15 Years Later, I Finally Understand Inglorious Basterds

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[leewm.gaudry]

I heard that the whipped cream wasn’t cream, but rather sweetened, whipped pork lard, a whipped cream substitute during the war shortages. Landa wanted to observe her demeanour consuming non-kosher food.

[SlashRfnR]

this film is just a masterpiece that would not have been possible without Christoph Waltz - as mentioned by Tarantino himself.

[AudunWangen]

"Arriverderchie" 😂 Most comedic line in that film.

[annandune]

The opening scene of Inglorious Basterds is reminiscent of the scene in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where Lee Van Cleef's 'The Bad' arrives at a farm where he questions the father and ultimately ends up murdering the whole family.

[boguspocus]

this is more wisecrack than wisecrack nowadays

[lelandunruh]

My grandmother (born 1927) did not like violent movies, but she enjoyed Inglorious Basterds. My brother asked her why, and she responded, "They killed lots of Nazis and gruesomely murdered Hitler." Sometimes I think a revenge fantasy can just connect as a revenge fantasy!

[MIKELIN]

I have to correct one thing from your video, friend. Aldo does not carve a swastika into Landa's forhead to remind Landa that he was a Nazi, he does it to give Landa a permanent mark as a Nazi. That's what he had done to Private Butz earlier in the film, who then had to reveal his scar to Hitler.

[grantmurdock]

Former projectionist with a bit of trivia: yes, nitrate film totally can become a terrifying hazard as depicted. I've worked with it on special Bollywood engagements at my former place of employment, and was warned many times over of the ways things can go wrong.

More modern films just melt when there's a problem.

[JMcLeodKC]

4:04 that is a fountain pen. Fountain pens need to be refilled and that’s what he’s doing right there.

[davidplasterer]

This was incredible. Really well done Jared. Thanks. I think you are so spot on about our lack of a shared narrative. Without one, those in a different narrative become the "other" and thus worthy of all manner of scorn, derision, and malice. Movies can help with that and I thought you pointed out how well Tarantino does, but I think we are going to need a lot more than a few or even a lot of good movies to get us out from where we are currently.

[mabus]

This analysis reminds me of the example my teacher used in school when talking about American propaganda: Rocky IV. The Russian Ivan Drago trains with the help of high tech, only to lose to the rugged American who trains in a run-down gym and in nature.

[solidsnake]

To quote Aldo, “this might be (your) masterpiece.”

[themannaking]

As someone with family from East Tennessee, I have to say that even though Aldo's accent is meant to be put on and thick, it comes off as practiced and refined compared to some natives speaker I've heard with the particular regional twang he's putting on. My dad, and several of my cousins on his side, for example, speak thicker than that. He sounds almost like a normal local to the just south of West Virginia region.

[sifatshams]

This really felt like 2017, 2018-era Wisecrack. God I miss those days...

[patrickgroenewegen]

That was a fountain pen. He was filling it.

[hrgunit]

Thanks Jared. I would never have understood 50 % of those two movies after 50 years. Also, I would not consider myself a movie (nor Social Media) guy. But your insights are very fascinating and competent.

[jester]

Film isn't dead hollywood is. The independent scene and foreign films free of the constraints of big producers and hopefully actors guilds will take hollywood's place.

[davidvenegas]

One thing most people miss is that Hans never saw that girls face in the barn. So he can't recognize her later. He's not doing it on purpose later with the pastry. He really doesn't remembered. That's more cruel. He does murder and doesn't even remember. If you've ever had someone hurt you and not remember, you recognize the additional insult of having it forgotten. Everyone thinking he remembered all in your head. He never saw her face

[christophergreen]

YES! IT WAS A CRITIQUE OF OUR CURRENT BLOODY ERA

[garrettauzins]

So, a potential note about the restaurant scene; in order for restaurant whipped creams to maintain consistency, there needs to be a stabilizer added so it won't deflate. Given the time period, it's not going to be agar-agar or guar gum, and since it's during wartime, it wouldn't be pectin (which, in addition to scarcity would be unusual to add to dairy at the time). That leaves gelatin to be used, which was and to an extent still is culinary defacto as a dairy stabilizer. Very much not kosher, and yet another insidious way to root out if Shoshanna was Jewish, if she would consume pork products or refuse.