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I think this just might be my

masterpiece.

>> That's a movie called and Glorious

Bastards when the bastards aren't really

in it that much. [laughter]

>> A war movie where there's almost no war

and it's 2/3 in a foreign language. It's

just like

>> right after Jackie Brown, which is uh

1998, I came up with the idea. I came up

with most of the characters that you see

in the movie now. And then I had the

first two chapters written. But I had a

whole different storyline involved and

it just was too all-encompassing. It was

just too big. I had the opposite of

writer's block. I couldn't stop writing

basically. It just wasn't a movie. It

was It could have been a 12-hour

miniseries, but it wasn't a movie. So, I

put it aside and decided to go to Kill

Bill to tame myself. Cut to Kill Bill

volume 1 and two. Right.

bad idea.

>> And then I decided to go back to it in

2008 and I realized it was the story

that was the problem that made me not be

able to finish it way back when.

>> He began rewriting in January 2008 and

finished in July.

>> So I took the same characters and a

couple of the introduction scenes of

some of the characters and then I came

up with a whole new story line and that

I figured I could do as a movie. In the

process, the name changed to Englorious

Bastards, a reference to Enzo

Castayari's film of the same name.

>> Get in the truck, you bastard.

>> But he didn't stop there. In this scene,

Aldo presents himself with the real name

of the director.

>> Excuse me,

Gorami.

>> And for the duration of the scene,

standing behind the main characters is

the real Enzo Castillari. Enzo

Costellari of course opens the first in

glorious bastards as a general yelling

fire. Quentyn when he wanted to get the

name in glorious bastards Enzo said I'll

let you use the name but I have two

conditions. I want a cameo and I want to

play a general yelling fire.

>> ENZO FIRE.

[screaming]

>> Just to repeat the same that I did in my

movie is some fantastic only Quentin can

do it. By the way, in the original

title, In Glorious Bastards, there are

two mistakes which Tarantino never

explained. [music]

>> And Bastards was misspelled because

that's the way he originally wrote it.

That's the way it went on the marquee.

>> And Glorious is misspelled, too.

>> Oh, right. And Glorious was [laughter]

misspelled. Yes. Yes. I didn't catch

that at the time.

>> I'm never going to explain that. You

know, when you do an artistic flourish

like that, to describe it, to explain it

is just take the piss out of it and

invalidate the whole stroke in the first

place.

>> Well, how would you put it like that?

>> The English screenplay included a lot of

dialogue in German and French.

>> World War II was the last time a whole

bunch of white people fought a whole

bunch of other white people. If you can

pull off the language, you could survive

in in a in a enemy territory. you could

infiltrate a different army whether it

be Germans infiltrating Americans or

people infiltrating the Germans and

that's the thing that when they leave

out of the other war movies because in

where Eagles Dare Richard Burton and

Clintise would speak German so

magnificently great all they have to do

is put on a costume and they can hang

out in like the general's club.

>> I advise you to mind your own business

in future. Is that understood?

>> Forget about the fact I don't buy it.

It's also the fact that it's like you've

got possibly one of the most suspenseful

sequences here, but you've pissing it

away by English being German.

>> So Quinton asked his friend, director

Tom Tyver, to translate the German.

>> I called him up to ask him, uh, could

you recommend a good translator for my

dialogue, and he just said, I'll do it

cuz I know what you want.

>> And the French translations he entrusted

to the actors. cinema.

>> A funny moment uh when I had my audition

with with Quentyn.

>> There was no French version of the

script. So uh um so Quentyn said, "What

a shame that you can't do this scene in

French."

>> And then um I thought like, "Well, he's

American. He probably only speaks one

[music] language." So the French words

that I don't know, I just going to

>> say them in in Spanish. [laughter]

Now you know.

Later, having reunited with Lawrence

Bender, who hadn't worked on his last

film, he received a budget of $75

million and started choosing actors.

>> And we just and we just hit the ground

running.

