comment #1

Caustic712 says ...

Stop typing, Wells! Read, damn you! REEEEAAAAADDDDD!!!!

And then type again.

Thanks,
Fanboys

comment #2

KeithNYC says ...

No new posts until you're done reading it. Your review has to go up ASAP.

Many of us still believe QT still has it in him to make another great film. Perhaps the glory days of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown aren't gone forever...............

Make us believe Jeff!!

comment #3

Balthazar says ...

I have a bad feelng about this

comment #4

shepherd12345 says ...

Fill in the blank: this is the most hotly-anticipated script since ______________.

Hate all you want; we're all here right now because of QT.

comment #5

Balthazar says ...

If anyone wanted to send me a copy at cotto@ydr.com, I wouldn't be opposed. Just saying.

comment #6

Dan Revill says ...

Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about this?

I'll just wait for the finished product.

comment #7

huntermdaniels says ...

If anyone has a copy I have a whole bunch of scripts I can trade.

email me about it

straighttovideo@gmail.com

comment #8

D.Z. says ...

Jeff: No big deal if you're the last to read it. It's not like it'll offer anything new you haven't seen before.

comment #9

Roman says ...

I have a tons of new scripts to trade. would love this one for myself.I'd love to read it.

proman84@gmail.com

comment #10

supertaster says ...

Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about this?

The nazi scalps exerpt is enough to make me avoid this until it's running on TNT in five years. There is so much else out there that is fresher and less pretentious.

comment #11

longrunner says ...

Aladdin Sane says ...
Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about this?

Nope.

comment #12

VictorLazlo says ...

SUPERTASTER: You're calling a speech about taking Nazi scalps PRETENTIOUS? Do you guys read your own words?

comment #13

SEGASTUD says ...

Let me just echo what everyone else is saying and if anyone has the script and they send it to me at bleipzig@gmail.com it will end this big scavenger hunt. Thanks

comment #14

DarthCorleone says ...

I very much give a shit about this. In fact, I'm so curious and excited about it, that I wonder if I actually want to know anything about the script and should just avoid spoiling the film experience by waiting for the movie instead.

comment #15

Dan says ...

Fill in the blank: this is the most hotly-anticipated script since _____Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones_________.

comment #16

Jeffrey Kunze says ...

I've been waiting to read this script forever. Please, if anyone has a copy, please send it to:

iReallydontGiveAshit.com

comment #17

corey3rd says ...

Fill in the blank: this is the most hotly-anticipated script since __Killer Sloth___or ____Jesse Jackson Cuts Off Your Nuts___.

comment #18

Rothchild says ...

THERE IS NOTHING PRETENTIOUS ABOUT SCALPING NAZIS. Especially when the lead villain is called The Jew Hunter.

comment #19

Circumvrent says ...

Please allow me to echo many other's sentiments, but with the following modifier:

Circumvrent@gmail.com

comment #20

astrophore says ...

Supertaster, I hear Tarantino just jotted down a new script idea on a cocktail napkin. Any thoughts on freshness? Suggestions for the marketing campaign? Please advise.

comment #21

CinemaPhreek says ...

Man, I am going to have a lot of fun tonight signing people up for gay websites....

comment #22

Chapman Carruthers says ...

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Enjoy their weekly promotions.

comment #23

theprisoner6 says ...

Me too! Me too! Please? Pretty please? Thanks to a kind soul who wouldn't mind sending it here:

sanitystream@yahoo.com

A thousand blessings on you! Merry New Year!

comment #24

Richard_Stone says ...

Fairly detailed script review here, with hilarious handwritten cover with misspelled title and some excerpts:

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/07/weve_got_quentin_tarantinos_in.html

If real, seems like in the same vein of Kill Bill. Plot separated in chapters, one chapter in black in white, thought bubbles. Typical QT gimmicks, in short, a "movie world movie", if I remember QT's expression correctly.

comment #25

Nick Plowman says ...

