Tarantino embarrasses Germany

Interviewed by Germany's Spiegel news magazine, Quentin Tarantino has shocked its readers with favorable comments about Nazi propaganda and how it influenced him.

While Quentin Tarantino's comments in the Spiegel interview seem outrageous and unthinking, they will in any case rev up the buzz about his latest movie, «Inglourious Basterds», which is due out in Germany and France in the next few days.

In concrete terms, the maker of «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction», described the Third Reich's Official filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, as the best director that ever lived, and went on to say he had read the personal diary of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, to prepare for his latest movie.

Tarantino went even further by saying some of the melodramas, comedies and operettas made under Goebbels «were very good.»

It remains to be seen whether the public gets his latest fixation, as they did «Pulp Fiction», or whether it goes the way of «Death Proof», which was rejected by critics and audiences alike.

In the end effect, «Inglourious Basterds» is irreverent, provocative and irresponsible, but also extremely passionate and hilariously funny.