For added backstory for The Bear Jew, he bought that baseball bat while he was still in his hometown in Boston. Before he left to go to war, he went around his Jewish neighborhood and asked his neighbors to write the names of any family members they had that were stuck in Europe. So that's all the writing on the bat. One of the names on the bat was Anne Frank.
@@thosesiblingss You should watch Defiance with Daniel Craig. It is about these Jewish partisans who armed themselves, set up light industry in the woods, staved off the Germans and survived WW2.
@@thosesiblingss This reminds me. Another movie where a character played by Brad Pitt kills a NAZI in an interesting way is called Fury, it is about an American tank crew.
Shosanna's death scene is about empathy, even after all she went through she never completely lost that unlike the Nazis. It's the most beautiful scene in the entire movie.
I think generally the actors in this one perform better than in any other Tarantino piece. It's still a cartoon, but most characters are played straight even when the script gives them ridiculous scenes like the Italian stuff or Fassbender's obvious British accent (to German listeners). Pitt and Wuttke are caricatures, deliberately of course, so you never forget this is a fairy tale.
@@leonh.kalayjian6556 It's a symbiosis. Ever watch great actors in a movie with a terrible script? They sound like terrible actors. Ever seen a movie with a good script but terrible actors? Again, it doesn't work. You need people with charisma and conviction to sell great words and you need great words for an actor's perfomance to work (I know rare performances are just physical, I'm talking in general).
This is my favorite movie ever, as a Jew and an Israeli I always have a blast watching it, it feels like a love letter from Tarantino to our people. Obviuosly we lost a lot of lives in the Holocaust, but European-Jewish people were not completely hopeless, miserabe people, they fought back and they had a strong will to go on, which is not always depicted this bombastically and awesomely in Holocaust/WWII films. It is a very hard-to-swallow movie but the cast is phenomenal. Tarantino almost couldn't make it because he couldn't find an actor who could speak German, French, English and Italian fluently until he came across Christoph Waltz, who is a mind blowing actor, and he's such a gem.
Tarantino deeply understands catharsis in cinema. This movie does for the Holocaust what Django did for American slavery and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood did for the Manson family murders: It stokes a very specific fear, referred trauma and grief then detonates it. He goes in for some cheap thrills and cheap jokes at times, but the man knows people and visual storytelling.
@@lucasgrey9794 As many suspenseful sequences as he has crafted in his career, the suspense he's putting us through right now, about where he stands vis a vis the Palestinians, is his greatest nailbiter yet. He has shown a grasp of what it means to be oppressed and dehumanized, so there's hope that he's not too awash in disinformation to see clearly. But for such an immediate conflict, he'd have to level up as a filmmaker, going beyond the usual grisly revenge fantasy. As pop filmmakers go, this is more a job for Spielberg. If he were brave enough to step out of line like Jonathan Glazer, mountains would move.
The strudel has a deeper meaning. In the original German recipe, it is made with pig lard. So we can safely assume that Landa knew who Shoshana was, and he was toying with her, forcing her to eat something not kosher.
I read that it’s not that the original recipe had lard but in Nazi occupied France there was a dairy shortage so cream was made with lard instead of dairy like it normally was. Maybe I’m wrong 🤷♂️ Edit: Correction, it was that the butter that would typically be used in making the pastry was replaced with lard.
He literally had no clue that was Shoshana. He saw her back from far away, running, covered in dirt/blood. Yeah, he totally knew. /eyeroll Fuck this reddit rumor.
It doesn’t matter what you think of Tarantino personally, the first act of Inglorious Basterds is up there with some of the most intense, well written, well acted and well directed scenes in cinema.
I saw this opening night with a friend who spent some time in Germany for college. When the bar scene came up and he saw Fassbender put up three fingers for the drinks he immediately said “they have been made by the Gestapo officer.” Those next couple of minutes and the aftermath were extremely tense.
Crazy fact about the choking scene at 46:11. That was the director's hands around her neck choking her for real because he always sees choking scenes in movies looking really fake. Also, Christoph Waltz's portrayal of Hans Landa is one of the most terrifying characters in cinema. During the 3 major scenes where it is basically a 1 on 1 conversation, he is in complete control. The line at the start of the movie where he tells the guy, "this is your house, make yourself comfortable" sets his character up perfectly.
@@JustCrashCan you cite the source for this? In every interview I've seen with Diane Kruger about this movie, she's said Terantino came to her and asked her if it was ok for him to actually choke her for the scene. To which she agreed.
That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard if the director really did that. There is no way choke someone without causing serious damage, the windpipe is really fragile. The risk for causing some serious damage just to make something to seem more realistic is never worth it. It’s on the same level as “hey can he stab you so it looks more realistic on film?”
This is my favorite Tarantino film. I personally never felt that Shoshana or Marcel ever intended to make it out of the theater. It always felt like a suicide mission to me. When they embrace and say goodbye to each other, that felt like a final goodbye. Perhaps she expected Marcel to run, but she never planned to make it out alive.
Yeah, he was looking at American special ops troops *in the same building* as Hitler, and even he couldn't keep them out. So, he knew the jig was up, and that all the Americans (and British, and...) would be coming soon and couldn't be stopped. While this is definitely a fairy-tale version of WWII, that was pretty obvious to just about everybody even in the real world.
It doesnt make any sense that he strangles a woman "traitor" 5 minutes before, like he would care (about Nazi Germanys future), and then actively participates in the assassination of Hitler. Tarantino kinda has this thing that he builds up a villain as he is the worst psicopath on earth, and at the end deflates him like a wet fart, it happened with Kill Bill too.
One of the best trivia items regarding this film is the casting of Til Schweiger as Hugo Stiglitz. Throughout his career, Schweiger has steadfastly refused any role that would require him to wear a nazi uniform. He accepted this role and agreed to wear one for the first time ever- only because he would be killing nazis.
