New "Inglorious Basterds" Poster

[AristotleP]

[Sheridan Passell]

I get the feeling they're not taking this film very seriously... And that's a shame.

[dalmatianjaws]

Yeah, well, it's not really his M.O.

I think the idea is that it's not a WWII movie, at least in terms of coining a genre out of the event. It's SET during the war, but has none of the trappings of the films we usually make about it.

I have no desire to see this.

But I felt the same way about Kill Bill, and I utterly adore that one, so we'll see.

[Sheridan Passell]

I only saw Kill Bill Part 1, it was very well made, far better than Death Proof. Still kinda boring though... His films are slow.

[AristotleP]

Second poster. 

[Sheridan Passell]

As far as I can tell, Eli Roth has hardly any fans online. Even those that he does have (like me) know he's a truly shitty actor. So why would you devote a poster to him??

[AristotleP]

Cinematical have premiered the fourth poster in the Inglourious Batserds ‘…is a Basterd’ series. This one features Melanie Laurent, who portrays the film’s heroine Shosanna Dreyfus. Despite featuring only briefly in the trailers released so far, Basterds is pretty much Shosanna’s story. She certainly gets the most important close up in the whole film.

The first scene of Quentin Tarantino’s screenplay was published in the May issue of Vanity Fair and if you’ve read that, or the widely distributed pdf of the entire script, you’ll know how Shosanna’s story begins. She has very little to say and almost no room to move for pretty much the entire opening chapter but the sequence is very much all about her. Outwardly, Shosanna is a ’sit and wait’ character in many respects, where Brad Pitt’s Aldo Raine is always rushing onwards. It spoils nothing, I think, to reveal that he is heading straight towards her, even though he doesn’t know it, and that the outcome is truly explosive.

As well as being a Cesar winning actress, Laurent has also directed a short film that the IMDB and Wikipedia describe as “pornographic”. From the trailer on YouTube the deal seems to be that several female directors made short sex films for a TV anthology. Laurent’s appears to be about a man visiting a stripper and the two of them being separated by a perspex screen but interacting a fair amount nonetheless.

Note that the score stands at two male Basterds to two female with these posters now, and I think we’ve pretty much now run out of leading ladies to feature. I daren’t guess which of the other males might crop up but it seems that the Nazi characters are out of the running unless the slogan gets revamped. Just plain Bastards, maybe?

[Sheridan Passell]

He's going back to the character posters he did for Pulp Fiction, but the reason it worked there is that everyone was a big name actor. Bruce Willis. John Travolta.

Who the hell is Melanie Laurent, and who is going to decide to see the film based on this poster??

[T.ROSS]

These are badass posters, sheridan they should make a Bastard poster for you...

[Sheridan Passell]

Everybody already knows I am one, don't need to put it on a poster.

[David Hawk]

I personally don't think these posters work, i preferred the original teaser posters of the baseball bat and rifle etc, gave a much better feel for the movie.

[AristotleP]

Here's a few new character pictures.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/13/check-these-out-great-new-inglourious-basterds-photos/

[Sheridan Passell]

I like the cinema set at the bottom, has a good atmosphere to it.

[David Hawk]

Yeah and i love the angle of that shot as well, makes it look like something bigs going to kick off in that flick house