Taking some baseball bats and really explaining things to them
Since the day the movie’s come out, I’ve been writing this overbearing, endlessly emphatic megapost about how Inglourious Basterds is like the most exciting and personally significant new movie I’ve seen in five years. But…I dunno - do you get the gist if I post just this?
Listen lil Levs in Hebrew school - when yr scared about the Holocaust you’re better off fantasizing about the Basterds than about the King of Denmark (or, Schindler, Tom Cruise, duh etc.) There’s more than one kind of fairy tale.
Picture that with 3 pages of windup and breakdown. Oh and this:
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