Tarantino was resigned to giving up on making this film after he found it impossible to find a good enough multilingual actor to play Hans Landa... then he found Christolph Waltz.
@@Luggi83 so there’s an alternate universe where Leo played Hans? While I wouldn’t change a thing about this iconic performance, that would certainly be interesting to watch.
@@darthvexen4697 right? He plays both roles with charisma. But that he goes from totally contemptible in one to completely lovable in one other. That is skill.
Agreed. I remember when this came out and most of us had never heard of him though he was already an established actor in Europe. Man, what a Hollywood debut. I walked out of the theater thinking I had to see more of this guy's work as soon as possible. His portrayal of Hans Landa is a terrible thing to witness, in the best way possible.
One thing I do like about his character though is that he is honest. The guy doesn't lie, only deceives. Instead, it's our heroes in the Basterds that outright lie. Landa is a monster, but ironically he is still the only truly honest person in the film.
@@Quotenwagnerianer As someone who speaks German, though not fluently, I had no idea how accurate that was when I first saw it and had to ask a friend who grew up in Berlin. It's incredible how cultural tells can be *so obvious* when you're a part of that culture yet seem so inconsequential to an outsider.
The thing that confuses me is that I'm a Brit and I would show three in the German way, and I can't think of anyone I know that does otherwise. I can't help but feel that this was contrived.
@@17thknight It's also worth noticing that Fassbender's accent is also a big tell. His german is good, but it does betray the english native speaker ever so slightly. Which reminds me that I still need to see "Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü" ;) It stars Leni Riefenstahl (who would later become the infamous propaganda film maker for Hitler) and WW1 ace Hans Udet as himself. The only pilot with more kills was von Richthofen the famous Red Baron, but he didn't survive the war.
The hand sign for three hits home SO hard. Being German I immediately picked up on that when I first saw the movie but thought it was an oversight by the writers or actors - that's how noticable this is for us. This script is absolutely genius.
@@HowIamDriving I'm not so sure that's true. Quick hand signs like that are ruled by muscle memory. Remember how you learned about flipping the bird probably at around 10 years of age and it seemed really difficult at first? Signaling numbers with your hands is the same. Any potential spy would have to spend days in occasional repetition rewiring their brain just on such a miniscule detail. Someone who's used the mid-hand fingers for signaling 3 all their life is going to say the same thing you did about their own way. 😉
@@Krawurxus I know what you mean, but at least my pinkie finger and ring finger are connected by "webbing". So it's difficult to move them completely separately. Maybe it's easier for other people.
Landa is honestly the world's biggest troll. He immediately recognizes everyone, everytime we are wondering if it's possible. He just wants to subtly put them under pressure to see if they'll break, or better yet, if they can help him in the long run.
Yeah he just plays the power game, he is only a Nazi because it benefits him at the time, not because he believes the propaganda. When he ordered Shosanna milk and made her eat the desert with creme (not kosher) it became obvious that he knew.
It is actually a interrogation technique to trap people into their lies. So there is on one side no doubt they are guilty and not just misunderstood, and second they get nervous during the process by making things up unprepared what can make them unfunctional for making good decisions. Like the interrogation with the german actress. Landa didnt knew if she has a gun or anything. His very visual but off guard confrontation stoped her to actually do something. So he could use that moment to attack her.
@@5calambres Regardless of the technique used, I get the feeling half of the reason Landa did it was purely for fun. He knew the Jews were hidden in the farmer's floorboards before even entering (because he asked about the floorboards specifically). He knew who Shoshanna was the moment he laid eyes on her (he ordered her milk). He literally gets the 3 Americans to repeat themselves 3 times each, and slaps the last guy on the back for having a decent accent, even though he likely knew 100% the moment he heard Aldo say "Grazie," in his southern drawl. While he def was thinking about possible dangers, and his interrogation techniques supported that, a lot of the time he seemed to go above and beyond the necessary steps purely for his own enjoyment
Fun fact: Before leaving the set, Quentin Tarantino had declared his sixth film to be his very best. Brad pitt's final scene is a message from tarantino to himself: "I think this just might be my masterpiece"
How can people not recognise Mike Meyers, his reveal of the plan sounded so like Dr Evil I always expect him to bring his little finger to his mouth when he says _"blow up the basket"_
One cool detail in the beginning. If you noticed, Hans says 'adieu' to the firing squad while he says 'au revoi' to Shosanna. One is a more final 'goodbye', while the other means 'we will meet again soon'. Amazing detail!
Yes, he says something like "let me hear that tounge roll" and then after that he says "good job! well done!" like he is well aware that it's all fake. You would never say "good job" to a person who is speaking his own language.
Fair enough. I do feel that JOKER tries to get a wider range of emotions and focuses on trying to get sympathy from you alongside feeling tense about what's going to happen. Whereas Tarantino is aiming to get you feeling anxious from the get go and for a variety of scenes with characters you don't even know. Most of this is not only done through the storytelling (like in JOKER), but it can be from something simple like the framing of a shot, having that shot hold, and the reaction of a character. I get what you mean, but I still feel like IB makes me feel more nervous, especially when you think about how long the tension lasts in the scenes. Either way, both films do well at this.
In my opinion that opening scene with Hans Landa and the dairy farmer is up there as one of the greatest villain introductions I've ever seen. It immediately sets him up as intelligent, composed, good at his job and absolutely terrifying.
and also playful. A really interesting thing about his character is that he has this pure, almost child-like joy within him. Something you expect from the uncorrupted, and definitely not from someone with a heart as black as his.
