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EP: 17 Inglourious Basterds Review · The Podyssey: A Film Podcast

• henry: Hey guys, welcome back to the poddicy. I'm Henry Wilkinson. I'm Andrew Mosler. This is episode 17 and we have an inglorious bastard review for you guys. But first, Andrew, what have you been watching? I actually got a decent amount of movies in two. were just saying that. I got to both of Kill Bill, volume one and two. Those are really good. I really like the first one. Five stars. Five stars for volume one. I always hear people like big Tarantino fans talk about it like how it's just like very Tarantino and it is. That's why I really like it. Turn to interview go back go back to that. It was just a fun also into it's very funny clip Of what? I'm freaking out on the reporter because she's asking about how much violence she's like it's so much violence Yeah, I have seen I have seen that yeah So that's kind of the gist but yeah volume 2 was good, too I thought that was kind of a cool like backstory to it I watched Son of the White Mare, which is a really cool animated film from the 80s. I think it's... you log it? Yeah, I did. I think it's Ukrainian. I don't know, but it was super sick. Like the animation style was really cool. The story, like the plot was really cool. It's just like, I like didn't know what to watch. And I was kind of, I kind of wanted to watch something sad. I don't know. But like, and I read the thing and I was like, this could be good. And then I watched and it was really good. Do you want to take another stab at the nationality of it? What did you say the first time? I said Ukrainian. Not Ukrainian. I'm just basing it off of an Instagram reel I saw. Uzbekistan. No, it is Hungarian. dang it. I thought there was a U in there for some reason. Well, there is. Well, I mean, I it U. What'd you give it? I gave it a four. Nice. Yeah, it was really good. You'd like it, I think. I think I would, too. From what I've seen, it looks really cool. It doesn't have very many logs on Letterboxd, but I feel like I've seen a lot of Yeah, I think it's like I've seen a lot of posts on like social media about yeah, just sound like if you I don't know if you want to watch a Short yeah. Yeah, it's like I'm trying to see how long it is. It's like 80 minutes or something like that isn't loading. Whatever, doesn't matter. So that was really good. I watched Blazing Saddles. sure one last kill. It's like a 50 minute. I just I love the puncher and I hadn't seen that yet. So it was good. It's just like a kind of like a longer episode of the puncher. Watched Prisoners. Really good. Super, super well shot movie. Loved the ending. I was just joking. He texted me and he's like. We won't spoil it, but he's like, what is the ending? Like, it kinda, it doesn't like leave stuff, like it kinda leaves stuff open. Yeah, not really. But not really, but it just. No, it was very good. I really liked it. I thought Jake Gyllenhaal was beast. Really good in it. And Hugh Jackman was really good too. Yeah, that's one of my favorite Hugh Jackman's. Yeah, he's got a lot of good stuff. He just wants to be like a Like a theater guy though like he loved like greatest showman Yeah, like he because he's literally doing like theater stuff now. Yeah. Yeah, like he just loves doing that. Yeah But yeah, I went to the theaters and watched by any means Which is a new? New release Mark Wahlberg It was good nothing crazy It's a solid movie. mean, like, yeah, nothing to write home about. Then I watched Glorious Basterds last night. Nice. And five out of five. Bang. good. Went way up on my. Did I move it on my list? I actually don't know. I think I probably. Yeah, I moved it to two. I moved it above the hateful eight. Nice. But I have a plate of four and a half. I don't know why. should be a five. Really? Yeah. I've never seen that one. What about I think last podcast I said was in the middle of the first Harry Potter. That's right. Finished it. Loved it. Four and a half. I'm surprised at how well it holds up. feel like. Sometimes dated CGI just actually looks better than some stuff that comes up today and I feel like it's I saw a video of It was the Pirates of the Caribbean and it was like how are they doing this in 2000 whatever and someone responded and was like Because they didn't know enough about it at the time to like take shortcuts basically, so they just had to basically pour their entire selves into the craft and then you get stuff that looks really good. I feel like that's the same case for some of earlier Harry Potter films and that's what I was noticing. I was kind of worried of maybe some of that stuff would age and I wouldn't like it as much but I loved it so four and a half. Then I watched The Zone of Interest which was a five star banger. It's very very dark subject matter. It's about the family. of a Nazi commander at Auschwitz and they live right next to the camp and it's kind of similar to a Dunkirk where You never see actually what's going on at the camp. You just kind of hear some stuff in the background. And it's just this family living their life mundanely and kind of normally. And it's just a really frustrating and disturbing film. Like obviously that's its intention. And all the filmmaking and acting is really, really, really, really good. And the closing shot just kind of leaves you feeling like you just got punched in the gut. So yeah, really, really well crafted film, a really, really important film. Yeah, and that was kind of a foreign movie that I've wanting to watch for a while. And yeah, I'm glad I got to it really good. Then I watched Almost Famous Sunday night after I just watched the Packers have a colossal meltdown. And I was hoping that it was going to kind of cleanse what I had just seen. And it was fine. I gave it a three stars, but I like really wanted like a four and a half to five star banger that just kind of made me forget about everything. And it just didn't quite do that. I love like the rock and roll setting and atmosphere. It's about this like young kid who's like 15 who gets signed by Rolling Stone to tour with his band. But there's like a love triangle thing. And they never specify the ages of anyone. But regardless of any way you turn it, one of their relationships is gross. And it'd be fun, like, because that was maybe realistic for the time period. But it just felt like one of the sides that was like, they're just kind of glorifying it. And you're supposed to feel like a connection to both sides. And I'm just like, I don't know what I feel a connection to or don't. So that just didn't quite land for me. man, I just, I wanted it to be so good, after the Packer game. And it was just kind of okay. But, then I watched In the Mood for Love, which is an Asian romance from 2000. And it's like one of the sickest looking movies I've ever seen. There's a ton of slow-mo. There's a ton of smoke in the air that's capturing like a downtown. I think they're in Hong Kong. Yeah, really, really, really cool visual storytelling. The music's great. Yeah, it's kind of a different romance because it's much more restrained and... morally conflicting but it's really good. It was my first Wong Kar Wai and he's a director that I want to get into more so that was fun to check out. Then I watched Anatomy of a Fall. Really liked that. It's kind of a mix of... French and English, so it's kind of foreign. I don't know if it was an international feature or not. It might have been. I should know that, but that was really cool. It's literally just about a trial of this three-person household, a mom, a dad, and a kid. And the dad dies, and the kid is blind. and the kid has to like testify in court and he's like the only witness technically. So it's really really interesting. And it's like two and a half hours and I'm like man how are they gonna string this story on for two and a half hours but it just flies by and it's kind of a good reminder that you can create tension in movies without like super insanely high stakes. Like is this a nice courtroom drama? I watched Kill Bill volume one and volume two. Really really cool. I put on my review for volume one. I like love volume one so much and this is like such a hot take This is a lot of people's like favorite part of the movie But it's my same thing with like a lot of assassin movies and like the John wick franchise I just don't like the one on 50 battles like I just like I just can't buy into that like yeah, so It still a four star because I loved everything about it. Full star off for that? I don't know. I'm just like, man. But the ending scene of Volume 1 is phenomenal and like one of my favorites, especially from Tarantino. But don't know, I might have liked Volume 2 better. I haven't logged it or rated it yet, but. did? I think the reason I like volume two more is just because volume one is very action heavy, which I liked too, but I think volume two is where you get like most of the payoff from the first movie and a lot of it is through like dialogue as opposed to big action scenes. There's obviously still action scenes, but yeah. But really like those two. And then watch La La Land, Dancing with the Stars started this week, so. Wanted to watch Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone dance around for a little bit. It's a great idea. Five stars. So finally to five stars for me. And then we just we just watched a movie. yeah. We just we just went to the theater in the mall in Eau Claire and we watched a short film from an Eau Claire filmmaker. Blossom needs a ride home. I think is what it was called And then good sport yeah good sport which is from a Minnesota filmmaker So it's a cool opportunity to just kind of support local filmmaking We thought there was gonna be a Q &A after there wasn't but it was still it was still fun to go check it out and actually they're both Really fun watches. I thought yeah What do you think yeah? I mean, I didn't look at too much stuff about the first the short film. But I saw like the promo like thing and I was like in Carson Park like and like I could tell where it was. was like, my gosh. yeah, that's pretty sick. Yeah. So that's kind of cool. I didn't recognize. Well, was it the first one shot in Oakley or like Oakley area? I'm guessing the first it was like shot in like near Wisconsin Rapids. But everyone that made the movie is. like local, like Chippewa Valley. But yeah, that