1 00:00:10,774 --> 00:00:12,526 After the success of "Reservoir Dogs." 2 00:00:13,026 --> 00:00:14,486 I used to work minimum wage. 3 00:00:14,820 --> 00:00:16,822 {\an8}The mega success, "Pulp Fiction." 4 00:00:17,072 --> 00:00:18,490 {\an8}I know, unbelievable. 5 00:00:18,866 --> 00:00:21,326 The slow burn that earned, 6 00:00:21,451 --> 00:00:22,494 "Jackie Brown." 7 00:00:23,203 --> 00:00:24,246 And the whole 8 00:00:24,371 --> 00:00:26,790 bloody spectacle of "Kill Bill." 9 00:00:27,457 --> 00:00:30,085 It seemed Quentin Tarantino could do no wrong. 10 00:00:30,252 --> 00:00:31,545 The woman's voice. 11 00:00:31,670 --> 00:00:33,297 - Quentin Tarantino. - Quentin Tarantino. 12 00:00:33,422 --> 00:00:34,423 Quentin Tarantino. 13 00:00:34,631 --> 00:00:35,841 - We happy? - Yeah, we happy. 14 00:00:35,966 --> 00:00:37,593 Until he did. 15 00:00:38,093 --> 00:00:40,679 Not quite a box office success. 16 00:00:42,931 --> 00:00:45,767 This is the story of how Hollywood's wunderkind 17 00:00:45,893 --> 00:00:47,477 rewrote his own mythology. 18 00:00:47,769 --> 00:00:50,772 And would succeed despite controversial associations. 19 00:00:50,898 --> 00:00:52,399 He goes, "Who's that on the phone?" 20 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:53,692 She goes, "Oh, it's Michael Madsen." 21 00:00:53,859 --> 00:00:55,694 Footsteps. Right out the door, he went. 22 00:00:57,237 --> 00:00:58,447 And a World War II epic 23 00:00:58,655 --> 00:01:00,157 12 years in the making, 24 00:01:00,282 --> 00:01:02,117 "Inglourious Basterds." 25 00:01:02,701 --> 00:01:04,328 The Germans call them, 26 00:01:04,453 --> 00:01:06,455 - The Basterds. - Basterds? 27 00:01:06,580 --> 00:01:08,207 We're gonna be dropped into France. 28 00:01:08,332 --> 00:01:10,417 Through our cruelty, they will know who we are. 29 00:01:10,667 --> 00:01:12,419 But the road to Tarantino's audacious 30 00:01:12,544 --> 00:01:15,172 genre blending blockbuster 31 00:01:15,297 --> 00:01:18,383 would be littered with unexploded risk factors. 32 00:01:21,845 --> 00:01:24,306 Could Quentin get his band back together? 33 00:01:24,431 --> 00:01:26,391 He likes to keep things close. 34 00:01:26,517 --> 00:01:28,894 How did he resolve the most difficult casting 35 00:01:29,019 --> 00:01:30,729 problem of his career? 36 00:01:30,854 --> 00:01:33,148 In his words, the best character he's ever created. 37 00:01:33,273 --> 00:01:35,359 He thought that actor might not exist. 38 00:01:35,484 --> 00:01:36,860 Would the fans even laugh 39 00:01:36,985 --> 00:01:39,279 at a Nazi black comedy? 40 00:01:41,031 --> 00:01:43,825 How was Tarantino's magnum opus born? 41 00:01:46,995 --> 00:01:48,622 Shot. 42 00:01:49,164 --> 00:01:51,375 It was a very hostile environment to step into. 43 00:01:52,793 --> 00:01:55,587 And how did it avoid being completely blown up? 44 00:01:57,506 --> 00:01:59,591 This nearly killed the film. 45 00:02:39,089 --> 00:02:40,382 It was 2006, 46 00:02:40,507 --> 00:02:41,967 and despite riding a wave 47 00:02:42,092 --> 00:02:43,760 of cinematic triumphs, 48 00:02:43,886 --> 00:02:45,596 Quentin Tarantino broke away 49 00:02:45,721 --> 00:02:47,389 from his long time collaborator, 50 00:02:47,514 --> 00:02:50,809 producer, and friend, Lawrence Bender, 51 00:02:50,934 --> 00:02:53,270 to see other people. 52 00:02:56,815 --> 00:02:58,025 "Kill Bill" was tough. 53 00:02:58,025 --> 00:02:59,902 It was 154 days of shooting. 54 00:03:00,027 --> 00:03:03,322 He and Lawrence had a little bit of a struggle 55 00:03:03,447 --> 00:03:05,616 during and after "Kill Bill." 56 00:03:05,741 --> 00:03:07,242 Are you gonna be nice? 57 00:03:07,367 --> 00:03:09,286 I've never been nice my whole life. 58 00:03:09,411 --> 00:03:10,871 So Quentin headed to Texas 59 00:03:10,996 --> 00:03:13,749 where Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios 60 00:03:13,874 --> 00:03:16,585 turned low budgets into genre gold. 61 00:03:16,710 --> 00:03:20,839 That's what I love about Austin, it's just so damn small. 62 00:03:20,964 --> 00:03:23,008 The pair conceived two one-hour movies 63 00:03:23,175 --> 00:03:25,594 made for no frills and nonstop thrills 64 00:03:25,719 --> 00:03:27,846 known as Grindhouse films. 65 00:03:27,971 --> 00:03:30,516 Bob and Harvey Weinstein put up 40 million 66 00:03:30,641 --> 00:03:32,518 using their Dimension Films company, 67 00:03:32,684 --> 00:03:36,396 assuming by now Tarantino was a pretty safe bet. 68 00:03:36,563 --> 00:03:38,857 So let's do it. 69 00:03:39,024 --> 00:03:41,318 And in the thick of it was Steve Joyner. 70 00:03:41,443 --> 00:03:44,696 Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino built my career. 71 00:03:45,614 --> 00:03:47,032 {\an8}They wanted to do 72 00:03:47,157 --> 00:03:48,742 {\an8}two Grindhouse movies and run them back to back. 73 00:03:48,742 --> 00:03:50,577 Two creatives at their peak teamed up 74 00:03:50,702 --> 00:03:53,497 to make a classic double feature. 75 00:03:53,622 --> 00:03:56,625 {\an8}Rodriguez's contribution would be "Planet Terror." 76 00:03:56,750 --> 00:03:59,419 a zombie horror comedy screened first. 77 00:03:59,962 --> 00:04:02,965 After a brief intermission, audiences would be treated 78 00:04:03,090 --> 00:04:07,469 to Tarantino's film starring Rosario Dawson, Zoe Bell, 79 00:04:07,594 --> 00:04:11,723 Mary Elizabeth Winsted, Vanessa Ferlito, and Kurt Russell. 80 00:04:11,890 --> 00:04:12,891 Is it safe? 81 00:04:13,058 --> 00:04:14,685 Aw, it's better than safe. 82 00:04:14,810 --> 00:04:15,853 It's death proof. 83 00:04:16,395 --> 00:04:17,479 There's a stunt man. 84 00:04:17,604 --> 00:04:19,398 He's death-proofed his car 85 00:04:19,565 --> 00:04:22,609 {\an8}and he uses it as a weapon to kill women. 86 00:04:27,698 --> 00:04:29,908 {\an8}Death Proof was designed to be an homage 87 00:04:30,075 --> 00:04:32,411 {\an8}to the great car chase "Bullitt." 88 00:04:33,704 --> 00:04:34,913 "Vanishing Point." 89 00:04:35,831 --> 00:04:37,708 It's a fucking classic. 90 00:04:38,542 --> 00:04:39,918 And once again, 91 00:04:40,085 --> 00:04:42,045 Quentin would reach back into his grab bag 92 00:04:42,171 --> 00:04:43,755 of inspirations and references. 93 00:04:43,922 --> 00:04:45,132 But this time... 94 00:04:45,132 --> 00:04:47,050 I can remember just saying to him, 95 00:04:47,176 --> 00:04:50,596 "Just cast one woman in that movie that I could look like 96 00:04:50,762 --> 00:04:53,473 because I have to work on that movie." 97 00:04:53,599 --> 00:04:55,017 He was like, "You'll work on it." 98 00:04:55,142 --> 00:04:56,852 And it wasn't until he brought me the script 99 00:04:56,977 --> 00:04:58,520 and my name is in it 100 00:04:58,645 --> 00:05:02,608 and I was like, "Yo, whoever you cast as Zoe, 101 00:05:02,774 --> 00:05:04,067 I have to look like them 102 00:05:04,234 --> 00:05:06,945 because I have to be my own double." 103 00:05:07,070 --> 00:05:11,700 And he was like, "Yes, you will be your own double 104 00:05:11,825 --> 00:05:13,035 because you're playing the role." 105 00:05:15,078 --> 00:05:18,081 And I was like, "Eh, oh, uh." 106 00:05:18,207 --> 00:05:20,501 Fucking hell, how does that happen? 107 00:05:20,626 --> 00:05:21,877 Unchecked filmmakers 108 00:05:22,002 --> 00:05:23,712 and a three-hour runtime pushed 109 00:05:23,837 --> 00:05:26,799 {\an8}the budget past 53 million dollars. 110 00:05:26,965 --> 00:05:27,925 Originally, they were both supposed to be 111 00:05:28,050 --> 00:05:29,968 about 65, 70 minutes. 112 00:05:30,135 --> 00:05:32,554 I'm just gonna have to make this quick. 113 00:05:32,679 --> 00:05:34,139 So they could run. But of course, 114 00:05:34,264 --> 00:05:36,642 being the prolific auteurs that they are, 115 00:05:36,809 --> 00:05:38,560 both of them made feature length films, 116 00:05:38,685 --> 00:05:40,562 if not a little bit more. 117 00:05:40,687 --> 00:05:42,940 But were double features a thing of the past? 118 00:05:43,065 --> 00:05:46,068 The exploitation genre and duration were too much 119 00:05:46,193 --> 00:05:48,695 for Tarantino's normally loyal audience. 120 00:05:48,821 --> 00:05:50,572 And "Death Proof," because it's combined 121 00:05:50,697 --> 00:05:52,449 as the Grindhouse experience, 122 00:05:52,574 --> 00:05:55,786 does not land with audiences here, especially overseas. 123 00:05:55,911 --> 00:05:56,995 I admit that sounds bad. 124 00:05:57,121 --> 00:05:59,581 It is bad. 125 00:05:59,706 --> 00:06:01,792 Grindhouse was more poor house. 126 00:06:01,917 --> 00:06:05,504 The film grossed 25 million dollars in its initial release. 127 00:06:05,671 --> 00:06:08,715 Less than half its budget of 67 million. 128 00:06:08,715 --> 00:06:11,718 Where to now for the cult of Quentin? 129 00:06:12,302 --> 00:06:14,513 People think that he has a misstep 130 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,640 when you get to "Death Proof." How does he respond? 131 00:06:16,807 --> 00:06:18,517 You get "Inglourious Basterds." 132 00:06:19,143 --> 00:06:21,436 It was back to the real world, 133 00:06:21,562 --> 00:06:24,731 but 1944, and a refocused Quentin Tarantino. 