>> First, he invited Harvey Kitel and

Samuel L. Jackson, but you won't be able

to see them in the movie because Harvey

voiced the officer talking to Hans Landa

in Aldo Rain.

>> Bring them straight to me for

debriefing. Is that clear, Lieutenant?

while Samuel was the narrator.

>> Shashana has a collection of over 350

nitrate film prints. They were joined by

Eli Roth in Omar Doom, who had

previously starred in Death Proof. Omar

Doom, by the way, met Quinton in '98 and

began his acting career after following

Quinton's advice.

>> Can you do it? I have to. After working

with him on the previous movie, Omar

found out that the director often named

his characters after people close to

him.

>> When I saw my name in there and it says

Omar, I was I was I flipped out.

>> Omar third most assistant.

>> I don't speak Italian.

>> The same privilege was granted to Julie

Drifus who had a whole family named

after her.

>> All the Jewish families in this area

have been accounted for acceptances.

The idea to invite Brad Pitt came to

Tarantino while he was still writing the

screenplay.

>> I actually uh I knew he wanted to work

with me and I wanted to work with him.

>> But I'm actually friends with with his

agent and there was I had another movie

that I was thinking about Brad for.

Well, what if I were just to meet him?

No, I can't let you guys in the room

together unless he can do it cuz you

guys are going to fall in love and he

can't do it and so it's just going to

screw you guys both up. So, just don't

even get in the room until this

relationship can happen.

>> That's a pretty exciting story. What's

next? Lies on the ice.

>> I'm writing this script and about I'd

[snorts] start thinking, well, Brad

could be terrific for this role. To me,

he was so kind of nailed that character

so much in my brain that I was like

there was no second or third choice.

>> I sent him the script. Uh, I had heard

that he really liked it and was

interested in talking to me about it.

So, uh, I flew up to um, uh, his home in

the south of France. He lives on a

vineyard.

>> Quinton came to visit and uh sometime at

the end of the summer with the script.

Um and all I know we went what we talked

about it. We talked about backstory. We

talked about movies till the we are the

night and uh

>> and ultimately decided to do the movie

and decided that we were in love with

each other and um uh but the next

morning uh Brad actually counted the

empty bottles and the number total to

seven

>> and something that resembled a a smoking

apparatus. I don't know what that was

about. [laughter] And apparently I

agreed to do the movie cuz 6 weeks later

[laughter] I was in uniform and I was

Lieutenant Aldo Ranks.

>> Lieutenant Aldo Rank. They're the

bastards.

>> Ever heard of us?

>> One of the biggest reactions in the

movie he did was completely different

from how I thought it would be was his

not to go drastically into it, but his

>> and [clears throat] then after he said

it, I was like, "Well, God, NOW I CAN'T.

NOW YOU RUINED it for I CAN'T HEAR IT

ANY OTHER WAY. I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. I

have to do it that way now.

>> Is that good?

>> Yes, sir.

>> The need to hire bilingual actors

brought Michael Fastpender, Daniel

Brule, Melanie Laurent, and Diane

Krueger to the project.

>> That sounds good.

>> He cast Germans for German, French for

French, Americans for American, and so

on and so forth, [music] and Canadians

for British. [laughter]

>> Yes. Also, we can't forget Mike Meyer's

cameo, which he viewed as a nod of

respect to his parents who fought on the

British side in the Second World War.

Mostly my father spoke and my mother

spoke of the unbreakable brotherhood of

those who [music] served. He remembered

the name of every single British soldier

he served with. And for every name, a

hilarious story. So, uh, you know, I got

I got a call. Would you like to be play

a British general? And, uh, I I did a

jig.

>> General Ed Fenick. I'm just very very

honored to be here. Honored with a U to

be here. [laughter]

>> Got the gist.

>> Nor Rod Taylor who became famous because

of his role in Hitchcock's The Birds. By

the way, it was Taylor's last role ever

in the movies. I saw Quenton direct and

it was the most exciting,

exhilarating thing I've ever seen.

[applause]

He's like a magnificent genius kid.

