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Topic: Inglourious Basterds (Read 56453 times)
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Der Helm
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I misspoke! I meant to ask if there's been any ROLES that were German, other than Nazis, in American movies. The original question by Der Helm was why we don't use German native speakers for German roles, and I was having trouble thinking of non-Nazi roles that were of German nationality.
There were minor roles in Flash Forward and Fringe. I watched episodes with "weird" performances of German from both series back to back, maybe that is why it stood out to me. Also, the movie Beerfest.
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Engels
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Aaaanyway, if you think this movie is bad, console yourselves that it could have been this
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Musashi
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Starfish Hitler? I enjoyed every second of that.
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UnSub
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Out of interest, what is the boot? Downfall is one of those movies I need to see sometime.
"Das Boot" is "The Boat", a movie about a crew on board a U-Boat in WWII. There is a two hour cut and a four hour cut iirc, but it's meant to be a fairly realistic representation of the life such a crew would lead.
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NiX
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"Das Boot" is "The Boat", a movie about a crew on board a U-Boat in WWII. There is a two hour cut and a four hour cut iirc, but it's meant to be a fairly realistic representation of the life such a crew would lead.
Either version, make sure you're in the mood for it. I've always heard good things about it and caught it on TV, but was half awake so about 30 minutes in I got annoyed and shut it off.
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Ingmar
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EDIT: Oh hey a page 2. This was my contribution to the 'German roles' part of the discussion.
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« Last Edit: July 11, 2010, 01:12:48 AM by Ingmar »
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Tarami
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If you've seen Stalingrad, you roughly know what you're in for - a German war movie. Have the anti-depressants close at hand.
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EDIT: Oh hey a page 2. This was my contribution to the 'German roles' part of the discussion.
Uhm....Alan Rickman is British.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Der Helm
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If you've seen Stalingrad, you roughly know what you're in for - a German war movie. Have the anti-depressants close at hand. During that movie I had to laugh out loud a few times and tears of laughter were streaming down my face at the end.
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Engels
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Why's that? Its been a while since I saw it, but I don't remember it being -intentionally- funny.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Der Helm
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Why's that? Its been a while since I saw it, but I don't remember it being -intentionally- funny.
From memory: *upon arrival* "Wie ist dein Name ?" "Müller" "Davon haben wir hier jede Menge, zumindest bis zum nächsten Sturmangriff"
"What's your name ?" "Müller" "Oh... we have lots of those right now, at least till the next attack" *during a battle* "Was ist los ?" "Ich hab meinen Freund erschossen!" "... ist mir auch schon passiert. LOS! WEITER!"
"What's the matter with you ?" "I just killed my friend" "Happens to me all the time... Now MOVE!
*while slowly freezing to death (last scene)* "Sei blos froh, das sie uns nicht in die Wüste geschickt haben." "Wieso" "Wüste ist Scheiße. Viel zu heiß"
"Thank god they did not send us to Africa" "Why is that ?" "Africa is a shithole, way to hot"
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Engels
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Heh heh, ok, that's pretty good.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Der Helm
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Heh heh, ok, that's pretty good.
I was the only one in the whole audience who laughed at those scenes... I felt a bit guilty afterwards.
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Ingmar
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EDIT: Oh hey a page 2. This was my contribution to the 'German roles' part of the discussion.
Uhm....Alan Rickman is British. roles
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Musashi
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Right. But the discussion was real Germans in German roles.
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Ingmar
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To be exact it would be 'why not use real Germans for German roles?' And the answer is, because Alan Rickman is awesome.
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Musashi
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Heh. Yippee Ki Yay, motherfucker.
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1. Pure Tarantino Wank. 2. Even Tarantino can't make Brad Pitt suck. 3. Waste of Samuel L Jackson. If you're gonna have a narrator in the first part of the movie, have one in the second part.
Finally got a chance to see this. I completely agree with these 3 schild points. It was complete wankery of the type only Tarantino can do. The Basterds were immaterial to the story, interchangeable both on an individual level and as a group. It's like Tarantino had 3 stories he couldn't bother to flesh out into individual stories, so he mashed them all 3 into one jumbled up mess of a story that was part weirdo escapist Jewish revenge fantasy, part torture porn, and part Dirty Dozen homage. The SS guy being the only really interesting character was an utter disappointment, because it wasted a good performance on a supporting character in a movie that made little sense. Just saw this. Except for the part about Pitt, who was somewhat cringeworthy, I agree very much with what Haemish has to say. The whole overlong "celebrity head" sequence felt like it had been written by Tarantino at some point as a "Tarantino dialogue sequence" and he'd just decided to get it translated into German and drop it into this movie. It didn't feel out of place so much as generic Tarantino that could have been in any of his other films. Waltz was the best part of the film, and pretty much the only really good thing about it. OK, Diane Kruger was overall pretty good as well.
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Abagadro
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Now seen this 3 times.
First time: Wha? Second time: Hmm. Third Time: Ah!
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Musashi
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Really? I'm only on my second time. But I was to: ugh. alredy.
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HaemishM
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I'm not sure how you could watch it more than once without vomiting.
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