was cool. then, yeah, good sport was really funny. Yeah, was hilarious. I knew it was supposed to be a county, I like, I don't know. I didn't know if it was actually going to land, but it was really was really funny. Yeah, I would be interested in the... like the Minneapolis Film Festival like yeah, whatever that is yeah, because they have a good good sport movie that that was entered to the Minneapolis one that happened last year. Yeah, and I think the like the production or like who ended up producing the movie the like magenta or whatever that was the Loon one. I can't remember but they I They have like some tie to Minnesota somehow too nice. I think like the guy who does Runs that is from Minnesota too, so that was kind of cool. but yeah, that was really funny Yeah, it was fun. It was like 70 minutes. It was a short but It was hilarious. It's just about this this guy or he's a dad and you know, recently divorced in the last couple of years and just is having the worst day ever. He's got to coach his son's basketball game and deal with all the parents and the other team's coach is just like hilarious. I don't know how old these kids like middle school or something and his kid's talking about creatine and he's like telling them to give him hell and all this stuff. was hilarious. Yeah. Very, very funny. Yeah. Yeah, cool opportunity to support local movies. I haven't really seen anything like that, so I just saw the Instagram thing for yesterday and was talking to Andrew about it and hopped on it, which was cool. Yeah, sweet. What about movie news? All right, so movie news. got John Leguizamo has been cast as the villain in Joe Kaczynski's next film, Miami Vice. alongside Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler. Mammy Vice is a popular show from the 80s and then it was made into a movie by Michael Mann in 2006 starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. Joe Kaczynski you guys might know from Top Gun Maverick and F1. So good cast. We just saw John Leguizamo in The Odyssey in a supporting role. There's a chance he gets some recognition for that. So Michael B. Jordan, Austin Butler and John Leguizamo. It's a good three-man crew for that movie. I've never seen the Michael Mann one. I really want to watch it. People are very split on it. Yeah. it looks, visually it looks really, really cool. Yeah. And the people really like the show. I've seen a few episodes of the show. But yeah, when I saw that he was the villain, I thought he'd be a great villain. Yeah, I think so too. In any setting. Yeah. I think so too. So exciting news. I really like Joe Kaczynski. Yeah, me too. I don't know how they're going to continue to adapt that story. I don't know if it's going to just be like the same thing that man did or what, but. Yeah, I trust Joe Kaczynski for sure. I mean, he was able to. Do Top Gun Maverick, so. Yeah, Spider-Man Brand New Day. Officially surpassed Star Wars, The Force Awakens as the highest grossing domestic movie of all time. Dang. That is insane. And on that same note, Tom Holland has now become the highest grossing actor of all time worldwide, surpassing Zoe Saldana. Wow. I did not know that. That's crazy. Yeah. So. Biggest domestic movie of all time. Yeah. And you are The Force Awakens' hater, right? No, I love The Force Awakens. I'm thinking Rise of Skywalker. Yeah. Right? Yeah, Rise of Skywalker and The Last Jedi are both garbage. Okay, but Force Awakens is good. Good is perfect. It's good. So yeah, mean, that's awesome. I think that's cool. Yeah, that's crazy. I am sure I saw The Odyssey became Warner Bros. biggest movie ever too. I saw that too. Which is insane. And it also became the first film ever to surpass 500 million on IMAX screens alone. Dang. No surprise. I mean, that was a really big push for the marketing. I feel like now I just keep seeing stuff in trailers, like experience it in IMAX. Even if, obviously, no one has since shot a movie fully on IMAX. But I think people are just trying to capitalize on that opportunity to, one, get people to see it on a bigger screen. But also, I mean, it's just another way to make money for your film. sure. I like kind of on December 18th, I might have to. Just go and just get to an IMAX theater and just sit there and watch Dune and Doomsday. Yeah, I think so too. That'd be sick. I don't know if doomsday is coming out on IMAX. really? Yeah true. they have like their own thing. Yeah the infinity vision. Because. I'm sure that would be at the theater though too. Maybe not. Yeah I don't know exactly how that works. Yeah I don't know either. But basically Dune got I think Dune got like all the IMAX. I don't know. I don't know. But Dune's taking up all the IMAX. Yeah basically. Something like that. They're hogging it. Yeah. Gosh dang it. New trailer for Hunger Games Sunrise on the Reaping in theaters November 20th What are your thoughts on the hungry franchise I Really really really like the first two movies yeah or I think so last ones No, no, like how many does Jennifer Lawrence have? Does she have four? Does she have three? She has four? Because it's the first one, then Catching Fire, then Mockingjay, one and two. I think Catching Fire is the best. I think I was going to say Catching Fire is probably my favorite. So yeah, I really like the two of the original four. And then I actually really liked the one that came out a couple of years ago, Ballad of Songbirds and I never saw that. I saw it in theaters twice, actually. Dang. Yeah, I really liked it. The trailer looks good. Yeah, like I don't know. I just feel like I Don't know it's kind of like worn out to me. Yeah, I'm a little torn on the trailer honestly, but We'll see the guy playing the image doesn't Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah the trailer he looked like bad. Yeah I'm kind of with you on that which is I did it's a point because the last one they had Tom Blythe and Rachel Ziegler, who both were kind of very early on in their acting realm, but they were not as big as they are now. But they were both really good in that movie, and I think that helped that movie a ton. And yeah, I wasn't super convinced on their acting. But the cast is insane, the supporting cast is insane. that's true. Because they got Ray Fiennes as Snow, and he's And a ton of, I mean he's he's Voldemort, he's in Schindler's List. Jesse Plemons. Yeah, Jesse Plemons, Al Fanning. I'm sure it'll be like good, but I just feel like the story is just kinda like, like I get the whole like prequel. Yeah. I'll be there though. Yeah, I'll be there. I mean I'll for sure be there. But to me it's like, I mean, I don't know. There's no way, I guess it makes sense, but I just feel like who Haymitch is in the Hunger Games movies, kinda is gonna clash almost with who he is in this. Because if you get, if you, he wins the games obviously. And somehow finds a way to, I don't know, beat Snow and whatever. How does he? How does he stay in that role for 40 years? I don't know. You would think he would. Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure they just whatever. So we're getting news from our executive producer, Addison Bowman. She says that For the people that have read the book, they say the trailer looks very comic, not comic, very book accurate. And people say that the book's really good. And those people are very excited for the movie. That gives me some hope. Makes me look forward to it. November 20th. Speaking of comic book accuracy, the Batman part two. more Twitter set photos. you see the one of him at the top of the tower? I on the Sydney on the Opera House. Yes. Yeah, that's for. That's not Pattinson. What is that? No, it's for like. Dude, I don't even know. There's like some other bad forget. I that. I don't even know. they've got like the Court of Owls pictures like signs, which is like the coolest Batman villain because it's like. Essentially like the Illuminati who like runs Gotham City. Yeah, and there's like this really sick comic where like he like fights them all and like or like they they kind of like do like eyes wide shut like They like Kind of confront him and they're all wearing the masks and like it's in this sick. There's like a cool comic Snapshot that's been going around. I've been seeing you better not go one on fifty. Yeah, you're gonna be mad I want to go pick up the comic and order it and try to find it because I don't know if it's like confirmed or anything that could just be like a sign. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't want to my hopes up because I for ever I thought I was going to be Mr. Freeze. Yeah, I think a lot of people did. Yeah. So and then I thought I was like, it be killer croc, too. So. The streets are flooded. Yeah, that's I thought originally. And then they started doing the snow pictures and was like, well, the snow is going to be sick. I hope it's just like a bunch of them. different bit like I hope did Penguin better be in it. Penguin's gonna be in it I think. Gosh that show's so good. But yeah so just like a cool there's like a one sign picture in going around but that'd be cool. Sebastian Stan said it's like working on the Godfather part too. yeah. That's a bold thing to say. I might have to just not look at any more stuff. Otherwise, if it's even not that good, I'm going to be mad. The last thing I have on mind that I saw that looked pretty cool was, is it David Cornswett? He Superman? Yeah. yeah. He's playing John Tuggle, Mr. Irrelevant, in the 1983 NFL draft. Despite being the final pick, Tuggle made the Giants roster and played the 1983 season under first year head coach Bill Parcells. That's going to be... Christmas Day is coming up. Interesting to see how, played by Michael Shannon, how Michael Shannon plays Bill Parcells. Because there's no way they can make an accurate description and put that out to people. Yeah, dude was insane so Yeah, that looks pretty cool. I'm just cool sports movie. Yeah instead of a Marty Supreme Christmas Day last year It's a mr. Oven Christmas day. Well, there's another Christmas Day movie yeah a werewolf Mmm. No, I'm not I'm It's probably gonna be really well made film and everything. Yeah, I'm good. I'm out on that. Yeah But why isn't the Johnny Depp? I hate when they do that. Thanksgiving, right? Yeah. Ebenezer? