Is the script really so rife with grammatical errors and misspellings? This segment was downright painful to read because of them.

Maybe Quentin has become a LAY-Z BASTERD? :) At least concerning the title, it's a great way to make it his own.

I'm wondering if the misspellings are related to the German speaking English and it's a way to show an accent? You don't hear it while he's speaking in the film, and looks like he's only doing it in the dialogue for the German while speaking English and not while he's speaking French.

To be honest, I never paid attention to the misspellings because its Tarantino-I expect the unexpected with his films. But that script is so well descriptive with the visual, all I'm seeing is the action around. I think the title is just Tarantino making it his own or to avoid a copyright infringement-The inglorious Bastards was a film in 78 by Enzo Castellari and Tarantino was inspired by the title according to Wikipedia-no idea how true that is. My only involvement in Tarantino's flick Kill Bill was doing a pedicure on Uma making sure her feet were shiny because Tarantino does a close up of her feet in the movie. I asked her, "What is the red stuff?" "Oh that's fake blood don't worry about it if you can't get it off-he likes it on there and messy just make the toes shiny." Lol

You did a pedicure on Uma Thurman? My brother would give his own foot to have that job. That's an interesting thought Scott. The mis-spelling continuing the script that is. Does anyone actually say "Inglourious Basterds" the entire movie?

Yes before she was divorced from Ethan and right after her son was born. She was really cool. I just thought it was neat I got to do her feet for that up close So when you see the movie of her staring down at her bare feet, that's my work.:)

The only part of a movie where it was referred is Aldo Raine’s rifle signature (remember, on its buttstock), which he puts on the ground then leans it to the wall and with words ‘send that kraut sarge over’ asks for Werner Rachtman. The rifle is never been referred in the film and only seen in this brief moment. However, I noticed that inscription has been done in the same latters which are used in movie title – and I’m not sure on this part: probably the design of movie title was varying from country to country. What’s interesting with the buttstock, signature has been done with the hand of Tarantino – I think it’s the same latters which is in the hand-written title of the original script. It maybe a reference that the Basterds is in fact an obligated force of the Author. Not Tarantino, but his so called ACT OF AUTHOR (my definition). And the Basterds is really opposing force to what Landa is up to. They want to stop the guy, before he’s going to get too far for the author. It’s really long story how Tarantino has accomplished it. ON DIRECTORIAL DESCRIPTIONS Tarantino treats his scripts as separate stories. He always said that his scripts exist separately from his movies. I also heard he almost never uses script during the shooting, only in few times to refresh some aspects of dialogue in his mind. And now I have this theory, that shooting angles are in fact some kind of code for his own characters. As if they can only exist in this camera shots. ON MISSPELLING Now I look at the text of Inglourious Basterds script, which Scott posted above, and the thing on my mind is: Tarantino had written it by ear. Probably he played with German accent, and as if reconsidering its original pronunciation. But again, in the movie it is no more part of the story. ON MOVIE TITLE The way it was written is impenetrable riddle, at least for me. At press conference at Cannes, he said it was done ON PURPOSE, though he refused to give any explanation. Someone threw a silly joke about typo, Tarantino waved aside that one with flat and unambiguous denial. I also love his tag “WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY QUENTIN TARANTINO” which he put in all of his stories (well, scripts). I remember that I never quite believed it was burst out ego (but I sorta collect interview pieces where other studio-related pros attracted to these very last words of each of his scripts). For me it was absurd enough and certainly drew my attention, which later was transformed into solid interest and curiosity. Now I think, this tag indicates some kind of storytelling value. He makes readers believe that the film has been done as soon as you finished the damn script. He fires your imagination that it has just been shot in your head to the full length movie.

Thanks, Roman, for that. Good background info!