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Inglourious Basterds
Theatrical release poster
Directed byQuentin Tarantino
Written byQuentin Tarantino
Produced byLawrence Bender
StarringBrad Pitt
Christoph Waltz
Michael Fassbender
Eli Roth
Diane Kruger
Daniel Brühl
Til Schweiger
Mélanie Laurent
CinematographyRobert Richardson
Edited bySally Menke
Production
companies
Distributed byThe Weinstein Company
Universal Pictures
Release dates
Cannes Film Festival:
May 20, 2009
United Kingdom:
August 19, 2009
Australia, Germany, New Zealand:
August 20, 2009
Canada, United States:
August 21, 2009
Running time
152 min.
CountriesTemplate:FilmUS, Germany
LanguagesEnglish
French
German
Italian
Budget$70 million[1]
Box office$274,999,336[2]

Inglourious Basterds is a Template:Fy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and released in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures. It was filmed in several locations, among them Germany and France,[3] beginning in October 2008.[4] The film, set in German-occupied France, tells the story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietress, the other by a team of American soldiers called the "Basterds".

Tarantino has said that despite it being a war film, Inglourious Basterds is a "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography".[5] In addition to spaghetti westerns, the film also pays homage to the World War II "macaroni combat" sub-genre (itself heavily influenced by spaghetti-westerns).

Inglourious Basterds was accepted into the main selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in competition for the prestigious Palme d'Or and had its world premiere there in May.[6] It was the only U.S. film to win an award at Cannes that year, earning a Best Actor award for Christoph Waltz.

Title

The title of the film was inspired by director Enzo Castellari's 1978 Dirty Dozen-like war film The Inglorious Bastards. Though Tarantino acknowledges that both the former and the latter were inspirations for the film, and there are noticeable similarities, he stresses that Basterds is an original work and not a remake of the 1978 film. To date, there has been little explanation of the title spelling (the correct spelling would be "Inglorious Bastards"). When asked, Tarantino would not explain the u in Inglourious and said, "But the 'Basterds'? That's just the way you say it: Basterds."[7] He stated in an interview that the misspelled title is "a Basquiat-esque touch."[8] He further commented on The Late Show with David Letterman that "Inglourious Basterds" is the "Tarantino way of spelling it."[9]

Plot

In 1941 German-occupied France, Colonel Hans Landa of the SS and SD, nicknamed "The Jew Hunter", has the Jewish Dreyfus family killed, with the exception of teenage Shosanna, whom Landa allows to escape shouting at her au revoir shosanna. In America, 1st Lieutenant Aldo Raine recruits a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to parachute into France as civilians prior to the Normandy landings. Their mission is to cause panic and havoc within the Third Reich by savagely killing as many German servicemen as possible, including a "take no prisoners" attitude and scalping their victims. "The Basterds", as they come to be known, develop a modus operandi involving leaving one soldier alive to spread news of the terror of their attacks; Raine carves a Nazi Swastika into at least one of these survivors so that he will be universally identifiable as a Nazi after the war.

Four years after her family was murdered, Shosanna has assumed a new identity and operates a small cinema in Paris. She meets Frederick Zoller, a German marksman and war hero whose exploits are to be celebrated in a forthcoming propaganda film. Although she resists his advances, the smitten Zoller, who is also a film fanatic, convinces Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to hold the new film's premiere at Shosanna's theater. She realizes that the presence of several high-ranking Nazi officials provides an opportunity for revenge, and with the help of her projectionist boyfriend Marcel, she resolves to burn down the cinema during the premiere. The British have also learned of the premiere and they dispatch former German-film critic Lieutenant Archie Hicox to Paris to lead an attack on the event. Upon his arrival, he meets up with the Basterds, as well as German film actress and double agent Bridget von Hammersmark. Their meeting at a bar goes awry when a Gestapo major realizes that Hicox is not German. A subsequent shootout leaves everyone in the bar, including Hicox and the two German-speaking members of the Basterds (Stiglitz and Wicki), dead and Hammersmark wounded. Raine and the remaining three Basterds, Donny, Omar and Utivich, interrogate Hammersmark and learn that Adolf Hitler will also be attending the premiere. They devise a plan wherein Raine, Donny and Omar will pose as Hammersmark's Italian escorts at the premiere. Landa, acting as head of security for the premiere, investigates the bar shootout and finds evidence that Hammersmark was there.