Yeah, I got that same copy too, with the two PDFs.

comment #26

TheJeff says ...

I'm convinced that three percent of the English-speaking world understands the meaning of the word pretentious, and the other ninety-seven percent use it to describe things they don't like.

comment #27

messiahcomplexio says ...

Does it bother anyone else that a script that was delivered days ago is being horse traded all over the net? I mean, the man hasn't even shot a frame yet! If it was your script, how would you feel..?

Oh, and Cannedlftr@aol.com.

I offer the script from The Hobbit, the Avengers, and the freshly dug-up skull of Jack Valenti in trade.

I'll be waiting by my inbox in anticipation.

comment #28

Richard_Stone says ...

Yeah, soon everyone and their dog will have this PDF, the tipping point doesn't seem too far off. The PDF will probably be on Scribd before the end of the weekend. Will a studio want to invest in a movie that's being so pre-empted before the fact? Weinstein and Tarantino should have opted for a more secretive strategy.

comment #29

Richard_Stone says ...

I'm betting right here right now Pitt passes on Inglouirious Basterds. The few excerpts I've in the link above and on Lationo Review suggests a childish war fantasy silliness that I can't see Pitt wanting to be a part of. I know Pitt makes goofy leftfield choices every now and then, but these movies remain a bit mature or "manly" in spite of their silliness, as opposed to "childish" in this case. If that makes any sense.

Can't really argue my case in depth, just a gut feeling.

comment #30

Edward Havens says ...

If it makes you feel any better, Jeff, I have not read, or have a copy of, IB. The only script I'm on the lookout for is Extract.

comment #31

Richard_Stone says ...

The wait is over.

http://rs272.rapidshare.com/files/128794613/INGLORIOUS_BASTARDS_1_1_.pdf

http://rs98.rapidshare.com/files/128795912/INGLORIOUS_BASTARDS_2_1_.pdf

comment #32

Balthazar says ...

OK, I just spent about four hours reading this sucker. It's entertaining. I'll give it that. There are some fun twists, and some satisfying twists. And some great, nerve-racking set pieces. But I think Knowles is off-base (imagine that) on his gushing praise for this film. Quick criticisms: There's actually not enough Aldo, the VO narrator makes no sense as a device, and the female lead has too abrupt of a personality change for me, which lost me on her character. Like I said, though, there are 3-4 really tension-filled set pieces in this. Good stuff. I think Landa is the best character in the whole script, by far. He'll be fun to play. ... Putting Hitler in this, meanwhile, is going to be tough in a film with a QT tone and sensibility.

comment #33

Terry McCarty says ...

I guess the next step could be an enterprising production office PA leaking an MP3 of the first table read of the script.

This process of reading the script and guessing the outcome of the final cut eminds me of a sardonic comment producer Saul David made in his book THE INDUSTRY re Pauline Kael reviewing an early cut of NASHVILLE; David compared this to "a basketball coach arriving at the maternity ward to pick out prospects."

comment #34

scooterzz says ...

nicely played, wells.....stirring the pot into a frenzy and encouraging piracy without really incriminating yourself......

and, byw....doesn't it seem 'bad form' to brag about obtaining a much sought after script without offering to share?..... doesn't this amount to nothing more than a 'neener-neener' post saying 'look what i have that you don't'? ......

i'm pretty sure i understand why the best screening invite you've gotten this summer is 'meet dave'......

comment #35

The InSneider says ...

Richard Stone and Nick Plowman, can you email the PDFs to me? I've got a ton to share, believe me... jeffrey.sneider@variety.com or mirajeff@aol.com. Thanks!

comment #36

DarthCorleone says ...

O.k. Now I have it. Whether I give into temptation is the question...

