By: Vickie J. Rubinson
Seems you can't even be nasty to Nazis anymore. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a leaked script of Quentin Tarantino's WWII drama "Inglorious Bastards" already is stirring up controversy for scenes of vengeful Americans bashing, shooting and strangling German soldiers.
What began as an internet murmur in Berlin, went mainstream with a recent article by Tobias Kneibe, film editor of Suddeutsche Zeitung, who predicted the project could have an explosive effect similar to that of Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie," which has been savaged in the German media even though it won't hit theaters until 2009.
"All the German historians and critics who were left gasping for breath by Tom Cruise and his worthy attempts will be so shocked by "Inglorious Bastards" that they will savage it on the spot," Kniebe wrote.
Even though he personally likes the script, Kneibe said that "the collision between Tarantino-style pop culture with the themes of the Holocaust and Jewish revenge (the Bastards of the film are Jewish-American Nazi hunters), is unprecedented in Germany and its results are completely unpredictable."
Yet others aren't so threatened by Tarantino's new flick. According to the article "Most in the German industry love it that Tarantino is in Berlin. They love it that this kind of popcorn film is getting made here."
Seems you can't even be nasty to Nazis anymore. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a leaked script of Quentin Tarantino's WWII drama "Inglorious Bastards" already is stirring up controversy for scenes of vengeful Americans bashing, shooting and strangling German soldiers.
What began as an internet murmur in Berlin, went mainstream with a recent article by Tobias Kneibe, film editor of Suddeutsche Zeitung, who predicted the project could have an explosive effect similar to that of Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie," which has been savaged in the German media even though it won't hit theaters until 2009.
"All the German historians and critics who were left gasping for breath by Tom Cruise and his worthy attempts will be so shocked by "Inglorious Bastards" that they will savage it on the spot," Kniebe wrote.
Even though he personally likes the script, Kneibe said that "the collision between Tarantino-style pop culture with the themes of the Holocaust and Jewish revenge (the Bastards of the film are Jewish-American Nazi hunters), is unprecedented in Germany and its results are completely unpredictable."
Yet others aren't so threatened by Tarantino's new flick. According to the article "Most in the German industry love it that Tarantino is in Berlin. They love it that this kind of popcorn film is getting made here."
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