Tarantino Talks 'Basterds' – Will It Be His 'Masterpiece'?
He wants to have a masterpiece before the decade's out...
Earlier today I brought you the "New York Times Magazine" feature interview with Diane Kruger who stars in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming WWII war epic Inglourious Basterds. The interview — which you can watch to the right — is part of the Sunday, May 3 feature in the magazine titled "The Call Back" by Lynn Hirschberg, which includes photos of Kruger and Tarantino taken by Jean-Baptiste Mondino and a quick interview with Tarantino.
The feature is now online right here and I have included the three questions in which Tarantino discusses Inglourious Basterds as it makes its way to Cannes this May prior to its upcoming August release. Here is the snippet:
When you're making a film, like this year's Inglourious Basterds, which will premiere at Cannes, is it hard to watch movies?
Maybe it's just this movie, but it's become very hard to concentrate on anything but the film I'm making. This was the hardest movie I've ever made.
Inglourious Basterds is a World War II epic that combines historical events with a vivid, pop sensibility. The movie stars, among others, Brad Pitt as an American lieutenant in search of Nazis and Diane Kruger as a German movie star/spy. It's both authentic and highly theatrical. Did you shoot on soundstages in America or in Europe?
We shot the film in Berlin and a little bit in Paris. I only cast actors who could speak English with their native accents. The Germans have accents, the French are French, and the English are English. During the war, your understanding of German, whether you were a French citizen or you were in a concentration camp, meant the difference between life and death. In Hollywood movies, Germans often have English accents, and I can't go for that contrivance. The proper accent could be the difference between success and failure.
On this movie, you worked very quickly. Was that partially to have the film ready in time for Cannes?
Yes. I wanted to have a masterpiece before the decade's out.
You can click here to read the entire article by Lynn Hirschberg and photos by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Below is a montage of the rest of the images, but there are much larger versions available with the piece.
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