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Speaking of worn out stories. Yeah. Like, bro. They're trying to they're trying to. He needs some money is what's going on. They're trying to like, make it this big Johnny Depp revival, but really he's just trying to get a bag. Just do the pirates. This is, Mr. Irrelevant reminded me, but Madden, like the John Madden biopic or whatever with Christian Vail and Nick Cage, they said it's just going straight to streaming now. what? So I think that movie's not going to be very good. Dang it. They just, there's no way. coming out? I don't know. think November, October, November. I didn't have it down. I saw it a while ago, but. That sucks. Yeah. final list probably the biggest movie news of the week is final trailer for wildwood I've been talking about it a ton. October 23rd. That's my next highest anticipated movie behind Dune. It's close though. I'm really excited. I don't know if I've ever actually said what it's about though. I wrote down the short synopsis for it. The film follows a girl who enters a magical forbidden forest to rescue her kidnapped baby brother. Yeah, I'm just really I keep on seeing stuff about the behind the scenes and I'm just very drawn to the craftsmanship of the stop motion and yeah, like how huge the set is that Leica the studio that's making it they made like a they just had people come out and do like a set walkthrough and people are like the set is huge for like just this like the characters are small. Yeah. But like the It's like a huge set for this entire movie and they still have like everything built out for it. So yeah, super, super excited for that. Almost a month. I've been, yeah, I can't believe it's almost a month. I feel like I saw the first thing for it like a year ago and I was like, dang, this looks kind of cool. And kind of like had it on my anticipated and now I just keep on getting more fired up for it. We don't talk much about TV shows, but the Emmys happened. And Apple TV's Widow Bay took home 14 awards, and the next closest had seven. And that's the most wins ever by a single season for a comedy series. So I might actually have to check out that show. I've literally never heard of that. Really? Well, one Apple TV just actually has really good shows. Yeah. But yeah, it's like a dark humor thriller. kind of thing. That sounds interesting. But yeah. team is the most by any TV show? Comedy. OK. So yeah. Dang, that's crazy. Yeah. All right. I think we're ready for Bastards. First, yeah, we both have it as a five, right? yeah. dude might be the goat. Yeah, I mean, he's he's he's a interesting guy. Great film maker. He's really interesting guy. But I was looking at my ranking too, and I have the Pulp Fiction at three and a half. I do too. I don't know why, because I watched it. I had like a four and a half. And I watched it again and I was like three and a half. Then just like thinking about it, I'm like, how is it a three and a half? So I think I need to watch it again. I have it as three and a half, too. I liked it. Yeah, I don't know. I just thinking about it. I'm like, how did I give it a three and a half? Yeah. So there must be some stuff going on. I don't know. I can't remember. Dude, the computer interface sucks. what? Letterbox interface sucks? Is that what you just said? Computer. it's the computer. okay. phone interface is genius. Interesting. So I got it. So it goes... he's got some shorts here. Okay, so it goes Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, The Two Killbills, Death Proof, Bastards. depends Tarantino counts to kill Bill's this one film. Yeah. So then in that case Bastards would be his sixth. Right. No, yeah, his sixth. If there were two films, then it's his seventh film. Yeah. Yeah, and glorious bastards. But yeah, mean, honestly, I think this is like. I don't know. It's not my favorite Tarantino, but I think it is him at his best. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's him. I think it's him at his best and it's my favorite. Really? Yeah. Yeah, I I just think it's like. It just has like all the Tarantino storytelling styles mixed with like the. like crazy fiction spin that he puts on everything. And then just like pair that up with just like insanely good filmmaking. Yeah, I think this is his best shot movie and his best written movie. And like when you think of the most like tense part of the film, I feel like it's all dialogue driven. Yeah. Which like I was talking about earlier, like Kill Bill, super big. High-action like blood gushing all this stuff and that's kind of how he operated and a lot of his stuff earlier is like the super high octane adrenaline filled Gory or yeah stuff like that and kind of like just sporadic and experimental Because he was super big for like independent movies like reservoir dogs and Pulp Fiction, like really big for independent filmmaking. And he brought kind of a new style of making films. And this, which you're right, you can totally tell it has Tarantino-esque stuff in it. I think it's also like his most like grounded in a way. Like I feel like the story itself. Yeah. Because really. most believable you mean? Like yeah like you know which is true which is crazy but like really you can complicate this the story all you want and like it is, I don't know, first couple times I watched it, like I don't know if I ever fully wrapped my head around it, but like really all it is is just two different groups of people like trying to stop the Nazis and it all comes to a point at the end of film. And yeah, it's phenomenal. It's, yeah, but there's like a ton of stuff that went into it obviously He was considering abandoning the film while casting search for someone to play Colonel Hans Landa. Landa? Landa. Landa. It's definitely Landa. Landa didn't sound right at all. Because he had written this role, and he felt like he had written a role that was unplayable. And after Christoph Waltz auditioned, Tarantino. and the producer agreed that they had found the perfect guy for the role. Dude literally is the perfect... It's one of my favorite performances of all time. It's the first Tarantino film to win an Oscar for acting. And Waltz goes on to win another Oscar for Django Unchained. And then Brad Pitt ends up winning, who's also in Bastards, ends up winning... Supporting actor role for once upon a time in Hollywood. I you're gonna say he won for bastards That would have been hilarious dude his performance is really it actually is really good. It's hilarious hilarious Nancy's It's it my god, you're so funny I saw something though like The there's like a ton of parallels between bastards and Django and like Django's his next film But in Bastards, like you have Brad Pitt's character who is just like, he's just laser focused on like killing Nazis, but he's a dumb nut. know, like he is dumb. And it's kind of like the dumb guy taking out the smart guy. Like he ends up getting Hans at the end and... And then in Django, it's Waltz's character is incredibly smart again, but he's on the good side and he's, you know, deceiving and taking out like Leo's character and like Samuel Jackson's character who are just so stupid. they're like they're just kind of like mirrors of each other. But it's also like Tarantino, I feel like. like from Kill Bill and then Bastards and Django, like all three of those are just like straight revenge stories. And people have kind of talked about how if you could put like a trilogy of Tarantino films, like that's kind of the trilogy right there of revenge stories. But also just like historically reimagining like you had said, some people think like how could you ever make a movie like this? And there's a lot of split as far as how people felt when the movie came out. Why can this guy make a movie about Nazi Germany and make it like fictionalized to where Hitler's in a movie theater, you know? But. I think it's awesome. that's like a sick story to think about. Well, I saw one clip of her. One thing he wrote, he wrote. I can't remember what he was writing. But he was like writing this in like a response to someone about the movie. And like these people were like essentially saying like you shouldn't be able to write this or whatever. And he's like no film like essentially like every film ever is like breaking some sort of rule. Yeah. Or like you're going to make someone mad kind of thing. Yeah. And like it's just the fact that I'm doing it at this scale and I'm taking on this topic like and he doesn't care. he cares zero. And he that's what makes it so good. Yeah, and he makes all his movies. Yeah, doesn't care. He's doing what he wants. Yeah, exactly. And he's one of the few directors that is in large part, I think, because he started as an independent filmmaker where he is like not letting the studio interfere with his stuff at all. And if you know his personality, like you very stubborn and he's not he's not budging one bit. Yeah, he's doing what he wants and he's doing like what is what is best for his movie. Yeah. And it freaking pays off, because yeah, Bastard is incredible. see. Well I was gonna say the kind of another parallel that I always see is so Christoph Walls plays the villain in Spectre and no time to die mm-hmm and The or two or two of the newer Bond movies and I don't know the actress's name, but she plays the The girl who shows on it shows Anna or whatever yeah She's got a European name. I got it, but I don't know it's not even her sorry it's It's the Diane Kruger the actress it's the daughter. It's the daughter who Yes, what's her name? Where is she she's solo on this captain Lea say do yeah, so she's she's in the bond movies as like the love interest Yep, and there's a dialogue between Waltz's character and her and it's like in the Bond movies. Yeah. Yeah. And he's saying like we go back a long ways like I met you one day in and it's like like very similar to it's really cool. It's like it obviously it's not on purpose I don't think. But yeah I've just seen like a bunch of like really sick Instagram edits where it's like it'll like flash the crossover of the movies. But that scene, the opening scene is like, like we were, we're gonna talk about it in a little bit too, like the best opening scenes of movies in general. It's like, it maybe is like the best. think it's, I think to me it might be the best. I think, I think it's definitely one of the best for sure. Yeah. And yeah, it just like sets, there's so many things about it that are like perfect and it just sets like the, Sets the stage for a lot of this character