Agreed with the above - I do find this whole thing troubling. How does Quentin feel about it? Who's responsible for the leak? It's not difficult to watermark a script for confidentiality these days. Maybe he didn't care.

comment #37

vansmith says ...

this is an example of a guy who made a few great films but is basically pissing in the wind now. fucking ww2 flick, come on..at least make it iraq or afghanny. this is a guy that studios want to love and he gives them this nazis as bad guys is so passe. fuck him and his script

comment #38

vansmith says ...

if he's got nothing left himself he can do some more elmore leonard stuff or james ellroy at least.. or let me see him write the script for frankies machine with de niro.. this is why films suck for the most part.. QT - a guy who can actually stick his dick in but noooo he comes on his leg....

comment #39

lesterg says ...

"I do find this whole thing troubling. How does Quentin feel about it? Who's responsible for the leak? It's not difficult to watermark a script for confidentiality these days. Maybe he didn't care."

You also have to ask why the Weinsteins sent the script to every studio when they planned to make it themselves. It was inevitable that the script would leak...they had to know that.

In my opinion: they just didn't care. Maybe they'd rather it leak now so everyone forgets about it by the time the film opens. If Harvey were smart: he should have hosted it on his own website and charged.

comment #40

The InSneider says ...

Nick Plowman is almost as cool as Quentin Tarantino himself!

comment #41

corey3rd says ...

a proper editing would get this script under 120 pages.

A Hogan's Heroes script is more authentic. "Heer" instead of "Herr?" I understand that this is the mighty QT, but if I'm going hunting for $100 million worth of a budget, why doesn't Harvey Scissorhands pull out a red pen and correct this stoner epic?

comment #42

p.Vice says ...

The reason the script was leaked is to create buzz and excitement amongst -- gasp! -- us movie nerds, coincidentally the target audience for QT's movies. After Grindhouse bombed they're going to need a lot of excitement to get this thing off the ground, especially if Harvey doesn't have the cash to pay for it himself.

I mean, do ya think Tarantino is courting Brad Pitt because he wants a good looking face? He needs a star with box office draw so he can get away with casting Bo Svenson and the like.

comment #43

mitchtaylor says ...

Wowee wow! mitchtaylor34@gmail.com! I have no scripts to trade! People should send me ALL THEIR SCRIPTS!!!

It's the right thing to do.

comment #44

corey3rd says ...

"pipe bowel"

WTF? Harvey is shopping this?

Stay in school kids!

comment #45

moorish says ...

Thoughts on first reading... (MILD SPOILERS)

This script doesn't need to be 165 pages long. There quite a few scenes that, in classic Tarantino style, involve the characters rambling on in conversation for longer than is necessary to make the point. This worked fine in Pulp Fiction, but Kill Bill has pretty much exhausted my enthusiasm for it. Several scenes could also be folded into others (the two Shoshanna/Frederick scenes for starters).

There is also too little time spent with the Basterds (sic). Only Aldo and Donowitz are really developed to the point where we care. Too may characters are introduced and then bumped off very quickly (shades of Desperado, of all things). There are some very tense moments in the script however, and the main idea is a great one. It does read a little Kill Bill to me - especially the sections in different colours, the chapters, etc. However that's not a compliment.

Like other commenters I wonder what QT is thinking by putting Hitler and other real figures in (Churchill seems totally perfunctory). Not to get into the details of the climax, but actual historical fact is pretty much taking a massive dick-slapping from this movie. But then, that's probably Quentin's aim!

And regarding Harry Knowles' rave review... madness.

comment #46

supertaster says ...

you would think i told some people on here that their kid is ugly .... wow, harsh.

i want 100 nazi scalps and that means 100 nazi skulls. go out and beat, shoot, burn 100 of those blue-eyed motherhubbers, whatever gets your dick hard, and don't come back until you've got 100. Not toes, hands, or sacks...SKULLS and the hair that sits on top of 'em. 100 of 'em.

this kind of stylized, circular dialogue is exhausting. I thought it was cool when I was 14 and crushed that Pulp Fiction lost to Forrest Gump... 15 years later, not so cool.

