by Lisa Hemsley

Created on: July 22, 2010

The Second World War saw many Jews being slaughtered and families wiped out. American Lt. Aldo Raine is given the mission of getting a team of ruthless Jewish men together to go behind enemy lines into France and start spreading fear among the troops. Aldo and his team of men are soon working hard and killing members of the Third Reich and not in a normal way but the brutal way of scalping them which is doing the desired job and scaring the troops. The men become known as the ‘Basterds’

Elsewhere in France Shosanna Dreyfus is trying to get on with her life and keep safe after she witnessed the SS murder her family a few year previous but things for her are about to change when she meets a ‘hero’ who decides he wants his film premier to be at her cinema.

Will Shosanna be able to get on with her quiet life, or is she now in danger of being remembered? Just how much fear can the basterds bring to the German troops and can they succeed in ending the war?

For some reason this film actually appealed to name despite not being overly keen on war films. I think the main appeal was the fact that Brad Pitt had the lead role. Despite this fact, I did thoroughly enjoy the film and thought all of the acting was strong and the storyline was excellent. The story was slightly different to other war films I had seen and we did not have all of the front line action but close fighting inside France and more brutal death scenes. The way the dark side of the war was shown with the members of the SS killing the Jews was also good as this is never really shown so much in the films and we just have the usual big battle scenes and for me it was a good insight into what really went on.

Brad Pitt took the lead role of Lt. Aldo Raine and for me he did a great job, one of the things which I was not overly keen on though was is accent. I would have preferred him not to have had such a thick and strong American accent but more of a normal slight one so we could have understood what he was saying slightly better. He did suit the role very well and looked good when in uniform even if it was a German one! He was strong and confident when delivering his lines and made me believe everything he said and I was able to warm to his character and slightly understand why he did what he did but perhaps I would have liked to know a bit more about his background to understand why he felt he needed to be so brutal. He worked well with all of the other actors and there were some good

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