I noticed that as well! But the scene is so well shot! Fassbender enter and does not know how to respond to seeing the PM and before any salutations are made he interrupted by Mike Myres.
@@AlKhebir11 Yes, PM is technically a civilian, but he's also de facto Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces, while de jure C-i-C is the king but it's ceremonial. I don't know how it works in UK, but in most of countries' armies, you're supposed to salute C-i-C as he is the top of the chain of command.
And here's a line to say to your wife for if she ventures an opinion whilst you're having a conversation with a friend, 'you dear sweet little thing, don't you have some cakes to go and make'. ^^
@@jacobb5625 I imagine not sincerity, apologies are often better the more eloquently put they are and by the kind of voice speaking them. A truly genuine apology worded poorly will be viewed as half assed. Perhaps though a 60/40. I think however an apology becomes meaningless no matter what, depending on the caliber of the affront of which you need to make an apology for.
😁 There was this scene from a popular thriller back in the 90s. It was supposed to be a serious plot about some female psycho-sexual Murderer. Fatal instinct or hand that rocks the cradle maybe. It's supposed to be dramatic, but then the camera pans over to the homicide detective and it's Al Bundy. People in the theater were cracking up. Some actors cant escape their early casting. 😂
We actually still speak like this in the officers' mess. It's not an aspiration to anything, it's just genuinely a result of most officers coming from a certain background.
I mean, he didn't, but it's not surprising you think he did! At 4:05, we go from a close shot of Meyers picking up the pointer and pointing it at something very far off-screen, to a close-up of the pointer on Nadine, the pointer flicking away before a medium shot of Meyers holding the pointer up more unsteadily, in the vicinity of Paris. Odds are Tarantino told him to just point at Paris or thereabouts (since that's easy to find on a map), then filmed the close-up insert shot separately, using the flick away to justify why the pointer might not be in the correct location afterwards. Magic of good editing, kudos to Tarantino and Sally Menke (the editor of the film, who sadly died in 2010, she'd been the editor for all of Tarantino's films up to this point) for making the sequence work so damn seamlessly.
@@jellslixcy6168 There's a difference between knowing where it is and being able to stick pointer at it without hesitation, especially as it's in a myriad of other names of the exact same design.
You could tell Quentin Tarantino was having the time of his life with this scene, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more British scene in a Tarantino movie, the colours in the room, the accent the movements it’s all so extreme and almost satirical.
I've always suspected Tarantino of trying to make these guys as smoothly British as he possibly could, given that they phrase absolutely nothing in the way a normal person would and they also pepper this conversation with their little poetic idioms. Even watching this as a kid I assumed it had to be intentional.
The first time I watched this scene, I didn't even recognize Mike Myers. It wasn't until I saw his name in the credits that I realized where he'd been. What a phenomenal actor
The hilarious part about this is that none of the three actors are English. Fassbender is Irish, Myers is Canadian, and Rod Taylor is Australian. I'm pretty sure this was intentional.
There's a few Mike Myers hallmarks in here. He has a way of holding or pushing his breath that makes lines funny for some reason, and does these weird whisper-lines occasionally. I'd say he just did a bunch of takes and the Dr Evil face movements just came out at least once.
If Stiglitz was, in fact, going to be one of Von Hammersmark’s escorts to the theater, wouldn’t their cover be blown instantly, due to Stiglitz’s notorious reputation throughout Germany?
@@daxmiller35 seemed to not fool a major in the tavern. But I think they were going with “everyone in the German army has heard of Hugo Stieglitz” but not everyone has seen his face kind of thing.
@@OneofInfinity. yea and Tarantino casting the likes of Mike Meyers for the role of a WW2 general is totally normal LMAO. don’t act like you have superior taste than everyone else you hipster
@@patmalloy3569 But he’s always only been in comedies LOL. Apart from terminal and bohemian rhapsody, which both came out almost 10 years after Tarantino first casted him. You could argue that Tarantino’s movies are essentially all comedies in disguise though.
Best part is that Mike Myers mother worked in the RAF war-room during the battle of Britain and had an intelligence pass that she had sworn to never give detail about... So he's actually one of the most appropriately casted people in this movie given he's playing a British intelligence officer - both here and in Austin Powers lmao.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how the way overqualified (and tragically underrated) Rod Taylor _ABSOLUTELY F*CKING NAILS IT_ as Winston Churchill in this scene? The way he's just silently analyzing Fassbender's character in the background the whole time, studying him methodically to see if he's actually cut out for this mission, like, it's so subtle but accurate to his strategic genius.
Well let’s look at the choices he made. Big dramatic intros for Aldo, Hitler, Stieglitz. Huge, gut wrenching scene introducing Hans and Shoshana. This scene itself is that dramatic intro for Hicox. Churchill, in stark contrast to all these other people, is the guy who needs no introduction. There’s some great subtext from the set but the significance of this character is fueled by sheer unspoken gravitas. You’re expected to know who he is and, also unlike other characters, given no cues for who he is morally. Not only do you have to cast someone who sells this in just a few rather dry lines, but someone who can sell Churchill to Brits. If all of this doesn’t hit just right on screen, you’ve just got an old guy in the background of the Hicox scene. A featured extra. Instead, you either know exactly who it is, or you know that you’re supposed to. Bonus geeky ramblings- it’s a similar mechanism to the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. He made a portable box with a lightbulb inside into something of urgent, otherworldly value. Mostly by saying as little about it as possible. In this scene in Basterds, there’s a subtext of counter-intelligence. Hicox has been thoroughly vetted but we see this last point where they still don’t fully trust him. He could inform the Germans, or even make a move on Churchill. Hence he isn’t told who Churchill is right away and Myers’s character wrestles Hicox’s attention away at first. They possibly want to see Hicox’s reaction, in case he blows it similar to how he blows it in France. You don’t see much of this conspicuously huge room they’re all in, possibly because there are people there to take him down if he goes for Churchill. They sell Myers as the chief in that room and a German spy might take that bait where a Brit never would. It’s not an accident that Hicox pours both drinks from a bar positioned next to his entrance. It’s speculation and maybe there’s some other historical significance to these details but all together it gives the sense that this person is well looked after, well protected, even relatively out in the open. Lots to unpack here.
Tarantino is a master at dialogue. The opening scene and the pub scene especially but all of his movies, the dialogue is just so natural and flows so well with the story he weaves.
Yes provided that your not one of the colonized countries then the British will be so nice to u. And also what part of Britain u know what that’s just a stupid stereotype
Not a single Englishman to be found in the scene either. Mike Myers, Canadian, Rod Taylor, Australian and of course the brilliant Michael Fassbender, German.
Well Mike Myers is the weakest of the three by far, and slips a little into camp for no apparent reason. Fassbender is simply mint though. Spot on for the era.
The David O. Selznick line was likely something that Hicox considered a throwaway, but it was that little gem of extra knowledge, going beyond simply answering the question asked, that confirmed to Churchill that he was the man for the job. Absolutely not a word out of place in the script.
X Men and the Alien films sold me on how great he is, he’s got this subtle swagger to him and really does like command the screen and I’m always curious what his performance will be like
It is very impressively made, however I will note QT mentioned he was parodying exposition scenes with this one That it still comes out so brilliantly is impressive regardless
Love how for 90% of the scene, Churchill is just sitting there, smoking a cigar and being fat. EDIT: I think this is a perfectly obvious satirical joke, but as most of the replies show for themselves, it was once again taken as an invitation for political opinions. If i was aiming for belittling, trashtalking or making a political statement, i definitely wouldn't have made a stupid, 2 line comment about Churchill "being fat". Especially not in a clip from an absurd and exaggerated Tarantino film, of all places.
