Inglourious Basterds + Quentin Tarantino Research

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth and Diane Kruger. The film tells the fictional story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi Germany political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor (Laurent), and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt).

The film was successful at the box office, grossing $320,351,773 in theaters worldwide, making it Tarantino's highest-grossing film to date. It has received multiple awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations. For his role as Hans Landa, Christoph Waltz won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Soundtrack

The opening theme is taken from the folk ballad "The Green Leaves of Summer", which was composed by Dimitri Tiomkin and Paul Francis Webster for the opening of the 1960 film The Alamo.The soundtrack uses a variety of music genres, including spaghetti western, R&B and David Bowie's theme from the 1982 film Cat People. This is the first of Tarantino's soundtracks that does not include dialogue excerpts from the film. The soundtrack was released on August 18, 2009.

Track Listing includes:

1. "The Green Leaves of Summer" - Nick Perito (Originally in The Alamo)
2. "The Verdict (La Condanna)" - Ennio Morricone (mislabled "Dopo la condanna")
3. "White Lightning (Main Title)" - Charles Bernstein (Originally in White Lightning)
4. "Slaughter" - Billy Preston (Originally in Slaughter)
5. "The Surrender (La resa)" - Ennio Morricone
6. "One Silver Dollar (Un Dollaro Bucato)" - Gianni Ferrio
7. "Davon geht die Welt nicht unter" - Zarah Leander
8. "The Man with the Big Sombrero" - Samantha Shelton & Michael Andrew
9. "Ich wollt, ich wär ein Huhn" - Lilian Harvey & Willy Fritsch
10. "Main Theme from Dark of the Sun" - Jacques Loussier
11. "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" - David Bowie (Originally in Cat People)
12. "Tiger Tank" - Lalo Schifrin (Originally in Kelly's Heroes)
13. "Un Amico" - Ennio Morricone
14. "Rabbia e Tarantella" - Ennio Morricone

Although Tarantino used music that had been used in other action movies such as Cat People, The Alamo, White Lightening and Slaughter etc. they work well with the movie because of the similar genre they withhold, action.

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Quentin Taratino

Tarantino has had an outstanding impact on the film and media industry, whether it be from acting, writing, producing or directing.

He has acted in 27 Titles.Wrote 18 Titles, Produced 20 Titles and Directed 15 Titles.

Although the numbers may only be in the lower half of the double figures, Tarantino likes to put 150% of his body and mind into a production, whether it take two years or ten years.

Tarantino is best known for films such as;

• Pulp Fiction
• Inglourious Basterds
• Reservoir Dogs
• Kill Bill 1 & 2
• Sin City
• Grindhouse/Death Proof (least favourite of his career, according to people i have asked who have seen it)
• True Romance (writer)
• Natural Born Killers (writer)
• Hostel 1 & 2 (producer)
• And many more. Quentin Taratino Filmography

The Clip Above is a compilation of Tarantino's Movies. (note this was made in 2007)

Even though the clip above may seem irrelevant, it goes to show perhaps why Tarantino makes and produces such movies with action and violence, as the clip above shows Tarantino having a short fuse.

Tarantino's Foot Fetish.

It has came to the media audiences mind that Tarantino has a foot fetish, this has devloped throughout his movies. Quentin Tarantino always try's to add the element of feet into his movies, and sometimes pays off.







Tarantino Sum-up



He Like's Action & Feet.