Until the Nazis came to power in Germany, the Iron Cross was a Prussian symbol for courage. Courage prior to 1933(when the Nazis came to power) meant something different according to the Old Prussian values...at least, from what I gather.
Tarantino has a way with fleshing out the antagonists almost to a point where you like them. Take Calvin Candy for example. By all metrics, we should hate the man. Slave trader, Slave fighter, Slave pimp, lets dog rip apart would-be runaways, generally sadistic to anyone not caucasian, with the exception of Steven. And yet, he has moments where he is articulate, charming, funny, and charismatic. Its the mark of a great director as far as I am concerned.
@@sonofaballer96 so weird to see a black person refer to themselves as African American. When did your relatives come from Africa? When is the last time you or anyone in your family, has even been there? I’m first gen immigrant, and yet I’m just plain ole American. Then again, I don’t let race hustlers like Jesse Jackson define me as a person.
I love how there's a dramatic build up in the music to raise the emotion of seeing a brave soldier about to die for his country, but as soon as he swings the music stops and just becomes a man being beaten to death by a baseball bat. Its the reality of the situation.
He was a good man on the wrong side of the war Also a Nazi So the build up song was good enough No music reminded the audience that that's a Nazi so who cares
Most special forces units are extremely informal with regards to rank, especially out in the field. So long as orders are followed, no one cares about whether there's a "Sir" at the end of each response to an answer, statement, or interrogative.
@@pbdye1607 THey´re EXTREMELY informal. Often they don't even wear clothes and freely share their feelings. It's very special, being special force. A special time for everyone. If you have a special habit that would normally be a social faux pas, such as eating boogers or taking a quite unusual amount of time inspecting your doodies, or if , even as a big burly man with equal amounts of tattos and body hair you like to knit pastel, afghan sweaters and wear them of an evening - noone will question it with anything but gentle, appreciative curiosity. If you have special outgrowhs or surprising body parts a friend may opt to just remove them without asking, and more generally noone will think much of it if you fart extensively at weddings and funerals.
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@@josiahgonzalez942 Actually from what it looks like when he comes out it looks like he's tapping the wall with his bat probably as an intimidation tactic
Nazism was quite literally a death cult, in the same way that ISIS is a death cult. Blood and soil. All the quasi-religious BS of touching the flag stained with the blood of their fallen comrades. The almost obsessive worship and fetishization of the war dead. It was all about death right down to the skull and crossbones on their hats lol. They'd had it drilled into their heads that they were expected to give their life for the Reich. They only existed to further the reich. That's not bravery, that's being brain washed so badly that you become a machine for the state. Thats about as ugly as humanity gets.
Fun fact about this scene. When it came time to shoot it, Eli Roth had already been on a strict workout regime to get himself looking tight and mean for this scene. He'd workout on set and pump himself up when it came time. But they filmed this scene several times. Each time they got it perfect, but Tarantino ordered another cut for a different day and each time, Roth got himself all pumped and jacked up to the point that when they did the last take, Roth may as well been the Hulk.
@@gorgolyt ... uhh I workout every other day first of all and you get pumped so to speak during and after a workout which Roth did to get jacked for the scene. I don't think you know how pumps work I know one dies build up over time and the fact that thats what you took from that has me convinced your parents are brother and sister. Think before u troll there champ
@@gorgolyt i said he got himself pumped which u quoted me on. There's a difference between getting a pump and building you dont look bigger persay, you look tighter and swolen. You can look at someone who's been going to the gym every day for a year and tell when they've taken a week off. It takes muscles roughly a week to begin to atrophy. Stamina and testosterone go into a pump and while your muscle fibers and broken down and are metabolizing proteins to build your muscle you are experiencing a pump. Kind of like when you bump your arm or get a black eye. It swells. Its your body working on regenerating cells in that area and when you workout you're tearing muscle fibers on a microscopic level so they get bigger. You can tell when someone has been going hard at the gym. Thats what Eli Roth did hence his intensity for the scene.
I saw a prequel comic involving Donnie. Apparently Donnie was a bit of a hellion back home. An ancient Jewish woman caught him right before he was to leave for overseas. She looks at him, and the bat he was carrying. She looks him in the eye and asks him if he was up to trouble. He humbly replies "Yes maam." She ask him if he was going to take that bat with him. He says "yes maam." She tells him to give it to her, which he does. She then takes out a pen and signs her name to it, and tells him to send her love to that bastard Hitler.
The bear jew and these jewish boys look so trendy and metro with their epic hairstyle and moustaches! I WISH I could go back in time to punch nazis like these boys do! I would have to make sure to bring enough soylent though, ha! This is definitely how jews were btw, they were always doing epic win gamer jew Redditor moments against the nazis!!!!!
"You get that from killing jews?" "Bravery." I love the way Donny nods in a sort of respecting way. He despises the German officer in almost every way possible, with the exception of one; that he's a brave man serving and willing to die for his country. Inglorious Basterds is by far one of my favorite movies, and every time I rewatch it I discover something new that I love about it. Phenomenal once-in-a-lifetime movie.
No way, he despises his bravery in my opinion. The nod was saying, "Yea okay, Nazi pig, I don't care you're about to die my way." Pretty sure this Jewish armed forces member has no semblance of respect, admiration, or pity for a Nazi superior officer.
Did you delete my reply??? This Jewish American soldier definitely completely despises this Nazi soldier, no medal can take that away or lessen his disdain. Didn't see a nod of respect, a nod of, okay well fuck your "bravery" Nazi pig, then Hank Williams crushes it out of the park.
@Max Herbst Nope - the third guy got their trademark "swastika carved into the forehead" routine and ended up reporting to Hitler himself about the encounter.
Their whole unit operates behind enemy lines and their objectives is to gather intel, support the resistance, rescue Allied POWs and spread fear amongst the Nazi occupiers. All their dead victims would have their scalp sliced off and the ones they let go will have a swastika carved on their foreheads.