Tarantino's best work in the last 20 years was the altercation he got into with that paparazzo outside starbucks. Comedic gold.

I didn't mean to impugn anyone by saing *I'm* not interested in this, but clearly some people have bigger voids to fill in their lives than others and took it personally....so enjoy living vicariously through QT and may you have beautiful children.

comment #47

MickTravis says ...

Thanks, Richard Stone!

comment #48

Zimmergirl says ...

So I guess we can all agree that it's no longer cool to have this script? Onward to the pursuit of the table read mp3. Outta my way, outta my way!

comment #49

T. Holly says ...

I only accept coverage. Is anyone cool enough to post some.

comment #50

J. Huff says ...

So does the script sound like something that would have come out of WWII-era? Because the last half of DEATH PROOF was pretty much women yelling profanity rather than actual dialogue, and Tarantino still doesn't seem to be able to write characters who don't drop the F-bomb every other word. Not to say that there wasn't plenty of salty language in WWII, only that it would be nice if a WWII movie sounds like it. This is a (not "the") difference between someone like PT Anderson, who is notoriously foul-mouthed IRL but can write scripts like Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood, and QT.

comment #51

Rothchild says ...

Supertaster,

You're a gigantic douchebag.

comment #52

Rev. Slappy says ...

Wow, it only took him 16 pages to show a woman's bare feet.

comment #53

Balthazar says ...

J.Huff, I found the profanity surprisingly reserved.

Language-wise, some of this could have happened in WW2. (Although there are a few over-the-top QT speeches that don't exist anywhere but in QT films)

Plot-wise, none of this could have happened in WW2. It's a pure-fantasy, 2008 take on WW2 from a director who has absorbed three generations worth of WW2 epics (mostly the cheesier ones)

(And I don't necessarily mean that as a 100 percent good thing.)

comment #54

ZayTonday says ...

Quentin: You're apostrophe misuse is out of fucking control. Its driving me nuts.

C WUT I DID THAR

comment #55

corey3rd says ...

Wouldn't a Jewish guy buying a baseball bat ask for the type of model used by Hank Greenberg?

This is a 90 minute movie. It'd be a fun thrill ride if they cut down the scenes that go as long as a Saturday Night Live sketch. The Basterds are such minor characters that I almost forgot they were in the film.

It's a Hogan's Heroes episodes that went out of control. It's an Ann Frank revenge flick. I pity any studio executive who has to ponder buying it. There's material to work with - but Tarantino won't be letting them alter his bloated vision. Two movies? No. I wouldn't pay to see the first half of this film.

comment #56

ZayTonday says ...

All nitpicking aside though, I love this script. I know Wells will predictably come out and say "bu bu bu but it's over 120 minutes, so it's bad oh noes", but it Quentin doing a WW2 epic, being influenced not by the actual war, but every WW2 war movie ever made.

I'd say it's the equivalent of Sergio Leone doing a western; not being influenced by the actual wild west period, but by all the classic western movies that had come before, which is cool in my book.

comment #57

T. Holly says ...

Get Lorenzo Semple to polish it up and raise the money online.

comment #58

corey3rd says ...

like how Sergio Leone was influenced by stealing his script from a certain Japanese film?

This isn't that epic. There's very few locations. How many real scenes are there? How long can the bar scene go on before you want to just want to scream at the screen "get on with the move!" The action scenes are really spaced apart. The Basterds exploits come off like Three Stooges routines (which is proper since they were a crack Jewish unit that tangled with Hitler).

Corman could have bashed this out in two weeks.

comment #59

Balthazar says ...

Yes, the bar scene is waaaaaaaaaaay too long, and filled with protagonists who have not had significant (if any!) screen time up to that point. For a set piece of that length, we need characters we're invested in. It's going to have to be rewritten to put Aldo front and center, I think, and not just a guy who comes in after (most of) the smoke has cleared. I do like the character of the German movie starlet, though. In fact I like that character even more than I like Shoshanna.

comment #60

Nick Plowman says ...

