Inglorious Bastards

I actually want to see Inglorious Bastards the new Quentin Tarantino film, but I'm afraid, like all Tarantino movies of the past, the violence will be cartoonish - somehow it doesn't seem congruous with the image of WWII. Somehow, it seems like he is making light of the tragedy. However, I tend to enjoy his movies (I likes Kill Bill & enjoyed "Death Proof" even though I liked "Planet Terror" more) - so this looks like a fun flick. I never thought I would write that about a WW2 movie, so that's where the reservations come in.The film is about eight Jewish American soldiers killing Nazis. It's kind of nice to see Jews kicking ass without apologizing for it. I know that NAZIS are the ultimate bad guys and there is something still very nice where you don't have see "shades of gray" when it comes to eradicating evil. So I guess I'm on the fence on this one.

Update: Seems like the New York Magazine liked the script and calls it "Awesome".

The script is 165 pages long and follows a squad of American soldiers called the Bastards — a guerrillalike force who travel behind German lines in 1944, striking terror into the hearts of Nazi soldiers. The Bastards are headed by Lieutenant Aldo Raine — the role we'd imagine Tarantino is hoping to land Brad Pitt for — described by the script as a "hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee," who has around his neck a scar from where he survived a lynching. ("The scar will never once be mentioned," Tarantino writes.) In a parallel story, Inglorious Bastards follows a French Jewish teenager named Shosanna who survives the massacre of her family and flees to Paris, where she winds up running a movie house during the Nazi occupation.

The Bastards' and Shosanna's stories intersect when a gala premiere of a Goebbels-produced propaganda film is put on in Shosanna's theater, with Hitler and most of the German High Command scheduled to attend. Both the Bastards and Shosanna launch plots intending to end the war a little earlier than anyone expected.

The script's divided into five chapters:

Chapter One: Once Upon a Time … Nazi Occupied France
Chapter Two: Inglorious Basterds
Chapter Three: German Night in Paris
Chapter Four: Operation Kino
Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face

The first chapter, set in 1941, introduces Shosanna and the film's antagonist, a Nazi officer named Landa who's known as the "Jew Hunter." The second chapter introduces the Bastards and their tactics: They kill Nazis on sight, take their scalps, and — when they let one go — carve a swastika into his forehead. The third chapter, set in 1944, reintroduces Shosanna in Paris ("This whole Chapter will be filmed in French New Wave Black and White"). The fourth sets up the Bastards' attack on the theater. And it all comes together in Chapter Five, which plays fast and loose with history, to say the least.