Fun fact: Hugo Stiglitz was played by Til Schweiger, a well-known actor and director in German cinema. For most of his career, he has absolutely refused to take any role requiring him to wear a Nazi uniform. He agreed to do so in this film only because he would be killing Nazis.
The moment Chrisoph busts out fluent Italian was the moment he became my favourite actor. Not for the Italian itself, but for the extra dimension it gave the character of Hans Landa - always brutally one step ahead.
It's when you knew he lied about his French _because_ he knew the people who were hiding didn't speak English. Landa knows none of the basterds speaks Italian.
Mike Myers used to watch old World War II movies with his dad. He told Tarantino that he wanted to play the British general who gives the orders at headquarters as a tribute to his dad who passed away.
The best part of that scene was that the three of them in that room were not British at all. Mike Myers is Canadian, Rod Taylor is Aussie, and Mike Fassbender is German. Michael Fassbender is basically a German acting like an English acting like a German, very Tropic Thunder-esque.
@@majimasmajimemes1156 It's specially funny also in Mexico, cause Hugo Stiglitz is a famous 70's/80's mexican actor (specially in B movies). He's actually the reason why Tarantino named the character (he found it weird that a mexican actor had that name and it stuck with him).
To me, this is Tarantino's best film. It represents a culmination of Tarantino's skills he's developed over the years: dialog, build up of tension, camera movement and direction in general, squeezing the absolute best out of his actors... Actually, Tarantino might agree with this take as well with the last line of the movie, "...this very well may be my masterpiece..."
Agree in toto. It’s arguably the best opening scene in film history too. There may be some who are as good, but in my opinion, nobody is a better actor than Christoph Waltz. He is astonishing.
Hans Landa is the greatest antagonist I’ve ever seen in film. He has everything you want in a great bad guy. Intelligent, composed, and ruthless. Once he knows he’s beaten you in a given moment, he holds you inside that moment in such a taunting way, yet he knows when to cut the shit and secure victory before the taunting goes too far. I’m so thankful this character was created during Christoph Waltz’s career. Absolutely one of the best performances by an actor I have ever experienced.
Fun fact for you: this was the first of two films directed by Quentin Tarantino that actor Christoph Waltz (who plays Hans Landa) won an oscar for, the other being Django Unchained, two very different roles to boot, in I.B. Christoph plays an evil, apathetic character, while in D.U. he played a good and empathetic character, and was convincing in both roles, great actor.
Tarantino had worked on the script for an insane length of time, and he knew precisely what he wanted from his Hans Landa, including the ability to speak German, French, and English fluently. Coming down toward the scheduled start of shooting, Tarantino still hadn't found the Landa he wanted, and he said if the perfect Landa wasn't found, he'd scrap the project. He found his Landa.
Frederick Zoller is played by Daniel Brühl, he's been in quite a few films you may have seen him in including, Captain America Civil War, Rush, Burnt etc.
I was delighted to see many other small German actors beside Brühl and Schweiger popping up in side roles that i recognized from somewhere. The hauptmann recognizing Zoller/Brühl in the cafe is Ludger Pistor from "Balko" and he also played the Swiss banker in Casion Royale. Also the comedian Zack Michalowski, the small soldier they make fun of during the guessing game. Then Augusut Diehl from "23-Nichts ist wie es scheint" and of course Anna Pallaske from "Fuck Ju Goethe"
yeah rush movie...i dont give a damn about formula 1, zero interest.but that movie was done soo well.daniel played niki lauda perfectly, that cold ambition...
Each chapter is a mini movie unto itself & they tie in nicely for the big picture. On first watch, the opening scene at the farm, WOW, shout-out to Denis Ménochet. That farmer could be any of us in the same situation with such an impossible choice. You could see his heart break, awesome performances by Christoph & Denis.
At that point it could be argued he was not betraying them. Landa already knew they were there, he only wanted to prove it in a dramatic way for his ego's sake. It satisfied him to break the farmer, but he would have just as gladly killed him and his daughters
31:10 The glove gun is an actual real world WW2 weapon, designed for clandestine use. It's actual name is the Sedgley OSS .38 or Sedgley Fist Gun. It was designed for the Pacific Theater, with the purpose of assassination and covert operations. Not many of the weapons were manufactured, and they would be issues as a single glove, not in pairs.
Landa is pure id - pure self-interest. By the time he kills Bridget, he already knows that he's going to sell out the Nazis for his little house in New York or whatever - he didn't even really need to interrogate her, and didn't have to kill her at all. But he wanted to! and this way he gets his little house, gets to be the hero, and gets to strangle a pretty lady. His character makes perfect sense when you see him as a very capable person without loyalty to anything but his most basic desires.
I had heard it was different -- to him, it's all a game, but she couldn't continue it; he was mad that it couldn't continue. It insulted his intellect, so he killed her for it. But the self-interest idea does make sense.
there's pretty strong historical precedence for people like this in the nazi party; iirc Eichmann wasn't a raving madman, not especially anti semitic, and didn't really believe in the party ideology all that much. He still commited atrocities all the same because he saw a social/political ladder he could climb up, and didn't care what he did to get up it. A ruthless opportunist. Its really quite horrifying
Interesting takes here! I always figured from his "she got what she deserved" line that he really felt strongly about her being a traitor, although I could have selectively interpreted him as having such integrity just because I can't help but like the evil bastard so damn much. And now that I think about it, that would be awfully logically inconsistent with his final move of betrayal himself, so it's not like there's integrity either way lol. Yeah I think self-serving psychopath is about right
I was initially sceptical about casting Til Schweiger, he usually plays comedic or cringy roles in German movies and shows and doesn't have a very impressive tone of speech. But given that the character of Hugo Stigliz is clearly somewhat mad and deranged, his acting did fit the role quite well after all.