134 00:06:24,731 --> 00:06:27,484 "Inglourious Basterds" was actually the title 135 00:06:27,609 --> 00:06:31,655 of a 1978 Italian war movie. 136 00:06:31,780 --> 00:06:33,907 The concept of it was like "The Dirty Dozen," 137 00:06:33,907 --> 00:06:35,534 but even dirtier. 138 00:06:35,659 --> 00:06:37,536 You prefer to be captured or destroyed? 139 00:06:39,204 --> 00:06:40,164 And if there was one director 140 00:06:40,289 --> 00:06:41,999 who could reimagine this... 141 00:06:42,124 --> 00:06:43,458 Tarantino loved that. 142 00:06:43,584 --> 00:06:46,879 The kind of fun, upbeat war movie. 143 00:06:47,004 --> 00:06:48,547 While these films and TV shows 144 00:06:48,714 --> 00:06:50,007 like "Hogan's Heroes" 145 00:06:50,132 --> 00:06:51,717 allowed the World War II generation 146 00:06:51,884 --> 00:06:54,678 to finally laugh at the bad old days-- 147 00:06:54,803 --> 00:06:57,222 I know nothing, nothing. 148 00:06:57,806 --> 00:07:00,851 the 1990s and 2000s saw cinema return 149 00:07:00,976 --> 00:07:02,978 to a more serious tone. 150 00:07:03,103 --> 00:07:04,938 This Ryan better be worth it. 151 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,734 And right in the middle of this era, in 1998, 152 00:07:09,818 --> 00:07:11,737 Quentin would finally start a project 153 00:07:11,904 --> 00:07:13,572 he thought up long ago. 154 00:07:13,697 --> 00:07:16,033 Known for films that didn't take the safe route, 155 00:07:16,158 --> 00:07:17,743 this would be no different. 156 00:07:17,868 --> 00:07:18,869 Right after "Jackie Brown," 157 00:07:18,994 --> 00:07:20,746 I came up with the idea, 158 00:07:20,871 --> 00:07:23,874 a bunch of Jewish American soldiers are behind enemy lines 159 00:07:23,999 --> 00:07:25,584 and they're doing an Apache resistance 160 00:07:25,751 --> 00:07:27,002 against the Third Reich. 161 00:07:27,336 --> 00:07:29,922 The concept began expanding rapidly, 162 00:07:30,088 --> 00:07:32,257 so Tarantino consulted a producer friend 163 00:07:32,382 --> 00:07:34,760 to review a proposal that made 164 00:07:34,927 --> 00:07:37,596 "Gone with the Wind" read like a pamphlet. 165 00:07:37,721 --> 00:07:40,265 Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. 166 00:07:40,432 --> 00:07:41,683 I'd never read a script, 167 00:07:41,809 --> 00:07:43,685 but he did a reading for me. 168 00:07:44,061 --> 00:07:47,523 And he read a couple of scenes, which 169 00:07:47,731 --> 00:07:48,857 {\an8}were great, 170 00:07:48,982 --> 00:07:50,859 {\an8}I mean truly great. 171 00:07:50,984 --> 00:07:53,737 {\an8}And there are gonna be two platoons, a Jewish platoon-- 172 00:07:53,862 --> 00:07:55,197 Known as the Basterds. 173 00:07:55,322 --> 00:07:56,824 And a Black Platoon. 174 00:07:56,824 --> 00:07:58,951 Known as the Killer Crows, 175 00:07:59,076 --> 00:08:02,079 a respectful nod to all African American regiments 176 00:08:02,204 --> 00:08:04,122 that served in World War II. 177 00:08:04,248 --> 00:08:07,251 An all-black unit, they have been sent in to do a mission. 178 00:08:07,376 --> 00:08:09,127 The fictional Killer Crows 179 00:08:09,294 --> 00:08:12,089 would travel across Europe hunting down Nazi scourge. 180 00:08:12,214 --> 00:08:13,841 Killing all of them, 181 00:08:13,966 --> 00:08:15,884 scattering throughout Europe and hiding out there. 182 00:08:16,009 --> 00:08:18,804 They would cross paths with the Basterds in some form, 183 00:08:18,971 --> 00:08:21,181 maybe a mission, but they weren't gonna be like 184 00:08:21,306 --> 00:08:22,975 opposing forces with one another. 185 00:08:23,141 --> 00:08:24,935 The disruptive troops 186 00:08:25,060 --> 00:08:28,146 would be hunted down in turn by a Nazi named Hans Landa. 187 00:08:28,272 --> 00:08:30,816 Tarantino would find Hans's solo mission 188 00:08:30,983 --> 00:08:34,611 a 10-year ticking time bomb when it came to casting. 189 00:08:36,405 --> 00:08:38,991 And I was like , yes, make that movie. 190 00:08:39,116 --> 00:08:40,659 Yes. 191 00:08:40,826 --> 00:08:44,329 He worked on that for like years , 192 00:08:44,496 --> 00:08:46,665 but couldn't get it over the line. 193 00:08:46,790 --> 00:08:48,250 He couldn't finish it. 194 00:08:48,375 --> 00:08:49,835 It just ended up getting bigger and bigger and bigger. 195 00:08:50,002 --> 00:08:51,128 The size of three movies. 196 00:08:51,295 --> 00:08:52,796 It was just too big. 197 00:08:52,921 --> 00:08:54,131 I had the opposite of writer's block. 198 00:08:54,256 --> 00:08:56,175 I couldn't stop writing, basically. 199 00:08:56,341 --> 00:08:57,301 And at a certain point I realized, 200 00:08:57,467 --> 00:08:58,969 okay, this isn't even a movie. 201 00:08:59,094 --> 00:09:00,179 I mean, this might be a 12-hour mini-series, 202 00:09:00,345 --> 00:09:01,847 but it's not a movie. 203 00:09:02,014 --> 00:09:03,807 He never found a way to tie it all together 204 00:09:03,932 --> 00:09:06,268 and say, there, that's done. 205 00:09:07,019 --> 00:09:09,813 He happens to go to this fortuitous dinner 206 00:09:09,938 --> 00:09:11,857 with French director, Luc Besson. 207 00:09:11,982 --> 00:09:13,650 And while they're at dinner, he's telling Luc Besson, 208 00:09:13,775 --> 00:09:15,110 "I've got this great script. 209 00:09:15,235 --> 00:09:17,321 It's gonna be this 16-hour 210 00:09:17,446 --> 00:09:19,198 World War II epic." 211 00:09:19,406 --> 00:09:21,074 {\an8}And Luc Besson very calmly just looks at him 212 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,911 {\an8}and goes, "Tarantino, you're one of the few directors 213 00:09:24,036 --> 00:09:26,830 I leave the house to go to the cinema to watch their movies." 214 00:09:28,916 --> 00:09:31,251 "So you're telling me that with this big epic, 215 00:09:31,251 --> 00:09:33,295 I now am gonna have to wait another five years 216 00:09:33,420 --> 00:09:35,380 to see one of your movies?" 217 00:09:35,506 --> 00:09:37,216 And that sticks with Tarantino. 218 00:09:37,591 --> 00:09:39,760 And he starts to strip down things 219 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,720 that he doesn't feel are necessary. 220 00:09:41,845 --> 00:09:43,806 The Killer Crows would be written out, 221 00:09:43,931 --> 00:09:45,891 but the Basterds would stay in. 222 00:09:46,058 --> 00:09:48,936 Eight Jewish-American soldiers. 223 00:09:49,061 --> 00:09:51,271 And I realize it was the story that was the problem 224 00:09:51,396 --> 00:09:53,816 that made me not be able to finish it way back when. 225 00:09:53,941 --> 00:09:55,400 So I took the same characters 226 00:09:55,526 --> 00:09:56,944 and a couple of the introduction scenes 227 00:09:57,069 --> 00:09:58,654 of some of the characters, 228 00:09:58,779 --> 00:10:00,405 and then I came up with a whole new storyline 229 00:10:00,572 --> 00:10:02,950 and that I figured I could do as a movie. 230 00:10:03,116 --> 00:10:05,410 10 years of scripts had to be rewritten 231 00:10:05,577 --> 00:10:08,997 but Tarantino's classic Rubik's cube method 232 00:10:09,123 --> 00:10:12,084 of switching themes between multiple scripts 233 00:10:12,209 --> 00:10:13,460 came to the rescue. 234 00:10:13,460 --> 00:10:16,880 Eventually he found a way to end it. 235 00:10:17,673 --> 00:10:21,093 And part of the reason for that was one of the plot strands 236 00:10:21,260 --> 00:10:23,846 that he had had for "Inglourious Basterds" 237 00:10:23,971 --> 00:10:25,347 was the character of 238 00:10:25,472 --> 00:10:26,431 Shosanna. 239 00:10:26,598 --> 00:10:28,100 She had like a kill list. 240 00:10:28,767 --> 00:10:30,477 So she was gonna sort of hunt down 241 00:10:30,477 --> 00:10:33,397 and kill the Nazis that she saw as responsible 242 00:10:33,522 --> 00:10:34,815 for the death of her family, 243 00:10:34,940 --> 00:10:36,024 which of course 244 00:10:37,234 --> 00:10:38,694 was the idea for "Kill Bill." 245 00:10:40,654 --> 00:10:42,072 So it was almost like that 246 00:10:42,447 --> 00:10:44,074 went into "Inglourious Basterds," 247 00:10:44,241 --> 00:10:45,450 then came out of "Inglourious Basterds," went back 248 00:10:46,326 --> 00:10:49,037 to "Kill Bill," and now he couldn't have that 249 00:10:49,163 --> 00:10:50,956 in "Inglourious Basterds." 250 00:10:51,123 --> 00:10:52,791 So the kill list idea 251 00:10:54,084 --> 00:10:56,170 had been gifted to "Kill Bill." 252 00:10:56,170 --> 00:10:59,339 Meaning when he returned to the Basterds in 2008, 253 00:11:00,048 --> 00:11:03,427 Quentin would need a fresh storyline for the protagonist. 254 00:11:03,552 --> 00:11:06,305 He instead came up with this idea of Shosanna 255 00:11:06,638 --> 00:11:09,308 running a cinema in Vichy, Paris. 256 00:11:09,475 --> 00:11:12,227 And then that led to the idea of the premiere 257 00:11:12,352 --> 00:11:14,188 for the German propaganda movie. 258 00:11:14,688 --> 00:11:17,816 And Tarantino went down a whole rabbit hole of Goebbels 259 00:11:17,941 --> 00:11:21,069 and his film studio and German propaganda movies. 260 00:11:21,195 --> 00:11:24,156 This sort of became a fascination for him. 261 00:11:24,865 --> 00:11:26,825 Now, Tarantino was seeing 262 00:11:26,992 --> 00:11:30,204 a storyline opportunity about cinema still in its infancy 263 00:11:30,370 --> 00:11:33,207 {\an8}as seen through the eyes of a PR genius. 