Quentin Tarantino Will Tweak 'Inglourious Basterds'
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The version of Inglourious Basterds that played to mixed reviews at Cannes won't be the version we see, for better or for worse. Quentin Tarantino is heading back into the editing bay next month, and giving the film an extra scene or two. (And nothing is harder to write about than a film you and the rest of the moviegoing world hasn't even seen, so bear with me here.)The director admitted to Variety's Anne Thompson that he felt overfiddling had hurt Death Proof, so he deliberately put Basterds on a Cannes deadline -- but it was one that was so tight that he had to rush "a dripping-wet print" to the festival. As a result, Basterds was 19 minutes less than he needed to retain final cut.
So, he's adding footage back in. One is a scene that he filmed, but hasn't yet assembled that introduces the characters of Michael Fassbender and Diane Kruger's more thoroughly. For those of us who didn't get to see the film at its Cannes debut, that means little. But if you read the script, it comes before the La Louisiane sequence. However, if you're hoping to see Maggie Chung as Madame Mimieux, you'll be disappointed. The scenes between Mimieux and Melanie Laurent's Shoshanna Dreyfuss won't be restored as Tarantino feels they don't add to the narrative.
But the final edit might rest on audience approval. Tarantino's going to be doing some test screenings "outside of California" to see how the film plays to the people, and will fine tune it from there -- but hopefully not to the point of Death Proof fiddling ...
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5-26-2009 @ 10:19AM
Jeremy said...
In what ways were Death Proof tweaked? I'm not aware of this.
Also, speaking as someone from the South, Brad Pitt has a terrible accent in the trailers I've seen from Inglourious Basterds. If this were a comedy then I'd accept it but it's seriously like nails on a chalkboard to my ears.
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5-26-2009 @ 12:02PM
Matt said...
Jeremy, who gives a fuck what southern people think?
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5-26-2009 @ 12:08PM
Jeremy said...
Obviously you do, Matt. Hence your reply.
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5-26-2009 @ 2:38PM
lw said...
Seriously Matt, what's your problem? The accent in question does sound a little silly to my Southern ears as well. Douche...
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5-26-2009 @ 4:29PM
Jane Curtain said...
I heard this movie could easily lose an hour. And QT wants to add stuff? That's not exactly listening to the audience is it. Oh well as long as it's not going to be IB Part 1 and IB Part 2. That is a rip-off...
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5-27-2009 @ 4:17AM
ghostwriter said...
After Death Proof I'm not holding out for a winner here...
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