@@ericsbuds Judging from the way the lowly lieutenant is surprised to see the man, then the way he orders around the general, I'm guessing he's supposed to be Churchill.
This is so good, you can tell it takes a lot of inspiration from all those spy movies that were coming out during the 60s and 70s. As usual Tarantino doesn't shy away from insane dialogues that are closer to a theatrical play than a movie script, you could analyze a lot from his work but this scene says so much about how his style oozes into everything even while making a tribute to other movies (in this case probably Agent 007 or generally the "elegant spy" archetype itself).
This scene is so superb. It’s funny how Mike Myer’s character can pick a small city on a map with literally thousands of other cities on it a foot over his head with a pointer. 😆
Being British... I always start off by apologizing...John Cleese once famously said that the "English should have an"most frightfully sorry day "! Make it a public holiday, what what !
The proper British reply to that is...."Right, I'm fully aware of the fact that you are quite smitten with sorrow and remorse. However, old boy, that does me no good to ponder the inexplicable degree to which you entertain such foolish notions, so be a good chap now and sincerely apologize."
@@fionahiggins6682 . . .speaking as an Anglophile we find it amusing that the only people more sorry than Catholics who haven't done anything particularly wrong are the English. Cheers.
I would happily see a movie expanded around these three characters in that room. Love the scene. Everything about it. the Carpet under Churchill. The sumptuous colours the Globe Drinks cabinet. the Map. 11/10 this scene.
Fun fact: NONE of the actors here are British. Mike Myers is Canadian. Michael Fassbender is half Irish / half German, born in Germany and raised in Ireland. Rod Taylor is Australian. I have NO doubt that Tarantino planned the scene this way. It's a film about WW2 films, so this scene where they discuss German cinema is about American portrayals of the British in American cinema.
Could be. Churchill's instruction to "brief him" might mean that he had the final say on using Hicox in the operation. Hicox is clearly a little flummoxed - who is his immediate superior? Churchill in the distance, or the general? He goes with the general.
@@stevekaczynski3793 the reason he did as the General told him was because Churchill wasn't formally introduced to Hicox therefore he doesn't acknowledge Churchil until he speaks to Hicox directly which means for official purposes Churchill wasn't present in this meeting.
I think it's more about the classy thing to do. Churchill is out if the way, so yes unofficially there. But the lieutenant walked in and is taken back by churchill. The general, clears his throat to get the lieutenants attention. Then they talk and the lieutenant doesn't speak to churchill until directly spoken too. He seems to understand that churchill just wants to observe him. He even glances back over his shoulder early on to see if that's really churchill or just look at him cuz he's still a bit taken back by him Awesome scene
Defo a test I reckon... this secret mission would potentially have you bumping into some of the top German commanders... if you looked nervous just having Churchill watch you unexpectedly then you’d be shitting it potentially speaking to Goebells, Himmler etc.
You know, as the years have gone by and I’ve rewatched countless of hundreds of my favorite movie scenes, even though “Inglorious Basterds” is not my favorite movie, this scene is more and more becoming my favorite.
@@adrenalinpump7601 C'mon dude lets not be 'that guy'. Being racist is so pointless now and all this has shown me is that it doesn't matter where you come from we're all susceptible to corruption from power and we all manifest it in different ways. The giant leap we've taken technologically over the last 70 years has been quite frankly astounding and brought on a whole load of information that overloads us daily and society is constantly shifting to new things. I dont care if theres gay pride, a few of my best mates are gay from both sexes and its insightful. If your seeing child drag queens I pray for the parents. And people have been abusing drugs and alcohol for years are the people that do will continue to do so until it kills them. I like to think of it as natural selection. I dont think the government care about unemployment as much as they let as it rises most years but then again I think its adversely affected by my earlier tech point. More and more jobs can be given to a machine or computer program. Yeah Hitler was a massive driving force for the building up of his country and a powerful orator he was still a massive bellend under all that hot air and delusional, total out of touch grandeur that purged people and killed the others who didn't agree with him.
@@adrenalinpump7601 When the crimes are mostly committed by state forces they are not officially regarded as crimes. One historian of the Third Reich wrote that it both intimidated and absorbed criminal energies. For example, if you were inclined to arson, you could burn down a synagogue as in Kristallnacht and not even go to jail for it.
"Quite well, actually. Since Goebbels has taken over, film attendance has steadily risen in Germany over the last eight years. But Louis B.Mayer wouldn't be Goebbels proper opposite number. I believe Goebbels see's himself closer to David O.Selznick."
@@Murtagh653 Tatum is good when given the right direction, jump Street is a good example, but most of the time he isn't and so is left floundering about being a pretty face.
Quentin Tarantino really knows how to pull you in to a scene that would other wise be boring and unintelligent by many other directors. I love his movies but Bastards by far is my favorite. There isn’t a single scene that he did not detail.
"What shall we drink to, sir?" "Well, um...down with Hitler." "All the way down, sir." One of the best lines in the movie. Fassbender is great in this scene.
Michael Meyers is tragically underrated, which is really unfortunate, he's type cast in most people's mind as a bumbling comedy actor, when in fact he's capable of so much more.
I don't know. Its very hard not to burst out laughing when he is speaking. I noticed some direct close ups are avoided, probably to avoid the austin powers effect.
The characterization of the British Empire as huge, impressively built and largely hollow, and having the globe treated as a resource for the comfort of the Brits is a great analogy not just to the British empire, but also how Americans viewed British involvement through film is a really understated and great element to this film.
@@kevinfrodahl5102 Damn autocorrect. I mean, it's technically not wrong, you WILL find gloves here, but yes I meant to type globes. My phone just decided I actually wanted to write gloves instead and changed it.
My favorite scene in the movie - not just for Rod Taylor coming out of retirement to play Winston Churchill, but for Mike Myers' enthusiasm for his role. He called General Ed Fenech a "dream come true," having always wanted to play a British WWII general who explains a mission. He also felt that this role respectfully emulated the military careers of his mother (British Air Force) and father (British Army). I say "bravo" to any actor who simply and completely embraces a part no matter how small.
Agree on all counts. Fassbender nails it too, he just oozes classic English charm. Taylor was as perfect as anyone you could find to be Churchill. Myer's is the weakest link and even he does great just on account of how much he obviously loved doing this.
Brent D Amen, this, the basement bar scene and the beginning farm scene are by and far the best composed scenes QT has ever put together, hands down. It amazes me down incredible this film is sometimes.
+ffjsb PFFFT... Nicolas Cage is awesome WTF are you talking about? And no offense but this is basically the ONLY movie Mike Myers has ever been in that was decent. Other than this, what has he ever done? Wayne's World? Austin Powers? SNL? C'mon, LMAO! On the other hand, Nic Cage has done Leaving Las Vegas, Con Air, Matchstick Men, Lord of War, Adaptation, Bad Lieutenant, City of Angels, National Treasure, The Weatherman, Joe... all great movies. Yes he's been in his fair share of crap too like The Wickerman remake and Left Behind but he's still a great actor and he's been in many more good movies than bad. Comparing him to Myers as an actor is laughable!
+That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas Nick Cage is basically the same character in each one too. Nobody ever said, "I didn't realize that was Nicolas Cage!!".... I certainly wouldn't call him "awesome", adequate, MAYBE.
