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re: Question about the opening scene in Inglorious Basterds..

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Posted by ATrillionaire
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:34 pm to
He's not a true believer. He admits he has no personal animus toward Jews, and that he is simply very accomplished at hunting them.

He's ambitious and totally in the game for adulation.

A true believer wouldn't negotiate their conditonal surrender with terms that give credit for being a double agent and contributer to Operation Kino. He wanted citizenship, a medal, and Nantucket property.
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Posted by udtiger
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:35 pm to
Always figured he killed them
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Posted by ATrillionaire
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:38 pm to
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I think he intentionally let Shoshanna just so he could hunt her later.

He didn't let her go on purpose (to hunt her). This is a cut scene from the movie.

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Posted by ATrillionaire
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:45 pm to
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Ehhh, Tarantino changes his mind from his scripts pretty regularly. Landa’s men could have easily charged her down.

It's not deleted from the script. It was cut during production due to time constraints. The scene was filmed.
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Posted by WestCoastAg
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:46 pm to
Always have gone either way and neither choice would be a surprise to me

He always seemed like an evil heartless person on a power trip who easily could have killed the family just because he could

He also seemed more inherently interested in just getting the job done who wouldn't have taken the deception personally and would have just moved on to the next situation

So...idk
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Posted by Fun Bunch
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:47 pm to
My assumption has always been he let them live as well.
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Posted by ATrillionaire
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 2:52 pm to
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Well he says “Adieu” to LaPatite and the Jews and “Au Revior” to Soshana. I’m just taking Landa’s words quite literally here.

That can very well mean that he'll see her again as she will be captured, killed, or will die in some other fashion. Interesting observation, though. Who knows.
Posted by Carson123987
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:01 pm to
Nope. Landa is a man of principle and was shown to believe in the honor of a deal at the end of the movie. He is legitimately shocked when the americans kill his associate in the woods and claims that they had a deal
Posted by Harry Caray
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:06 pm to
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I always wondered if he recognized her in the restaurant later on.

I thought him ordering milk and telling her to wait for the cream was an indicator that he recognized her from the dairy farm
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:16 pm to
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Landa is a man of principle and was shown to believe in the honor of a deal
i think this is where I fall but again, wouldn't be surprised if he went the other way as well
Posted by Fun Bunch
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:19 pm to
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Nope. Landa is a man of principle


Hitler would disagree but I do think that's how Landa sees himself
Posted by Frac the world
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:30 pm to
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I thought him ordering milk and telling her to wait for the cream was an indicator that he recognized her from the dairy farm


I always thought that was a test because the cream and strudel wasn’t kosher?
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Posted by Fun Bunch
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Posted on 8/13/25 at 3:35 pm to
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I always thought that was a test because the cream and strudel wasn’t kosher?



Both would often be made with animal lard, in particular pork lard, at that time, as I recall
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