264 00:11:33,332 --> 00:11:36,084 {\an8}Having as part of "Inglourious Basterds" 265 00:11:36,210 --> 00:11:38,003 a German propaganda film, 266 00:11:38,170 --> 00:11:41,340 which would involve a character that he based on 267 00:11:42,174 --> 00:11:43,926 the American soldier, Audie Murphy, 268 00:11:44,051 --> 00:11:45,427 who was an American soldier 269 00:11:45,552 --> 00:11:48,180 who ended up starring in movies about himself 270 00:11:48,305 --> 00:11:50,098 in adventures based on his own exploits. 271 00:11:50,224 --> 00:11:51,475 Audie Murphy, 272 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,393 the kid who on the field of battle 273 00:11:53,519 --> 00:11:56,188 won every decoration for valor his country had to give. 274 00:11:56,313 --> 00:11:57,397 So he came up with the idea of 275 00:11:58,273 --> 00:12:01,860 having the Nazi German soldier version of this, 276 00:12:02,027 --> 00:12:04,947 which is the character played by Daniel Bruhl in the film. 277 00:12:07,115 --> 00:12:09,117 But he realizes in this moment, 278 00:12:09,243 --> 00:12:11,078 he's got Hitler trapped in this theater. 279 00:12:11,078 --> 00:12:13,831 And history says that Hitler doesn't get killed by fire 280 00:12:13,956 --> 00:12:15,958 or a gun in a theater in France. 281 00:12:16,083 --> 00:12:19,211 He commits suicide in Berlin before the allies get there. 282 00:12:19,378 --> 00:12:23,382 So Tarantino starts to think about, "What do I do?" 283 00:12:23,507 --> 00:12:24,967 All of a sudden in a late night writing session, 284 00:12:25,092 --> 00:12:26,468 {\an8}it comes to his mind and he goes, 285 00:12:26,593 --> 00:12:28,220 {\an8}"Well, what if I just fucking kill Hitler?" 286 00:12:28,595 --> 00:12:30,013 And he sits there for a little bit 287 00:12:30,139 --> 00:12:31,807 and it starts to germinate in his head. 288 00:12:32,224 --> 00:12:34,268 And the more he thinks about it, the more he's kind of like, 289 00:12:34,268 --> 00:12:36,562 "I think I'm gonna just fucking kill Hitler." 290 00:12:36,687 --> 00:12:38,522 But he's not 100% sold on it, 291 00:12:38,647 --> 00:12:41,316 and he's not sure if it's late night fatigue or what, so... 292 00:12:43,485 --> 00:12:45,237 So what he does is he grabs a piece of paper, 293 00:12:45,404 --> 00:12:48,574 he writes down on the paper, "Just kill Hitler." 294 00:12:48,740 --> 00:12:51,076 Puts it on his bedside table, goes to bed. 295 00:12:55,539 --> 00:12:57,916 The sun is about to rise 296 00:12:58,083 --> 00:13:01,420 on one of Quentin Tarantino's greatest writing achievements. 297 00:13:01,879 --> 00:13:04,298 {\an8}When he wakes up in the morning, he sees the note 298 00:13:04,465 --> 00:13:07,259 {\an8}and he agrees, "Yeah, we're gonna just fucking kill Hitler." 299 00:13:10,304 --> 00:13:12,097 Well, he did have it coming. 300 00:13:12,264 --> 00:13:14,099 Tarantino's script had the version 301 00:13:14,224 --> 00:13:17,811 everyone would like to see, except The Fuhrer, of course. 302 00:13:17,936 --> 00:13:22,316 I literally read the script and I text him, 303 00:13:22,316 --> 00:13:24,943 "Quentin, this is your masterpiece." 304 00:13:25,068 --> 00:13:26,445 It was shocking to me. 305 00:13:26,570 --> 00:13:28,489 It was like a real life "Raiders of the Lost Ark." 306 00:13:28,655 --> 00:13:31,241 Which is exactly what the Nazis are looking for. 307 00:13:31,658 --> 00:13:33,202 I remember reading it 308 00:13:33,327 --> 00:13:35,370 and just being like... 309 00:13:36,497 --> 00:13:38,248 Prop masters Steve and Caylah 310 00:13:38,373 --> 00:13:39,833 had a similar reaction 311 00:13:39,833 --> 00:13:41,543 and then a bit of a lie down. 312 00:13:41,668 --> 00:13:47,132 And Caylah's sobbing and it absolutely wiped her out. 313 00:13:47,299 --> 00:13:49,092 {\an8}In fact, we stopped working for the rest of the day. 314 00:13:49,259 --> 00:13:50,511 But Tarantino couldn't. 315 00:13:52,721 --> 00:13:55,891 Next came Hans Landa, the uncastable role 316 00:13:56,016 --> 00:13:57,434 that nearly killed the film. 317 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:00,020 He had Leonardo DiCaprio in mind. 318 00:14:00,020 --> 00:14:01,980 Tarantino hadn't worked with DiCaprio, 319 00:14:02,105 --> 00:14:05,609 {\an8}but the character of Landa was fluent in German, 320 00:14:05,734 --> 00:14:08,487 {\an8}English, Italian, and French. 321 00:14:09,988 --> 00:14:11,323 Where to, Miss? 322 00:14:11,490 --> 00:14:13,158 DiCaprio could sure pull off 323 00:14:13,325 --> 00:14:16,328 upper-class English, but foreign languages? 324 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,207 So he had to move away from that concept 325 00:14:20,332 --> 00:14:22,000 and he had to find someone 326 00:14:22,125 --> 00:14:25,045 who could not only be Landa as he imagined him, 327 00:14:25,212 --> 00:14:28,674 but also pull off being quadrilingual. 328 00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:30,259 {\an8}Buongiorno. 329 00:14:30,384 --> 00:14:32,678 A time bomb called Hans Landa 330 00:14:32,803 --> 00:14:35,472 was now ticking under Quentin Tarantino. 331 00:14:35,597 --> 00:14:37,349 Other roles were easier to cast. 332 00:14:37,516 --> 00:14:40,894 The role of Aldo Raine, the leader of the Basterds, 333 00:14:41,061 --> 00:14:43,939 was not written for Brad Pitt at all. 334 00:14:44,064 --> 00:14:47,276 But as the writing process went on and went on, 335 00:14:47,401 --> 00:14:51,071 he more and more came to see Pitt in that role. 336 00:14:51,071 --> 00:14:53,240 And he has said categorically, 337 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:56,493 not because Pitt was a star. It was just simply, again, 338 00:14:56,618 --> 00:14:58,662 the same as Pam Grier for Jackie Brown 339 00:14:58,787 --> 00:15:00,581 or Robert Foster for Max Cherry, 340 00:15:00,706 --> 00:15:02,624 or John Travolta for Vincent Vega. 341 00:15:02,749 --> 00:15:05,919 He just went, it's got to be Brad Pitt and fortunately... 342 00:15:06,086 --> 00:15:07,171 Sound good? 343 00:15:07,296 --> 00:15:08,630 Yes sir. 344 00:15:08,755 --> 00:15:11,216 Brad Pitt was very amenable to the idea. 345 00:15:11,341 --> 00:15:12,926 I sent him the script. 346 00:15:13,051 --> 00:15:14,428 I had heard that he really liked it 347 00:15:14,428 --> 00:15:17,264 so I flew up to his home in the south of France. 348 00:15:17,431 --> 00:15:19,016 He lives on a vineyard. 349 00:15:19,183 --> 00:15:21,310 {\an8}I know that he had tried to talk to Brad's agent 350 00:15:21,435 --> 00:15:24,521 {\an8}about casting him before in something and-- 351 00:15:24,646 --> 00:15:26,273 He wasn't available. 352 00:15:26,398 --> 00:15:28,275 So we open up a bottle of rosé. 353 00:15:28,275 --> 00:15:29,902 We're pouring some glasses, 354 00:15:30,068 --> 00:15:32,154 having a bit of a chat about the movie, 355 00:15:32,279 --> 00:15:34,156 and ultimately decided to do the movie 356 00:15:34,281 --> 00:15:36,241 and decided that we were in love with each other. 357 00:15:36,366 --> 00:15:39,161 We just want to say we're a big fan of your work. 358 00:15:39,286 --> 00:15:40,579 Like Bruce Willis, 359 00:15:40,746 --> 00:15:42,372 when Quentin cast him in "Pulp Fiction," 360 00:15:42,498 --> 00:15:45,209 Pitt was now a heavyweight Hollywood champion. 361 00:15:45,334 --> 00:15:48,962 And I think Quentin was like, yes, it's just perfect. 362 00:15:49,087 --> 00:15:50,380 And you have to go quickly 363 00:15:50,547 --> 00:15:52,174 because he might have something else. 364 00:15:52,299 --> 00:15:53,967 Now's your chance to do it now. 365 00:15:54,092 --> 00:15:55,636 It's a different kind of a role for Pitt. 366 00:15:55,802 --> 00:15:58,472 It is more of a supporting role than a lead role 367 00:15:58,472 --> 00:16:00,390 if we're honest in that movie, 368 00:16:00,516 --> 00:16:03,143 and it's more of a character actor's performance 369 00:16:03,143 --> 00:16:05,229 than you'd expect from a lead actor. 370 00:16:05,395 --> 00:16:07,105 Once Pitt was locked in, 371 00:16:07,272 --> 00:16:09,608 a name was needed to play the British spy. 372 00:16:09,775 --> 00:16:13,445 Who better than an old friend and Tarantino regular? 373 00:16:13,570 --> 00:16:16,740 The role of Archie Hicox was originally 374 00:16:16,865 --> 00:16:18,242 supposed to be Tim Roth. 375 00:16:18,367 --> 00:16:20,035 Michael Fassbender gets that role, 376 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:21,328 helps launch Michael Fassbender's career, 377 00:16:21,453 --> 00:16:23,038 at least here in America. 378 00:16:23,163 --> 00:16:25,124 Lieutenant Archie Hicox, reporting, sir. 379 00:16:25,249 --> 00:16:27,167 But amid all that firepower, 380 00:16:27,167 --> 00:16:29,670 one comic actor wouldn't be clocking in. 381 00:16:29,837 --> 00:16:31,588 Eddie Murphy started popping out there 382 00:16:31,755 --> 00:16:33,340 and Adam Sandler was supposed to play 383 00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:35,509 Donny Donowitz, The Bear Jew. 384 00:16:35,634 --> 00:16:36,593 Well, he certainly knew 385 00:16:36,718 --> 00:16:38,428 how to put a hole in one, 386 00:16:38,554 --> 00:16:40,055 but Sandler was already batting 387 00:16:40,180 --> 00:16:42,474 for Jud Apatow's "Funny People" team. 388 00:16:42,599 --> 00:16:44,434 He shoots, he scores. 