A few days ago I saw the new Quentin Tarantino movie, "Inglorious Basterds". I had only heard that it was a good movie but nothing about the plot other than it was a World War II movie by Quentin Tarantino. If anyone is remotely familiar with his past films, you will be able to recognize this movie as having the same feel or style that Quentin Tarantino puts into all of his movies.
The film has a lot of dialogue. Some of it is course and crude but still makes you laugh. The movie also is made to resemble an old "B" movie. If you listen closely you can also tell that some of the voices in the movie from unseen actors are stars of previous movies directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Moving on to the theme of the movie, the movie is about revenge. A young Jewish girl's family was murdered by the SS. Part of the film follows her plot for revenge against the Nazis. The other part of the film is about an OSS guerrilla unit made up of Jews behind enemy lines in occupied France. The unit's main objective is to instill fear in the German army through brutal tactics. Through the exploits of the unit, Tarantino gives revenge to the modern day viewer. Even though the war ended 64 years ago, it still lives on in our modern world. And even today people love it when we see bad things happen to Nazis. No one says "awe, that poor Nazi was a nice person and didn't deserve that".
The movie was not historically accurate, especially the ending. But that's Okay because it is a movie. Even though inaccurate, most Americans would have preferred the movies ending than what really happened to close the European theater of operations.
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Michael,
ReplyDeleteYou make some great observations here, but you aren't quite analyzing it rhetorically. Consider the statement you make about dialogue. We would consider the use of dialogue the author's (writer or director's, in this case) the author's rhetorical strategy. We would need to come to a conclusion about WHY so much dialogue is used and why such crude dialogue -- to produce what kind of effect? Answering that question will bring about full circle,a short, simple analysis of just one rhetorical strategy.