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Hitler to get Pulp Fiction treatment in Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards

Quentin Tarantino, master of cinematic violence, is about to stir up a hornet's nest in Germany with a war film that depicts Nazi soldiers having their brains bashed out with a baseball bat wielded by a vengeful American.

And far worse. Even by the stomach-curdling standards of the US director-maker of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs the new film is a veritable blood bath.

Filming starts in Berlin on October 13 and the controversial director is already in the German capital making his final casting decisions. The star role is to be played by Brad Pitt. His character, Lieutenant Aldo Raine, leads a group of American Jewish soldiers who are dropped into Nazi-occupied Europe to wreak revenge on the Germans and destroy their morale.

The tone of the film, provisionally entitled Inglorious Bastards, is set early on by Lieutenant Raine in a pep speech to his men. According to a leaked version of the script, the officer says: "Every man under my command, owes me, one hundred Nazi scalps ... and all y'all will git me one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazis or you will die trying."

Not so much Kill Bill then, as Kill Adolf...

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