Inglorious Bastards

• Nations Pride (the film within a film) - intertextual references to battleship potenkium
• Saving Private Ryan -D-Day scene used as a contrast to IB. Hyper real element -fairytale beginning, - Hitlers death at the end.
• Differences between a traditional war film & IB

THE WAR ELEMENTS


Saving Private Ryan

• Allies Vs German
• Death
• Continuous chaos
• Dirty - the men look dishevelled, unwashed, unshaven
• Editing - handheld
• Death means something - the shock of deaths is apparent
• Realistic
• Just the allies perspective
• Less tactical
• Graphic in a realistic sense
• Fear/terror etc
• Feel as if we are in the war (audience)
• Death is common/part of job

IB

• Allies Vs Germans (Nazis)
• Death
• Only one element of chaos which is in Tavern scene
• Clean/prestine/immaculate
• Static shots
• Death just happens
• Hyperreal
• Both perspectives are presented
• More tactical (we see the generals and background to mission brief)
• Graphic in a comical sense
• No fear of death
• As an audience we are kept at an ironic distance
• Death is common/part of job