Quentin Tarantino on Inglourious Basterds | Film4 Interview Special

an American Secret Service team that lives behind enemy lines the Germans call them the bastards auction yeah 'cause these Yankees been the devil that's all you heard about us you probably heard we're not in the business of taking prisoners where we're going to kill Nazi businesses don't see that moon, so when I started years ago and I started writing it years ago, I had a different story and the reason I couldn't finish it years ago was because that story was too big, it just wasn't It's a movie, it could have been a 12 hour miniseries, but it wasn't a movie and I remember thinking I'm too old for movies, you know, so I put it aside and when I came back to it and I really wanted to make one movie.

I realized that what I would have to do is come up with a new story. I came up with all the characters and I came up with the idea of ​​the bastards themselves and that's where it came to me. with the idea of ​​the German soldier Frederick Zoeller who had killed all these people was a great hero in Germany and they make a movie about his life and the job of the bastards is to blow up the premiere of that movie on July 3rd. I received a phone call. I saved this message on July 3rd I got this phone call and he said: Hi Lawrence, I received the script that you want to read and thirteen and a half weeks after that day we started filming in Berlin, it's like a week later, he flew to France and met with Brad, two weeks later, we flew to Berlin and just got to work.

They cannot expect me to divulge information that would endanger the lives of Germans. Well, why are you wrong? Because that's exactly what I hope for. I need to know about the germs that hide in trees and you need to tell me and you need to tell me right now. I respectfully decline, sir. In fact, we're all tickled to say that, frankly, watching Donnie Bee dance himself to death is close to gripping. in the movies Donnie, yeah, gasp, German, here, what is death to the country, blah, him, he was the one I enjoyed the least of all my shoots because it was just a tremendous amount of pressure, I mean, if he's Well, before you want to have an idea of ​​how something like that works.

Let's say you have three days to do a scene and you know you're doing the best you can. You try to do it in three days. Let's say you're a little Wong. Let's say you have a little bit of overlap and what you do is then. Move on to the next day and try to finish it at least by lunch and then finish it by lunch and then grab a bunch of other things that you can do and make up your day for the rest of the day now. You know it's a very comfortable way to work, but the opposite is what we were doing, which was basically, you know, you have, you know, say it again, let's say, let's say the same scenario, three days, I have three days to do it, No, there is no tomorrow, it's okay.

I have to do it. I won't stick to my schedule if I keep renewing it, so even if we're late on that third day, we'll get it done unless it's literally just a situation where I'm doing this. horrible artistic compromise is going to ruin the movie before that, we're going to finish in those three days when you finish that and maybe on the way home that night I can feel some kind of satisfaction from being able to do it, but not much. because I'm back in the same situation again the next day and the next day and the next week and the whole damn photo shoot, so you know, it's a lot of pressure, just noise.

I came with this Tosca Tasha Quinoa. Borden snout spicy month so whatever is totally yours probably inside there is no key, there is no mystery, it is not ionized, it is a huge blank sheet of yours for Scott Smith gabbatha mr. Given Paterno Coco under a noise guide, it has to be the size of a Lester unit, son of Mac, there are a few others that must feel like the races in my area, some of the boats. I come back again. I want to be honest with him, he doesn't really leave anything. it happens, you know he's really into it, what's really particular about him too is that there's no monitor, he's right next to the camera and he's looking at you, which is a little unsettling at first, you see it from your eye line and you know he's laughing and you know what he does to you. fighting comments and a bit, so it took me a minute to get used to it, so you're Aldo the Apache, so you're the Jew hunter.

I'm a detective, a very good detective, finding people is my

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ty, so naturally I worked for the Nazis. Find people and yes, some of them were Jews, but Jew Hunter only one name stuck. We went to her first day of casting on Saturday and cast Daniel Bruhl and til Schweiger the next day, but at the end of the day Quinn was feeling a little bit. I guess he was out and about 7 or 8 on Sunday morning he calls us into his room and says, "You know, I might have written a role that can't be cast and I can't find it." this person I don't think we should make the movie right literally hours later this is Sunday this Sunday morning Sunday around I don't know mid-morning Christoph Waltz walks and he was, you know, very discreetly in the background Lawrence Bender the producer and then Scranton and you talked to Quentin, Quentin looks at you, you know, and you talk, and it's, you know, a very old conversation, very classic, very personal, friendly, you know, in a way, you know, an open conversation, it's like a meeting Social, yes, he was talking. in French, then it went into English and at one point it went into German and then it went into some Italian and Quinton and I just looked at each other and our jaws were down to our knees, we just couldn't believe it and Christophe was so humble when he left that He said, "You know." Thank my Lord.

Tarantino is a delight, so you know we looked at it, we said no, you don't understand, thank you and you walked out of the room and we high-fived each other, that's it, bingo, that's how you say it. a bingo, you just say bingo, she made me watch, I think 25 films not necessarily German, but you know, at that time of that era and actresses that I had never heard of, you know, that's where her genius comes in because she bombards you It was information. and then you make it your own, but I think we had a very clear idea, I mean, we just clicked well, we really created this together and he realized early on this beautiful figure of speech that he uses very often, he says.

Well, here's the thing and I realized because that's what it's about, it's not about me, it's not about Clinton, it's love, yeah, it's about the thing, now, the thing is, if you want to think in this movie like a fairy tale or a fantasy you can feel free that's not exactly where I come from where I come 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 They existed but if they had existed everything that happens is quite possible if there had been a Fredrick Zoeller who did what he did at that time in the war I'm sure the whispers would have made a movie about him the same way America did. 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 very well could have had a big release and so on, etc., hunting butcher's assistant and Dodger fan, if I don't touch his vest, jeez, I'm just. catching me but I start to military if you don't stop you know family no finally apple tree demon allison DC of the Earth and Business Machine yes I can definitely always surprise myself in fact if I don't surprise then that's the time to hang it up and one of the reasons why What I am able to do is that it is not that I have to write to make a living, it is not that I am always a professional screenwriter.

It's this aspect that I have to remember how I do what I do it always has to start little by little coming back to me oh yes, that's how I do it oh yes, that's the process and I think that's what keeps it going keeps it fresh because everything is always back to square one every time I start something new you