I thought he was such a badass when I first saw it. I've since moved to Germany and find it funny how much my perception changed. He's basically the go to guy for crappy rom coms.
The opening scene of this movie is one of the most psychologically intense I have ever witnessed. I could watch it over and over for how good it is. The rest of the movie is indeed entertaining and one of Tarantino‘s finest. But that opening scene, holy fuck me in the balls is that excellent.
The First scalping you see, 7:50, was Quentin Tarantino himself. Christof actually speaks English, German and French fluently, but only a bit of Italian.
I love how many details are put into the movie. My two favorites: Hans Landa: Says «Adieu» (Goodbye) to the Jews he killed and «Au revoir» (Until we see us again) to Shosanna. Putting the thumb, index finger and the middle finger as the German «3». To me it is just natural. (Who starts to count with the second finger (index finger)?)
It isn't counting, though. Counting is if you raise each finger one at a time. This is representing three, so the British way is closer to showing 3 in Roman numerals: III.
This movie has so many scenes in which the tension is absolutely palpable and the comedy or even unintentional comedy is great. This is one of my all time favorite films.
That dude you recognisise is Baron Zemo from Cap. America Civil War and Falcone/Winter Soldier. Also, Eli Roth, The Bear Jew, directed the propaganda films that play in the theatre perfectly aping the actual film makers style. It's as technical and skilled a feat as there ever was in filmmaking.
OMG, you're killing me! You say the most double entendres every time I look away. "Huge pockets with that big 'ole pipe in there." And she's like "please be swollen! Please be swollen! Please be swollen!" I only have so much soda to spray out my nose.
6:05 -- RE: "Au revoir, Shoshanna!" ; A: I noticed by the reaction that this is a bit mysterious, as in, why doesn't he shoot? The answer is dependent upon exact knowledge of French and its relationship to English. While we say "Goodbye", a literal translation of the French idiom into English would have us say "Until you and I see each other again", because Voir means See. He doesn't feel it is necessary to press his advantage, since more than 80% of his day's work has already been completed. There's no need to rush himself out of a job, in other words...
^^ Funny side note: English didn't lose this sense of the phrase "Goodbye" either. One of the funny cliched sayings I've known for years is the following pun: "See you later!" - "Not if I sees you first!" (sometimes while hugging, since Sees and Seize sound alike.)
The bear Jew is played by writer/director Eli Roth (cabin Fever, Hostel, The Green Inferno). Roth was also in Death Proof and Tarantino executive produced Hostel
I think Shosanna was indeed planning to go down with the theater in her plan. I feel like she probably felt like if she tried to include an escape for herself in the plan, there would be a chance that that would lead somehow to the Nazi's in the theater finding that same escape, however small that chance. So she was willing to sacrifice her life if that meant the deaths of Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany's leadership. I think another point of evidence to this is when they show Marcel starting the fire, burning the film prints, to me that scene and the way the actor played it out, it too felt like someone who knows he's going to sacrifice his life. And the film tells us that he and Shosanna are lovers, so I doubt that she would ask him to kill himself for her revenge while not also asking herself the same thing. So she would've died either way, though you could say it's still a tragedy in the sense that she didn't get to first hand see the fruits of her revenge play out, but I think at the end of the day she'd just be happy all the Nazis died. Just some other random thoughts about the movie. I think the word you're looking for in describing Hans Landa is charismatic. He's so evil, yet charismatic. The funniest thing about Brad Pitt's Italian comment is that the characters speak it from best to worst in reverse order. Brad Pitt is the worst by far, Eli Roth is a little better, and the third guy was actually okay, that's why Hans was so amused by Brad's Italian, a little by Eli, and then was like, "Oh okay," with the third guy. Fassbender's character and his role in this film is fascinating. He's almost a red herring. Here comes this charming, good looking hero character and the audience almost feels safe. However it's his accent that raises the Officer's suspicion, it's his finger counting that gives away the tell. He's someone who looks the part, but actually isn't the real deal (which is kinda a meta commentary about actors, considering his character's background was in film studies). It's kinda like Psycho where the film misleads you by making you think this character will be one of your main heroes, and then he gets killed midway through the film. Also the way they count makes more sense when you consider they start counting on their hands with their thumb, not their index finger.
Well said all around. Especially love the bit about Fassbender. I've seen this movie a bunch and I love it, and I'd noticed that the tension and surprise is really tasty because we're so well set up to expect him to remain part of things through the end ... but I never thought about his arc being a subversion of/commentary on that trope. Heck, now that I think on it in context with all the goofy aloof exaggerated Britishness and all that, it's so blindingly obvious that it's like he's almost lampooning James Bond a bit or something lol, except with film snobbishness! I can't believe I never noticed before! 😂 I guess it's because I've pretty much never seen any of those sorts of movies so I only know character info secondhand and don't generally notice allusions unless they're pointed out. XD
A few things though. Brad Pitts character clearly could follow Italian the best, he can answer the questions. The second best is doing his very best to follow the conversation. The worst just puts on a poker face but does not understand a thing that is being said. So Pitt is asked for his name, he gives his name and some other answers. The second one does his best to keep up. The third one nails the accent, but clearly does not know how obvious it was that their cover is blown wide open because the amount of words he understood can be counted on his hands. And Landa is not some run of the mill charismatic evil. He is the self centered evil. He hunts Jews because it paid him well. He hunts Hitler because it paid him well. He is, an Inglorious Bast**d. And that is absolutely fine
If you like Quentin Taratino, watch Hateful Eight by him. He uses the same ingredients as Reservoir Dogs, by setting it in one location and is a mystery based plot line. A brilliant movie.
