Inglourious Basterds Meets Fanfic?
OMG, I finally saw Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (having had no previous idea what the movie was about besides Nazis, and that it's Tarantino) I'm now reeling. Go see it if you haven't!
Originally, we had planned on seeing the latest installment of Harry Potter, but our hearts weren't in it -- mainly because the amazingly talented director (Cuaron) of the 3rd HP movie hasn't directed HP since, and because I feel JKR peaked at The Chamber of Secrets. The series went downhill for me after that 3rd book.
Anyhow, I love how Tarantino mixes genres; he's described "Inglourious Basterds" as a spaghetti Western with WW2 iconography. How awesome is that? It's similar to the long tradition of staging Shakespeare's plays in different settings (Romeo & Juliet in modern day gang culture, or Hamlet during the American Civil War), and most similar to pastiche where a touchstone text (say, Austen's Emma) is used to frame a modern setting (as in the movie "Clueless").
Years ago, I actually started on a fic called "Frohike Reloaded" that set Melvin Frohike (of The X-Files & The Lone Gunmen series) in a Matrix-inspired 'verse, William-Gibson-cyberpunk-style.
Never got beyond Photoshopping the "dust jacket" for it, though.
BTW: Christoph Waltz as The glourious Bad Guy is a GIFT FROM THE GODS.
Originally, we had planned on seeing the latest installment of Harry Potter, but our hearts weren't in it -- mainly because the amazingly talented director (Cuaron) of the 3rd HP movie hasn't directed HP since, and because I feel JKR peaked at The Chamber of Secrets. The series went downhill for me after that 3rd book.
Anyhow, I love how Tarantino mixes genres; he's described "Inglourious Basterds" as a spaghetti Western with WW2 iconography. How awesome is that? It's similar to the long tradition of staging Shakespeare's plays in different settings (Romeo & Juliet in modern day gang culture, or Hamlet during the American Civil War), and most similar to pastiche where a touchstone text (say, Austen's Emma) is used to frame a modern setting (as in the movie "Clueless").
Years ago, I actually started on a fic called "Frohike Reloaded" that set Melvin Frohike (of The X-Files & The Lone Gunmen series) in a Matrix-inspired 'verse, William-Gibson-cyberpunk-style.
Never got beyond Photoshopping the "dust jacket" for it, though.
BTW: Christoph Waltz as The glourious Bad Guy is a GIFT FROM THE GODS.