I love how Tarantino didn’t portray the Germans as cowards or dumb goons like Spielberg did with Indiana Jones for example. Hans Landa is an incredibly smart and dangerous person and the officer in this clip stayed loyal until his death. (I know Spielberg made nazis next level serious in Schindlers List but Indiana Jones is just a childhood favorite of mine so I had to mention it)
1) The way the German is breathing at around 55 seconds says it all. He's accepted his fate and is ready to die. 2) you can see the heartbreak in Donnys eyes when he says "you get that for killing Jews?" Tarantino is a genius.
Oh, please. The putative victims had in fact murdered 66,000,000 Christian Slavs in USSR. THAT is why Europe rose against them. They are still using their victim act to disarm and target YOU.
Donny's "yeah?" always catches me off guard. Before that, he's presented as a dangerous force that most people probably imagine as some really big guy, and then we hear him answer Aldo and he sounds like a teenage dude who's about to lose his virginity. Subtle comedy at its finest
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This whole sequence was good. The officer had a heavy conviction in his beliefs, took the bat like Glen. Also, the way the whole sequence was with Wicky translating between the German soldier and Aldo was done in one shot with the camera moving to who was talking. This whole movie was frickin awesome!
PS: I love the little laugh the Basterds do when the German soldier immediately gives up the position of the other platoons. Say what you want about Tarantino, the man knows his audience.
Funny you mention Glen.. Negan said I hope your got your shittin pants on , and the soldier in this scene says I'd be shittin in my pants if I were you 🤣🤣
I mean if sides were traded and it was an American in the Germans shoes. He would be thinking the same if he points his finger on the map so many would die versus just himself. That takes balls of steel and true sacrifice from any man doesn’t matter the side.
The officer's bravery and commitment are respectable, would be a hero for sacrificing himself for his fellow soldiers if he wasn't on the complete wrong side of the war.
He was on the right side. The Brits were on the wrong side. Mass genocide, starvation and forced famine in India, South Africa, SE Asia. Mass rapes in Kenya. Mass concentration camps in South Africa. Famine and rapes in Ireland. They were the real scum of earth
Love the way Brad delivers the “Bring that one over here, ALIVE” line, his eyes widen and he drags out the last word and I find it super funny. As well as the “Dammit Herschberg,” while stuffing his face with food directly after shooting a soldier. Like it’s just another Tuesday evening and it’s said as if Herschberg spilled his coffee or something. Which is also hilarious because it implies that Herschberg shooting soldiers unprovoked is a casual and normal occurrence and it’s nothing more than a minor inconvenience to the Basterds because then they can’t tease Nazis if they’re dead. Lol
Good to note. If the Officer really did know about the Basterds, he'd know they only leave one survivor. He chose his fate not only out of duty to his country but to also give his younger companion the chance to live. Plus, one of his badges earlier, conspicuously missing in this scene, denotes him as a veteran of 25 close-quarter engagements with the enemy. it could well point to him being a veteran of both wars, given his age and record.
@@datonekidvids1432 Donnie questions him before while jabbing at his medal with his bat, whether the Officer "got that for killing Jews." At least to me, it's interesting how a Wehrmacht soldier's final moments turned the narrative of the film so sour. Tarantino intentionally had this calm collected man, with no nazi regalia, face off against a bear of a man jabs him with tone-deaf questions, clearly blinded by a desire for revenge and eager for more blood and medals to adorn himself with. The tonal shift is only compounded when the cowboy standoff style music cuts out to their laughter and jeers as he's being beaten to death. It marks a turn from the idea that there are heroes, to being anti-heroes. Who's own actions and motivations are openly and proudly malign. Really a great buffer for the rest of the film.
@@rossalupus8866 It did good job of really portraying what the Basterds were to the Germans in this movie. They were a group that definitely would have been struck from the history books to keep the American image more clean.
I love how Tarantino blurs the line between good and evil. If Apache and the boys were the wearing the a German uniform, I wouldn't be laughing at Donny playing T ball with that guy's head.
My favorite little detail. All the names on Donny's bat are from all the Jewish people in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. So in a way they there with Donny getting revenge.
I don't know if that was the point, but it worked for me. Also I found it almost funny the first time I watched it. I was, unsurprisingly, expecting a huge, hulking man to come out of that pipe...
The bear jew and these jewish boys look so trendy and metro with their epic hairstyle and moustaches! I WISH I could go back in time to punch nazis like these boys do! I would have to make sure to bring enough soylent though, ha! This is definitely how jews were btw, they were always doing epic win gamer jew Redditor moments against the nazis!!!!!
I know there is a lot of praise for the opening scene. I love it too. This is also an memorable scene. The pacing, the dialog, the music, the acting. I am fortunate to have seen this movie the first time in a theater and had no idea what I was about to experience.
@@alexanderzerka8477 there's a clip where some paparazzi takes tarantino's photo outside a convenience store. tarantino starts talking shit, inviting the guy to fight him and get his ass kicked. The dude says 'okay', next thing you know(less than ten seconds later) Tarantino is making excuses why he can't fight the guy, as if the guy is the one who tried to start the fight.
The bear jew and these jewish boys look so trendy and metro with their epic hairstyle and moustaches! I WISH I could go back in time to punch nazis like these boys do! I would have to make sure to bring enough soylent though, ha! This is definitely how jews were btw, they were always doing epic win gamer jew Redditor moments against the nazis!!!!!
I think Donnie's ego was blown apart when the German said to him "bravery" and didn't show any bit of fear in front of him...unlike other Germans he previously killed before with that bat, this one was a rare kind, a truly brave enemy who didn't fall to The Bear Jew's trap of making his victims shit scared before meeting their death...you can see in his face, Donny is frustrated and has tears in his eyes the same as a man who is humiliated in his own game and wants so much to take revenge, so the only thing left to fulfill his ego was to beat the German and scream some phrases like in a baseball game commentary to cover his frustration with the fact that he didn't satisfy his ego in this kill...Tarantino is really a genius, showing that even an evil regime had brave soldiers, and even Allies had cold-blooded psychopath ones that had turned into monsters
honestly I read it rather as the meaningless of bravery in the face of certain death. Yeah sure the German keeps a brave face and the dramatic music plays, but the moment he gets hit the music cuts and we see how undignified a death it is. (That is not to say it wasnt deserved, fuck nazis). Even though he looked all cool and shit for a few moments, he was beaten to a pulp by a bat.
yes however he was also so hurt with the fact this man sat there and said “bravery” and didn’t show fear and he just looked into the officers eye and saw all the jews being hurt and just wanted him to feel pain
The problem with these movies is that people tend to ignore or choose to be oblivious of the difference between the Wehrmacht and the Nazis. Wehrmacht soldiers were unfortunate fuckers who were drafted in the army to fight for a cause the majority of them didn't believe in. I'll never forget the story my grandmother used to tell me about a young Wehrmacht soldier breaking down in tears after he'd asked her to fix one of the buttons on his uniform. She was a seamstress' apprentice in an occupied town that housed a German regiment at the time. When she was done and handed him back his vest, he broke out in tears saying how they were being sent to the Eastern front the next day and he didn't expect to be coming back.
