On August 21st Nation’s Pride, the biggest Nazi proupaganda film in ouver 65 years will premiere at the Le Gamarr Theatre. Stolz Der Nation stars the extremely gourgeous German actor Fredrick Zoller and it is directed by the glourious Alois von Eichberg. There is so much poustive buzz about this mouvie that I read somewhere that Adoulf Hitler himself will even be at the big event!
OuK as you can tell by spelling errours, Nation’s Pride is the film within a film that is part of the Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic Inglourious Basterds although he did not direct it, Eli Roth, who plays Donnie Donnowitz did. I have read in several interviews that he went crazy when he filmed it. Here is what the Jewish director, writer and actor told the MTV Movie Blog about it…
“Quentin had two shots that were very specific that he wanted to do – but he was like, “For the rest of it, I need footage of people shooting. It’s a guy in a bell-tower shooting 260 Americans. I need footage of people shooting!’ So I said okay,†Roth remembered. “We got a second camera, and in 2 days we did like 130 shots and Quentin was so happy he gave me a third day. We shot with the actor Daniel Bruhl, and put together this Nazi propaganda film…[as we shot] I was thinking ‘God, I didn’t think I could be more offensive after ‘Hostel 2,’ but how can I upset people more than that?’â€
Remembering his direction techniques, Roth laughed. “I was going, ‘More swastikas! More swastikas!’
But as ironically over-the-top as the whole experience may have been, Roth has been wondering lately if he did too good a job on the mini-movie. “The first time we showed it to an audience [the actors] were in character, but the Germans were screaming ‘Heil Hitler!’ and ‘Kill the Jews!’ and it was terrifying,†he remembered. “We watched it over and over, and we were all friends and joking around by the end of it. But there was still something very powerful about that. I looked at Quentin and said, ‘What have I done?’â€
What he did was just genius! I love the little featurettes that Eli has done in two of Tarantino’s flicks like this one and Thanksgiving that was featured before Death Proof. I can’t wait to see more of the propoganda film when Inglourious Basterds and Nation’s Pride come out on August 21st!
BTW am the only one who couldn’t take her eyes off of Daniel Bruhl even though he is playing a Nazi killing Americans? He so needs to have his own movie that is more than just a film within a film!
Back to Eli Roth, he will be on my favorite late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight on ABC at 12:05a and on Friday he will be screening his personal copy of Cabin Fever at HollyShorts. Tickets are still available for the cheap price of $10 at the HollyShorts site. BTW also on Friday and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Quentin Tarantino will be on the show and I will be watching it in the green room downing some wine and good food!
Inglourious Basterds won’t be out until August 21st, but until then you can pretend you are Donnie Donowitz aka The Bear Jew and kill some Nazis with his infamous bat! Eli Roth leaked the game on his MySpace blog that goes live tomorrow and I am so glad that he is giving us the chance to practice. Why? Well because The Weinstein Company is giving the high scorer of the game a chance to go to the Hollywood premiere of the Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic on August 10th that will be attended by QT, Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth and the rest of those Basterds. I am so getting my ’86 Mets on so I can be the high scorer. Now back to game not only I am enjoying this “Kosher Porn” of a video game, I am also having fun hearing Eli talk in his native Bostonian as you swat the Nazis to death. Seriously I love listening to him saying “Suck my schnitzel”, “You shoot like my grandmother” and “Out of Fenway Pawk.”
On a non-IB note, Eli Roth will be screening his personal copy of Cabin Fever that is 4 minutes longer than anything we have seen at the HollyShorts Film Festival where he is getting the Indie Film Visionary Award!!! Tickets for the screening are an extremely affordable $10 and you can get them at the HollyShort’s site!
Inglourious Basterds is sending Sgt Donnie Donowitz up to home plate with his very own online video game early next month! Yes, you can play as The Bear Jew and swing and hit a home run with the head of a Nazi in this video game! Eli Roth, who had fun perfecting his native Boston accent once again for phrases used during it, said on his MySpace blog that the really violent game is “wicked pissah”! I for one can’t wait to pick up my bat and swing and hit it next month! That and see Quentin Tarantino WWII epic later on in the month on August 21st!
Inglourious Basterds is finally less than a month away and now thanks this Lego version of the teaser trailer for the movie, I am even more excited for August 21st! Seriously how bloody awesome is it with what they did to the trailer with Legos. I am blown away by what an amazing job they did with them! They even captured Donnie “The Bear Jew” Donowitz aka Eli Roth’s smirk! The only negative is LT Also Raine aka Brad Pitt had a beard as compared to that ‘stache. And that mustache was heard all around the world and caused poor innocent men to copy that look.
But back to Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic, is it wrong for me to be jealous that people are seeing the movie now like at Comic-Con on Saturday night and tomorrow at the premiere in London? I am so sick of waiting for this movie. Side Note: Quentin Tarantino is going to be on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on August 7th!!! That is the same night that Eli Roth will be honored at HollyShorts with the Indie Film Visionary Award and will intro his personal copy of Cabin Fever that is 4 minutes longer than any released version of the movie. You can get the $10 tickets at the HollyShorts site.
Eli Roth is receiving a huge honor at the 5th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival on August 7th, they are giving him the Indie Film Visionary Award for his contribution to independent cinema!!! Here is what he posted on his MySpace blog about the well deserved honor, “Many people don’t realize that everything I’ve done has been independently made and later distributed by a studio, and from beginning I set out to redefine the perception of what an “indie” movie could be, so it really means a lot to me they’re recognizing me this way.” Besides accepting the award he will be introducing and showing his personal copy of Cabin Fever that is 4 minutes longer and those 240 extra seconds have not been seen since he did the film festival circuit back in 2002 and 2003 and is not available anywhere. He told me, “I’ll be there to introduce the film and to watch it with the crowd to see if it was necessary to cut those 4 minutes or not! ” (I’m sure after seeing it, it wouldn’t have been necessary.) Eli made that movie and the Hostels as independents and then sold them to the studios. He made Cabin Fever for less that $2 million and Hostel for less the $5 million and both movies grossed more than 50 times that. He was also credited with starting a new genre of horror with his movies. If that is not worthy of Indie Film Visionary Award, I am not sure what is!
Cabin Fever is one of my favorite films, and what he did with it and the DVD special features makes me respect him so much. I am a huge admirer of his work and I can’t wait to see Cabin Fever with him telling his stories about it in person. The price to see him and the movie is a mere $10 and you can get tickets at the HollyShorts site to see it on August 7th at 9:30p at the Laemmle Sunset 5.
August is going to be an awesome month for him! Not only will he getting this huge honor, but on August 21st he will make his lead role debut in Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic Inglourious Basterds with Brad Pitt! On the IB note, how freaking awesome is that poster of him as Donnie “The Bear Jew” Donowitz!!! Below is the newest TV spot for the movie!
Way to go Eli, look at the career you have had that started with making a film for just $1.5 million!!!
