Inglourious Basterds has been one of my favorite titles from this list of movies we’ve watched so far this semester. Brad Pitt’s Italian accent might need some work, but it’s made up for his role as Aldo the Apache. A gung ho, scalp taking, Nazi killing American with Patriotism running through his veins. The whole premise of the movie is set around a Nazi occupied as stated in the opening of chapter. This is quite long which is why I feel Tarantino did this. I also don’t know what intentional although it probably was, he makes fun of Americans through the whole movie not being bilingual, or multi-lingual. They can only speak English, and are constantly reminded of that by many of the characters in the film. Donny (Bear Jew) is definitely from Boston with his wicked accent.
The movie comes full circle to Shoshana, the girl who escaped from the Jew Hunter in the opening scene. She runs the theater that her aunt and uncle left her when a heroic German Soldier is fallen in love with her. He changed the premiere of Nations’ Pride to a smaller theater. Her theater and now the Fuhrer himself will be in attendance to see the re-enactment of that brave soldier and what he did for the Nazis. Now there are two separate parties trying to kill Hitler and they will both be in attendance at this premiere. However, they don’t know about each other costing them each other’s lives.
Attention to detail is very importsnat in this film especilly if you are a high commanding Nazi officer. When we lost Stiggler and Wiki I felt sad, because Tarintino was able to make us have a connection to these characters, and made us not want to see them die.There is no violence spared in this film as when the Jew Bear beats the officer of 250 burning Nazis in Kino this film quickly ran up my favorites list.
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JohnLuke,
This post focuses on plotting and violence in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Regarding plotting, the film contains several different narratives that intersect toward the end of the film. This is a common feature in Tarantino films as well as other postmodern narratives. The film is also, as you point out toward the end of your post, exceptionally violent. Interestingly, viewers tend to be critical of some moments of violence (the Nazis laughing at the film premiere) and uncritical of others (the Nazis getting killed). What do you make of that?
While you have some good ideas here, I’d like to see you shape them into a clearer argument and develop them with more evidence.
I look forward to discussing the film this week,
MT
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