It takes a lot of courage–and mastery–to create a 20-minute single-location scene as the beginning of a genre (War) know for sustainable action and adventure from start to finish.
What stands out first in Inglorious Bastards, Tarantino’s fictional version of WWII, is his well crafted dialogue, and Christoph Waltz’s delivery of the dialogue.
It’s a 20-minute scene, monologue heavy, rendered by Christoph Waltz (an unknown to American audiences at the time) in a mesmerizing way that had impressed Oscar voters so much, that they chose him as Best Supporting Actor that year.
Waltz’s calmly savvy delivery, confident rationalizations, and the fact that he knows exactly where the Jewish family is the whole time makes t all the more captivating- Waltz would’ve gotten the Oscar for this sequence alone.
This scene might have encouraged encouraged Tarantino to write The Hateful Eight (2015), unfortunately an inferior picture, in which the majority of the story takes place in a similar cabin with lots (too much) of so-so dialogue.
(The Hateful Eight is he biggest critical a nd commercial failure in Tarantino’s career)
In contrast, the Inglorious Basterds scene is amazing as a stand-alone, working effectively towards building one of the best WWII–ad Tranatino’s–movies.
Inglorious Basterds (2009): Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction WWII–Great Movie Opening, Monologue Delivered By Christoph Waltz, Who Won Oscar for It
Inglorious Basterds (2009)
It takes a lot of courage–and mastery–to create a 20-minute single-location scene as the beginning of a genre (War) know for sustainable action and adventure from start to finish.
What stands out first in Inglorious Bastards, Tarantino’s fictional version of WWII, is his well crafted dialogue, and Christoph Waltz’s delivery of the dialogue.
It’s a 20-minute scene, monologue heavy, rendered by Christoph Waltz (an unknown to American audiences at the time) in a mesmerizing way that had impressed Oscar voters so much, that they chose him as Best Supporting Actor that year.
Waltz’s calmly savvy delivery, confident rationalizations, and the fact that he knows exactly where the Jewish family is the whole time makes t all the more captivating- Waltz would’ve gotten the Oscar for this sequence alone.
This scene might have encouraged encouraged Tarantino to write The Hateful Eight (2015), unfortunately an inferior picture, in which the majority of the story takes place in a similar cabin with lots (too much) of so-so dialogue.
(The Hateful Eight is he biggest critical a nd commercial failure in Tarantino’s career)