kind of sets like the stage for the movie pretty perfectly. mean, it's essentially tells you what's going to happen. like, don't know, like just that's I mean, people know about what happens in World War Two. And then this just like kind of paints it in the way that the movie is going to go. But yeah, like when Landa takes out his pipe, like the guy who is the farmer who is Yeah, I didn't the Jews in his house. He's like, you know Hans is questioning them and they buddy Yeah, and he's asking him all these questions and he already like already knows basically that yeah, there are Jews hiding underneath his house. He's very he's like very overly polite. Yeah like charming. Yeah He kind of is really playing into his character like asking them. Do you have you heard of me? You know what they call me? Yeah And then Farmer smokes his tiny little pipe. He's like, do you mind if I smoke? Just takes out the biggest pipe ever, which is very intentional. Yeah. Everything about the opening scene is perfect. Like, it starts, it's all from the perspective of that house. You see the car coming from far away. You never are in the... You're never in the car like with the Nazis. You're never from Landa's perspective. So like his presence is just kind of like ominous and suspenseful and it's just kind of looming. And I saw I watched a video about like the intentional way and how that scene was set up. And you start with like the guy he's like chopping wood or whatever and It's kind of, it's from like a low panning camera angle, so it's like panning up to him. It's kind of making him seem like super manly, like someone that can protect his family. And like we find out that they're farmers, like they choose to show them like chopping wood with a pickaxe instead of like milking cows or something like that. And then his family's out there with them. You hear the car come, you can kind of sense like, the families like, I don't like just angst with hearing them coming. You don't see the car and the girl like pulls the curtains and then you can see the car. They're like, yeah, curtains on the drying rack outside or whatever. And that is like depicting how the Germans are like invading their domestic space like They're just a family at home, know, doing chores outside. they're like basically peeling back the curtain to this family for these German soldiers to just come and intrude. And the camera is like, there's still frames the entire time. And then Landa gets out the car and the camera is like just locked on Landa the whole time. And it's like moving with him as he's walking. kind of giving him that stature of just how important of a character he's gonna be. And then immediately you get the handshake, he's got a big smile, he's super formal and he doesn't have any guns or anything. He walks in and sits down and he gets out his notebook and pen and they ask him if he wants wine. instead of drinking wine he asks for a glass of milk, which obviously is purposeful for later in the movie too. But like just kind of establishing himself like he's not drinking on the job either, like he's a very well put together guy, he's trying to have this appearance for his family. But I'm really glad that you brought up Lea Seydoux because... Even with Waltz too, like Tarantino's just known for finding actors and actresses like before everyone else does kind of. like we see it in a ton of his movies and especially here you have Waltz who he had been doing like a ton of like European films and stuff and hadn't acted in really anything big and like the american landscape and obviously this is a lot of his dialogue is european but like it's an american movie just as far as where it's produced he wins an oscar and he literally gets cast to continually play like hans land of blonda for ever Well, I guess while she's on my mind, Lea Seydoux, this is 2009, she's really in nothing else at this point. And she's in a very, very small role. She's literally just one of the daughters in the house. But just her face acting at the beginning of the movie is one of my favorite parts of the movie, because she says nothing. But it's clearly intentional. The camera keeps going back to her. She's the one daughter that you can tell is pissed off that these Germans are here. nervous she keeps giving her dad a look That's like when you really start to feel like something's going to happen. And yeah, I just thought that was really good acting on her. And then she goes on to be in the Bond films. She was in Dune Part 2. She was the Ben and Jesser girl that Fade, like she was talking with Fade with. She's been like a lead actress in some independent films that have done really, well, too. But a lot of people really love her as an actress and just an example of Tarantino finding her before other people did. Yeah. Really, really well known for doing that in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with like Sidney Sweeney, Margaret Qualley, Austin Butler, Mikey Madsen. Like he kind of, there are smaller roles in that movie, but like you can tell that one, they're really good actors and clearly. Their roles in the Tarantino movies have helped propel their careers. Yeah for sure Yeah, I mean all of the most of the cast of Reservoir Dogs too. Yeah Yeah, and like even like pulp fiction like definitely propelled Samuel Jackson John Travolta like So yeah, but opening scene, incredible, one of the best, might be the best. Yeah, when the soldiers start shooting the floor and the music starts playing, that might be my favorite part of the scene. Really cool. And then you get the girl that escapes through the vent or whatever, however she gets out, she runs away. And then... Lando walks out of the house, aims the pistol, looks like he's in a fire, and he just, what does he say? He says something. I wrote it down. It's French, or not French. Yeah, it is French, I think. Yeah, what does he say? Au revoir, something like that, which literally means until we meet again. Yeah, I it's our of our Shazam obviously I'm not saying they're right but literally translates to and telling me it again and that says a lot about his character too because Yeah, he's like gonna he's gonna get you but he could like he told right a shot right there It's like it's for him. Yeah, like he likes the pursuit playing the game. Yeah, he likes the pursuit more than the actual result. Yeah So yeah foot phenomenal opening scene What what are some what are some other ones that that you that you think of when you think of I'm glad you asked opening scenes cars, too I'm not even joking right now All right, dude, I don't remember it. You don't remember it. No, I don't remember it So you'll have to take me take me down memory lane It's good, but it's like it's just Imagine you've just watched cars one right like McQueen whatever chick Hicks wins the Piston Cup McQueen denies dyna Co. You're like dang. This is sick racing sick It's literally just I think the first thing that comes on the screen is like It's like typed out like, you know, like spy movies or whatever like that. being text on the bottom And it's like how spy movies are. Yeah. And we're talking about cars. Cars too. OK. Yeah. You'd check in. You're like, what the heck? I think it says like unknown location or like somewhere in the Pacific Sea or something. OK. Yeah. OK. And kind of jogging my memory a little bit. And there's a boat. And hey, I don't know why. Why do you have me? Why do you me take you out here or whatever? Yeah. Boats talking to Finn Mcmissle. This huge boat comes out like who's guarding the oil rig points the missiles at the boys. They get out of here. Then the guy in the boats. Yeah. Sorry bro. He turns around. This was gone. Where is he? Dude. He's climbing up the oil rig. Dude. Then I just realized what your hat guy. Bro. Dude. Finn Mcmissile. You ever seen that? Yeah I have. Yeah. guy knows what's up. Cars 2 is a great movie. It's just a six by opening. You can't remember it. Dude, you need to throw that on your list. That's going right. I already watched it. No, no, no. Nice try. All right. Well, so I mean, I'm kind of joking, but it is good. Yeah. Well done. So the K-pop Demon Hunter is opening now. It sucks. All right. What else? Well, Tarantino wise, had like Pulp Fiction, like the cafe that kind of just like sets up the story. Honey and Honeybee and Bunny and yeah, Bunny and Honey Bunny and. Maybe it's honey and bunny. I don't know. But yeah, that. But yeah, they just, you know, they're robbing the store. And yeah, does it does it start where does he get to Samuel? No, no, it's just them robbing. Yeah, that's right. And it's like the retro actually, I feel like the ending makes the beginning like that much better. Definitely. Yeah, Pope's answer. I I got jaws. That's that's yeah, that's one of the best ever Everything's going good on that beach until it's not going good Yeah, and just like Spielberg is just a beast. He made that movie at like 26 and Just the way he captures that opening sequence is just awesome. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy to do at 26. Yeah What else you got one that you saw very recently? Yeah, I wrote that down. That's such a great opening. Yeah, that is sick. That's so good. I didn't appreciate it as much the first time I watched it. Dude, I probably didn't too. The whole thing. is stupid. There's no cuts the entire time. He's just, they're just moving through and like, I don't know how they get that all choreographed and there is some insane choreographing and like, yeah, no cut camera shots, like the one where they're dancing in the, yes, just insane. That one for sure. Yep. Dude, I got up. Yeah. So sad. It so good. I got the social network. Zuck and his girl. The dialogue is really, really good. And it just sets the stage for his character really, really well. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, that's a good. I was going to say earlier, like, Tarantino and Fincher, think probably the two Yeah, like dot in terms of dialogue and like creating Yeah an atmosphere with just dialogue. I I think it's I think they're both really good. Yeah Trying to think of There's two that two on here that you haven't seen I Guess the the thing opening isn't really like it's not that crazy But it's just really iconic. It's just like a sick shot of a helicopter chasing a dog. I actually, yeah. I've seen it. That's all you get. that's kind of like a, when you finish the movie, makes more, kind of like cult fiction, similar. Rogue Nation, the greatest stunt in movie history. Is that the? Tom Cruise hangs off a plane. Legit hangs off a plane. And he does it like eight times like they're like, I can't I who directs that one but He does it like twice and they're like, all right He's like going like Shoot it again. So they do it like seven times and he legit just hangs off the side of like this huge car go plane Which is just absolutely crazy and he's like being held by like the legit one cable Yeah, and I think that's like I don't know. I just think like doing your own stunts is just really cool. I think that's something that kind of People just like say that about Tom Cruise and just like kind of whatever it but I think it's really cool. I got the Dark Knight on here too. Yeah. I mean that that grabber scene. That's what I think is the most the best opening scene. That's totally fair. That's That's a great answer. This is really close, though, too. I think this is in terms of like. I don't know, like the filmmaking and like the it's just very too different. Yeah, because I guess there's not a ton of dialogue in The Dark Knight until you get to. Gosh, I can't remember that actor's name, but he's so good. He's in prison break. yeah. And yeah, Heath Ledger puts the grenade in his mouth. Yeah. Or the smoke bomb or whatever. Yeah. There's not you don't really find out anything and like the moment you find out the most is like When he Like all the robbers are killing each other. Yeah, I need like, you know, are you who are you supposed to kill or ever and then Heath Ledger kind of like reveals himself So I think that one's All right Yeah, wait how many You got a bunch to rattle on? I got three. Okay, let me just say the prestige. That's the last one I have. I got Ranged of the Lost Ark too. Yeah, the Boulder. Yeah, that's really good. And the Swat. Yeah. Swat is so good, Makes me laugh every time. The Prestige, bro. Michael Caine. He like explains the whole yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yep. Yep. I'm there. I'm there. Borden's or Angiers. I'm there. Okay. Borden's daughter. I also have Tenet. Dude, I love the soap opera mission at the beginning. And you get Ludwig's score and you have no idea what's going on. Yeah, is sick. I actually love the opening to Tent so much. I really the opening too. Yeah, that was really sick. And then... That's a good shout. Yeah, it's just like a suffocating environment right away. And it's different from the way Nolan usually starts his movies. feel like he... Well, I guess the Dark Knight, but a lot of times I feel like he's starting them a lot more methodically. Yeah. Then I got The Lion King, Circle of Life, which I didn't know that was like the beginning of the movie, but when I was looking stuff up, didn't even think about that. Yeah, I guess the opening is like the song. Yeah, that's what it says when I looked it up. I just double checked it now. Hmm. There might be something a little bit before it breaks in the song, but it says. Yes, the Circle of Life is the iconic opening scene and song of Disney's The Yeah, I feel like it's a Mufasa monologue, no? And like into... You would know more than I. It's been a long time since I've seen that. it's been a long time since I've seen it too. No, I think, Yeah, I guess... I have Zodiac, but that's Fincher too. And that one's not as much... It's a little bit of dialogue, but... Yeah, I won't spoil it, but great opening. Tropic Thunder is a good one. Really? I gotta see that. It's like not... It's not like the movie. It's like they do fake trailers for all the... Because like all the guys are actors in movie. So it's like their trailers for like their movies that are going on. like I think Ben Stiller has like this terrible movie that's coming out and he's doing a bunch of them. Robert Downey Jr. and Tobey Maguire are like in a movie together. And like, dude, it's hilarious. They're they're like secretly gay and like, it's just hilarious. Jack Black is like, you guys have to see it. That's so I do have to see it. And I've got the other guys. What's the opening to the other guy? I love the other guys. I can't think. Dwayne. yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Aim for the bushes. Yeah, that's good. That's really good. That one, could throw that one up there too. That one is so funny. They're confused at the funeral. These guys were heroes. Will Ferrell's like... These guys, they jumped off the building. So funny. I think the other guy's like my favorite comedy of all time. That's a very good pick. I have Dumb and Dumber on this list too. What's the opening? don't... Dude, the Dumb and Dumber opening is so funny. Jim Carrey like... Dumb and Dumber. Taxing around. Have you seen Dumb and Dumber? Yeah. Okay. He's taxiing around Mary and like just like the his lines are just so funny like Dude, I don't even know like I can't even like He's like he like lets her out or maybe he's picking her up he's like where you going? I think she says like Austria and he's like He does like an Australian accent. like, I'll throw another shrimp on the Barbie or whatever. Dude, it's so funny. There's so many. That's good stuff. Yeah, I think Bastards is my favorite opening scene. I also forgot to mention the part where the camera like slowly goes from the top of the room and it just slowly pans down and then you see the people underneath the floor. Yeah, that's right. And then it's like level with them and then it cuts to like a bird's eye view of them and you see like their eyes like just looking through the forward. that's so sick. Super sick shots. Yeah. Tarantino has some sick shots. He does. I think too, like the opening scene, it's establishing like, okay, it's a war movie, but like the battle that we're going to be seeing in this movie is not like on the battlefield. Like it's going to be through dialogue and deception and stuff like that. I have one of the scenes that I had circled or not circled, but one I really like is when you first see Aldo and like he's lining up his, his troops. The accent is, so good. And they all just look like they're all like super scrawny. Yeah. They're all like, they're all like weak. They're like tiny and like, they're all Jewish guys. it's just like, And then it's all though and like explaining kind of like what they're go do and it's just hilarious and like also like Kind of what you said like he's like super dumb. We literally just saw like this intellectual mastermind Who's in the German military and then you panned a Brad Pitt doing the worst Boston accent or whatever it's supposed to be And he's got like six twigs lined up in front of he's from Tennessee Is that what it is? He says something about the Smoky Mountains. my gosh. That's a terrible Tennessee accent, It's pretty funny. Dude, want to say, so this is the thing about the writing is actually so good because I'm trying to get quotes from. I want my Nazi scalps. But like the quotes are so long. Like this is his opening thing to... Who is opening? Lieutenant Aldo Rain. Like this whole thing is... That's hilarious. ...is opening monologue to his guys. I want... He goes, you guys pick up a... You owe a debt when you join me. A debit is what he A debit, that's right. He says, you owe a debit. Yeah, that's right. Instead of debt. Each man owes me a... 100 Nazi scalps and I want my scalps. Sound good? Yes sir. yeah, that's what I like to hear but I got a word of warning for all you should be, for all you would be warriors. When you join my command you take on debit. A debit you owe me personally. Each and every man under my command owes me 100 Nazi scalps and I want my scalps. And y'all will get me 100 Nazi scopes, taking from the heads of 100 dead Nazis, where you would die trying. Is that the end of it? Is that the end? Yeah, that's right. That's the end of it. I'm crying. Yeah. Gosh, dude. That is perfection. Just really setting the stage for the movie. Does it go right into them in the trench after that? I think so. That's pretty good, It introduces a couple of the guys. Tarantino slaps some text up on the screen. I love that. I love when he does stuff like that. Yeah. Or like the square in Pulp Fiction. Yep. so good. Yeah. The or just like the there's just a straight anime. and kill bill. This is the sickest thing I've ever killed. Bill is a samurai revenge anime bro and RZA does the music like it's that is the most badass thing of all time. Yeah. How did he get him to do that? And and how is it so good? And like the Man, like the band that is playing. Yeah, it's a real band. Yeah, and he just heard them at a store. Really? And he's like, who is this band? And they're like, yeah, it's whatever. And he's like, give me your CD. Really? And he demanded they give him the CD for the band. He goes home and he plays the CD, and he knows that that's who he wants in the movie. That's crazy. Yeah. Dude, in in Kill Bill Volume 2. he gets like a score for it, doesn't he? Yeah, and... can't remember her first name. What's the character's first name? The bride? Yeah. Beatrix Beatrix, you know, and she's so she's watching With her daughter. Yeah, she's watching Shogun Shogun the Shogun samurai. Is that what it's called? Yeah something like it's like this like an iconic samurai movie. Yeah, and Rizzo has it as it has that sample like the start of that movie is the sample to like his first solo album really? It's like that's pretty liquid swords is like his It's like his first solo album off of Wu Tang. And when people were like, my gosh, this guy's actually legit. In the opening song, that's literally the sample. And when I heard it in the movie, I was like, no way. This is insane. That's pretty sweet. We're crazy off topic. We are, but it's good. The Bastards, introduction to the Bear Juice, pretty sick. Who should be Adam Sandler. Really? Yeah. I didn't see that. Tarantino wrote it for Adam Sandler. I did not see that. Dude, yeah. He was like, I can't remember what movie Adam Sandler was doing at the time. But it just didn't work. yeah. Could have been Grown Ups. Yeah. Because Grown Ups, I think, was like 2010. Yeah. OK. Probably Grown Ups. I think I remember him saying that. But yeah, he wrote it for Adam Sandler. And like was kind of like hell-bent on him doing it like they didn't really want anyone else like yeah like he was gonna do it and then