Lt. Aldo Raine as an Italian is possibly one of the greatest moments in cinema. Also something I learned is apparently Tarantino was the first Nazi being scalped
This film is one of those rare cases where the actors share the same nationality as the characters they play. German actors playing German characters, French actors playing French characters, etc.
Waltz is Austrian though. But it is totally possible for a SS officer like him to be Austrian. And yeah, what a pleasure to finally see a Hollywood movie where actors perfectly speak foreign languages, and not some weird half-ass version of French or German, to which Americans don't have the knowledge to know if it's correct or not anyway.
What I really appreciated for the foreign languages spoken, Tarantino took people who actually use the language instead of actors doing it phonetically Great movie! Awreeva dertchee
He said he almost pulled the plug on the whole movie because he couldn't find someone who was both fluent in all 3 languages and could act. Then walked in Christoph Waltz to save the day. Pretty remarkable how it went down and completely changed Christoph's life
Everyone always cuts the part where the Bear Jew asks the german what his medal is for and he responds "bravery". That's one of my favorite scenes in the movie
yeah, thats such a powerful moment. this is the first and ONLY hollywood movie that truthfully depicted how there was a difference between SS, gestapo and the Nazis and German soldiers. its actually crazy how hollywood miseducated so many people to reduce every german soldier to a jew hating monster. private first class frederick zoller and private wilhelm were just soldiers drafted or volunteering serving their country. many didnt believe hitlers ideals, but fought for their country, families or to not get shot for treason.
@@lightup6751 That's not true. People were never shot for treason for that. + Fighting for fascist country = fascist. They were ALL complicit. People could just refuse to serve, as religious groups like Quakers did for one example. Check out Three Arrows video 'Was every German soldier evil?' Then there were acts like the famous 1943 Rosenstrasse protest, where thousands of non-Jewish wives and family members of Jewish men protested their arrest until they were released back to them and surprise surprise noone was shot for treason or targeted afterwards. 😳
Always appreciated how Tarantino threw a Heydrich reference in this movie. He was arguably more evil than Hitler or Himmler yet most people forget about him
There's a film with Cillian Murphy called Anthropoid, about operation anthropoid, the assassination of Heydrich. I think Heydrich was the only high ranking nazi member that was assassinated successfully by goverment backed teams. And hitler's retaliation for his assassination was brutal.
@@janetuss6496 It's a really good movie. If you'll ever go to Prague, visit the museum in the church where the final stand of Heydrich's assassins took place. It's a very interesting place.
IMHO Tarantino’s pièce de résistance. Some of the best tension and acting ever filmed I’ve seen the strudel and pub scene countless times. This movie wouldn’t have been made if it weren’t for Christoph Waltz. Both times he was in a Tarantino movie he won best supporting actor. It’s entirely possible Landa knew it was her and was just getting off toying with his prey, photographs did exist then and he likely would’ve looked for one just to make sure he can find the one he let go. Like I said I’ve seen it many times and can’t be certain, I like to think he did but thought she wasn’t important Brad Pit is also in True Romance which Tarantino wrote and sold to have some budget for Reservoir Dogs
The scene is meant to be ambiguous whether he knows who she is. My personal take is that he doesn't recognize her. But he certainly "toyed with his prey" the first time around by letting her go.
Tarantino originally wanted to cast Leonardo DiCaprio. And Adam Sandler was originally set to play Donny Donowitz, a.k.a. “The Bear Jew”. I’m happy that didn’t happen.
When Aldo Raine says at the end “I think this might be my masterpiece.” was basically Tarantino saying that. The reason the spelling in the title is weird is because there is a 1978 Spaghetti Spanish film called “The Inglorious Basterds” which Tarantino took the title from also a World War 2 film. The man who played Winston Churchill was legendary actor Rod Taylor who starred in the sci fi classic The Time Machine and this was his final film role while Mike Myers was the British General also in that scene giving Fassbender’s character the rundown.
This movie was nominated for best picture but lost to Hurt Locker. Personally this was my favorite Quentin Tarantino film. Christoph Waltz won the oscar for best supporting actor. The first of two
It's honestly shocking that Waltz's win was the films sole Oscar. I saw someone post on a different video that Mark Boal (screenwriter for The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty) and Quentin Tarantino should switch Oscars. Tarantino should have won Best Original Screenplay for this instead of The Hurt Locker, and Mark Boal should have won Best Original Screenplay for Zero Dark Thirty instead of Django Unchained.
@@ClassicalMusic2002 I could get behind that, I also think that same year that Waltz should not have won for his role in Django but instead Philip Seymour Hoffman should have for his role in The Master.
I remember sitting in the cinema (in Germany). Few people understood how he gave himself away in the "three" scene. But when the explanation came you could see people all around the theater raising their hands to check how they make a "three" and then silently agreed. Incredible how Tarantino took such an insignificant cultural difference not even many germans would think about and made it a major plot point of his movie.
@@volosh67gayo49 Of course, I myself tried to make different “threes” after that scene. I was replying to the “insignificant cultural difference” but now I see what they meant. Apologies.
What's interesting is that the four most memorable scenes all involve people sitting and talking at a table. The intro scene in the farmhouse, the scene at the restaurant, the scene at the bar and the scene with Aldo, Landa and Ryan Howard.
To be in the atmosphere of WOII movies, i recommend you also see the movie "Downfall" or the german name "Der Untergang". You see WOII from the german side. Really good acting in that movie.
