Yeah, I think it's really more about the pop-mythology of WWII (not just movies -- I'm fairly sure there's a decent amount of comic book in there as well, &c.) than it is about anything to do with the actual war. The first section is a: unspeakably brilliant and b: a bit misleading; the rest of the movie's not even on nodding terms with realism.
Which of course opens up a debate over whether this is something Tarantino ought to have been doing, and I can see both sides of that, but I'm fairly sure that is what he's doing.
And I can take or leave the Brad Pitt parts, personally, but Melanie Laurent is goddamn amazing.
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Date: 2011-11-10 03:25 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think it's really more about the pop-mythology of WWII (not just movies -- I'm fairly sure there's a decent amount of comic book in there as well, &c.) than it is about anything to do with the actual war. The first section is a: unspeakably brilliant and b: a bit misleading; the rest of the movie's not even on nodding terms with realism.
Which of course opens up a debate over whether this is something Tarantino ought to have been doing, and I can see both sides of that, but I'm fairly sure that is what he's doing.
And I can take or leave the Brad Pitt parts, personally, but Melanie Laurent is goddamn amazing.