@@brianwarren2042 I remember thinking "wrong fingers" when I first saw this scene in the cinema (I had learned about the gesture in German classes.) I was pleasantly surprised when they went with that being the thing to give them away.
Incidentally, the first scene in this film-when Landa visits the French farmhouse-is now taught in film schools as an example of how to build suspense.
The story of Christoph Waltz is that Tarantino almost didn't make the movie because he couldn't find a Landa who could speak three languages fluently (how crazy is that?) and when he finally met Waltz...it was a bingo!
yeah, also here in italy nobody uses the 'american' 3 sign. btw as an italian I gotta say that Waltz' italian diction was just superb. Not always 100% perfect, but damn close.
@@mikelor84 yeah I think he’s only conversational in Italian, but he’s fluent in German and French, and also voices his own characters in Inglorious Basterds’ and Django Unchained’s French and German dubs
The bit at the start where Hans landa holds her wrist long and uncomfortably is because he is checking the daughters pulse to see her heart rate to see if she is nervous or not!
I think he knew from the beginning they hide Jews. That's why he was there. He just played a bit and showed power. He didn't need to check pulses for that.
Went to see this with a friend who grew up in Germany and when Fassbender’s character raised the wrong three fingers, he immediately went “oh shit, he screwed up!”
Yes, no one does it that way here in Germany. I actually find it very hard to form my hand that way. The thumb, index finger, and middle finger are used by everybody here. To a German, it's also obvious, that Fassbender speaks pretty good German but has a strange accent for real. So this part also ist authentic. Well made a scene.
@@Apfelkind4000 He's Irish with a German father so he grew up hearing and speaking some German but never fluent. So it makes sense that he would speak it with an odd accent more so than someone who learned the language at school or by living in Germany. I'm learning German for the first time in my thirties so I'm sure I'll have an atrocious accent when I'm at the stage where I can actually have conversations with German speakers.
1:11 There is a scene in the film which shows the rifle of Aldo Raine and on is a carving which reads, “Inglourious Basterds”. According to the portal, the scene was a way to show that Aldo Raine could not spell and that was how he had spelled the two words. Hence drawing the connection to the title of the film.
Christoph Waltz is one of the BEST actors of all time, in my opinion. He can speak like 4 or more languages and can play the most sincere and heart warming to the most cynical and terrifying characters you've ever seen!
That's why he got a golden companion to his other golden boy called OSCAR, OSCAR and FREDL two good friends. OSCAR I for Inglourious Basterds, OSCAR II for Django Unchained.
The story goes that during a script reading, Brad Pitt, read his "Grazie" line the way he did in the movie and everyone busted out laughing. It's kinda like the American trope of how bad we are at learning other languages which makes it so perfect since his character is from Tennessee.
That's what happens if give an American a line of Italien, be prepared to hear them raping french. Only thing that goes relativly accident free is Spanish. Because whole Hollywood has a Mexican cleaning lady.
Some of the few US movies where "the Germans" can also speak German properly. All the "germans" in this movie were also played by german / austrians actors.
What i love about the first scene is that Landa apparently doesn't like smoking, he just did that as a display of his superiority against the farmer in the situation
@@cinemappendix1389 Diane Kruger’s character is analogue to “Lili Marleen”, a movie from RW Fassbinder about a singer who is turned into a spy for the Allies.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 yep I always thought Zoller was meant to be the nazi bizarro version of Audie Murphy, both war heroes-turned movie stars, both with baby faces one might not expect from war heroes
Germans and other Europeans learn to count starting with their thumb. That's why the German three is thumb, index- and middle finger. I believe in the English native speaking world you learn to start counting with your index finger. Your way is as unnatural to us as our way is to you, that's why it's so noticable. Even though Tarantino tried to make it pretty clear by keeping the German in the frame when he put up the three fingers, it seems like Americans were pretty surprised by the turn, while the German audience immediatly knew he fucked up.
I was stationed in Germany for two years. Not one German friend or anybody at that told me about the simple finger/ hand difference in culture/ ??? I had to find out twenty plus years later on a film.
I'm British and honestly thought this part was a bit far fetched considering I spent 2 years working in Germany and found that people just indicated numbers on fingers in whatever manner was comfortable for them in either country Maybe it was more prevalent during the war days but I have a feeling it was just a piece of ambiguous information QT picked up along the way that might work well in a movie as a subconscious social gesture that would give some away without them realising but it's definitely a little flimsy
Just the intro of this movie and it's already a Masterpiece. As Italian, I can say the italian part is great. Except for two little mistakes ("difficile DA trovare" , not "difficile DI trovare") Christoph Waltz italian accent is so damn good, and he speaks four languages in this movie: English, German, Franch and Italian. Oh, there are so many hidden things and class touches in this movie... very difficult to find.I could bingewatch all the Tarantino movies without getting tired.