When I saw the ending I busted up laughing. That's when I realized this was just a two-hour-long joke by Quentin Tarantino. what a pinchline though. Also you missed Mike Myers explaining the English plan.
This movie is one of the wildest rides I've ever been on. So glad you finally did it and enjoyed it very much. It was everything I expected out of you!
Fun Fact : The scene where Landa chokes the actress, those hands choking her in the close up was actually Quentin Tarantino himself and he told her he will choke her for real as far as she can go and she agreed.
Imagine if someone like Tarantino comes up to you and says "I'm gonna choke ya!", fair play to Diane Kruger for giving her consent to allow him to do it.
Daniel Brühl was fantastic in this movie, it was his breakout role in American movies. Then his move on to play Zemo, he's one of my favorite characters in the Marvel MCU. He plays the part perfectly .
Always love Tarantino reactions! If there’s any more of his you haven’t seen would love to see your reaction. Can’t quite recall if you’ve seen Django Unchained yet but that’s my personal favorite. Edit- since you said you haven’t seen Christoph Waltz in anything else I’m guessing not! That’s something to look forward to
Django Unchained YT edit is coming soon, full reaction is available on his Patreon already. Brandon also mentions in the beginning that he has seen Waltz as Blofeld in Spectre.
My god I LOVE that opening sort of half hour scene in the farm house. It’s Tarantino literally writing a dissertation on tension, taking Hitchcock’s “bomb under the dinner table” synopsis to whole new heights. In fact QT said in an interview it’s his favourite scene he’s ever made.
3:50 the other guy is Denis Ménochet, great french actor. I highly recommand "Custody" ( jusqu'à la garde - 2017) and "by the grace of god" (grace à dieu - 2019), where he won 2 cesar (french oscar).
one of Brad Pitt's first roles was True Romance, screenplay by Tarantino. Pitt has a small role as the burnout roommate of Micheal Rappaport's character and is hilarious. Great movie & the cast is incredible, some you won't even recognize. Not to mention one of my favorite fight scenes in a movie ever between James Gandolfini & Patricia Arquette.
Every scene with Waltz is more intimidating than the last, thanks to his establishing scene. Each time he shows up, your heart beats a bit quicker and your palms get sweaty. Such a great character by Waltz.
At the start of the movie when hans yells at her when shes running away from the farm, he actually says "Goodbye, until we meet again" this adds to the horror of how much Hans knows and if he knows something
I remember going to the cinema to watch this on release day. As is normal in a cinema there was quite mumbles and crunching noises as everyone settled down and began eating their snacks. Within just a few minutes the cinema was silent as we all just sat watching that opening scene. There was no crunching to be heard. The man sat next to me had a huge tub of popcorn and he picked up a few pieces in his hand and they were still in his hand when the scene had finished. That's how tense that opening scene was.
One of the greatest opening scenes in cinema. I was on the edge of my seat throughout it. This was the first thing I'd seen Christoph waltz in and he is absolutely terrifying in a very cold and calculated way.
Christoph Waltz is one of my favorite villain actors! He is SUCH an amazing baddie!! All throughout the film you constantly get the feeling he knows EXACTLY who he's talking to, he let Shoshanna escape, etc. It's also amazing he fluently speaks English, French, and German. Yet he absolutely nailed the Italian. Superb acting and over the top performances.
Brandon- Have you ever seen the movie based on the board game Clue? It's my favorite film of all time and features legendary actors like Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, and Michael McKean (who plays Chuck on Better Call Saul) and is just absolutely fantastic
The opening of this movie is, in my opinion, is the greatest opening in movie history. There's an interview with Alfred Hitchcock talking about building tension. He uses the example of having two people sitting at a table talking to each other, underneath the table is a ticking time bomb, you show the audience the bomb, but the two people speaking are unaware of its existence and continue the conversation. Tarantino displays this perfectly.
in 2009 my-now wife and i adopted a pair of german shepherd pups. they are named hugo stiglitz and bridget von hammersmark. they're still with us and i love them as much as i love this film
I love that for the Baftas, the clip they used for Christoph Waltz's performance was the silent stare at in the scene with Shosanna. No line of dialogue needed, and of course, he wins (swept almost every award ceremony)!
Someone may have mentioned this but originally Tarantino was trying to get Adam Sandler to play the bear jew. But i am happy it went to Eli, although it would have been cool.
It ended up being quite fortuitous as Quentin was also able to have Eli Roth direct the film-within-a-film. It's a subtle thing, but it makes it seem more authentic having someone else film it. So that was definitely a bonus of having Eli onboard.
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Tarantino was resigned to giving up on making this film after he found it impossible to find a good enough multilingual actor to play Hans Landa... then he found Christolph Waltz.
And don't forget about Daniel Bruhl, who speaks 5 languages I believe? Edit: 6 languages!
Not entirely true, as he originally wanted Leonardo DiCaprio for the part.
WHO WANTS FRIED SAUERKRAUT? Oops wrong tarantino movie.
@@bemused2774 6 ;)
@@Luggi83 so there’s an alternate universe where Leo played Hans? While I wouldn’t change a thing about this iconic performance, that would certainly be interesting to watch.
Christoph Waltz won the well deserved Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this film.
I remember seeing this in the theater. Waltz blew me away. I was like “who the hell is this guy? How have I never seen him in anything before?!”
And then for his next portrayal in Django Unchained
Incredible actor.
