In a pivotal scene in Inglourious Basterds, Eli Roth and Omar Doom nearly died according to what Eli told MTV Movie Blog.
Eli Roth and Omar Doom were engulfed in flames, but they couldn’t go anywhere. Quentin Tarantino hovered high above them behind the camera, on a crane, outfitted in a flame-retardant suit. The actors had been told they’d be OK, that two tests had already been safely run. They were slathered in protective gel and crew members were poised to extinguish  or attempt to extinguish  the fire if it leapt onto their bodies. Yet the temperature reached 1,000 degrees Celsius and their faces and hands began to burn. The blaze had suddenly raged out of control and there was nothing to do but solider on. There could be only one take of the scene and there was no turning back on the German set of “Inglourious Basterds.”
“If we’d been there another 10 seconds, they said the ceiling would have collapsed on us,” Roth told MTV News from the relative safety of the Cannes International Film Festival, where the cast had assembled to promote the film.
Thankfully the two got out safely and the scene is just another powerful one in Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic that comes out on August 21st.
Here is a second of the scene (:36 in) and by watching it, you can see how amazing it looks and so much better that it was done for real and not CGed which takes away from the effect of it all.
This week Inglourious Basterds premiered to a long standing ovation and critical acclaim; and today we are finally seeing the first full trailer from the WWII movie!
Now that I have seen the trailer and we get more an insight what we can see from Quentin Tarantino’s epic, I am even more excited to see it when it comes out on August 21st!! Seriously how amazing does that movie look and what about the acting done by Brad Pitt, Eli Roth and Daniel Bruhl!
The biggest event at Cannes isn't always the movies that premiere there, sometimes it auction that Sharon Stone holds for her charity AmFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research) and this year was no exception. At this year's glammed out event Twilight vampire Robert Pattinson auctioned off an impromptu bite on the neck or as he like to refer to it as a kiss on the cheek! According to USA Today he added this after the announcement, "And if it goes really well, maybe it'll turn into something more." He ended up selling two love bites for $27,600 each. Not bad for a kiss from him! His smooch wasn't the only late-minute add, Eli Roth while auctioning off a private screening of Inglourious Basterds, decided to pluck a few hairs off of his chest (Eli's character is nicknamed The Bear Jew because he is so hairy, so the donation made sense) for the charity. But sadly the pain was for no reason, "I offered to donate my chest hair to charity, but Harvey said, 'This is not one of your (expletive) horror movies, kid.'" I would've bet a $1 for each chest hair he pulled, but I am sadist and would've done it to enjoy the pain he must've gone through when he did it. His chest hairs might not have earned any dinero, but the private screening of Quentin Tarantino's WWII movie went ofr $87,500. Not bad!
UPDATE: Here is a picture showing off Eli Roth’s glorious chest hairs from Life Magazine! How awesome is that picture of Eli with his Basterd poster at his hotel in Cannes?
Today was Inglourious Basterds day at Cannes and the movie was a huge success there! Critics loving the movie and after the premiere screening the movie got a 10 minute standing ovation.
The day stared off with a press screening and the critics were praising Quentin Taratino’s WWII movie that will change history. Then after that the cast and QT took part in a press conference where Brad Pitt told how he became Lt Aldo Raine. He said, QT came over and when he woke up the next day there 5 empty bottles of wine and a smoking apparatus, next thing he knew he was in Germany filming IB. Dang who knew Brad was such a cheap, even I can down 5 bottles of wine and still say no…I think. Eli Roth made this comment about playing his role, “Being Jewish, this is definitely for me like Kosher porn,” Roth joked. “It’s something I fantasized about since I was a very young child.” BTW how adorable is that Miami Vice Bromance between Brad and Eli?
Next up for the Basterds was the premiere and after that screening the movie got a 10 minute standing ovation! I think that says a lot! Finally those Basterds put down their weapons and lifted their glasses to celebrate a day that went extremely well!!!
I can’t wait to see this Kosher Porn of a movie when it comes out on August 21st!!!
BTW here is video from the press conference where Brad tells the cheap date story, and also includes other cast members Diane Kruger, Mike Myers and the hottie Daniel Bruhl!!!
UPDATE: Here is the video of QT dancing with Melanie Laurent dancing on the red carpet.
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Cannes is under way and The Carlton Hotel is welcoming the movies that are playing at the festival and the stars who are in them! Like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds’ Brad Pitt and Eli Roth, The Transformer from Transformers, A Christmas Carol, GI Joe and Terminator Salvation to name a few. I wish the hotels in LA would do that because that looks so awesome! I mean I seriously so want to see a huge Brad and Eli like that!!! How awesome do those Basterds look, including Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent and Til Schweiger!!!
BTW am I the only one who when they saw where they placed the GI Joe poster thought of the famous scene from Patch Adams?
