Inglorious Basterds is, how do you say: the awesomest! I finally saw it a few weeks ago and whoa! I would add the strudel scene to your list of the incredible film-within-a-film gems. I, too, was surprised by the relative lack of violence, until the orgy at the end (and the bat) made me say, well, I guess the kid won't be watching this, after all.
The cool thing was that it didn't make the violence and the revenge seem like anything but destructive to the people indulging in it. Unlike the propaganda film at the center, nobody gets out alive. Well, okay one or two people do, but you know what I mean.
The whole hilarious Pitt performance was just a thing of beauty and too over-the-top to be offensive, I'd hope. If so, it's definitely a comment on Ugly Americans, not just Southerners. I have this minor kink for seemingly ignorant (certainly undereducated) American men being all ingenious and wily and clear-sighted. It's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Bugs Bunny and all sorts of things I like to think of as us. I'll never get used to the muscle-bound, storm-trooper type of US military. We're supposed to be scrappy, dammit!
*climbs down off the soapbox*
I got all excited about a Buffyverse version of the six word memoir last year, but it never went anywhere. Maybe three sentences will have more juice.
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The cool thing was that it didn't make the violence and the revenge seem like anything but destructive to the people indulging in it. Unlike the propaganda film at the center, nobody gets out alive. Well, okay one or two people do, but you know what I mean.
The whole hilarious Pitt performance was just a thing of beauty and too over-the-top to be offensive, I'd hope. If so, it's definitely a comment on Ugly Americans, not just Southerners. I have this minor kink for seemingly ignorant (certainly undereducated) American men being all ingenious and wily and clear-sighted. It's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Bugs Bunny and all sorts of things I like to think of as us. I'll never get used to the muscle-bound, storm-trooper type of US military. We're supposed to be scrappy, dammit!
*climbs down off the soapbox*
I got all excited about a Buffyverse version of the six word memoir last year, but it never went anywhere. Maybe three sentences will have more juice.