Dace Spring 2010 videolook with music by Lili
Nazi-Cinema Smackdown: Inglourious Basterds vs. The Inglorious Bastards
Quentin Tarantino’s Nazi-killing extravaganza Inglourious Basterds borrows a title and basic premise — disreputable men on a mission in World War II — from 1978’s The Inglorious Bastards (or Quel maledetto treno blindato), an Italian B movie starring a cigar-chomping badass (Fred Williamson) and directed by Tarantino hero Enzo G. Castellari. That said, the original concerns a gang of soldiers awaiting court-martial who attempt to escape to Switzerland but instead get caught up in a German-sabotaging suicide mission, and it doesn’t feature even one guy getting a swastika chiseled into his forehead. But just to be sure we weren’t missing anything, we compared the two in a few major cinematic categories, from Violence Visited on Nazis to Topless Lady Nazis Firing Guns.
Unrelated: Whenever you look at these Hugo Boss-designed SS uniforms, which are quite amazing in their own right, don’t you get the feeling that haute-couture is inherently fascist?