@@darthvexen4697 right? He plays both roles with charisma. But that he goes from totally contemptible in one to completely lovable in one other. That is skill.
@@darthvexen4697 Leo should’ve won for Django instead tho
Christoph Waltz is honestly terrifying in this movie
Waltz is the epitome of creepy Nazi vibe.
The opening scene is a masterpiece in acting
Agreed. I remember when this came out and most of us had never heard of him though he was already an established actor in Europe. Man, what a Hollywood debut. I walked out of the theater thinking I had to see more of this guy's work as soon as possible. His portrayal of Hans Landa is a terrible thing to witness, in the best way possible.
@@Marionney From Chistoph Waltz and also Denis Ménochet
One thing I do like about his character though is that he is honest. The guy doesn't lie, only deceives. Instead, it's our heroes in the Basterds that outright lie. Landa is a monster, but ironically he is still the only truly honest person in the film.
The "German three" scene is one of the best scenes in cinema history.. there's even a 1hour documentary about that scene lol
As a german this worked so perfectly. I knew the moment he made that hand gesture, that he was toast. Tarantino did not make this one up.
@@Quotenwagnerianer As someone who speaks German, though not fluently, I had no idea how accurate that was when I first saw it and had to ask a friend who grew up in Berlin. It's incredible how cultural tells can be *so obvious* when you're a part of that culture yet seem so inconsequential to an outsider.
The thing that confuses me is that I'm a Brit and I would show three in the German way, and I can't think of anyone I know that does otherwise. I can't help but feel that this was contrived.
@@17thknight It's also worth noticing that Fassbender's accent is also a big tell.
His german is good, but it does betray the english native speaker ever so slightly.
Which reminds me that I still need to see "Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü" ;)
It stars Leni Riefenstahl (who would later become the infamous propaganda film maker for Hitler)
and WW1 ace Hans Udet as himself. The only pilot with more kills was von Richthofen the famous Red Baron, but he didn't survive the war.
@@delivix you and your acquaintances must be the exception to the rule.
The actor playing "The Bear Jew" is actor/director Eli Roth.
That's famed italian actor Antonio Margheriti
He did nothing in the movie
@Where's Waldo??? ? they're going by Family guy rules.
@@MofoMagnificent whats his name?
Yep famous for his movie Hostel, which shook the cinema world at the time it released.
The number one Tarantino film, the fact Christoph Waltz speaks four languages in one movie deserved a best actor Oscar nod.
Superb actor.
Right
Yeah... but django just hit better for me
Daniel Bruhl speaks like 5 or 6 (guy who played zemo from civil war)
It would be Best Supporting but I agree.
The hand sign for three hits home SO hard. Being German I immediately picked up on that when I first saw the movie but thought it was an oversight by the writers or actors - that's how noticable this is for us.
This script is absolutely genius.
Es ist praktischer und bequemer den Daumen zu nehmen statt den Ringfinger. :P
@@HowIamDriving I'm not so sure that's true. Quick hand signs like that are ruled by muscle memory.
Remember how you learned about flipping the bird probably at around 10 years of age and it seemed really difficult at first? Signaling numbers with your hands is the same.
Any potential spy would have to spend days in occasional repetition rewiring their brain just on such a miniscule detail.
Someone who's used the mid-hand fingers for signaling 3 all their life is going to say the same thing you did about their own way. 😉
@@Krawurxus I know what you mean, but at least my pinkie finger and ring finger are connected by "webbing". So it's difficult to move them completely separately. Maybe it's easier for other people.
In France too we do this hand sign for three !! I didn"t know that was a cultural thing before watch this movie
@@emiliebrooklyn3963 I think it's actually a European way of counting. We do the same here in Italy
It’s amazing how much you can hate Waltz’s character in a movie like this and then love him in his next roll in Django.
shows how good of a actor he is
I watched Django first, so it was the other way around for me
Dude don't forget it's a FANTASY movie from HOLLYWOOD.
@@tanelviil9149 uhh ok?
He has the range
Landa is honestly the world's biggest troll. He immediately recognizes everyone, everytime we are wondering if it's possible. He just wants to subtly put them under pressure to see if they'll break, or better yet, if they can help him in the long run.
Yeah he just plays the power game, he is only a Nazi because it benefits him at the time, not because he believes the propaganda. When he ordered Shosanna milk and made her eat the desert with creme (not kosher) it became obvious that he knew.
@@Cosmic_Cretin interesting
@@Cosmic_Cretin That she is likely a jew, but it's too much of a stretch to assume he knew she was the same woman he had let go 4 years back.
It is actually a interrogation technique to trap people into their lies. So there is on one side no doubt they are guilty and not just misunderstood, and second they get nervous during the process by making things up unprepared what can make them unfunctional for making good decisions. Like the interrogation with the german actress. Landa didnt knew if she has a gun or anything. His very visual but off guard confrontation stoped her to actually do something. So he could use that moment to attack her.
@@5calambres Regardless of the technique used, I get the feeling half of the reason Landa did it was purely for fun. He knew the Jews were hidden in the farmer's floorboards before even entering (because he asked about the floorboards specifically). He knew who Shoshanna was the moment he laid eyes on her (he ordered her milk). He literally gets the 3 Americans to repeat themselves 3 times each, and slaps the last guy on the back for having a decent accent, even though he likely knew 100% the moment he heard Aldo say "Grazie," in his southern drawl. While he def was thinking about possible dangers, and his interrogation techniques supported that, a lot of the time he seemed to go above and beyond the necessary steps purely for his own enjoyment
“ArIveRdeRcHi”
“A river there, chief”
Dominic Decoco
"Si, err, correct-OH"
@@anasmustafa288 holy shit i love this
"Say 'auf wiedersehen' to your Nazi balls" gets me every time
One of my favourite lines haha
That whole scene is solid gold.