>> Then Martin Vutka was chosen to play

Adolf Hitler whose career had been

filled with similar roles. Besides

playing the furer, he had played Joseph

Gobles twice.

>> From there, the casting only got harder.

First, though the role of Sergeant

Donnie Donowitz had been written

explicitly for him, Adam Sandler

declined, preferring to star in the

comedy Funny People.

>> For years, he was telling me he wrote it

for me. So, I was always excited to

shoot it with him. And then when that

happened, I called him up. I said, I I

don't know where I'm if [music] I can do

it because I got judged. He goes, "Okay,

cool. Don't worry about it."

>> I I had to lock him in like a year and a

half before we shot.

>> All the good Jews were doing funny

people. I'M KILLING HITLER WITH BASEBALL

bats and there's no good Jews available.

>> And he said, "If it's not you or Adam

Sandler, I'm changing the part because

you have to be able to do the Boston

accent." Perfect. And you guys are from

that area. You're from Boston. He's from

Connecticut. Like the other guys that

can do it are not Jewish and I want a

Jewish guy from Boston to play this

role. Oh, wasn't that just dandy?

>> He's like, you have Brad Pitt and Hitler

building you up. He's like, this is the

going to be your moment.

I'm sorry. Hear that?

>> And I knew that that scene that was the

scene like this is like if I do nothing

else in my life, it is this scene.

[music]

But the main problem was the search for

the actor to play Hans Landa. Quinton

needed an amazing actor who was fluent

in English, French, German, and

understood Italian. He auditioned

hundreds of candidates, but no one fit

the part. The director was distraught

and thought that perhaps he had written

a character that was impossible to play.

>> I literally had a moment where I didn't

think I was going to find it. And I

called the producers and said, "Look,

uh, if we can't find the right L, I'd

rather just publish the script and do

something else." And the producers,

Lawrence and everybody, they were they

were very cool about it. They didn't

overreact. They go, "Well, then you know

what? Here's the deal. Then we just

spend, you know, this week is just L."

And I can just tell you the day that

Kristoff came, walked in the room, sat

down, and read two scenes, I remember

thinking, and Lawrence was sitting right

next to me and go, "We're making a

movie."

>> That's a bingo.

>> It It doesn't happen to an actor that

he'll he he'll be offered a part like

that ever, except maybe it does, which

is good. Later, Waltz became the first

actor to win an Oscar for a Tarantino

film.

>> Quentyn, with his with his unorthodox

methods of navigation, this fearless

explorer, took this ship across and

brought it in with flying colors, and

that's why I'm here.

Calabash Mam. No, that's not the name of

one of the bastards. It's the name of

the type of pipe that Hans Landa smoked.

It became popular thanks to another

imaginary sleuth, Sherlock Holmes.

>> And then I had dinner with Kristoff. And

I asked him, I go, "Let me ask you a

question." In the script, you know, it's

it implies that this is definitely L's

pipe, and he uses it to think. Um, but

let me ask you a question. What if Lo

doesn't smoke a pipe? He knows the

farmer smokes a pipe. And so, at a

certain point, he brings out the

Sherlock Holmes pipe. One, you can say

it's a sexual thing because my pipe is

bigger than yours. And the other thing

you can say, I know you're lying and I

got you. I've got the Sherlock Holmes

pipe, you know. So maybe he doesn't

smoke a pipe at all. It's simply just a

interrogation technique to throw the

farmer, you send him more to hell. And I

So what do you think, Kristoff? He goes,

"Oh, he doesn't smoke a pipe at all. It

is simply an act of theater."

>> I might add also that any information

that makes a performance of my duty

easier will not be met with punishment.

Shooting for Englorious Bastards began

on the 9th of October, 2008 and lasted

120 days.

>> Take five.

>> Humiliation. Take one, Mark.

[music]

>> I am not dead. I just went in there. Now

I'm going to go after him and I'm going

to kick his [ __ ] Nazi balls. Okay.

You guys were great.

>> Let's do it one more time. Let's cut.

>> Why?