Too bad the rest of movie is mediocre schlock, the intro is cool but hardly meaningful, the characters are two dimensional and have no depth at that point. Compare that to the opening scene in something like inception, goodfellas, requiem for a dream or breaking bad, way more meaningful have way more allusion to character depth.
The thing about Landa is that everything he does has a purpose. every touch, every word, every reaction. he’s a pro at gauging people. he’s extremely intelligent
@@lampad4549 Yeah, your Indian-Tennessee Bastardo got him in the end. By breaking some rules and committing a war-crime (harming a POW) but who cares, good has won and Hans sits in his house on Nantucket and picks his nose.
In the script, Brad Pitt’s character actually spoke convincing Italian, but when he added his accent to it, Tarantino realized it worked so much better for a very specific reason; the plan is fucking dumb and the terrible accent sheds light on just HOW dumb the plan has become. It shouldn’t work, the ruse is so transparent anyone could see it, it only works because Landa lets it work.
There was a movie called Inglorious Bastards, and Tarantino wanted to change it up for his movie. Aldo's throat wasn't slit -- he was hanged, and the rope marks are prominent on his neck.
Yeah he wanted to not get sued. Since The Inglorious Bastards is a Dirty Dozen knock-off, this is his Dirty Dozen knock-off knock-off. Like how he has a "Django" movie and he has a "Once Upon a Time..." movie to go with the once upon a times in China, America, The West, Nazi-Occupied France, etc...
Col. Hans Landa holds the ladies wrist because he is checking her pulse while watching her face lies. Also. Adieu means goodbye where aur avoir means so long. When he let's Shoshanna go he basically says, I will see you again.
I love the joke in the Community TV series where Shirley says she watched Pulp Fiction but because it was on a flight and heavily altered she just thought it was "a 30 minute film about a group of friends who love cheeseburgers, dancing, and the bible".
Hand gestures are different in different cultures. At exactly 11:36 the English man tips off the German officer that he's out of place by giving the wrong hand signal for the number 3. He should have folded his pinky and ring fingers into the palm and extend the thumb, index, and middle fingers
I'll never forget how loud everyone in the audience laughed when Hans pulled out his enormous pipe. It was like a "mine's bigger than yours" vibe that slayed. Being in Philadelphia, I also remember the audience's reaction in Hateful 8 when Tim Roth announced "PHILADELPHIA!" as to what state the bar would represent in Minnie's Haberdashery. PS: As Canadians, I noticed the funniest things from you guys. Your interpretation of old American slang is amusing (sammich, whoop-for). Also the reason the rest of the restaurant is silent because of the high command being present. Once they heard serious discussion and some shouting (playful as it was) they shut up out of fear.
Everyone talks about Christoph Waltz and the scene with the farmer, but August Diehl in the bar scene is equally superb in terms of being menacing IMO.
Two sequences in this film really left an impact on me. The scene where Shoshana is preparing herself, while David Bowie plays in the background. The other, is when Shoshana's face is being projected on the smoke, and she's laughing maniacally....that gave me chills!!
One of the easiest ways to reveal a suspected spy who sounds perfect is to force them into a situation where they will perform an action that is natural to them but because it isn't natural to the one suspecting them of not being what they seem, it's a dead give away. In this case there are gestures that are different that we all do unthinkingly when our guard is down because we learned them by the concept of cultural rote. That's why the German officer played the game, why the alcohol. When your inhibitions are lowered and you are feeling at ease it is much harder to maintain a facade or acted responses. If you want to see who someone truly is, get them drunk. Everything else will fall away. If they refuse to drink, well that tells you something as well.
18:50 - it's not that difficult to hide that swastika. A decent plastic surgeon could do it. Or you just add couple more scar lines and change the shape. Or burn it. It'll hurt, but it will heal.
Todays plastic surgical procedures could maybe, 1940's .. not so much. Also, you'd need at least 2nd degree, probably up to 3rd degree burns to hide a prominent scar because scar-tissue reacts and heals differently, under a light burn the changed healing of a scar will still get through. Problem is the forehead has not much 'meat' to it, 3rd degree burns on a forehead can be rather serious and possibly won't only hurt but risk losing your skin down to the bone.
It's spelled that way because Tarantino is a horrible speller. IB steals its title from a '70s WWII flick that Tarantino used to use as a litmus test for new movie friends bc it was so obscure (if you knew what it was, you passed the test.) He hand writes his scripts and had spelled the title that way on page 1. Somebody pointed out it was spelled wrong, so he decided to keep it that way since it was "his" way of spelling it, and therefore "his" movie. also, the director of the original, Enzo Castellari, had a cameo in the movie as the guy yelling "fire" in the movie theater.
By far my favorite Tarantino movie. But the first scene with Landa alone is so brilliant. And this introduced me and I think most Americans to Waltz. It's like, "Who is this guy???"
The hands suffocating diane Kruger/bridget von hammersmark actually belong to quentin tarantino. He wanted to make the scene authentic, so He took control over it and actually suffocating the actress to some extend. The usher calling everybody to take their seats actually is a famous german drummer of the Band "Die Ärzte" who is a big tarantino Fan and also an actor.
