...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...
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...How the Present Sees The Past: An Inglorious Portrayals of World War II Research Background More than seventy years since it ended, World War II is still viewed as a great historical event. This statement is supported by the high number of the movies made based on the war. Since the beginning of 21st Century alone there are over 200 WWII-themed movies had been released all over the world. Some of the monumental movies in this century are: Saving Private Ryan, The Monuments Men, Stalingrad, Fury, and Inglorious Basterds. Not only that, even this year another WWII-themed movie starring Brad Pitt entitled ‘The Walk’ will also be released. It’s intriguing to know why such ‘war’ genre is still popular and have high demand even after decades since...
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...portrays war as a simple concept-everyone against everyone. However, when looked at more closely, and when reaching a deeper understanding of the actual individuals involved, war is a very complex word that can have very different meanings to different people. This idea is clearly visible through the characters introduced in the two war movies, No Man’s Land and Inglorious Basterds. Both movies take a deeper look into the complex emotions that war can inflict on the individuals involved. Both pieces explore how the extremely trying times of war affect the characters’ actions and rationalize what initially may seem like irrational ideas. No Man’s Land presents a situation where two enemies are face to face, both given opportunities to kill the other, but both choosing not too. The audience watches as the two men slowly learn that they may not be so different, and experiences the reasoning behind why each man found it difficult to kill the other. These two soldiers were given a rare opportunity to be one on one with the enemy and by human nature develop a sense of compassion towards each other. In Inglorious Basterds, Shosanna is also given a rare opportunity; to achieve revenge on the Nazis’ responsible for the violent death of her family. This character, like the soldiers in No Man’s Land, was also driven by human nature that led to her actions. However, human nature steers her in the opposite direction of compassion, and she feels pure hatred for the Nazi party. The...
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...Insight of a Spaghetti Western through the eyes of a girl Ultimately, Inglourious Basterds gives audiences around the country tremendous insight on the satire of a spaghetti western. The satire of a spaghetti western features American leads and foreign supporting cast. “The genre traditionally is a western fare, but the Spanish settings are very distinctive” (Hughes, 2004). The distinctive traditional settings in Inglourious Basterds include: decaying old houses, desecrated bodies, and a lawless land. Also, “magnificent scenery, action sequences, and stirring music that leads to extreme graphic violence” (Hughes, 2004).This sequence of events is intertwined within this film, and keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Further, “the good, the bad, and the ugly” (Interview, 2009), meaning consequently, in the film there are both good and bad characters, but the seemingly good characters are not so perfect. Inglourious Basterds sets a perfect precedence for the satire of a spaghetti western. Nevertheless, Tarantino puts his own unique spin on a spaghetti western through the film Inglorious Basterds. The film is starring Brad Pitt as a commanding officer of a bush whacking, gorilla, Nazi-scalping squad of Jewish American soldiers, known as “The Basterds”. Furthermore, The Basterds invade Nazi-occupied France during World War II, scalping and killing any Nazi’s that the squad comes across. Meanwhile, a young Jewish girl escapes with her life as she watched her family get gunned...
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...Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino’s films usually have several different stories going on at once. Each story has its own main charters, and in the end all of the stories come together to create a fantastic film experience. Inglourious Basterds is no exception to that style. The film has three main stories going on, and each story has its own focal characters. In one story you have Lt. Aldo Raine, in another story you have Shosanna Dreyfus, and in the final story you have Col. Hans Landa. With his excellent use of characterization Tarantino finds a way to portray each of his stories in a way that draws the audience in, and holds on to their attention throughout the film. One of Tarantino’s uses of characterization comes in the character of Lt. Aldo Raine who is played by Brad Pitt. Pitt’s spin on this character makes him one of most memorable of the film. Pitt’s poor version of a good ole boy southern accent makes for some very entertaining scenes. Lt. Aldo Raine is introduced to the audience towards the beginning of the film when he is giving a speech to his soldiers. This speech has one of the films most memorable lines, “Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y'all will git me one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazis. Or you will die tryin'.” This speech really does an outstanding job of setting the tone for Pitt’s character and what the audience is to expect of him for the rest...
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...Tingher- Jerusalem is a documentary by Moroccan-French filmmaker Kamal Hachkar. The documentary takes you on a journey, which starts in France and then between Morocco and Israel. Through this film, Hachkar goes in a search of a community that has disappeared, and along the faces fundamental queations of his own identity in the process. He learns about his ancestors and his native land of Tinghir, Morocco, and finally his research finds the history of a Jewish Berber group that once lived amongst the Muslim Berber people, including his own family. The documentary searches for the answer to the question “why did the Jews disappear from Morocco?” The documentary established that majority of the Jewish groups left Tinghir, Morocco during the...