389 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,396 Instead of Sandler, Quentin's friend Eli Roth-- 390 00:16:50,649 --> 00:16:52,442 would step up to the plate. 391 00:16:52,609 --> 00:16:55,028 Big fucking Williams knocks it out of the park. 392 00:16:55,195 --> 00:16:57,364 Roth could speak French and Italian. 393 00:16:57,364 --> 00:16:59,324 - English? - Nein. 394 00:16:59,449 --> 00:17:01,451 But his famous European co-stars 395 00:17:01,618 --> 00:17:03,495 would need genuine fluency. 396 00:17:03,620 --> 00:17:05,456 Can I assume you know who we are? 397 00:17:05,581 --> 00:17:06,790 Fuck you. 398 00:17:08,250 --> 00:17:10,419 French actress, Melanie Laurent. 399 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:13,464 And Denis Ménochet. 400 00:17:15,716 --> 00:17:17,259 Representing the fatherland, 401 00:17:17,384 --> 00:17:19,178 actress Diane Kruger could-- 402 00:17:19,303 --> 00:17:21,388 Speak German better than your friends. 403 00:17:21,388 --> 00:17:24,266 Alongside Daniel Bruhl and other locals. 404 00:17:26,018 --> 00:17:28,687 {\an8}All sharing a sense of humor and history. 405 00:17:28,812 --> 00:17:31,482 When I read the script and I read about Bridget, 406 00:17:31,607 --> 00:17:33,275 it just blew me away. 407 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,695 I thought, wow, he wrote this obviously for me. 408 00:17:42,242 --> 00:17:43,827 Getting Mike Myers is easy. 409 00:17:43,994 --> 00:17:45,579 He asked to be in the film. 410 00:17:45,579 --> 00:17:46,789 Tarantino answered. 411 00:17:46,914 --> 00:17:48,415 He said, "Listen... 412 00:17:48,415 --> 00:17:51,251 Are you familiar with German cinema? 413 00:17:51,376 --> 00:17:53,212 ...would you like to play a British General?" 414 00:17:53,378 --> 00:17:56,548 And I said, "Sure, yeah, just tell me when and what to wear." 415 00:17:56,673 --> 00:17:58,258 Got the gist? 416 00:17:58,425 --> 00:18:01,261 If Tarantino had asked me to read the phone book, 417 00:18:01,261 --> 00:18:02,513 I would've done it. 418 00:18:02,638 --> 00:18:03,764 Myers's comedy 419 00:18:03,889 --> 00:18:05,724 would find its way into the movie. 420 00:18:05,849 --> 00:18:08,352 I suspect that wouldn't be too much trouble for you. 421 00:18:08,477 --> 00:18:10,896 But that old Hans Landa landmine 422 00:18:11,021 --> 00:18:12,523 was about to blow up. 423 00:18:12,648 --> 00:18:16,193 {\an8}And after many, many casting chances, 424 00:18:16,318 --> 00:18:17,861 {\an8}he really felt that he wasn't gonna be able to find him 425 00:18:18,028 --> 00:18:20,572 {\an8}and he felt that Hans Landa was such a good character, 426 00:18:20,697 --> 00:18:22,824 in his words, the best character he's ever created, 427 00:18:23,283 --> 00:18:25,202 that he would rather not do the movie 428 00:18:25,369 --> 00:18:26,787 than cast the wrong person. 429 00:18:26,787 --> 00:18:29,748 This nearly killed the film. 430 00:18:29,873 --> 00:18:33,293 They'd got to a point where they were a few days out 431 00:18:33,293 --> 00:18:36,588 from the studio locking in to make it. 432 00:18:36,755 --> 00:18:39,174 And they still hadn't found Hans Landa. 433 00:18:39,299 --> 00:18:41,218 And Tarantino realized at this point, 434 00:18:41,343 --> 00:18:44,221 he couldn't realistically commit to making the movie 435 00:18:44,346 --> 00:18:45,889 unless he had Hans Landa. 436 00:18:46,014 --> 00:18:47,850 He'd pull the plug on the whole film. 437 00:18:47,975 --> 00:18:49,226 It wouldn't happen. 438 00:18:53,647 --> 00:18:56,108 Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" film 439 00:18:56,275 --> 00:18:58,861 is only months away from starting shooting. 440 00:18:58,986 --> 00:19:00,863 But if he couldn't cast Hans Landa, 441 00:19:00,988 --> 00:19:03,657 Quentin's sixth movie might not survive. 442 00:19:03,657 --> 00:19:05,200 I've heard that straight from Quentin. 443 00:19:05,325 --> 00:19:06,869 He was about to pull up stakes. 444 00:19:06,994 --> 00:19:09,371 He thought that actor might not exist. 445 00:19:09,496 --> 00:19:11,748 So they just auditioned and auditioned. 446 00:19:11,874 --> 00:19:15,210 {\an8}About a day before that plug had to be pulled 447 00:19:15,335 --> 00:19:18,714 {\an8}that Christoph Waltz walked in. 448 00:19:18,839 --> 00:19:20,549 Surely he waltzed in. 449 00:19:20,674 --> 00:19:21,925 I have no way of knowing 450 00:19:22,050 --> 00:19:24,261 if you are familiar with who I am. 451 00:19:24,386 --> 00:19:25,846 Well, no, nobody was. 452 00:19:25,846 --> 00:19:28,307 Now, Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor, 453 00:19:28,474 --> 00:19:30,851 almost totally unknown outside his country, 454 00:19:31,018 --> 00:19:34,188 has hardly done any English language speaking stuff, 455 00:19:34,354 --> 00:19:35,898 primarily a TV actor, 456 00:19:36,023 --> 00:19:39,902 and he can speak fluent French, Italian, German, English. 457 00:19:40,027 --> 00:19:42,362 He did his audition as Landa. 458 00:19:42,362 --> 00:19:44,573 Tarantino just looked at him... 459 00:19:46,825 --> 00:19:48,535 ...and went, yeah, we've got our movie. 460 00:19:48,702 --> 00:19:49,661 It's this guy. 461 00:19:52,331 --> 00:19:54,750 Bingo, how fun. 462 00:19:54,875 --> 00:19:56,460 Inglourious Basterds is saved, 463 00:19:56,585 --> 00:19:58,295 and Christoph Waltz does a little bit of lying. 464 00:19:58,420 --> 00:20:00,756 He tells Tarantino that he's fluent in Italian. 465 00:20:00,881 --> 00:20:02,257 Tarantino doesn't know any of the language, 466 00:20:02,382 --> 00:20:03,884 so he believes him. 467 00:20:04,009 --> 00:20:07,179 Christoph Waltz taught himself Italian to speak it 468 00:20:07,346 --> 00:20:08,597 at the end of that film. 469 00:20:11,308 --> 00:20:12,267 {\an8}Si. 470 00:20:12,392 --> 00:20:13,811 {\an8}Correcto. 471 00:20:13,936 --> 00:20:17,648 He had to find a very, very, very specific actor. 472 00:20:18,482 --> 00:20:20,984 The Fuhrer couldn't have said it better himself. 473 00:20:21,109 --> 00:20:23,529 Now, Tarantino could start piecing together 474 00:20:23,654 --> 00:20:25,781 his World War II black comedy. 475 00:20:27,533 --> 00:20:30,244 First he'd need to approach an old friend. 476 00:20:30,244 --> 00:20:32,246 But did this come with risks? 477 00:20:32,246 --> 00:20:34,998 Allegations of Harvey Weinstein's misconduct 478 00:20:35,123 --> 00:20:38,210 {\an8}were surfacing in Hollywood with increased frequency. 479 00:20:38,335 --> 00:20:40,754 {\an8}This happened to a lot of women and happened to me 480 00:20:40,754 --> 00:20:42,548 and I was afraid. 481 00:20:42,714 --> 00:20:44,341 As were several other women at the time, 482 00:20:44,466 --> 00:20:46,343 such as Daryl Hannah. 483 00:20:46,468 --> 00:20:48,262 Actor Michael Madsen was in Cannes 484 00:20:48,262 --> 00:20:50,639 to promote their movie, "Vice" 485 00:20:50,764 --> 00:20:52,808 I don't know if I should tell this story. 486 00:20:52,933 --> 00:20:55,602 when his phone rang. It was Daryl. 487 00:20:56,395 --> 00:20:59,314 Weinstein was in her apartment and wouldn't leave, 488 00:20:59,439 --> 00:21:01,692 so she locked herself in the bathroom. 489 00:21:01,817 --> 00:21:03,569 {\an8}I said, here's what you do. 490 00:21:03,735 --> 00:21:05,779 {\an8}Walk out there with your phone in your hand. 491 00:21:05,779 --> 00:21:07,906 And so I heard the door open 492 00:21:08,073 --> 00:21:09,867 and she came out and she goes, yeah, Mike, 493 00:21:09,992 --> 00:21:11,869 well, you know, she's making up some stuff, 494 00:21:11,994 --> 00:21:14,705 but I was still on the line. 495 00:21:14,830 --> 00:21:16,290 He goes, "Who's that on the phone?" 496 00:21:16,415 --> 00:21:17,916 And she goes, "Oh, it's Michael Madsen." 497 00:21:18,667 --> 00:21:20,919 He goes, "Michael Madsen? He's on the phone with you?" 498 00:21:21,086 --> 00:21:23,046 And she goes, "Yeah." 499 00:21:23,172 --> 00:21:25,716 And then I heard like footsteps, 500 00:21:25,883 --> 00:21:27,676 right out the door he went. 501 00:21:28,218 --> 00:21:29,887 Harvey didn't like me because he knew that I knew 502 00:21:30,012 --> 00:21:31,597 that he was a pig. 503 00:21:31,763 --> 00:21:33,015 In the interim, 504 00:21:33,140 --> 00:21:34,975 there would be no consequences for Harvey 505 00:21:34,975 --> 00:21:37,811 or any business associate, but that was going to change. 506 00:21:37,936 --> 00:21:39,605 And I think that he stayed with Quentin 507 00:21:39,771 --> 00:21:42,941 because whatever they did together worked. 508 00:21:45,819 --> 00:21:47,988 Principal photography would begin in Germany 509 00:21:47,988 --> 00:21:49,990 in October, 2008. 510 00:21:51,492 --> 00:21:52,868 Despite a budget 511 00:21:52,993 --> 00:21:54,870 more than eight times "Pulp Fiction's" 512 00:21:54,995 --> 00:21:56,830 Tarantino set the same 10-week 513 00:21:56,830 --> 00:21:58,749 production schedule for "Basterds" 514 00:21:58,874 --> 00:22:00,959 to recapture his old sense of energy. 