Quentin Tarantino’s film, Inglorious Bastards was a spectacular masterpiece overall in my opinion. From the costume design, filming techniques, and sets it was all done in fascinating way. Quentin Tarantino truly has his own touch that he puts on his films, as well as a spin on actual events that happened in history. It was incredible the way he split the 5 interrelated parts together in the film. This almost gave it the feeling of being a book split into chapters.
In mostly all of Quentin Tarantino’s films he has moments where scenes are just absolutely ridiculous, insane or even funny in a disturbing way. One scene that comes to mind from Inglorious Bastards is the death of Adolf Hitler. Although this is not meant to be an actual comedic scene due to hundreds of people being killed. The death scene is clearly very fake with Hitlers face almost being represented as a prop. His face rips off in the most fictional way and the scene is longer than usual for the audience to watch Hitlers face get ripped to pieces. Another scene from the film that I believe has an intense Quentin Tarantino feel to it is the scene at the end of Brad Pitt and B.J. Novak carving the swastika into Christoph Waltz head. The camera is facing up at the two from the perspective of Waltz. Making it seem as if the audience is the one having this done to them.
Something else that intrigued me with Inglorious Bastards was the different camera angles. Tarantino always puts you in a place that makes the audience feel as if they are apart of the film and not just watching. One scene that comes to mind is when the camera is placed under the floor boards with the hiding jewish family in the first scene. This scene is so intense and riveting and almost makes the audience stay silent feeling like you will be caught as well if you make a peep. Another scene that caught my eye was the scene when Eli Roth and Omar Doom are shooting up the theater. This scene has such an old fashioned gangster film feel to it and almost scarface like feel to it. This is due to the long shot of Omar shooting with that angry face on.
Overall Inglorious Bastards is another fine example of Tarantino’s love for film and doing it in an unusual yet brilliant way. No one is safe in his films no matter how important the character is or famous the actor is. His style of filming is casting crazy characters, having very intense violence, and adding some sick humor in to top it off.
Scene Of Omar shooting up theater
Brendan Mannix Film Blog 
Brendan,
This is a solid post–your strongest to date–on various auteurist features evident in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. As you indicate, Tarantino’s films have a very distinct tone and aesthetic, and you use this post to identify some of them. Regarding content, you describe the mix of competing tones at work in the film. Tarantino often mixes violence and humor, a pairing that makes some viewers uncomfortable and therefore renders him a controversial filmmaker. I also like that you describe his cinematography. As you point out, camera angles, placement, and movement all function to make the viewer feel like they are in the film, witnessing events as they unfold and sharing in the characters’ experiences. This applies to characters we root for (we co-experience Shoshana and her family’s fear as they hide) as well as ones we have more complicated feelings toward (we receive Hans’ punishment along with him).
Nice post!
MT
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