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Show WESTMINSTERFORUM.NET. Tarantino's newest film is a violent carnival a staff writer's review of "Inglorious Basterds" Hyprochrondia affects 3 percent of US polulation News media suspeced cause of Forrest Bennett StaffWriter the disease ' Tarantinos war is one crazy ride. ', has closed the Tarantino 2009 summer out Quentin blockbuster season on an explosive note complete with - SATIRE Walter Denison Assistant Editor Six thousand cases of hypochondria have been found around several US cities. This brings the total amount of US sufferers to three percent of the population. According to the FDA, the recent outbreak has been caused by an increase in television news airtime. Researchers, who have been studying the pandemic, ask people to thoroughly wash their hands, eyes and ears after engaging in any news related consumption. People dont realize how dangerous some news can be, said a lead researcher, Laura Rossetti. You can feel it coming, said Nicole Fisker. I immediately knew I caught it. Fisker, a second grade teacher and victim of the disease, said she turned the television on in class one day to show students current events around the world and thats when I knew I caught it. Ms. Fisker looked fine before we watched TV. Then she sat down and her face was red, said a student of Fiskers. After watching 20 minutes of syndicated news, Fisker said she felt a little different, anxious and uneasy. She said that evening after school dismissed she had chills and night sweats. Fisker also said she had a variety of other symptoms, some too personal to dis- . body parts and bullets flying everywhere in the process with Inglourious Basterds , the directors deranged take on World War II adventure movies such as the 1978 movie of the same title (albeit correct spelling), The ' ' Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape. The tide lead is squad by First Lieutenant Aldo The Raine Apache (Brad Pitt). r Pitt a plays wildly amusing that caricature is one part John and Wayne one part Lee Raine Marvin. is a fast-talkin- g, good old boy from the South with a noticeable rope bum around his neck. His Jewish American squads mission is to collect 100 Nazi scalps. Reinforcing the Basterds conquest is Staff Sergeant Donny The Bear Jew Donowitz (Eli Roth), an obnoxious loudmouth hits made by his home team, the who likes to Boston Red Sox, on any Nazi that is unwilling to talk. Meanwhile, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), a young French Jew, seeks retribution against the Nazis particularly Standartenfuhrer Hans The Jew Hunter Landa (Christoph Waltz) who ordered her family murdered three years earlier. Since she escaped death, she has been managing a small movie theater in Paris under an alias. The theater has been selected by Gefreiter Frederick Zoller (Daniel Bruhl), a cocky young German Wehrmacht war hero, as the venue take-noprison- ers re-en- act close. People have told me Im a hypochondriac, but to be safe, Im going to see a doctor about it this weekend, said Fisker. Out of concern and respect, Fisker has not been to work for two weeks. Fisker has spent the last two weeks worry free in the sun rays of Mexico. No deaths have been reported as a result of the disease. Evidence suggests the virulent disease can easoutlets. The largest ily be spread through multi-med- ia transmitter of the disease is The Today Show with Kathy Lee and Hoda. Art v W i that will premiere the Nazi propaganda film, A Nations Pride , before Adolf Hider (Martin Wuttke). Zoller attempts to win the affection of Shosanna, who along with the Basterds, seize this opportunity to destroy the Nazi party at its core. I saw Inglourious Basterds as a return to form for Tarantino. Where his last feature Death Proof had a linear plot and long gaps between action scenes, this movie reverts to a nonlinear plot and more sudden, akin violent outbursts to Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown. In true Tarantino fashion, the dialogue is what made me interested in the characters. Landa, for example is a character I should hate, but his darkly humorous conversations make him likeable. I would dub the Basterds worthy of their moniker like a spaghetti western anti-her- o, they seek justice, but tend to shoot first and ask questions later. At times, they resort to tactics that would make a human rights activists hair stand on end including carving swastikas on the foreheads of Nazis that are free to go. However, it is Shosannas side of the story that engaged me. Seeing what happens to her family and how it has affected her well being made me root for her success. The films music is more in tune with the spaghetti western scores of Ennio Morricone, complete with guitars and whistling. For me, this evoked a feeling of tension rather than a proud, patriotic feeling that I would expect of a traditional World War II film. Overall Inglourious Basterds is like a carnival sideshow. It can be morbidly funny, and it can be outrageous and sick. This sideshow, however, is worth the price of admission. V T. "V N. Continued from page 10 to dry. For example, a womens bust made from clay was put on display in the gallery still wet before it could be properly heated and dried in a kiln. It was probably the heaviest piece we had to move when we were setting up the gallery, said Christensen. He said preparing the gallery was a breeze... it was v - actually pretty fun. The UCCC is located at 1355 West 3100 South. The AAUW of Utah gallery is open until Sep. 30. Exhibit hours are Monday 5 I f A J through Thursday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visit and CulturalCelebration.org au I AAUW.org. fl 4 ' X. O'- X 'rfrSeP i 4k tegmtaw.H-rt- ' First impressions photography at AAUW artshow ...damanm .a...uti..q jUkte.. 4 UW- IlmllflTlfc nilf nv.u3 Sfc i'ai u . n SEPTEMBER 1,2009 |