Inglourious Basterds 4K Review: Tarantino’s New, Unbeatable Benchmark

Inglourious Basterds ends with a cocky called shot, a Babe Ruth final line. After carving a swastika into Hans Linda’s Nazi face (Christoph Waltz), Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and Smithson Utivich (B.J. Novak) look directly at the camera, tracked to Hans’ POV. And Aldo says, “You know somethin’, Utivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece.” Cut to credits — well, credit, singular. Quentin Tarantino, having his main character calling the art he made a masterpiece, before using the power of editing to call himself the master, the transference of his opinion of his own work very definitively complete. Continue reading

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