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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Inglourious Basterds quotes

  • Col. Hans Landa: What a tremendously hostile world that a rat must endure. Yet not only does he survive, he thrives. Because our little foe has an instinct for survival and preservation second to none... And that, Monsieur, is what a Jew shares with a rat.

  • Lt. Aldo Raine: [Drawing a map] Up the road apiece, there's an orchard. Now, besides you, we know there's another kraut patrol fuckin' around there somewhere. Now if that patrol were to have any crackshots, that orchard would be a goddamn sniper's delight. Now, if you ever want to eat a sauerkraut sandwich again, you gotta show me on this here map where they are, you gotta tell me how many there are, and you gotta tell me what kinda artillery they're carrying with 'em.

    Sgt. Werner Rachtman: You can't expect me to divulge information that would put German lives in danger.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Well, now Werner, that's where you're wrong, because that's exactly what I expect. I need to know about Germans hiding in them trees, and you need to tell me, and you need to tell me right now. Now, just take that finger of yours and point out on this here map where this party's being held, how many's coming, and what they brought to play with.

    Sgt. Werner Rachtman: [puts his hand over his heart] I respectfully refuse, sir.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: [a smack is heard offscreen] Hear that?

    Sgt. Werner Rachtman: Yes.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: That's Sgt. Donny Donowitz. You might know him better by his nickname: "The Bear Jew". Now, if you heard of Aldo the Apache, you gotta have heard of the Bear Jew.

    Sgt. Werner Rachtman: I've heard of the Bear Jew.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: What d'you hear?

    Sgt. Werner Rachtman: He beats German soldiers with a club.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: He bashes their brains in with a baseball bat is what he does. Now, Werner, I'm gonna ask you one last goddamn time, if you still respectfully refuse, I'm callin' the Bear Jew over. He's gonna take that big bat of his, and he's gonna beat your ass to death with it. Now, take your wiener schnitzel lickin' finger and point out on this map what I want to know.

    Sgt. Werner Rachtman: [after brief pause] Fuck you... and your Jew dogs!

    [the Basterds all laugh]

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to here you say that. Quite frankly, watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies. Donny!

    Sgt. Donny Donowitz: [from offscreen] Yeah?

    Lt. Aldo Raine: We got a German here who wants to die for his country! Oblige him!