22:52 Fun Fact: At that time many Strudels were served with cream that was not vegetable but rather pork lard, that's why Landa insists that she wait for the cream, Landa knows who she could be so he provokes her with the glass of milk and tests her with the cream, the Jews cannot eat anything made of pork so she eats to save her life. In the end it is seen that Landa wanted to tell her about his suspicions but since she ate the Strudel with lard he says that he doesn't remember it and just leaves.
Frederick Zoller was supposed to be the German version of Audie Murphy, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat. Rejected by the Marine Corps for being too small, Murphy joined the U.S. Army as a private, eventually making it to First Leuitenant with a battlefield commission. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for singlehandedly repelling a massive German attack for over an hour, standing on top of a burning tank, firining a .50 caliber machine gun only stopping once he ran out of ammunition. After the war, Audie Murphy portrayed himself in the movie 'To Hell and Back'.
@@paulchavez3039 I don't think you quite understand the greatness of Audie Murphy. There are some his equal but none better , whilst in the sniper world none come close to the " White Death " from Finland depending on source - 500 sniper kills in 100 days plus around 200+ kills in normal battle .
In Jojo Rabbit I spoke about my family and roots. I'm mixed, Jewish grandma and German grandfather. They ran away during the war to another country bc of where things were headed. I gotta say, I love how it feels a bit triumphal to see a channel do well with Jewish siblings, and the topics at hand. It feels like a big $!@%^ to those "basterds" who tried to end a people for us to all now clap and have fun watching a revenge fantasy movie where they get what they deserve. We still have a long way to go towards equality, but it's a great feeling that at least in this moment, and in this way, to all those that died wondering and hoping, we won.
@@lucasgrey9794 I don't see "Israel" anywhere in my comment. Stop trying to conflate subjects for propaganda. But yeah, there are still some "basterds" who are trying to keep us down. So just letting you know too. We won : )
The father of Eli Roth (Donny/"The Bear Jew") is a celebrated psychotherapist. He wrote a great piece for Jewish Journal called "My Son Killed Adolph Hitler" that I think you might enjoy.
@@scottjohnson7248I found Eli Roth a distraction. I was so hyped waiting to see what was gonna walk out of that tunnel. And then....... "Oh, it's the dude that made that piece of crap hostel movie, well that's disappointing".
@@NeilLewis77 Well, you are in the minority. I knew he was a director but the vast majority of people who watched didn't. You can't say the same thing about Adam Sandler who is way more famous.
@@scottjohnson7248 i know but there's two Adam Sandlers isn't there. There's billy Madison Sandler then theres serious punch drunk love, uncut gems Sandler. I think he would of done great. And as far as I'm aware your in the minority about the Mike Myers cameo. I suppose we all have our own opinions buddy.
In the bar the ‘mistake’ he made was holding up 3 fingers to signify the number 3. In Germany they hold up the thumb and 2 fingers. He unknowingly told the Gestapo Officer he wasn’t German.
This film was part of Quentin Tarantino's 'revisionist history' trilogy. Inglourious Basterds is about a fictional company of Nazi killers who end up murdering Hitler while everyone in Hitler's high command are burned alive in a movie theater by an escaped Jewish woman living in Paris. Django Unchained is about a fictional escaped slave joining up with a bounty hunter and ultimately killing a series of slavers and plantation owners to rescue the woman he loves from captivity. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is about a fictional movie star and stunt man who foil the murder of Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson Family. They're movies simply based on the way most of us wished history unfolded during those times. I find the whole trilogy to be fascinating works of art. For a more serious movie about real, historical Jewish heroes exacting vengeance upon a cruel adversary, check out Steven Spielberg's film, Munich. It's very tense and tragic in its own way, with the added weight of being based on true events. Great reaction! It's fun watching you experience these movies through the lens of you cultural heritage.
Having recently discovered some Jewish ancestry I’ve been trying to get more in touch with my heritage and I’ve noticed everything seems to have a new effect on me like affecting me more and I just wanted to say love the channel just subscribed
In real life, there was indeed a Basterds-like unit that consisted of only Jewish men, but they didn't take pleasure in murdering other humans, nor did they have aggrandizing nicknames like “The Bear Jew.” The real Inglourious Basterds true story was that they were a secretive British unit known as X-Troop (via Uproxx) ...Sep 24, 2023
good thing this was a tandem reaction. someone who can fully watch films and is very patient is a good viewing partner to someone who closes their eyes or stops watching at parts they consider unsavory so when the one misses parts of scenes and asks what happened or who did what, the other can recap
Holy Moses, this girl is so squeamish that it kind of took the joy out of me watching this reaction. I had to stop and leave. A TH-cam channel where the reactor can barely watch the movie is not for me at all.
I think what makes Hans Lando so scary as a villlain is that you have to assume that he always knows everything. He doesn't shout, he doesn't scream, he is always smiling, joking and being extra nice and friendly towards everybody. You don't know what he actually thinks. But he is always in total control and you get the feeling that nothing escapes him and that he already knows everybody's secrets. And the smiling contradicts his subtle power moves like when he grabs one of the farmer's daughters by her wrist, asks her father to make himself comfortable in his own home or when he tells Shoshana that she should wait for the cream. One little threat that always gets lost is when Landa tells the farmer that if he will be done quickly and wants to finally close the file on the farmer's family. Also people laugh when Landa takes out his huge pipe. Now, he asked the farmer if it is OK if he smokes as well. But does the farmer really have a choice in the first place? Landa constantly lets the other people know that he is in power but he prefers to maintain appearances. And when he laughs at Bridget von Hammersmark's excuse for her leg and admits that he is just teasing her you know that it's just because he enjoys the hunt so much.
Tarantino is a MASTER of “Tone”, he knows how to make things work together in a film that really shouldn’t, he’ll make you laugh when you feel like you shouldn’t, yet still give the emotional scenes their proper weight & bits of super stylized flair that if anyone else did it, it would come off as cheesy, he makes it cool, it’s so unique to Tarantino.
39:30 I think he's inhaling snuff. It's powdered tobacco and was carried in a small box -- a snuff box. It was an alternative to smoking or chewing tobacco.