Don't care. Fought for a monstrous regime. I can't wait for the day we finally nut up and start feeding American fascists to our home grown inglorious bastards.
mmmyea no. it was a lie in 1945, it's still a lie today. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_brothels_in_World_War_II
@@renaissancebatman actually, that’s Ennio Morricone for you.... his music style is instantly recognisable.... Tarantino is an amazing director but Morricone is a God tier composer
I love Tarantino: he gets his audience cheering sadistic brutality. Humanity goes right out the window as long as it's someone we hate on the receiving end. Of course, when THEY act similarly, we consider that evil. Watch the part where Hitler is enjoying the film with the German sniper killing Americans and realize Tarantino is holding a mirror up to YOU.
well said. i actually watched "once upon a time in hollywood..." in a theater, the audience was quiet for the entire movie and then just fucking blew up in cheers and laughter during the final manson cult's scene.
We always want the worst of humanity to get what’s coming to them, and Tarantino does so by having his antagonists go up against Protagonists that are just as sadistic as they are. Whether it’s the Wife getting bloody vengeance, Django burning down the slave masters, or the Manson Family getting killed by two guys that represents the extreme violence inherent to Hollywood and the media
@@dreamer2260 That’s what you get when you exterminate millions of people for a ridiculous and stupid power trip of a madman. Especially when you serve an army that supports and fights for such a horrendous cause.
@@Divine_Serpent_Geh he was a wermacht soldier, not necessarily offiliated with the SS. Judging by his age & Iron Cross, he was likely a WW1 veteran too. But no sure, violently degrade & torture your enemies to death because they're on the wrong team. Disgrace.
The thing about that is he was trying to work himself up to hate the guy to make it easier to kill him, so when he asked him if he got it for killing jews, and he said bravery and stared him down it made his task more difficult, probably a realization that what he's there doing is no better than the germans.
What's crazy is that his role was originally written for Adam Sandler. He was actually excited to play this role but Adam was already shooting another movie during this time and/or couldn't get out of it.
Nothing against this actor, he “knocked it out of the park”, but I would’ve loved to have seen Adam Sandler in this role. His role in Punch Drunk Love reminded me of Jim Carrey in The Truman Show. It was a breakout performance from the dumb comedies we all love and you get to see another side of them.
That is very interesting. I think this one still made it a better scene as he looks like the stereotypical German with the hair, eyes etc. Add his behaviour and bravery as a soldier until the very end and there you have the scene.
I get it, he’s the bad guy…. But that German dude was legit. He knew what was coming and did not hesitate to not sell out his guys. If he was on the “right” side he would be a hero. Props to the man that knew a horrible death was coming but didn’t sell out his countrymen.
@@CertifiedForkLiftOperator69420 Nope. This movie is from 2009, Negan was introduced in Issue #100 of the comics, and it was published originally in 2012.
When the Americans commit war crimes, it's supposed to be funny. But the rest of the world has been experiencing a century of American war crimes that have gone unpunished. But not forgotten.
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You do realize that the man facing Death was defending Europe against the "victims" who had annihilated 60,000,000 Christian Slavs in USSR? You've been played, my nizzle.
@@user-yy2fl2yf5mYou realize this is a movie and he just commented on the actors performance, right? I'm just asking because you sperged out as if he was commenting on some real event, not just a movie scene.
@@jakemocci3953 can’t debate without including what they fought for though. A man wouldn’t slaughter children simply because they were Jewish and “inferior”
It's very subtle, which emphasizes how good the actors are, but the power play in this scene is just absolutely brilliant. The bastards knew the officer wouldn't give them the information they wanted. They would know German military medals and awards, and have a pretty clear picture of the kind of man he was. He knew he was already dead before they even started talking, so he tried, and failed, to bait them into doing it quickly. He probably hadn't counted on the Bear Jew being part of the equation. He was probably counting on a bullet to the brain, and you can see he has that moment of "Oh, shit, they're not playing, they're actually going to do it like this." On the other hand, they already figured out which one was their mark. Aldo didn't have to specify that he wanted him alive, that was just for show. After what just happened, they knew the second guy would tell them whatever he could think of to try to save his own ass and thus he was completely useless. It's already known that the Basterds usually leave one person alive if possible. Shooting the second guy took all the guesswork out of who it would be, giving the last guy a glimmer of hope. Seeing that he was the last one left alive, the remaining soldier knew right away that if he told the truth, he'd be spared.
@@ninjaked1265 i think the ability to lie at that moment disappear coz all you think about is to tell the truth and hopefully they will spare your life after witnessing what they did to their officer.
I'm surprised how little people really understood the scene. Quentin Tarantino never shows only one side as the bad ones. In most of the other scenes it's clear who are the bad ones. Of course the Nazis. But here it's different. We have a normal German soldier who stays loyal to his men and we have the “Inglorious Basterds“ which live up to their name. In this scene the German NCO is the victim and not the perpetrator. We don't know if he has something to do with the holocaust, probably not. Tarantino wanted to make this scene to show there's no black and white and even the “good ones“ aren't as good as we think and the bad ones aren't all that bad
I get what your saying here. Talented filmmakers do this, I don't wanna say quite often but when opportunity presents it. Speilberg did something similar in Saving Private Ryan, when the Nazi Soldiers were surrending w their hands up. Then the Americans shot and even mocked them. Laughing saying something about them having clean hands for dinner. I have seen other ppl comment in that scene to even drive the point home, that the German Soldiers were actually captured Czech soldiers first to fight, that is what they were saying anyways. I think it just highlights war is hell, we can all sit on sidelines and talk moral platitudes about what we would have done or they should have done. I could go on, but I think u get it!
