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Dana, I have an Inglorious Basterd’s question for you. I saw
the movie over the weekend and I loved it—it’s not perfect, by any
stretch, but, damn, it was fun—and, unlike you, it didn’t leave me
feeling a bit queasy. In your review,
your major critique of the film was that Quentin Tarantino, again and
again, “unproblematically offers up sadistic voyeurism as a satisfying
form of payback.” Certainly, there are many scenes where this is the
case, but I thought
there was at least one scene in which Tarantino served up his violence
very problematically ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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There's a Q&A with Quentin Tarantino in this weekend's New York Times Style Magazine. (It's online here.) The occasion is the upcoming debut screening of Tarantino's latest movie, "Inglourious Basterds," a war-'n'-gore flick starring Diane Kruger and Brad Pitt in which a band of Jewish American soldiers attempt to kill a hell of a lot of Nazis. (I read the script before it was sold, and it is bloody.) "This was the hardest movie I've ever made," Tarantino admits, before not-so-humbly deeming it a "masterpiece." Interestingly, the photo accompanying the interview features Quentin in a black suit and black patent leather high-heels. In one hand, he holds his drink. In the other hand, he holds a bra. Not sure what's going on there, but while some may say he's a hack, few can ever say he's boring.
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