The final theater scene is incredibly cathartic, but has fascinated me since I first watched the movie. I don't know if Tarantino did it intentionally, but there is something foreboding about sitting in a theater feeling elated watching a movie theater audience slaughtered on the screen -- when that audience was also elated watching people slaughtered on screen.
The Bear Jew is actor and film maker, Eli Roth - who is also a master of horror films. You'll need to explore him at some time, but 2 other films I can suggest in this "genre" if you haven't already seen them is Schindler's List, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and Sophie's Choice. But prepare yourself...although there is a light at the end of the tunnel at the end of these movies, they will surely bring the tears.
To some commenters: plenty of Jews don't follow kashrut/kosher laws, so the strudel test wouldn't be reliable. I get it's a movie, but just sayin'. My mom used to cook pork chops sometimes, and we often ate shell fish, pepperoni pizza, and cheeseburgers. We ate in non kosher restaurants and friends' houses and didn't give it a thought.
And since it’s permissible to not follow kosher laws to save your life it would make sense that Shoshanna wouldn’t be keeping kosher. I do think it’s interesting to think about what she would be experiencing sitting across from the reason she’s not able to keep kosher (whether she did or didn’t before the war)
Tarantino is truly a master of his craft. The cinematography in his movies is so spot on always. He tells so much story through these shots alone. Christoph Waltz brings home Hans Landa as an antagonist so masterfully, I find his character terrifying despite his situational goofiness. Got an well deserved oscar for his role. And then went to play a completely different role in a Tarantino and took an oscar for that as well just show everyone that his got range. Lol.
Fun fact. The jew bear role was written specifically for Adam Sandler. He was busy doing another film & had to turn it down. He said it was one of his biggest regrets.
Fun fact: Tarantino makes an appearance in the film at 11:27. He’s the first German being scalped. Most people don’t notice it prob because the scalping is gross and looks quite real so you either get distracting or look away lol
Great reaction again guys. Thank you. I think Tarantino did a good job of mixing brutal reality, with unexpected humour, given the subject matter. I have a little bit of Jewish family on my mother's side, and I get that comment about Shosanna not being a common name nowadays, but it was my grandmother's name, and much more common when she was a little girl, I always liked it.
Just watching this as a secular white dude had me in tears at the inhumanity in the first scene. I can't imagine the emotions of someone who would have had family affected by this being able to watch it. You two have some serious courage and mental fortitude. Hats off to the both of you 👍
I'm glad that, like many reactors, you didn't blame the father in the first scene. At the time the movie was released, I've heard often people blaming him, saying he was a coward. But in the end, in that scene, Landa made it clear that he knew, and that not telling him would mean the father and all of his daughters would die, and the people hidden would die anyway because he knew they were there. He had to choose between too terrible options and choose the least terrible. 1 family dying, instead of 2.
Quentin Tarantino is fascinated by words, and this movie plays with accents. The scene in the basement bar was written around actor Michael Fassbender being German, but spent his childhood in Ireland, so he actually does speak fluent German with a weird accent. Brad Pitt has the worst American southern accent ever, and you don't know why until he tries to speak Italian, and then it's hilarious. I don't know of any other movie whose plot depends so much on accents.
Thank you for this reaction. It’s a fascinating and important perspective to have documented on TH-cam. Subscribed, and look forward to your future content. Love to both of you from distant Ireland! 🇮🇪
I hope eventually you watch other Tarantino films for this channel. DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012) will be especially interesting because Christoph Waltz plays a good guy with the same amount of charm and skill as he plays a villain in this film. I think Ayala would enjoy JACKIE BROWN (1997) the most, though, because it’s not a graphically violent movie. It’s primarily story and dialogue. Terrific characters in it.
People have said that Landa pressures her to "wait for the cream" because it's a kosher test: Lard (pork fat) was often used when baking pastries -- and eating that with dairy would of course be prohibited. A Jew might try to avoid it, thinking that he wouldn't understand her reasons (but he would).
That was wonderful how y'all both felt, and admired, Shoshanna's fear and bravery. While having to sit with the monster that murdered her family. Yes, she's so brave. And so strong. ❤
I agree with your brother, people should stop doing spoilers. Your energy is so real. No offense to your brother, who is really good btw, but you’re the reason I subscribed. ❤
that scene in the bar is so good. I love the moment fassbender's character gives himself away, the shot is so good with the number three gesture out of focus in the front of the frame and the nazi officers immideate glance at it. Most people watching has no idea what happened, but everyone knows something happened and the tension thats been building for the entire scene just got amplified tenfold, and you just know this wont end well.
During WWII average soldier Audie Murphy killed 241. He was decorated. After the war he portrayed himself in the Hollywood movie Too Hell And Back (1955). Till the end of his days he suffered from PTSD.
00:23:00 + Years ago I read a comment elsewhere saying that either the dessert or the cream depended on a process involving pig, so he was testing/taunting her with that, also.
I would like to suggest a movie called 12 angry men , there is no one that fly's or no exploding cars just a very smart writing and acting. It is an older movie but still holds up today very well.
The scene where Donny comes walking out of the tunnel gives me chills from the first sound of the bat hitting the wall until the moment the soldier points at the map. It is so well executed. :-)
@@canadiankazz This is a Tarantino flourish, not Landa indicating his knowledge. But it’s ambiguous until Landa leaves (and Shoshanna breathes with relief). Tarantino is using it as a false clue to help build the scene’s tension.
They types of people that feel the need to “warn” others about scenes in movies are not only spoilers but are softer than yogurt and require “trigger warnings” throughout their day to survive ordinary events.
The stuff aldo keeps sniffing up his nose is called snuff. It's a form of powdered tobacco that you can either dip or sniff. My grandmother used to use it.
