Comments on: Inglorious Bastards Script is Tarantino’s “Ur-Text”, Apparently.

By: M. Robert Turnage

M. Robert Turnage — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:30:41 +0000

The crisis of our age is not, as Disney would suggest, to simply be ourselves. The crisis of our age is the ease at which we can encase ourselves in media bubbles and become self-delusional.

Tarantino, Shyamalan, Lucas, Kevin Smith, and Mike Meyers have all shown that they do not mind surrounding themselves with yes men who do nothing but praise each instinct as unprecedented genius.

As I am fond of saying, “I don’t need to love QT. He loves himself enough for both of us.”

By: Erin D.

Erin D. — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:14:07 +0000

I’m sort of embarrassed for QT that he’s so desperate for some validation he’s leaking his own script (misspellings and all) to the fanboys.

Wouldn’t it be more productive to be like, storyboarding or something?

By: rafael

rafael — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:12:32 +0000

Its just amazing how people complain about the lack of creativity in art and yet are pretty much unable to apreciate a creative artist when it comes around…but i guess that great artists apreciate art in a way that is beyond the way that art is apreciated in his time

By: blabby

blabby — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:57:39 +0000

If you don’t give a shit about Inglorious Bastards then why are you writing about it?

By: kishke

kishke — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:22:20 +0000

Wells says “It feels badly.” And Tarantino’s the illiterate?

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:38:47 +0000

I haven’t abandoned the Tarantino bandwagon, but I try to keep my distance from it for fear I’ll get nerd on me.

I watch with interested skepticism that could become actual enthusiasm, but some guy’s opinion of a script he read is going way too far.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:44:58 +0000

Can I take the second part first? Jeff Wells: shut the hell up. Maybe if he spent less time trying to get directors to send him nude pictures of young actresses and more time developing contacts, he’d already have the script.

As for Tarrantino, he’s sort of fallen into the same camp as Kevin Smith and M. Night Shyamalan. The more movies they make, the more I realize that I don’t want to have to sit through their increasingly poorly-written movies anymore.

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:44:25 +0000

And to add: Happy Birthday!

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:10:31 +0000

Don’t worry– I agree with you Karina.

A part of my lack of enthusiasm is that I prefer Tarantino’s work he did in the 90s to what he’s been doing the past ten years. It seems as if Tarantino has resigned himself to his immature, movie-obsessed tendencies and just decided to make movies about other movies. Also, I can’t see how any film-maker could make a war movie that’s “fresh and exciting”.

Granted, I find some of the supposed European influence on Inglorious Bastards interesting, but other than that… I’ll go see IG, but not as rabid enthusiast.

There’s an interesting anecdote about Tarantino in David Thompson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film that attests to his fundamental nature (and how self-aware QT is): after Pulp Fiction, QT was looking for a literary property to adapt into his next film. One of the properties he was offered was Kit Carson’s screenplay adaptation for Walker Percy’s book The Moviegoer, but QT politely turned it down. His reason? He felt it was “too grown-up” for him.