The film Inglourious Basterds was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture. Although, it did not win (The Hurt Locker did) it was still an amazing movie. The film form of the movie makes it all the better. The lighting, sound, camera movement, acting, etc. all add up to the films overall form. Director Quentin Tarantino created a film that was a revision of history and he adds a bit of fantasy to show the audience his vision. He does not create events that occurred, he creates events the audience wished would have happened. Throughout the majority of the film two different Jewish groups, the Inglourious Basterds, a special Jewish/ American government unit that is sent to murder the German Nazis, and Shosanna Dreyfus, a Jewish …show more content…
The two end up finally come together in the cinema scene where a large number of Nazi’s come to Shoshanna’s theater to watch a film. This cinema scene is the climax of Inglourious Basterds. This scene is where each of the plans plotted by the Inglorious Basterds and Shosanna are set in motion and begin to align. Their paths will cross for a pivotal evening. Both of the groups ultimate goal of bringing the Nazi party down is about to occur. The camera movement in Inglourious Basterds is one of my favorite forms of the film. The camera movement Tarantino uses is specifically one of my favorite concepts of the film. He tends to use crane shots which are shots taken by a camera on a crane. The use of a crane gives Tarantino the ability to see and follow the characters from above. We are able to view the actors from above or we can move up and away from them, a common thing that Tarantino did throughout the film. It wasn’t always just a view above characters but of the setting as well. Sometimes Tarantino had the camera movement go between rooms or floors in a continuous shot that revealed the top of the walls or the bottom of the floor. This emphasized the film being all-seeing. We were able to see