At the premiere, he questions Hammersmark privately, making her try on one of her shoes which she had left behind at the bar. Realizing that Hammersmark is working with the Basterds, Landa kills her and has Raine and Utivich arrested. He makes a deal with them, after speaking with their commanding officer, to be granted immunity from war crimes prosecution among other things, in exchange for allowing Donny and Omar, still at the cinema, to kill the Nazi officials. During the film, Zoller goes up to the projectionist's booth to see Shosanna, angrily protesting her rejections of him. She shoots him multiple times, but he manages to shoot her dead before succumbing to his own wounds. The film is soon interrupted by a pre-recorded close-up of Shosanna informing the audience that they are about to be killed by a Jew, at which time Marcel lights 350 reels of flammable nitrate film behind the screen. Simultaneously, Donny and Omar ambush Hitler and Goebbels in their box and gun them down, subsequently firing into the crowd until dynamite which they brought with them detonates and incinerates the theater entirely. Some time later, Landa and his driver take Raine and Utivich to the American lines where Landa surrenders to Raine and hands over his weapons as part of his deal. Then Utivich handcuffs Landa, Raine kills Landa's driver, Utivich scalps the driver, and Raine carves a swastika into Landa's forehead, proclaiming it to be his masterpiece.

Cast

Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent, and producer Lawrence Bender at a premiere for the film in August 2009

The Allies

The Basterds

  • Brad Pitt as 1st Lieutenant Aldo Raine, aka "Aldo the Apache":[10] A thickly accented, vengeance-driven 1st Special Service Force officer from Maynardville, Tennessee, who puts together a team of eight soldiers for the OSS. He claims to be a descendant of mountain man Jim Bridger and bears a rope burn on his neck, which is never mentioned in the film (the script implies that he might have survived a lynching once). One of the film's protagonists, the character has been described as "a voluble, freewheeling outlaw" similar to Jules Winnfield from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.[11] His first appearance in the film is a subtle homage to George Carlin's The Indian Sergeant routine.[12] The character's name is a tribute to the character actor Aldo Ray, who appeared as a tough soldier in many war films such as Men in War, Battle Cry, and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
  • Eli Roth as Staff Sergeant Donny Donowitz aka "The Bear Jew":[13] Second in command of the Basterds. A "baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter" from Boston who is known as "The Bear Jew" among German servicemen.[14] Some of them fear that Donowitz is in fact a vengeful golem summoned by an angry rabbi. According to Roth, the baseball bat he wields is signed by all the Jews from his neighborhood in Boston. Tarantino reportedly wanted Adam Sandler to play the role of Donowitz, but he declined due to schedule conflicts with the film Funny People.[15] Roth, a professional film director, also directed the film-within-a-film, Nation's Pride, which alludes to German wartime propaganda films.
  • Til Schweiger as Oberfeldwebel Hugo Stiglitz: A strange and quiet German psychopath, formerly an Oberfeldwebel in the Wehrmacht before he killed 13 SS Gestapo majors, whom Aldo recruits to kill other German troops. The character's name is a tribute to the famous 70s B-movie mexploitation actor Hugo Stiglitz.[16] Fittingly, the character's guitar riff theme is taken from Slaughter, a blaxploitation movie starring Jim Brown.
  • Gedeon Burkhard as Corporal Wilhelm Wicki: An Austro-German Jew[17] who immigrated to the United States, becoming a citizen as the Third Reich established itself in Europe, and was among the first to enlist. Wicki acts as the Basterds' translator. His surname might be inspired by the famous German director and actor Bernhard Wicki who directed the war movie Die Brücke (1959).
  • B. J. Novak as PFC Smithson Utivich aka "The Little Man"[18]: In an interview with Esquire magazine, Novak theorizes that PFC Utivich came from a family that named their son Smithson in an attempt to integrate themselves into the WASP-y mainstream and that signing up to fight against the Axis powers is his attempt to reclaim his Jewish heritage.
  • Omar Doom as PFC Omar Ulmer[19]: Tarantino, who has been friends with Doom since 1998[20] and encouraged him to become an actor,[20] called Doom just two weeks before shooting was scheduled to begin to cast him in the role.[21]
  • Samm Levine as PFC Gerold Hirschberg.[22] In his interview with Esquire, Levine mentioned that Tarantino asked him to come up with a backstory for his character. Hirschberg came from "a smaller family in Connecticut." His family owned "the second-largest deli in Hartford."
  • Paul Rust as PFC Andy Kagan: A character Tarantino added in after meeting Rust.[23] In his interview with Esquire, Rust describes Kagan as a farm boy from Illinois who wants to see some action.
  • Michael Bacall as PFC Michael Zimmerman.
  • Carlos Fidel as PFC Simon Sakowitz.[24]