Damn straight The InSneider, and don't you forget it bud ;)

comment #61

D.Z. says ...

Roth: "THERE IS NOTHING PRETENTIOUS ABOUT SCALPING NAZIS. Especially when the lead villain is called The Jew Hunter."

Um, right, it's got as much depth as Ilsa...

TheJeff: "I'm convinced that three percent of the English-speaking world understands the meaning of the word pretentious, and the other ninety-seven percent use it to describe things they don't like."

I generally use it to describe people who like to shoot films in ivory towers...

Balthazar: "Putting Hitler in this, meanwhile, is going to be tough in a film with a QT tone and sensibility."

I really hate going off on a limb for the guy, but if they could get away with putting him in Indy 3, then there should be no problem with 'Bastards.

scooter: I imagine Jeff wants to finish it first, to share with the rest of the class.

supertaster: "this kind of stylized, circular dialogue is exhausting. I thought it was cool when I was 14 and crushed that Pulp Fiction lost to Forrest Gump... 15 years later, not so cool."

That's because Gump actually had characters you could care about, while PF was just a bunch of one-dimensional parodies. But I understand why people hate Gump, and I tend to have more similar negative feelings to Apollo 13.

comment #62

Balthazar says ...

Hitler was background in Indy 3 and didn't truly do anything massively out of character.

In Basterds, he gets two big scenes, the first of which will be crucial to QT establishing his film's specific WW2 tone and the second of which will be endlessly debated and controversial if QT remains true to his script

comment #63

D.Z. says ...

I can't imagine it being any more controversial than "The Downfall".

comment #64

Balthazar says ...

Sadly, I have not seen Downfall. Have you read the last act of Basterds yet, DZ?

comment #65

D.Z. says ...

Balthazar: Nope. I don't have that kind of patience. The Darabont Indy 4 took more priority. I'll consider it eventually.

comment #66

goodvibe61 says ...

The script is wonderful. It's riveting, it's completely absorbing, it's hysterically funny, it's heartbreakingly sad, it's simply a fantastic read.

A couple things...

Comparing this to a film like Downfall....please, don't do that. This film is not like that in any way, shape, or form. There is a wonderful little device deployed very late in the script that reminds the audience of this exact idea.

This script is clever as hell. This is unlike anything Quentin has done to this point. The set pieces are all outstanding, one after the other, and the degree of tension that builds is amazing.

I would love to see this film as written. This is some brilliant stuff. The twists in this are righteous; in a way it's a shame that this is out there, because there are surely elements in the story that will be leaked out due to their content (let's just leave it at that).

The Kill Bill script that was floated online ended up being far from what we saw on the screen, so I'd anticipate a similiar thing with this, QT probably has many changes in mind that were not included with what we're seeing here (him calling it the "last" draft is a nice touch.

One other thing: focusing on the typos and misspellings in this script are unbelievably wrong headed. There is so much hate out there. How many scripts do people clamor to see like this one? Think about it for a minute; was there this kind of excitement to see the script of No Country, or There Will Be Blood, or Che, or Batman Begins? Not even close. People are looking for any reason at all to bring the guy down. It's ridiculous.

This immediately jumps to the forefront of films I'm most looking forward to seeing...

comment #67

Mjs says ...

Well said, goodvibe.

Is there another screenwriter on the planet, that simply by completing his latest, would inspire at least two if not more stories on HE that have over 60 replies? The answer is no. William Goldman? Who cares? David Mamet? Fuck you.

You either love him, or hate him. I'm in the camp that loves him. But either way, he gets people talking about and debating films. Few others can do that.

I'm a huge fan of both PTA and the Coen Brothers but I really didn't care to get a copy of their last scripts. I could wait for the film.

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