Our buddies over at Tarantino Archives were lucky enough to score an exclusive set visit to Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.” It’s a very long, yet thorough and intimate first-hand account of being on the set of the WWII epic during the filming of the film’s fuse-lit, tense climax in a French cinema that is screening “Nation’s Pride,” (“Stolz der Nation“) a Nazi propaganda film “concocted by Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich’s propaganda minister.”
Here are some highlights and meta-posters from the films within the film will be posted throughout.
Much to our happiness, Tarantino will stick to the script and each language (English, French, German) will be spoken in its native tongue with subtitles (which surely help the European market; we were worried he’d pull a “Valkyrie”).
“The French will speak French, the Germans speak German and the Americans speak. It’s about a three-way split. For instance, the whole episode in La Lousianne, that’s all in German.”
As previously reported, the film is still on track to premiere at Cannes.
“So far so good,” QT says. “We hope. That’s the trick, it all depends on can I finish it up this month, the big climax, can I finish that up this month…. If I can get done by the first week of February then we should be fine. It’ll be a crunch but we should be able to do it.”
Without Ennio Morricone, Tarantino will just do the score as he has in the past by, “compiling it from different soundtracks and stuff.” Archives say Morricone’s role was just a “rumor,” but considering the composer was interviewed by Variety about the film, that seems incorrect.
Original 1978 “Inglorious Bastards” director Enzo Castellari has a cameo in the film as a Nazi (No it’s not a remake, Quentin was just inspired by the film and decided to play homage by borrowing the title – probably why he spelled it differently too).
From our end, there seems to be some confusion as to what role actor Omar Doom (who has no CV to speak of other than ‘Basterds’ and “Death Proof” – Quentin seems to love him) is actually playing (TA once confirmed this cast list). Tarantino Archives tells us that Doom was one of the final actors in this climax scenes speaking gibberish Italian which either means he was written into the finale or he’s actually playing PFC Hirschberg, a role originally thought to be intended for Samm Levine (yes, we’re nerds for details). Or it means Levine was never meant to play that character and someone got it wrong somewhere along the lines, but if that’s the case, it means Doom has a much bigger part than anyone thought (or that his star status “deserves”).
Anyhow, check out the Tarantino Archive for the full report.