'Inglorious Bastards' (Tarrantino 2008)

'Inglorious Bastards' is a postmodern film by Quentin Tarrantino. The film which was about Jewish soldiers taking revenge on the Nazi's because of the holocaust brings up many questions such as 'How does the text fulfil auidence expectation?', 'How does the text fulfill expectation of Tarrantino?' and 'How does the text fulfil audience expectation of texts from the Second world war?'. These come from expecations of Tarrantino being avery well known director who has done many post modern films and the expectation of stories about world war two. Stories about World war 2 are very well known, meaning italready had an expectation.
The film is post modern as it contains many post modern elment such as Irony, parody and bricolage. For example at the start of the film it has "Once Upon A Time..." this is a line that is used when fairytails are being told, so it automatically is used to make the auidence believe the story wil lbe a fairytale, however the auidence know this is a story about the Second world war and the Nazi's meaning the audience know the story isn't a fairytale, far from it, more like a horror story, which is Irony. Another exmaple is the way Tarrantino uses comedy, is places which are meant to be very serious such as the Scene between the German soldier and the French man. The German soldier is talking to him about something very serious, hiding Jews however he pulls out a huge pipe, compared to the french man's small one and asks for things such as milk. This makes the audience want to laugh, but don't as it's serious film and there talking about something not funny at all. This sort of comedy is reminicent of the scence in 'Resovoir Dogs' in which a ear is being severed from a man while pop music is playing in the back ground, so it makes the audience want to laugh at the pop music but are disguhsted with what is happening in the scene. The film goes from very horrific to having bits of comedy which make the audience laugh. This is very typical of Tarrantino.
Another example is the use of Bricolage. The film changes it's medium, such as going from a very serious film, to almost a documentary when they introdce certain characters using special effects and having a voice over talking about the character. Then it very quickly changes back to its normal format. This use of bricolage is very postmodern.

Post Modernism - Notes made in class.

Post Modernism

Production
Audience receptin and referent - in other words,the cultural condition "the inevitable state of late capitalism"

Post modernism is typically a mixture of hight and low culture.
High
classical music
books
broadsheet newspapers
Art
Low
Pop music
TV
tabloid newspaper
primark
magazines

- Crisis of representation. No originality.

• Dixon of Dock green BBC (1950s - 1970s)
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1968)