"Shameless Bastard": Who is shameless, who is the bastard?

Roderick 2022-03-21 09:01:05

SDMS score: 94 points

. Staying at home alone on Christmas Eve. After half an hour of hesitation between "Mary and Marx" and "Inglourious Basterds", I chose the latter. It's been more than 2 o'clock after watching "Shameless Bastard" and found that it is really hard to fall asleep without writing something.
Quentin Tarantino used to give me the feeling that he was a very evil director. He fumbled out of the video rental store. If there is no end, tuberculosis and incisively disabling scenes are his two great skills in fooling the world. . After "Pulp Fiction", I watched "Kill Bill" and then "Death Proof", I think this is the case for this director, pinching his adrenal glands to shoot something, ran into the lunatic asylum for some inspiration for script creation.
So, I really thought "Shameless Bastards" would be a venting movie about how a group of gangsters abused the Nazis. Especially when Steger cut his scalp and Downey smashed the head of a Nazi chief with a baseball bat, I said in my heart that it really started to wreak havoc. However, after two and a half hours, I had to admit that Quentin had put down his butcher knife and became a master instantly. This film is completely attracting the audience with a very strong performance tension, this kind of momentum permeated the smile of each actor from the first scene of the opening.
"Inglourious Basterds" has always used Brad Pitt as the protagonist during the promotion. In fact, in this movie, Peter has nothing but a few words of English with a strong Tennessee accent. Too many highlights. And the villain force that swaggered through the city actually didn't play a role. The baseball bat Downey and the Nazi killer Steiger all came out like a catwalk and stopped cooking. All the heavy ink is on the meticulous and perverted Nazis.
Christopher Watts, who plays Hans Landau, is definitely a genius. His relaxed rhythm of chanting vividly portrays the image of a cautious, old and cunning Jewish hunter. Before most of the time, I always thought that Quentin’s dialogue was a deliberate joke for the pursuit of style. Talking about a paragraph and reading a paragraph of the Bible, just like many people write articles and like to learn from Qian Zhongshu. It's like dropping a book bag, learning indiscriminately, and looking like a dog. In "Shameless Bastard", Quentin’s TB skills are already well-developed. He uses Hans Landau and Gestapo to continuously illustrate a problem-the highest state of TB is to let TB in the atmosphere creation. Yu intangible.
The most brilliant individual performances in the whole movie, in my opinion, once was Hans Landau's joke about why people hate mice at the dairy farmer’s house, and Hans Landau said that you have to wait for cream to eat crispy. Once it was the Gestapo guessing King Kong...Of course there are many other wonderful opponents, like Goebbels was moved to cry after being appreciated by Ximo, etc. I can hardly repeat them one by one, and it is even harder to use my shallow words to restore those actors. It's a great show. In fact, it is not difficult to find out after careful consideration that there is a routine behind these wonderful sections: that is, the two sides of the dialogue try to cover up, and the other is to catch the wind. It is precisely because the words cannot be clearly stated that Quentin's roundabout dialogue is particularly right, and the basic suspense of passing or revealing is enough to hang the audience's hearts to their throats.
Quentin's grasp of blood has always been more reassuring. This time it was really a master cook, and the saltiness was moderate. The group shooting in the bar, the intense sparks, the blooming flesh and blood, plus a few knife lights, made people extremely ecstasy; then to Susanna and Germany. When the heroes shoot each other, the muzzle on the beauty's chest is as wonderful as a butterfly spreading its wings; and in the end, Downey shoots Hitler into a hornet's nest, which also makes people relive the Quentinian metamorphosis at the end of the movie.
If there is any shortcoming of "Shameless Bastard", it is that the story itself lacks coherence in one go, but Quentin himself has divided it into five paragraphs like a chapter-style novel. This approach effectively conceals the rigidity and rigidity in the connection between paragraphs. And if every scene is picked up for appreciation, then I don’t think there is anything wrong with the most critical audience.
At the end, when Peter once again engraved the Nazi symbol on the enemy's forehead, the comrades around Peter appreciated his sword skills, and Peter himself bluntly said, "This is my masterpiece." This line of dialogue is last, obviously Quentin Tarantino can't wait for the praise of the outside world, and first proclaimed himself "a masterpiece" intoxicated. Seeing this, I finally understand: the treacherous Nazis, the brutality of the villain forces, the cold blood that the double agents even the disarmed child and his father would shoot to complete their respective missions are all serious and justified. Yes, and whoever is really shameless, who is asshole, is actually Quentin himself.

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Extended Reading
  • Marcellus 2021-10-20 18:58:07

    When the French don’t care about love, the Americans don’t talk about human rights, the Germans don’t talk about principles, the British are confused, and the Jews are killing them, Hitler died.

  • Cleve 2021-10-20 18:58:05

    The comparison between the Americans and the Germans is so fun, the balance between comedy and drama, Quentin is still the same Quentin, it is so cool to see! Christopher Waltz played so well~

Inglourious Basterds quotes

  • Col. Hans Landa: Mir scheint, da fehlt jemand. Jemand fäschionäbles.

  • Col. Hans Landa: [to Aldo] So you're "Aldo the Apache".

    Lt. Aldo Raine: So you're "the Jew Hunter".

    Col. Hans Landa: A detective. A damn good dectective. Finding people is my specialty so naturally I work for the Nazis finding people, and yes some of them were Jews. But "Jew Hunter"?

    Col. Hans Landa: [reacts in disgust] It's just a name that stuck.

    Pfc. Smithson Utivich: Well, you do have to admit, it is catchy.

    Col. Hans Landa: Do you control the nicknames your enemies bestow on you? "Aldo the Apache" and "the Little Man"?

    Pfc. Smithson Utivich: [confused] What do you mean "the Little Man"?

    Col. Hans Landa: Germans' nickname for you.

    Pfc. Smithson Utivich: The Germans' nickname for me is "the Little Man"?

    Col. Hans Landa: And as if to make my point, I'm a little surprised how tall you were in real life. I mean, you're a little fellow, but not circus-midget little, as your reputation would suggest.