Other Americans

  • Bo Svenson as an American colonel in Nation's Pride. Tarantino says he gave Svenson a small cameo that would be hard to recognize.[citation needed] He is seen briefly in the movie but can be seen more closely in the Nation's Pride trailer.
  • Harvey Keitel as the Basterds' commanding general. The character is heard only over the radio in a call to Raine and Landa. Keitel previously played a US Navy Chief Petty Officer in another WWII film for Universal, U-571.

The British

  • Michael Fassbender as Lt. Archie Hicox: A "snappy and handsome British lieutenant" and a film critic in his pre-war civilian life. He is described in the screenplay as a "young George Sanders type". Tarantino originally talked to Simon Pegg about portraying Lt. Archie Hicox, but the actor was forced to drop out due to scheduling difficulties[25] having already agreed to appear in Spielberg's Tintin adaptation. However, Pegg did make Tarantino promise to cast him in his next film.[26]
  • Mike Myers as General Ed Fenech: A "legendary British military mastermind" who provides a plot to kill the German leadership.[27] Myers, a fan of Tarantino, had inquired about doing a role in the movie, since Myers's parents were in the British Armed Forces. The character's name is similar to actress Edwige Fenech. Apparently for Myers it was no trouble at all getting into the skin of the character he plays in 'Inglourious Basterds'. In terms of the dialect, he felt, that it was a version of Received Pronunciation meeting the officer class, but mostly an attitude of “I′m fed up with this war and if this dude can end it, great because my country is in ruins.”[28]
  • Rod Taylor as Winston Churchill: The then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[29] Taylor, who was effectively retired from acting and no longer had a talent agent, came out of retirement when Tarantino offered him the role of Churchill in the film.[30] Tarantino contacted Taylor's business manager to offer Taylor the part.[30] Taylor initially recommended British actor Albert Finney for the role during their conversation, but agreed to take the part because of Tarantino's "passion."[30] Tarantino said he would cast Finney if Taylor had turned him down.[30] In preparation for the role, Taylor watched dozens of DVDs with footage of Churchill in order to get the Prime Minister's posture, body language and voice, including a lisp, correct.[30] Taylor shot his scenes in Germany for ten days.[30] Tarantino, who described himself as a fan of Taylor's work, especially the 1969 film Dark of the Sun, screened many of Taylor's films for the German actors and staff before he arrived for his scenes.[30] In the event, Taylor speaks only three lines in the finished film.

