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Brad Pitt becomes Jewish hillbilly in new Tarantino film
By Olivia Wiznitzer, The Forward
Tags: Jewish World, Brad Pitt 

He's been a casino hound, a secret agent and an incredibly sexy Greek warrior, but now Brad Pitt can add a completely new role to his repertoire: an American-Jewish hillbilly from Tennessee.

Pitt has signed on to play Aldo, aka "Aldo the Apache," in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming World War II film, "Inglorious Bastards," about a handpicked group of American-Jewish soldiers who kill Nazis in brutal and violent ways in order to undermine the Third Reich. Pitt's character has "the Apache" moniker due to his signature move of scalping Nazi soldiers.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the film features "vintage Tarantino moments," such as "the director's now-classic use of the Mexican standoff, in which multiple characters are at an impasse pointing guns at each other."
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While the screenplay is not perfect, "even the mistakes are entertaining," said one insider who read the script.

The cast also includes Simon Pegg, Eli Roth and B.J. Novak. Rumor has it that Tarantino is in talks with David Krumholtz and German actress Nastassja Kinski.

The movie is mostly in French and German, with subtitles, but Pitt will perform his role in English. The film is slated for release in June 2009.

Jewish fighters in the Holocaust is the subject of another upcoming blockbuster, Defiance, which stars the current James Bond, Daniel Craig, as Jewish partisan Tuviel Bielski.

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  1.   clarification 17:14  |  christoph 14/08/08
  2.   Very Cewl Nice Haaretz, publish something un political for a chan 17:45  |  Big Sur 14/08/08
  3.   There are no Jewish hillbillies! 18:35  |  JEW 14/08/08
  4.   to #3 19:40  |  Louisiana Jew 14/08/08
  5.   Tennessee Jewish hillbillies? 20:18  |  Sam C 14/08/08
  6.   Louisiana Jew 20:20  |  Connie 14/08/08
  7.   Louisiana Jew 21:26  |  JEW 14/08/08
  8.   "vintage Tarantino moments," 22:54  |  Czarkazem13 14/08/08
  9.   Memphis Jews don`t have pet pigs 23:24  |  Shep F. 14/08/08
  10.   Bow and arrow Fishing 23:35  |  Louisiana Jew 14/08/08
  11.   Too bad Dustin Hoffman is propably too old 00:18  |  Mark B. 15/08/08
  12.   I prefer `Jewish Redneck` 00:48  |  R`fael Moshe 15/08/08
  13.   Tarantino Is a Low Talent Hack 01:00  |  World Citizen 15/08/08
  14.   JEW _ Jewish hillibilies 01:20  |  David Israel 15/08/08
  15.   tarantino has played Jews, always unsympathetically 04:43  |  dante 15/08/08
  16.   3# check out Kinky Freidman. excllent. 04:53  |  johnymac 15/08/08
  17.   Brad Jewish? 16:36  |  Jew 15/08/08
  18.   Brad Jewish? 19:15  |  Mexican Jew 15/08/08
  19.   Brad, Another Fake American... 18:38  |  My Telescope 16/08/08
  20.   lookalike 13:40  |  solemn man 26/08/08
  21.   Brad Pitt becomes Jewish hillbilly in new Tarantino film 19:03  |  Peter 01/09/08
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