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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Extended Reading
  • Madalyn 2022-03-23 09:01:05

    Brad Pitt is handsome, the movie is not about an appetite

  • Sandrine 2022-03-24 09:01:06

    I thought I would not be able to read the movie without subtitles, but later found out that the plot could really be guessed, and I was disappointed.

Inglourious Basterds quotes

  • Col. Hans Landa: So when the military history of this night is written, it will be recorded that I was part of Operation Kino from the very beginning as a double agent. Anything I've done in my guise as an SS Colonel was sanctioned by the OSS as a necessary evil to establish my cover with the Germans and it was my placement of Lieutenant Raine's dynamite in Hitler and Goebbels' opera box that assured their demise. By the way, that last part's actually true. I want my full military pension and benefits under my proper rank. I want to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for my invaluable assistance in the toppling of the Third Reich. In fact, I want all the members of Operation Kino to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Full citizenship for myself - Well, that goes without saying. And I would like the United States of America to purchase property for me on Nantucket Island as a reward for all the countless lives I've saved by bringing the tyranny of the National Socialist party to a swifter-than-imagined end. Do you have all that, sir?

    [pause]

    Col. Hans Landa: I look forward to seeing you face to face as well, sir.

  • Lt. Aldo Raine: Now, before we yank that slug out you, you need to answer a few questions.

    Bridget von Hammersmark: Few questions about what?

    Lt. Aldo Raine: About I got three men dead back there. Why don't you try telling us what the fuck happened?

    Bridget von Hammersmark: The British officer blew his German act and the Gestapo major saw it.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Before we get into who shot John, why'd you invite my men to a rendezvous in a basement with a bunch of Nazis?

    Bridget von Hammersmark: I can see since you didn't see what happened inside, that the Nazis being there must look odd.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Yeah, we got a word for that kind of odd in English. It's called "suspicious".

    [He digs his fingers into her bullet wound. She gasps with pain]

    Bridget von Hammersmark: Everybody needs to calm down! You're letting your imagination get the better of you!

    [He digs deeper and she exclaims]

    Bridget von Hammersmark: You met the sergeant yourself! Willi! You remember him, don't you?

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Yeah, I remember him.

    Bridget von Hammersmark: His wife had a baby tonight. He had just become a-

    [She screams]

    Bridget von Hammersmark: He had just become a father! His commanding officer gave him and his mates the night off to celebrate.

    [She groans and convulses]

    Bridget von Hammersmark: The Germans being there was either a trap set by me or a tragic coincidence. It couldn't be both.

    [He takes his finger out. She gasps]

    Lt. Aldo Raine: How'd the shooting start?

    Bridget von Hammersmark: The Englishman gave himself away.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: How'd he do that?

    Bridget von Hammersmark: He ordered three glasses.

    [She holds up her fore, middle, and ring fingers]

    Bridget von Hammersmark: We order three glasses.

    [She uses her thumb, fore, and middle fingers]

    Bridget von Hammersmark: That's the German three. The other looks odd. Germans would and did notice it.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: Okay, let's pretend there were no Germans and everything went exactly the way it was supposed to. What was the next step?

    Bridget von Hammersmark: Tuxedos. To get them into the premiere wearing military uniforms with all the military there would've been suicide. But going as members of the German film industry, they wear tuxedos and fit in with everybody else. I arranged for the tailor to fit three tuxedos tonight.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: How'd you intend to get them in that premiere.

    Bridget von Hammersmark: Hand me my purse. Lieutenant Hicox was going as my escort. The other two were going as a German cameraman and his assistant.

    Lt. Aldo Raine: You still get us in that premiere?

    Bridget von Hammersmark: You speak German better than your friends? No. Have I been shot? Yes! I don't see me tripping the light fantastique up a red carpet anytime soon! Least of all, by tomorrow night.