I loved thr etiquette of that situation. At that time, as Prime Minister, Churchill was a civilian with no rank in the military (the Commander in Chief in Britain is the King, the PM is just his "chief adviser"). But the general was, of course, a motherfucking *general*. So the lieutenant (pronounced "leftennant" in Britain) quite properly ignored the "mere civilian" and addressed the general - all the while subtly glancing over to the piano with his face screaming, "Wait, is that fucking Winston Churchill?!?" Brilliant.
Churchill was a military man before he became a politician, and was still a colonel at the time (among many honorary titles). But regardless, PM do not sit quietly and be ignored like that. Only Theresa May would!
I am so glad Rod Taylor did this one last film. I wish he would have done some more scenes or lines but was great to see him one more time before he passed away
Excepting when they use the metric system to explain how far outside of Paris he’ll be dropped when I’ve never met anyone that would do so now let alone then.
@@kymmoore853 Good thing you weren't a character in the movie then because you would have killed them before the mission started and it would have been a much shorter movie
@@JSB103 I know, but they’re speaking in the war room in Britain, they’d use miles to explain how far outside of X they’d be dropped because, during WW2 in Britain and France most road signs were covered over so that potential enemy wouldn’t know where they were.
@@kymmoore853, that was a 'mission brief.' They were giving him 'mission data,' that is data as he would 'need to know it' in order to make his way and fufill his mission were he was to be deployed in FRANCE. Ever been in a mission brief?
Hicox's uniform has the following characteristics: He wears the Commando Green Beret, the Combined Operations badge on his left arm, 'No.4 COMMANDO' flashes on his shoulders and an Intelligence Corps cap badge on his beret. This means he was an Intelligence Corps officer who passed the Commando Course at Achnacarry and was serving at the time as part of 'No.4 COMMANDO' (A Commando means both a commando trained individual and a battalion sized formation of commando troops). His 2 medals are the Military Cross (an award for bravery in the face of the enemy) and the Africa Star. This means he was in Africa 1942-43, during which time his conduct earned him the MC.
Typecast. When you hear a name like Mike Myers you assume he's supposed to do something funny, however when you hear him along side the name Quentin Tarantino you know whatever role he's gonna be in is gonna be perfect for him no matter the genre. In this case, Myers was channeling his father in this role, whom was a member of the royal engineers in the English Army in WWII.
Austin Surridge He wrote that because he wanted the Leafs to win the Stanley Cup. He didn't care how it would happen. He's an Ontario man first and an actor second.
Austin Surridge Believe it or not he spent years writing that piece of shit movie. Being a perfectionist doesn't mean your talented, it just means you need to have every little detail going your way. There is a New York Times article on why he'd rather disappear from the spotlight for years instead of being in movies he didn't write. "'Mike is the author of what he does,” said Jay Roach, whom Mr. Myers selected to direct all of the “Austin Powers” films. “Like a novelist writing a novel over a few years, he thinks up all the details and all the layers necessary to make things work."'
Now I see Mike Myers in this scene. I didn't know that he was acting in Inglorious Basterds. He is Canadian and played an awesome part in Austin Powers.
Another fun fact: Ireland was neutral during WW2. The very few Irish who joined the Allies were treated terribly when they returned home (not out of sympathy for Germany so much as antipathy towards Britain). So Fassbender, from one neutral country and one on the wrong side, has made a career of playing characters who fight Nazis. (Obviously this is no reflection on him, just a fun twist to his career.) All three performances (even the late Rod Taylor, who only got a tiny role) were first rate. Amazing when you see A-listers who don't ham it up trying to play themselves but instead ply their craft as actors. Too many in Hollywood just play themselves over and over. My first time watching this, I didn't recognize Fassbender from BoB and didn't even recognize Mike Myers despite it being obvious now that I know.
The devil really is in the detail. Fassbenders uniform really is that of a ‘field’ officer of his rank at the time, and the shoulder flash is perfect. No.4 Commando, Combined operations. A man of his apparent skill set, multilingual etc. would be asked for such duty. The cap badge is difficult to see, but ‘dull’ means he’s a commando anyway, against the beret, it could be that of a Royal Marine, seconded to Army duty. But his pips are army. It’s brilliantly put together.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I really appreciate it. I love reading stuff like that. Sets me off on a rabbit hole and I just love learning. Cheers mate 👍
No.4 Commando was an Army unit and like all Army Commando units, was disbanded after WW2. Only RM Commando units remain afterwards. All commando personnel wore the green beret and special operations flashes, although they kept their parent cap badges. As mentioned already, this particular subaltern was badged with the Intelligence Corps and the badge has been blackened in typical commando style. The only glaring misstep ion this scene is Mike Myers' character saluting without a head-dress on. If you're hatless, the correct methodd of paying/returning a compliment is to stand to attention.
@Mario Lisa It means "The King's English". Usually called the Queen's English these days for obvious reasons lol, it's another name for Received Pronunciation, which is seen by some as the standard British English accent. Think in the scene he was basically saying he wants to die speaking English, not German.
@@thomasvleminckx or he can be from one of the commonwealth countries , which they left in a hurry like Afghanistan , after WW2 Brits were cash strapped so they just left many lands ravaged by them to their posh London homes to sip tea and eat biscuits .. anyways that is thing of past now the same britain is filled with the people they used to colonise ..
@@thomasvleminckx Oh stfu you imbecile! The millions who starved to death in South Asia know. It seems the English had their own little Holocaust party here while fighting the "evil" Nazis.
“It says here that you speak German fluently.”
“Well, aside from hand gestures...”
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😂
Oooooh boy...
@@kobrien4121 II / , not III
I believe they call that “foreshadowing”
The amount of Britishness exhibited by an Australian, a Canadian and an Irish actor in this scene is glorious 😂
Myers accent is terrible. Did better with Austin Powers.
Inglorious 😂
Tbf they all share the same DNA
Would love for you to say that to Irish person and aboriginal person
@@captainquagmire859
Inglorious, even. 😅
I love the way Fassbender’s character takes one look at Churchill and then just goes with the flow, like, “I guess we’re ignoring the PM.”
I noticed that as well! But the scene is so well shot! Fassbender enter and does not know how to respond to seeing the PM and before any salutations are made he interrupted by Mike Myres.
Just the way Churchill would have preferred it, I think. It adds a layer of plausible deniability in case Operation Kino goes sideways.
He's not ignoring, his ranking officer is Meyers. The PM is a civilian.
@@AlKhebir11 Yes, PM is technically a civilian, but he's also de facto Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces, while de jure C-i-C is the king but it's ceremonial. I don't know how it works in UK, but in most of countries' armies, you're supposed to salute C-i-C as he is the top of the chain of command.
@@somedud1140 Wrong, in the UK that would be the monarch, they control the armed forces. Plus, churchill was a wanker.
"Make it yourself like a good CHAP, will you?"
Im gonna use this line the next time my kids want anything.
And here's a line to say to your wife for if she ventures an opinion whilst you're having a conversation with a friend, 'you dear sweet little thing, don't you have some cakes to go and make'. ^^
Conceptualization
😂😂😂
Very good sir. carry on.
@@metalmusic4958You consider your friend to be more important than your own wife? Can’t get anymore homoerotic than that, old chap
This sound like Tarantino’s fan-Fiction “we are sending you on a special mission because you know a lot about movies”
This is Tarantino's most meta work in my opinion. It's about the Nazis LITERALLY being defeated by film in a cinema.
We also have a hot German actress that you'll be working with.