whatever like I think Is it Tim Ra or Mike Roth or yeah Mike I think no cuz one of the Roth's is the guy from pulp fiction It's Eli Roth Eli Roth Eli Roth. He he's good as which guy yeah Yeah, who's in public? No, some other Roth. gotcha. The guy from the beginning of the movie. No, yeah, he is very good. But when I was watching the scene where he starts like clinking the bat last night, I was like, dude, if this was Adam Sandler, he comes out of the shadows. This would just be so like if he was just Adam Sandler and he just started like I think I think Adam Sandler could have he would have nailed the he would have been Ted Williams knocks it out of the park. He would have been so good as the major G. Plus he's I don't know if Eli Roth is Jewish. I have no idea. Adam Sandler is. But yeah, the introduction is sick because Elder Rain is, he's like, I don't know, he's got the one German officer like captive. He's like, you're going to give me my information. Otherwise, like you heard of the bear Jew? They're like, yeah, but I won't give you information. Basically, goes, all right. And then you just hear the bat clanking and some overly dramatic score that Tarantino puts on I love how his name is literally like Donnie Donowitz. Yeah. That is just hilarious. That is like the most, like if someone was like, give me like an Italian Jew, what would his name be? It would literally be that. That is just like, and then what I love about that scene is like. He'd know like the other guy just gives him the information immediately. Yeah, so they like kill the captain or Major whoever whatever rank the guy is the guy was like You know basically tells him to screw off like I'm not giving you anything you could you can go to hell. He's like, all right Caves his head in and then the guy comes over and he gives him the information immediately And then then you get in then you see Hitler for the first time, yep He's a good Hitler. Yeah, I don't know who the actor is but he's a good Hitler. You saying Hitler's good? No, no, no, no. no. Uh-uh. What did say? actor that played Hitler did a good job. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. Yeah, no, he is really good. And that scene is pretty funny too. It goes back and forth between all those, they're going to ask you why, why are you so lucky, or whatever, and then they... Like asks, you know kind of like what they blah blah blah why they let you go and then he pulls up his hat The Nazi symbol on his forehead, yeah, you're gonna take off that Which ends up coming coming back into the movie, yeah, which is like the the very last scene of movie actually just one of the Most iconic last scenes of that is true. Actually this is not especially who's got some good bookends. Yeah for sure I can't remember when we get introduced to Hugo or Yeah, I think Hugo is like I know they get them from that they essentially break him out of that prison cell that must be just in the same scene I think too like when they're but that's before the trench Okay, that's what I think too. But, so there's some interesting, so the actor, his name is Till Schweiger, and he had previously refused to put on a Nazi uniform for a film role, largely due to being born and raised in Germany and his very real hatred of anything Nazi related. Really? When Schweiger was told he'd get to brutally kill a Nazi and every scene he wore a uniform he happily agrees to the part of. No way. That is so Tarantino had his elevator pitch and he goes, I get to kill Nazis. You get to shoot off one of their balls. Yeah. That is that I did not know that. That's crazy. Yeah. That's hilarious. I think the next most memorable scene for me is the encounter with Shoshana and Londa at the restaurant. It's yeah, it's just it's genius. She is operating owning this cinema. You know, this German soldier war hero guy who like they make seem so innocent, you know, and he just gets this crush on her. Yeah. And there's this I mean, it's not really a kidnap, sir. Yeah, it's not really even like a subplot, but it's It's the whole thing of the new German movie at this exclusive cinema, and they know she owns it. So the soldier who's starring in the movie who likes her is bringing her to basically these really important people, like in the Third Reich, the guy that I don't know his name, but he's basically the film guy for Germany. And you know, she obviously has deep hatred for the Nazis and you can kind of tell she's uncomfortable already at this meal and she is that she speaks French. Yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah, she she's speaking French. There's already a little bit of like a barrier there. And there's already some tension because The soldier wants to play it at her cinema and someone says it too early and the soldiers like, well, I wanted to tell that to her, blah, blah, blah. And then it's just, see his, Hans's coat like right behind her head. And then he sits down with her and you can like totally see just everything on her face change. It's like she's totally conflicted because there's no part of her that like wants to enjoy anything about the meal or anything. And then he gets her this like delicate, you know, what was it? Dana or Strudel. Strudel. Yeah. Yeah. And he again is just being like overly polite. And but also like really like condescending. Yes. Like very condescending. Like he's controlling what's happening in every scene he's in, but he's like, wait, don't eat that yet. But yeah, orders the Mastrudo. Yeah, and then they, you know, what to drink and he says, and for a Madam Muzal, a glass of milk. And then that's when like, there are people that are torn on like, whether he knows or not. I think he knows. I think he knows. 100 % chance he knows. Yeah, I don't think it's so much that he knows it's her. Like, for sure. I think he knows that. I think that his character has been hunting these people for so long and doing it so thoroughly that maybe he can tell if he's encountered someone before. I think the milk is him knowing. Call back to them being farmers. But it's not her. That's not her family. Yeah, it is. No, no, not her family, but like, sorry. there, but he never sees her face. No, he knows, man. I'm telling you. But how would he know? He knows her name. He knows it shows shows like running away. Yeah, but he never sees her face. But he knows it's show show Santa or whatever. He yells at her show Santa Aruvar. So yeah, that's true. Like he clearly probably has like some other way. Some sort of intel. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. So yeah, he knew that that was that family. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, he definitely knows. And then. And he makes her eat the... Yep. And just, yeah, everything is so innocent and he clears the room to talk to her too. And then he goes, you know, he's really got to just flip in the switch of like smile, laughing, like being overly nice and then just like serious. You are sheltering enemies at the same Yeah, exactly. He literally just boom. And he goes, so he goes smiley, laughing and then he goes, I did have one more thing I wanted to ask you. And then his face is straight and it looks like he's about to hit her with something. I know who are. And then he goes, but for the life of me, I cannot remember. And then he just starts laughing. And you can see Shoshana's character, the actress, she's literally holding her breath. Yeah, when he leaves. And as soon as he walks away, she just lets everything out. So that's just like. I've it so good. Masterful, masterful writing and acting. And then I'm going to the basement scene, I think. Another really iconic Tarantino scene. I think. So I don't know exactly how long the scene is, but so Michael Fassbender's character, Hickox, he gets sent on the mission to... For the UK are getting involved. Mike Myers sends him on the mission. Yeah, so just hilarious. How does that like... I'll be in a Tarantino film for two minutes. dude. Literally perfect casting. But, so like this is kinda like slowly the stories are starting to cross paths. Yeah. Cause you hear him talking about movies and everything slowly leading to the intersection of all these characters. But, so, fast-moving character. here. So he was born, Fassbender was actually born in Germany. And to German and Irish parents raised in Ireland, he now resides in London with fluency in German as his first language, Irish Gaelic as his second and English as his third, and a mastery of English accents and dialects. Here he plays an Englishman who goes undercover as a German and who can speak German fluently but has difficulty hiding his accent. So it's literally just like totally switched. And he had to do so much stuff with the dialect coach because he can speak German completely. I don't know. It seems like he's speaking fine to me. clearly there are, you know, there's probably some little things where his accent's little off. The guy knows from the other room. He can hear. Yeah. And he's the one that gives it away. But. Fastbender's only in it for like that 15 to 20 minutes or whatever and he's like one of my favorite performances. like he's really freaking good and I'm starting to really like Fastbender. I mean, I haven't seen him in a ton of stuff, but he was in Prometheus not too long ago. I've always known he's in Bastards. I've always loved him in Bastards, Yeah, I mean Tarantino's like yeah, we're just gonna use you for these 15 minutes and you're dying basically And another guy too is August Dale And he's the lead in A Hidden Life. And he's the guy that comes over and joins the table. And I didn't realize that. Yeah, he's really commanding in that scene, too. Yeah, he's very. He just, you don't even know he's there. Yeah. He's in the corner. He shouts it. He's like, what does he say? What's his first line? He's like, should I? Might I inquire? Might I inquire? You have, they're supposed to be in this basement with not very many Nazi soldiers talking to this actress who's gonna get them into the movie and they get there and there's so many Nazis, not so many but like seven or eight of them. the actress is the one who sets us up and Elder Rain's like, why are we? who wants to fight Nazis in a basement. Yeah, he says it like three times. Yeah, and it's just like, I mean, he's right. Like, Fassbender, Hickox is like, well, we're not going to fight them. Yeah, we're not going to. If