I'll remember to say that the next time I find myself with a walther pointed at someone's nuts
Fun fact: Before leaving the set, Quentin Tarantino had declared his sixth film to be his very best. Brad pitt's final scene is a message from tarantino to himself: "I think this just might be my masterpiece"
I think Django is his best but Inglorious is definitely a masterpiece
Is that a real fact? I have never heard that before
Wow Quentin telling himself how wonderful he is. What a shocker.
He's right
@@JCG52577 Eh, when you got it why be modest
Christoph Waltz: *gives one of the best performances of the decade*
Christoph Waltz 3 years later: *does it again*
That was Mike Myers with the ‘stache when the Brits were making their plans.
Holy shit I never knew that
Dude don't forget it's a FANTASY movie from HOLLYWOOD.
@@tanelviil9149 Think you're responding to the wrong comment bud
@@Jdb63 he's responding to every comment because he's mad the Germans lost and Tarantino made a funny movie about it
I couldn't help thinking that was Austin Powers the whole time. I guess some people know him more for Shrek and haven't seen him.
Nobody ever recognizes Mike Meyers as the British military general lol
How can people not recognise Mike Meyers, his reveal of the plan sounded so like Dr Evil I always expect him to bring his little finger to his mouth when he says _"blow up the basket"_
I love this movie but him in that part always takes me out of it.
And nobody recognises Tarantino's go-to translator Sophie Fatale from Kill Bill as Goebbels' aide
@@slowerthinker when he said "blow up the basket" is when I realized it was him lmao
It seems impossible to me that anyone could manage to not recognize him instantly.
One cool detail in the beginning. If you noticed, Hans says 'adieu' to the firing squad while he says 'au revoi' to Shosanna. One is a more final 'goodbye', while the other means 'we will meet again soon'. Amazing detail!
Hans Landa is such a good villain that Christoph Waltz got ***60*** awards for his supporting actor role.
Well deserved, his performance is a masterclass in understated menace
In 2021 it wouldn't happen due to woke culture.
@@manco828 I don't think anyone asked about the culture wars here, least of all me.
I wonder if he would get those rewards in 2021 because of woke culture.
@@weirdguy1495 No, but I did.
I always love how Hans knows Italian and their story was false. He was just playing them, till Aldo plays him.
The fun thing is that Christoph Waltz is fluent in German, English, French and Italian.
Yes, he says something like "let me hear that tounge roll" and then after that he says "good job! well done!" like he is well aware that it's all fake. You would never say "good job" to a person who is speaking his own language.
@@mikeystevens4784 even funnier is that Daniel Brühl who plays Frederick Zoller is fluent in 6 languages
Also known as Tension: The Movie
Yes it is. But now I reckon JOKER takes the cake for TENSION movie.
I almost squeezed my glass of wine to smitherines during JOKER.
Fair enough. I do feel that JOKER tries to get a wider range of emotions and focuses on trying to get sympathy from you alongside feeling tense about what's going to happen. Whereas Tarantino is aiming to get you feeling anxious from the get go and for a variety of scenes with characters you don't even know. Most of this is not only done through the storytelling (like in JOKER), but it can be from something simple like the framing of a shot, having that shot hold, and the reaction of a character.
I get what you mean, but I still feel like IB makes me feel more nervous, especially when you think about how long the tension lasts in the scenes.
Either way, both films do well at this.
Uncut gems takes that for me. The amount of anxiety that movie gave me should be illegal.
@@Sloofdme I felt much more tension in Basterds than Joker.
@@Sloofdme Reassess that claim after you watch UNCUT GEMS
"This man is amped right now" .. Literally. Hitler was addicted to amphetamines.
Isn't it common knowledge that the Third Reich would supply their soldiers with YaBa or amphetamine pills to help keep them going?
@@BrahmaDBA Yep, pervitin and "panzerschokolade" were commonly issued to German troops and civilians. Both contained some form of amphetamine.
Yup, Dexedrine.
The book “Blitzed” by Norman Ohler is well worth a read, and covers the subject well.
@@BrahmaDBA Almost every country did that, not just the Germans.
"the soundtrack is incredible"
that's the magic of the late Ennio Morricone!
I’ve listened to Rabbia E Tarentella more times than I can count. Truly a master of his craft. May he rest in peace.
Fun fact: Tarantino was thinking about casting Adam Sandler as The Bear Jew.
I just made a standalone comment about this but if you haven't seen it - there's a deepfake of it out there, it's fantastic
@@cpmc5400 too bad Sandler was busy doing Funny People at the time.
The character was actually wrote with Sandler in mind but he turned it down because he tought the movie will be too violent
@@majorbigss1 No, it was scheduling.
You can find the scene with Sandler via deepfake somewhere here in youtube... its amazing.
In my opinion that opening scene with Hans Landa and the dairy farmer is up there as one of the greatest villain introductions I've ever seen. It immediately sets him up as intelligent, composed, good at his job and absolutely terrifying.
and also playful. A really interesting thing about his character is that he has this pure, almost child-like joy within him. Something you expect from the uncorrupted, and definitely not from someone with a heart as black as his.
Lt. Aldo Raine as an Italian is possibly one of the greatest moments in cinema.
