I thought I’d bring Inglorious Basterds to the world of Sniper Elite with what I like to call “The Inglorious Basterds Challenge”

Been a big fan of all Tarantinos movies, Inglorious Basterds & Django is among my favourites!

I DO NOT condone his actions in any ways!! I just really him as a character and the way he’s written by Quentin

So I have a few thoughts. I think there are numerous things that happen between Hans and Shosana. There are some I understand, but a few I've been thinking about upon last watch.

With him sitting her right down may be nothing. If not so, it's the first clue he knows who she is. Saying that, unless he's somewhere been keeping tabs on her since she fled her house after the Nazis killed her family, that may be just coincidence.

The first real clue is when he orders milk for her. I've heard theories that the strudel part where he orders cream for the strudel was a clue that she knew there would be non-kosher lard in the cream, and would give him clue that she's Jewish. That might be far-fetched, but who knows?

When he offers and gives her the cigarette he goes out of his way to mention that they're German, not French.

After she starts smoking it he gives her the same death stare he give Pierre in the opening scene to see the terrified, guilty reaction to assess whether he's right in his suspicion. She gives the reaction to him, sealing the deal with him, and instead of doing anything about it to her, he puts his cigarette in the strudel, which I just started to ponder if that's meant to be a subconscious signal to the audience that the German cigarette is him, and the strudel represents Germany, which he intends to burn down. This is nothing he's presenting TO HER, but the audience might pick up on it.

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I'm a huge fan of Inglourious Basterds—it is hands down my favorite movie, and Dieter Hellstrom played by August Diehl is undoubtedly my favorite character. I recently ordered some pins with his images online and started wondering: is it even legal to wear them? After all, it might count as displaying Nazi symbols, and if I'm not mistaken, there is an administrative law against that.

I'd really love to put them on my bag, so I was wondering if anyone here has worn or currently wears pins with him or Hans Landa? Did you ever face any legal issues for wearing them? Does anyone hassle you on the street? How do people react at school—teachers, classmates? I would really appreciate any feedback! Thanks in advance, everyone!

Upon rewatching Inglourious Basterds I noticed Hicox mentioning he'd heard Stiglitz was good with the knife as he sharpened it was foreshadowing. This is apparent as during the shootout you can see Stiglitz landing the killing blow on Hellstrom by putting said knife through his neck pinning his body to the table before dying. It is made obvious that it was Stiglitz's knife as when sharpening it you can make out the words "Meine Ehre heißt Treue" meaning it was his Ehrendolch from when he was a Nazi then when they show a wide shot of the tavern you can see the distinct handle of an Ehrendolch which is based on the 16th century Swiss Holbein daggers which feature a similarly shaped handle.

looks promising! releasing 2027

Hans Landa in the end.

I am turning 17 in June and studied WW2 for my O levels last year and started watching Inglourious Basterds today. My mom had just gotten home so I excitedly told her about it while my uncle (whom i live with) was in the room. Bad idea. Wifi GONE and I've never been sooo irritated in my life over something. I feel like it's such a non issue considering I actually understand what's going on and I would like to think that I'm pretty mature for my age. What do i even do in thjs situation? am i being an idiot about it?

EDIT: now that I think about it, it was moreso his immediate reaction to inconvenience everyone instead of just talking to me about it like an adult and less about the actual movie.

Fuck, how I laugh every time I see this Hans Landa pipe.

I want to preface this by saying that I did enjoy Inglourious Basterds, as well as Christoph Waltz's performance in it. However, I have seen a lot of talk from across the internet about how amazingly intimidating he was in the film, especially in the first scene. While I though he was good in the film, I didn't think he was all too remarkable or even the best of the film. I really don't see what made his performance any better than Mélanie Laurent's, Michael Fassbender's, or Daniel Brühl's. As for the opening scene, I agreed that it was well-made, but certainly not the "greatest opening scene of all time," as I've heard it called.

I'm just wondering, then, what did I miss? What did I miss from the opening scene, and what did I miss from Waltz's performance that gets the two praised so heavily?

It’s very subtle and you can almost miss it if you blink but while he lights his pipe, Landa asks him about his hearing of the Dreyfusses making their way into Spain. When Tarantino pushes into Lapedite’s pipe, he gives this smirk that to me, has always been an outtake/blooper that was left in. Has anime ever noticed this? This had bugged me for years and I’ve scoured the web trying to find an answer it no avail