@Robertson Thirdly weird, I don't remember seeing a film critic in Django Unchained or Hateful Eight.
@@DivineAtheistWannabe whose feet will be really important to the whole thing.
@@trequor If you don't count the explosives, fire, and bullets, then yes.
"Frightfully Sorry" must be the highest level of apology one could ever receive.
I say dreadfully sorry, I don't know the hierarchy of sorrys, it's an interesting idea.
It’s the “sir” that makes it
@@RoosterFloyd what would the hierarchy of sorrys measure? sincerity or class?
I beg your pardon, my lord?
@@jacobb5625 I imagine not sincerity, apologies are often better the more eloquently put they are and by the kind of voice speaking them. A truly genuine apology worded poorly will be viewed as half assed.
Perhaps though a 60/40. I think however an apology becomes meaningless no matter what, depending on the caliber of the affront of which you need to make an apology for.
"Brief him." Lol love that line, God this is such a good scene.
I'm surprised he didn't say "stop your sorry excuse for a British accent you twit"
Breef 'im
Holds so much weight
Dude came out of retirement to have this cameo
@@SirZapdos Rod Steiger.
I have no clue why, but the shot of Myers just standing in the corner of the room by himself is hilarious 😂
The pant cuffs.
Wide shots are funny
😁 There was this scene from a popular thriller back in the 90s.
It was supposed to be a serious plot about some female psycho-sexual Murderer.
Fatal instinct or hand that rocks the cradle maybe.
It's supposed to be dramatic, but then the camera pans over to the homicide detective and it's Al Bundy. People in the theater were cracking up.
Some actors cant escape their early casting. 😂
He's just funny without even trying
“Make it yourself like a good chap.”
I love that line.
“The bar’s in the glube”
'the bahr's in the glewb'
"No junk in it."
We actually still speak like this in the officers' mess. It's not an aspiration to anything, it's just genuinely a result of most officers coming from a certain background.
@John Thomas Be a good chap and mind your own business, would you?
“The study of German cinemaaaahhhhh”
Always loved the way he said that.
'24 frame davinceeeh'
"Bwar's in the glawbe"
Now imagine Matt Berry in his many incarnations speaking this dialogue. With his charismaaaahhhh!!!
Make it yohself loyk a good chap, will yew?
The way Mike Myers so effortlessly points exactly at Nadine on a huge map with 1000s of names on it, never fails to make me smile.
Possibly because he knew where it was? He has made a plan involving the place…if he didn’t know where it was it would be a bit of a hassle
I mean, he didn't, but it's not surprising you think he did! At 4:05, we go from a close shot of Meyers picking up the pointer and pointing it at something very far off-screen, to a close-up of the pointer on Nadine, the pointer flicking away before a medium shot of Meyers holding the pointer up more unsteadily, in the vicinity of Paris.
Odds are Tarantino told him to just point at Paris or thereabouts (since that's easy to find on a map), then filmed the close-up insert shot separately, using the flick away to justify why the pointer might not be in the correct location afterwards.
Magic of good editing, kudos to Tarantino and Sally Menke (the editor of the film, who sadly died in 2010, she'd been the editor for all of Tarantino's films up to this point) for making the sequence work so damn seamlessly.
@@jellslixcy6168 There's a difference between knowing where it is and being able to stick pointer at it without hesitation, especially as it's in a myriad of other names of the exact same design.
@@Wraithfighter okey
@@dahlberry lol oops
“Basically we have all our rotten eggs in one baaaaaahsket” 😂 Myers killed it! 👏🏻
He summoned Austin Powers for the work “bahsket”. Not even the Queen sneaks a “H” into the word “basket”
G.W. Paaaabst
Oh man it's so bad.
"What shall we drink to, sir?"
"Down with Hitler."
"All the way down, sir."
"OH, BEHAVE!"
"You're going for a right smacked bottom, and I don't care who knows it!"
"Yeah, baby, yeah!"
I never laugh aloud.
🤣🤣🤣
"That said, let me ask you a question. And be honest. Do I make you RANdy?"
You could tell Quentin Tarantino was having the time of his life with this scene, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more British scene in a Tarantino movie, the colours in the room, the accent the movements it’s all so extreme and almost satirical.
Not really. Trite. To be expected, I suppose.
Almost?
almost ??? lol
I've always suspected Tarantino of trying to make these guys as smoothly British as he possibly could, given that they phrase absolutely nothing in the way a normal person would and they also pepper this conversation with their little poetic idioms. Even watching this as a kid I assumed it had to be intentional.
The whole movie is quasi-satire.
The delivery of "got the gist" is so good. The dialogue in this scene is amazing
The first time I watched this scene, I didn't even recognize Mike Myers. It wasn't until I saw his name in the credits that I realized where he'd been. What a phenomenal actor
Yeah baby! Yeah.
@@MrRMT1986I swear lol
I heard his voice and recognized it immediately.
"It says here that you speak German fluently."
"Yes sir."
"In that case, what is the German word for the number six?"
"Sechs."
"Groovy baby!"
Oh behaaave
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YEA BABY YEA
I'll have a " Sechs on the Beach" I thank you!
Beautiful comment 10/10. If this world is good it will give us one more epic Austin Powers movie before Mike Myers is gone.
The hilarious part about this is that none of the three actors are English. Fassbender is Irish, Myers is Canadian, and Rod Taylor is Australian. I'm pretty sure this was intentional.
Anders Graf Fassbender is German
Brother FiretribeFan Irish-German.
Myers is only canadian by nationality, but blood he is of English decent
@@wesleyberry1506 That's stupid. You could just say basically we all have European blood in us then.
Not Indians.
I love the little dr. Evil stare meyers gives after the line “blow up the basket”. Such a great homage whether it was meyers’ idea or tarantino’s
There's a few Mike Myers hallmarks in here. He has a way of holding or pushing his breath that makes lines funny for some reason, and does these weird whisper-lines occasionally. I'd say he just did a bunch of takes and the Dr Evil face movements just came out at least once.
Got the Jist?
"I think so sir. Paris when it sizzles"
CLASSIC
“Never heard of them”
“That’s the whole point of a secret service.”
Lol.
You not hearing of them 😆
If Stiglitz was, in fact, going to be one of Von Hammersmark’s escorts to the theater, wouldn’t their cover be blown instantly, due to Stiglitz’s notorious reputation throughout Germany?
@@daxmiller35 that is..... A plot hole
@@daxmiller35 seemed to not fool a major in the tavern. But I think they were going with “everyone in the German army has heard of Hugo Stieglitz” but not everyone has seen his face kind of thing.
@@sudowoodo9579 yeah that's what I was figuring too.
Mike Myers is massively underrated. Tarantino never misses with his castings.
"underrated" In your reality maybe, a cave by the sound of it.
@@OneofInfinity. yea and Tarantino casting the likes of Mike Meyers for the role of a WW2 general is totally normal LMAO. don’t act like you have superior taste than everyone else you hipster
Both of Myers' parents were WWll veterans. He took the role to honor them.
He did play multiple personalities in his movies lol. Been acting for years
@@patmalloy3569 But he’s always only been in comedies LOL. Apart from terminal and bohemian rhapsody, which both came out almost 10 years after Tarantino first casted him. You could argue that Tarantino’s movies are essentially all comedies in disguise though.
Best part is that Mike Myers mother worked in the RAF war-room during the battle of Britain and had an intelligence pass that she had sworn to never give detail about... So he's actually one of the most appropriately casted people in this movie given he's playing a British intelligence officer - both here and in Austin Powers lmao.
