'Where Eagles Dare on a "Kill-Bill" Mission' ;)
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Couple of friends recommended this while exchanging views on recently watched movies. The Tarantino + Pitt combination appealed me a lot and hence I ordered the same on Bigflix. My lucky charm is still on with the Bigflix, as I have been getting the movies set in the queue ;). Well it's a signature Tarantino film, so do I need to say more?;). Well. Even if I've seen only a few movies of Tarantino, but what I like a lot is unique storey telling, crispy dialogues and fast paced action (with a lot of violence :(). I am sure remakes / dubbings of his movies would become super-duper hits in the South Indian languages because of the style and action (Rajnikanth / Kamala Hassan - anyone?).
Another thrilling aspect is Tarantino has coated the movie with a 'period' (I guess first period movie from him). It's drawn on the canvas of WWII. Even if it's a fiction, it invariably comes with unpleasantly true characteristics and events of the Nazi era. Like all Brit-American movies on this subject, they have literally beaten Hitler and Nazis to the death;). But at the same time many characters in the movie show an abundant and genetically induced intelligence of the 'Master (Aryan) Race'. It also is a remake of 1978 Italian film by the same name, if translated in English.
It's about the army? of handful notorious American soldiers lead by Lieutenant Aldo (Brad Pitt), who are awfully obsessed about the Nazis and Hitler. They are on just one mission - To destroy the Nazis (as Hitler was for Jews). On the Nazi side there is a detective - Colonel Hans (Christopher Waltz) who is equally infamous for his acts against the Jews. It's a feast to watch the intellect of the detectives and how they used to work with minimal / no gizmos! during the last World War around 6 decades back. The scenes depicting how these characters - the detectives of 40's used to perform their tasks is an interesting thing to watch almost across the length of the movie. One of the gun fights triggers at a local pub near Paris after an American soldier (b**tard) orders '3 glasses' of whisky. Well I (and I'm sure no one else watching the movie for umpteen times would ever get to know the reason) couldn’t understand the reason for the gun-fight, which Tarantino simplifies in the immediate sequence (for sake of the understanding of poor viewers) - The way the secret is revealed highlighting the analytical and sharp minds of the detectives in that era is simply remarkable. It has all the 'Masala' of 'violent' scenes and 'abusive' dialogues.
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The music at many occasions doesn't commensurate with that of a Period movie. Especially when Shosanna was getting ready before the big massacre in her own cinema hall. Her make-up at that time is also not in-line with '40s. One Trivia I got to read, an interesting one- The opening sequence has a wide frame panning through the country-side and fields. According to the observation, the fields are farmed using mechanical equipments which is absolute no-no in the Nazi ruled France of that time :-).
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Brad Pitt - His accent and mannerisms as Lt. Aldo are stealing, unbeatable. And even if his accent sounds a little odd for the period movie, he is awesome. But, but, but, the real brilliance comes across through Colonel Hans's character played by Chrisoph Waltz. This Austrian (most likely a stage actor) has rocked and moved the screen without doing any flamboyant stuff like 'Aldo'. In fact he has underplayed 'Hans' very commendably, and undoubtedly went on to win the OSCARs for the 'Best Supporting Actor' in 2010. Is that a signal to Tarantino for not having too much flamboyance in the movies - Or is it because amongst all the flamboyant stuff, the very composed 'Hans' gets superimposed on top of everything else?
Net-net it's a must watch and can get into merit of a personal DVD collection, however if you can manage to censor/mute/mask all the abusive words in the movie :-).
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