INGLORIOUS BASTARDS is "Quentin's Masterpiece"
On July 2nd, just over a week ago director Quentin Tarantino finally completed his final draft of his epic World War II movie Inglorious Bastards and shipped it out via PDF file to four movie studio's... Universal, Sony, Warner Bros. and Paramount hoping to attract their attention for financing. Of course it didn't take long for the draft to leak onto the web, some assistant obviously couldn't resist the urge of sending it to his/her favourite sites. Sadly we weren't one of them, it appears Latino Review and NY Mag were the lucky one's.
Interestingly, note the spelling INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and the almost pre-school style of writing. Weird! The New York Mag say the script is 165 pages long (2 and 3/4 hours long) and is broken down into 5 chapters...Chapter One: Once Upon a Time Nazi Occupied France
Chapter Two: Inglorious Basterds
Chapter Three: German Night in Paris
Chapter Four: Operation Kino
Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face
The script is said to follow a group of American soldiers who are behind enemy lines in 1944 Germany, the height of the Second World War. They are known as the "Bastards" and are led by Lt. Aldo Raine, a "hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee," whose physical scar on the side of his neck is never to be mentioned.
Could this be Brad Pitt's role offered to him this week?
Similar to other Tarantino works, there's a parallel storyline that runs through the narrative. This time it's a French Jewish teenager who survives the massacre of her family and flees off to Paris where she runs a movie house during Nazi occupation.
Here's more from the site...The first chapter, set in 1941, introduces Shosanna and the film's antagonist, a Nazi officer named Landa who's known as the "Jew Hunter." The second chapter introduces the Bastards and their tactics: They kill Nazis on sight, take their scalps, and when they let one go carve a swastika into his forehead. The third chapter, set in 1944, reintroduces Shosanna in Paris ("This whole Chapter will be filmed in French New Wave Black and White"). The fourth sets up the Bastards' attack on the theater. And it all comes together in Chapter Five, which plays fast and loose with history, to say the least.They say it's Kill Bill meets The Dirty Dozen meets Cinema Paradiso combining his "love of old movies (war movies, Westerns, and even prewar German cinema), his attraction to powerful female protagonists, his love of chatter, and his willingness to embrace the extreme visually and in his storytelling".Our friends at Latino Review, also got their hands on it and described it thusly...
Hands down, the script was the most enjoyable read of the year for me so far. Again, a masterpiece. Killer dialogue, excellent execution, and master craftsmanship by Tarantino.Holy crap, this sounds legit. And the cast so far shaping up that it could be Brad Pitt, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bo Svensson with shooting beginning in October! Good times ahead. More on this as it develops, which should be quickly from here on in.