Would love it if you guys did more Tarantino. Start at the beginning if you want or maybe dip your toe in by checking out Jackie Brown. Its not as gory or "Violent" as some of his other films but it is a very good one. They're all good
It's not easy watching you watch this (or the JoJo Rabbit one as well), knowing the little I know about generational trauma that can be passed down to following generations. **Edit: And, now that I've seen the whole video, I think it's incredibly powerful how you showed us your experience in such a raw and honest way. I married a Jewish woman, since I was a kid early on some kind of affinity to "Jewish humor" from the Borscht Belt through to the comedians I grew up with grew in me and stayed, all my adult life I've been a friend, lover, and husband to various Jewish people from the US, Israel, Soviet Union, and elsewhere. All that went a long way to making it clear to me that I can never even approach any real understanding of what it means to be Jewish in this world. Not only the actual physical changes that are passed down through generations from extreme trauma to those who are born generations later but then add the ever-present reminders that there continue to be far too many people who would easily and gladly do the same right now, today. My wife (we're now divorced) insisted on nailing a mezuzah on the entrance of every home she lived in after she left home, even though she was not a believer or religious at all. She told me, "I want them to know who I am and that I'm not afraid of them!" How can I know how that feels? I can only honor her passion and defiance. I'm a big fan of defiance! And here, all I can do in reaction to this video is honor and salute you for sharing it with us with such vulnerability and honesty. Respect Peace
Great fucking reaction! I'm so happy that you finally got around to seeing this film! I really wished I could have seen your reaction to Django Unchained!
It ok, we both have full-time jobs not including the channel. the TH-cam is something we try to do in our free time. That's why we don't always manage to upload once a week.
Tarantino is a HUGE fan of the Italian director Sergio Leone. The opening sequence was a direct homage tot he opening of _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_ , with the building tension across the dinner table. Much of the music in this movie was done by the composer for Leone's movies, Ennio Morricone, who Tarantino brought out of retirement to compose for this and other films, like _Django_
She was shot and being carried out of the basement. I don’t think many people would think “Oh, let me pick up my shoe and look through the rubble to find that napkin I autographed.” And Aldo wasn’t there when she signed the napkin, so he wouldn’t have known to even look for it.
this is easily one of my favorite movies ever. it's got so many brilliant layers and i have a video essay in the works dissecting Zoller's character and why he makes such an incredible antagonist (even if he's not the primary villain)
came here from the jojo rabbit vid, i didnt realize how good that movie really was definitely subbed. you guys should see valkyrie and fury if you ant to keep going with the ww2 genre
15:12 this soldier is wearing an iron cross 1st class, awarded for bravery, an infantry assault badge in silver and a wound badge in black, indicating he has been wounded at least once.
For added backstory for The Bear Jew, he bought that baseball bat while he was still in his hometown in Boston. Before he left to go to war, he went around his Jewish neighborhood and asked his neighbors to write the names of any family members they had that were stuck in Europe. So that's all the writing on the bat. One of the names on the bat was Anne Frank.
Omg that's such an interesting detail!! Thanks ♥️
Heres another...lee donowitz from true romance is his son
@@thosesiblingss Quentin Tarantino, IMO, is a very odd person.
@@thosesiblingss You should watch Defiance with Daniel Craig. It is about these Jewish partisans who armed themselves, set up light industry in the woods, staved off the Germans and survived WW2.
@@thosesiblingss This reminds me. Another movie where a character played by Brad Pitt kills a NAZI in an interesting way is called Fury, it is about an American tank crew.
Shosanna's death scene is about empathy, even after all she went through she never completely lost that unlike the Nazis. It's the most beautiful scene in the entire movie.
Christoph Waltz's performance in this movie is terrifying, hilarious, and mesmerizing.
Yes but a lot of that is the amazing writing too.
I think generally the actors in this one perform better than in any other Tarantino piece. It's still a cartoon, but most characters are played straight even when the script gives them ridiculous scenes like the Italian stuff or Fassbender's obvious British accent (to German listeners). Pitt and Wuttke are caricatures, deliberately of course, so you never forget this is a fairy tale.
@@leonh.kalayjian6556 It's a symbiosis. Ever watch great actors in a movie with a terrible script? They sound like terrible actors. Ever seen a movie with a good script but terrible actors? Again, it doesn't work. You need people with charisma and conviction to sell great words and you need great words for an actor's perfomance to work (I know rare performances are just physical, I'm talking in general).
A well-earned Oscar.
If you haven't seen it the video analyzing evil : hans landa by the vile eye on youtube is a much watch
Lt. Raine’s final line “I think this might just be my masterpiece,” is really just Tarantino speaking directly to the audience.
Tarantino's not wrong Inglorious bastards and Django Unchained absolutely his best
Which is interesting, it's like he already forgot about Kill Bill.
"My name is Shosanna Dreyfus and this is the face of Jewish vengeance". What a line!
This is my favorite movie ever, as a Jew and an Israeli I always have a blast watching it, it feels like a love letter from Tarantino to our people. Obviuosly we lost a lot of lives in the Holocaust, but European-Jewish people were not completely hopeless, miserabe people, they fought back and they had a strong will to go on, which is not always depicted this bombastically and awesomely in Holocaust/WWII films. It is a very hard-to-swallow movie but the cast is phenomenal. Tarantino almost couldn't make it because he couldn't find an actor who could speak German, French, English and Italian fluently until he came across Christoph Waltz, who is a mind blowing actor, and he's such a gem.
I'm not a huge Tarantino fan, but that first scene is a masterpiece of suspense. Christophe Waltz plays a truly terrifying villain.
Tarantino deeply understands catharsis in cinema. This movie does for the Holocaust what Django did for American slavery and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood did for the Manson family murders: It stokes a very specific fear, referred trauma and grief then detonates it. He goes in for some cheap thrills and cheap jokes at times, but the man knows people and visual storytelling.
So when is Tarantino going to do the same for the victims of Israel's genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza?
@@lucasgrey9794 As many suspenseful sequences as he has crafted in his career, the suspense he's putting us through right now, about where he stands vis a vis the Palestinians, is his greatest nailbiter yet. He has shown a grasp of what it means to be oppressed and dehumanized, so there's hope that he's not too awash in disinformation to see clearly. But for such an immediate conflict, he'd have to level up as a filmmaker, going beyond the usual grisly revenge fantasy. As pop filmmakers go, this is more a job for Spielberg. If he were brave enough to step out of line like Jonathan Glazer, mountains would move.