>> Because we love making [singing]

movies.

>> The most dangerous scene to shoot was

the death of Breijit van Hamshmar.

Tarantino never liked the way film

depicts choking scenes because you can

always tell that the actors are faking

it.

>> [laughter]

>> He wanted more reality and convinced

Diane Krueger to do the scene for real.

Since he feared that Kristoff Waltz

would either press too hard or not hard

enough, he decided to do the stunt

himself.

>> Let's just say he's a very hands-on

director, literally. And he was like,

"And then I'm just going to be on top of

you and I'm going to be strangling you

and it's going to be great." And I was

just like, "Well, at least if I die,

it's Quinton Tarantino who killed me

today." As soon as the correct facial

expression appeared, Tarantino was

supposed to yell cut. Thankfully, it

only took one take, and though the

actress was unconscious for a few

seconds, she completely revived several

minutes later. [laughter]

>> Also, this scene became the most subtle

of the director's cameos, though he

already appeared in the film as the

first Nazi whose scalp the bastards

collected. You

>> just became a German soldier right

there. That was just

>> I know it was. cuz I hated to break it.

Westerns, they always like have

scalping, but you never see it. They

just talk about it. To me, one of the

reasons I showed it in this movie, the

bastards, when they wipe out the Nazis,

they desecrate the bodies. And I wanted

you to see the desecration because that

is that's the goal. That's what they're

trying to do is have the other Nazis

show up and see these bodies. Oh my god,

what did they do? The fricks by the

fleet.

>> In Glorious Bastards premiered at the

Khan Film Festival on the 20th of May,

2009.

>> [music]

>> Right before it was released, its

running time was 180 minutes and certain

scenes look completely different. So

Sally Mankey together with Tarantino

shorted the film by 30 minutes 2 days

prior. Any person who has ever edited

footage, especially shot on film, knows

that it is an incredibly underrated

achievement.

>> Well, literally just come out to Le

Gloria's master screen. People are

streaming out behind me. Um, I really

liked it,

>> but it's unquestionably provocative.

>> You know, the there there is a section

of the movie towards the end where

history goes one way and I go the other.

>> The exactly the way I look at it is this

is my characters

changed the outcome of the war.

>> Now, that didn't happen because my

characters didn't exist. But if they had

have existed, everything that happens is

fairly plausible.

>> Who wants to send a message to Germany?

>> I have a message for Germany. On one

hand, there's it's a metaphor for uh the

power of cinema. On the other hand, it's

not even a metaphor at all. It's

literal. It is the power of cinema is

going to bring down the Third Reich.

[laughter]

Man, I go to do a World War II movie and

it ends up being a love letter to

cinema. I just cannot not apparently.

>> Nope. The picture was a box office hit,

making more than $300 million worldwide

and received eight Oscar nominations. 15

years later, Quinton was considered

again for the awards for best screenplay

and directing. The movie was also

nominated for best picture. But the only

one who celebrated a victory at the 82nd

Academy Awards was the affforementioned

Kristoff Waltz.

>> There's no way I can ever thank you

enough, but I can start right now. Thank

you. Later in 2010, Sally Meny at the

age of 56 died from heartstroke.

Their relationship is difficult to

describe in words. It was a real

symbiosis. Tarantino believed that

Sally's work on his films was the work

of an equal partner.

>> We work very intensely together, and

it's kind of amazing that we still like

each [music] other.

>> If I was with my husband that long, I

don't think I'd like him that much.

Quiddon often said that she was the only

person in the whole world capable of

seeing the order in his chaotic vision

and called Mankey my only true genuine

collaborator [music]

from beginning to end.

>> Hi Sally.

>> Hi Sally. [laughter]

Hi, Sally.

>> Hello, Sally.

>> I think Sally's with my dad. [music] Hi,

Sally.

>> Hey, Sally. How's it going?

>> Sally, how are you?

>> Good. Little

Mike says hello.

>> Hi, Sally.

That was true.

Say hi, Sally. Sally.

>> Hi, Sally.