@@JasonHauser125 all three of those films are my favourites too. They all have that 100% genuine Quentin feel to them. His own work really does shine through in these movies. Master class screen writing and casting for each of those movies.
You guys are great at this!! I love how he's able to not say anything when he knows what's going to happen, I always tell everybody ' oh this is the good part ' lol thanks for a great channel
Fun Fact for your husband: the fist gun used in the film was a REAL weapon made by the OSS during WWII. It’s called the Sedgley Fist Gun and it was made for the US Marines and Navy. The idea was that in case guys were captured by the Japanese, the pilot would punch someone and kill them with a single shot from a .38 Special. Only around 50-200 were made and the idea was never successful.
Apparently, the "Bear Jew", played by Eli Roth, was actually supposed to be played by Adam Sandler. Unfortunately, Sandler was working on FUNNY PEOPLE at the time and couldn't be in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (frankly, I can actually see him in this role; would've been insanely cool)
It’s barbaric that they sensationalize and glorify the killing of German soldiers who may have not been Nazi’s. The ordinary soldier of the Wehrmacht was only following orders, like the brave U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.
@@lewstone5430 It has nothing to do about the killings of the so-called ordinary soldier of the Wehrmacht, but about the killings of the SS, and that's a whole different division!
Jim Bridger ( played by Brad Pitt ) was a real person. That scar on Brad's neck was there because Jim Briger had the same real life scar . He was the victim of an attempted lynching, which caused his scar. When he sniffed that tobacco up his nose during the scene with Bridget VanHammersmark, the real Jim Bridger did the same
@callmecatalyst Yeah, some directors do horrible things to the actors, treating them like props, must feel really dehumanizing. I always think about the actors in the movie The Abyss, great movie but some of those people nearly died.
saw this movie back in 2009 in the theater here in Germany. I seemed to be the only one getting the "ordering" problem. its funny how the world works: I would never think of ordering 3 glasses the American way. it feels unnatural to me like the German way does to you.
I saw this in Germany and in the US. In Germany the movie theatre gasped seeing the incorrect three. Everybody knew Hellstrom (August Diehl, a very accomplished stage and TV actor) meant business. Also funny: The American way for many hand gestures is often the most unnatural and feels totally wrong in terms off muscle movement. The German way for numbers is simple and logical: 1 = thumb 2 = thumb + index finger 3 = thumb + index finger + middle finger 4 = thumb + index finger + middle finger + ring finger 5 = thumb + index finger + middle finger + ring finger + little finger Also: Germans, at least traditionally as it is supposed to be done, do not show the palm of the hand but always show the back of the hand towards someone else when indicating numbers.
When they showed this in college, everybody cheered like crazy when they shot Hitler and the theatre burned down. That’s one of the best parts of Tarantino movies, catharsis when bad guys die.
You said super-fun and that is the secret of Tarantino's cinema--despite all the n-words and f-words and all the violence, his films are essentially comedies and are wildly entertaining.
11:57 Daniel Brühl, he played Baron Helmut Zemo in Captain America: Civil War and in the Disney+'s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series, I think he played a chef critic in the film "Burn" opposite Bradley Cooper, and he played real life German race car driver Niki Lauda in the biopic "Rush" with Chris Hemsworth. Coincidentally, he appears in movies with other actors who appear in Marvel movies as well.
Tarantino almost canceled this movie because he needed the perfect actor for Hanz Landa. When he watched Christopher Waltz audition he knew he had his movie! Hence why he was also a main in Django Unchained
Tarantino likes the “Once Upon a Time” prefix as a tribute to spaghetti western director Sergio Leone. He made the amazing western “Once Upon a Time in the West” and the criminally underrated mob movie “Once Upon a Time in America.”
Daniel Brühl is the actor you didn't remember, he's a phenomenal actor! He plays Baron Zemo in the MCU. Showed up recently in the new series 'Falcon and the Winter Solider' on Disney Plus!
Mélanie Laurent as Shoshana. She is one beautiful lady. This film is sooo good. Tarantino at his usual greatness! And Christoph Waltz. What can you say about perfection. Great review/reaction!
One of the best opening scene in any movie ever, and your comment is "that sucks". You better go back to watching "Convoy" or something else you can relate to.
Love this movie. Tarantino using Hitchcock's style of suspense and reveal with the family beneath the floor boards, so good. Reservoir Dogs next to see how he started out!
pretty certain Shoshauna knew she was gonna die, just taking out as many Nazi as she could. Not being shot before the finale. There many dark humor moments in this. Very well acted and written.
I heard that Christoph Waltz was choose because of his ability to speak perfectly german, french and english and as a native french speaker he almost have no accent but it sound like he’s strange a bit which is great for his acting !