@@joesmith3098 Yeah that's true. Those two soldiers are really czechs from a so called “Ostbattalion“ (Eastern Battalion) forced to fight. I knoe that because I speak it a little bit. In BandofBrothers they did the same. There is a scene where some captured Germans sit together and one tells a US soldier he is a “Volksdeutscher“ (German person living in another country) from the US.. They did nothing wrong, just surrendered but soon after it they get shot by another US soldier. In that scene they tried do to the same, to make the Germans human. We know a bit from their history and see they are normal people as well (of course not all, I don't try to justify any crime committed by anyone. But I don't want to justice and justice means for me to blame those who deserved it and not all around them) But then they get killed by a person we actually don't really know. It's the same thing.
Lmao you’re not wrong but I’m sure a lot of people could come to that conclusion, it’s not exactly subtle. If you asked a middle school class why the director did that I bet someone could think of it lol Who misunderstood it? Seems like you just framed your comment as you being smart for pointing out some obvious surface level shit
You can see Eli's pain and suffering really come out in this scene. Reminds me of a Mexican proverb "They tried to bury us but they didn't know that we were seeds".
"Iron balls" well, that makes no sence if you are dying stupid way like a lamb. He might be a little tricky, he could try to fool jews in order to disorient them, giving them wrong information about german locations without being such a bully. Or at least he could try to fight back to be killed during the battle
Most of the Germans in the movie were exceptional individuals. Landa and Hellstrom were both razor sharp. Not to mention Stiglitz, who while being a Basterd was still a German.
Most of the Germans in the movie were exceptional individuals. Landa and Hellstrom were both razor sharp. Not to mention Stiglitz, who while being a Basterd was still a German.
exactly. i like how the music cuts out right at the moment of impact, and how the shot is really close on the german's face before that, then it's further out. it's like, with the music swelling and the german's stoical expression, it's how he sees himself. then the bat hits, he no longer sees himself any way, and we see him from the basterds point of view, or maybe the other captured soldiers' point of view, or maybe reality. anyway, i like that moment.
My father was 82nd Airborne ⭐ ⭐⭐ 🇺🇲WW2🇺🇸 Battle Of The Bulge, Operation Varsity and Operation Market Garden.... Demolitions and forward advancement scout ( Pure Badass ) And one of the kindest souls to walk the earth R.I.P 🏅 I grew up thinking maybe he never actually had to kill anyone, being much older now... I know that's virtually impossible, before leaving for war, he was a hunter and trapper ... Mother said( 🏹 ) was his favorite. They met after WW2 and married. My mother said, after returning from a day of hunting with a deer, he was dressing it out and she came outside and started crying ... He stopped, hugged her and said ... I'll never kill again .... And he never did, he was my hero and an absolute GREEK GOD in my eyes .... I miss my father.... He told me some amazing things that happened in WW 2, but not until the last few yrs of his life. Go All American 82nd !
Walking slow. A fellow Jew who's coming to kill the man who took a sadistic pleasure of killing civilians JUST for them being Jews themselves would take EVERY moment leading to killing a Nazi with the same deliberate savor as a child takes to a slice of cake~
During the "Battle of the Bulge" part of the American deployment into France, the average age of the Nazi Soldiers was 15. Germany lost so many soldiers during their Eastern push into Russia that Hitler pressed school boys and boy scouts (whatever the young Nazi program was called). My great uncle fought and survived that battle, and he never told anyone about his experiences. By the time I was born he had already retreated into his house and wouldn't talk to his family, despite living next door to his brother (who was a barber in the service during WW2) and a block away from another brother (who was a brick layer building FBO's in the service during WW2). As he didn't talk about his actions, I never verified that that was the reason for his silence. He did however, forbid any of his sons from joining the military, telling them "I went over there and fought so you wouldn't have too".
Most of the Germans who defended Berlin were either young boys or old men. Pretty impressive how Germany still managed to inflict more casualties on their enemies at this stage despite being outnumbered and outgunned
My grandpa fought in africa, italy and france, and a few years ago he got real sick and died. In the weeks before he passed he was in a sleeping stupor almost, he thought he was back in the war. he would laugh and joke, and cry and scream. sometimes he would mumble and just have minor facial expressions, others he would look around the and talk to us like he was reliving a moment, able to sit up speak very clear. He told me a while back ww2 was the most fun he ever had, except for the fighting parts, he could do with out those. Getinng a house brought down on him by a German tank was "the funniest damn thing I've expereinced, except for maybe when that 400lb woman hung me by the tree branch." We weren't close until I enlisted, but he told me "the army is a good life, and war, aside from the killing and the dying, is a pretty good time. But if you are gonna die, do it for more than country. Do it for something that matters." He thought that fighting for country, where as noble in some case, was also ignorant, because you were fighting for the interest of people who have no interest in you. If you're going to risk your life do it for something you believe it. Family, the innocent there, a better world, something that matters, because that's what gets you through hell.
Blindly believing something that make you feel better, be it religion or nazism, doesn't require much courage. Those guys have their whole community telling them they're saints for doing what they do. No, standing up for what is right, even if it doesn't make you feel better and is against your whole community or even the entire world, that takes real courage.
JJ Redfield Germans DESERVED to be called brave and saints, because for most of the young guys lives they grew up when bread cost 47 trillion marks and suffered constant blame for the First World War. The actor who plays this soldier, lets say if this was real life and he was a soldier. He's old enough to have served in both world wars.
@@francisphillips53 not all German officers were a part of the SS this guy wasn't. He got wounded in the war thats why he got the medal. This scene is tailored to evoke feelings of contradiction so that we understand that in war both sides have good and bad people, the good being the German officer and the bad being the guys killing a defenceless war hero because he wouldn't snitch on his countrymen even if brutal death was the alternative.
ngl he definitely did earn that bravery badge
Until the Nazis came to power in Germany, the Iron Cross was a Prussian symbol for courage. Courage prior to 1933(when the Nazis came to power) meant something different according to the Old Prussian values...at least, from what I gather.