Also something I learned is apparently Tarantino was the first Nazi being scalped
6:15 Yep, right there
But 'Dominic DeCocco' just making that italian gesture without saying anything is the REAL comedy gold in that scene.
Technically Lt Raine didn't lie. He does speak the most Italian.
@@vincentdelacroix5428 i died at that point
@@lightup6751 i died at Aldo's " Arivertherechee "
This film is one of those rare cases where the actors share the same nationality as the characters they play.
German actors playing German characters, French actors playing French characters, etc.
Waltz is Austrian though. But it is totally possible for a SS officer like him to be Austrian.
And yeah, what a pleasure to finally see a Hollywood movie where actors perfectly speak foreign languages, and not some weird half-ass version of French or German, to which Americans don't have the knowledge to know if it's correct or not anyway.
Yeah, I love that
@@NicolasCharly But Waltz is Half German if i remember correctly
Michael Fassbender is an exception though, he is a German actor playing a British character.
“I think this just might be my masterpiece!” I see what you did there, Tarantino.
What I really appreciated for the foreign languages spoken, Tarantino took people who actually use the language instead of actors doing it phonetically
Great movie!
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He said he almost pulled the plug on the whole movie because he couldn't find someone who was both fluent in all 3 languages and could act. Then walked in Christoph Waltz to save the day. Pretty remarkable how it went down and completely changed Christoph's life
Even more crazy is Daniel Brühl who plays Frederick Zoller is fluent in 6 languages
Everyone always cuts the part where the Bear Jew asks the german what his medal is for and he responds "bravery". That's one of my favorite scenes in the movie
I’d have to agree, the look in Eli’s eye when he asks if he ever killed any Jews, intense.
@@alwayzchillin0714 It's almost like he was acknowledging his courage
yeah, thats such a powerful moment. this is the first and ONLY hollywood movie that truthfully depicted how there was a difference between SS, gestapo and the Nazis and German soldiers. its actually crazy how hollywood miseducated so many people to reduce every german soldier to a jew hating monster. private first class frederick zoller and private wilhelm were just soldiers drafted or volunteering serving their country. many didnt believe hitlers ideals, but fought for their country, families or to not get shot for treason.
@@lightup6751 That's not true. People were never shot for treason for that. + Fighting for fascist country = fascist. They were ALL complicit. People could just refuse to serve, as religious groups like Quakers did for one example.
Check out Three Arrows video 'Was every German soldier evil?'
Then there were acts like the famous 1943 Rosenstrasse protest, where thousands of non-Jewish wives and family members of Jewish men protested their arrest until they were released back to them and surprise surprise noone was shot for treason or targeted afterwards. 😳
Always appreciated how Tarantino threw a Heydrich reference in this movie. He was arguably more evil than Hitler or Himmler yet most people forget about him
There's a film with Cillian Murphy called Anthropoid, about operation anthropoid, the assassination of Heydrich. I think Heydrich was the only high ranking nazi member that was assassinated successfully by goverment backed teams. And hitler's retaliation for his assassination was brutal.
Yep, he's forgotten as he didn't last till the end.
@@janetuss6496 It's a really good movie.
If you'll ever go to Prague, visit the museum in the church where the final stand of Heydrich's assassins took place. It's a very interesting place.
@@shurik121 yup, I've seen some info about that church. I would definitely go visit if I ever went to Prague, thanks!
IMHO Tarantino’s pièce de résistance. Some of the best tension and acting ever filmed I’ve seen the strudel and pub scene countless times. This movie wouldn’t have been made if it weren’t for Christoph Waltz. Both times he was in a Tarantino movie he won best supporting actor. It’s entirely possible Landa knew it was her and was just getting off toying with his prey, photographs did exist then and he likely would’ve looked for one just to make sure he can find the one he let go. Like I said I’ve seen it many times and can’t be certain, I like to think he did but thought she wasn’t important
Brad Pit is also in True Romance which Tarantino wrote and sold to have some budget for Reservoir Dogs
Yesssss, he should definitely check out True Romance
The scene is meant to be ambiguous whether he knows who she is. My personal take is that he doesn't recognize her. But he certainly "toyed with his prey" the first time around by letting her go.
God, this movie is stress personified. It rocketed former soap actor Christoph Waltz into the hall of fame.
Tarantino originally wanted to cast Leonardo DiCaprio. And Adam Sandler was originally set to play Donny Donowitz, a.k.a. “The Bear Jew”. I’m happy that didn’t happen.
Sandler would've been legendary what do you mean
Sandler is lowkey a great actor. He's just lost his touch with comedy over the years, but he's always been good in dramatic roles.
idk what you mean, that sounds like it would have been funny as hell.
@@adamolufson7338 But Eli Roth is so great as Bear Jew
@@MFBloosh He actually is a good actor, but Ei Roth was great as The Bear Jew
When Aldo Raine says at the end “I think this might be my masterpiece.” was basically Tarantino saying that.
The reason the spelling in the title is weird is because there is a 1978 Spaghetti Spanish film called “The Inglorious Basterds” which Tarantino took the title from also a World War 2 film.
The man who played Winston Churchill was legendary actor Rod Taylor who starred in the sci fi classic The Time Machine and this was his final film role while Mike Myers was the British General also in that scene giving Fassbender’s character the rundown.
Tarantino is certainly masterful at casting cameo roles 😉
Boi I was JUST thinking today "when is brandon gonna do basterds"
Brandon deserves tons of likes for his reactions, Oblige him!