515 00:22:01,126 --> 00:22:02,503 What's going on here? 516 00:22:02,503 --> 00:22:04,463 If we had three days to do a scene, 517 00:22:04,588 --> 00:22:06,799 {\an8}there was no manana, manana which happens all the time. 518 00:22:08,759 --> 00:22:10,344 Along with K.N.B, his long-term effects crew, 519 00:22:10,469 --> 00:22:12,429 he also pulled back DP, Bob Richardson, 520 00:22:12,554 --> 00:22:14,973 past "Kill Bill" clashes and all. 521 00:22:15,140 --> 00:22:17,684 {\an8}So that's when I was like, hey, okay fellas, okay, 522 00:22:17,684 --> 00:22:19,645 {\an8}we're a little semantic here, 523 00:22:20,103 --> 00:22:21,813 let's just take a deep breath. 524 00:22:22,105 --> 00:22:24,024 Would lightning strike twice? 525 00:22:24,024 --> 00:22:25,901 It was completely different. 526 00:22:26,026 --> 00:22:28,070 They had more respect for each other. 527 00:22:29,738 --> 00:22:31,323 They could understand each other. 528 00:22:31,490 --> 00:22:34,451 Bob knew the creature he was dealing with. 529 00:22:34,576 --> 00:22:36,453 Meanwhile, another former lieutenant 530 00:22:36,578 --> 00:22:38,705 was showing up for front line duty. 531 00:22:38,872 --> 00:22:40,833 Lawrence Bender was back 532 00:22:40,958 --> 00:22:44,628 after narrowly avoiding Tarantino's unpopular "Death Proof." 533 00:22:44,753 --> 00:22:47,798 Quentin and Lawrence have not always seen eye to eye. 534 00:22:47,923 --> 00:22:52,136 They definitely have had times apart and friction, 535 00:22:52,261 --> 00:22:54,680 and they've had times together and great joy. 536 00:22:54,805 --> 00:22:56,640 I think it's like any relationship. 537 00:22:56,765 --> 00:22:59,643 I think, you know, Lawrence just believed in Quentin. 538 00:23:00,018 --> 00:23:02,146 On "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown," 539 00:23:02,271 --> 00:23:05,023 he was remarkably supportive 540 00:23:05,148 --> 00:23:07,985 and always protecting Quentin's vision. 541 00:23:08,151 --> 00:23:10,737 He certainly had it on "Inglourious Basterds." 542 00:23:12,865 --> 00:23:14,616 With his soldiers at attention, 543 00:23:14,741 --> 00:23:17,828 Tarantino's vision became reality in Altendorf, Germany, 544 00:23:17,953 --> 00:23:20,789 when cameras rolled in October, 2008. 545 00:23:20,914 --> 00:23:23,750 We get to this farmhouse, Quentin has written 546 00:23:23,876 --> 00:23:26,086 that these hills are littered with cows. 547 00:23:26,670 --> 00:23:28,797 {\an8}The city boy would come face to face 548 00:23:28,922 --> 00:23:30,757 {\an8}with rural reality. 549 00:23:30,757 --> 00:23:34,011 {\an8}And it's this beautiful French peaceful place 550 00:23:34,136 --> 00:23:36,972 and up drive the Nazis. 551 00:23:37,097 --> 00:23:40,726 And there's this stoic French farmer out chopping wood. 552 00:23:40,893 --> 00:23:43,145 {\an8}Well, they've told the animal wranglers 553 00:23:43,270 --> 00:23:45,439 {\an8}that these cows have to be here and here 554 00:23:45,606 --> 00:23:47,065 {\an8}and here on these hills 555 00:23:47,191 --> 00:23:48,942 and they can't have these fences around them. 556 00:23:49,109 --> 00:23:50,986 So they've got the fences around them, we're ready to shoot, 557 00:23:51,111 --> 00:23:52,946 and they're like, "Okay, lose the fences." 558 00:23:53,071 --> 00:23:55,073 and they're like, "These cows will last here for two seconds 559 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,117 and you're gonna be filming here for days." 560 00:23:57,117 --> 00:23:58,869 So well, let's just try it. 561 00:23:58,994 --> 00:24:02,122 They remove the fences and the cows disappear. 562 00:24:02,122 --> 00:24:05,876 So Quentin has to abandon the pastoral scene 563 00:24:06,043 --> 00:24:09,880 of cows munching quietly on the French hillside. 564 00:24:10,005 --> 00:24:12,966 So Quentin's not happy about that. 565 00:24:13,675 --> 00:24:15,969 Three cows edged into the frame, 566 00:24:15,969 --> 00:24:18,472 but Waltz was now front and center. 567 00:24:18,597 --> 00:24:21,099 Would he be everything Quentin hoped for? 568 00:24:21,225 --> 00:24:22,893 You're anticipating this for months and months 569 00:24:23,018 --> 00:24:24,436 as you're building up to it. 570 00:24:26,146 --> 00:24:27,648 That you realize you're gonna shoot 571 00:24:27,773 --> 00:24:31,026 those 10 pages that have terrified you. 572 00:24:31,151 --> 00:24:32,820 Quentin needn't have worried. 573 00:24:32,820 --> 00:24:35,781 Waltz's performance took everyone's breath away. 574 00:24:35,906 --> 00:24:37,699 One of the great discoveries 575 00:24:37,824 --> 00:24:39,451 in motion picture history 576 00:24:39,576 --> 00:24:42,079 is Christoph in "Inglourious Basterds." 577 00:24:42,204 --> 00:24:43,997 Please tell me what you've heard. 578 00:24:43,997 --> 00:24:45,999 {\an8}If you want to see what's the definition of suspense? 579 00:24:46,166 --> 00:24:48,836 {\an8}Just go, here's the opening scene of "Inglourious Basterds." 580 00:24:49,378 --> 00:24:51,755 I was like, holy shit, I didn't know someone 581 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,173 {\an8}could take it to a whole other... 582 00:24:53,340 --> 00:24:54,508 {\an8}I didn't know there was another level 583 00:24:54,675 --> 00:24:56,093 {\an8}that scene could get to. 584 00:24:56,218 --> 00:24:57,636 But a great performance needs a great, 585 00:24:57,761 --> 00:24:59,972 but also unorthodox director. 586 00:25:00,139 --> 00:25:01,723 Hans Landa looks at him and says, 587 00:25:01,849 --> 00:25:03,684 "You're hiding Jews, aren't you?" 588 00:25:03,809 --> 00:25:06,937 And there's this closeup shot of LaPadite. 589 00:25:07,104 --> 00:25:10,524 Quentin got Shosanna to set that day, 590 00:25:10,691 --> 00:25:13,735 {\an8}although she wasn't shooting and he had her covered in blood 591 00:25:13,861 --> 00:25:16,905 {\an8}and he got the three sisters to set that day, 592 00:25:17,030 --> 00:25:18,157 although they weren't shooting 593 00:25:18,282 --> 00:25:21,785 and he had them hidden on set. 594 00:25:22,286 --> 00:25:24,705 And so when LaPadite is looking, 595 00:25:24,830 --> 00:25:29,168 they stepped out behind camera and he wasn't expecting that. 596 00:25:29,293 --> 00:25:31,253 I'd never seen a director do that before. 597 00:25:31,378 --> 00:25:33,797 You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not? 598 00:25:33,922 --> 00:25:35,549 Ménochet's glance to his right 599 00:25:35,549 --> 00:25:37,551 is when he sees his costars. 600 00:25:37,718 --> 00:25:41,763 Has Tarantino created a magic moment in cinema yet again? 601 00:25:41,889 --> 00:25:43,474 Yes. 602 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:44,975 Not all the tension was scripted. 603 00:25:45,142 --> 00:25:47,603 Crew disputes kept the European shoot on edge. 604 00:25:49,646 --> 00:25:51,773 Bruce Moriarty was, he's like, da da da da da, 605 00:25:51,899 --> 00:25:53,650 he was like a drill sergeant. 606 00:25:53,775 --> 00:25:54,776 It was unpleasant. 607 00:25:54,902 --> 00:25:56,153 Nobody was having a good time. 608 00:25:56,278 --> 00:25:57,738 Quentin wasn't having a good time, 609 00:25:57,738 --> 00:25:59,198 so nobody was having a good time. 610 00:26:04,995 --> 00:26:06,163 The first days of shooting 611 00:26:06,330 --> 00:26:08,081 Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" 612 00:26:08,081 --> 00:26:11,043 are not going as smoothly as expected. 613 00:26:11,168 --> 00:26:12,711 As the cows cleared out, 614 00:26:12,836 --> 00:26:14,963 so did First AD Carlos Fidel. 615 00:26:15,088 --> 00:26:17,716 Tarantino felt the pull of a familiar face. 616 00:26:17,883 --> 00:26:21,261 Within the first week of shooting, I got the call. 617 00:26:21,386 --> 00:26:24,181 And Bill Clark was Berlin bound. 618 00:26:24,306 --> 00:26:25,641 {\an8}Well, like Quentin needs me? 619 00:26:25,766 --> 00:26:26,725 {\an8}What the fuck could he need me for? 620 00:26:26,850 --> 00:26:28,769 But yeah, I'll come. 621 00:26:28,769 --> 00:26:30,103 Quentin needed Bill 622 00:26:30,229 --> 00:26:32,272 because he was his go-to First AD 623 00:26:32,272 --> 00:26:33,941 as far back as "Jackie Brown." 624 00:26:34,107 --> 00:26:36,860 There was an obvious shift in the mood 625 00:26:36,985 --> 00:26:40,072 and also in the actors when the AD changed. 626 00:26:40,197 --> 00:26:42,699 But now this apparently welcomed change 627 00:26:42,824 --> 00:26:44,201 would make the director upset. 628 00:26:44,326 --> 00:26:46,203 His mood changed completely. 629 00:26:46,328 --> 00:26:48,831 He had had a miserable first week of shooting, 630 00:26:48,956 --> 00:26:51,125 and the second he heard I was able to come 631 00:26:51,250 --> 00:26:53,085 and was gonna be coming to Berlin, 632 00:26:53,210 --> 00:26:55,879 his mood changed immediately. 633 00:26:56,046 --> 00:26:57,965 And he's like, "And I was very upset with you. 634 00:26:58,131 --> 00:27:00,634 Why you would have that much control over my mood, 635 00:27:00,759 --> 00:27:03,178 I have no idea and it made me very upset." 