Fine line between courage and stupidity.
@@AnastasiaSaenz Its the same thing, doing an act of fearlessness or valor in combat.
So you typically lie?
@@zagorith14 they knew the value of symbolism
Love how Tarantino showed the Germans as brave, crafty, intelligent, intimidating instead of cartoonishly evil
Tarantino has a way with fleshing out the antagonists almost to a point where you like them. Take Calvin Candy for example. By all metrics, we should hate the man. Slave trader, Slave fighter, Slave pimp, lets dog rip apart would-be runaways, generally sadistic to anyone not caucasian, with the exception of Steven. And yet, he has moments where he is articulate, charming, funny, and charismatic. Its the mark of a great director as far as I am concerned.
@@paulfreyer2558 wouldn't say I liked the Candyman but then again I'm African American.
Most of the Germans had the same crappy job our soldiers did.
And there is Dolf Shmitler by Tarantino. Pretty cartoonish
@@sonofaballer96 so weird to see a black person refer to themselves as African American. When did your relatives come from Africa? When is the last time you or anyone in your family, has even been there? I’m first gen immigrant, and yet I’m just plain ole American. Then again, I don’t let race hustlers like Jesse Jackson define me as a person.
I love how there's a dramatic build up in the music to raise the emotion of seeing a brave soldier about to die for his country, but as soon as he swings the music stops and just becomes a man being beaten to death by a baseball bat. Its the reality of the situation.
He was a good man on the wrong side of the war
Also a Nazi
So the build up song was good enough
No music reminded the audience that that's a Nazi so who cares
Yah thats war (
The music was to intro donny coming out the cave it wasn't meant for the German soldier
@@uptamistikdoesn't really matter for whom it was; the glorification of war ends and is shown as just a bloody, gore carnage.
@@josue.ortegaahhh he can’t appreciate the filmography. Different strokes for different folks
Donny raving about Teddy Williams will never fail to make me laugh. 😂
I literally got to this comment as I got to that scene, and I only laughed when you said how it made you laugh
"We've got a German here who wants to die for his country. Oblige him."
That has to be the most threatening line I've ever heard in a movie.
It's a common phrase used in the US military, before this move came out. "US marine Corps: Helping our enemies die for their country since 1775".
The oblige him part hits different
@@aa1bb2cc3dd4 lmao
You obviously haven't seen Troy. You sack of wine.
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How nonchalantly he responds with "Yea" when Aldo asks for him.
Most special forces units are extremely informal with regards to rank, especially out in the field. So long as orders are followed, no one cares about whether there's a "Sir" at the end of each response to an answer, statement, or interrogative.
@@pbdye1607 apilplpoli
@@pbdye1607 THey´re EXTREMELY informal. Often they don't even wear clothes and freely share their feelings. It's very special, being special force. A special time for everyone. If you have a special habit that would normally be a social faux pas, such as eating boogers or taking a quite unusual amount of time inspecting your doodies, or if , even as a big burly man with equal amounts of tattos and body hair you like to knit pastel, afghan sweaters and wear them of an evening - noone will question it with anything but gentle, appreciative curiosity. If you have special outgrowhs or surprising body parts a friend may opt to just remove them without asking, and more generally noone will think much of it if you fart extensively at weddings and funerals.
My favorite part lmao
@@pbdye1607 those special forces that get buttfuked in afghnistan by sheepherders with 12 cents bullets .
I think we can all agree we’re all that last dude who pointed out everything to save his precious life 🤣🤣🤣
that laugh tho lol lmao
👇 'hehahahahaha'
Maaan, shoooooot...🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️
(me): "What'chu wanna know, playa??"
Not gonna lie. This german officer kept his composure till the very end. Deserves his Bravery medal, the guy got balls of steel
Honoraable thats laughable.. died on his knees like a coward ..
@@THE-zv7vj he was on his knees not by choice, you absolute pancake. When facing the bear Jew he kept stoic until the very end.
@@LET4M4RUhe’s a Nazi fuck him
It's a film lads
@@cantbanme8971 but he´s right ^^
Always lose it when Pitt shouts “Donny” and you just hear a “yeah” from within the dark. So funny
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😅😅😅 I say that about Donald Trump when he makes the news
It’s like wtf is he doin in there the whole time anyway? “I never know what he’s doing in there!” (Will Farrell voice)
@@joseayala8506just swinging his bat at a floor until he gets called out lol
@@josiahgonzalez942 Actually from what it looks like when he comes out it looks like he's tapping the wall with his bat probably as an intimidation tactic
Wow, the fact that he didn't even flinch or show any signs of fear, the man was truly willing to die for his beliefs.
You again
Your interests really know no bounds Jellal
Bravery
You haunt me wherever you go
Nazism was quite literally a death cult, in the same way that ISIS is a death cult. Blood and soil. All the quasi-religious BS of touching the flag stained with the blood of their fallen comrades. The almost obsessive worship and fetishization of the war dead. It was all about death right down to the skull and crossbones on their hats lol. They'd had it drilled into their heads that they were expected to give their life for the Reich. They only existed to further the reich. That's not bravery, that's being brain washed so badly that you become a machine for the state. Thats about as ugly as humanity gets.
One tough son of a gun. He not only wasn't scared, but looked the guy straight in the eyes. Nazi or not, thats one trait worthy of emulation.
My granfather fought in WW2. He said to me: "No one calls them Nazis. They are germans"
@@MarcoArezzo76 I am sorry to tell you , but your Grandpa......is a Grandpa
@@MarcoArezzo76SS too?
Fun fact about this scene. When it came time to shoot it, Eli Roth had already been on a strict workout regime to get himself looking tight and mean for this scene. He'd workout on set and pump himself up when it came time. But they filmed this scene several times. Each time they got it perfect, but Tarantino ordered another cut for a different day and each time, Roth got himself all pumped and jacked up to the point that when they did the last take, Roth may as well been the Hulk.
That's not how pumps work. Obviously they don't accumulate over time. Cool story though, kid.