I was taught the worst way to count on my fingers as a child. 1: index 2: index-middle 3: middle-ring-pinkie 4: index-middle-ring-pinkie Now, I just do it the German way.
I'm sure someone has said this in the comments, but, at the very beginning, when Landa grabs the wrist of the French girl, in fact he's taking her pulse to know if she's pretending that she's not absolutely terrified.
Apparently, the "Bear Jew" was going to be played by Adam Sandler, but either there were scheduling conflicts or Tarantino changed his mind (I honestly..........could see him doing that role; he IS good at playing very angry/violent outbursts like his roles in HAPPY GILMORE and PUNCH DRUNK LOVE)
There are two theories about the spelling: if you read any of QT´s hand-written scripts... he ain´t the best speller in the world. However, if I remember correctly, the spelling is, according to him, because that´s how he imagines French or German people pronouncing it.
Landa is a great villain because he is the banality of evil turned up to 11. He doesn't see himself as a Nazi zealot. He thinks himself a master craftsman practicing and improving his trade. And he's willing to jump ship and swear loyalty to whoever he thinks will allow him to continue to survive and maybe even practice his craft. This makes him the perfect antagonist to the heros of the movie who are all ideologically motivated.
Tarantino likes to use Ennio Morricone soundtracks for his movies. Morricone was know for making amazing Western soundtracks. Morricone also worked closely with Sergio Leone who created the best Western Trilogy and Western movie of all time. Tarantino idolized Leone and how he was able to created such chilling atmosphere. Leone would write the script and music first then base his shots around the music. He also played music on set to help the actors with their facial expressions during his close ups.
Watched this with my wife in late 2015. My MIL was from East Germany, and as a result, my wife and SIL were fluent in the language and customs. Unsurprisingly, my wife clued in on Fassbender's accent and "wrong" three, which was super cool to me. But, I'll never forget just how fast and hard our hearts sank into our stomach out of sheer dread when Landa flawlessly switched to Italian on a dime...
One of the best things I found out about this movie is the line Brad says to camera about this being his masterpiece. He was talking directly to Quentin about his character here. I agree he did amazing in this movie.
fantastic movie + reaction! one of Tarantino's best! I think the title is spelled that way as a homage and to distinguish this film from another film, 'The Inglorious Bastards' (1978).
This is how that film's title was spelled on a handwritten cassette in the video store Tarantino worked at. It gives the film a distinctive googlable title. Likewise, Reservoir Dogs was named after a phrase coined when Tarantino asked a coworker to watch "Au Revoir Les Enfants", and the response was "I'm not watching no Reservoir Dogs."
For anyone wondering, it's spelled "basterds" because Tarantino said so. Not joking. He said something along the lines of "that's how you say it, so I put it that way because I wanted to". Just straight up "because".
Great movie, I love Tarantino and actually got him to sign my copy of 'Pulp Fiction' the screenplay. I also truly believe Simone is the most adorable woman on the planet! ❤ You guy's are great!
I’ll echo many comment here: you guys are my favourite reaction duo (I like Blind Wave too, but that’s a different energy). I’m so happy to have discovered you. That’s a great movie! This comment was written while I was still watching your intro, but I can’t wait to see you watch the movie. My theory about basterds/bastards is to make the marketing campaign easier. Some parts of the US are weird about certain words.
tarintino lived in knoxville, tennessee for a short while but maynardville tennessee is a real place just north of there. still has moonshiners running to this day. pitt nailed the accent, and he sure as hell nailed that union county spirit.
Not seeing any comments about this. In the scene where Hans Landa strangles Bridget Von Hammersmark, its Quentin Tarantino in a nazi outfit ACTUALLY strangling Diane Krueger until she passes out. Also in the giant fire scene, they really set that shit on fire, and some of the actors almost died. And for the swastika carving scene? They actually carved a swastika into Christolph Waltz's forehead..... That last one is the joke, but the first two are true.
Basterd is original olde ye historic English spelling before a lot of words become slightly modernised spelling wise as speech changes to homogenise between countries internationally over time. I believe!!
4:38 Such lists were not only made about Jews (although they were by far the largest group to be persecuted!) but also from other minorities like disabled people or queer people. In fact, the Nazis got lists of patients from the Institute of Sexual Sciences that specialized in counsel for gay and lesbians and the first gender affirming surgeries in the world. After the Nazis took power, they raided the institute, burned the books of its library (the famous pictures of the first Nazi book burning contain the institute's books among others - something that is always left unstated in documentaries btw) and obtained the lists of the patients.
6:00. It's a rope burn. He survives a lynching in his backstory. You can survive some major vascular neck wounds, this is neigh impossible with instant major surgery within moments (I'm talking like this kid of his bicycle that got smoked by a car a few blocks away from me a few days ago while we were on vacation. Dead on arrival 100% of the time, if a hospital was not literally the two blocks away he happened to be next to) with modern surgery/surgeons. Back then, and back when this happened to him as a young man? No chance.