Damn, now when I watch this movie (which is often), I have no choice but to rewatch your view of it.. Adds to the experience, Thanks again for awesomeness👍
The commitment to detail is simply incredible. The story behind finding Landa is incredible. The film is incredible. My favorite is Pulp Fiction, but this is EASILY Tarantino's greatest piece of work.
14:46 the music theme when Hans Landa shows up is "Relentless Attack" by Charles Bernstein, th-cam.com/video/9_geccAL0_A/w-d-xo.html it is from the 1982 horror film based on a true story, called "The Entity" where Barbara Hershey plays Carla Moran, the real life woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted by a ghost repeatedly in October 1976. Quentin Tarantino likes to take theme songs from other TV shows and films to put in his films. He is a big movie freak, whose education actually comes from working at a video store since he does not hold a film degree.
Fun fact: Hugo Stiglitz was played by Til Schweiger, a well-known actor and director in German cinema. For most of his career, he has absolutely refused to take any role requiring him to wear a Nazi uniform. He agreed to do so in this film only because he would be killing Nazis.
That’s awesome
Hell yeah, is he German Jewish like yours truly as well? P
that is a fun fact. -jc
That's something I can totally respect.
@@EdithCardellini Fun Fact. Nobody in Germany respects Til Schweiger. 😂 He is unpopular with us.
The moment Chrisoph busts out fluent Italian was the moment he became my favourite actor. Not for the Italian itself, but for the extra dimension it gave the character of Hans Landa - always brutally one step ahead.
Yes he blown my mind when i got the dvd watched it un-dubbed , back then i watched it at the movie in italian dub.
It's when you knew he lied about his French _because_ he knew the people who were hiding didn't speak English. Landa knows none of the basterds speaks Italian.
Christoph is not fluent in Italian, but he CAN mimic it, and speak Italian words in an Italian accent. He's only fluent in English, German and French.
It wasn’t Italian, he said he spoke Spanish and just mumbled through it to make it sound Italian.
Mike Myers used to watch old World War II movies with his dad. He told Tarantino that he wanted to play the British general who gives the orders at headquarters as a tribute to his dad who passed away.
The best part of that scene was that the three of them in that room were not British at all. Mike Myers is Canadian, Rod Taylor is Aussie, and Mike Fassbender is German.
Michael Fassbender is basically a German acting like an English acting like a German, very Tropic Thunder-esque.
and the character's surname, Fenech, is a tribute to the actress Edwige Fenech
@@BrahmaDBA Both of Mike Myers’s parents were British though, even if he himself was not naturalized as such.
You left out the most important detail! Both of Mike Myers’s parents were British veterans of World War II. 🙂
@@BrahmaDBA well, Fassbender is both an Irish and German Citizen. But you make a great point about that scene.
The “Hugo Stiglitz” introduction is hilarious and never gets old. I love this movie!👍😂
It's especially funny cause in Germany we all wish Til Schweiger (the actor playing Stiglitz) had this much expression in his own films.
@@majimasmajimemes1156 😂👍
@@majimasmajimemes1156 It's specially funny also in Mexico, cause Hugo Stiglitz is a famous 70's/80's mexican actor (specially in B movies). He's actually the reason why Tarantino named the character (he found it weird that a mexican actor had that name and it stuck with him).
@@majimasmajimemes1156 It's what a great director brings to a movie, what he can get out of his actors. In fact, QT is an auteur, not just a director.
Say auf wiedersehen to your Nazi balls
To me, this is Tarantino's best film. It represents a culmination of Tarantino's skills he's developed over the years: dialog, build up of tension, camera movement and direction in general, squeezing the absolute best out of his actors... Actually, Tarantino might agree with this take as well with the last line of the movie, "...this very well may be my masterpiece..."
Agree in toto. It’s arguably the best opening scene in film history too. There may be some who are as good, but in my opinion, nobody is a better actor than Christoph Waltz. He is astonishing.
Definitely peak Tarantino
I think Once Upon A Time in Hollywood just might be his best, as it is extremely controversial social commentary, coming from a place of love.
Even Tarantino says: 34:05
Fuck no
that italian sequence never fail to make me cry laugh... and in contrast the opening scene never fail to make my heart race
Christoph Waltz absolutely NAILED, NAILED the lines.
Bone Jeaorno
@@XanderShiller A River Dercy
@@TheAndre8900 Yessss
What makes it over the top hilarious is that Landa knows and they know Landa knows and they're still forced to kind of just play along.
The way language is used in this movie, is a character completely unto itself. So well executed imo.
Very true.
Hans Landa is the greatest antagonist I’ve ever seen in film. He has everything you want in a great bad guy. Intelligent, composed, and ruthless. Once he knows he’s beaten you in a given moment, he holds you inside that moment in such a taunting way, yet he knows when to cut the shit and secure victory before the taunting goes too far.
I’m so thankful this character was created during Christoph Waltz’s career. Absolutely one of the best performances by an actor I have ever experienced.
With respect to Hans Gruber. Both German and both named Hans.
Fun fact for you: this was the first of two films directed by Quentin Tarantino that actor Christoph Waltz (who plays Hans Landa) won an oscar for, the other being Django Unchained, two very different roles to boot, in I.B. Christoph plays an evil, apathetic character, while in D.U. he played a good and empathetic character, and was convincing in both roles, great actor.
In both roles He Tracks down people for a living. 🤷🏻♂️
@@fritzkaraldo8452 but plays them different
It's not fun.
Hi, French viewer here Christoph Waltz's French is actually very very good if you're wondering :)
"Nah, more like chewed out. I been chewed out before."