"The Bastards will be waiting for you." Gets me everytime. Almost Austin Powers-ish.
None of them were fat, though.
This is the most british conversation i've ever seen.
Yup, you can stop in at any pub in Teeside and hear people talking just like this.
Funny cause non of them are British
Between a Canadian and an Irishman.
@@blaisevillaume2225 hahahahaha
It really isn't, it's just a bond film copy cliche. Nothing genuinely British about it.
“Down with Hitler”
“All the way down, sir 🍻”
Hard Candy-e could you explain me why this line is seem as “cool” ? What does he means all the way down?
@@adrenalinpump7601 go away
Damn with Hitler
@@VibeinATLien he's not wrong.
@@saberhap2639
As-salaamu alaikum, brother. May Allah grant you and your family long, peaceful lives. Ramadan Mubarak!
Tarantino writes scenes so well. Seen this movie a thousand times and I can still watch it over and over
Yes, and I find that to be true of most of his movies. He is an extraordinary film maker.
And see something new each time you watch it.
His last best movie
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how the way overqualified (and tragically underrated) Rod Taylor _ABSOLUTELY F*CKING NAILS IT_ as Winston Churchill in this scene? The way he's just silently analyzing Fassbender's character in the background the whole time, studying him methodically to see if he's actually cut out for this mission, like, it's so subtle but accurate to his strategic genius.
Winston Churchill is was a real life druid.
Yeah I think the globe is underrated as well
CRINGE
I think your fanboying is enough, actually.
Well let’s look at the choices he made. Big dramatic intros for Aldo, Hitler, Stieglitz. Huge, gut wrenching scene introducing Hans and Shoshana. This scene itself is that dramatic intro for Hicox. Churchill, in stark contrast to all these other people, is the guy who needs no introduction. There’s some great subtext from the set but the significance of this character is fueled by sheer unspoken gravitas. You’re expected to know who he is and, also unlike other characters, given no cues for who he is morally. Not only do you have to cast someone who sells this in just a few rather dry lines, but someone who can sell Churchill to Brits. If all of this doesn’t hit just right on screen, you’ve just got an old guy in the background of the Hicox scene. A featured extra. Instead, you either know exactly who it is, or you know that you’re supposed to.
Bonus geeky ramblings- it’s a similar mechanism to the briefcase in Pulp Fiction. He made a portable box with a lightbulb inside into something of urgent, otherworldly value. Mostly by saying as little about it as possible. In this scene in Basterds, there’s a subtext of counter-intelligence. Hicox has been thoroughly vetted but we see this last point where they still don’t fully trust him. He could inform the Germans, or even make a move on Churchill. Hence he isn’t told who Churchill is right away and Myers’s character wrestles Hicox’s attention away at first. They possibly want to see Hicox’s reaction, in case he blows it similar to how he blows it in France. You don’t see much of this conspicuously huge room they’re all in, possibly because there are people there to take him down if he goes for Churchill. They sell Myers as the chief in that room and a German spy might take that bait where a Brit never would. It’s not an accident that Hicox pours both drinks from a bar positioned next to his entrance. It’s speculation and maybe there’s some other historical significance to these details but all together it gives the sense that this person is well looked after, well protected, even relatively out in the open. Lots to unpack here.
The dialogue in this scene is bananas. So crisp, so musical, and so funny.
Being ex British Army, I can attest that during a meeting with Brigadiers and Generals, the dialogue is pretty much like this.
@@MrDanielvass I would love to sit on and listen if it was possible lol
When I first watched this scene as a teenager I couldn't understand a single thing lmao still takes a minute now
Tarantino is a master at dialogue. The opening scene and the pub scene especially but all of his movies, the dialogue is just so natural and flows so well with the story he weaves.
Musical...Well said
Love the uber-politeness of the Brits. "Frightfully sorry sir "
KenRT14 Well, he's just a lieutenant speaking to Prime Minister. Got to be uber-polite.
Of course LT. Accents dose huh?
"Uber"...from the German, "über". 80 years have past since the events depicted in this movie, and with them, a new English/German word.
Manners maketh man.
Yes provided that your not one of the colonized countries then the British will be so nice to u. And also what part of Britain u know what that’s just a stupid stereotype
This entire scene, as well as the entire movie for that matter, is a masterpiece.
Rings hollow for me.
“Drink??”
“If you offered me a scotch and plain water I could drink a scotch and plain water…”
I can’t wait to use this line.
This scene is so british, I am starting to taste earl grey in my mouth.
Not a single Englishman to be found in the scene either. Mike Myers, Canadian, Rod Taylor, Australian and of course the brilliant Michael Fassbender, German.
I meant on the acting.
Well Mike Myers is the weakest of the three by far, and slips a little into camp for no apparent reason. Fassbender is simply mint though. Spot on for the era.
Who's Earl Grey? Hah, gayyyyyyyyyyy.
Thiora It's a type of tea.
This is probably the most polite scene in all of Tarantino's filmography.
Yes. Nobody says "mother****er".
How about Hans Landa's lines?
And non-violent too
That's the Brits for ya
@@mihanich said by a Nazi, doesn't count.
The David O. Selznick line was likely something that Hicox considered a throwaway, but it was that little gem of extra knowledge, going beyond simply answering the question asked, that confirmed to Churchill that he was the man for the job. Absolutely not a word out of place in the script.
Probably one of my favourite scenes EVER in ANY film.
Perfection in every way.
This scene starts off with some great social distancing
lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Planning to take down the EVIL empire ...... Ominous signs.
Makes the scene so great!
This made me chuckle quite a bit
I wish I could give you an award for this comment
The way Fassbender keeps looking at Churchill like WTF is he doing here?
I never knew that was Churchill. Wow.
I...don't think it's "WTF is he doing here?" I think it's more "if he's here, what am I in for?"
John Perkins Yeah, that's definitely what he's thinking, lol
Random Churchill! Lol, the best!
Churchill is Rod Taylor.
Comedic elements aside (which are at an abundance), this is genuinely one of my favourite scenes of all time in cinema.
I love seeing Michael Fassbinder on film. He dominates Every scene he's in. He commands the screen with the raw power of sheer presence
Gay Alert!
Agreed. Similar to Daniel Craig imo
Don't be an ex girlfriend lol
Except for in Prometheus.
X Men and the Alien films sold me on how great he is, he’s got this subtle swagger to him and really does like command the screen and I’m always curious what his performance will be like
Michael Fassbender, Winston Churchill, and Shrek.
Lovely.
Magneto, Winston Churchill and Shrek
Donkey!!
@@babypanthersjr magneto, donkey, and shrek
That's Magneto, Winston Churchill and Wayne Cambell! Party on Winston!!! Party on Magneto!!!!
An Android, bulldog and ogre
The Germans call them... "The Fat Bastards"... (movie morphs into Austin Powers 4).
That is really great I can hear him saying it and the music kicking in.
"Yeah baby yeah!! -- shall we shag now or shag later!?"
I love it. Thats so funny.
Lmfao
Yeah baby! YEAH!!!!
The way Myers says Paris is hilarious. I absolutely love this scene.
The simple shot/reverse shot of “Indeed.” and “Got the GIST?” is probably my favorite cut in this entire movie. So unnecessary and so good.
This scene is a clinic on how to write, light, act, and shoot a scene. This is about as good as it gets.
Tarantino has some of the best dialogue of all time.
I thought it was more an exercise in British stereotypes. Tarantino does have a talent for dialogue.
