WW2- Tarantino STYLE

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2011)

The first thing I did after watching Inglorious Basterds was laugh out loud!!!Not for the entertainment,but for the intelligence infused in the entertainment.This in fact became the second best movie I watched after PULP FICTION.There was this time when movies ,which had "world war 2" as their theme,were hard hitting or really serious as in "Schindler's List","Saving Private Ryan" or the "The Pianist".No doubt these movies were masterpieces to say the least,but none of them had the story of how the rebellious Jews took or could have taken their revenge on the Nazis.Maybe that's why I liked the movie even more.And all these films had a sorrowful tone of those times.But this was the first movie which was a fresh fiction with a sardonic tone of those times.The sardonic tone was implied to the Nazis,not the Jews!This is first movie in which the Jews ill treated the Nazis in the most entertaining way!!Never will you find a sad or a morose scene ,but only a lot of violence in this movie.But then again which of the movies I have listed does not have violence?In fact you can digest this movie compared to the other.
The whole movie is set in the Nazi occupied France.The story is how a group of Nazi hating Americans called "The Basterds" plot to kill Hitler with the help of a French actress(Diane Kruger).The group is headed by Col.Aldo Raine played by Brad Pitt in a surprisingly brilliant performance.As much as I know he is known more for his looks than acting. But this movie proves that he has both the qualities.The movie is directed by Quentin Tarantino with the usual Tarantino taste of direction-chapter wise adaptation of the story,lengthy but brilliant dialogues,unpredictable but gripping screenplay and sudden violence!.The action in this movie is not over-the-top as in Kill bill series.Frankly speaking,this the most straight forward and a simple movie scripted by Tarantino unlike his previous non linear films -"pulp fiction" and "reservoir dogs".
Brad Pitt wonderfully fits in to the role of a ruff N tuff Jewish American with his Accent whose only aim in life is KILLIN Nazis.But the most brilliant performance is by the Austrian German actor Christof Waltz as col.Hans Landa ,chief security officer of Hitler.His acting as a paradoxical character showing a steadfast attitude with a masked cruelty,simply bowls you over(He won the Oscar too!!Thank god my prediction of this award did not go wrong at least this one time.)!The others have done a commendable job
So to summarize -please watch this movie ,not to learn something new about world war and Hitler as it is a fiction set at that time, but for the unusual take of those times and the perfect blend of hilariousness and violence