@@gorgolyt ... uhh I workout every other day first of all and you get pumped so to speak during and after a workout which Roth did to get jacked for the scene. I don't think you know how pumps work I know one dies build up over time and the fact that thats what you took from that has me convinced your parents are brother and sister. Think before u troll there champ
@@RightWingCorrectWing You said that Roth got noticeably bigger over the course of a couple of days' filming, which is ridiculous.
@@gorgolyt i said he got himself pumped which u quoted me on. There's a difference between getting a pump and building you dont look bigger persay, you look tighter and swolen. You can look at someone who's been going to the gym every day for a year and tell when they've taken a week off. It takes muscles roughly a week to begin to atrophy. Stamina and testosterone go into a pump and while your muscle fibers and broken down and are metabolizing proteins to build your muscle you are experiencing a pump. Kind of like when you bump your arm or get a black eye. It swells. Its your body working on regenerating cells in that area and when you workout you're tearing muscle fibers on a microscopic level so they get bigger. You can tell when someone has been going hard at the gym. Thats what Eli Roth did hence his intensity for the scene.
@@gorgolytOnly time you notice something getting bigger over the course of a few days is when it's your boyfriend's dick.
I saw a prequel comic involving Donnie. Apparently Donnie was a bit of a hellion back home. An ancient Jewish woman caught him right before he was to leave for overseas. She looks at him, and the bat he was carrying. She looks him in the eye and asks him if he was up to trouble. He humbly replies "Yes maam." She ask him if he was going to take that bat with him. He says "yes maam." She tells him to give it to her, which he does. She then takes out a pen and signs her name to it, and tells him to send her love to that bastard Hitler.
Nice
That is indeed why you can see Anne Frank written on it.
The bear jew and these jewish boys look so trendy and metro with their epic hairstyle and moustaches! I WISH I could go back in time to punch nazis like these boys do! I would have to make sure to bring enough soylent though, ha! This is definitely how jews were btw, they were always doing epic win gamer jew Redditor moments against the nazis!!!!!
@@mikhail8450 nawww, are you sad that nazis get the bat?
@@mikhail8450 gay
When the officer says "bravery" while staying him right in the eye. That's pretty badass ngl.
It's hard
Anyway, got his brain splattered out 🤣
@@calmondey4214 and you laugh about that?
@@agoodSlytherin2005 Yea he was a nazi
@@animalmother1982 how do you know that you idiot? did you read his nazi party membership card? he was a german army officer
"You get that from killing jews?"
"Bravery."
I love the way Donny nods in a sort of respecting way. He despises the German officer in almost every way possible, with the exception of one; that he's a brave man serving and willing to die for his country. Inglorious Basterds is by far one of my favorite movies, and every time I rewatch it I discover something new that I love about it. Phenomenal once-in-a-lifetime movie.
No way, he despises his bravery in my opinion. The nod was saying, "Yea okay, Nazi pig, I don't care you're about to die my way." Pretty sure this Jewish armed forces member has no semblance of respect, admiration, or pity for a Nazi superior officer.
Lol its more a comedy then anything else..
Did you delete my reply??? This Jewish American soldier definitely completely despises this Nazi soldier, no medal can take that away or lessen his disdain. Didn't see a nod of respect, a nod of, okay well fuck your "bravery" Nazi pig, then Hank Williams crushes it out of the park.
"Oblige him" has been a part of my vocab ever since this movie came out.
Yes, their methods are brutal, but ya gotta admit... that third guy got real helpful real fast.
No hounor
@Max Herbst the third German was set free. Just after this scene we see him being interrogated by Hitler about the Basterds.
@Max Herbst Nope - the third guy got their trademark "swastika carved into the forehead" routine and ended up reporting to Hitler himself about the encounter.
Their whole unit operates behind enemy lines and their objectives is to gather intel, support the resistance, rescue Allied POWs and spread fear amongst the Nazi occupiers. All their dead victims would have their scalp sliced off and the ones they let go will have a swastika carved on their foreheads.
@@younisbangash2564 Technically no honor if you're protecting murderers
Fun fact one of the names carved into Donny's bat is Anne frank's
thats cool asf
He wanted Anne Frank to be impactful in an entirely different way!
Hoplite Warlord keep calm boy this is just a little gag i guess. Dont take everything so serious, guys...
He's just a sad alt right troll
yeah because the rest of the movie is soooo historically accurate. Shut up and get out of here fuckstick
Idk why but the way Eli Roth delivers the "Yeah?" at 1:36 always makes me giggle
Same i giggle everytime hearing it so well delivered lol
Sounds like he is in the shitter and someone calls for him😂
Almost sounds like the "Yeah" of someone who is taking a dump in some toilet stall.
Always warms my heart to watch Donny Donowitz make the world a better place.
He murdered a unarmed man, your tiny brain only sees nazi and is easily manipulated.
@@guins99 lol nazi skull goes splat.
By being an evil, unhinged sadist who commits a war crime? Okay.
The Geneva Conventions were established post world war 2
@@strahlemann6248The Nazis were evil, Strahle.
“Donnie”
“Yeah?”
“I got some German here who wants to die for country”
Oblige him
One of my favorite lines in the whole movie.
Obliiiige em
2 hits I hit you, you hit the ground!! Hahahaha
Oblaaaaaaaageeee Him
I love how Tarantino didn’t portray the Germans as cowards or dumb goons like Spielberg did with Indiana Jones for example. Hans Landa is an incredibly smart and dangerous person and the officer in this clip stayed loyal until his death. (I know Spielberg made nazis next level serious in Schindlers List but Indiana Jones is just a childhood favorite of mine so I had to mention it)
Don't forget Saving Private Ryan. The 2 nazis were like:
1) Psycho shushing guy with a knife.
2) "Please, I like América... Betty Boop what a dish".
Dude Indiana Jones is a fun family adventure film, you can't compare the two in terms of tone and writing.
@@framds4802 that was the same dude
Keen observation!
Was he a nazi? I don't remember. I think it was just a Wermarcht officer. It doesn't mean he had to do with nazi politics.
Last guy had a well developed survival instinct
My grandpa who served in Pattons army during WW2 would have loved this movie.
