Film Assignment

I chose to watch the movie “Inglorious Basterds” by Quentin Tarantino. This film is quite an interesting one, because it pretty much changes the whole entire outcome of the Second World War In this movie, the Basterds, a group of Jewish men set out to kill Nazis. But they do not just kill them; they mess with their minds and torture them as much as possible. It is interesting how most torture movies people seem grossed out and horrified by what they see. In this film, I felt no remorse for the people being tortured, and I guess it is because they were very bad people. All in all, the movie is about killing Nazis and a plan they made to kill a whole bunch of Nazis and Hitler himself in a movie theatre. There are other characters in the movie that help and have a story, but the Basterds are the most important.
For this particular movie, I chose to use the method of criticism known as Pentadic. Once again, as I have said before, I use this method because of the fact that I feel most comfortable with it, and it is the easiest for me to use. Pentadic criticism is the method that is used by grouping the context into labels that are as follows; Act, Scene, Purpose, Agency, and Agent. If this were to become a paper, I would have discussed how this event ending the entire world war would have worked, and how they would have pulled the whole thing off. Also, I would have looked at the motives of these men, and touched on how when one is determined enough, anything is possible.
Some example I would have looked at when discussing the plan for the movie theatre blowing up is something that was throughout the entire movie, and that is that the element of fear is not really there. In my opinion, everyone is very confident and I find that a little strange. Another example I would have looked at is in the beginning when the Jewish family is shot, and the girl gets away. This would have been an element of determination that Shoshanna, the Jewish girl that escaped, had used to carry out her plan. Another example of this over-confidence that I noticed would be the amount of sarcasm and humor displayed. For example, when Aldo is talking to a Nazi he says “We’re in the business of killing Nazis, and business is a-boomin’”. The way he says it kind of makes you chuckle is a way.
All in all, I think this is a good movie, and has a lot of potential for analysis.