A part of the formation of the Hell's Angeles was in response to boredom of everyday life for some men returning from World War 2. They couldn't adjust so the outlaw life made sense.
How in gods name :D I just thought "Huh let's see if theres some people having watched Inglorious Basterds", and boom, uploaded a couple hours ago, and its a great video :)
In case nobody has mentioned it: the name is a copyright/originality/reference thing: there is another film called THE Inglourious BastArds that actually has some plot resemblance as well. Tarantino has talked about this very openly.
Almost every film referenced in the movie are real. Nations Pride wasn’t an actual film, but as another commenter said, it served as an analog for another propaganda film. But the film discussed in the bar scene with the “skiing torch scene” can be found on UA-cam.
My take on the two men going through with a suicide mission at the end is that I think they had ample opportunity to leave, but chose not to out of a desire for revenge. Remember, Lt Raine said the Basterds were Jewish-American soldiers. It was more than personal for them. They decided to stay and fire into the crowd of Nazis themselves rather than let the fire do all the work.
Can you count how many times Simone said "Oh My God"?
It's not important - I love that :) :D
Love the Otis shirt very cool
He held up the wrong three fingers. That's how the Officer knew he wasn't really German.
@@brianwarren2042 I remember thinking "wrong fingers" when I first saw this scene in the cinema (I had learned about the gesture in German classes.) I was pleasantly surprised when they went with that being the thing to give them away.
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Incidentally, the first scene in this film-when Landa visits the French farmhouse-is now taught in film schools as an example of how to build suspense.
Not surprised, and glad to hear. Such a stand-out scene.
Well, it's a clear reference to an early scene in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly so we should be thankful for that one in the first place
@@klaust.2808 I ought to watch that one then, haven't seen that yet.
i’m in a film class and we watched this movie for it
The bar scene is honestly even better than the opening, but the opening is a masterclass in introducing the antagonist of a story
The story of Christoph Waltz is that Tarantino almost didn't make the movie because he couldn't find a Landa who could speak three languages fluently (how crazy is that?) and when he finally met Waltz...it was a bingo!
*four languages
french, german, english, and italian
@@deg1studios I guess you're right. I'd forgotten about that crazy Italian riff he went into near the end.
@@ralphficker167 it IS crazy, isn't it??
i barely understand how italians can pull that off, and here's an austrian doing it like its nothing.
@@deg1studios I thought to be fluent in Italian you had to wave your hands around more.
@@deg1studios in fairness, Waltz doesn't speak Italian, but he was able to do a VERY passable imitation of speaking Italian
As an European, I immediately caught that the number 3 was shown in a "weird" way and I knew that they are in trouble.
I'm European and I think I'd sign it like he did though 😶🌫
yeah, also here in italy nobody uses the 'american' 3 sign. btw as an italian I gotta say that Waltz' italian diction was just superb. Not always 100% perfect, but damn close.
@@mikelor84 yeah I think he’s only conversational in Italian, but he’s fluent in German and French, and also voices his own characters in Inglorious Basterds’ and Django Unchained’s French and German dubs
I think it’s more of an Anglo three, not American.
British are European.
I’m surprised Simone didn’t jump out of her seat and shout, “That’s Canadian National Treasure Mike Myers playing the General!”
When Pitt went 'Bonjourno' the whole cinema erupted with laughter :-)
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Born Jorno
The bit at the start where Hans landa holds her wrist long and uncomfortably is because he is checking the daughters pulse to see her heart rate to see if she is nervous or not!
I never realised that. Makes totally sense
If I was a Frenchman in occupied France during WWII and ANY German came into my house I would be nervous.
@@tedbaker3846 as well as to check her facial expression to see if it would reveal anything
I think he knew from the beginning they hide Jews. That's why he was there. He just played a bit and showed power. He didn't need to check pulses for that.
@@Moritz19081980 Landa clocks the eldest daughter looking at the floor twice before she leaves
Went to see this with a friend who grew up in Germany and when Fassbender’s character raised the wrong three fingers, he immediately went “oh shit, he screwed up!”
Yes, no one does it that way here in Germany. I actually find it very hard to form my hand that way. The thumb, index finger, and middle finger are used by everybody here. To a German, it's also obvious, that Fassbender speaks pretty good German but has a strange accent for real. So this part also ist authentic. Well made a scene.
@@Apfelkind4000 He's Irish with a German father so he grew up hearing and speaking some German but never fluent. So it makes sense that he would speak it with an odd accent more so than someone who learned the language at school or by living in Germany.
I'm learning German for the first time in my thirties so I'm sure I'll have an atrocious accent when I'm at the stage where I can actually have conversations with German speakers.
It’s weird but being a basketball fan and being a Mavericks fan I only knew the German 3 because of Dirk lol
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There is a scene in the film which shows the rifle of Aldo Raine and on is a carving which reads, “Inglourious Basterds”. According to the portal, the scene was a way to show that Aldo Raine could not spell and that was how he had spelled the two words. Hence drawing the connection to the title of the film.