636 00:27:03,303 --> 00:27:05,973 The film shifted in tone when Bill arrived 637 00:27:06,139 --> 00:27:08,183 because Quentin was doing a hell of a lot better. 638 00:27:08,308 --> 00:27:10,894 He'd do even better when Steve Joyner flew in 639 00:27:11,061 --> 00:27:14,231 to replace European prop master, Simon Boucherie, 640 00:27:14,356 --> 00:27:16,024 who made a name in France and Germany 641 00:27:16,149 --> 00:27:19,236 for sourcing period correct World War II artifacts, 642 00:27:19,361 --> 00:27:21,363 but wasn't marching in step with Tarantino. 643 00:27:21,488 --> 00:27:24,575 {\an8}He was French and they just didn't communicate. 644 00:27:24,741 --> 00:27:26,118 {\an8}They weren't hitting it off, 645 00:27:26,243 --> 00:27:29,580 so they replaced him with basically me. 646 00:27:29,746 --> 00:27:33,208 Would Steve be welcomed by his new European colleagues? 647 00:27:33,333 --> 00:27:35,669 Who are you? British, American? 648 00:27:35,836 --> 00:27:38,005 It was a very hostile environment to step into. 649 00:27:38,130 --> 00:27:39,590 We're American. 650 00:27:39,715 --> 00:27:41,925 I'm here to facilitate communication 651 00:27:42,092 --> 00:27:45,095 between Quentin and this department. 652 00:27:45,262 --> 00:27:47,723 And after three days, we were the best friends. 653 00:27:47,848 --> 00:27:49,641 With trust flying around, 654 00:27:50,309 --> 00:27:52,311 it was time to get the basterds out 655 00:27:52,436 --> 00:27:54,813 and into the German countryside, 656 00:27:54,938 --> 00:27:58,650 an historical military fortification just outside Berlin. 657 00:27:59,485 --> 00:28:03,780 Fort Hahneberg is the location for Eli Roth's brutal scene. 658 00:28:03,906 --> 00:28:06,366 Somewhat simplified, when Tarantino noticed 659 00:28:06,366 --> 00:28:08,911 something only he would notice. 660 00:28:09,036 --> 00:28:10,287 And there were shots 661 00:28:10,412 --> 00:28:13,207 that Quentin had designed inside there, 662 00:28:13,207 --> 00:28:16,126 so you show him listening to this thing. 663 00:28:19,004 --> 00:28:20,756 We never shot those shots. 664 00:28:20,881 --> 00:28:24,134 Quentin heard the first... 665 00:28:24,259 --> 00:28:29,264 of the clack of the bat back in that tunnel echoing out. 666 00:28:29,723 --> 00:28:32,267 It's like, we don't need to go in there. 667 00:28:32,392 --> 00:28:35,312 But something was bothering bat man, Eli, 668 00:28:35,437 --> 00:28:36,897 and it wasn't the fact this fort 669 00:28:36,897 --> 00:28:39,024 is actually a registered bat colony. 670 00:28:39,191 --> 00:28:40,651 Go. 671 00:28:40,818 --> 00:28:42,236 The man was getting bored in there. 672 00:28:42,402 --> 00:28:46,865 {\an8}Eli said, "Can you give me a, like a bar back here 673 00:28:46,990 --> 00:28:48,867 {\an8}inside the tunnel?" 674 00:28:48,992 --> 00:28:50,202 Like, what? 675 00:28:50,911 --> 00:28:52,913 Not that sort of bar. 676 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,917 And he said, "I want to like do some pull-ups back there." 677 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:58,919 All right. 678 00:28:59,044 --> 00:29:00,254 So they built it for him. 679 00:29:00,879 --> 00:29:03,006 Ever the prankster, 680 00:29:03,173 --> 00:29:05,092 Eli planned a hair raising fright for Miguel. 681 00:29:05,259 --> 00:29:07,010 When we were setting up for that scene, 682 00:29:07,177 --> 00:29:08,720 everyone's like, Miguel, where's Eli? 683 00:29:08,846 --> 00:29:10,389 And I'm like, yeah, where is the guy? 684 00:29:10,514 --> 00:29:13,642 And the dark tunnel he comes out of in the film, 685 00:29:13,767 --> 00:29:16,270 I hear grunting and pounding and hitting 686 00:29:16,270 --> 00:29:18,772 and I'm like, go have a look. 687 00:29:18,772 --> 00:29:21,692 So I walk down this tunnel with my flashlight 688 00:29:21,817 --> 00:29:24,069 and the grunting and the hitting gets louder 689 00:29:24,194 --> 00:29:26,655 and there's no light in there. It's dark, right? 690 00:29:26,780 --> 00:29:28,448 And I come up to the end of this tunnel, 691 00:29:28,448 --> 00:29:30,784 or at some room at the back and I shine the light on Eli 692 00:29:30,951 --> 00:29:32,286 and he turns around and he looks at me 693 00:29:32,286 --> 00:29:34,872 and he was full on in character. 694 00:29:36,874 --> 00:29:37,875 But the weirdness 695 00:29:38,041 --> 00:29:39,793 was about to get even weirder. 696 00:29:39,918 --> 00:29:42,796 Had the ghosts of World War II turned up for a cameo? 697 00:29:42,796 --> 00:29:45,174 There is a continuity mistake 698 00:29:45,299 --> 00:29:47,384 where Gedeon Burkhard's character, 699 00:29:47,509 --> 00:29:50,846 a leaf landed during the shot on his chest 700 00:29:50,971 --> 00:29:52,347 and Quentin left it there. 701 00:29:52,473 --> 00:29:54,516 And Gideon didn't wipe it off during the shoot. 702 00:29:54,641 --> 00:29:56,435 He just left it there and played his scene. 703 00:29:56,602 --> 00:29:59,771 Quentin said, oh my God, that looked like the Jewish star. 704 00:29:59,938 --> 00:30:01,398 And you know, I'm sure there are directors out there 705 00:30:01,523 --> 00:30:03,233 were like, oh, rotoscope, cut him out. 706 00:30:03,358 --> 00:30:05,444 But he was like, no, leave it there. 707 00:30:05,569 --> 00:30:07,779 It's the Jewish star. 708 00:30:07,905 --> 00:30:08,906 But while the shoot 709 00:30:09,031 --> 00:30:10,824 was now firing on all cylinders, 710 00:30:10,824 --> 00:30:14,119 Tarantino began pushing his luck with the next location. 711 00:30:14,495 --> 00:30:16,038 You said it was in a tavern. 712 00:30:16,163 --> 00:30:17,164 It is a tavern. 713 00:30:17,164 --> 00:30:19,082 Yeah, in a basement. 714 00:30:19,208 --> 00:30:21,084 An actual basement 715 00:30:21,251 --> 00:30:23,003 instead of a sensible sound stage. 716 00:30:23,128 --> 00:30:25,798 Whose idea was it for the death trap rendezvous? 717 00:30:25,964 --> 00:30:28,091 Quentin's like, "I will shoot it there." 718 00:30:28,217 --> 00:30:30,928 And I went into it scared. 719 00:30:31,053 --> 00:30:35,474 We managed to bring down the floor joists 720 00:30:35,766 --> 00:30:38,560 enough to be able to hang our parkins 721 00:30:38,685 --> 00:30:41,313 so that we can have light bouncing off of the tables. 722 00:30:41,438 --> 00:30:45,275 Come up with some windows that let in some light, 723 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,152 false entrance areas 724 00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:49,530 so that we could put some light down the stairs. 725 00:30:49,655 --> 00:30:52,115 Achtung. 726 00:30:52,241 --> 00:30:54,034 It was definitely the most exhausting scene to shoot. 727 00:30:58,205 --> 00:31:00,332 Quentin's famous for doing really long takes, 728 00:31:00,499 --> 00:31:02,167 sometimes 10 minutes, 729 00:31:02,292 --> 00:31:05,003 and I had about 15 pages of dialogue in that scene. 730 00:31:06,630 --> 00:31:08,298 We rehearsed the scene for two weeks 731 00:31:08,465 --> 00:31:10,342 and then shot it over the course of two weeks. 732 00:31:10,509 --> 00:31:12,553 So it was a lot. 733 00:31:17,224 --> 00:31:18,892 And Quentin's language barrier 734 00:31:19,059 --> 00:31:20,811 wouldn't help either. 735 00:31:20,936 --> 00:31:22,437 I hope you don't mind if I go out speaking the King's. 736 00:31:22,563 --> 00:31:24,022 Half the direction would be, 737 00:31:24,189 --> 00:31:25,399 "So you come over here, German, German, 738 00:31:25,524 --> 00:31:27,234 German, German, German, 739 00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:30,487 and then you sit over here and I want this from you. 740 00:31:30,612 --> 00:31:33,323 I want to feel that. I want to feel this." 741 00:31:33,448 --> 00:31:35,284 Inglourious Basterds fused 742 00:31:35,409 --> 00:31:37,202 old school practical effects 743 00:31:37,327 --> 00:31:40,581 with razor sharp editing, locking its tension in place. 744 00:31:41,331 --> 00:31:44,334 After a grueling month in the stuffy basement, 745 00:31:44,459 --> 00:31:46,462 the epic scene was completed, 746 00:31:46,962 --> 00:31:49,173 but approaching the Christmas break... 747 00:31:49,339 --> 00:31:50,924 He kind of felt like we got 748 00:31:51,049 --> 00:31:53,343 so much great stuff getting to this story, 749 00:31:53,510 --> 00:31:55,179 {\an8}we want to get to the climax 750 00:31:55,304 --> 00:31:57,347 {\an8}and we want the climax to happen. 751 00:31:57,473 --> 00:31:59,433 We don't need to build it up anymore. 752 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:00,934 Quentin would stay in Berlin 753 00:32:01,101 --> 00:32:03,103 to rewrite the ending, 754 00:32:03,103 --> 00:32:06,315 most notably cutting scenes with actresses, Maggie Chung 755 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,609 and Cloris Leachman to tighten the pace 756 00:32:08,734 --> 00:32:10,527 and clarify the narrative. 757 00:32:10,652 --> 00:32:13,530 It wasn't a big dramatic change, it was just condensed. 758 00:32:13,697 --> 00:32:16,033 Getting to the finish of the movie. 759 00:32:16,158 --> 00:32:17,159 The film within the film 760 00:32:17,284 --> 00:32:18,285 had already been directed 761 00:32:18,285 --> 00:32:20,954 and shot by Eli Roth in October. 