FOREX WORLD TREND

After more than five years, writer-director Quentin Tarantino returns to full-length features today with the World War II adventure drama "Inglourious Basterds." The deliberately misspelled title refers to a team of Jewish soldiers — led by a Kentucky fried colonel (Brad Pitt) with a rope burn around his neck — on a "Nazi hunting" mission in 1944 France. Their paths cross with a young movie theater owner (Melanie Laurent) who has her own plans to bring down the Third Reich and, especially, a vicious Nazi colonel (Christoph Waltz).
Like "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997) and the two "Kill Bill" films (2003, 2004), "Basterds" is marked by Tarantino's own brand of tension: specifically, set pieces in which characters sit and talk for long stretches as the threat of violence looms. But the real-world setting allows the 46-year-old filmmaker to fill his movie with juicy ideas while playing with the facts of World War II — a combo that could put the fast-talking, pop-culture-riffing Tarantino in the cross hairs once again.
Some people think you simply make movies about other movies, not about real life. Does "Basterds" make that charge obsolete?
I would say it does, yeah. I've always had that criticism thrown at me, and when I did "Kill Bill" it just sort of gave it validity. Even though that movie took place in a heightened "movie-movie" universe — I mean, the martial arts revenge movie is definitely not taken from real life! But people who've labeled me with that got more and more entrenched.
Yet where I'm coming from in "Basterds" is, basically, there is a section in the third act where history goes one way and my movie goes another. My characters change the course of the war. That didn't happen, of course, because my characters didn't exist. But if they had existed, everything that happens is quite plausible.
When "Kill Bill" was released, you said every kid over 12 should have an adult bring them to it . . .
. . . And since then I haven't met a kid over 8 who hasn't seen "Kill Bill"!
What if those kids see "Basterds," and they aren't history buffs like you are, and come out thinking that's how it happened?
For two seconds they'll think that, until they bring it up to their parents, and then that'll start a conversation, and maybe even a creative thought in the kid's mind, like, "Wait a minute — if that didn't happen, why did Quentin say it did?" And maybe that even starts a conversation with himself about storytelling.

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