The French

The German resistance

The Nazis

Christoph Waltz at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. He received the Best Actor Award at Cannes and multiple film critics believed that his performance was worthy of an Academy Award nomination.[34]
  • Christoph Waltz as Standartenführer Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter". Landa is the central antagonist: a romantic, yet sinister pipe-smoking Austro-German SD officer so nicknamed in reference to his keen ability to locate Jews hiding throughout France.[18] He is well-versed in languages, being able to speak fluent English, French and Italian in addition to his native German. Landa can also be a charming detective. Tarantino has said that this might be the greatest character he's ever written. Tarantino originally sought for Leonardo DiCaprio to be cast as Landa.[35] The director then decided to have the character played by a German actor.[14] The role ultimately went to the Austrian Waltz, who, according to Tarantino, "gave me my movie back," as he felt the movie couldn't be made without Landa as a character but feared the part was "unplayable."[36] Waltz would win the Best Actor Award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for his performance, thanking Tarantino in his acceptance speech with, "You gave me my vocation back."
  • Daniel Brühl as Oberschütze Fredrick Zoller: A young German Wehrmacht war hero starring in Joseph Goebbels' newest propaganda film entitled "Stolz der Nation" (actually directed by the Jewish Eli Roth).[29][37] Despite liking the attention his exploits have brought him, he is not exactly proud that his fame comes from killing hundreds of Allied soldiers, claiming he had done it in self-defense. He is attracted to Shosanna, unaware of her heritage or her revenge plan.
  • August Diehl as Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom: A uniformed Gestapo major.[29]
  • Alexander Fehling as Oberfeldwebel Wilhelm, a German Wehrmacht master sergeant celebrating the birth of his son at a French tavern.
  • Sönke Möhring as Gefreiter Butz,[29] a lone survivor of an attack by the Basterds.
  • Richard Sammel as Feldwebel Werner Rachtman, the ill-fated Nazi Wehrmacht sergeant[29]
  • Sylvester Groth as Joseph Goebbels.[29]
  • Martin Wuttke as Adolf Hitler.[29]
  • Julie Dreyfus as Francesca Mondino: Joseph Goebbel's French mistress and interpreter and favourite actress to appear in his films.[38]
  • Ludger Pistor as Wolfgang:[29]
  • Enzo G. Castellari as Obergruppenführer: A nameless German General, although strangely credited as "himself" in the film. Castellari had done a German cameo in his own Inglorious Bastards and reprised the role in this movie as well, but under a different rank and SS organization.[39][40][41]
  • Quentin Tarantino as an unnamed Nazi footman (the first to be depicted being scalped), and also as an American soldier in the German propaganda film-within-a-film, "Nation's Pride", with a single spoken line: "I implore you, we must destroy that tower!". It is a recurring feature of Tarantino's movies for the director himself to appear in a cameo role.[42]

Other roles

  • Samuel L. Jackson as the Narrator, who is heard only twice in the movie, first explaining the notoriety of Hugo Stiglitz in the German army, and second explaining how nitrate film reels are highly flammable and could be of great help to Shosanna's plans.

Deleted characters

  • Cloris Leachman as Mrs. Himmelstein: An elderly Jewish woman living in Boston.[29] Although filmed, the scenes featuring Mrs. Himmelstein drinking tea with Donny Donowitz (and signing his trademark baseball bat afterwards) were cut from the final film.
  • Maggie Cheung as Madame Ada Mimieux: Although her scenes were cut for length reasons,[43] Cheung played Madame Mimieux, a beautiful French woman who owned the cinema marquee in Paris where most of the movie is set.[44] In the final cut, the cinema is owned by Shosanna using the name "Mimieux" as her alias. Ada is mentioned in the film though when Shosanna talks to Marcel about "Madame Mimieux's nitrate film collection".

Development

Quentin Tarantino spent more than a decade writing the script because, as he told Charlie Rose in an interview, he became "too precious about the page," meaning the story kept growing and expanding. Tarantino viewed the script as his ultimate masterpiece in the making, so he felt it had to become the best thing he'd ever written. Tarantino described an early premise in October 2001: "[It's] my bunch-of-guys-on-a-mission film. [It's] my Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare or Guns of Navarone kind of thing."[45] The premise had begun as a Western and evolved into a World War II version of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly set in German-occupied France. The story changed to be about two maverick units from the United States Army that had "a habit of scalping Germans".[46]

According to Tarantino, a recurring hallmark in all his movies, including 'Inglourious Basterds', is that there is a different sense of humour in all his movies, which gets the audience to laugh at things that aren′t funny.[47]

Actor Michael Madsen, who appeared in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, was originally reported to star in the movie, then spelled Inglorious Bastards, which had been scheduled for release in 2004.[48] Tarantino has also talked to Polish actress Nastassja Kinski for the role of Bridget Von Hammersmark and flew to Germany to meet the actress but a deal was not reached.[49] By 2002, Tarantino found Inglourious Basterds to be a bigger film than planned and saw that other directors were working on World War II films.[50] By this point, he had produced three nearly finished scripts, saying, "[It was] some of the best writing I've ever done. But I couldn't come up with an ending."[51] Consequently, the director held off his planned film and moved on to direct the two-part movie Kill Bill (2003–2004) with Uma Thurman in the lead role.[50]

