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Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Script is ‘Batshit Over-the-top Insane’
Not normally prone to rampant famboyism, Vulture nonetheless concludes the summary of what they believe to be a script for Quentin Tarantino’s World War II epic, Inglorious Bastards with this prediction: “if anyone is crazy enough to fund it, this movie is gonna be awesome.”
“The script is 165 pages long and follows a squad of American soldiers called the Bastards — a guerrillalike force who travel behind German lines in 1944, striking terror into the hearts of Nazi soldiers. The Bastards are headed by Lieutenant Aldo Raine — the role we’d imagine Tarantino is hoping to land Brad Pitt for — described by the script as a ‘hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee,’ who has around his neck a scar from where he survived a lynching. (“The scar will never once be mentioned,” Tarantino writes.) In a parallel story, Inglorious Bastards follows a French Jewish teenager named Shosanna who survives the massacre of her family and flees to Paris, where she winds up running a movie house during the Nazi occupation…
The script is definitely the ur-text of Quentin Tarantino’s career up to now; it combines his love of old movies (war movies, Westerns, and even prewar German cinema), his attraction to powerful female protagonists, his love of chatter, and his willingness to embrace the extreme — visually and in his storytelling. (The flashbacks have particularly Tarantinoian flourishes: a thought bubble pops out of a character’s head to introduce one, while another is shot spaghetti Western style.) All in all, it reads like Kill Bill meets The Dirty Dozen meets Cinema Paradiso.”
Quentin has promised to shoot and complete production on Bastards in time for a premiere at Cannes next spring, provided that he can find financing from a willing studio tout d’suite.
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