@Libertatem Veritas every Time a smartass nobody has to be negative
xarmanhs k afragos who’s a nobody? Who are you?
It is very impressively made, however I will note QT mentioned he was parodying exposition scenes with this one
That it still comes out so brilliantly is impressive regardless
Love how for 90% of the scene, Churchill is just sitting there, smoking a cigar and being fat.
EDIT: I think this is a perfectly obvious satirical joke, but as most of the replies show for themselves, it was once again taken as an invitation for political opinions. If i was aiming for belittling, trashtalking or making a political statement, i definitely wouldn't have made a stupid, 2 line comment about Churchill "being fat". Especially not in a clip from an absurd and exaggerated Tarantino film, of all places.
ive wondered if thats supposed to be Churchill or not. i dont know much about history.
I mean, it was kind of his natural state of being anyway, so...
@@ericsbuds Judging from the way the lowly lieutenant is surprised to see the man, then the way he orders around the general, I'm guessing he's supposed to be Churchill.
100% accurate
ericsbuds
It was supposed to be Churchill sir. Love the little test of knowledge before he gets briefed. That was right up his street.
This is so good, you can tell it takes a lot of inspiration from all those spy movies that were coming out during the 60s and 70s. As usual Tarantino doesn't shy away from insane dialogues that are closer to a theatrical play than a movie script, you could analyze a lot from his work but this scene says so much about how his style oozes into everything even while making a tribute to other movies (in this case probably Agent 007 or generally the "elegant spy" archetype itself).
This scene is so superb. It’s funny how Mike Myer’s character can pick a small city on a map with literally thousands of other cities on it a foot over his head with a pointer. 😆
I'm gonna start saying, "frightfully sorry sir. "
Being British... I always start off by apologizing...John Cleese once famously said that the "English should have an"most frightfully sorry day "! Make it a public holiday, what what !
@@fionahiggins6682 well one would say that that I got the jizst of that 🤣👍 jolly good day
The proper British reply to that is...."Right, I'm fully aware of the fact that you are quite smitten with sorrow and remorse. However, old boy, that does me no good to ponder the inexplicable degree to which you entertain such foolish notions, so be a good chap now and sincerely apologize."
@@blaineedwards8078 no
@@fionahiggins6682 . . .speaking as an Anglophile we find it amusing that the only people more sorry than Catholics who haven't done anything particularly wrong are the English. Cheers.
I love the iconic figure of Winston Churchill sitting in the background silently watching for the first half of the clip. Gives it a dreamlike quality
Give a "he's sitting on the toilet dropping a turd -like quality".
I would happily see a movie expanded around these three characters in that room. Love the scene. Everything about it. the Carpet under Churchill. The sumptuous colours the Globe Drinks cabinet. the Map. 11/10 this scene.
I love how lowkey they made Churchill in this scene in the beginning. Literally just chilling in the corner as if he was just an extra lol
Hitler was also an extra in this movie no one literally cares about him.
"Make it yourself like a good CHAP, will you?" I started using this A LOT after the movie lol
I love their overly sophisticated way of speaking. It's British-accent porn at its finest!
Solo Sulu oooiih deeaaarest mayyy
There is no such thing as “overly sophisticated.”
Southern English tend to fluff up their words more.
@@LandersWorkshop
We do. Especially in Oxford.
Fun fact: NONE of the actors here are British. Mike Myers is Canadian. Michael Fassbender is half Irish / half German, born in Germany and raised in Ireland. Rod Taylor is Australian. I have NO doubt that Tarantino planned the scene this way. It's a film about WW2 films, so this scene where they discuss German cinema is about American portrayals of the British in American cinema.
I love how this lieutenant isn't intimated at the sight of Winston Churchill. I'm sure that in itself was a test.
Could be. Churchill's instruction to "brief him" might mean that he had the final say on using Hicox in the operation.
Hicox is clearly a little flummoxed - who is his immediate superior? Churchill in the distance, or the general? He goes with the general.
@@stevekaczynski3793 the reason he did as the General told him was because Churchill wasn't formally introduced to Hicox therefore he doesn't acknowledge Churchil until he speaks to Hicox directly which means for official purposes Churchill wasn't present in this meeting.
I think it's more about the classy thing to do. Churchill is out if the way, so yes unofficially there. But the lieutenant walked in and is taken back by churchill. The general, clears his throat to get the lieutenants attention. Then they talk and the lieutenant doesn't speak to churchill until directly spoken too. He seems to understand that churchill just wants to observe him. He even glances back over his shoulder early on to see if that's really churchill or just look at him cuz he's still a bit taken back by him
Awesome scene
Defo a test I reckon... this secret mission would potentially have you bumping into some of the top German commanders... if you looked nervous just having Churchill watch you unexpectedly then you’d be shitting it potentially speaking to Goebells, Himmler etc.
Kinda looked like Churchill could otherwise be taking a dump to me.
"And like the snows from yesteryear gone from this earth" I love that line.
“Jolly good, sir” 🥃
Same!!
Basically Tarantino's "Like tears in rain"
You know, as the years have gone by and I’ve rewatched countless of hundreds of my favorite movie scenes, even though “Inglorious Basterds” is not my favorite movie, this scene is more and more becoming my favorite.
What movies does this one sit behind? Looking for new ones to watch😊
"All the way down sir." Beyond badass
I know!!! so damn badass!
Oh and let's not forget the MILLIONS OF PEOPLE who are unemployed. That's MILLIONS. In Hitlers Germany there was no unemployed and basically no crime.
@@adrenalinpump7601 C'mon dude lets not be 'that guy'. Being racist is so pointless now and all this has shown me is that it doesn't matter where you come from we're all susceptible to corruption from power and we all manifest it in different ways. The giant leap we've taken technologically over the last 70 years has been quite frankly astounding and brought on a whole load of information that overloads us daily and society is constantly shifting to new things.
I dont care if theres gay pride, a few of my best mates are gay from both sexes and its insightful. If your seeing child drag queens I pray for the parents. And people have been abusing drugs and alcohol for years are the people that do will continue to do so until it kills them. I like to think of it as natural selection. I dont think the government care about unemployment as much as they let as it rises most years but then again I think its adversely affected by my earlier tech point. More and more jobs can be given to a machine or computer program.
Yeah Hitler was a massive driving force for the building up of his country and a powerful orator he was still a massive bellend under all that hot air and delusional, total out of touch grandeur that purged people and killed the others who didn't agree with him.
@@adrenalinpump7601 When the crimes are mostly committed by state forces they are not officially regarded as crimes. One historian of the Third Reich wrote that it both intimidated and absorbed criminal energies. For example, if you were inclined to arson, you could burn down a synagogue as in Kristallnacht and not even go to jail for it.
@@MrAdamske he isn't racist. You are brainwashed.
All races are "racist". It's now being used as a weapon against the white race in their genocide.
"Frightfully sorry Sir, once again?"
Komputar Ooh. Rather, old chap.
AGANE
Lmaaaaaao
"Quite well, actually. Since Goebbels has taken over, film attendance has steadily risen in Germany over the last eight years. But Louis B.Mayer wouldn't be Goebbels proper opposite number. I believe Goebbels see's himself closer to David O.Selznick."
@Bloop ADL SAID NOTHING???
4:50 I don't have the slightest clue why Fassbender's delivery is so funny to me, but I can't watch nor think of this moment without laughing
Haha it's his expression. Hilarious
This scene is such a joy to watch, over and over again.
It really is.
I can't really put my finger on exactly why.
But I really do love rewatching this scene every now and again.