:v
Because he was a sadist?
Yes he would have
"Dammit Herschberg" gets me everytime LMAO
Probably not the first time he's said that lol
Glad I’m not the only one.
"Not again"
The tone did it for me. Aldo sounds like he's just done and this has happened before.
Like he’s knocked over a cup or something lmao
The last German was like
“Well screw this crap I ain’t dying for nothing
He was a traitor .
@@noyouareracist4431 he made the right choice.
And he lived.
He was smart.
@Elon Musk don't fucking tell me you're one of the bitches that stormed the capital
@@kevinwillems8720 well this just got interesting
lmao of course he comes out of a tunnel. The Bear Jew when you find out about his bloody mattress collection.
1) The way the German is breathing at around 55 seconds says it all. He's accepted his fate and is ready to die.
2) you can see the heartbreak in Donnys eyes when he says "you get that for killing Jews?"
Tarantino is a genius.
Oh, please. The putative victims had in fact murdered 66,000,000 Christian Slavs in USSR. THAT is why Europe rose against them. They are still using their victim act to disarm and target YOU.
he's not really a genius....he copies from many movies not to mention he's a jew kiss ass....and minorities as well...
The regular German army were not "mazis" tho. They were just soldiers fighting for Germany.
@@user-yy2fl2yf5mcry about it, h o n k e y
@@user-kx3fx4eo9icry about it, h o n k e y
Donny's "yeah?" always catches me off guard. Before that, he's presented as a dangerous force that most people probably imagine as some really big guy, and then we hear him answer Aldo and he sounds like a teenage dude who's about to lose his virginity. Subtle comedy at its finest
😂
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And out comes the buff horror director Eli Roth
Lmao yeah he's so matter if fact new York about it "yeah? Gonna miss the bus? Hold on in coming ..."
Guys don't have virginity, only girls do.
This whole sequence was good. The officer had a heavy conviction in his beliefs, took the bat like Glen.
Also, the way the whole sequence was with Wicky translating between the German soldier and Aldo was done in one shot with the camera moving to who was talking. This whole movie was frickin awesome!
PS: I love the little laugh the Basterds do when the German soldier immediately gives up the position of the other platoons. Say what you want about Tarantino, the man knows his audience.
Funny you mention Glen.. Negan said I hope your got your shittin pants on , and the soldier in this scene says I'd be shittin in my pants if I were you 🤣🤣
I still cant get over Glen. Please stop
I mean if sides were traded and it was an American in the Germans shoes. He would be thinking the same if he points his finger on the map so many would die versus just himself. That takes balls of steel and true sacrifice from any man doesn’t matter the side.
@@J.P.G.78 Interesting, iirc in the comics when that happened, it was released the same year as this movie...
The officer's bravery and commitment are respectable, would be a hero for sacrificing himself for his fellow soldiers if he wasn't on the complete wrong side of the war.
Very true.
The creatures with whom you are allying murdered 66,000,000 Christian Slavs in USSR. That is why Europe rose against them.
Now, go back to sleep.
He was on the right side.
The Brits were on the wrong side.
Mass genocide, starvation and forced famine in India, South Africa, SE Asia.
Mass rapes in Kenya.
Mass concentration camps in South Africa.
Famine and rapes in Ireland.
They were the real scum of earth
@@actualturtle2421 may 8th 1945 😂😂
@@k92578 Ok
Love the way Brad delivers the “Bring that one over here, ALIVE” line, his eyes widen and he drags out the last word and I find it super funny.
As well as the “Dammit Herschberg,” while stuffing his face with food directly after shooting a soldier. Like it’s just another Tuesday evening and it’s said as if Herschberg spilled his coffee or something. Which is also hilarious because it implies that Herschberg shooting soldiers unprovoked is a casual and normal occurrence and it’s nothing more than a minor inconvenience to the Basterds because then they can’t tease Nazis if they’re dead. Lol
Honestly the guy with the bat is way too big for his voice to be like that...lol but he cute though
Eli roth is naturally slimmer. He had to put on a lot of muscles for this character. If you notice Brad is actually way taller.
Huyle18 I think Eli is actually an inch taller than Brad.
@@noneofyourbusiness18 in real life yes, but in the movie Brad is portrayed to be much taller.
Huyle18 I don’t think that’s what you meant but ok. lol
Eh maybe if he was a little wilder dude looked like the average adult
Good to note. If the Officer really did know about the Basterds, he'd know they only leave one survivor. He chose his fate not only out of duty to his country but to also give his younger companion the chance to live. Plus, one of his badges earlier, conspicuously missing in this scene, denotes him as a veteran of 25 close-quarter engagements with the enemy. it could well point to him being a veteran of both wars, given his age and record.
when he says "bravery" what the hell is the guy saying before that?
@@datonekidvids1432 Guy was asking if he got that medal for killing jews. The nazi replied that he got it for bravery.
@@datonekidvids1432 Donnie questions him before while jabbing at his medal with his bat, whether the Officer "got that for killing Jews."
At least to me, it's interesting how a Wehrmacht soldier's final moments turned the narrative of the film so sour. Tarantino intentionally had this calm collected man, with no nazi regalia, face off against a bear of a man jabs him with tone-deaf questions, clearly blinded by a desire for revenge and eager for more blood and medals to adorn himself with.
The tonal shift is only compounded when the cowboy standoff style music cuts out to their laughter and jeers as he's being beaten to death. It marks a turn from the idea that there are heroes, to being anti-heroes. Who's own actions and motivations are openly and proudly malign. Really a great buffer for the rest of the film.
@@rossalupus8866 It did good job of really portraying what the Basterds were to the Germans in this movie. They were a group that definitely would have been struck from the history books to keep the American image more clean.
@@rossalupus8866 Very well written. You successfully articulated what I could not fathom of describing and you nailed it spot on!!
I love how Tarantino blurs the line between good and evil. If Apache and the boys were the wearing the a German uniform, I wouldn't be laughing at Donny playing T ball with that guy's head.
My favorite little detail. All the names on Donny's bat are from all the Jewish people in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. So in a way they there with Donny getting revenge.
Coulda swore Donowitz was from Boston......
