I enjoy how he vaguely resembles every other actor ever to come out of the UK (Hugh Dancy, Ewan McGregor, DDL, the list goes on) and yet manages to put a new spin on it. 'It' being The Incredible and Mindblowing Hotness of the British People.
UM, CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS? I just saw it this morning and I already am dying to see it again. I have been reading this long article about it to make myself feel smart. I feel smart just by reading a paragraph and understanding what it means.
inglourious basterds = epic.
ReplyDeletei want to watch it again SO BAD. i love HUGO STIGLITZ
Inglourious Basterds was AWESOME. At the end of the show I was clapping along with half the audience!
ReplyDeleteHaha yes Stiglitz was damn funny - the part where he imagined whipping the officer and then writing King Kong on his card!
I also liked Shoshanna/Emmanuelle alot! She was the picture of perfection.
That blog post you linked in your post is really deep. It makes me feel like a rather shallow movie-goer, though I did manage pick out certain parts... Ah well.
I agree that that opening chapter was just brilliant. Diabolically brilliant. Every detail from Han's silly big pipe to that spine-tingling scene where he lets Shoshanna escape - the blood on her face and his voice ringing through the theatre.
Oh and i thought Eli Roth's character was more funny than awkward though? I was laughing at him most of the time. Whether he was meant to be funny or not I don't know!
Another thing that really kept me laughing was the abundance of TENSE and AWKWARD conversation, which made everything seem all the more bizarre. I loved it.
So far, this and Moon are probably the best movies I've seen this year.
Inglourious Basterds had all the right ingredients and the cast was well-balanced. Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa was chillingly good he stole EVERY scene he was in ("THAT'S A BINGO?") and the humour that the American cast brought with them helped even out the cripsness of the mostly European cast.
ReplyDeleteI think Tarantino's eye for detail was what made the film especially different. The oversized pipe, the type of shoes worn by the characters, the way they smoked their cigarettes, the way they spoke. Amazing amazing stuff. Inglourious Basterds HAS to win some oscar gold- and Christoph Waltz had better be nominated for an oscar if Tom Cruise can get nominated for Best Actor for his role as a vulgarity-shooting producer role in Tropic Thunder last year in the SAG awards.
I loved Shoshanna. I think Melanie Laurent has like... a really good face. And a really good actress's face. The part in Chapter 3 (?) after she's like interrogated by Landa, and there's that split second of her about to cry? Awesome.
ReplyDeleteI also liked the part in Chapter 2 with that German guy who was about to be bashed by Bear Jew, with the like super slo-mo. Suddenly you really felt for that dude, right? Esp when later BJ's like DID YOU GET THAT MEDAL FOR KILLING JEWS?? No, BRAVERY. Aw.
Also liked all the scenes near the end in the projector room.
Yes I adore that first scene. During that whole scene I was like WHOA. Totally enthralled.
UM, I really loved this movie a whole lot, duh. Those are just random moments I can think of right now (it's like 1 am here in CA).
i really really liked that scene where Landa left her after eating the apple tart (tasty looking tart) and she just hyperventilated and broke down. pure artistry.
ReplyDeletelove how Tarantino blurs the line between "good" and "bad" guys. there are no true bad guys, and no true good guys. all the characters do morally wrong things, yet they do them with motivation that Tarantino lets us understand on a very human level. i was especially freaked out when i found myself being led on by Landa's comparison of Jews to rats.
i really loved this movie a whole lot too. you can ask shu i just wouldn't stop whispering "this is awesome/this is epic/this is amazing/this is hardcore" (yes, the limits of my vocabulary) at loads of moments in the film.