From an United Press International article:
Starring Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Kruger, Cloris Leachman and Rod Taylor, the latest flick from the "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill" auteur is to premiere at France's Cannes Film Festival this spring.
"In my time on the set -- I feel I can say with confidence, that I witnessed the brutal deaths of over a 100 Nazis. It was glorious," movie critic Harry Knowles wrote in a posting on the Ain't It Cool News Web site. "A (expletive)load of Nazis dying. Seriously. If you thought Nazis died in 'The Dirty Dozen' ... brother, you ain't seen nothing yet."
Singapore's Straits Times, running a similar article, titles it "Tarantino's Nazi Hate-fest"; an excerpt:
Starting out as a broad comedy, the film segues into outright horror with Nazi's being hit with baseball bats and machine-gunned in huge numbers.
I'm not sayin' Nazis are good, I'm just sayin'. You have to wonder about people who enjoy such brutal "entertainment," and worry about a culture that produces it with such enthusiasm. The misdirection with the post title ought to throw into contrast the horror we might feel if a famous Korean director proceeded with such a "historical" film, your thoughts on Japanese occupation or World War II notwithstanding.
2 comments:
Looks great.
Key difference between the American-German vs. Korean-Japanese comparison: No one sees a real connection between being anti-Nazi and anti-modern German. The movie is not going to influence hatred towards Germans. We're over WWII. Koreans can't say the same about their views on Japan.
I get the feeling from this video, and from keeping in mind Quentin Tarantino's other work, that this movie is at least as much a condemnation of American militarism and vicarious bloodthirstiness of the average film-goer as anything that happened 68 years ago. Along the lines of what Party Pooper says, there is unoubtedly a good deal (perhaps too much to make it a good movie) of self-awareness on the part of the filmmakers as to the sickness of the warmongering, murderous attitudes we display as humans, which will unoubtedly be explored in the film. There is certainly no moral, absolute "right" in this trailer, and the victims seem to be more the Germans than scary, scary Brad Pitt. Of course, whether viewers will understand the conversation this film is taking part in--about hegemonic ideas of good and evil, and how completely insane people are--is surely uncertain. Most people probably never will question whether or not Brad Pitt and that kid from Freaks and Geeks are the Good Guys--Koreans certainly included. You do bring up a good point, though, Brian, and that is do people enjoy violent films because their prejudices are being lived out, stoked and stroked as some group of others are being violated? What a horrible thought. (Did non-Blacks enjoy Gangsta rap because it depicted the death of Black people?) It is completely ridiculous when someone feels righteous when a fake Nazi is 'killed' in a movie--as if there were some connection between someone 24 years old and those events from last century. On the other hand, many Koreans do walk around in Gen Pop under similar pretenses. Many issues here. Lots going on.
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