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The trick that bothers the critical mind is that there are no hidden meanings in Tarantino’s films; no invisible undercurrents running below the surface. Tarantino’s special brand of film homage has always prided itself on letting it all hang out: what you see is what you get. Any symbol or artistic flourish or ongoing theme are simply a man trying to share his love of film style with his audience, like the kid who always calls you over to screen his favourite DVDs. Freud once said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and finding the courage to admit that is sometimes half the critical battle.
Tarantino's Love of Film
On top of it all Tarantino is a master of film language and character development, of story structure and of allowing his actors to go just over-the-top enough for them to see the other side of caricature. The result is glorious entertainments that are always unique, funny, exciting violent, you name it; but never boring.
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A Review of Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds - Film
Inglourious Basterds Review
The Basterds
One of Tarantino’s strengths has always been in the way he uses dialogue in order to convey images and emotions that pictures would not. Take the scene in question, which is prefigured by one of a survivor telling Hitler of ho
What it boils down to is that Tarantino loves making films and makes the kind that he probably would have loved to have watched at the now legendary Video Archives in Manhattan Beach where his home film schooling took place. Approaching Tarantino is often times that simple, nothing more and nothing less.
His films are exercises in film style, telling stories that know they exist in the filmic universe and are therefore liberated from any sort of forms or conventions, allowing him to go as far as rewriting history as he does in Inglourious Basterds [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and get away with it.
Now, the story: The Basterds are a group of American Jews who are dropped into occupied France during WWII in order to kill and scalp as many Nazis as they can. They are headed by Lt. Aldo Raine who, as played by Brad Pitt, is a fast talking, hard chomping, southern fried son of a gun who only has one amusement: killing the enemy.
But now, two days later, Inglourious Basterds has emerged as a great film. As is the case with most great works of art, especially transgressive ones, it needed to be caught up with. The heart of the matter is that Quentin Tarantino is a man who is so desperately, maybe sometimes foolishly, in love with the cinema that there is a certain intoxicating joy that seeps out around the cracks of every frame. Watching his films, one can almost sense Tarantino just off screen somewhere, grinning like a child as his visions and idiosyncrasies are brought to life: taking references from other films and making them into truly original works of art.
His team also consists of a bevy of men [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including two German Nazi killers and the Jew Bear (Eli Roth) who bashes Nazi heads in with a baseball bat, seen in a scene that will go down as classic Tarantino.
Problem With the Cirtical Mind
It would be easy to just let one's guard down and assume that Inglourious Basterds is a great film because it was born from the mind of a great filmmaker. However [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], This critic left Inglorious Bastards a tad befuddled: It was clear there was something there, but just what in the heck was it?
That’s the problem with the critical mind: when it is stimulated the natural response is to fill in the blanks with philosophy or psychology; siphon meaning from the images and attach symbolic significance to whatever crosses its path.
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