L O V E I T !
Tarantino had worked on the script for an insane length of time, and he knew precisely what he wanted from his Hans Landa, including the ability to speak German, French, and English fluently. Coming down toward the scheduled start of shooting, Tarantino still hadn't found the Landa he wanted, and he said if the perfect Landa wasn't found, he'd scrap the project.
He found his Landa.
Frederick Zoller is played by Daniel Brühl, he's been in quite a few films you may have seen him in including, Captain America Civil War, Rush, Burnt etc.
Helmut Zemo
I was delighted to see many other small German actors beside Brühl and Schweiger popping up in side roles that i recognized from somewhere. The hauptmann recognizing Zoller/Brühl in the cafe is Ludger Pistor from "Balko" and he also played the Swiss banker in Casion Royale. Also the comedian Zack Michalowski, the small soldier they make fun of during the guessing game. Then Augusut Diehl from "23-Nichts ist wie es scheint" and of course Anna Pallaske from "Fuck Ju Goethe"
He was in some great german movies before stepping up to Hollywood. The Edukators and Goodbye Lenin are 2 of my favourites.
Good actor indeed
yeah rush movie...i dont give a damn about formula 1, zero interest.but that movie was done soo well.daniel played niki lauda perfectly, that cold ambition...
The line Brad Pitt says at the end about this being his masterpiece is apparently spoken directly to Quentin.
I'm pretty sure everyone took that line as Tarantino's pat on the back to himself. Which was deserved and fitting
@@callmeshaggy5166 you’re correct, other person misunderstood the line.
Brad Pitts "Italian" cracks me up every time 😂🤣😂
More like "Eye-talian"
7:50 -- That's Tarantino getting scalped. The older actor playing Winston Churchill, Rod Taylor, was Mitch in "The Birds."
Each chapter is a mini movie unto itself & they tie in nicely for the big picture.
On first watch, the opening scene at the farm, WOW, shout-out to Denis Ménochet. That farmer could be any of us in the same situation with such an impossible choice. You could see his heart break, awesome performances by Christoph & Denis.
At that point it could be argued he was not betraying them. Landa already knew they were there, he only wanted to prove it in a dramatic way for his ego's sake.
It satisfied him to break the farmer, but he would have just as gladly killed him and his daughters
31:10 The glove gun is an actual real world WW2 weapon, designed for clandestine use. It's actual name is the Sedgley OSS .38 or Sedgley Fist Gun. It was designed for the Pacific Theater, with the purpose of assassination and covert operations. Not many of the weapons were manufactured, and they would be issues as a single glove, not in pairs.
they made them to wear when surrendering, so you put your hands up and when they come to search you, you can punch them and take their gun
@@ZannNewman that seems like a great way to get shot immediately by whoever else happens to be around when you try that.
@@CrippledMerc yeah, that's why no one used them - you'd just get shot
Landa is pure id - pure self-interest. By the time he kills Bridget, he already knows that he's going to sell out the Nazis for his little house in New York or whatever - he didn't even really need to interrogate her, and didn't have to kill her at all. But he wanted to! and this way he gets his little house, gets to be the hero, and gets to strangle a pretty lady. His character makes perfect sense when you see him as a very capable person without loyalty to anything but his most basic desires.
I had heard it was different -- to him, it's all a game, but she couldn't continue it; he was mad that it couldn't continue. It insulted his intellect, so he killed her for it. But the self-interest idea does make sense.
@@charleslee8313 That's an interesting take on it too, and I don't think they're necessarily mutually exclusive.
there's pretty strong historical precedence for people like this in the nazi party; iirc Eichmann wasn't a raving madman, not especially anti semitic, and didn't really believe in the party ideology all that much. He still commited atrocities all the same because he saw a social/political ladder he could climb up, and didn't care what he did to get up it. A ruthless opportunist. Its really quite horrifying
@@ayanleman real sociopaths can(and do) thrive in that kind of environment.
Interesting takes here! I always figured from his "she got what she deserved" line that he really felt strongly about her being a traitor, although I could have selectively interpreted him as having such integrity just because I can't help but like the evil bastard so damn much. And now that I think about it, that would be awfully logically inconsistent with his final move of betrayal himself, so it's not like there's integrity either way lol. Yeah I think self-serving psychopath is about right
Tarantino's use of spaghetti western soundtracks in this movie is perfect
I was initially sceptical about casting Til Schweiger, he usually plays comedic or cringy roles in German movies and shows and doesn't have a very impressive tone of speech. But given that the character of Hugo Stigliz is clearly somewhat mad and deranged, his acting did fit the role quite well after all.
I thought he was such a badass when I first saw it. I've since moved to Germany and find it funny how much my perception changed. He's basically the go to guy for crappy rom coms.
have you seen any of his Rom-Coms, such as "Kokowääh" or "Keinohrhasen"?
The opening scene of this movie is one of the most psychologically intense I have ever witnessed. I could watch it over and over for how good it is. The rest of the movie is indeed entertaining and one of Tarantino‘s finest. But that opening scene, holy fuck me in the balls is that excellent.
A cowboy eating popcorn and reacting to a movie… idk how I ended up here, but I’m a fan now😂🙌🏽
Hey! I'm just the sidekick 🤠
You started the movie saying that Christoph Waltz is good in everything that he does. This is the movie that made us all know who he is.