After the completion of Kill Bill, Tarantino trimmed the length of the script, which was reportedly three films long, to 222 pages,[52] and planned to begin production of Inglourious Basterds late in 2005.[46] The revised premise focused on a group of soldiers who escape from their executions and embark on a mission to help the Allies. He described the men as "not your normal hero types that are thrown into a big deal in the Second World War".[53] He continued to describe the film as a spaghetti western set in German-occupied France, specifically around the time of D-Day (June 6, 1944) and afterward.[54] He explained his intent:

I'm going to find a place that actually resembles, in one way or another, the Spanish locales they had in spaghetti westerns – a no man's land. With US soldiers and French peasants and the French resistance and German occupation troops, it was kind of a no man's land. That will really be my spaghetti Western but with World War II iconography. But the thing is, I won't be period specific about the movie. I'm not just gonna play a lot of Édith Piaf and Andrews Sisters. I can have rap, and I can do whatever I want. It's about filling in the viscera.[55]

The director described the scale of the project:

It'll be epic and have my take of the sociological battlefield at that time with the racism and barbarism on all sides – the Nazi side, the American side, the black and Jewish soldiers and the French, because it all takes place in France.

In November 2004, the director decided to hold off production of Inglourious Basterds and instead film a kung fu movie entirely in Mandarin.[56] This project floundered too, and he ultimately directed a part of the 2007 Grindhouse instead, returning to work on what was now renamed Inglourious Basterds after finishing promotion for Grindhouse.[57]

Production

Tarantino teamed with The Weinstein Company to prepare what he planned to be his epic masterpiece for production.[58] In September 2007, The Irish Times reported the film's scheduled release for 2008, writing, "Inglourious Basterds, a war movie that may eventually resemble The Dirty Dozen merged with Cross of Iron, has been predicted more often than the second coming of the Lord."[59]

In July 2008, Tarantino and the Weinsteins set up an accelerated production schedule to be completed for release at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. The Weinstein Company co-financed the film and distributed it in the United States.[60] The company signed a deal with Universal Pictures to finance the rest of the film and distribute it internationally.[61] Germany and France[62] were scheduled as filming locations.[63] Filming was scheduled to begin on October 13, 2008,[13] and shooting started that week.[4] Special Effects were handled by K.N.B. EFX Group with Greg Nicotero.[29] Much of the film was shot and edited primarily in the famous Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam, Germany, the oldest large-scale film studio in the world, and in Bad Schandau, a small village near the German border with the Czech Republic.[20]

Following the film's screening at Cannes, Tarantino stated that he would be re-editing the film in June before its ultimate theatrical release, allowing him time to finish assembling several scenes that weren't completed in time for the hurried Cannes premiere.[64]

Exhibition

After the final draft of the script was finished, it was leaked on the web. Several Tarantino fan sites began posting reviews and excerpts from the script.[65] Principal photography started mid-October 2008 on location in Germany.

The first trailer for the film, a teaser, premiered on Entertainment Tonight on February 10, 2009, and was shown in US theaters the following week attached to Friday the 13th. The trailer features excerpts of Lt. Aldo Raine talking to the rest of 'the basterds', informing them of the plan to ambush and kill, torture, and scalp unwitting German servicemen, intercut with various other scenes from the movie. It also features the spaghetti-westernesque kickers Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied France (originally considered as a subtitle for the film) and A Basterd's Work is Never Done, a line not spoken in the final film.

The film was released on August 19 in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and the Republic of Ireland, two days earlier than the US release. Some European cinemas, however, showed previews starting on August 15.