"What shall we drink to sir?"
"Down with Hitler"
"All the way down, sir."
*FUCK.* What a _cool_ line!
I thought they were going to down thier drinks at that point!! Seriously!! I guess that would have been too obvious of a punch line!!
All they needed to do was pour a few drops on the ground before taking their own sips to make it even cooler
@@noahmijo lol I don’t think pouring drinks on the ground was cool in those times
I’ve used it with a mate at dinner with friends. He gets it and it gets a laugh.
Such a great delivery too XD
Leave it to Tarantino to include Mike Myers in a movie just because he can
"these Yanks have been them the Devil"
And to go out of his way to track down Rod Taylor as Churchill
channing tatum cant act
Murtagh653 I agree his acting is very cringey as fuck...
@@Murtagh653 Tatum is good when given the right direction, jump Street is a good example, but most of the time he isn't and so is left floundering about being a pretty face.
God, I love this scene! Mike Myers is simply superb!
This is the most British conversation in any American movie and I love it
Quentin Tarantino really knows how to pull you in to a scene that would other wise be boring and unintelligent by many other directors. I love his movies but Bastards by far is my favorite. There isn’t a single scene that he did not detail.
PavyMac I agree with you 100%.
Basterds
you might almost say it's his masterpiece.
@Randy Burton err, what?
@Randy Burton because drugs
Fassbender should play James Bond
Too reminiscent of Daniel Craig.
He has great range as an actor
cheesepuff146 Interesting you should say that, as I think Fassbender looks very much like a young Sean Connery at the 2:00 mark.
+fashizzle78 I think he should stick with young adult Magneto. Tom Hardy should play James Bond
Tom Hardy is too Short at 5'9
The delivery of "the bastards will be waiting for you" is perfection.
The room at this scene is so beautiful! The wall of dark wood with white marmore and the red floor and the big map are so capvating
"What shall we drink to, sir?"
"Well, um...down with Hitler."
"All the way down, sir." One of the best lines in the movie. Fassbender is great in this scene.
Michael Meyers is tragically underrated, which is really unfortunate, he's type cast in most people's mind as a bumbling comedy actor, when in fact he's capable of so much more.
Yes he is, but he brought that on himself by doing the Austin Powers sequels and The Love Guru.
I don't know. Its very hard not to burst out laughing when he is speaking. I noticed some direct close ups are avoided, probably to avoid the austin powers effect.
@@ifragisk What do you mean by the Austin Powers effect? Just people seeing that character who is so associated with this actor?
I think I've read that he isn't cast more often because he's a pain to work with.
@@johngo3715 And it probably wasn't true, seeing as 9/10 times you probably read that in "people" magazine
It’s a shame their roles were so short in this movie. Fabulous. Such a great film
This is absolutely spectacular writing.
Quentin inspires me.
The characterization of the British Empire as huge, impressively built and largely hollow, and having the globe treated as a resource for the comfort of the Brits is a great analogy not just to the British empire, but also how Americans viewed British involvement through film is a really understated and great element to this film.
Spot the film studies graduate.
J/k - good analysis.
That and those gloves are just surprisingly common here.
@@alexlyster3459 gloves?
@@alexlyster3459 OH! Globes! I got you.
@@kevinfrodahl5102 Damn autocorrect. I mean, it's technically not wrong, you WILL find gloves here, but yes I meant to type globes. My phone just decided I actually wanted to write gloves instead and changed it.
"There are only two things I can't stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures... And the Germans"
And the Dutch*
@@Alejandro_87 why us 😭
You mean...... zee Germans
SHASHANK TANGWAN ........you mean.....zee chermonss.
"Carnies..."
"Frightfully sorry, sir, once again?" 🎩
I need more Mike Myers movies, he's still got it
Never fails to make me smile. Mike Myers somehow packs comedy into a performance that's not in any way overtly comedic.
Whiskey....no junk in it. Lol
"Got the gist?"
In attendance at this joyous Germanic occasion...
"Blow up the 'bah'-sket."
Not unlike John Cleese.
My favorite scene in the movie - not just for Rod Taylor coming out of retirement to play Winston Churchill, but for Mike Myers' enthusiasm for his role. He called General Ed Fenech a "dream come true," having always wanted to play a British WWII general who explains a mission. He also felt that this role respectfully emulated the military careers of his mother (British Air Force) and father (British Army). I say "bravo" to any actor who simply and completely embraces a part no matter how small.
Agree on all counts. Fassbender nails it too, he just oozes classic English charm. Taylor was as perfect as anyone you could find to be Churchill. Myer's is the weakest link and even he does great just on account of how much he obviously loved doing this.
His accent was spot on.
When I first saw this, I did not know it was him.
Brent D Amen, this, the basement bar scene and the beginning farm scene are by and far the best composed scenes QT has ever put together, hands down.
It amazes me down incredible this film is sometimes.
Brent D What about Samuel L Jackson’s single speaking scene in the movie lol.
Love Tarantino and his insistence on having a comedian in each of his films take a small role. Very David Lynch.
This has to be one of my favourite scenes ever. All the characters are so extravagant.
Mike Myers is a genius, this scene was so good and his character was spot on and fun to watch.
I did not realize that was Mike Myers. His accent is cannon.
+Terri Kim That's the hallmark of a great actor, unlike Nicholas Cage...
+Ryan clark Yes, it does suck that he got an Oscar. That and $5 will get him a coffee at Starbucks...
+Ryan clark Cage is the same guy in every movie. "Trendy"? Hardly. Now go smooch on you Nick Cage poster and pretend he knows who you are.
+ffjsb PFFFT... Nicolas Cage is awesome WTF are you talking about? And no offense but this is basically the ONLY movie Mike Myers has ever been in that was decent. Other than this, what has he ever done? Wayne's World? Austin Powers? SNL? C'mon, LMAO!
On the other hand, Nic Cage has done Leaving Las Vegas, Con Air, Matchstick Men, Lord of War, Adaptation, Bad Lieutenant, City of Angels, National Treasure, The Weatherman, Joe... all great movies. Yes he's been in his fair share of crap too like The Wickerman remake and Left Behind but he's still a great actor and he's been in many more good movies than bad. Comparing him to Myers as an actor is laughable!
+That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas Nick Cage is basically the same character in each one too. Nobody ever said, "I didn't realize that was Nicolas Cage!!"....
I certainly wouldn't call him "awesome", adequate, MAYBE.
Kind of weird to be having a conversation with someone while you know the Prime Minister is sitting in the corner.
I never realized that was supposed to be Churchill until I read this comment.
Gootothesecond same
Gootothesecond yeah it's why fassbender does the double take. Love it XD
I loved thr etiquette of that situation. At that time, as Prime Minister, Churchill was a civilian with no rank in the military (the Commander in Chief in Britain is the King, the PM is just his "chief adviser"). But the general was, of course, a motherfucking *general*. So the lieutenant (pronounced "leftennant" in Britain) quite properly ignored the "mere civilian" and addressed the general - all the while subtly glancing over to the piano with his face screaming, "Wait, is that fucking Winston Churchill?!?" Brilliant.
Churchill was a military man before he became a politician, and was still a colonel at the time (among many honorary titles). But regardless, PM do not sit quietly and be ignored like that. Only Theresa May would!
"Bar's in the globe."
I am so glad Rod Taylor did this one last film. I wish he would have done some more scenes or lines but was great to see him one more time before he passed away
When he said “The bar is in the globe” I thought it was some kind of British Slang at first. But no. The bar was actually in the globe.
