re: Inglorious Basterds

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Also, it was interesting to see that Tarantino had to have the Bear Jew and "Decocco" actively killing Nazis to get the intended effect. Would there have been as uproarious applause if we would have watched them burn instead? I doubt it. I think the intervention of the two Basterds piled violence on top of violence, and Tarantino wanted the grinning faces of the Basterds to be the grinning faces of an unrelenting audience.

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9 pages of replies and NO ONE caught the obvious juxtaposition of the climax in the theater?

Jews in control of NAZI High Command being burned alive

all of the millions of Jews/Gypsies/Dissidents/Gays that were sent to concentration camps and burned by the Nazis were symbolically avenged in the theater by the basterds(Jewish men)/shoshanna (Jewish women)/the black guy (the oppressed and enslaved of conquered nations)

Waltz as Landa is a surefire best supporting actor nominee

Pitt was comic relief, the basterds were the heroic anti-heroes, the british spy was symbolic of Europe failing to fight the Nazis (he gave himself away) and needing the U.S. to come in and save them (by Raines taking over the ruse at the theater).

Col. Landa showed us how brilliant but coldly pathological the Nazis are.

The movie could not have ended any better, with the swastika in his forehead becoming his scarlet letter to wear for the rest of his life in Nantucket. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and I look forward to watching it next year repeatedly on HBO.