh and independent view, so I’ll be sure to look for your comments in the future.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 27, 2009, 12:29 PM | #

“If we support Muslims around the world over Christian inhabitants”  (—JamesUK)

JamesUK is such a fricking mental retard he thinks this site or regular commenters here supported the Moslem Albanians over the Serbs, supported the NATO bombing of Belgrade, and supported the creation of the state of Kosovo.  I call on GW to IP-ban JamesUK for severe mental retardation and extreme obnoxiousness.  We here need no lessons on Moslems, Serbia, Kosovo, or geopolitics from a nitwit the likes of JamesUK.  His speed is something like The

Icetard

The Iceman.  Why don’t you go hang out there, JamesUK, and leave the grownups alone.  His name is The

Icetard

The Iceman.  Go there.

Posted by Matra on August 27, 2009, 01:31 PM | #

There is no serious risk of Europe or any state in Europe becoming a third world country especially here in Scotland.

Every year the UK - which last I checked included Scotland -  is losing hundreds of thousands of indigenous people who are being replaced with similar numbers of immigrants. James, you should take a trip to Bradford to see Scotland’s future. 

What NATO did to Serbia has come up quite a few times at MR.  It was a warning of what can happen to those nations/ethnic groups/races that resist the NWO. The violent break-up of Yugoslavia is an example of what can happen in a multiethnic/racial/religious state: Every ethnic group gangs up on the group perceived to be the biggest, most powerful, and most spread out. In Yugoslavia it was the Serbs. Based on how the media and the rest of the ruling class interpret ethnic and racial conflict in the rest of Europe and America it doesn’t take too much imagination to see who the designated ‘Serbs’ of the future are going to be.

Posted by Frank on August 28, 2009, 08:58 PM | #

Whoa, I’m going to see this movie now.

James Edwards’s review:

I wish Inglourious Basterds were a better movie, since I think that many white people would benefit from seeing it. Yes, the explicit message is that it is good for Jews and their hillbilly dupes to sadistically murder Germans (and any other enemies of the Jews, for that matter). But the largely white audience with which I saw the film did not seem terribly comfortable with this message.

Yes, they found Brad Pitt funny. He really was funny. But the sadism directed at Germans did not amuse. In the last scene of the film, where Aldo the Apache graphically carves a swastika in the forehead of Hans Landa and pronounces it “my masterpiece” — pathetically enough, this is probably Tarantino’s view of the film — there was no laughter.

For the subliminal message was coming through loud and clear: we are all Germans now, and every time we turn our eyes to a movie screen we are seeing the face of Jewish vengeance.

I haven’t seen a movie in a theatre in a long while.

Posted by Frank on August 28, 2009, 09:00 PM | #

Oops, apparently that was James Edwards reposting Trevor Lynch’s review from TOQ.

Posted by jamesUK on August 29, 2009, 01:29 PM | #

@Matra

Exactly so why don’t we talk about this and use it as a reference like Tom Sunic does.

There has been various posts about WW2 which in reality has no bearing to todays situation.

Posted by jamesUK on August 29, 2009, 01:33 PM | #

@Frank

Simply put you can’t advocate self sovereignty natural interest while supporting globalism and one world government. Totally incompatible.

And the British Empire and empirical model is the basis for this.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 29, 2009, 03:40 PM | #

“Simply put you can’t advocate self sovereignty natural interest while supporting globalism and one world government. Totally incompatible.”  (—JamesUK)

JamesUK, who here, among the site’s bloggers or regular commenters, is “supporting globalism and one-world government”?

Posted by Fred Scrooby on August 29, 2009, 03:49 PM | #

This is not the blog for you, JamesUK.  You keep wondering why we don’t talk more about geopolitics because you’ve come here in the belief this is a geopolitics blog — it’s not — or in the expectation you’re going to change it into one — you aren’t.  It happens to be the case that I and most here could run geopolitics rings around you in our sleep but discussion here centers around excessive incompatible immigration with only a smattering of geopolitics and properly so:  when whites are immigrationed out of existence there’ll be no geopolitics worthy of the name or worthwhile paying attention to whatsoever.

Posted by h.kalervo on August 29, 2009, 08:58 PM | #

But the largely white audience with which I saw the film did not seem terribly comfortable with this message.

Could it be that that was Tarantino’s intention? (I don’t mean this as a joke.) Hypothetically, could it be?

Directly related to that, and the most interesting review of the film I’ve read so far:

http://mariotheepicurean.blogspot.com/2009/08/notes-on-inglourious-basterds.html

Posted by jamesUK on August 29, 2009, 11:25 PM | #

@Fred Scrooby

JamesUK, who here, among the site’s bloggers or regular commenters, is “supporting globalism and one-world government”?

