New Tarantino film attracts critics

Antipodean Andy · Sep 7, 2008

Tarantino's WWII drama draws fire in Germany - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A leaked script of Quentin Tarantino's World War II drama Inglorious Bastards already is stirring up controversy for scenes of vengeful Americans bashing, scalping, shooting and strangling German soldiers.

What began as an internet murmur has gone mainstream with a recent newspaper article by Tobias Kneibe, film editor of the Suddeutsche Zeitung. He predicts that the project could have an explosive effect similar to that of Tom Cruise's World War II drama Valkyrie, which initially was barred from filming in certain locations and has already been savaged in the German media even though it doesn't hit theatres 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 liked 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."

More potential fuel for the fire: Tarantino's pulp fiction version of German history will almost certainly get German state financing.

Germany's DFFF film fund gives automatic tax breaks for local shoots, and Inglorious Bastards is set to shoot almost entirely in Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin.

"I don't see how it should not be eligible for DFFF money," said Kirsten Niehuus, director of the Berlin-Brandenburg regional film fund.

The New York-based Weinstein Company, which is producing the film, declined comment.
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