@@lucasgrey9794 He can start with a movie about what Hamas has done to Palestinians
@@scottjohnson7248 Well, that's starting pretty late in the story.
@@lanolinlight Nah
The strudel has a deeper meaning. In the original German recipe, it is made with pig lard. So we can safely assume that Landa knew who Shoshana was, and he was toying with her, forcing her to eat something not kosher.
The cream or the strudel itself?
I read that it’s not that the original recipe had lard but in Nazi occupied France there was a dairy shortage so cream was made with lard instead of dairy like it normally was. Maybe I’m wrong 🤷♂️
Edit: Correction, it was that the butter that would typically be used in making the pastry was replaced with lard.
And he ordered milk for her.
And you know this, how?
He literally had no clue that was Shoshana. He saw her back from far away, running, covered in dirt/blood. Yeah, he totally knew. /eyeroll Fuck this reddit rumor.
The opening scene of this film-with Landa and the French farmer-is actually used in film schools now as a textbook example of how to build suspense.
It doesn’t matter what you think of Tarantino personally, the first act of Inglorious Basterds is up there with some of the most intense, well written, well acted and well directed scenes in cinema.
I saw this opening night with a friend who spent some time in Germany for college. When the bar scene came up and he saw Fassbender put up three fingers for the drinks he immediately said “they have been made by the Gestapo officer.”
Those next couple of minutes and the aftermath were extremely tense.
That's an awfully formal way to say it. 'Forsooth, they have been made by the Gestapo officer. Thence, they shall all be smited.'
Crazy fact about the choking scene at 46:11. That was the director's hands around her neck choking her for real because he always sees choking scenes in movies looking really fake. Also, Christoph Waltz's portrayal of Hans Landa is one of the most terrifying characters in cinema. During the 3 major scenes where it is basically a 1 on 1 conversation, he is in complete control. The line at the start of the movie where he tells the guy, "this is your house, make yourself comfortable" sets his character up perfectly.
That’s why the actress won’t ever do a movie again with Quentin. He did that without consent, completely disgusting behaviour.
@@JustCrashCan you cite the source for this? In every interview I've seen with Diane Kruger about this movie, she's said Terantino came to her and asked her if it was ok for him to actually choke her for the scene. To which she agreed.
@@JustCrash did you make this up bud?
@@BroomMirdon my bad I’m confusing Diane with Uma. Quention is still a questionable person.
That’s the stupidest thing I ever heard if the director really did that. There is no way choke someone without causing serious damage, the windpipe is really fragile. The risk for causing some serious damage just to make something to seem more realistic is never worth it. It’s on the same level as “hey can he stab you so it looks more realistic on film?”
Yay!!! I love when reactors are quick responders to audience recommendations. I clicked on this with the quickness!!
Hope you enjoyed ❤️
This is my favorite Tarantino film. I personally never felt that Shoshana or Marcel ever intended to make it out of the theater. It always felt like a suicide mission to me. When they embrace and say goodbye to each other, that felt like a final goodbye. Perhaps she expected Marcel to run, but she never planned to make it out alive.
Landa is trying to make his deal in 1944. By that time it was pretty obvious that Germany could not win.
Yeah, he was looking at American special ops troops *in the same building* as Hitler, and even he couldn't keep them out.
So, he knew the jig was up, and that all the Americans (and British, and...) would be coming soon and couldn't be stopped.
While this is definitely a fairy-tale version of WWII, that was pretty obvious to just about everybody even in the real world.
I mean it's brutally honest why he would lmao.
It is alternate history. Look up the meaning.
It doesnt make any sense that he strangles a woman "traitor" 5 minutes before, like he would care (about Nazi Germanys future), and then actively participates in the assassination of Hitler. Tarantino kinda has this thing that he builds up a villain as he is the worst psicopath on earth, and at the end deflates him like a wet fart, it happened with Kill Bill too.
@@Muschelschubs3rLook up the meaning of what. And what alternate history?
One of the best trivia items regarding this film is the casting of Til Schweiger as Hugo Stiglitz. Throughout his career, Schweiger has steadfastly refused any role that would require him to wear a nazi uniform. He accepted this role and agreed to wear one for the first time ever- only because he would be killing nazis.
22:52 Fun Fact: At that time many Strudels were served with cream that was not vegetable but rather pork lard, that's why Landa insists that she wait for the cream, Landa knows who she could be so he provokes her with the glass of milk and tests her with the cream, the Jews cannot eat anything made of pork so she eats to save her life. In the end it is seen that Landa wanted to tell her about his suspicions but since she ate the Strudel with lard he says that he doesn't remember it and just leaves.
Frederick Zoller was supposed to be the German version of Audie Murphy, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat. Rejected by the Marine Corps for being too small, Murphy joined the U.S. Army as a private, eventually making it to First Leuitenant with a battlefield commission. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for singlehandedly repelling a massive German attack for over an hour, standing on top of a burning tank, firining a .50 caliber machine gun only stopping once he ran out of ammunition. After the war, Audie Murphy portrayed himself in the movie 'To Hell and Back'.
I think Audie Murphy was the most decorated American enlisted man in the US Forces .
@@macman1469 in the entire history of the US
@@bakedAK85 even us old Aussies remember Audie Murphy .
It also reminds me of American Sniper
@@paulchavez3039 I don't think you quite understand the greatness of Audie Murphy. There are some his equal but none better , whilst in the sniper world none come close to the " White Death " from Finland depending on source - 500 sniper kills in 100 days plus around 200+ kills in normal battle .
Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but one of actor Christoph Waltz' sons is actually a rabbi.
In Jojo Rabbit I spoke about my family and roots. I'm mixed, Jewish grandma and German grandfather. They ran away during the war to another country bc of where things were headed. I gotta say, I love how it feels a bit triumphal to see a channel do well with Jewish siblings, and the topics at hand. It feels like a big $!@%^ to those "basterds" who tried to end a people for us to all now clap and have fun watching a revenge fantasy movie where they get what they deserve. We still have a long way to go towards equality, but it's a great feeling that at least in this moment, and in this way, to all those that died wondering and hoping, we won.