Christoph Waltz is one of the BEST actors of all time, in my opinion. He can speak like 4 or more languages and can play the most sincere and heart warming to the most cynical and terrifying characters you've ever seen!
That's why he got a golden companion to his other golden boy called OSCAR, OSCAR and FREDL two good friends. OSCAR I for Inglourious Basterds, OSCAR II for Django Unchained.
"Pourquoi" is "whatfor" litterally word for word. But "why" or "why for" is often a better tranlation.
"why not" would be "pourquoi pas"
The story goes that during a script reading, Brad Pitt, read his "Grazie" line the way he did in the movie and everyone busted out laughing. It's kinda like the American trope of how bad we are at learning other languages which makes it so perfect since his character is from Tennessee.
One of, if not the, top moments of this film is hearing Brad Pitt, in his character accent, pronounce "Bon Journo" - classic!
That's what happens if give an American a line of Italien, be prepared to hear them raping french. Only thing that goes relativly accident free is Spanish. Because whole Hollywood has a Mexican cleaning lady.
Some of the few US movies where "the Germans" can also speak German properly. All the "germans" in this movie were also played by german / austrians actors.
What i love about the first scene is that Landa apparently doesn't like smoking, he just did that as a display of his superiority against the farmer in the situation
Iirc he doesn't smoke the rest of the film
And because he seems himself as a nazi Sherlock Holmes. In fact, that's the exact kind of pipe Holmes smokes in the books.
“Nation’s Pride” is likely supposed to be the fictional analog to Triumph of the Will by Riefenstahl, the famous propaganda film.
No. It's a fictional analog to Audie Murphy in "To Hell and Back".
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Diane Kruger's character is supposed to be more of the Leni Riefenstahl analogue.
@@cinemappendix1389 Diane Kruger’s character is analogue to “Lili Marleen”, a movie from RW Fassbinder about a singer who is turned into a spy for the Allies.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 yep I always thought Zoller was meant to be the nazi bizarro version of Audie Murphy, both war heroes-turned movie stars, both with baby faces one might not expect from war heroes
Germans and other Europeans learn to count starting with their thumb. That's why the German three is thumb, index- and middle finger. I believe in the English native speaking world you learn to start counting with your index finger. Your way is as unnatural to us as our way is to you, that's why it's so noticable. Even though Tarantino tried to make it pretty clear by keeping the German in the frame when he put up the three fingers, it seems like Americans were pretty surprised by the turn, while the German audience immediatly knew he fucked up.
Not just Americans. I've noticed a lot of people don't realize, but I thought it was obvious.
@@vamsikrishnag5179 Ah! The Morgan Freeman method. Classy.
I must be German then! Odd; I always thought I was English!
I was stationed in Germany for two years. Not one German friend or anybody at that told me about the simple finger/ hand difference in culture/ ??? I had to find out twenty plus years later on a film.
I'm British and honestly thought this part was a bit far fetched considering I spent 2 years working in Germany and found that people just indicated numbers on fingers in whatever manner was comfortable for them in either country
Maybe it was more prevalent during the war days but I have a feeling it was just a piece of ambiguous information QT picked up along the way that might work well in a movie as a subconscious social gesture that would give some away without them realising but it's definitely a little flimsy
This and Django Unchained are two of Christoph Waltz best movies!
True, although the James Bond spectre wasn’t bad either.
He's better in this film imo
Just the intro of this movie and it's already a Masterpiece.
As Italian, I can say the italian part is great. Except for two little mistakes ("difficile DA trovare" , not "difficile DI trovare") Christoph Waltz italian accent is so damn good, and he speaks four languages in this movie: English, German, Franch and Italian.
Oh, there are so many hidden things and class touches in this movie... very difficult to find.I could bingewatch all the Tarantino movies without getting tired.
Too bad the rest of movie is mediocre schlock, the intro is cool but hardly meaningful, the characters are two dimensional and have no depth at that point. Compare that to the opening scene in something like inception, goodfellas, requiem for a dream or breaking bad, way more meaningful have way more allusion to character depth.
The thing about Landa is that everything he does has a purpose. every touch, every word, every reaction. he’s a pro at gauging people. he’s extremely intelligent
Yeah stop overhyping him.
@@lampad4549 k lol
Right up until that one misreading he made at the end.
@@lampad4549 Yeah, your Indian-Tennessee Bastardo got him in the end. By breaking some rules and committing a war-crime (harming a POW) but who cares, good has won and Hans sits in his house on Nantucket and picks his nose.
In the script, Brad Pitt’s character actually spoke convincing Italian, but when he added his accent to it, Tarantino realized it worked so much better for a very specific reason; the plan is fucking dumb and the terrible accent sheds light on just HOW dumb the plan has become. It shouldn’t work, the ruse is so transparent anyone could see it, it only works because Landa lets it work.
