The Ray Pletcher Blog

Quentin Tarantino certainly delivers a fascinating else worlds take on World War Two in his film Inglourious Basterds. This picture is definitely gruesome but it extends beyond focusing on the effects of the Nazi’s reign and touches on the similarities between every man in war. Tarantino’s picture is the tale of a group of U.S. soldiers called the Basterds who scheme to kill a theatre full of Nazi officials on the same night a theatre owner plans to burn the theater to get revenge against the Nazis. The action is only utilized when absolutely vital and as Tarantino uses dialogue heavily to make his characters come to life to the audience the film succeeds in spades in providing quite the unique experience. The story follows many different characters and Tarantino skillfully allows the audience to spend different amounts of time with different characters. The movie is told in chapters and when certain characters intersect and crossover from one chapter to the next and the piec

In a version of King Arthur that forgoes the mystical element of the legend, Clive Owen shines brightly as the invincible moral upright knight Arthur. Arthur is the lead character in Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 film King Arthur in which the director soars to entertaining heights of entertainment in this motion picture. This tale which attempts to interpret a more realistic version of the legend of King Arthur follows Arthur during the times in which he lived when the Roman Empire was collapsing and politics forced him and his group of knights at the roundtable whom he has served with and trusted his life with for the last fifteen years were forced out into the field for one last mission before they could secure their freedom in the Roman Empire. The dangerous mission finds Arthur and his knights taking on Cerdic and his forces and along the way they gain an alley in Guinevere, a prisoner of the Roman Empire, who helps Arthur look at his life in a different light. King Arthur beautif