Why do you people support genocide against other people?
@@lucasgrey9794 You need to look up the word "genocide" and educate yourself
@@scottjohnson7248The UN definition of genocide literally perfectly describes what Israel is doing in the West Bank and Gaza.
@@lucasgrey9794 I don't see "Israel" anywhere in my comment. Stop trying to conflate subjects for propaganda. But yeah, there are still some "basterds" who are trying to keep us down. So just letting you know too. We won : )
The father of Eli Roth (Donny/"The Bear Jew") is a celebrated psychotherapist. He wrote a great piece for Jewish Journal called "My Son Killed Adolph Hitler" that I think you might enjoy.
dude the fact Adam Sandler was supposed to be the bear jew is such a missed opportunity.
@@deathninja16 As fun as seeing Sandler would have been, I think it would have been a major disctraction, like Mike Meyers' cameo.
@@scottjohnson7248I found Eli Roth a distraction.
I was so hyped waiting to see what was gonna walk out of that tunnel.
And then....... "Oh, it's the dude that made that piece of crap hostel movie, well that's disappointing".
@@NeilLewis77 Well, you are in the minority. I knew he was a director but the vast majority of people who watched didn't. You can't say the same thing about Adam Sandler who is way more famous.
@@scottjohnson7248 i know but there's two Adam Sandlers isn't there.
There's billy Madison Sandler then theres serious punch drunk love, uncut gems Sandler.
I think he would of done great.
And as far as I'm aware your in the minority about the Mike Myers cameo.
I suppose we all have our own opinions buddy.
In the bar the ‘mistake’ he made was holding up 3 fingers to signify the number 3.
In Germany they hold up the thumb and 2 fingers.
He unknowingly told the Gestapo Officer he wasn’t German.
the fact that she's clutching an Appa the whole time makes me like her more.
This film was part of Quentin Tarantino's 'revisionist history' trilogy. Inglourious Basterds is about a fictional company of Nazi killers who end up murdering Hitler while everyone in Hitler's high command are burned alive in a movie theater by an escaped Jewish woman living in Paris. Django Unchained is about a fictional escaped slave joining up with a bounty hunter and ultimately killing a series of slavers and plantation owners to rescue the woman he loves from captivity. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is about a fictional movie star and stunt man who foil the murder of Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson Family. They're movies simply based on the way most of us wished history unfolded during those times. I find the whole trilogy to be fascinating works of art. For a more serious movie about real, historical Jewish heroes exacting vengeance upon a cruel adversary, check out Steven Spielberg's film, Munich. It's very tense and tragic in its own way, with the added weight of being based on true events. Great reaction! It's fun watching you experience these movies through the lens of you cultural heritage.
Melanie Laurent was superb, especially at the end of the strudel scene, where she broke down
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Having recently discovered some Jewish ancestry I’ve been trying to get more in touch with my heritage and I’ve noticed everything seems to have a new effect on me like affecting me more and I just wanted to say love the channel just subscribed
In real life, there was indeed a Basterds-like unit that consisted of only Jewish men, but they didn't take pleasure in murdering other humans, nor did they have aggrandizing nicknames like “The Bear Jew.” The real Inglourious Basterds true story was that they were a secretive British unit known as X-Troop (via Uproxx) ...Sep 24, 2023
Sounds not inclusive and diverse enough.
@@PROVOCATEURSK are you saying real war is not inclusive enough? Waaaaaa?
Shoshanana was so strong the entire movie....the one moment...THE ONE MOMENT she shows a hint of weakness it's her end. Beautifully tragic.
good thing this was a tandem reaction. someone who can fully watch films and is very patient is a good viewing partner to someone who closes their eyes or stops watching at parts they consider unsavory so when the one misses parts of scenes and asks what happened or who did what, the other can recap
Holy Moses, this girl is so squeamish that it kind of took the joy out of me watching this reaction. I had to stop and leave. A TH-cam channel where the reactor can barely watch the movie is not for me at all.
I think what makes Hans Lando so scary as a villlain is that you have to assume that he always knows everything. He doesn't shout, he doesn't scream, he is always smiling, joking and being extra nice and friendly towards everybody. You don't know what he actually thinks. But he is always in total control and you get the feeling that nothing escapes him and that he already knows everybody's secrets. And the smiling contradicts his subtle power moves like when he grabs one of the farmer's daughters by her wrist, asks her father to make himself comfortable in his own home or when he tells Shoshana that she should wait for the cream. One little threat that always gets lost is when Landa tells the farmer that if he will be done quickly and wants to finally close the file on the farmer's family. Also people laugh when Landa takes out his huge pipe. Now, he asked the farmer if it is OK if he smokes as well. But does the farmer really have a choice in the first place? Landa constantly lets the other people know that he is in power but he prefers to maintain appearances. And when he laughs at Bridget von Hammersmark's excuse for her leg and admits that he is just teasing her you know that it's just because he enjoys the hunt so much.
Tarantino is a MASTER of “Tone”, he knows how to make things work together in a film that really shouldn’t, he’ll make you laugh when you feel like you shouldn’t, yet still give the emotional scenes their proper weight & bits of super stylized flair that if anyone else did it, it would come off as cheesy, he makes it cool, it’s so unique to Tarantino.
To see Jews getting such pleasure out of this movie gives this Gentile great joy.
You ARE brainwhashed
He was snorting snuff which is finely ground tobacco. You guys are so much fun to watch.
its more of a quick sniff than a snort but yeah you’re right, its snuff.
Both of my great-grandparents were Soviet Jews and fought bravely for the liberation of our land from Nazis! Eternal memory!
39:30 I think he's inhaling snuff. It's powdered tobacco and was carried in a small box -- a snuff box. It was an alternative to smoking or chewing tobacco.
Honestly as jew i bet this film is extra awesome to watch 😂
The final theater scene is incredibly cathartic, but has fascinated me since I first watched the movie. I don't know if Tarantino did it intentionally, but there is something foreboding about sitting in a theater feeling elated watching a movie theater audience slaughtered on the screen -- when that audience was also elated watching people slaughtered on screen.