This movie was nominated for best picture but lost to Hurt Locker. Personally this was my favorite Quentin Tarantino film. Christoph Waltz won the oscar for best supporting actor. The first of two
Hurt Locker sucked
It's honestly shocking that Waltz's win was the films sole Oscar. I saw someone post on a different video that Mark Boal (screenwriter for The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty) and Quentin Tarantino should switch Oscars. Tarantino should have won Best Original Screenplay for this instead of The Hurt Locker, and Mark Boal should have won Best Original Screenplay for Zero Dark Thirty instead of Django Unchained.
@@ClassicalMusic2002 I could get behind that, I also think that same year that Waltz should not have won for his role in Django but instead Philip Seymour Hoffman should have for his role in The Master.
@@danholmesfilm Hurt Locker was fantastic but this should of won. Best Tarantino film imo.
@@system0fadowner251 never been more bored
It amazes me when someone can speak multiple languages like Christoph Waltz does
I remember sitting in the cinema (in Germany). Few people understood how he gave himself away in the "three" scene.
But when the explanation came you could see people all around the theater raising their hands to check how they make a "three" and then silently agreed. Incredible how Tarantino took such an insignificant cultural difference not even many germans would think about and made it a major plot point of his movie.
Oh, it is a known thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
@@nicepunk00 I think he's saying that it's so natural for germans that they don't notice how they do so until someone tells them
@@volosh67gayo49 Of course, I myself tried to make different “threes” after that scene. I was replying to the “insignificant cultural difference” but now I see what they meant. Apologies.
What's interesting is that the four most memorable scenes all involve people sitting and talking at a table. The intro scene in the farmhouse, the scene at the restaurant, the scene at the bar and the scene with Aldo, Landa and Ryan Howard.
tarantino is s damn genius
Oh ok just a random verified person
What the fuck are you doing here indei? Aren't you supposed to be making heroic halo?
To be in the atmosphere of WOII movies, i recommend you also see the movie "Downfall" or the german name "Der Untergang". You see WOII from the german side. Really good acting in that movie.
“Nawww I’ll get chewed out, I’ve been chewed out before.”
I’ve used that line a million times
Smiled as soon as I saw Brandon was watching this. What a brilliant movie.
the dialogue of this movie is just briliant... Tarantino is a genius
When I saw the ending I busted up laughing. That's when I realized this was just a two-hour-long joke by Quentin Tarantino. what a pinchline though.
Also you missed Mike Myers explaining the English plan.
"There's no way he gets out clean with all the horrible stuff he did"
Me knowing what operation paperclip was: 👁👄👁
Christoph Waltz has won more than 60 awards for his performance in this movie.
Masterclass in tension building. Nobody does it better. Every shot in this movie was damn near perfect.
As in every Tarantino film, there’s the
sweetness of retribution. Next...”Hateful Eight”. An epic who-done-it. 😉
"He's talkin' some big talk right now". oh, man do you underestimate the basterds
My personal favorite Tarantino movie, love the reactions. Can't wait for more!
Don't know if this was deliberately edited this way but I love how the subtitles are always made visible despite brandons camera being there.
The theater fire scene is the most satisfying scene in cinema history
This movie is one of the wildest rides I've ever been on. So glad you finally did it and enjoyed it very much. It was everything I expected out of you!
Fun Fact : The scene where Landa chokes the actress, those hands choking her in the close up was actually Quentin Tarantino himself and he told her he will choke her for real as far as she can go and she agreed.
He did it to make it look real to sell the scene
Imagine if someone like Tarantino comes up to you and says "I'm gonna choke ya!", fair play to Diane Kruger for giving her consent to allow him to do it.
the best scene in this whole movie is the one in the cellar/bar with michael fassbender ...its fkn EPIC
Insert Mike Myers British accent:
Well we have all our rotten eggs in one basket. The objective of operation kino? Blowup the basket.
The way i jumped when i got the notification, i---FINALLY BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH TARANTINOOO WHOOHOOO
21:34 - The best 'bonjourno' in cinematic history.
“I think this might just be my masterpiece” i think i agree with Quentin there.
Can't wait for The Hateful 8. Would love to see your reaction to that.
Especially the "your boy" scene
The starting scene is one of my favourites in any movie, its so tense and Christoph Waltz is terrifying.
The "Bear Jew" is Eli Roth - director of the Hostel series, Cabin in the Woods, The Green Inferno, and Death Wish re-make.
The intro sequence and the "3" scene are two of my favorite scenes of all time. They are stuck in my head. Fantastic film making.
So glad Brandon is reacting to this finally, this along with Django and the Kill Bills are my favourite movies from Tarantino
Daniel Brühl was fantastic in this movie, it was his breakout role in American movies. Then his move on to play Zemo, he's one of my favorite characters in the Marvel MCU.
He plays the part perfectly .
I think prior to this he played a minor role in The Bourne Supremacy (had a long scene with Matt Damon)
Always love Tarantino reactions! If there’s any more of his you haven’t seen would love to see your reaction. Can’t quite recall if you’ve seen Django Unchained yet but that’s my personal favorite.
Edit- since you said you haven’t seen Christoph Waltz in anything else I’m guessing not! That’s something to look forward to
Django Unchained YT edit is coming soon, full reaction is available on his Patreon already. Brandon also mentions in the beginning that he has seen Waltz as Blofeld in Spectre.