Didn’t say they were but western government foreign policy to bring the world under a single monetary/trading block that’s the way we are going.
Best example is the NAFTA super highway and the Amero linking trade and economies of Canada, the US and Mexico removing countries sovereignty and borders.

Posted by Constantin von Hoffmeister on August 30, 2009, 05:24 PM | #

Mark Ames hits the nail on the head!

http://exiledonline.com/tarantinos-homage-to-the-european-race/

Tarantino’s Homage To The European Race

By Mark Ames

So I finally saw Inglourious Basterds the other night. I’ll admit, I was more than ready to avoid Tarantino’s new film, even after reading Eileen’s enticing review. The film sounded wrong on every level–what could possibly be good about another World War 2 movie that capitalizes on the Holocaust and evil Nazis? Like the War Nerd, I hate World War 2, and as for the Holocaust, to paraphrase Mark E Smith, nothing is more boring in my book.

But I was wrong–Inglourious Basterds is everything a great movie should be: fun, wild, surprising, violent, sexy, challenging. Moreover, it’s a brave movie in ways most idiots don’t get. That’s because Inglourious Basterds is, above all, a gorgeous tribute to the European Race when Europeans still had a pulse–and fangs.

Although the film is ostensibly about Jewish revenge against evil Nazis, in reality, you dipshits missed the point: Tarantino loves his whitey, when Europe’s whiteys were still worthy of an artist’s time. And what makes Tarantino’s tribute to and love of his Europeans and Aryans so great is that he loves whitey in a way beyond the idiotic simplicities that your average racist or anti-Semite claims to love whitey. Tarantino’s Nazis and collaborators are fun and lively and interesting not because they’re “superior” or because they’re po’ crackuhs being exploited by evil Jews ‘n blacks, but rather because they’re just fucking interesting. And what makes them so interesting is that World War 2 was the last time Europeans had fangs. It’s the last time they were werewolves–and the last time they weren’t afraid to be as werewolfish as they once were. I’ll be the first to admit–goddamn I miss those werewolves! I don’t get any pleasure in taunting them for being the Eurofags we now know them as. Well, I do enjoy that–but it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t prefer the old werewolves to today’s Eurofags.

I’m amazed no one has recognized this about Inglourious Basterds yet. But we’re too crude today. The rightwing stormfront types fell into the easy trap of denouncing the film without understanding what was really going on, while the usual Nazi-hunting crowd is too smug and simple-minded. The giveaway is obvious: the German characters have all the depth, dimension, comedy, tragedy and complexity; the Jewish characters and the black guy who works at the cinema are as two-dimensional flat as they come. It’s odd, don’t you think, that Brad Pitt, the only whitey-European-Christian in the squad of Jewish Avengers, gets all the creative attention (it’s probably Pitt’s best performance ever). Tarantino simply isn’t interested in his Jewish characters–not because he’s stooped to idiotic racism or anti-Semitism, but because he’s too caught up bringing these now-extinct European whiteys to life again, and all the exciting possibilities that offers him.

Compare that to three of the best Aryan characters: the SS officer Col. Hans Landa has more fun than anyone, fully abusing his power with a giant cat-like smile on his face, as oily and sleazy (and patient) as Komissarov from Dr. Zhivago, but much more fun and self-consciously sadistic than Komissarov; or the German soldier in the basement bar celebrating the birth of his son Max–he’s the most human, most “American” character in the entire film, vulnerable, scared, desperate to stay alive; or the Nazi-killer Hugo Stiglitz, the most bloodthirsty of all the Aryans in the film, yet the Aryan on “our” side. Even the Brit is more 3-dimensional and interesting than the Jewish characters–again, not at the expense of the Jews, but because the Nazi victims have been fleshed out a million times already, while everything cool and interesting about Europeans pre-1945 has been abandoned by the art world. Until now.

This is what makes Inglourious Basterds a very brave film, if anyone sniffs it out. Maybe that’s why he indemnifies himself by having the Jews play the brave heroes, and bringing in Samuel Jackson as the narrator. It lets all of us enjoy the best that whitey had to offer, before that buffoon Hitler came around and ruined Europe forever.

Posted by PF on August 30, 2009, 06:26 PM | #

re: Mark Ames review of Inglorious Basterdz

there are voices behind the voices!

“Please let me take joy in being allowed to rediscover my comic book fantasies in a depiction of European history; I promise that their martial culture is all that I admire about them. Thus, my pleasure in this movie is politically pure - do you see that, dear readers?”

In such a context this clarification of motive is an exculpation. Essentially he is proving to his editor that despite being on the fringe, his mental software is still kosher. Drugs, extreme militarism and personal eccentricity: in the midst of this one occasionally still has to demonstrate one isn’t one of THEM.

Oops, was this about a movie?