The Bear Jew is actor and film maker, Eli Roth - who is also a master of horror films. You'll need to explore him at some time, but 2 other films I can suggest in this "genre" if you haven't already seen them is Schindler's List, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and Sophie's Choice. But prepare yourself...although there is a light at the end of the tunnel at the end of these movies, they will surely bring the tears.
To some commenters: plenty of Jews don't follow kashrut/kosher laws, so the strudel test wouldn't be reliable. I get it's a movie, but just sayin'. My mom used to cook pork chops sometimes, and we often ate shell fish, pepperoni pizza, and cheeseburgers. We ate in non kosher restaurants and friends' houses and didn't give it a thought.
And since it’s permissible to not follow kosher laws to save your life it would make sense that Shoshanna wouldn’t be keeping kosher. I do think it’s interesting to think about what she would be experiencing sitting across from the reason she’s not able to keep kosher (whether she did or didn’t before the war)
Tarantino is truly a master of his craft. The cinematography in his movies is so spot on always. He tells so much story through these shots alone. Christoph Waltz brings home Hans Landa as an antagonist so masterfully, I find his character terrifying despite his situational goofiness. Got an well deserved oscar for his role. And then went to play a completely different role in a Tarantino and took an oscar for that as well just show everyone that his got range. Lol.
Fun fact. The jew bear role was written specifically for Adam Sandler. He was busy doing another film & had to turn it down. He said it was one of his biggest regrets.
Fun fact: Tarantino makes an appearance in the film at 11:27. He’s the first German being scalped. Most people don’t notice it prob because the scalping is gross and looks quite real so you either get distracting or look away lol
Actually Tarantino makes 2 appearances in this film
You guys are my new favorite reactors!!!! So glad I found you!
So happy you are here! Welcome 🥰
Great reaction again guys. Thank you. I think Tarantino did a good job of mixing brutal reality, with unexpected humour, given the subject matter. I have a little bit of Jewish family on my mother's side, and I get that comment about Shosanna not being a common name nowadays, but it was my grandmother's name, and much more common when she was a little girl, I always liked it.
Tarantino is a fucking G. Fucking gangsta. This first scene is art.
They were never going to leave that theater. They wanted to ensure that all of the high command were killed.
I found you two on your Jojo Rabbit reaction. I was hoping you'd end up going ahead with this one!
Same and same 😂
Same here
Something about a cute young woman getting so affected she has to close her eyes and squeal with terror. Endearing.
@@leonh.kalayjian6556...this got awkward
Yep same
Just watching this as a secular white dude had me in tears at the inhumanity in the first scene. I can't imagine the emotions of someone who would have had family affected by this being able to watch it. You two have some serious courage and mental fortitude. Hats off to the both of you 👍
"The banality of evil" in our family we used to say a Jewish pessimist would say things cannot get worse The optimist says yes they can.
Hi its me Gili, big fan!
i would like to ask the one with beard and glasses...
can i use cff explorer ?
You can👍
I'm glad that, like many reactors, you didn't blame the father in the first scene. At the time the movie was released, I've heard often people blaming him, saying he was a coward.
But in the end, in that scene, Landa made it clear that he knew, and that not telling him would mean the father and all of his daughters would die, and the people hidden would die anyway because he knew they were there. He had to choose between too terrible options and choose the least terrible. 1 family dying, instead of 2.
Quentin Tarantino is fascinated by words, and this movie plays with accents. The scene in the basement bar was written around actor Michael Fassbender being German, but spent his childhood in Ireland, so he actually does speak fluent German with a weird accent. Brad Pitt has the worst American southern accent ever, and you don't know why until he tries to speak Italian, and then it's hilarious. I don't know of any other movie whose plot depends so much on accents.
Pitt is from oklahoma
Thank you for this reaction. It’s a fascinating and important perspective to have documented on TH-cam. Subscribed, and look forward to your future content. Love to both of you from distant Ireland! 🇮🇪
Big fan of the channel guys keep it up!
Yes, yes, yes! Thank you for enjoying this with me, it letting me enjoy this with you!
Totally awesome that you put a timer up during the commercial part. For once I actually stayed, instead of fast-forwarding like usual. A+
I hope eventually you watch other Tarantino films for this channel. DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012) will be especially interesting because Christoph Waltz plays a good guy with the same amount of charm and skill as he plays a villain in this film.
I think Ayala would enjoy JACKIE BROWN (1997) the most, though, because it’s not a graphically violent movie. It’s primarily story and dialogue. Terrific characters in it.
People have said that Landa pressures her to "wait for the cream" because it's a kosher test: Lard (pork fat) was often used when baking pastries -- and eating that with dairy would of course be prohibited. A Jew might try to avoid it, thinking that he wouldn't understand her reasons (but he would).
I didn’t learn I had significant Jewish heritage until recently, but I always loved this movie.
I love it more now.
That was wonderful how y'all both felt, and admired, Shoshanna's fear and bravery. While having to sit with the monster that murdered her family.
Yes, she's so brave. And so strong. ❤
I’m so excited that you did decide to watch this, it’s truly an incredible film. Love y’all’s reviews!
The stuff he was sniffing is called Snuff, a ground up tobacco product that’s gone out of style.
I agree with your brother, people should stop doing spoilers. Your energy is so real. No offense to your brother, who is really good btw, but you’re the reason I subscribed. ❤
Thanks 🤭 happy to have you here!!❤️
that scene in the bar is so good.
I love the moment fassbender's character gives himself away, the shot is so good with the number three gesture out of focus in the front of the frame and the nazi officers immideate glance at it.
Most people watching has no idea what happened, but everyone knows something happened and the tension thats been building for the entire scene just got amplified tenfold, and you just know this wont end well.
I'm new here. Has anyone brought up Band of Brothers or have they seen it already?
I first watched your video of my favorite movie JOJO Rabbit. I'm so excited to see this one. Pressing play now.
