Inglourious Basterds: A Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino
Language: English
Pages: 176
ISBN: 0316070351
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
With such iconic films as the Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Volumes 1 & 2, and Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino has become the most famous and revered writer/director of his generation. Now he's back with his most ambitious movie yet: the World War II epic Inglourious Basterds. Starring Brad Pitt and filmed on location in Germany and France, it has the largest cast of characters of any Tarantino film to date. The movie will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009.
The action tale follows the parallel story of a guerilla-like squad of American soldiers called "The Basterds" and the French Jewish teenage girl Shosanna who find themselves behind enemy Nazi lines during the German occupation. When the Inglourious Basterds encounter Shosanna at a propaganda screening at the movie house she runs, they conspire to launch an unexpected plot to end the war. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine--the leader of the Basterds. Raine is an illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to hunt down the Nazis.
Filled with Tarantino's trademark electric dialogue and thrilling action sequences, Inglourious Basterds is destined to become one of the most talked about films of 2009 and a landmark in cinematic history.
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She hands him her excellently forged papers. That’s obviously not what he meant, but he takes them anyway to read her name. COL. LANDA Emmanuelle Mimieux. That’s a very pretty name. SHOSANNA Merci. Are you finished with my papers? He hands them back. GERMAN SOLDIER Mademoiselle. My name is Frederick Zoller. She gives no response. GERMAN SOLDIER It’s been a pleasure chatting with a fellow cinema lover. Sweet dreams, Mademoiselle. He gives her a little salute.
They cheers. BACK TO THE REAL GERMANS’ TABLE They continue to have a lot of fun playing their game. BACK TO THE OFFICERS’ TABLE MAJOR HELLSTROM I must say, that game they’re playing looks like a good bit of fun. I didn’t join them, because you’re quite right, Captain, officers and enlisted men shouldn’t fraternize. But seeing as we’re all officers here, (bowing to Bridget) … and sophisticated lady friends of officers, what say we play the game? Lt. Hicox begins to refuse when.
Pouring for the three soldiers. Major Hellstrom lifts up his beer stein and toasts: MAJOR HELLSTROM To a thousand-year Reich! They all mutter, “a thousand-year reich” and clink glasses. The Gestapo major puts down his beer stein, and then WE HEAR a CLICK under the table. MAJOR HELLSTROM Did you hear that? That’s the sound of my WALTER pointed right at your testicles. LT. HICOX Why do you have a Luger pointed at my testicles? MAJOR HELLSTROM Because you’ve just.
SERGEANT I’m a father! My baby was born today in Frankfurt! Five hours ago! His name is Max! We were in here drinking and celebrating! They’re the ones that came in shooting and killing! It’s not my fault! ALDO’S VOICE (OS) Okay, okay, it wasn’t your fault! What’s your name, soldier? GERMAN SERGEANT Wilhelm! ALDO’S VOICE (OS) That’s the same name as one of the guys you just killed! WILHELM They attacked us! ALDO’S VOICE (OS) Okay, Wilhelm… is anybody alive on.
ALDO How did the shootin’ start? BRIDGET The English man gave himself away. LT. ALDO How did he do that? BRIDGET He ordered three glasses. She holds up three fingers, middle to pinky. BRIDGET He ordered three glasses. She holds up three fingers, thumb to middle. BRIDGET This is the German three. The other is odd. Germans would and did notice it. LT. ALDO Okay, let’s pretend there were no Germans, and everything went exactly the way it was supposed.