The fact that Christoph Waltz knew Italian was what solidified his casting of the role
"The German's nickname for me is The Little Man?"
My god I LOVE that opening sort of half hour scene in the farm house. It’s Tarantino literally writing a dissertation on tension, taking Hitchcock’s “bomb under the dinner table” synopsis to whole new heights. In fact QT said in an interview it’s his favourite scene he’s ever made.
a completely ingenious hitchcockian spin the way it wasn't the dreyfus's but rather perrier lapadite that became the proverbial "bomb".
3:50 the other guy is Denis Ménochet, great french actor. I highly recommand "Custody" ( jusqu'à la garde - 2017) and "by the grace of god" (grace à dieu - 2019), where he won 2 cesar (french oscar).
The bar scene is a 25 minute long scene in a single room made captivating by some of the best dialogue ever written
one of Brad Pitt's first roles was True Romance, screenplay by Tarantino. Pitt has a small role as the burnout roommate of Micheal Rappaport's character and is hilarious. Great movie & the cast is incredible, some you won't even recognize. Not to mention one of my favorite fight scenes in a movie ever between James Gandolfini & Patricia Arquette.
Before Gandolfini got fat and ate/drank himself to death
Victor Argo & Kevin Corrigan play the mafia henchman that talk to Pitt. King of NY & Goodfellas, plays Henry’s wheelchair bound bro.
Hans Landa is one of the best movie villains ever. He's so smart and how he loves playing with his prey makes him more intimidating.
Fun Fact: Brad Pitt actually came out in True Romance. He was the stoner on the couch. Tarantino Classic. One of my favorites.
Every scene with Waltz is more intimidating than the last, thanks to his establishing scene. Each time he shows up, your heart beats a bit quicker and your palms get sweaty. Such a great character by Waltz.
The Hugo Stieglitz intro kills me every time 😂
At the start of the movie when hans yells at her when shes running away from the farm, he actually says "Goodbye, until we meet again" this adds to the horror of how much Hans knows and if he knows something
17:06 germans count with their thumb first, so a 3 would be thumb + index finger + middle finger
I remember going to the cinema to watch this on release day. As is normal in a cinema there was quite mumbles and crunching noises as everyone settled down and began eating their snacks. Within just a few minutes the cinema was silent as we all just sat watching that opening scene. There was no crunching to be heard. The man sat next to me had a huge tub of popcorn and he picked up a few pieces in his hand and they were still in his hand when the scene had finished. That's how tense that opening scene was.
Clicked faster than 2 shakes of a lamb's tail.
One of the greatest opening scenes in cinema. I was on the edge of my seat throughout it. This was the first thing I'd seen Christoph waltz in and he is absolutely terrifying in a very cold and calculated way.
28:59 That's Stuntman Mike screaming after getting crashed into at the end of Death Proof
Damn I never noticed that...
"Aaagheughaahh! Be careful, my right arm's broken!" _crack_
Love this film! Hugo Stiglitz in particular is such an interesting background character.
"That would be the dream...owning a cinema..."
Damn, Brandon. Even during COVID you are an optimist
and a dreamer. Don't ever give up those dreams. :)
Christoph Waltz is one of my favorite villain actors! He is SUCH an amazing baddie!! All throughout the film you constantly get the feeling he knows EXACTLY who he's talking to, he let Shoshanna escape, etc. It's also amazing he fluently speaks English, French, and German. Yet he absolutely nailed the Italian. Superb acting and over the top performances.
Brandon- Have you ever seen the movie based on the board game Clue? It's my favorite film of all time and features legendary actors like Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, and Michael McKean (who plays Chuck on Better Call Saul) and is just absolutely fantastic
Brad Pitt was in Tarantino's first film "True Romance." He is subtly fantastic in the film. A scene with him and James Gandolfini is a gem!
The opening of this movie is, in my opinion, is the greatest opening in movie history. There's an interview with Alfred Hitchcock talking about building tension. He uses the example of having two people sitting at a table talking to each other, underneath the table is a ticking time bomb, you show the audience the bomb, but the two people speaking are unaware of its existence and continue the conversation. Tarantino displays this perfectly.
in 2009 my-now wife and i adopted a pair of german shepherd pups. they are named hugo stiglitz and bridget von hammersmark. they're still with us and i love them as much as i love this film
Landa definitely knew it was her, he just didn’t care anymore and was having fun with her.
I love that for the Baftas, the clip they used for Christoph Waltz's performance was the silent stare at in the scene with Shosanna. No line of dialogue needed, and of course, he wins (swept almost every award ceremony)!
This film has the best ending line in film history
“At this range, I’m a real Frederick Zoller” one of my favorite lines
Fun fact: Quentin Tarantino cameos in this one as the first Nazi we see getting scalped.
The fire in the final scene was so intense that it almost got out of control.
One of my favourite films of all time! 😁
From the studio that brought you “a river runs through it” comes the long awaited sequel: “A River Derchi.”
Someone may have mentioned this but originally Tarantino was trying to get Adam Sandler to play the bear jew. But i am happy it went to Eli, although it would have been cool.
It ended up being quite fortuitous as Quentin was also able to have Eli Roth direct the film-within-a-film. It's a subtle thing, but it makes it seem more authentic having someone else film it. So that was definitely a bonus of having Eli onboard.
@@CharmingNewSociety Nice! That's cool to hear, thanks for sharing. Eli nailed the character for sure.
Yes finally, I've been waiting for this ! It's my favorite Tarantino film and Christoph Waltz is just phenomenal in it !