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I would prefer a treatment of any of the many real-life stories of pissed-off survivors and refugees and remandees and partisans who knew where the skeletons were buried and who needed to become skeletons.

I would also like to see “The Secret Man: An American Warrior’s Uncensored Story” by Frank Dux picked up. Dux is the Jewish real-life model for ‘Bloodsport’, Van Damme’s first vehicle. Like all such books, there is some back and forth about his story by the innocent and the guilty, but it is a great story and I’d liek to see Frank make a few bucks. (I’m not sure the Kumite itself plays a role in this book.)

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/11/08 at 9:58 am

Of course, I would love to see a sympathetic production of “The Story of the Jewish Defense League” by Rabbi Kahane, updated with some of his journalistic pieces to include events that followed publication of the book. Most of Kahane’s writings discuss ideas, but this is one of the naaratives.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 7/11/08 at 11:20 am

The Hebrew Hammer is the best Jewish comedy ever! QT is copying Jewxploitation now!?

Comment by micah on 7/11/08 at 6:36 pm

This might be a better film than Inglorious Bastards:

Blessed is the Match; The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist w…ho became a paratrooper, resistance fighter and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust.

http://www.blessedisthematch.com

Comment by Carl Webb on 8/30/09 at 7:49 am

I thoroughly enjoyed this film.  Although I did have to cover my eyes during some of the gruesome scalp-cutting scenes, they were few and far enough in between to not turn me away.  I appreciate the fact that Quentin Tarantino took a different spin than most other movies on the same topic.  We all know how horrific WWII was, and how disgustingly awful the Nazi’s were to the Jews. There are enough movies already out there that can educate us on this.  Inglorious Basterds, instead, lets us go deep into the imaginations of perhaps some people today: what some people would have REALLY liked to have done, if they could.
I feel that Quentin’s opening scene was very strategic: reminding us how horrific the Nazis were to the Jews, so that the rest of the movie (and the slaying/scalping of the Nazis) would be seen as justifiable behavior. I do not feel that film made ‘mockery’ of the Holocaust, but rather lets us take a look BACK at it with a wishful-revenge imagination.

Although some people left the theatre in disgust after seeing all the Germans burned to death in the theatre, I myself found it hard to feel that way. It is hard to feel sorry for those characters in the movie, knowing the history and unjust behaviors of WWII. I was definitely on “Team Aldo Raine”, and was definitely not seduced by the “charm” of Hanz Landa. Snake-like as the character was, though, the performance played by Christoph Waltz was brilliant.

For me, the two and a half hours felt much quicker than that, the cinematography was great, and the comic relief definitely entertained.

Comment by Claire Jaquette on 10/17/09 at 9:41 pm

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