all goes bad, can I trust that you're going to be calm and all this stuff? Which, you know, stuff's going to go down in the basement. But it just kind of sets the precedent for. really like how unorganized they are on their side and trying to do this. Like they let the actress who has nothing to do with military personnel, nothing like she's an act. She's like the spy or whatever. But like she should not have set this encounter up in the basement of a bar. Don't have the double agent. Yeah. So Dale, it's just them with So the three guys, it's Hickox, Hugo, can't remember the other guy, and they're just there with Bridget Von Hammershmark, smark, smark, just a sick name. they're just trying to set stuff up and the guy's having a baby and they're out getting drunk. And just something about the accent. tips him off and you're like, okay, you know. But like whatever, he'll get his way out of it. The guy's super drunk and then Hickox just, you know, is like, how dare you speak to a superior like that? All this stuff. He just kind of flips out on him and that's when Dale stands up out of the shadows. You have no idea he's there. You know he's gonna be some sort of intimidating guy. Yeah, and then he kind of gives him the same treatment. He's like. He totally dead pans and is like, you're intruding. leave. Yeah, yeah, he does. It seems like they're going to get out of it. Yeah. And then he's like, no, I'm not intruding. You can ask, ask the lady. She's like, no. And he's like, exactly. And then he's like, starts laughing. He a joke. Yeah, kind of Hans Landa-esque. Exactly. Like, he's got him. And then he's like, OK, they're going to get off. And then dry glaza. Boom. That's the sick where it's like the pan of his fingers and yeah, just the look that yeah that Dale has is incredible and then another like kind of like similar to like one of the first shots where you They pan from like the table with Hans and the farmer down people hiding. Yeah. It starts at an eye level and then it pans down and they're both holding their guns at each other. I love that line. I wrote that down. I've got a gun. Did you hear that? Yeah. That was the sound of my gun pointed directly at your testicles. So that... so that's the Nazi guy, that's Dale's character saying that to that. Hickox very calmly goes, and why do you have your gun pointed directly at my testicles? And he responds, well, because you've given yourself away, Captain. You're no more German than that scotch. And then Hickox goes, well, that makes two of us. Because I've had my gun pointed at your balls since you've sat down. And then Hugo comes in and that makes three of us. And he just points the freaking gun at the nuts. And then there's some tension and then just say I'll feed his in to your Nazi balls and then boom. Yeah, I love that But you know that that's how they got the actor for Hugo. They get him to shoot Yeah, no, you get like a sick Tarantino shootout. Yep, some sick like the snap zoom. Yeah Yeah, you know Tarantino snap zoom on Yeah, yeah, he pulls the shotgun out from underneath the bar. And this is very like... it's like the same as hateful eight, like hateful. So hatefully, there's like a. Similar tension. I'll just say, I don't want to spoil. Yeah. mean, it's in a confined space. Yeah. like, it's very like when Aldo's talking to, I think the soldier's name is Will, who has the baby. Wilhelm. Yeah. Wilhelm. Yeah. And he's the only one left. Well, you think he's the only one left who survived. That's very like a hateful eight. Like, there's a very similar. Yeah. which is hilarious. That is like one of the funnier parts to me is when... Hi Prim! Prim, what are you doing? When Willam's the only one alive. You know, he's... and all the stars you go you outside who are you British American what? American yeah, we're American just gives himself Not even just So funny yeah, and like I totally forget during that whole scene cuz 20 minutes. Yeah that all those is right up there Yeah, he's right up there. We got 14 grenades right here. Yeah, you shoot us. We're gonna drop down. Yeah And then you know he goes, he's like, we got a Mexican standoff. And then Wilhelm's like, hold on now, how is this a Mexican standoff? Like, what do you got? He's like, well. I got grenades. I'm just looking at the quotes. Was it the machine gun pointed at me? Well, this is the part that we were talking about. You didn't say the goddamn rendezvous was in basement. And then Hickox goes, I didn't know. You said it was in a tavern, Hickox. It is a tavern, Al Durene. Yeah, in a basement. know, fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being You're fighting in a basement. Yeah, he goes down like halfway in the stairs. then, well, I'm still pointing the machine gun at him. He goes back up. Then he like, all those starts coming down with his hands up and then. Yeah. Bridget turns around and. Right soon as Wilhelm puts kind of lets his guard down. Yeah. She turns around and pops him. Yeah. Then there's a funny, like a good scene that kind of sets up the end of the movie where Brad Pitt is talking to Bridget while she's at this vet, this vet's house. Yeah, which although references a couple times. Yeah whole areas But then he's like interrogating her and Basically like like, you know, how did these people come to die? Like what happened? Yeah, and then Eventually sets up, you know, well, how are we gonna do it now? you know Well, I speak the most seen as I speak the most Italian, you know, and he speaks like none. Yeah Dominic de Coco, I don't speak Italian. Yeah, like I said third best just keep your mouth shut Matter of fact. Yeah, I start practicing right now That's hilarious. Yeah So yeah, I think then we get to the point where all these characters that we spent so much time with it's all coming together at the cinema and So Bastards has one of my favorite long takes like Wonders where? right when you walk into the cinema like you know, it's the Like the staircase is kind of going up both sides and like the crowds at the bottom statues. Yep, so you see You see like the back behind the scenes stuff of Shoshana and the other guy at the theater Her husband She says burn it down. Then she says its name. It's Marcel. Marcel. was going to say is it Marcel but then I'm thinking Pulp Fiction Marcelis or something. So it's Marcel. They have this behind the scenes thing of they're going to burn it down. it's, man I had to have written it down man. So the film is like broken up into chapters. It says the beginning of chapter five and it's just Shozana standing in the window ripping a cig in her red dress and it's got like the Nazi flag out the window and everything started with her. And now like this is kind of like the beginning of the end and we get like a sick montage of her. She puts her lipstick on. She like puts the blush on her cheeks, like it's eye black. It looks like she's getting ready for war. then. Immediately following this scene is Landa finding the heel and the note on the napkin. Yeah. And so you just know that stuff's going to go down at the cinema, obviously. But it's yeah, it's a really cool scene. She's been through hell watching her family get murdered. Then they don't show it, but I'm sure like she's gone through a ton of struggles like. changing her identity and having to survive. And then she encounters her family's killer at that restaurant and she just has to try and play it cool and act normally. And she has all this anxiety and everything's starting to catch up to her. And now this is her moment to avenge her family and literally stop the Nazis, which is insane. But the one or is so Shazana she like just covered like she puts over that like black veil or whatever over her face she opens the door to the cinema and then It literally it goes from her Pans out goes down to the crowd is all the like German people talking Then it it it goes back up to her. She comes down the staircase on the left follows her down the staircase. She comes down, she is talking to like the German soldier people and then it kind of goes up and you like see more of the middle of the cinema. Like you see the Nazi, like that whole set piece is insane first of all, like just how they made everything look. And then it's Hans at the top of like the balcony staircase area and then it follows him walking down to the conversation. Yeah, then he has a conversation then it eventually cuts, but it's like two minutes of just No cuts camera movement. It's super sick and what I didn't realize Because I hadn't seen kill bill, but he does it in kill bill volume one when I Don't know what that place is called where the band is playing. I don't know what that place is called Where the huge fight is? Yeah, yeah with the crazy 88s, but it's like a very similar set does now Like there's a staircase that goes up on both sides. Kind of like a balcony. Yeah. And so it like it follows the I don't know her name, but like she's the girl that takes the calls for the filmmaker or for and kill Bill. the girl that takes the calls for our end issue like the go go. No, no, not go go. That's the I don't know her name, but so they get her. like Sally or something. Yeah, Suzy. Whatever. Doesn't matter. Yeah. She walks down the one side of the staircase, follows her. You don't even know where Beatrix is at this point, but then it pans to her and then she ends up walking through this hallway like behind. I'm like, it was very reminiscent of how he did the best. Yeah, which I thought was really cool. Bobby. Hey, Bobbo. What are you up to? But yeah, mean clearly like a long take, it's not super distinctively one filmmaker versus another, but a lot of people don't do it. But I always thought like, that's one of Tarantino's best shots is that one or in Bastards, which it is. But I'm like, whoa, he does a very similar thing in Kill Bill, which came before Bastards. Then it goes into the scene where. Hans confronts or doesn't confront. Well, eventually he. Yeah, essentially he confronts him. He confronts him and is like testing them. Yeah. You know, on their accents, he knows who they all are. And the funniest thing is that he knows Italian and they think that's their cover up. And then when he responds to Italian or in Italian, you can just tell they all just like and like correct. Yeah. And Brad Pitt's character. He's just like standing there and he's just like looking like this and he just... You can