This is my favorite tarantino movie. It's so so great. I love that it retells history in the way it does. Shoshana should be an iconic character.
The First scalping you see, 7:50, was Quentin Tarantino himself.
Christof actually speaks English, German and French fluently, but only a bit of Italian.
I love how many details are put into the movie. My two favorites:
Hans Landa: Says «Adieu» (Goodbye) to the Jews he killed and «Au revoir» (Until we see us again) to Shosanna.
Putting the thumb, index finger and the middle finger as the German «3». To me it is just natural. (Who starts to count with the second finger (index finger)?)
So you do 4 fingers with the pinkie in? Because that is very uncomfortable.
@@DaveWraptastic No, four changes the finger position. Four is: Thumb in (showing index, middle, ring and pinkie)
It isn't counting, though. Counting is if you raise each finger one at a time. This is representing three, so the British way is closer to showing 3 in Roman numerals: III.
@@obenohnebohne then your 3 doesn't make sense
@@debangshupatnaik5150 this.
The actor who plays Frederick Zoller was in the Avengers.
That’s right-l thought he looked slightly familiar.
I thought, "No way he'd be able to hit her with a pistol." I think you are my soul sister!
I'm not a fan of Tarantino. At all. But even I have to admit this movie is a masterpiece. One of the greatest films I've ever seen.
This movie has so many scenes in which the tension is absolutely palpable and the comedy or even unintentional comedy is great. This is one of my all time favorite films.
Never seen Mrs Movies eyes so Wide watching a film ever! 😳❤️🙏
Watching your face take in that whole theater scene unfold at the end was hilarious for some reason. I loved it.
That dude you recognisise is Baron Zemo from Cap. America Civil War and Falcone/Winter Soldier.
Also, Eli Roth, The Bear Jew, directed the propaganda films that play in the theatre perfectly aping the actual film makers style. It's as technical and skilled a feat as there ever was in filmmaking.
OMG, you're killing me! You say the most double entendres every time I look away.
"Huge pockets with that big 'ole pipe in there."
And she's like "please be swollen! Please be swollen! Please be swollen!"
I only have so much soda to spray out my nose.
6:05 -- RE: "Au revoir, Shoshanna!" ; A: I noticed by the reaction that this is a bit mysterious, as in, why doesn't he shoot? The answer is dependent upon exact knowledge of French and its relationship to English. While we say "Goodbye", a literal translation of the French idiom into English would have us say "Until you and I see each other again", because Voir means See. He doesn't feel it is necessary to press his advantage, since more than 80% of his day's work has already been completed. There's no need to rush himself out of a job, in other words...
^^ Funny side note: English didn't lose this sense of the phrase "Goodbye" either. One of the funny cliched sayings I've known for years is the following pun: "See you later!" - "Not if I sees you first!" (sometimes while hugging, since Sees and Seize sound alike.)
The way hey all clap when Donnie comes out of the tunnel is one of the funniest and most demented things ever put to film.
The scene where she is being choked the Mrs. 27:00 crosses her arm and I thought it was in the movie. LOL I was like, man that's a little arm.
One of the best intros of all time...
The bear Jew is played by writer/director Eli Roth (cabin Fever, Hostel, The Green Inferno). Roth was also in Death Proof and Tarantino executive produced Hostel
As an Austrian i can confirm that signing three like Hammersmark did seems natural to us
I think Shosanna was indeed planning to go down with the theater in her plan. I feel like she probably felt like if she tried to include an escape for herself in the plan, there would be a chance that that would lead somehow to the Nazi's in the theater finding that same escape, however small that chance. So she was willing to sacrifice her life if that meant the deaths of Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany's leadership. I think another point of evidence to this is when they show Marcel starting the fire, burning the film prints, to me that scene and the way the actor played it out, it too felt like someone who knows he's going to sacrifice his life. And the film tells us that he and Shosanna are lovers, so I doubt that she would ask him to kill himself for her revenge while not also asking herself the same thing. So she would've died either way, though you could say it's still a tragedy in the sense that she didn't get to first hand see the fruits of her revenge play out, but I think at the end of the day she'd just be happy all the Nazis died.
Just some other random thoughts about the movie.
I think the word you're looking for in describing Hans Landa is charismatic. He's so evil, yet charismatic.
The funniest thing about Brad Pitt's Italian comment is that the characters speak it from best to worst in reverse order. Brad Pitt is the worst by far, Eli Roth is a little better, and the third guy was actually okay, that's why Hans was so amused by Brad's Italian, a little by Eli, and then was like, "Oh okay," with the third guy.
Fassbender's character and his role in this film is fascinating. He's almost a red herring. Here comes this charming, good looking hero character and the audience almost feels safe. However it's his accent that raises the Officer's suspicion, it's his finger counting that gives away the tell. He's someone who looks the part, but actually isn't the real deal (which is kinda a meta commentary about actors, considering his character's background was in film studies). It's kinda like Psycho where the film misleads you by making you think this character will be one of your main heroes, and then he gets killed midway through the film.
Also the way they count makes more sense when you consider they start counting on their hands with their thumb, not their index finger.
Well said all around. Especially love the bit about Fassbender. I've seen this movie a bunch and I love it, and I'd noticed that the tension and surprise is really tasty because we're so well set up to expect him to remain part of things through the end ... but I never thought about his arc being a subversion of/commentary on that trope. Heck, now that I think on it in context with all the goofy aloof exaggerated Britishness and all that, it's so blindingly obvious that it's like he's almost lampooning James Bond a bit or something lol, except with film snobbishness! I can't believe I never noticed before! 😂 I guess it's because I've pretty much never seen any of those sorts of movies so I only know character info secondhand and don't generally notice allusions unless they're pointed out. XD
A few things though.
