One From The Missed Opportunity File: INGLORIOUS BASTARDS Director Returns With CARIBBEAN BASTERDS
Oh, Enzo, what have you wrought? Once a major contributor to the 1970's wave of Italian exploitation film, Enzo Castellari appeared to be all but washed up. With only one feature film on his resume since 1989, when he shifted his output to television, and nothing at all to call his own since 2001 observers would be forgiven for assuming that Castellari was done and out.
But then came Quentin Tarantino. A vocal fan, Tarantino has championed Castellari's work at festivals and on DVD - giving interviews for releases of Castellari's key work - and he, of course, made Castellari's The Inglorious Bastards the basis point for his hugely successful Inglourious Basterds.
Castellari is an old pro, and certainly no fool, and he clearly understood that this was the sort of opportunity that you have to take advantage of. And so he's back in the director's chair for a new feature film: Caribbean Basterds. Yes, he nicked the intentional mis-spelling from Tarantino's picture.
The results, honestly, are not pretty and not the sort of thing that is likely to do anything for the man's legacy. Am I being too harsh? Take a look below.
But then came Quentin Tarantino. A vocal fan, Tarantino has championed Castellari's work at festivals and on DVD - giving interviews for releases of Castellari's key work - and he, of course, made Castellari's The Inglorious Bastards the basis point for his hugely successful Inglourious Basterds.
Castellari is an old pro, and certainly no fool, and he clearly understood that this was the sort of opportunity that you have to take advantage of. And so he's back in the director's chair for a new feature film: Caribbean Basterds. Yes, he nicked the intentional mis-spelling from Tarantino's picture.
The results, honestly, are not pretty and not the sort of thing that is likely to do anything for the man's legacy. Am I being too harsh? Take a look below.
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