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American Jews Go On Nazi-Killing, Skull Smashing, Terror Spreading, Swastika-On-Forehead Carving Massacre

In a few weeks, Quentin Tarantino will begin shooting his long-awaited World War 2 revenge fantasy, ‘Inglorious Bastards’, starring Brad Pitt, Simon Pegg and Adam Sandler.

What’s it about? The short version is this : In 1941, a gang of American Jewish hillbillies are dropped into Nazi-occupied France on a simple, secret mission - kill as many Jew-hating Nazis as they can, and collect their scalps as mementos. The Jewish soldiers are vengeful, giggling terrorists, who mutilate the wounded and the dead, beating people to death with baseball bats and carving swastikas on foreheads.

For the ‘Basterds‘, this a suicide mission, with little connection to historical fact.

If you want to see Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds‘ (to use Tarantino’s spelling from the hand-written title of what is purported to be the last draft of the script) in mid-2009 knowing nothing more than the above, then stop reading right now. In fact, don’t visit this site in the next few weeks, because we’ll be coming back to look at more from the massive July, 2008 Tarantino script.

This is going to be a brutally violent, and extremely wordy movie. Nothing new there for Tarantino. QT addicts love his lengthy dialogue-rich scenes, and blood-splattering savagery.

But ‘Inglourious Basterds‘ is easily going to be the most controversial Tarantino movie, so far, and not solely because of the violence this time.

Basically, ‘Inglourious Basterds‘ is a very modern fantasy about how American Jews helped kill Adolph Hitler and thereby won World War 2, all before Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in December, 1941.

This is how Brad Pitt’s character, Lt. Aldo Raine, lays out the Nazi-killing mission for his new recruits (all typos from the script are Tarantino’s) :

LT ALDO
I’m putting together a special team. And I need me eight soldiers. Eight-Jewish-American-soldiers. Now y’all might of heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we’ll be leaving a little earlier. We’re gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we’re in enemy territory, as a bushwackin, guerilla army, we’re gonna be doin one thing, and one thing only, Killin Nazi’s.
The members of the National Socialist Party, have conquered Europe through murder, torture, intimidation, and terror. And that’s exactly what we’re gonna do to them. Now I don’t know bout y’all? But I sure as hell, didn’t come down from the goddamn Smoky mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my through half of Sicily, and then jump out of a fuckin air-o-plane, to teach the Nazi’s lessons in humanity. There the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin manic, and they need to be destroyed.
That’s why any and every son-of-a-bitch we find wearin a Nazi uniform, there gonna die.
We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty, they will know who we are. They will find the evidence of our cruelty, in the disembodied, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the Germans will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives.

Lt. Aldo then lays out the challenge.

LT. ALDO
…I got a word of warning to all would-be warriors. When you join my command, you take on debit. A debit you owe me, personally. Every man under my command, owes me, one hundred nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And y’all will git me, one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazi’s…..or you will die trying.

This won’t be a subtle movie. Adolph Hitler (Joe Pesci? We wish!), channeled through Tarantino, is the living embodiment of every cliched mad-ranting Hitler of 1940s American cinema. Historians will gag in horror when they see ‘Inglorious Bastards’, but then Tarantino’s not doing this to cement the historical record on a foundation of facts. This is his World War 2 revenge fantasy and, presumably, it’s supposed to be fun, funny and mostly fact-free.

Here’s some Tarantino dialogue for one of the table-pounding Hitler scenes from the July, 2008 screenplay :

HITLER
How much more of these Jew swine must I endure? They butcher my men like they were fish bait! This pack of filthy degenerates, are doing what the Russian army didn’t, and Patton’s army couldn’t. Turning soldiers of The Third Reich, into superstitious old women!

Hitler pounds furiously on the desk with his fist.

HITLER
No, no, no, no, no! I have heard the rumors myself! Soldiers of the Third Reich, who have brought the world to there knee’s, now pecking and clucking like chickens. Do you know the latest rumor they’ve conjured up, in their fear induced delirium? The one that beats my boys with a bat. The one they call “The Bear Jew”….is a Golem. A avenging Jew angel, conjured up by a vengeful rabbi, to smite the Aryans!

Some more of Tarantino’s Hitler.

HITLER
You want to prove their flesh and blood? Then BRING THEM TO ME! I will hang them naked, by their heels, from the eiffel tower! And then throw their bodies in the sewers, for the rats of Paris to feast!

I’m not convinced that this really is the ‘Final Draft’ of the script as Tarantino claims on its front page. A timed reading shows the movie, based on this script, will run more than four hours, most of it action-free dialogue, with one of the dumbest finales seen in any major movie in recent years. If the ending is filmed as the July 2008 script reads, cinemas will be pulsing with laughter. But the ending is not supposed to be funny.

And he wants to debut this at Cannes next June?

It’s hard to imagine actors of Brad Pitt’s calibre will do Tarantino’s dialogue exactly as it reads in this ‘Final Draft’ screenplay. A script doctor has probably been brought in for a bit of a polish, which may be why the rest of the cast (Adam Sandler, Simon Pegg) have not yet been 100% confirmed.

More Next Week….

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