Brad Pitts character clearly could follow Italian the best, he can answer the questions.
The second best is doing his very best to follow the conversation.
The worst just puts on a poker face but does not understand a thing that is being said.
So Pitt is asked for his name, he gives his name and some other answers.
The second one does his best to keep up.
The third one nails the accent, but clearly does not know how obvious it was that their cover is blown wide open because the amount of words he understood can be counted on his hands.
And Landa is not some run of the mill charismatic evil.
He is the self centered evil.
He hunts Jews because it paid him well.
He hunts Hitler because it paid him well.
He is, an Inglorious Bast**d.
And that is absolutely fine
Yeah Shoshana even gave an out for her assistant, with a goodbye akin to we'll never meet again.
Hans Landa already figured the Basterds when Brad Pitt greeted 'Buon Giorno' (good morning in italian) on a movie Night.
it means good day
That entire scene in the pub with the shootout gotta be one of my all time favorite movie scenes there is. 😂
If you like Quentin Taratino, watch Hateful Eight by him. He uses the same ingredients as Reservoir Dogs, by setting it in one location and is a mystery based plot line. A brilliant movie.
Agree. I love that movie quite a bit.
Hateful Eight is my third favorite Tarantino film after Dogs and Pulp. Just love it.
@@JasonHauser125 all three of those films are my favourites too. They all have that 100% genuine Quentin feel to them. His own work really does shine through in these movies. Master class screen writing and casting for each of those movies.
You guys are great at this!! I love how he's able to not say anything when he knows what's going to happen, I always tell everybody ' oh this is the good part ' lol thanks for a great channel
Quentin Tarantino is a mad genius.
Fun Fact for your husband: the fist gun used in the film was a REAL weapon made by the OSS during WWII. It’s called the Sedgley Fist Gun and it was made for the US Marines and Navy. The idea was that in case guys were captured by the Japanese, the pilot would punch someone and kill them with a single shot from a .38 Special. Only around 50-200 were made and the idea was never successful.
Apparently, the "Bear Jew", played by Eli Roth, was actually supposed to be played by Adam Sandler. Unfortunately, Sandler was working on FUNNY PEOPLE at the time and couldn't be in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (frankly, I can actually see him in this role; would've been insanely cool)
I think Roth screams 40's new Yorker way more. Makes it oerfect.
I just wrote the same thing, before reading your comment....
It’s barbaric that they sensationalize and glorify the killing of German soldiers who may have not been Nazi’s. The ordinary soldier of the Wehrmacht was only following orders, like the brave U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.
Along those same lines, Fassbender’s role was apparently originally written for Simon Pegg.
@@lewstone5430 It has nothing to do about the killings of the so-called ordinary soldier of the Wehrmacht, but about the killings of the SS, and that's a whole different division!
14:00 omg I said ugh exact same time she did at the dead-fish handshake 🥴😄
Jim Bridger ( played by Brad Pitt ) was a real person.
That scar on Brad's neck was there because Jim Briger
had the same real life scar
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He was the victim of an
attempted lynching, which caused
his scar. When he sniffed that tobacco
up his nose during the scene with
Bridget VanHammersmark, the real
Jim Bridger did the same
This is that "what if.." type of movie, as Tarantino took this same effect and applied it to Once upon a time in Hollywood.
This is my go to movie when I'm having a bad day.
Fun Fact: When Landa strangles Bridget Von, the hands around her neck are actually Tarantino's.
@callmecatalyst Yeah, some directors do horrible things to the actors, treating them like props, must feel really dehumanizing. I always think about the actors in the movie The Abyss, great movie but some of those people nearly died.
@@CChissel or The Shining. An absolute classic but oh my god the pain poor Shelly Duvall had to go through..
@callmecatalyst Yubari
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Clicked so fast! It pulls you in like no other! Love how engrossed you all are with this Masterpiece💯🎞🎬
I think this just might be his masterpiece!
saw this movie back in 2009 in the theater here in Germany. I seemed to be the only one getting the "ordering" problem. its funny how the world works: I would never think of ordering 3 glasses the American way. it feels unnatural to me like the German way does to you.
In Italy also we use the Germany way for number three.
i think continental europe use the same german sign.
I saw this in Germany and in the US. In Germany the movie theatre gasped seeing the incorrect three.
Everybody knew Hellstrom (August Diehl, a very accomplished stage and TV actor) meant business.
Also funny: The American way for many hand gestures is often the most unnatural and feels totally wrong in terms off muscle movement.
The German way for numbers is simple and logical:
1 = thumb
2 = thumb + index finger
3 = thumb + index finger + middle finger
4 = thumb + index finger + middle finger + ring finger
5 = thumb + index finger + middle finger + ring finger + little finger
Also: Germans, at least traditionally as it is supposed to be done, do not show the palm of the hand but always show the back of the hand towards someone else when indicating numbers.
@@bobbwc7011 pretty much the same in continental europe.
@@bobbwc7011 the German 4 feels awkward though. I would prefer index + middle + ring + little finger
When they showed this in college, everybody cheered like crazy when they shot Hitler and the theatre burned down. That’s one of the best parts of Tarantino movies, catharsis when bad guys die.
