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The teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s next film has arrived courtesy of Yahoo. Check it out.
Inglourious Basterds follows a band of Jewish soldiers led by Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) dropped into German-occupied France for the sole purpose of revenge via mass slaughterings of Nazis. At the same time a German woman escapes execution to Paris and becomes the owner and operator of a cinema while crafting her own revenge plot. Needless to say, the two threads merge during the film. The film has a gigantic ensemble cast, including Diane Kruger, B.J. Novak, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Mike Myers, Maggie Cheung, Julie Dreyfus, Samuel L. Jackson, Daniel Bruhl, Omar Doom, Cloris Leachman, Til Schweiger, Michael Fassbender and more.
I don’t really know what to make of that footage. Brad Pitt’s accent is… weird. Having to watch Eli Roth act isn’t much of a plus either. I feel like there are some fun ideas at play here, but I’ll need to see more to make any kind of preliminary judgment about whether Tarantino’s pulling them off. Here’s hoping. I’m pretty much done with World War II stories unless they come in the form of HBO miniseries, but this one’s going after a different tone, so maybe it can deliver for me.
Inglourious Basterds hits theaters on August 21st, 2009.