Ironic how the first Jewish person you see in the movie is Hitler's perfect Aryan. Blonde hair, blue eyes.
Except for the whole Jewish thing lol which is kind of a deal breaker
Wasn't there a height requirement as well?'
@@The3nd187 Idk, maybe not a "perfect Aryan" but she has the two immediate and most known features.
There was a movie called Inglorious Bastards, and Tarantino wanted to change it up for his movie.
Aldo's throat wasn't slit -- he was hanged, and the rope marks are prominent on his neck.
Yeah he wanted to not get sued. Since The Inglorious Bastards is a Dirty Dozen knock-off, this is his Dirty Dozen knock-off knock-off. Like how he has a "Django" movie and he has a "Once Upon a Time..." movie to go with the once upon a times in China, America, The West, Nazi-Occupied France, etc...
Col. Hans Landa holds the ladies wrist because he is checking her pulse while watching her face lies.
Also. Adieu means goodbye where aur avoir means so long. When he let's Shoshanna go he basically says, I will see you again.
"Col."?
You mean Standartenführer Hans Landa.
Inglourious Basterds reactions never fail to make me smile. Thank you!
great you caught the sherlock holmes moment with the pipe!
hans landa is a ss officer, but above of all he is a detective (like holmes)
I love the joke in the Community TV series where Shirley says she watched Pulp Fiction but because it was on a flight and heavily altered she just thought it was "a 30 minute film about a group of friends who love cheeseburgers, dancing, and the bible".
Hand gestures are different in different cultures. At exactly 11:36 the English man tips off the German officer that he's out of place by giving the wrong hand signal for the number 3. He should have folded his pinky and ring fingers into the palm and extend the thumb, index, and middle fingers
If I’m not mistaken, this was Christoph Waltz’s first American movie. He only did German/European films before
It was also his first movie to play a Nazi.
That’s actually a rope burn around Aldo’s neck. The implication is he tried to stop a lynching and got strung up himself.
Simone is so expressive XD
You both seem really friendly, and you do a very good job.
I'll never forget how loud everyone in the audience laughed when Hans pulled out his enormous pipe. It was like a "mine's bigger than yours" vibe that slayed. Being in Philadelphia, I also remember the audience's reaction in Hateful 8 when Tim Roth announced "PHILADELPHIA!" as to what state the bar would represent in Minnie's Haberdashery.
PS: As Canadians, I noticed the funniest things from you guys. Your interpretation of old American slang is amusing (sammich, whoop-for).
Also the reason the rest of the restaurant is silent because of the high command being present. Once they heard serious discussion and some shouting (playful as it was) they shut up out of fear.
Everyone talks about Christoph Waltz and the scene with the farmer, but August Diehl in the bar scene is equally superb in terms of being menacing IMO.
Two sequences in this film really left an impact on me. The scene where Shoshana is preparing herself, while David Bowie plays in the background. The other, is when Shoshana's face is being projected on the smoke, and she's laughing maniacally....that gave me chills!!
One of the easiest ways to reveal a suspected spy who sounds perfect is to force them into a situation where they will perform an action that is natural to them but because it isn't natural to the one suspecting them of not being what they seem, it's a dead give away. In this case there are gestures that are different that we all do unthinkingly when our guard is down because we learned them by the concept of cultural rote. That's why the German officer played the game, why the alcohol. When your inhibitions are lowered and you are feeling at ease it is much harder to maintain a facade or acted responses. If you want to see who someone truly is, get them drunk. Everything else will fall away. If they refuse to drink, well that tells you something as well.
i jist LOVE how you noticed the wrist holding from landa at the first scene....you see... he's a detective and he was checking HER PULSE...
Great reaction to Quentin’s masterpiece. Christoph Waltz is perfect in this movie!
18:50 - it's not that difficult to hide that swastika. A decent plastic surgeon could do it. Or you just add couple more scar lines and change the shape. Or burn it. It'll hurt, but it will heal.
Todays plastic surgical procedures could maybe, 1940's .. not so much. Also, you'd need at least 2nd degree, probably up to 3rd degree burns to hide a prominent scar because scar-tissue reacts and heals differently, under a light burn the changed healing of a scar will still get through. Problem is the forehead has not much 'meat' to it, 3rd degree burns on a forehead can be rather serious and possibly won't only hurt but risk losing your skin down to the bone.
@@mrnice81 But you can damage it enough so that you obviously have something on your forehead, but not swastika. Just "add" extra lines with a knife.
It's a Hollywood trope that Villians drink milk in a glass. You see it from A Clockwork Orange to No Country for Old Men, even the show The Boys.
It's spelled that way because Tarantino is a horrible speller. IB steals its title from a '70s WWII flick that Tarantino used to use as a litmus test for new movie friends bc it was so obscure (if you knew what it was, you passed the test.) He hand writes his scripts and had spelled the title that way on page 1. Somebody pointed out it was spelled wrong, so he decided to keep it that way since it was "his" way of spelling it, and therefore "his" movie.
also, the director of the original, Enzo Castellari, had a cameo in the movie as the guy yelling "fire" in the movie theater.
