Saturday I went to see “Inglourious Basterds”. For me one of the best movies of the past year. It is just a great Tarantino film. Everything is right, from the acting, to the dialogues, to the slow close ups of cream on the apfelstrudel and of course the music. I can tell a lot about the film and give you a great review but somebody (Mark Blankenship) already did. You can read his review on the Huffington Post . Blankenship gives a great insight into watching the movie in a different way.
Different way of acting or Great Work?

While watching the movie I noticed something else. If you look at Nazi films even Valkrye with Tom Cruise, all Nazi’s and sometimes the people around them as well are very stiff. They walk slightly awkward. It’s like the directors and actors thought; it is a serious business so we need to look very serious. The Nazi’s, especially Hans Landa, but every single actor in Inglourious Basterds have a certain kind of swing in the way they walk, talk and even kill. It was like every actor was completely at ease with their character. For me it gave an extra dimension to the movie. It was like looking at Great Work, not just by the actors and the director but everybody who contributed to the film.

What made the difference? Quintin Tarantino being a genius, the Amercian angle to the story, the spot-on casting or just a deliberate way of acting in a different way?