Comparing War Representations: Inglourious Basterds vs Fury

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For this essay the two films that were chosen to compare and contrast were Inglourious Basterds and Fury. Inglourious Basterds directed by Quentin Tarantino, and Fury directed by David Ayer, are two films that take place in Europe during World War II. Both of these films depict Brad Pitt as a leader of men who are fighting for the United States trying to defeat Nazi Germany. Although both films Inglourious Basterds and Fury display the gritty, brutal, life of soldiers and civilians during World War II, but they both do it in two totally different ways. My goal in this easy is to provide examples of how both Inglourious Basterds and Fury are both similar and different at the same time. When it comes to Fury and Inglourious Basterds it is completely obvious that Fury is the most realistic one even though it is a fictional depiction of the things that happened during the war, while Inglourious Basterds in my opinion is more of a comical and fictional version of some of the things that took place during WWII. Even though both films are fictional depictions of the war they both give the audience a sense of the harshness that the soldiers went through and the gruesomeness of war. The scene in Fury when Irma and her cousin Emma are …show more content…

From the beginning of each the movies to the end of them the audience knows that the main theme is war. The movies approach the theme in two totally different ways though. Inglourious Basterds approaches the took in a way that is serious, but also comical at the same time. This gives the audience the experience of war, but also keeps them in a more light hearted mode while watching the movie. Fury on the other hand doesn’t take that approach. The movie takes a more serious look at war and wants the audience to truly understand the pain suffering that the civilians and the soldiers went through while they fighting in one of the most ruthless wars in the history of our

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