Well that makes sense.

[erastes]

Quentin Tarantino's film renamed Inglorious and not Inglorious Basterds. What's the reasoning behind that, do you think? So people can't be offended reading a mild and mispelled swear word as they queue up to watch a film with more stomach-churning rape and violence than you can shake a stick at? There are no words.

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[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

"And remember! Horrific, gratuitous violence is OK, so long as nobody says any naughty words!"

My favorite quote from the South Park movie.

[angrboda]

I was wondering about why it was even misspelled in the first place, so I looked it up on IMDB and found this in the trivia section

When asked about the misspelled title, director Quentin Tarantino gave the following answer: "Here's the thing. I'm never going to explain that. You do an artistic flourish like that, and to explain it would just take the piss out of it and invalidate the whole stroke in the first place."

I don't know about others, but IMO if it isn't explained people won't know that it's supposed to be an artistic flourish and will simply think he can't spell 'bastard'. I know I would.

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

It's Tarantino - he's really his own categopry, and you love him or hate him. I'm very torn about watching the film - I haven't watched Valkyrie, either, because of Hollywood simply seizing Stauffenberg and having a resistance fighter be played by a cult's top brass.

So, yes, terribly offensive, but we can always vote with our feet/wallets/credit cards.

[joannesopercook.livejournal.com]

It's advertised here with the original name...not that I'll be going to see it. I think Tarantino is way overrated, and that's putting it mildly. :)

[rwday.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard that, but am not surprised. Frankly, I'm glad, as every time I saw the misspellings (originally here it was "Inglourious Basterds") I winced.

I like Tarantino in the same way I like those stupid horror movies where scream queens run through the woods chased by maniacs - it's a guilty pleasure.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

"be disembowelled, you naughty man, you!!"

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*snorts* yes, certainly if you were in a small cinema in the middle of nowhere - you'd just think that the cinema couldn't spell.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I don't find it offensive, I just find it stupidly hypocritical.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hear Hear. Emperor's new clothes anyone? Ditton Tracy Emin, however you spell it, and the bloke with the preserved cows.

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Just look at the marketing of his other films... :) Tarantino is definitely a "anything to get them talking about me" kinda guy.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Who knows why he spelled it wrong in the first place, considering it was a remake. Its like doing "Gorn wiv the wend."

[angrboda]

I could be in a huge cinema in the middle of a metropolis and still think someone couldn't spell.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

argh!!! molehill is down for an update!!!

All my stuff was due to be harvested NOW.

[angrboda]

They did S1 earlier today as well. :) I feel your pain.

It didn't take more than 10-15 minutes though.

Don't know about S2, though, I haven't bothered logging in there today. I think I'm ready to let that one go. I'm at the same level on S1 and have almost as much gold. Not as many points but that's a smaller thing.

Upgraded S1 account to premium earlier to day because I was tired of giving myself carpal tunnel syndrome watering everything myself. It's extremely annoying to sit here and now that I can get the watering helper and the car that can take me to Hedgerow Ville whenever I want and that I can afford both easily. I just can't get to HV to get them! I wish I'd waited until tomorrow to activate the stupid thing!

ETA: Edited for the sake of new icon. Got a screenshot of that by selling myself one of my own carrots. And just because I could, I made it cost 3K gB. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I bought coins with GB and bought myself a premium account, so it didn't cost me anything, sort of - however that's battered my cash balance. but i want a 3rd garden and have to have a premium account to get one. grrr.

the nice thing is that you only need to hire the gnome or buy the car once, once i reactivated my premium account, the things i had bought before all came back.

[angrboda]

I can't even fathom the amount I'd need to buy the second one yet, so buying coins ingame was just so not an option. I've only bought paid time until december though, so I've get a few left over. I figure I could sell them if I got desperate. But the plan is to keep them and use them if I'm still playing when it runs out.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Quentin Tarantino's film renamed Inglorious and not Inglorious Basterds.

I think it went something like this:

Tarantino calls the film "Inglorious Basterds" to sound truly hardcore.

The first audiences all want to know why the word is misspelled.

The studio wants Tarantino to fix the error in post-production.

Tarantino, unwilling to admit that he cannot spell the word "bastards," tells the world that it's an artistic flourish.

The studio, faced with a director with a huge ego who can't admit to being wrong and the prospect of looking really stupid, quietly renames the film "Inglorious" as a compromise and hopes that no one asks too many questions.

Don't tell me you're surprised.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*giggling so hard *

yes!

[joannesopercook.livejournal.com]

Preserved cows????
PRESERVED COWS?

Oooh, I've not heard of him...then again, I'm buried in 1889 and am just now battling with patent medicines and the trade names on laudanum bottles. :)

Mother Winslow's Soothing Syrup, anyone? ;-)

[joannesopercook.livejournal.com]

"Gorn wiv the wend."

::dies laughing::

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It was Damien Hirst. Who's the Tarantino of the art world.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3672425/Damien-Hirsts-cow-art-in-a-pickle.html

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Renamed, eh? Not where I live. Must be a UK thing.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure that pickling an animal doesn't count as actual art. It's like making preserved fruit. Yes, it's work, but you didn't create the fruit, you just...preserved it.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

TELL me about it!!!

And Tracy Emin? She put her BED in the Tate and it sold for bazillions of pounds.

*head desk*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think it must be. Utter stupidity.

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I noticed in the TV ads the voiceover said 'Inglorious', while the title that came up on screen was 'Inglorious Basterds'.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Who's Tracy Enim? And I wonder if I could sell one of my old beds?

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

I'm more offended by the misspelling than by either the mild swear word or the violence, quite frankly.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/tracey_emin_my_bed.htm

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

I think you mean Damien Hurst. He's rehashing ideas which last saw light of day in the thirties and a similar justificaion 'It's art because I say it is' (or was that Andy Walpole of Campbell's soup can fame?)

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the cheap tent with te names of everyone she'd slept with sewn into the flysheet!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Dat's der bunny.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'd need a marquee.

*pride *

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Ah - you were paying attention, I was only half listening- thank you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yeah me too, it's like that historical farce type book - the name escapes me - that was written by a 11 year old(?) and made into a tv mini series.

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I thought it was probably just a quirk of TV advertising - they didn't want to say the word 'bastards' on national tv. Come to think of it, that may be behind the misspelling too. I know it's said all the time in programmes post-9pm, but adverts are held to a different standard.

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

or was that Andy Walpole of Campbell's soup can fame?)

Oops! that's Andy Wharhol!

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

Tarantino's screenplays are infamous for being almost
totally illiterate.

He doesn't know how to spell and doesn't care. Once it
was a fault, now it's an affectation.

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

John Jakes' "The Bastard."

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I never bothered with his films, then. I don't think I'd have much patience with a man who was willfully ignorant.

[aphephobia.livejournal.com]

I've seen it out here as "Inglorious Bastards." That was the movie poster I saw on my tram trip home the other day, anyway.