Quentin Tarantino on Inglourious Basterds | Film4 Interview Special

an American Secret Service outfit that lives deep behind enemy lines the Germans call them the bastards subasta yes cuz these Yanks have been them the devil that's about it you heard about us you probably heard we ain't in the prisoner taking business we gonna kill in Nazi business doesn't business see that moon so when I started years ago and started writing it years ago I had a different storyline and the reason I couldn't really finish it years ago was because that story line was just too big it just wasn't a movie it could have been a 12 hour miniseries but it wasn't a movie and I remember thinking me what I'm too big for movies you know and so I put it away and so when I came back to it and I really wanted to actually make it a movie I realized what I would have to do is has come up with a new story I'd come up with all the characters and I came up with the idea of the bastards themselves and that's where I came up with the idea of the German soldier Frederick Zoeller who had killed all these people was a huge hero in Germany and they make a movie about his life and the bastards job is to blow up the premiere of that movie July 3rd I got a phone call I saved this message July 3 got this phone call and he said hey Lawrence I got the script you want to read it and thirteen and a half weeks later from that day we started shooting in Berlin it's like a week later he flew to France and met with Brad two weeks later we flew to Berlin and we just and we just hit the ground running they can't expect me to divulge information that would put German life's in danger well now why that's where you're wrong because that's exactly what I expect I need to know about germs hiding in trees and you need to tell me and you need to tell me right now I respectfully refuse sir actually we're all tickle here to say that quite frankly watching Donnie bee dances to death is close we ever get you on the movies Donnie yeah gasps German here what's death to country a blah him it was the least enjoyable of all of my shoots because it was just a tremendous amount of pressure I mean the if okay before wanting an idea of how something like that works they say you have three days to do a scene and you know you do your best you try to get it done in three days let's say you're a little Wong say you have a little bit of an overlap and so what you do is then you roll over to the next day and try to finish it at least by lunch and then so you'd finish it by lunch and then you take a bunch of other stuff that you can do and make up your day for the rest of the day now you know that's a very comfortable way of working but the opposite is what we were doing which was basically you know you have you know say again say let's say same scenario three days I have three days to do it no there is no mañana all right it is I have to I won't make my schedule if I if I keep rolling it over so even though we might go late on that third day we're going to finish it unless it literally is just a situation that I'm making this horrible artistic compromise it's gonna ruin the movie short of that we are going to get done on those three days now when you finish that and maybe on the drive home that night I can feel some sort of satisfaction of being able to do it but not much because I'm right back at that same situation again the very next day and the very next day after that and the week after that and during the whole damn shoot so it's you know it's a lot of pressure just noise I came this quinoa's Tosca Tasha Borden muzzle spicy month so whatever came totally his probably inside there's no key no mystery isn't in ionizes it's a huge blank sheet of you guys for the Scott Smith gabbatha mr. Dada Paterno Coco under a noise guide it's gotta size as a Lester unit son Mac there few other that's gotta feel like the runs in my zone some of the boats I kinda do come again I wanna be honest with him he really doesn't let anything pass you know he's really on it what's really particular about him too is that there's no monitor he's right next to camera and and watching you which is a little unsettling at first sees from your eye line and you know he's laughing and he's you know make you fight comments and a little bit so it took a minute to get used to it so you're Aldo the Apache so you're the Jew hunter I'm a detective damn good detective finding people is my specialty so naturally I worked for the Nazis finding people and yes some of them were Jews but Jew hunter just a name that stuck we went to her first day of casting on Saturday and we cast on that next day Daniel Bruhl and til Schweiger but the end of the day Quinn was feeling a little kind of I guess II was off and about 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning on Sunday he calls us down to his room and said you know I might have written a role that can't be cast and if I can't find this person I don't think we should make the movie well literally hours later this is Sunday this Sunday morning Sunday around I don't know mid-morning in walks Christoph Waltz and there was you know very discreetly in the background Lawrence bender the producer and then Scranton and you talked to Quentin that Quentin looks at you you know and you chat and it's you know a very old-fashioned very classical very personal amicable you know in a way you know open conversation it's like a social meeting yeah he was speaking in French then he'd went to English and a certain point he went into German and then he went into a little Italian and Quinton and I just looked at each other and our jaws were down to our knees we just could not believe it and Christophe was so humble when he left he said you know Thank You mr. Tarantino it's such a you know pleasure then you know we looked at him said no you don't understand thank you and you've walked out of the room and we just high-five each other that's uh bingo is that the way you say that's a bingo you just say bingo she made me watch I think 25 films not necessarily German but just you know at that time of that era and actresses that I had never heard of you know that's what his genius comes in because he he bombards you was information and then you sort of make it your own but I think we had a very clear idea I mean we just clicked right we really created this together and he has this very early on notice this this lovely figure of speech that he uses very often he says okay here's the thing the thing and I kind of caught on to the thing because that's what it's about it's the thing it's not about me it's not about Clinton it's love yeah it's about the thing now the thing about it is if one wants to think of this movie as a fairy tale or a Fantasia you're welcome to feel feel free that's not really exactly where I'm coming from on it where I'm coming from is this in the course of my story my characters change the course of the war now that didn't happen because my characters didn't exist but if they had have existed everything that happens is fairly possible if there had been a Fredrick Zoeller who did what he did at that time in the war I'm sure gurbles would have made a movie about him the way America made a movie about Audie Murphy and if Fredrick Zoeller looked like Daniel Bruhl and mrs. charming then he could have been cast as the lead and then they could very well have had a big premiere and so on and so on and so on assistant butcher hunt and a Dodger fan should I don't touch his vest jeez I'm just fishing it out to me but I start to military if you don't stop you know família not finally manzano demon allison DC from the Machine of the land and of the business yes I can definitely always surprise myself in fact if I don't surprise myself then that's kind of the time to hang it up and one of the reasons I'm kind of able to do that is is it's not like I have to kind of write for a living it's not like I'm a professional screenwriter there always is this aspect that I'm having to remember how it is I do what I do it always just has to start little by little coming back to me oh yeah that's how I do it oh yeah that's the process and I think that's the thing that keeps it keeps it fresh because everything is always square one every single solitary time I start a new thing [Music] [Applause] you

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Length: 9min 47sec (587 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 15 2019

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[u/sthanuj]

The opening act is just amazing.

[u/UNiTE_iGNiTE]

Probably Quentin Tarantino’s 2/3 best film next to Reservoir Dogs Inglorious Basterds hits it out of the park with amazing dialogue and acting from the likes of Brad Pitt, Micheal Fassbender and of course Christoph Waltz. This movie is in my top 10 along with Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

[u/pinktortoise]

God I loved this movie 😍

[u/fokaiHI]

It’s great to hear them about how important casting is. His films have always been casted great.

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Great post to wake up to.

[u/kurfer]

I feel this was his best movie, everything about it is amazing. I just fucking love it.

[u/frabotly]

Film four late night airing are the best basic education I got in films and I love them for it.

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