Here’s the Tennessee hick, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (aka Brad Pitt) in all his glory. The first real character pic of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” (sic) has leaked out to the web and Cinematical has a hold of it (whether they found it or were fed it, they don’t say, but Tarantino Archives has it too; maybe it was emailed around). Click here on on the pic for the full sized image.
For those not keeping score:
‘Inglourious Basterds’ begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.
Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own…
We’ve been all about this flick and revealed who Cloris Leachmen is playing in the film and what European actors are playing Hitler, Winston Chuchill and Joseph Goebbels.