Miracle at St Anna vs Inglorious Basterds.

Miracle at st Anna was made in 2008 and was directed by Spike Lee. The genre of the film is action, thriller and period drama. The themes of the film are  racism, White Supremacy, war, survival, trust, betrayal, mythology, religion and death. The Film Inglorious Basterds was directed by Quentin Tarantino and was made 2009.  The film's genres are action, thriller and period drama. The film's themes are bigotry, hatred, survival, trust, racism and disloyalty.

The film similarities are that they both do not glamourise world war two. Quentin is excessive use of blood in his films. He does not hide away from showing how rough the war really war. For example in inglorious basterds, LT Aldo Reighn wants as many Nazi scalps as possible and there are plenty of times you view the scalp of a Nazi being taken off. There is also the last scene where two of the inglorious bastards are shooting hitler and himler. In Miracle at st Anna there is the scene where the Nazis start shooting through the trees whilst the Americans are walking over the river and a soldier in front of Sam Train gets shot and blood is splattered Sam's face. There is also the scene where loads of Italians are all shot in front of a church. Even after all of them have died Max Malatesta goes round shooting the rest of them to death. There is a link of mythology in both of these films. Inglorious Basterds the scalps are represented as a strength item, the more have the more powerful you are or the more legendary you become. A lust of power is shown through LT Aldo Reighn. he repeatedly states how he wants scalps. Now the representation of mythology in the film Miracle at St Anna is shown in the statues head. Sam train in the first battle scene stands there whilst there are many explosions and gun fire going on and Sam doesn't get shot or hurt. Sam also lifts the wooden bar of the boy to save his life. Sam also gets shot multiple times and still is able to lift another soldier. Sam states how the statue's head gives it the owner or the occupier of the head the strength of 5 men and the heart of a lion. Mythology is represented to be an enhancement to who ever wields the mythological object.

The differences between the two films is the forth wall break in inglorious basterds and the more realistic character development in Miracle at St Anna. The forth wall is illusive through out inglorious basterds. During the end of the film there is the film of Fredrick Zoller shooting loads of enemies. As an audience reaction to fredrick Zoller's film I am disgusted because it is mindless violence. The audience watching Fredrick Zoller's film in the scene are laughing and cheering. But when watching inglorious basterds I realised that I am also laughing and cheering at mindless violence. I am like the Nazis in the cinema at the end of inglorious basterds. Quentin Tarantino is almost mocking the audience by putting this is in and getting the audience to realise that we are just as bad as the Nazis laughing at the film. The character development in Miracle at st Anna is a lot more realistic and believable. I think that this is the consequence from  having four major key characters. Sam, Hector, Bishop and Stamps. Yet inglorious basterds has 12 major characters therefore it would be difficult to keep steady development on each character.