By far my favorite Tarantino movie. But the first scene with Landa alone is so brilliant. And this introduced me and I think most Americans to Waltz. It's like, "Who is this guy???"
The hands suffocating diane Kruger/bridget von hammersmark actually belong to quentin tarantino. He wanted to make the scene authentic, so He took control over it and actually suffocating the actress to some extend.
The usher calling everybody to take their seats actually is a famous german drummer of the Band "Die Ärzte" who is a big tarantino Fan and also an actor.
Yes and Diane Kruger said that even though she doesn't have ill will towards him, she will never work with Tarantino ever again.
Tarantino also spat in uma thurmans face and caused her to crash a car and injure her back in kill bill and the death of a stuntwoman
Opening scene is maybe the greatest scene ever
I know its regular study in cinematic schools
0:02 they were still working out the kinks
The Bear Jew is Eli Roth. He’s a director. He acts in Tarantino’s Death Proof too.
Back in the 60s, I lived in France, and I was told about the European way of motioning "3", verses the English way, so it's authentic.
I was taught the worst way to count on my fingers as a child.
1: index
2: index-middle
3: middle-ring-pinkie
4: index-middle-ring-pinkie
Now, I just do it the German way.
The German way is the way in most European country, actually. We also count "three" like this in France
I'm sure someone has said this in the comments, but, at the very beginning, when Landa grabs the wrist of the French girl, in fact he's taking her pulse to know if she's pretending that she's not absolutely terrified.
The pipe is called a calabash gourd and yes sometimes Sherlock Holmes is portrayed with one.
06:05 Actually it looks more like a scar from being hung and surviving
Apparently, the "Bear Jew" was going to be played by Adam Sandler, but either there were scheduling conflicts or Tarantino changed his mind (I honestly..........could see him doing that role; he IS good at playing very angry/violent outbursts like his roles in HAPPY GILMORE and PUNCH DRUNK LOVE)
That offbeat drum roll when Landa appears behind Shoshana in the restaurant. You just know exactly how she feels.
There are two theories about the spelling: if you read any of QT´s hand-written scripts... he ain´t the best speller in the world. However, if I remember correctly, the spelling is, according to him, because that´s how he imagines French or German people pronouncing it.
Georges face throughout most of this movie, priceless.
Landa is a great villain because he is the banality of evil turned up to 11. He doesn't see himself as a Nazi zealot. He thinks himself a master craftsman practicing and improving his trade. And he's willing to jump ship and swear loyalty to whoever he thinks will allow him to continue to survive and maybe even practice his craft. This makes him the perfect antagonist to the heros of the movie who are all ideologically motivated.
incredible acting performance by Christoph Waltz.
I so wanna see Simone react to the two Kill Bill movies! 🙏
I'm still fairly new to the channel, but even can see Simone is just way too wholesome for a movie like this. 🤣🤣
People always notice the misspelling of bastards but usually miss inglorious has an extra u.
Tarantino likes to use Ennio Morricone soundtracks for his movies. Morricone was know for making amazing Western soundtracks. Morricone also worked closely with Sergio Leone who created the best Western Trilogy and Western movie of all time. Tarantino idolized Leone and how he was able to created such chilling atmosphere. Leone would write the script and music first then base his shots around the music. He also played music on set to help the actors with their facial expressions during his close ups.
Watched this with my wife in late 2015. My MIL was from East Germany, and as a result, my wife and SIL were fluent in the language and customs.
Unsurprisingly, my wife clued in on Fassbender's accent and "wrong" three, which was super cool to me.
But, I'll never forget just how fast and hard our hearts sank into our stomach out of sheer dread when Landa flawlessly switched to Italian on a dime...
Nations Pride is an actual short film that Eli Roth made for the movie.
One of the best things I found out about this movie is the line Brad says to camera about this being his masterpiece. He was talking directly to Quentin about his character here. I agree he did amazing in this movie.
No, he didn't
27:48 Haywood Jablomie. Nice!
fantastic movie + reaction! one of Tarantino's best!
I think the title is spelled that way as a homage and to distinguish this film from another film, 'The Inglorious Bastards' (1978).
This is how that film's title was spelled on a handwritten cassette in the video store Tarantino worked at. It gives the film a distinctive googlable title. Likewise, Reservoir Dogs was named after a phrase coined when Tarantino asked a coworker to watch "Au Revoir Les Enfants", and the response was "I'm not watching no Reservoir Dogs."
For anyone wondering, it's spelled "basterds" because Tarantino said so. Not joking. He said something along the lines of "that's how you say it, so I put it that way because I wanted to". Just straight up "because".
Great movie, I love Tarantino and actually got him to sign my copy of 'Pulp Fiction' the screenplay. I also truly believe Simone is the most adorable woman on the planet! ❤ You guy's are great!
