Video Outline:

Video Outline Essay: Tarantino and his Tension Filled Framework

1. My Argument

Inglorious Bastards (2009)–

The use of chopped and fast cuts in the framing of Inglorious Bastards. Quentin Tarantino displays war violence between the narrative of Shoshana and the Bastards’ and uses his camerawork, most notably with a “crash zoom”, that effectively displays the madness in the entire setting. It generates an intense effect for applying tension to any scene of the film and has everything surrounding the characters livelier and louder. The subject matter is how controversial his unique style of filmmaking is, and using the shots in his film demonstrates how effective his storytelling is. I want to argue his choice of using a crash zoom, quick cuts, and its framing became revolutionary toward the film industry, and how effective his talented camera shots are.

2. How it will be done:

It will be a voice over video, with scenes of the film filling the video’s entirety. I will be using iMovie for the process of making the video, while recording myself explaining my essay’s topic. I will be using the Inglorious Bastards film for my video portion of the essay, owning the film in my iTunes library or using YouTube as a last resort. With these scenes below, I will take snapshots and videos of certain sequences, then go into detail of the significance of it (Why he chose that technique, the writing and the initial plan, and how it leads into its final result through its camerawork).

3. Scenes I will be using in Inglorious Bastards–

• The ending of the meeting between Hans Landa and the farmer (17:20-19:17)
• The German soldier meeting his fate with the Bear Jew (33:16-34:34)
• Hans Landa meeting Shoshana for the first time (54:00-55:33)My Movie 1 – Medium

I have been watching movies mainly on all streaming platforms, including on an actual DVD player. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and even ITunes offer brand new movies on all of the platforms over the past three weeks, which have made them more accessible during the day with something new to watch everytime I log in. The majority of what I watch is Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube. I normally watch it over the period of the day. I like to turn on a movie while i do my work for the day, as I just listen to their discussions instead of preferably music. As COVID-Hit and the stay at home orders were issued, most of my days are glued to a screen. It has been more tempting to watch new movies online, more than actually going to the theater. I have watched new seasons of new shows and have finished them in just a weekend. My viewing habits have become very high in terms of what I do, but there is really no where to go. I am sort of a homebody, so it hasn’t really affected my viewing habits as they were actually very high. It’s so accessible and easy to get on and watch, but it has been brutal for paying for WiFi for almost a month. The internet is changing with what is being broadcasted during the pandemic. The internet will change from this, especially in how people think of each other and write about. This period will get all of us more together at the end of this. Everyone misses their friends, especially day after day of watching fiction imitate real life. It will cause everyone in this world to become more connected through what they watch, and especially how the reception of shows and movies will push people to have common interests and hope for life to get on track.

The scene depicted in the video in Fire at Sea is very powerful and effective for generating an emotional response to the group of Nigerians. One Nigerian is singing about his history of relatives and what they were doing in terms of surviving in the Sahara desert or in the ocean. The shot is centered on the singing Nigerian as you see two others singing a acapella like beat to his voice. The Nigerian sings about how risky life is and how risky to take one. Ranging from hunger and other ways of death he starts to talk about the sacrifices that they made to live in the desert. The camera does turn a little bit more to get his facial expressions as he continues to sing and we start to see a man in the middle of the shot. I think it’s very important that these Nigerians are singing about accepting fate and accepting God for giving them the right to live especially now being so thankful that they’re alive today. The evidence here is about feeding on their own urine to survive in the desert. For how gross that sounds these men went through hell in order to live which definitely does make the scene more meaningful towards what these people endured.

This scene is filled with tension. With no background noise or music, the clanking of glasses and beer glasses hitting each other fill the atmosphere of this “Mexican standoff” taking place in Inglorious Bastards. It’s clear that the American troops are improvising their conversation with fake facts about themselves with the gestapo officer joining the table, hurrying to leave no suspicion. It’s like running into an Ex in a bar, especially while using your friend to display an image of how great things are. It is a funny comparison between these two scenarios, as to how both people have the tendencies to fabricate facts and dissuasions, hopeful to get on with their lives. – republished from older version posted on 2/17

I thought putting this scene in a gif was a funny choice. The confusion in this scene is hilarious. The Turkish family, with Fatma trying to buy from a pharmacist clothed German clerk, displays the different communication styles in the new land, and the new type of communication family has to learn. The film displays the constant confusion the family has in their new surroundings, as it displays the differences in identity between early descendants of Turkish workers compared to their families. This gif displays the challenge of a fresh start in a new land. New mannerisms, accents, and new cultural changes to ones family will make the family start to judge their own culture.

The performance shown in the “Play it Sam” scene, displays the sheer beauty of the movement of how music connects with people’s lives. The scene displays Rick stopping Sam from playing the piano in front of his love interest Ilsa. The piano song is an interesting aspect of the entire film. The song provides the characters in the film, a movement of bliss, and their attention being drawn away from what’s happening to them for a meer thirty seconds. Rick has continued to stop Sam from playing in the first scene, but once he hits his emotional climax of his arc in the story, he sits in the bar and lets Sam play. It’s a significant process Rick goes through in the film, realizes that Ilsa just saw the good in Sam the whole time, while Rick’s stubbornness and ignorance did not let himself see why. Even making Sam stop playing the piano in front of her in the first scene, with hosting military officials, he sees that Ilsa just saw the good of someone and just embraced it. Tats what the ending scene to me displayed, especially when his grouchiness was no fight against Sam’s piano playing. Its significant towards the racial tensions in the film, as African Americans were discriminated and never taking seriously in that period. It’s an amazing movement from ignorance to acceptance for Rick’s character, as you can watch him even develop a best friend at the end of the film.
“Of all the Gin Joints”

The significance of this scene in regards to poking fun at the German Nazi’s is the sensitivity of Hitler’s feelings. A man walks into a meeting in the theater, explaining how Adolf Hitler is not a fan of the upcoming show. The show is set up to offend Hitler, and the obvious is comedic. The show is like an Inglorious Bastards type situation, where as instead d of the physical violence it’s more of what feelings will be hurt. As the head general and director of the program as the official representing Hitler intervene, the crowd that forms behind them provides a more comedic purpose. Because why can’t they still go on with the show? Just because Hitler’s feelings get hurt. The clothes and the higher stage plays a purpose to the official attempting to change the situation. It makes the people who are organizing the event displays a higher up role than the puny Hitler’s representative. The lighting of the people’s faces when he purposes the idea display all of the confusion, dispute, and annoyance of the Higher up’s request, like they are fed up with his sensitive BS. This displays how ridiculous Hitler’ regime was, and is pointed out in a comedic fashion because of his lengthy rule and his ongoing but brutal rule.