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I thought this was a pretty funny little tidbit I came across there.
I was just browsing through teletext a while ago and was checking tonight’s movie previews. On BBC 2 tonight there’s movie on called Taking Sides.
Here’s what was in the synopsis:
"Post WWII drama. During de-nazification, a brilliant German orchestra conductor is quizzed about his role in the Third Reich. Starring Harvey Keitel. (2001)"
Thought it was pretty interesting after skimming through IB a few hours before, haha… ^-^
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Where are you from?
And what film was being shown on BBC 1 at the same time? None other than Kill Bill: Volume 2!
Gallipoli (ok its WW1 but id thought id throw that out there because i wouldn’t mind seeing some freaky French electronic music break out in some scene )
And what film was being shown on BBC 1 at the same time? None other than Kill Bill: Volume 2!
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I’m from Norn Iron. Damn right I watched it last night too, hadn’t seen it in a while. Quite enjoyed it more than Vol. 1 last week. The only part where it started to drag was when the “I really like comic books” and pregnency part came in.
^In the same league as Dirty Dozen with the title group being a rowdy and fearful bunch of U.S. & Canadian soldiers who got their nickname from the German forces.
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I know the silent classic ‘The Kid’ gets discussed in one scene, along with Leni Riefenstahl’s mountain climbing films. This, of course, means I’m renting them tout de suite. I want to be in-the-know for my first watchthrough of IB.
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This is a great idea. Remember (For the Shosana section of the film) it’s either gonna be propoganda night at the German theater or a celebration of German cinema. I’m actually gonna watch plenty of early German cinema in preparation. Among my watch-list:
The Blue Light
Warning Shadows: A Nocturnal Hallucination
The Student of Prague
Tartuffe
M
La Habanera
The Hands of Orlac
Faust
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (An all-time favorite of mine)
What surprised me in the script was the amount of explicit references made to European, especially German pre-war cinema. Before Inglorious Bastards coming out we must all watch “The White Hell of Pitz Palu”, starring Leni R.
Also, there are references made to:
the character of Sherlock Holmes
certain scenes from The Good, Bad and the Ugly; Once Upon A Time in America
Edgar Wallace is the British crime story writer. His stories were made into films by German film Studios.
Winnetou was a fictional Apache Indian character. They made movies about him. I doubt its that person. Must just be the name he used.
IB sounds like QT is mixing his realer than real world universe and his movie movie universe together. I love how he’s having all these historical film figures guest star in the movie! 8)
I would love to see a Das Boot reference. Das Boot actually expands to a year, so you see the cast grow beards through time. I would love to see QT do something similar.
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I would love to see a Das Boot reference. Das Boot actually expands to a year, so you see the cast grow beards through time. I would love to see QT do something similar.
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Juergen Prochnow would play a good nazi, but he’s too old now, and he’s done it way to much I guess
Winnetou and Drummond are merely mentioned and/or discussed in the script. They don’t actually make an entrance, although I agree it would be nice if they did. But there’s an English spy in there, whose physical appearance and demeanor seem to hint at George Sanders’s portrayal of The Saint.
PS: Seba, if you’re interested in Bulldog Drummond, check out for an interesting incarnation of his character in Moore’s “The Black Dossier”: <LINK_TEXT text=“http://www.amazon.com/League-Extraordin … 140120306X”>Amazon.com</LINK_TEXT>
OK, I think I’ve been pointed towards one of the biggest apparent influences on the IB script. I haven’t seen this film, but I’ve just been reading up a little bit on it, and there are huge similarities with one of IB’s main plot points: Black Book (2006) - IMDb (Black Book it’s called)
I also think we can scratch all the other classic War movies…as IB will look nothing like any of them, except of course for using them as a starting point (The Ingolrious Bastards, Dirty Dozen etc.) before evolving into something completely different and unique for good or for worse, time will tell!
This is one I havent seen yet, but Ive wanted to. Im a big fan of Paul Verhoeven. I really cant say if its an influence or not because I havent read the script or seen this movie yet. It could very well be.
. . .the train is a really cool looking movie, especially that plane attack at the tunnel. good choice. saving private ryan had a cool soldiers-on-a-mission feel. another favorite war picture is peckinpah’s major dundee. . .
