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Eli Roth is calling for an Inglourious Basterds prequel – because he’s already shot a scene with Cloris Leachman that he hopes will be included. The actor/director reveals Quentin Tarantino left a lot on the cutting room floor after wrapping the first film – and Roth feels sure it’s good enough to be included in another movie.
He says, “We have three scenes that we shot in Boston that take place before the war, and Quentin says if he does the prequel, he’s going to use them. They’re not going to be DVD extras. There’s a great scene with me and Cloris Leachman. I go and get her to sign the (his trademark) bat. It’s me and the little old Jewish ladies of the neighbourhood.”
And Roth isn’t the only ‘basterd’ keen to make another movie.
He tells Eonline.com, “Everybody would drop whatever they’re doing to go back to work with Quentin. All the time, (co-star) Brad (Pitt) says, ‘Prequel, prequel!’ All the ‘basterds’ would jump on it in a second.”
I’ve added movie trailer screen captures from the 2009 film, “Inglourious Basterds”. The captures are in high definition and look fantastic! Head over the photo gallery to check them out.
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- Home > Film Productions > Inglourious Basterds > Trailer #01
- Home > Film Productions > Inglourious Basterds > Trailer #02
Phil on Film has compiled a top 10 list of the “Wost Films of the Decade”. Undeservingly, Eli’s film, “Hostel: Part II” (2007), made the list.
3. “Hostel: Part II” (Eli Roth, 2007)
One of the most depressing developments in the past decade has been the rise of the ‘torture porn’ film, a particular brand of extreme cinema that has become big business purely despite having little to offer beyond scenes of dismemberment and death. A key figure in this genre is Eli Roth, whose Hostel films feature young American holidaymakers in Europe being kidnapped and tortured by rich businessmen who have paid for the privilege. This sequel follows the formula of the first film, but Roth flips the gender, so this time we get to see attractive young women getting it in the neck rather than men. In the film’s signature sequence, a naked Heather Matarazzo is hung from her ankles and then sliced apart by a scythe-wielding woman, who lies underneath her and bathes in her blood. All this scene does is push the envelope slightly in terms of the depiction of onscreen violence, but is that really a worthwhile endeavour? Roth doesn’t appear to put any more thought into his film than that, and he displays no interest in or sympathy for his characters; they are there only to kill or be killed.
On a side note: Personally, I disagree with this. I think “Hostel: Part II” was a very well-done film with a unique story plot that intrigued movie goers, particularly, horror fans (like myself).
I would like to extend a big congratulations to the cast and crew of “Inglourious Basterds” on their incredible eight (8) Online Film Critics Awards nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Inglourious Basterds (2009)Best Director
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds (2009)Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009)Best Actress
Mélanie Laurent for Inglourious Basterds (2009)Best Supporting Actress
Diane Kruger for Inglourious Basterds (2009)Best Screenplay
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Quentin TarantinoBest Cinematography
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Robert RichardsonBest Editing
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Sally Menke
Winners to be announced on January 6th, 2010.
The Star’s Peter Howell listed hit pick for “best movies of 2009.” Again, not shockingly, Inglourious Basterds made the list:
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino):
Grammatically challenged, factually unhinged and too long for its own good, this World War II thriller nevertheless soars. Pure wish-fulfilment fantasy, in which Hitler and his stooges stand to get what’s coming to them, in a way that makes cinema itself seem like the grand liberator.
Long Island Press has compiled their list of the “Best Celebrity quotes of 2009.” Eli made the list under the “Bizarre” category, find out what he said below:
“So when I was beating the guy, I started thinking, ‘What if I was Hannah Montana?’ And little do they know that that’s why I look so insane. I’m torturing myself with thoughts of, ‘How could I actually pull off being a high school student and a pop star at night?’”
—Inglourious Basterds star Eli Roth, revealing the inspiration for his character.
The Huffington Post has released their Top 10 Films of 2009 list. Not so surprisingly, Quentin Tarantino’s film, “Inglourious Basterds” made the list!
10. “Inglourious Basterds”
Though critics either praise or denigrate Quentin Tarantino’s obsessive, swirling-with-references motion picture amour as the core to his pictures — their very pulsating, battered and bloody heart — it’s not that simple. Truly. Even as he amped up the references fifty fold by Kill Bill, a stunning mélange of spaghetti western, giallo, Kung Fu and more, something had shifted by the naughts for the controversial auteur, something deeper, something more personal. Death Proof aside, nearly gone were the Royale With Cheese speeches, or the Buddy Holly waiters, and in came a kind of filmmaking that sat on the precipice of mad hatter, movie love insanity, making the director even more culturally significant, artistic, and surprisingly, powerfully mysterious. Inglourious Basterds is the crowning achievement for QT’s newer phase, a World War II picture that’s a gorgeous, hilarious, uber- violent, brilliantly acted (Christoph Waltz is a revelation), genre-blending gut puncher, that, indeed, scalps a whole lot of “Gnatzies” (as Brad Pitt’s hillbilly Aldo Raine memorably intones), but also shunts the viewer into the German film industry under Goebbels and the struggles of an escaped French Jewish woman (Mélanie Laurent) who survives by, naturally, running an independent movie theater.Basterds may have angered those who found QT’s fantastical revisionism offensive, but really, he was being honest. You want pulpy Nazi hunting set to the music from “White Lightning?” You got it. You want to feel the complexity of how we process that violence? You got that as well. Historical, personal, empathetic, vigilant, erotic (yes, erotic, never for one second does QT think we’re not gonna get our rocks off here), Basterds is an aesthetic and thematic wonder. Filmmaking that doesn’t just break the rules by daring to be old fashioned and modern all at once, but filmmaking from another dimension. A work of visceral, violent, voluptuous beauty, QT roared and he rampaged, and we left the theater like Beatrix Kiddo: with “bloody satisfaction.”
Along with playing the vengeful Sgt. Donny Donowitz in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, Eli Roth spent a little time behind the camera filming the short Stolz der Nation (“Nation’s Pride”). For the uninitiated, I’ll try to explain without being spoileriffic. Basically, the screening of the film plays an important part in the latter half of the story. It’s a piece of German war propaganda cooked up by Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth), which stars Pvt. Fredrick Zoller (Daniel Brühl) as himself — a fighter who becomes a war hero after he basically sits in a high tower for a few days and picks off hundreds of enemy soldiers in Italy.
As the Blu-ray explains, Roth went out and shot a stunning number of shots in a very short period of time, and it all came together in this sniper-filled short. It’s mostly a lot of black and white carnage of Zoller picking guys off one by one, and growling at a particularly “cowardly” soldier with a baby, but there is also a brief cameo at roughly three and a half minutes in between Quentin Tarantino himself (shot only from the back of the head, and his second cameo after an earlier scalping) and Bo Svenson, the actor who starred in Enzo G. Castellari’s The Inglorious Bastards back in 1978.
I’ve added screen captures from the 2007 film, “Hostel: Part II”. Eli was not featured in the film itself, but the DVD included a lot of behind the scenes featurettes which Eli was apart of. Head over the photo gallery to check them out.
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I’ve added screen captures from the 2007 Quentin Tarantino film, “Death Proof”. Eli played the character Dov alongside Quentin, Omar Doom and Jordan Ladd. Head over the photo gallery to check them out.
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