14:30 No, I think what happened was Landa could immediately gauge he wasn't really Italian because his accent was way off. He was the third "best".
@@theascendunt9960 that's what she said
I’ll echo many comment here: you guys are my favourite reaction duo (I like Blind Wave too, but that’s a different energy). I’m so happy to have discovered you.
That’s a great movie! This comment was written while I was still watching your intro, but I can’t wait to see you watch the movie.
My theory about basterds/bastards is to make the marketing campaign easier. Some parts of the US are weird about certain words.
Guys, you should whatch all Tarantino's movies, from Reservoir Dogs to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood...you're gonna have a really great time.
Your faces at the bar shootout scene were amazing XD
7:40 is it over yet??
13:43 he laughed so hard bc he was waiting for a good excuse for the leg and instead the excuse was an old German stereotype
You guys should watch platoon great movie but it's hard to watch at points. Early charlie sheen but some of his best work
tarintino lived in knoxville, tennessee for a short while but maynardville tennessee is a real place just north of there. still has moonshiners running to this day. pitt nailed the accent, and he sure as hell nailed that union county spirit.
(also, those are rope scars. he allegedly survived a lynching)
The scar around Aldo's neck is actually from surviving a hanging.
It looks like his throat was cut to me.
@@timdottillis0420 - Tarantino has before teased that Raine survived an attempted lynching by the KKK.
The Heywood Chewblowme shout-out at the end was a hidden gem!
Pourquois means why. He said "pourquois pas" what means 'why not'.
As Tarantino himself said: this is his masterpiece
Crazy thing is that for Kruger's strangulation scene, she was actually strangled
I still tear up when Marcel says, "Oui, Shosanna."
Christoph Waltz is incredible.
I don't know for sure, but that opening Fur Elise almost sounded like it was in a minor key, which is why it did sound slightly off and ominous.
Not seeing any comments about this. In the scene where Hans Landa strangles Bridget Von Hammersmark, its Quentin Tarantino in a nazi outfit ACTUALLY strangling Diane Krueger until she passes out.
Also in the giant fire scene, they really set that shit on fire, and some of the actors almost died.
And for the swastika carving scene? They actually carved a swastika into Christolph Waltz's forehead.....
That last one is the joke, but the first two are true.
this is my favorite Tarantino's movie. By a bit, because most of his films are awesome.
Basterd is original olde ye historic English spelling before a lot of words become slightly modernised spelling wise as speech changes to homogenise between countries internationally over time. I believe!!
4:38 Such lists were not only made about Jews (although they were by far the largest group to be persecuted!) but also from other minorities like disabled people or queer people. In fact, the Nazis got lists of patients from the Institute of Sexual Sciences that specialized in counsel for gay and lesbians and the first gender affirming surgeries in the world. After the Nazis took power, they raided the institute, burned the books of its library (the famous pictures of the first Nazi book burning contain the institute's books among others - something that is always left unstated in documentaries btw) and obtained the lists of the patients.
"Dammit, Hirschberg..."
Recently discovered your channel. I’ve really enjoyed your reactions.
6:00. It's a rope burn. He survives a lynching in his backstory. You can survive some major vascular neck wounds, this is neigh impossible with instant major surgery within moments (I'm talking like this kid of his bicycle that got smoked by a car a few blocks away from me a few days ago while we were on vacation. Dead on arrival 100% of the time, if a hospital was not literally the two blocks away he happened to be next to) with modern surgery/surgeons. Back then, and back when this happened to him as a young man? No chance.
A part of the formation of the Hell's Angeles was in response to boredom of everyday life for some men returning from World War 2. They couldn't adjust so the outlaw life made sense.
How in gods name :D I just thought "Huh let's see if theres some people having watched Inglorious Basterds", and boom, uploaded a couple hours ago, and its a great video :)
Tarantino out here like "GUYS I FOUND THIS AWESOME AUSTRIAN ACTOR!"
Did you recognize that the War hero is played by the same guy who plays Baron Zemo in Marvel?
In case nobody has mentioned it: the name is a copyright/originality/reference thing: there is another film called THE Inglourious BastArds that actually has some plot resemblance as well. Tarantino has talked about this very openly.
Christoph Waltz is an Amazing Actor. Definitely have to React to Django Unchained. He's Amazing in that Movie.
The British accented officer who talks of the Reich's movie 'Nation's Pride' is Autsin Powers!
Almost every film referenced in the movie are real. Nations Pride wasn’t an actual film, but as another commenter said, it served as an analog for another propaganda film. But the film discussed in the bar scene with the “skiing torch scene” can be found on UA-cam.
"This movie is...weird"
It's Quentin Tarantino, what else would it be?
My take on the two men going through with a suicide mission at the end is that I think they had ample opportunity to leave, but chose not to out of a desire for revenge. Remember, Lt Raine said the Basterds were Jewish-American soldiers. It was more than personal for them. They decided to stay and fire into the crowd of Nazis themselves rather than let the fire do all the work.