Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 War film directed and written by Quentin Tarantino. The film is 2 hours 33 minutes long and it falls under the genres of Action, Drama and War. The Production Company for this film was Universal Pictures. Its budget was $75 million and it went on to make $321 million in the Box Office. Some of its cast include Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender and Diane Kruger.
Miracle at St Anna:
Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 War film directed by Spike Lee. The film is 2 hours 40 minutes long and falls under the genres of Action, Crime, War and Drama. Its Production Company was 40 Acres & aA Mule Filmworks. Its budget was $45 million and it made $9 million at the Box Office. Its cast includes actors such as Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonzo, Omar Benson Miller and Pierfrancesco Favino.
Both of these film are very similar, both being set in world war 2 and following its main events, and are both within the war genre. Even though these two film are similar, they are also quiet different. Inglourious Basterds follows the story of a Jewish girl with history with one of the Nazi Leaders, and also a group of Jewish U.S. Soldiers through France. Miracle at St. Anna follows a group of black U.S. soldiers thought the town of Italy. Even though these films follow very different points of view, they ultimately show the same main themes, which are discrimination and hate. For example, Inglourious Basters deals with the Jews being hated and killed in Germany, and also black people being hated as well. An example of this is the Jewish girl that owns the cinema, hosting a German film premiere, has a black man working for her. A nazi leader told her that she cannot have him working that night when the premiere takes place. Miracle at St. Anna deals with racial hatred and an example of this would be the black soldiers not being served in the cafe. Also black people weren't treated as fairly as white people were. They seemed to be used in war as targets for the enemy. In some senses, they were sent to be killed.
The way these films were shown are in different ways. Inglourious Basterds has a linear structure. The story starts at the beginning and carries on chronologically all the way through even though there is a 3 year gap. Miracle at St. Anna is set as a flashback, which is a non linear narrative. The man at the beginning and the end is in the 'current day' when the movie was set and the story flashes back to his memories of what happened.
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