Did the film inglorious bastards become a commercial box office success?”
For years, Quentin Tarantino has been rumored to make a WWII film called Inglorious Bastards and for the longest time I thought it was an original idea. To my surprise, his version is a loose remake of an Italian 1978 film, directed by Enzo G. Castellari. Whatever Tarantino does with his version (here), the original is sure a wildly fun picture. The film wastes no time moving along. It’s a quick picture, even at 100 minutes, but it’s constantly fun and entertaining. As the MPs are transporting a group of soldiers to be tried for various reasons, Nazis attack them. Instead of helping to fight back, they grab machine guns and escape, hoping to get to the Swiss border. Meeting a deserter from the Nazi armies, he unintentionally leads them back to the Allies and they join a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi train carrying a new, dangerous missile. It’s not too complicated of a plot, essentially an exploitive version of the Dirty Dozen, but the success of this picture relies on the non-stop
From the Wikipedia article: Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Krüger and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi Germany political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor (Laurent), and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Development on Inglourious Basterds began in 1998, when Tarantino wrote the script for the film. Tarantino struggled with the ending and chose to hold off filming and moved on to direct the two-part movie Kill Bill. After directing Death Proof in 2007 (as part of the double feature Grindhouse), Tarantino returned to work on Inglourious Basterds. The film went into production in October 2008 and was filmed in Germany with a production budget of $70 million. Inglourious Basterds premiered on May 20, 2009 at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, where it competed
The film was successful at the box office, grossing $320,351,773 in theaters worldwide, making it Tarantino’s highest-grossing film to date. It has received multiple awards and nominations, including eight Academy Award nominations. For his portrayal of Hans Landa, Christoph Waltz won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the BAFTA Award, Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
