Inglourious Basterds: The Nazi's King Kong Show

Coralie 2022-04-23 07:01:02

To understand "Inglourious Basterds", let's start with King Kong, the card guessing game in the movie bar, from Africa to the United States, with shackles, what are you? The Gestapo said it was black, and the answer was King Kong. The film "King Kong", which was first published in 1933, was a metaphor for black people, and the Gestapo guessing connected black people with Jews.




The black person in "Inglourious Basterds" is a very critical role. The black projectionist played King Kong. He lit the film and divided it three times. The scenes and emphasis were very obvious. The cinema is very similar to the theater of the 1933 version of "King Kong", the decorations have become Nazi flags (racism), and the audience fled after the fire. Protruding brackets similar to the King Kong platform







In the film, a British film critic talks to Churchill about Goebbels, saying that he is in Germany the equivalent of David Selznick, the greatest American producer, who made two of his most famous films with Inglourious Basterds are closely related, one is "King Kong" and the other is "A Star Is Born", but this producer has a bad problem, like to cut movie clips





"A Star Is Born" was originally filmed in 1930. The current version has only the soundtrack, and some pictures are replaced by stills. The lost part of the film was found back then, and the film box reads: The Lost Long Face. The name of the last chapter in "Inglourious Basterds" is: The Big Face of Vengeance. The Nazi premiere movie is called "The Birth of a Nation", and the Jewish woman cut it into her own "big face" movie in the middle. Quentin used the real historical story of the release of the film "A Star Is Born" (US) to make up the story of the film "The Birth of a Nation" (Nazi), which is very absurd and bizarre.






At the beginning of Inglourious Basterds, Germans are likened to eagles (the national bird of the United States is also an eagle), and Jews are dark mice in the basement. The Jewish women's premiere is by the window, inside the window is the projection room, outside the window is the Nazi flag, and the window is in the shape of a film roll. The projection room is likened to a dark basement, with only Jews and blacks in it.




"Inglourious Basterds" is indeed more complicated, but seize David Selznick's "King Kong" (racism), "A Star Is Born" (capitalism) as the main thread to understand the structure of the film and narrative, it is more clear. The bright line of the film is Nazi and Jewish, the dark line is American and black, the themes of both lines are the same, both are racism, Quentin's narrative skills are very superb.


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  • Pascale 2022-04-23 07:01:02

    In Quentin's work, this and Kill Bill are tied for my two favorite films. The irony effect brought by Quentin's humor is full, the plot is outstanding, and each character is too vivid and vivid, even if there is no Hitler's lines are impressive, and Pete's accent is particularly interesting in this film

  • Ruthe 2022-03-26 09:01:01

    I said that vulgar fiction is Quentin's best, so I withdrew this remark and awarded the prize to the shameless bastard. Pete is ashamed of the hero! Woz is my favorite!

Inglourious Basterds quotes

  • Col. Hans Landa: [to Aldo] So you're "Aldo the Apache".

    Lt. Aldo Raine: So you're "the Jew Hunter".

    Col. Hans Landa: A detective. A damn good dectective. Finding people is my specialty so naturally I work for the Nazis finding people, and yes some of them were Jews. But "Jew Hunter"?

    Col. Hans Landa: [reacts in disgust] It's just a name that stuck.

    Pfc. Smithson Utivich: Well, you do have to admit, it is catchy.

    Col. Hans Landa: Do you control the nicknames your enemies bestow on you? "Aldo the Apache" and "the Little Man"?

    Pfc. Smithson Utivich: [confused] What do you mean "the Little Man"?

    Col. Hans Landa: Germans' nickname for you.

    Pfc. Smithson Utivich: The Germans' nickname for me is "the Little Man"?

    Col. Hans Landa: And as if to make my point, I'm a little surprised how tall you were in real life. I mean, you're a little fellow, but not circus-midget little, as your reputation would suggest.

  • Lt. Aldo Raine: You know, where I'm from...

    Col. Hans Landa: Yeah, where is that, exactly?

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Maynardville, Tennessee.

    [pause]

    Lt. Aldo Raine: I've done my share of bootlegging. Up 'ere, if you engage in what the federal government calls 'illegal activity,' but what we call 'just a man tryin' to make a livin' for his family sellin' moonshine liquor,' it behooves oneself to keep his wits. Long story short, we hear a story too good to be true... it ain't.

    Col. Hans Landa: Sitting in your chair, I would probably say the same thing. And 999 point 999 times out of a million, you would be correct. But in the pages of history, every once in a while, fate reaches out and extends its hand.

    [Landa slowly sweeps his arms out in a grand shrug]

    Col. Hans Landa: What shall the history books read?