762 00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:22,998 So he got to direct a German war movie. 763 00:32:23,123 --> 00:32:25,959 Who wants to send a message to Germany? 764 00:32:25,959 --> 00:32:28,879 No downside for Eli. 765 00:32:29,004 --> 00:32:31,507 Quentin, he wanted the propaganda film to be its own entity. 766 00:32:31,632 --> 00:32:33,133 47. 767 00:32:33,300 --> 00:32:34,343 But now the question was... 768 00:32:34,468 --> 00:32:36,011 48. 769 00:32:36,136 --> 00:32:38,096 ...how to shoehorn Nation's Pride 770 00:32:38,222 --> 00:32:41,975 into "Inglourious Basterds" seamlessly and chronologically. 771 00:32:43,393 --> 00:32:44,561 There wasn't a Tarantino movie. 772 00:32:44,686 --> 00:32:46,480 The propaganda film was something 773 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,316 that Leni Riefenstahl would've come up with or Goebbels. 774 00:32:49,441 --> 00:32:50,984 I think he chose Eli also 775 00:32:50,984 --> 00:32:53,529 because Eli has a horror background. 776 00:32:53,654 --> 00:32:55,155 With the film's ending worked out 777 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,032 and everyone back on set, 778 00:32:57,157 --> 00:32:59,952 the final explosive scenes would be easy. 779 00:33:01,203 --> 00:33:03,080 And I remember going, oh fuck. 780 00:33:03,205 --> 00:33:04,581 Or would they? 781 00:33:05,624 --> 00:33:06,583 Viola. 782 00:33:08,669 --> 00:33:11,088 That's about to crush a thing I need. 783 00:33:17,678 --> 00:33:19,096 In early 2009, 784 00:33:19,221 --> 00:33:21,181 after a festive German Christmas, 785 00:33:21,181 --> 00:33:23,183 Quentin Tarantino was about to film 786 00:33:23,308 --> 00:33:26,979 the final dramatic scenes of "Inglourious Basterds." 787 00:33:27,104 --> 00:33:28,605 The whole way through 788 00:33:28,772 --> 00:33:33,193 it felt Shakespearean, it felt like witnessing opera. 789 00:33:35,195 --> 00:33:37,322 Another terrifying Christoph Waltz 790 00:33:37,447 --> 00:33:38,907 performance took place 791 00:33:39,032 --> 00:33:41,285 as his Hans Landa character laid his hands 792 00:33:41,452 --> 00:33:43,704 on Bridget von Hammersmark. 793 00:33:45,789 --> 00:33:47,040 And I'm doubling Diane, 794 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,167 so I've got the cast on my leg 795 00:33:48,292 --> 00:33:49,334 and Christoph and I are sitting 796 00:33:49,459 --> 00:33:51,128 opposite each other in chairs. 797 00:33:51,253 --> 00:33:53,547 Despite a trademark Tarantino foot closeup, 798 00:33:53,714 --> 00:33:56,133 Zoe wasn't about to get hers massaged. 799 00:33:56,258 --> 00:33:58,051 So I had this conversation with Christoph 800 00:33:58,218 --> 00:34:01,305 and I was like, on an emotional level, just be in character, 801 00:34:02,473 --> 00:34:04,099 think of me as my character, 802 00:34:04,224 --> 00:34:06,643 know that if you feel me doing this to you, 803 00:34:06,768 --> 00:34:08,562 that means I need to stop. 804 00:34:08,729 --> 00:34:10,689 He was like, okay. 805 00:34:10,814 --> 00:34:13,400 Quentin was like, roll camera. We rolled cameras. 806 00:34:13,525 --> 00:34:15,068 And the minute we rolled cameras, 807 00:34:15,194 --> 00:34:17,112 Christoph went from like, okay, okay, okay, 808 00:34:17,237 --> 00:34:18,197 and he just went. 809 00:34:21,617 --> 00:34:22,659 Viola. 810 00:34:22,785 --> 00:34:25,662 And I remember going, oh fuck. 811 00:34:27,539 --> 00:34:29,541 Christoph went full throttle. 812 00:34:31,126 --> 00:34:33,420 And we went for it and he went for it. 813 00:34:33,587 --> 00:34:36,215 And I think we did it like four times. 814 00:34:36,381 --> 00:34:37,633 I think take three was 815 00:34:37,758 --> 00:34:39,176 the only time I may have had a little... 816 00:34:39,343 --> 00:34:41,136 because he got a little bit on my... 817 00:34:41,261 --> 00:34:43,722 I was like, that's about to crush a thing I need, 818 00:34:43,847 --> 00:34:45,349 so let me, you know. 819 00:34:46,350 --> 00:34:47,518 And then they'd call cut 820 00:34:47,684 --> 00:34:48,685 and he'd go straight back to like, 821 00:34:48,811 --> 00:34:50,604 "You okay? Is everything... 822 00:34:50,604 --> 00:34:52,189 And I was like, "Hey, I'm good, that was fucking awesome." 823 00:34:52,523 --> 00:34:55,150 While Christoph would switch 824 00:34:55,359 --> 00:34:57,027 from psycho to softy in a second... 825 00:34:57,152 --> 00:34:59,571 Well, let's just say she got what she deserved. 826 00:34:59,696 --> 00:35:01,323 ...not so Brad Pitt. 827 00:35:01,448 --> 00:35:03,659 {\an8}Brad stayed in character the entire time. 828 00:35:03,784 --> 00:35:05,744 You got a good "How I broke my leg mountain climbing" story. 829 00:35:05,869 --> 00:35:07,371 That's German, ain't it? 830 00:35:07,496 --> 00:35:09,122 Y'all like climbing mountains, don't you? 831 00:35:09,331 --> 00:35:12,376 So he was Lieutenant Aldo Raine through and through. 832 00:35:12,501 --> 00:35:14,128 Like when I would talk to him 833 00:35:14,294 --> 00:35:15,587 or when anyone would talk to him, he was always... 834 00:35:15,754 --> 00:35:17,381 ...your little ass up that rouge carpet. 835 00:35:17,548 --> 00:35:20,217 ...always had his accent, he was always in character. 836 00:35:20,384 --> 00:35:21,718 I'm a slave to appearances. 837 00:35:24,388 --> 00:35:27,558 Putting Brad Pitt, sexiest man in the world, 838 00:35:27,724 --> 00:35:30,227 putting him in a bag for like 839 00:35:30,394 --> 00:35:32,062 a couple of weeks worth of filming, 840 00:35:32,229 --> 00:35:33,647 nobody else is gonna do that. 841 00:35:38,235 --> 00:35:40,737 While Brad Pitt was in the bag, so to speak, 842 00:35:40,863 --> 00:35:42,739 the final scene still wasn't. 843 00:35:42,865 --> 00:35:45,576 Ending just completed the whole thing. 844 00:35:45,742 --> 00:35:50,038 So we're gonna establish this elegant theater. 845 00:35:50,164 --> 00:35:51,748 How the hell are we gonna burn it down? 846 00:35:51,915 --> 00:35:53,667 By using a match. 847 00:35:53,834 --> 00:35:56,336 After the first fiery scene nearly took the set 848 00:35:56,461 --> 00:35:59,590 and the cast with it, everything had to be rebuilt. 849 00:35:59,715 --> 00:36:01,341 We shot that in a theater. 850 00:36:01,508 --> 00:36:03,510 We shot that in a build. 851 00:36:03,635 --> 00:36:06,597 We shot that in a cement compound where they make cement. 852 00:36:06,722 --> 00:36:10,225 Everything has to be replicated in all places. 853 00:36:10,350 --> 00:36:13,604 And yet the requirements for us filming it in a stage 854 00:36:13,770 --> 00:36:15,856 {\an8}are greatly different than the requirements 855 00:36:15,856 --> 00:36:17,691 {\an8}for us shooting in a burn box. 856 00:36:18,692 --> 00:36:20,777 And a burn box is... 857 00:36:20,903 --> 00:36:22,821 It's just like a big, like almost like a cool store, 858 00:36:22,946 --> 00:36:26,575 like a big concrete, massive concrete bunker. I walked in, 859 00:36:26,700 --> 00:36:30,412 it was decked out as this beautiful old school cinema, 860 00:36:30,537 --> 00:36:33,540 red velvet, balconies and shit everywhere. 861 00:36:33,540 --> 00:36:36,168 As ever, Tarantino would strive to dress sets 862 00:36:36,293 --> 00:36:38,712 and actors with maximum authenticity, 863 00:36:38,837 --> 00:36:41,840 and that meant going to trade fairs and garage sales. 864 00:36:41,965 --> 00:36:44,718 We had a lot of real Nazi memorabilia, 865 00:36:44,843 --> 00:36:46,803 which you are allowed to sell and possess. 866 00:36:46,929 --> 00:36:48,764 You just can't display it. 867 00:36:48,889 --> 00:36:51,558 I think it was Lawrence that knew a collector in Texas 868 00:36:51,558 --> 00:36:54,436 that had Hitler's pocket watch 869 00:36:54,561 --> 00:36:56,230 and a pair of his eyeglasses 870 00:36:56,230 --> 00:36:58,774 that were verified really his from the bunker. 871 00:36:58,899 --> 00:37:01,818 And he contacted that guy and that guy got on a plane 872 00:37:01,985 --> 00:37:04,154 and flew out for the scene. 873 00:37:04,279 --> 00:37:05,572 These are all little tidbits 874 00:37:05,739 --> 00:37:07,407 {\an8}that sort of keep Quentin entertained 875 00:37:07,574 --> 00:37:09,243 {\an8}watching his own movies. 876 00:37:09,409 --> 00:37:11,620 {\an8}For Quentin specifically, what a great resource. 877 00:37:11,745 --> 00:37:13,705 I mean, you don't get more real than that. 878 00:37:13,872 --> 00:37:16,708 But the props just didn't feel "reich." 879 00:37:16,875 --> 00:37:18,752 Lawrence was there and he took the glasses 880 00:37:18,919 --> 00:37:21,505 and he put them on to look through them 881 00:37:21,630 --> 00:37:22,840 and he immediately handed them back. 882 00:37:22,965 --> 00:37:26,677 It actually shook him visibly. 883 00:37:26,802 --> 00:37:28,345 The scene with Hitler's watch and glasses 884 00:37:28,512 --> 00:37:32,683 would be cut, but for the next spectacle... 885 00:37:33,433 --> 00:37:35,269 We burned the cinema down. 886 00:37:35,394 --> 00:37:37,729 Burn it down. 887 00:37:37,896 --> 00:37:39,606 Oui, Shosanna. 888 00:37:45,404 --> 00:37:46,864 And filming a fire bombed cinema 889 00:37:46,989 --> 00:37:48,198 would be no laughing matter. 