During WWII average soldier Audie Murphy killed 241. He was decorated. After the war he portrayed himself in the Hollywood movie Too Hell And Back (1955). Till the end of his days he suffered from PTSD.
His name is even mentioned in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Great reaction. Especially during the movie theater scene, it was moving to watch you. You have a new subscriber.
just found yall, i love you. thank you for the smiles
00:23:00 + Years ago I read a comment elsewhere saying that either the dessert or the cream depended on a process involving pig, so he was testing/taunting her with that, also.
göbbels sex scene was the most unexpected thing to happen in this movie
btw, no one could have known that landa speaks perfect roman Italian 😂
Have you two already watched The Producers?
I would like to suggest a movie called 12 angry men , there is no one that fly's or no exploding cars just a very smart writing and acting. It is an older movie but still holds up today very well.
The scene where Donny comes walking out of the tunnel gives me chills from the first sound of the bat hitting the wall until the moment the soldier points at the map. It is so well executed. :-)
In the restaurant scene the strudel was made with lard (animal fat). He was seeing if she would eat it because with the cream it's not kosher.
Also, if we believe the theory that he knows it's Shoshana the whole time, because the cream is a reminder of the dairy where her family died.
Nonsense. There are many kinds of shortening which can be used to make strudel. You are splashing around a "TH-camr rumor" as if it was fact.
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523oh no, the horror!!
@@canadiankazz This is a Tarantino flourish, not Landa indicating his knowledge. But it’s ambiguous until Landa leaves (and Shoshanna breathes with relief). Tarantino is using it as a false clue to help build the scene’s tension.
They types of people that feel the need to “warn” others about scenes in movies are not only spoilers but are softer than yogurt and require “trigger warnings” throughout their day to survive ordinary events.
Loved your Jo Jo react. I am here because of that vid. So nice to subscribe. 🥰
Happy you are here as well🤭❤️
Fun fact, the original casting had Adam Sandler playing the bear Jew but he had another movie filming at the same time and opted out
The stuff aldo keeps sniffing up his nose is called snuff. It's a form of powdered tobacco that you can either dip or sniff. My grandmother used to use it.
Which version the movie is this? It has dialogue that I don’t remember
There is only one version
@Those Siblings Nice choice of face shield for scary parts,
an Air Bison like Appa is a good companion / guardian for you.
Indeed he is!🥰🤭
@thosesiblingss I'm glad somebody else said something, Is that a plush version of Sokka's drawing of Appa? that's all I could think when I saw it.
Would love it if you guys did more Tarantino. Start at the beginning if you want or maybe dip your toe in by checking out Jackie Brown. Its not as gory or "Violent" as some of his other films but it is a very good one. They're all good
It's not easy watching you watch this (or the JoJo Rabbit one as well), knowing the little I know about generational trauma that can be passed down to following generations.
**Edit: And, now that I've seen the whole video, I think it's incredibly powerful how you showed us your experience in such a raw and honest way. I married a Jewish woman, since I was a kid early on some kind of affinity to "Jewish humor" from the Borscht Belt through to the comedians I grew up with grew in me and stayed, all my adult life I've been a friend, lover, and husband to various Jewish people from the US, Israel, Soviet Union, and elsewhere. All that went a long way to making it clear to me that I can never even approach any real understanding of what it means to be Jewish in this world. Not only the actual physical changes that are passed down through generations from extreme trauma to those who are born generations later but then add the ever-present reminders that there continue to be far too many people who would easily and gladly do the same right now, today.
My wife (we're now divorced) insisted on nailing a mezuzah on the entrance of every home she lived in after she left home, even though she was not a believer or religious at all. She told me, "I want them to know who I am and that I'm not afraid of them!" How can I know how that feels? I can only honor her passion and defiance. I'm a big fan of defiance!
And here, all I can do in reaction to this video is honor and salute you for sharing it with us with such vulnerability and honesty.
Respect
Peace
Great fucking reaction! I'm so happy that you finally got around to seeing this film! I really wished I could have seen your reaction to Django Unchained!
If you dont mind me asking, do you guys work a job or do youtube full time?
It ok, we both have full-time jobs not including the channel.
the TH-cam is something we try to do in our free time. That's why we don't always manage to upload once a week.
@thosesiblingss k cool. Thanks for the reply!
Tarantino is a HUGE fan of the Italian director Sergio Leone. The opening sequence was a direct homage tot he opening of _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_ , with the building tension across the dinner table. Much of the music in this movie was done by the composer for Leone's movies, Ennio Morricone, who Tarantino brought out of retirement to compose for this and other films, like _Django_
The Bear Jew part was apparently originally written for ADAM SANDLER
Loved your reaction. Such a brutal, intense, and cinematic movie. SUBSCRIBED :D
Welcome!!🥰
This was an awesome reaction! Love the ending discussion ❤
I love you including the scenes where Brad Pitt points out repeatedly the problems with “FIGHTING IN THE BASEMENT!” He knew.
She was shot and being carried out of the basement. I don’t think many people would think “Oh, let me pick up my shoe and look through the rubble to find that napkin I autographed.” And Aldo wasn’t there when she signed the napkin, so he wouldn’t have known to even look for it.
Great job Ayala and Ron. Can't wait for more reactions.
this is easily one of my favorite movies ever. it's got so many brilliant layers and i have a video essay in the works dissecting Zoller's character and why he makes such an incredible antagonist (even if he's not the primary villain)
He's from Argentina, descendant of Germans who escaped there during the end of the war. Creepy huh??
came here from the jojo rabbit vid, i didnt realize how good that movie really was definitely subbed. you guys should see valkyrie and fury if you ant to keep going with the ww2 genre
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15:12 this soldier is wearing an iron cross 1st class, awarded for bravery, an infantry assault badge in silver and a wound badge in black, indicating he has been wounded at least once.
Thank you for being so honest about having seen the movie. I would rather that than lie about it for views. Great reaction!
I just love that 'masterpiece' at the end...
nice job. ✔
Why does she even make a reaction video about the movie if she closes her eyes for half the movie?
I just discovered this channel.
What a show! Loved your reaction.
Shalom.
Welcome!!❤️