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...audience's emotions is often a difficult task but Lee and Tarantino achieve it in their own unique ways. Suspense, defined by the Oxford dictionary, is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. Quentin Tarantino's manipulation of suspense and tension in a scene is unmatched in today's world. Like the former "Master of Suspense" himself, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino leads the audience to a the point of near exhaustion, through the pent up pressure in his trademark lengthy scenes. These scenes serve to focus every ounce of mental and emotional energy on the situation, instead of cutting away to an inter-related subplot elsewhere and releasing the pressure, as is conventional. In the film "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), Tarantino leaves the audience gasping for breath right from the opening scene. The scene, in which a German "Jew Hunter" is questioning a farmer about the Jews hiding on his farm, is built up over nearly twenty minutes of pure dialogue between the two, as the German manipulates the farmer into telling him where the fugitives are. As the scene progresses, it grows increasingly obvious that the German is playing a horrible game with the farmer and the audience. As the farmer is slowly reduced to tears, the music escalates, the...
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...For an English class project we watched the movie Sweet Land. In this movie there are many characters that show lots of depth. Inge, a main character, shows many characteristics in her life such as being determined, being alone, and being discriminated against. The movie shows quite clearly that although Inge is in a foreign place, she still wants to jump in and get things done. Upon meeting Olaf, Inge is shy and obedient, she lets Olaf speak for her and doesn’t speak to him much. However, as the movie progresses, you see her strive to understand, and not necessarily fit in, but be able to help out and contribute to the work Olaf does on the farm. She woke up every morning with Olaf and followed him around, trying to learn what things...
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...Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Visual Analysis of World War II in Multiple Mediums Abstract During this Visual story telling class we learned ways to visually analyze different mediums. We learned about John Berger who introduced people seeing things in a new way. This is paralleled with the way the Holocaust has been portrayed in different mediums. He also introduced the idea of “seeing” depends on a person’s habit and their environment. I will be comparing elements in the mediums of Reflections and Echoes, Maus, Life is Beautiful, and Inglorious Bastards as well as the methods in the perceptions of the author and the lenses through which they see, and then go into detail about the readers perceptions. Introduction The medium through which an artist chooses to express their message or ideas has an effect on the way it is perceived by the viewer. Imagery has deeper meaning that artists tend to hide their message through the use of several representations. The type of image that an author decides to use has an ultimate effect on the perception of the audience. Members of the audience decode varied meanings from an image in the text. The World War II is among issues that have been represented in texts and movies through the use of imagery. It is upon the audience to have extra skills so that they decipher the intended meaning of the author. In this analysis, the focus will be on how different texts and films have portrayed World War II. However,...
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...Final Paper The topic I chose for this paper is The Blockbuster Mentality. In this case study, a list of the top 25 highest grossing films (in the U.S.) is given. It is noted that these films all have certain aspects in common. Most of them target younger audiences, are animated or include some type of special effects, and most are action films. Not only that, but the majority of these films also had a massive marketing campaign with fast food restaurants, action figures, and all sorts of other products. The question here is; why do all/most of the movies in this list contain the same attributes? Is it because these are the most popular types of films or because Hollywood continues to develop these types of movies? Finally, there are the foreign and independent film genres. As you can probably tell, foreign films are not produced in the United States and are instead produced in other countries. Independent films are not as self-explanatory. These movies are made by incredibly small studios with small budgets and often do not get recognized. All of these different aspects will be visited throughout this paper. First off, it is clear that many of these films share similar aspects and it could possibly be the leading reason as to why these movies are successful. Out of the top 25 list, the only movies that did not include animation or an extensive amount of special effects were Titanic and Passion of the Christ (I am not positive about the latter because I have never seen it...
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...Imagine being treated like property and not a person. Imagine being bought and sold, forced to work, unable to marry, taken away from your loved ones, held against your will, beat or raped. Can you imagine? Starting in the early 1500s slavery took place in southern states. During the slavery period, African Americans were forced to do all of the above and more; no African American wanted to be a slave. “I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery.” Slavery has always been a topic people believe as brutal, cruel, inhumane and horrible so when I went and seen the movie supposedly based on slavery; “Django Unchained” written by Quentin Tarantino, released on December 25, 2012, I was disappointed. The movie Django Unchained mocked slavery and tried to make a serious matter funny. Slavery was nothing closed to a joke, if any slave was asked to describe slavery, the last thing it would be described as is a joke. The movie takes place two years before the Civil War. Actor, Jamie Foxx played the main character, Django, in the movie. Django becomes a bounty hunter in the movie after he is recused by a German dentist/bounty hunter man named Schultz at the beginning of the movie. Django agrees to take the job offered as a bounty hunter because he can think of no better job than to kill white men for money. In the movie he says, “Kill white folks and they pay you...
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...Dorner vs. LAPD (If you have trouble accessing site, the document is viewable at the end of the manifesto) From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648 To: America Subj: Last resort Regarding CF# 07-004281 I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last couple of days. You are saying to yourself that this is completely out of character of the man you knew who always wore a smile wherever he was seen. I know I will be villified by the LAPD and the media. Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name. The department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days. It has gotten worse. The consent decree should never have been lifted. The only thing that has evolved from the consent decree is those officers involved in the Rampart scandal and Rodney King incidents have since promoted to supervisor, commanders, and command staff, and executive positions. The question is, what would you do to clear your name? Name; A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to. Name Synonyms; reputation, title, appellation, denomination, repute. A name is more than just a noun, verb, or adjective. It’s your life, your legacy, your journey, sacrifices, and everything you’ve...
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