re: Inglourious Basterds question

He absolutely did not kill the dairy farmer. Landa would've gotten far more sick pleasure from leaving the man to contemplate selling the family under his floorboards out for the rest of his life. If he wanted to kill him and his family he'd have burned the house down with them all inside.

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I’ve looked it up, and it might or might not be kosher. Just depends on the batch. The strudel though may have been the bigger factor actually since they apparently were baked with pork lard.

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Strudel may not have been kosher since it may have had pork lard but that was an establishment serving German officers so they probably could obtain butter. In any event, she was going to eat the strudel before he ordered the creme. The kosher rules are suspended in life or death situations and she is hiding in occupied territory. The most obvious way to give yourself away would be to refuse food based upon kosher rules.

Edit to add: I would bet that there were no non-jewish restaurants in Europe that were fully kosher. They would have to keep separate plates and dishwashing areas. We don't show if she even kept kosher before the war. She could have been secularized.

Yeah he killed him and that scene went on way too fricking long.

Just get on with it already, shite.

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Nazis randomly killed children for crying too loud before being deported to concentration camps.

So I think Landa could easily have murdered the farmer without thinking much about it.

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Landa wasn't a mindless thug. He was cool and calculating. That's why he was so scary. It doesn't help his job to kill people who willing give up people that are hiding.

I just recently rewatched this movie on a flight. Such a great film.

I would think no. He told the farmer that if he fessed up he and his family would be left alone, and though he’s (obviously) a monster, he doesn’t view himself as one and seems to take his word as oath, as shown at the closing scene when brad Pitt shoots his assistant and he’s shocked because “we had a deal. I made a deal for that man’s life.”

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If he was known to kill the people who harbored Jews, they’d never give them up

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Good point, but that wouldn't discourage people from harboring them.

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The bigger question is did he know who Shoshana was at the lunch/strudel scene. I believe he did

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No. He'd never seen her face and years had passed. The dude was smart but not psychic.

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No. He'd never seen her face and years had passed. The dude was smart but not psychic.

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Well he wanted a long hunt with her. And do you know what “au revoir” means? It does not actually mean “goodbye,” that would be “adieu.” Au revior means “goodbye until we meet again.” Keep in mind he says to the Farmer and Shoshana’s family adieu; he says to Shoshana “au revoir, Shoshana.” No, he was counting on capturing her one of these days. That is very specifically worded in a way that Tarantino would perfectly write and intend. He was actively hunting her for years. Again, Landa likes the hunt more than the kill.

Sure, I guess. I think most people just take him to be a sadist in general.

Still, that doesn't mean he knew who she was in that scene.

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You seem to be REALLY invested in this issue.

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Because it’s nonsense that someone in France in the 30s and 40s shouldn’t have pictures of their kids. Save for tribesmen who are convinced cameras and pictures absorb their souls, pretty much every mother and father would want pictures of their kids. It was not all that expensive to get a picture shot and developed at that time.

Plus what about the schools? I’ve seen yearbook photos of my grandparents who were around Shoshana’s age, and one of them literally grew up in a dirt floor shack as a hillbilly. If he has photos from his youth, yeah Shoshana does as well. There are pictures of her somewhere, and Landa would find them and probably did even before visiting the farm.

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My dad would have been about Shoshanna's age, and he grew up in rural Texas. I have seen maybe a dozen photos of him prior to college.

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You just proved my point then. Photographs are pretty much something that literally everyone seeks out since their creation. And in 30s and 40s France they were very easy to come by. Given how important film is within the context of the movie, it’s retarded to assume that there isn’t film anywhere without her face on it.

EDIT: Also Tarantino actually confirms this one, but Hans doesn’t actually smoke a pipe. He brought that absurdly large pipe in to intimidate the Farmer, which is why he breaks that out last before asking him if he’s hiding the family beneath his floorboard. Now if he knew that he was a big pipe smoker, then that means he knows everything and was his final chance to surrender to Landa. I’m a big time cigar smoker and have like two or three a week, and it’d be the equivalent of some officer came to my house and then pulling out a cigar this size after minutes of questioning.