Reception

Critical reception

Based on 245 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an overall approval rating from critics of 88 percent, with an average score of 7.6/10.[66] Among Rotten Tomatoes' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs,[67] the film holds an overall approval rating of 73 percent.[68] By comparison, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 69, based on 36 reviews.[69]

Critic James Berardinelli gave the film his first 4/4 star review of 2009, stating, "With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since Pulp Fiction," and that it was "one hell of an enjoyable ride."[70] Roger Ebert also gave the film a four-star review, writing that "Quentin Tarantino’s 'Inglourious Basterds' is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he’s the real thing, a director of quixotic delights."[71] Anne Thompson of Variety praised the film, but opined that it was not a masterpiece, claiming, "Inglourious Basterds is great fun to watch, but the movie isn't entirely engaging... You don't jump into the world of the film in a participatory way; you watch it from a distance, appreciating the references and the masterful mise-en-scene. This is a film that will benefit from a second viewing".[72]

Not all reviews have been positive. British critic Peter Bradshaw stated he was "struck... by how exasperatingly awful and transcendentally disappointing it is."[73] Author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn was disturbed by the portrayal of Jewish-American soldiers mimicking German atrocities done to European Jews, stating, "In Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino indulges this taste for vengeful violence by—well, by turning Jews into Nazis".[74]

The film has met some criticism from Jewish press, as well. In Tablet, Liel Liebowitz criticizes the film's lack of moral depth. He argues that the power of film lies in its ability to impart knowledge and subtle understanding, but Inglourious Basterds serves more as an "alternative to reality, a magical and Manichean world where we needn’t worry about the complexities of morality, where violence solves everything, and where the Third Reich is always just a film reel and a lit match away from cartoonish defeat".[75]. On Galus Australis, Anthony Frosh has criticised the film for failing to develop its characters sufficiently, labeling the film "Enthralling, but lacking in Jewish content".[76]

The reactions of critics at the Cannes premiere were mixed. The French newspaper Le Monde dismissed it, claiming, "Tarantino gets lost in a fictional World War II".[77] However, the movie received an eight to eleven minute standing ovation by the critics after its first screening at Cannes.[78][79] In particular, Christoph Waltz was singled out for Cannes honors, receiving the Best Leading Actor award at the end of the festival.[80] Movie critic Devin Faraci of Chud.com stated: "The cry has been raised long before this review, but let me continue it: Christoph Waltz needs not an Oscar nomination but rather an actual Oscar in his hands.... he must have gold".[81]

Box office

Opening in 3,165 screens, the film took $14.3 million on the opening Friday of its North American release,[82] on the way to an opening weekend gross of $38 million, giving Quentin Tarantino a personal best weekend opening and the number one spot at the box office, ahead of District 9.[83] The film fell to number two in its second weekend, behind The Final Destination, with takings of $20 million, taking $73.8 million in its first ten days.[84] The film also opened at number one in the UK box office, taking $5.7 million (£3.5m).[85] With a current domestic gross of $119,098,000 and overseas gross of $156,267,277, its worldwide gross as of 19 October 2009 is $275,365,277.[2] Inglourious Basterds is currently Tarantino's highest grossing film, both in the United States and worldwide.[86]

Censorship

The German publicity site by Universal Pictures has been censored, as the display of Nazi iconography is mostly illegal in Germany. The title has the German swastika removed and the Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet) has a bullet hole instead of the Nazi symbol.[87] The download section of the German site has been revised to exclude wallpaper downloads that feature the swastika openly.[88] Though the advertisement posters and wallpapers must not show Nazi iconography, this does not apply to "works of art" according to German law,[89] so the movie itself is not censored in Germany. Nazi iconography such as swastikas and the angular letters of the SS logo were also removed from posters for the film in the UK, although magazine advertisements with the same layout retained them.

Soundtrack

Main article: Inglourious Basterds (soundtrack)

One of the more familiar tunes is the opening theme, taken from the folk ballad "The Green Leaves of Summer", composed by Dimitri Tiomkin and Paul Francis Webster for the opening of John Wayne's movie "The Alamo" (1960). As is usual for a Quentin Tarantino film, the music used in the film is eclectic, but mostly consisting of music in the spaghetti-western genre.[90] The soundtrack was released on August 18, 2009.

Tarantino originally wanted Ennio Morricone to compose the soundtrack for the film. Morricone was unable to because of the sped-up production schedule of the film conflicted with his scoring of the Giuseppe Tornatore feature Baarìa.[91] However, Tarantino did use several tracks by Morricone from previous films in the soundtrack.

See also

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