Why does this particular artistic triumph burst onto the scene at this particular point in time?

Inquiring moderate Muslims want to know. Some of us Baptists are a tinge intriqued

Dick Cheney gives Inglorious Basterds two thumbs up!

There is no truth to the rumor that Eric Prince has penned a steamy , C4 scented love letter to Brad Pitt, after watching Inglorious Basterds.

Just sayin...

You realize QT has been working on the screen play for this movie for more than a decade, right?

muzza:

...Dick Cheney gives Inglorious Basterds two thumbs up!

There is no truth to the rumor that Eric Prince has penned a steamy , C4 scented love letter to Brad Pitt, after watching Inglorious Basterds.

Just sayin...

There is a difference between the exploits of a 'rogue' military unit and the business of mercenaries and the difference is money. The 'Inglorious Basterds' and any other regular troops like them are paid the same crummy pay of any other soldier (there are now some financial incentives like additional pay for parachuting but it is not that much more) unlike modern mercenaries who command great salaries from corporations with generous government contracts, often 'cost plus' terms are used to fund them. The oddball outfit in this film were essentially on a suicide mission and they were not mercenaries out to make big money (for a soldier anyway). You are making a poor comparison insofar as the motivations for the two groups which you are comparing are as different as could be.

The overarching message of Inglourious Basterds is that sometimes you got to take the law into your own hands. Brad Pitt says it. I believe it. End of story.

Where's my Glock? There's a meeting on health care down at city hall. Wink wink, nudge nudge.

Certain forces, better acquainted than you or I with the imprecise analytical abilities of the mass movie going audience, will have accounted for your factual concerns re: my analysis already. Yet they will go ahead and inject similar messages into the mainstream. They will try to convince the less analytical herd that unauthorized rogue military murder is in fact ......glorious....as long as it's directed against Nazi's....or perhaps Hadjis.....Next step is to convince the masses that home grown intellectuals of a certain stripe are the enemy....or people who are for health care reform are worthy of murder by baseball bat.

"You realize QT has been working on the screen play for this movie for more than a decade, right? "

I realize that you read that, somewhere.

muzza:

...Certain forces, better acquainted than you or I with the imprecise analytical abilities of the mass movie going audience, will have accounted for your factual concerns re: my analysis already. Yet they will go ahead and inject similar messages into the mainstream. They will try to convince the less analytical herd that unauthorized rogue military murder is in fact ......glorious....as long as it's directed against Nazi's....or perhaps Hadjis.....Next step is to convince the masses that home grown intellectuals of a certain stripe are the enemy....or people who are for health care reform are worthy of murder by baseball bat.

Ah, McCarthyism revisited. You are probably correct.