Inglourious Basterds Research

Biography. 

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and occasional actor. In the early 1990s he began his career as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). His films have earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA and a Palme d'Or and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy awards.

Filmography. 
1987 My Best Friend's Birthday 
1992 Reservoir Dogs 
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Four Rooms 
1997 Jackie Brown 
2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 
2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 
2005 Sin City 
2007 Death Proof 
2009 Inglourious Basterds 
2012 Django Unchained

Reviews of Inglourious Basterds. 

'Tarantino swaps fact for pulp fiction; Quentin Tarantino has made a glorious, silly, blood-spattered return' - BBC

'QT is rediscovering his form: Basterds is a tense, punchy and darkly funny film.' - FHM

'The endless twists and turns coupled with Tarantino's trademark black comedy help take the edge off the violence a little' - Sun Online

If the accomplishment of this 'first scene were upheld throughout then we might have a masterpiece on our hands. Alas, it is uneven as well as unpredictable.'-Anthony Quinn, Independent


Music used in the film.

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




Description of Blaxploitation. 

Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States circa 1971 when many exploitation films were made specifically (and perhaps exclusively) for an audience of urban black people; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation". Blaxploitation films were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music. These films starred primarily black actors. Variety magazine credited Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, released in 1971, with the invention of the blaxploitation genre. below are some examples of blaxploitation films:




Description of Spaghetti Western and Western. 


Spaghetti Western 

also known as Italo-western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by Italians, usually in co-production with a Spanish partner and in some cases a German partner. The partners would insist some of their stars be cast in the film. The typical team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian and Spanish actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films. The films were typically shot in inexpensive locales resembling the American Southwest, primarily the Andalusia region of Spain, Almería, Sardinia, and Abruzzo. Because of the desert setting and the readily available low-cost southern Spanish or southern Italian extras, typical themes in spaghetti westerns include the Mexican Revolution, Mexican bandits, and the border region shared by Mexico and the United States. below is an example of a typical spaghetti western film:



Western
The Western is a genre of art that may be found in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 but most are set between the end of the American Civil War (1865) and the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. There are also a number of films about Western-type characters in contemporary settings, such as Junior Bonner set in the 1970s and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in the 21st century. below is an example of the western genre of films:


Ennio Morricone. 

A classmate of director Sergio Leone with whom he would form one of the great director/composer partnerships (right up there with Eisenstein & Prokofiev, Hitchcock & Herrmann, Fellini & Rota), Ennio Morricone studied at Rome's Santa Cecilia Conservatory, where he specialized in trumpet. His first film scores were relatively undistinguished, but he was hired by Leone for A Fistful of Dollars (1964) on the strength of some of his song arrangements. His score for that film, with its sparse arrangements, unorthodox instrumentation (bells, electric guitars, harmonicas, the distinctive twang of the jew's harp) and memorable tunes, revolutionized the way music would be used in Westerns, and it is hard to think of a post-Morricone Western score that doesn't in some way reflect his influence. Although his name will always be synonymous with the spaghetti Western, Morricone has also contributed to a huge range of other film genres: comedies, dramas, thrillers, horror films, romances, art movies, exploitation movies -making him one of the film world's most versatile artists.

A Simple World War 2 Timeline

Tarentino being a very skilled filmmaker uses many postmodern features within his film to connect with the audience, whilst highlighting the fact that they are watching is only a film.

Film within a film- Nation’s Pride, the film the Germans are watching at the cinema, is a film Tarantino made as an Intertextual reference to be quite obviously post modern. However, within this film, there are also elements of intertextuality such as the ‘baby in the battle’ scene from Battleship Potemkin and the man being shot in the eye.

Text On Screen- In important scenes, to highlight parts of the movie and emphasizing the fact that the audience is watching a movie, it mirrors that of the propaganda movie which uses text on screen, where there are the leaders of the country such as Hitler. Tarentino uses of text and arrows on the screen pointing at certain people, which on one hand highlights again the sense that this is just a film not reality, and that the audience can establish a connection with the people in the cinema, as they know more about them.

Costume: Within Inglorious Basterds, the characters' costumes are always in pristine condition, which conveys a sense of unrealism, for example Brad Pitt's character Lt. Aldo Raine, has had a bag over his head, been thrown to the floor, and got in many fights within the film, however, in the end of the film, after enduring all of this ‘floor time’ his white tuxedo looks as if he’s just got t back from the drycleaners! And also, his hair stays perfect throughout the whole movie.

Hitler's Death- in the real world war, it is well known that Hitler had a pact suicide with his girlfriend Eva and therefore both died. Whereas in Inglorious Basterds, we see the American kill squad the basterds succeed in killing him in the cinema, drawing the audiences attention to how this film cannot be seen as reality, as the Americans who directed this in a way wanted to do what the propaganda film ‘Nations Pride’ did to the Nazis, this film had a clear message of ‘we are Americans, we won the war on our own’ showing their superiority.