tell he's still out of place. And then like he thinks he's getting away with it too. Like they're all like, let's go. He doesn't suspect anything. And then he keeps asking them to repeat their names, which is hilarious. Bravo. He says, good job saying your name. But I mean, and then you kind of realize that it's all part of... Yeah. ...Blanda's plan in the end. gets so old of... the US military and. Makes a deal with them to essentially like kind of paint him as a war hero and then give him. Yeah. And it's like he are like he was like already all over the stuff like he like placed the bombs like right next to Hitler. Yeah. Yeah. And and it's because then he still kills and strangles Bridget. Yeah. She's kind of like I don't know, but he's just obviously a deranged guy. But yeah, it's, yeah, dude, the dialogue is so funny. So you go from the cinema to, like you were saying, Hans with Alderain and I don't even know, BJ Novak's character. One of my favorite ones is when Hans is talking to Brad Pitt and BJ and He goes what's that English expression about shoes and feet? Brad Pitt's character goes looks like the shoes on the other foot And he's like he's just not taking anything yeah seriously the entire time And then BJ Novak, well, Hans says, do you control the nicknames the enemies give you, Eldo the Apache and Little Man? And BJ goes, what do you mean, Little Man? Well, the German's nickname for you. The German's nickname for me is the Little Man? That's just hilarious. And then there's some funny stuff with BJ Novak. So he took a leave from appearing on The Office in order to play private first-class Udovich. His absence on the show was explained by his character going to Thailand with his friends from high school. Dang. I did not know that. Yeah, I've seen that. So I remember that from The Office. I'm like, wow, that checks out. That's hilarious. That's valid that he gets to go and do it. even it's just a small role, but it's pretty awesome. And you don't, you see him in the original lineup and then you like don't see him the rest of movie. And then when they get in the truck with the mask on their face, I immediately know it's like BJ. Yeah, that's true. Then all hell just breaks at the cinema. They lock up the doors, burn the film. Shoshana and Frederick, the soldier, have their little moment in the projection room. kill each other. You get Donnie and I don't know the other guy's name. Well, it's the bear. It's the bear Jew. Donnie is the bear Jew. I was thinking you're Dominic to go. Yeah, that's what I'm I'm trying to think it was actual. I don't know. But they they got the machine guns and there's just spraying them. And then then you cut to shooting Hitler and he's just is molly dude. And it's just like The most Tarantino way to kill Hitler in a movie of all time. And then you see Landa and Aldo and them, get out, obviously. Their agreement was like once they get to American lines that they'd switch drivers, basically. Aldo doesn't like the plan. He does not like the plan. Figures that the other German soldier doesn't really matter so he just shoots him on the spot Hans kind of starts to freak out and That's like the first time a panic of Hans the entire time. He's so in control the whole movie Now I've been chewed out I'm more like chewed out. I've been chewed out before so then they kind of cuts back to the scene with the other German that they have captive where he asks them, know, is he going to take off his uniform? You're going to take off that fancy SS uniform and then, so you. Then you get the iconic last shot. Probably one of the most iconic last shots and the iconic Tarantino kind of angle of them. VJ and Brad Pitt. Yeah, that is that is one of the one of the best. Flash and I love that what he does and I love the quote. There's no trunk shot in this movie. No, but there's a lot of Upward panning. Yeah panning up Yeah, I don't know exactly says but it's something like, know, you'd have itch this might just be my masterpiece Yeah, and that's turn that's Tarantino. Yeah everyone. Yeah I think it is. Yeah, and people are like, yeah, you can't be that forward as a filmmaker and I'm like Why is the point just the dude just reimagined Nazi Germany? And it's not like I don't know why people get yeah, I don't know either and I don't like they're not glorifying right? know the opposite they're spraying Hitler Yeah, the blue dude like slow mo. Yeah, they blew them all abandoned the war. Yeah and the war tonight Yeah, make that deal you'd a bitch I Got some other stuff about the movie. the script is amazing. Tarantino writes his own scripts, which is awesome. He worked on the script for almost a decade. He started writing the movie before Kill Bill Volume 1 but cannot decide on a good ending and decide to put it on hold to do Kill Bill, a project that he had mentally been preparing since Pulp Fiction. So this is almost 10 years worth of script writing, which I think. That's crazy, I did not know that. Yeah, think. It shows. Yeah, I think it shows. And then another cool thing that they've done this in other movies too, but at the end of each take, actors would face the camera and say, hello, Sally, referring to Sally Mank, the film's editor. And the practice occurred since Tarantino's previous movies, Kill Bill and Death Proof. But Bastards was the last film by Tarantino to be edited by Mank whose work was honored in 2010 with her final Academy Award nomination for best editing prior to her death later that year. So just kind of a cool tribute to the editor that Tarantino has a lot of admiration for, think. We talked about this, but roughly only 30 % of the film is spoken in English. French or German dominant with a little Italian, which is very unusual for Hollywood production. And like, I don't know, I... I used to feel this boundary with foreign movies, but I watched this a long time ago and I loved it. 70 % of the movie has subtitles. You don't realize how much it is until you really look at it. And I think that's just a tribute to how good the writing is, because you're just so invested in the movie the whole time that you're not even thinking about it, that you're reading half of it. To prepare for her role, Malaney Laurent worked as a film projectionist for a few weeks at New Beverly Cinema, projecting mostly cartoons and trailers before shows. But the real test by Quentin Tarantino was for her to screen Reservoir Dogs at cinema. Yeah, so she did some experience with that to try and get those last couple scenes of... I was going to say she does it like... Yeah, I mean she's moving the film. That's sick. I did not know that. When asked about the misspelled title... So I always thought that just bastards is spelled wrong. Then I was looking stuff up that and glorious is spelled wrong. Yeah. There's an extra you in there. Like I didn't even realize bastard just felt wrong until you. really. Recting me the other day. Really. Yeah. I didn't even know it was E. Yeah. I just thought it was. I I thought they spelled it right. I didn't know it was spelled. So when asked about it turned to you know said Here's the thing, I'm never gonna explain that. You do an artistic flourish like that and to explain it would just take the piss out of it and then validate the whole stroke in the first place. Weird. So yeah, weird. That is really weird. Kind of iconic though. Eli Roth directed the film within the film Nations Pride. So the film that shows on there is Eli Roth. Tarantino asked Roth to direct the short and Roth requested his brother join. To direct behind a second camera to which Tarantino agreed in two days the brothers got 150 camera setups and Tarantino was so pleased he gave Roth a third day Excuse me that he was originally planning to shoot Roth got 50 more setups in the third day much to Tarantino's delight the total running time of the short is five minutes and 30 seconds and it was always intended to feel like pieces of a longer film not a coherent short. That's crazy Yeah, that's just the scale of production for like yeah, it is the lengths he'll go and now like Roth is a director So I don't I don't know if he did stuff before that or what but he directs movies now Not any of them look very good, but he's a director Yeah, this is your number one, Tarantino. Yeah. I do. What's your number two? You want to do a Tarantino ring for what we've For what we've seen? We can just go through it quickly, I got... Where should I go? Bottom to top? Yeah. Okay. Hot, some hot takes here. I got a reservoir... Let's see, how many have I seen? You've seen all of them except for hateful eight. I've seen seven. Yeah, I haven't seen hateful eight. I haven't seen death proof and I haven't seen Jackie Brown. How about you? I haven't seen death proof and Jackie Brown. Those are only two you haven't seen. So at seven I got Reservoir Dogs. Three and a half. Good film. Good quality film. Six I got Pulp Fiction. Three and a half, good quality film. At five, hot take. Kill Bill Volume One. And then I got Kill Bill Volume Two at four. Django at three, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Two and Bastards One. That's valid. Mine's a little different. I've got, well, right now I have volume two at eight. But I have it as a four and I Pulp Fiction at seven and I Pulp Fiction at three and half. But I mean, like the rating when you watch them. I don't have Reservoir Dogs or Once Upon a Time Logged like rated. Yeah. But I have, what does this say? Reservoir Dogs at six. Once Upon a Time at five, then I've got Volume One at four, Hateful Eight at three, and Glorious Bastards at two, and Django at one. Nice. Yeah, Tarantino. Yeah, he's a beast. For sure. Good director. Yeah, great characters, which is what we're going to do. That's right. Next. Bastards is full of characters. A lot of his films are full of characters. Yeah, he doesn't have a super big catalog. We talked about it a while ago, but he wants to go out with 10 films made. So he's only got nine right now. So, and we've only seen seven and eight of them respectively. So, yeah, instead of doing a movie draft, which you feel like we're kind of limited, we... like we choose from a bigger drafting pool and do Tarantino characters so yeah anything else on Bastards? No. Okay. Thanks for listening to episode 17 of the podcast, Our Inglorious Bastards Review. We'll see you next time for a Tarantino characters draft. Thanks guys. Yeah.