One of my favorite tarantino movies, i love this channel
first timer here and have not even got to to the movie part yet but i have to give this man some thumbs up for the hat
🤠👍 from Finland partner
This movie owes a big debt to 'The Dirty Dozen', which is well worth a watch too.
This movie is a remake from the seventies
It's a tribute to this movie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inglorious_Bastards
You said super-fun and that is the secret of Tarantino's cinema--despite all the n-words and f-words and all the violence, his films are essentially comedies and are wildly entertaining.
Brad Pitt's character is my favorite in this film. Let's not forget that Sam Jackson was the narrator.
"Super Awesome Fun" should be on a shirt 😁
11:57 Daniel Brühl, he played Baron Helmut Zemo in Captain America: Civil War and in the Disney+'s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series, I think he played a chef critic in the film "Burn" opposite Bradley Cooper, and he played real life German race car driver Niki Lauda in the biopic "Rush" with Chris Hemsworth. Coincidentally, he appears in movies with other actors who appear in Marvel movies as well.
Aldo's " i think this just might be my masterpiece" has to be a double entendre into how Quinten felt about this movie because its brilliant ~
Christoph CAN speak French just fine, and if the movie was meant to be entirely in French he would have done it without needing a French dub.
In the french version, he actually does
The first minuts of this movie are amazing tension.
13:20 music from the classic Burt Reynolds 1973 film “White Lighting” saw at the Drive In great movie
23:59 that's shoshana's director's cut at the end of the film.
Tarantino almost canceled this movie because he needed the perfect actor for Hanz Landa. When he watched Christopher Waltz audition he knew he had his movie! Hence why he was also a main in Django Unchained
So dude in the background eating popcorn and wiping his hands on the pillow is TRIGGERING ME.
Tarantino likes the “Once Upon a Time” prefix as a tribute to spaghetti western director Sergio Leone. He made the amazing western “Once Upon a Time in the West” and the criminally underrated mob movie “Once Upon a Time in America.”
Daniel Brühl is the actor you didn't remember, he's a phenomenal actor! He plays Baron Zemo in the MCU. Showed up recently in the new series 'Falcon and the Winter Solider' on Disney Plus!
the dialogue in this is next-level. i was captivated everytime they had a long talking scene. so suspensful
Mélanie Laurent as Shoshana. She is one beautiful lady. This film is sooo good. Tarantino at his usual greatness! And Christoph Waltz. What can you say about perfection.
Great review/reaction!
One of the best opening scene in any movie ever, and your comment is "that sucks". You better go back to watching "Convoy" or something else you can relate to.
Love this movie. Tarantino using Hitchcock's style of suspense and reveal with the family beneath the floor boards, so good. Reservoir Dogs next to see how he started out!
There is a video of hitler at the 1936 Olympics rocking back and forth completely tweaked out of his head.
It turn out that grossing Mrs Movies out is just as fun as a good jump scare!!!
If you're going to do an alternate history movie then you might as well make it really satisfying to watch and this movie is exactly that.
Love me some Tarantino! Between this and Django, Waltz knocked knocked them out of the park.
The basement scene is acting gold!!
Best part is when Stiglitz continues stabbing that captain in the head even when he’s dead 😂😂 mad bastard
pretty certain Shoshauna knew she was gonna die, just taking out as many Nazi as she could. Not being shot before the finale. There many dark humor moments in this. Very well acted and written.
Are there any movies she has seen that you haven’t? That would be a cool episode to do.
My all-time favorite movie! Cannot wait to watch this with you guys later!
I heard that Christoph Waltz was choose because of his ability to speak perfectly german, french and english and as a native french speaker he almost have no accent but it sound like he’s strange a bit which is great for his acting !
He's known to mimick Italian pretty well too. Which he proved in this movie quite well. Lol
Think I've found my new favourite reaction channel :) ... You guys rock! :)
I'm so happy you reacted to this!!
The "Bear Jew" Donny Donnieweitz was Eli Roth, the director of Hostel.
Ongoing question did Hans Landa know it was Shoshanna Dreyfuss all along in the Cafe?
Great channel! I wish you great growth and prosperity!
Greetings from Russia St. Petersburg
Damn, now when I watch this movie (which is often), I have no choice but to rewatch your view of it.. Adds to the experience, Thanks again for awesomeness👍
The last line of this movie sums it up perfectly....It just might be Tarantino's masterpiece
The commitment to detail is simply incredible. The story behind finding Landa is incredible. The film is incredible. My favorite is Pulp Fiction, but this is EASILY Tarantino's greatest piece of work.
11:52 Baron Zemo in Captain america, Played Nikki Lauda in Rush, Bourne identity, The Kings man..
he's been arround
Smoking pipes with my grandpa in the garage watching this like twice a week sweet
14:46 the music theme when Hans Landa shows up is "Relentless Attack" by Charles Bernstein, th-cam.com/video/9_geccAL0_A/w-d-xo.html it is from the 1982 horror film based on a true story, called "The Entity" where Barbara Hershey plays Carla Moran, the real life woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted by a ghost repeatedly in October 1976. Quentin Tarantino likes to take theme songs from other TV shows and films to put in his films. He is a big movie freak, whose education actually comes from working at a video store since he does not hold a film degree.
I remember seeing this in the theaters and I was impressed
Tarantino doesn't use CGI. What's in the camera is what was on the set. Hes kind of a stickler about that.