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Inglourious Basterds Review

What is a Spaghetti Western:
Spaghetti Western is a sub-genre of the Western Genre which originally formed in the 1960's. Spaghetti Westerns are typically directed by an Italian with actors comprising of Germans, Italians, Spaniards, and Americans. Films that are considered to be apart of the Spaghetti Western sub-genre typically have less dialogue while focusing more on action. The action in the films are overly violent in comparison to other Western films which could cause censorship issues. 
Why did Tarantino use this genre for a WWII Film:
A possible reason as to why Tarantino chose Inglourious Basterds to be a Spaghetti Western rather than a war film could be for the film to be focused more of character interaction than the large scale violence seen in war films. In Inglourious Basterds, the audience does get to experience the second World War through the words and actions of real people rather than soldiers fighting in a war. Violence is still included at points in order to illustrate the conflict of the war, without taking up the primary focus of the film. 
Three ways Tarantino subverts expectations:
One of the ways that Tarantino subverts expectations in the film is by making the film not entirely focused on violence. While there definitely are moments that are violent and gruesome, large portions of the film remain as spoken interactions between characters. Another expectation that is subverted the expectation of our main characters followed being the Basterds themselves. The characters that are given what feels like the a great portion of the screen time are Shoshanna and Col. Hans Landa, making the film feel closer to their story than the story of the Basterds. The final subversion of expectations that I will mention is how Tarantino chose to end the film. The ending of the film is entirely different from how the viewer would expect a historical film about WWII to end. Tarantino chose to ignore what happened in history in order for him to give a better conclusion to his story.
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