Lmaooo for real
>mfw the Americans call the glibbitty boggly prop open and drinkilly drunkenly orb a bar
@@soulreaverable Did you forget your medication today?
You can buy those. Just Google globe bar.
@@DiviAugusti its an old meme get up on these things dad
The very first time I watched the movie I thought: "This scene is AGGRESSIVELY British"
Excepting when they use the metric system to explain how far outside of Paris he’ll be dropped when I’ve never met anyone that would do so now let alone then.
@@kymmoore853 Good thing you weren't a character in the movie then because you would have killed them before the mission started and it would have been a much shorter movie
@@kymmoore853, road signs in France show kilometres and only kilometres, not miles. Thought you'd like to know.
@@JSB103 I know, but they’re speaking in the war room in Britain, they’d use miles to explain how far outside of X they’d be dropped because, during WW2 in Britain and France most road signs were covered over so that potential enemy wouldn’t know where they were.
@@kymmoore853, that was a 'mission brief.' They were giving him 'mission data,' that is data as he would 'need to know it' in order to make his way and fufill his mission were he was to be deployed in FRANCE. Ever been in a mission brief?
Hicox's uniform has the following characteristics: He wears the Commando Green Beret, the Combined Operations badge on his left arm, 'No.4 COMMANDO' flashes on his shoulders and an Intelligence Corps cap badge on his beret. This means he was an Intelligence Corps officer who passed the Commando Course at Achnacarry and was serving at the time as part of 'No.4 COMMANDO' (A Commando means both a commando trained individual and a battalion sized formation of commando troops). His 2 medals are the Military Cross (an award for bravery in the face of the enemy) and the Africa Star. This means he was in Africa 1942-43, during which time his conduct earned him the MC.
What a scene. This is the epitome of everything British and is frankly awesome. The British have a way of being so elite and classy. Amazing….
You’ve never been to Britain, have you?
@@enjoyer6201 No, I have been to London and work with British colleagues daily.
My goal is to use the phrase "and like the snows of yesteryear, gone from this earth" in daily conversation.
. . .or 'Paris when it sizzles'.
LETS ME NOS HOW THAT WORKS OUT JAMAL LMFAO I DO LIKE THIS SCENE THOUGH
And like the snows of yesteryear,
Gone..... Reduced to atoms.
@@fillyal85 Ubi sunt?
"Dear, did you drink all the milk?"
Mike Myers is so good in this 5 minutes. I'm not sure why he doesn't do movies outside of comedies.
Typecast. When you hear a name like Mike Myers you assume he's supposed to do something funny, however when you hear him along side the name Quentin Tarantino you know whatever role he's gonna be in is gonna be perfect for him no matter the genre. In this case, Myers was channeling his father in this role, whom was a member of the royal engineers in the English Army in WWII.
Myers is a perfectionist and doesn't like being in movies he hasn't written.
Samuel Trujillo He did write the movie "The Love Guru" and I would say that isn't a perfect movie. Maybe that was perfection in his eyes? Not sure.
Austin Surridge
He wrote that because he wanted the Leafs to win the Stanley Cup. He didn't care how it would happen. He's an Ontario man first and an actor second.
Austin Surridge Believe it or not he spent years writing that piece of shit movie. Being a perfectionist doesn't mean your talented, it just means you need to have every little detail going your way. There is a New York Times article on why he'd rather disappear from the spotlight for years instead of being in movies he didn't write. "'Mike is the author of what he does,” said Jay Roach, whom Mr. Myers selected to direct all of the “Austin Powers” films. “Like a novelist writing a novel over a few years, he thinks up all the details and all the layers necessary to make things work."'
Now I see Mike Myers in this scene. I didn't know that he was acting in Inglorious Basterds. He is Canadian and played an awesome part in Austin Powers.
Really wish we got more of fassbender in this movie but I was still happy with the scenes he was in
young Magneto and retired Austin Powers talk about nazi cinema
Beelz you know it baby
if young magneto don't trust you .....
Another fun fact: Ireland was neutral during WW2. The very few Irish who joined the Allies were treated terribly when they returned home (not out of sympathy for Germany so much as antipathy towards Britain). So Fassbender, from one neutral country and one on the wrong side, has made a career of playing characters who fight Nazis. (Obviously this is no reflection on him, just a fun twist to his career.) All three performances (even the late Rod Taylor, who only got a tiny role) were first rate. Amazing when you see A-listers who don't ham it up trying to play themselves but instead ply their craft as actors. Too many in Hollywood just play themselves over and over. My first time watching this, I didn't recognize Fassbender from BoB and didn't even recognize Mike Myers despite it being obvious now that I know.
@@theprogram863 He was in BoB?, are you shitting me?!?
Check IMDB
The devil really is in the detail. Fassbenders uniform really is that of a ‘field’ officer of his rank at the time, and the shoulder flash is perfect. No.4 Commando, Combined operations. A man of his apparent skill set, multilingual etc. would be asked for such duty. The cap badge is difficult to see, but ‘dull’ means he’s a commando anyway, against the beret, it could be that of a Royal Marine, seconded to Army duty. But his pips are army. It’s brilliantly put together.
It’s actually the cap badge of the early intelligence Corps, most likely a corps officer attached to special operations (Royal Marines)
Luv that u said " the pips"
Stars not 'pips'
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I really appreciate it. I love reading stuff like that. Sets me off on a rabbit hole and I just love learning. Cheers mate 👍
No.4 Commando was an Army unit and like all Army Commando units, was disbanded after WW2. Only RM Commando units remain afterwards. All commando personnel wore the green beret and special operations flashes, although they kept their parent cap badges. As mentioned already, this particular subaltern was badged with the Intelligence Corps and the badge has been blackened in typical commando style. The only glaring misstep ion this scene is Mike Myers' character saluting without a head-dress on. If you're hatless, the correct methodd of paying/returning a compliment is to stand to attention.
Watching myers say basterd in a British accent, without being in the Scottish character of "Fat Bastard", gets me every time lol
The most under-rated film made by QT, and is such a brilliant film + Mike Myers's performance is awesome too
I am 100% sure Inglorious Basterds is in no way underrated.
"Well if this is it old boy, I hope you dont mind if I go out speaking the kings"
@Mario Lisa It means "The King's English". Usually called the Queen's English these days for obvious reasons lol, it's another name for Received Pronunciation, which is seen by some as the standard British English accent. Think in the scene he was basically saying he wants to die speaking English, not German.
APG19912009 by all means ‘captain’ ;)
Best line in the film
Came here for this comment.
2 great villains finally together: Magneto & Dr. Evil
@Mario Lisa Michael Fassbender played a younger Magneto in X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix and Days of Future Past.
Three great villains, actually..…you forgot Winston Churchill.
@@heli-crewhgs5285 only a villain if you're BLM, an Antifa communist, or WWII Nazi.
@@thomasvleminckx or he can be from one of the commonwealth countries , which they left in a hurry like Afghanistan , after WW2 Brits were cash strapped so they just left many lands ravaged by them to their posh London homes to sip tea and eat biscuits .. anyways that is thing of past now the same britain is filled with the people they used to colonise ..
@@thomasvleminckx Oh stfu you imbecile! The millions who starved to death in South Asia know. It seems the English had their own little Holocaust party here while fighting the "evil" Nazis.
Wait...where is Mike Myers???
O_O
This is the same guy who did austin powers?? his acting range is insane!!
in a movie with so many iconic scenes this is one of the best, mike is such a perfect casting choice