890 00:37:48,365 --> 00:37:50,492 It felt like every stunt man 891 00:37:50,617 --> 00:37:54,454 and woman in Germany was in that building at the time. 892 00:37:55,289 --> 00:37:56,665 Some 300 stunt people. 893 00:37:56,790 --> 00:37:59,251 And then it gets insanely hot really quick. 894 00:37:59,418 --> 00:38:01,211 Like really hot. 895 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,424 Real flames in a closed concrete box 896 00:38:05,549 --> 00:38:06,884 can do that. 897 00:38:07,009 --> 00:38:10,220 Heat rises so they're feeling even more heat 898 00:38:10,345 --> 00:38:11,638 and it's kind of suffocating 899 00:38:11,638 --> 00:38:13,557 when you're above flames like that, 900 00:38:13,682 --> 00:38:15,559 everybody in there at some point, 901 00:38:15,684 --> 00:38:17,436 whether you were crew or cast, 902 00:38:17,603 --> 00:38:19,813 had a "switch out of character" moment. 903 00:38:21,315 --> 00:38:22,774 Filming for "Inglourious Basterds" 904 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:25,319 would wrap in December, 2008. 905 00:38:25,444 --> 00:38:26,653 Over and out. 906 00:38:26,778 --> 00:38:28,614 Let's cut. Why? 907 00:38:29,281 --> 00:38:34,828 Because we love making movies. 908 00:38:35,370 --> 00:38:38,248 For his most anticipated movie yet, 909 00:38:38,749 --> 00:38:41,585 Quentin would bring back his trusted post team 910 00:38:41,710 --> 00:38:43,754 headed by editor Sally Menke. 911 00:38:43,879 --> 00:38:45,255 Quentin always made sure that 912 00:38:45,422 --> 00:38:47,925 the crew was aware of Sally. 913 00:38:48,050 --> 00:38:50,511 At least once a day he would grab the camera 914 00:38:50,677 --> 00:38:52,805 and tell everyone to say, "Hi, Sally." 915 00:38:52,930 --> 00:38:54,890 Hi, Sally. 916 00:38:55,015 --> 00:38:56,308 Bonjour, Sally. 917 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,894 Sally, I am not dead. 918 00:38:59,019 --> 00:39:01,313 We all did the "Hi, Sally." 919 00:39:01,438 --> 00:39:02,523 Sally, how are you? 920 00:39:02,689 --> 00:39:04,566 Good? Little lonely, are you? 921 00:39:04,691 --> 00:39:05,776 Mike says hello. 922 00:39:06,944 --> 00:39:07,945 Sally wasn't alone. 923 00:39:08,070 --> 00:39:09,613 She was in Berlin the whole time 924 00:39:09,738 --> 00:39:11,448 getting ready for a fast turnaround. 925 00:39:11,573 --> 00:39:15,661 {\an8}We wound up wrapping the whole production in mid-February 926 00:39:15,786 --> 00:39:18,247 and the Cannes film festival's in May. 927 00:39:18,372 --> 00:39:23,502 So he and Sally posted that picture in breakneck time. 928 00:39:24,169 --> 00:39:26,296 But it would be the last movie 929 00:39:26,421 --> 00:39:28,799 Quentin and Sally would ever make together. 930 00:39:34,346 --> 00:39:37,391 "Inglourious Basterds" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 931 00:39:40,644 --> 00:39:42,855 on May 20th, 2009. 932 00:39:43,438 --> 00:39:45,232 Can you still get us in that premiere? 933 00:39:45,357 --> 00:39:46,400 Yes. 934 00:39:52,281 --> 00:39:54,449 The film received a standing ovation 935 00:39:54,575 --> 00:39:56,368 normally reserved for dictators. 936 00:39:56,535 --> 00:39:58,662 It went on for 11 minutes. 937 00:40:00,998 --> 00:40:02,666 {\an8}While the top award 938 00:40:02,791 --> 00:40:04,585 {\an8}would go to German thriller, "The White Ribbon," 939 00:40:04,751 --> 00:40:08,463 "Basterds" was about to top all of Tarantino's other films. 940 00:40:09,548 --> 00:40:10,674 This ain't any war film. 941 00:40:10,841 --> 00:40:12,634 This is not like your dad's war film. 942 00:40:12,759 --> 00:40:15,971 This is Quentin's war film, so it has all that humor... 943 00:40:16,138 --> 00:40:18,390 The Germans' nickname for me is The Little Man? 944 00:40:18,557 --> 00:40:20,434 ...violence 945 00:40:20,434 --> 00:40:21,768 and great dialogue. 946 00:40:21,935 --> 00:40:23,395 You'll be shot for this. 947 00:40:23,562 --> 00:40:24,521 Nah, I don't think so. 948 00:40:24,646 --> 00:40:25,606 More like chewed out. 949 00:40:25,606 --> 00:40:27,357 I've been chewed out before. 950 00:40:27,524 --> 00:40:29,651 Character and music that Quentin normally does. 951 00:40:33,322 --> 00:40:36,325 It made over $300 million at the box office. 952 00:40:36,450 --> 00:40:39,453 From a relatively modest budget of 70 million. 953 00:40:39,453 --> 00:40:41,038 By this point, it does seem 954 00:40:41,163 --> 00:40:43,582 to be like Tarantino can do no wrong. 955 00:40:43,707 --> 00:40:46,293 He's become a genre in himself. 956 00:40:46,293 --> 00:40:50,005 I just remember watching the movie and losing it. 957 00:40:50,631 --> 00:40:53,342 By the time they shot Hitler's face off. 958 00:40:55,427 --> 00:40:57,012 {\an8}Think about the hundreds 959 00:40:57,137 --> 00:40:59,556 {\an8}and maybe thousands of World War II movies 960 00:40:59,723 --> 00:41:02,643 that have been made, but no one's ever gave us 961 00:41:02,768 --> 00:41:04,102 what we really wanted, 962 00:41:04,228 --> 00:41:05,854 which is to see Hitler's face shot off. 963 00:41:05,979 --> 00:41:08,315 Four Golden Globe nominations 964 00:41:08,315 --> 00:41:10,108 and eight Oscar nods later, 965 00:41:10,234 --> 00:41:14,071 Tarantino was back on top after his dabble with "Death Proof." 966 00:41:14,238 --> 00:41:16,031 Well, it's just a really, really lovely thing 967 00:41:16,156 --> 00:41:18,825 to be nominated, to be chosen to be one of the five. 968 00:41:18,825 --> 00:41:20,035 I came up with a story, and I thought 969 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,537 it was a humdinger of a story, 970 00:41:21,662 --> 00:41:23,622 and I thought, "I'd go see that." 971 00:41:26,834 --> 00:41:29,419 But the victory of "Basterds" was somewhat muted 972 00:41:29,545 --> 00:41:31,004 when the fog of war lifted. 973 00:41:31,004 --> 00:41:33,090 Quentin and his extended film family 974 00:41:33,215 --> 00:41:36,760 lost their beloved editor, Sally Menke. 975 00:41:36,885 --> 00:41:39,096 And I remember getting the call 976 00:41:39,221 --> 00:41:40,764 that Sally had passed away. 977 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,686 She was 54 years old, just went hiking with a friend 978 00:41:45,686 --> 00:41:48,480 and passed out because of the heat. 979 00:41:48,605 --> 00:41:51,650 Sally was just a beautiful, beautiful person. 980 00:41:51,817 --> 00:41:55,988 When we heard that she had passed, it was just like... 981 00:41:56,989 --> 00:41:59,491 You know, she had a nurturing quality to her. 982 00:41:59,658 --> 00:42:00,951 She cared about people. 983 00:42:01,618 --> 00:42:06,081 I think she took Quentin very seriously 984 00:42:06,206 --> 00:42:08,792 and recognized his genius 985 00:42:08,917 --> 00:42:13,505 when I'm not sure he felt like everybody was. 986 00:42:13,630 --> 00:42:15,090 I can imagine her being like, 987 00:42:15,215 --> 00:42:17,718 "This scene is the dopest shit ever as a standalone, 988 00:42:17,718 --> 00:42:19,553 it doesn't serve the story." 989 00:42:19,678 --> 00:42:21,889 And she might be one of the few people at that point 990 00:42:21,889 --> 00:42:25,142 that he would've heard that from comfortably. 991 00:42:25,642 --> 00:42:28,604 Tarantino named her his closest collaborator 992 00:42:28,729 --> 00:42:30,022 and said he would struggle 993 00:42:30,147 --> 00:42:32,024 to envision making films without her. 994 00:42:32,191 --> 00:42:34,443 They were a match made in heaven. 995 00:42:37,988 --> 00:42:39,823 From inspiration to ideas, 996 00:42:39,948 --> 00:42:42,576 to surrounding himself with the best of the best 997 00:42:42,576 --> 00:42:44,995 remains Tarantino's winning formula. 998 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:46,872 He continues to show us 999 00:42:47,039 --> 00:42:48,415 he can do almost anything he wants. 1000 00:42:48,415 --> 00:42:49,917 He's not pigeonholed as a director. 1001 00:42:50,042 --> 00:42:51,919 The writing was so next level, 1002 00:42:52,085 --> 00:42:53,796 he achieved what he wanted to achieve. 1003 00:42:53,921 --> 00:42:55,756 It was a magnum opus for sure, and I think he knew that 1004 00:42:55,756 --> 00:42:57,925 and he wanted it to be that way. 1005 00:43:01,595 --> 00:43:02,971 But his next historical epic 1006 00:43:03,096 --> 00:43:05,599 would see Tarantino on the run from critics 1007 00:43:05,599 --> 00:43:07,768 in a way he'd never experienced. 1008 00:43:07,893 --> 00:43:09,561 Tarantino has said he was trying to show 1009 00:43:09,728 --> 00:43:11,647 the Holocaust in America. 1010 00:43:11,772 --> 00:43:15,108 Heated conversations to do with the N word. 1011 00:43:15,108 --> 00:43:18,237 Who this n----- on that nag? 1012 00:43:18,362 --> 00:43:20,656 But never this close to home. 1013 00:43:20,781 --> 00:43:22,074 Spike Lee didn't see it that way. 1014 00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:23,909 He says that the American slave experience 1015 00:43:24,034 --> 00:43:26,495 was not a Sergio Leone spaghetti western. 1016 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:28,872 It was some upset people, 1017 00:43:28,997 --> 00:43:31,500 who were probably just feeling fucking terrified.