The ways in Inglorious basterds and fight club are considered to be postmodern are that they are both are not reality which is key issue in most postmodern films and texts is that they have elements of reality but we can see that it is not by what happens, for example in inglorious basterds it is not reality because the way they kill Hitler is over exesadurated and not realistic, compared to Saving Private Ryan is more of a proper war film were as inglorious is comedy war as it funny in parts for example the Hitler part when he says yes yes yes. Fight club is more realistic until the end of the film when we find out that ED Norton had lost his mind and what, then becomes a fantasy and is not realistic.
They are both considered to be postmodern because both films using ideas from other texts which is one of the main postmodern things to do is use other texts use them but in slightly different but as an audience we know where it has come from they both seem to use fairly famous pieces so that as the audience we are more likely to get it for example in fight club when he tells the Chinese man run forest run which is from the film Forest Gump which most people know of.
Other ways in which both films are considered to be post modern is the intertextual references used because through out most of both films they seem to use them for example in inglorious they use the good the bad and the ugly stand of scene when they are in the bar when they have the shoot out, the way they show this is the type of camera work that they use is similar to the spaghetti western stand off because they seems to be three main parties in the bar and each is focused on like in the good the bad and the ugly. An example of fight club when they use a reference to something else is the part when they are on the bus and it has the Calvin Klein advert and it is then linked to Brad Pitt in the way that it looks like him with the body of the person in the advert.
The foot fetish idea when the women in inglorious drinks from her shoe is reference to the director of the film Tarentino who seem to have a foot fetish and seems to include this in almost all his films for example in Kill Bill when Uma Thurman is in the back of a car and there is a shot of her feet and it is made blatantly obvious to us the audience and this is shown in the scene when the women in inglorious drinks from her shoe and as the audience we know why that has been included. Anther reference made in the film is the film with in a film is shown (Nations Pride) the part when it refers to the battleship poetmikin the oddess steps sequence which is referred to twice in Nations pride for example the part when the solider is shot in the eye, and when the pram is moving across which is a very famous intertextual reference which is used in loads of media texts.
The part in inglorious when the camera panes up and we can see that it is a set which tell us that it is just a film from this we then realise that is just a films and not reality even though what the film is based on is reality war basically. The way in inglorious when it begins with once upon a time which tells us that it is fairy tale and not real and also the way the film is split into chapters just like a fairytale story.
In glorious basterds also using elements of Blaxploations which is basically a film genre that is based on black Americans the film references to this by using music from the genre several times and the music through out the film is used in a very postmodern way because the era in which the film does not use music from the that time, it seems to use music from the 1950’s to the 1980’s and mix of styles and genres are used to try and give the film more depth and more exciting. All the tracks used were taken from exciting soundtracks which again links back to using ideas and parts from exciting products, which is what makes the film postmodern.
Fight club is also postmodern because it seems to be realistic in some scene for example the violence that they use seems to be real and the sound effects seem to be as if it was in real life but then it has elements that shows us the audience that is just a film, for example it breaks the forth wall and addresses us the audience which shows that it is a film and not real. The films seems to want us to belief that it is reality but it is also trying to show us how people would like to live their lif in the way everything that happens is ED Norton and does not realise what he is doing it is almost saying that what happens should be a reality, but it turns out it is just a fantasy in his mind which is similar to inglorious basterds because that is also a fantasy. Also the way that the film seems to portray that everything is a copy of a copy of a copy which is said by Ed Norton and this is seen in the film, which links directly to what postmodernism is because it is basically copying something form something else and modifying it slightly to make sense. The part when Ed Norton’s house is like IKEA when everything that he has in house is like IKEA when the camera pans around the room and every thing has price on them, shows it is a fantasy.
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