He sounds less intimidating when he starts screaming about knocking it outta dah pahk
I don't know if that was the point, but it worked for me. Also I found it almost funny the first time I watched it. I was, unsurprisingly, expecting a huge, hulking man to come out of that pipe...
@@martinmaguire-music6692 I think it's supposed to be funny yes
Imagine being a scared Nazi watching this. You’re pissing your pants as this over enthused “Bear Jew” is ready to beat your brains in.
Definitely a psycho
@@redfear77 I love it!
I get goosebumps when he comes out and the horns start playing. Such a great scene.
Thats tarantino for you
@Fat BodyBuilder but to be fair, it's not exactly Band Of Brothers or a documentary where it's meant to be as accurate as possible.
@SanChez ACO :D:D:D
Then he starts talking and ruins the image we've built of him.
The bear jew and these jewish boys look so trendy and metro with their epic hairstyle and moustaches! I WISH I could go back in time to punch nazis like these boys do! I would have to make sure to bring enough soylent though, ha! This is definitely how jews were btw, they were always doing epic win gamer jew Redditor moments against the nazis!!!!!
" We're all tickled to hear you say that...." 😃😆😂
I know there is a lot of praise for the opening scene. I love it too. This is also an memorable scene. The pacing, the dialog, the music, the acting. I am fortunate to have seen this movie the first time in a theater and had no idea what I was about to experience.
The way the guy acted out the brain damage on the floor after the first hit...gutwrenching. Fuck.
If I know tarantino..which I don't personally.. he had the actor really have his biscuit caved in
It was pretty entertaining
I noticed that, too. And I appreciated it. Tarantino knows his violence.
Very accurate of TBIs. Signed, a paramedic.
@@alexanderzerka8477 there's a clip where some paparazzi takes tarantino's photo outside a convenience store. tarantino starts talking shit, inviting the guy to fight him and get his ass kicked. The dude says 'okay', next thing you know(less than ten seconds later) Tarantino is making excuses why he can't fight the guy, as if the guy is the one who tried to start the fight.
Now that was a swing
You can see the sweat turn to vapor.
The bear jew and these jewish boys look so trendy and metro with their epic hairstyle and moustaches! I WISH I could go back in time to punch nazis like these boys do! I would have to make sure to bring enough soylent though, ha! This is definitely how jews were btw, they were always doing epic win gamer jew Redditor moments against the nazis!!!!!
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@@comedytv2832 Not funny didin't laugh.
Bruh you are everywhere!
"Bravery." And he certainly proved it. Give that man another medal.
Another medal for a nazi? No thanks
Literally a nazi lmao
what do you mean by that.
The way they laughed when the German Soldier quickly pointed to the location... Lol
I think Donnie's ego was blown apart when the German said to him "bravery" and didn't show any bit of fear in front of him...unlike other Germans he previously killed before with that bat, this one was a rare kind, a truly brave enemy who didn't fall to The Bear Jew's trap of making his victims shit scared before meeting their death...you can see in his face, Donny is frustrated and has tears in his eyes the same as a man who is humiliated in his own game and wants so much to take revenge, so the only thing left to fulfill his ego was to beat the German and scream some phrases like in a baseball game commentary to cover his frustration with the fact that he didn't satisfy his ego in this kill...Tarantino is really a genius, showing that even an evil regime had brave soldiers, and even Allies had cold-blooded psychopath ones that had turned into monsters
Really good analysis
Yep, hence the name of the movie
honestly I read it rather as the meaningless of bravery in the face of certain death. Yeah sure the German keeps a brave face and the dramatic music plays, but the moment he gets hit the music cuts and we see how undignified a death it is. (That is not to say it wasnt deserved, fuck nazis). Even though he looked all cool and shit for a few moments, he was beaten to a pulp by a bat.
@@eliasbutler57 this is true also
yes however he was also so hurt with the fact this man sat there and said “bravery” and didn’t show fear and he just looked into the officers eye and saw all the jews being hurt and just wanted him to feel pain
The problem with these movies is that people tend to ignore or choose to be oblivious of the difference between the Wehrmacht and the Nazis.
Wehrmacht soldiers were unfortunate fuckers who were drafted in the army to fight for a cause the majority of them didn't believe in.
I'll never forget the story my grandmother used to tell me about a young Wehrmacht soldier breaking down in tears after he'd asked her to fix one of the buttons on his uniform. She was a seamstress' apprentice in an occupied town that housed a German regiment at the time.
When she was done and handed him back his vest, he broke out in tears saying how they were being sent to the Eastern front the next day and he didn't expect to be coming back.
Don't care. Fought for a monstrous regime. I can't wait for the day we finally nut up and start feeding American fascists to our home grown inglorious bastards.
Wheraboo, Wehrmacht committed plenty of war crimes
@@Random_Panda_eating_cake So did the US army. Get over it
@@sethr6962 two wrongs does not make a right. Wehrmacht soldier were complicit and often carried out civilian murders and other war crimes.
mmmyea no. it was a lie in 1945, it's still a lie today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_brothels_in_World_War_II
Got to be one of my favorite scenes of all Tarantino movies
1:36 i love how Donnie replies "yeah?" From down the tunnel like he was in the toilet
I say yeah like that cause why not 🤷🏼♂️
Literally exactly what I thought when I heard him yell in the tunnel😂 had the acoustics of a bathroom and everything
Or how his job had become so normalized to him, that it was no different than going to the store to get groceries
That first German died like a boss. Notice he didn't blink, just looked at his killer in the eye till the end. And his last word was "Bravery".
Nah. His last words were “AGGHHGARRRAHAGA” as he got the ever living stuffing beaten out of him by someone he believed was subhuman.
@@LEEboneisDaMan how do you know he was antisemitic? Most wermacht soldiers were conscripted.
Based
@@LEEboneisDaMan the German Nazis were some bad ass mfers back then. You dont know what you are talking about
Its better to die with honnor
Scene was bravery
This movie was such an amazing cinema experience. I will always love this movie.
The music matches the intensity perfectly. Legendary introduction: The Bear Jew
That's tarantino for you
And then the scenes gets fucked when he goes on that rant lol
@@senorjalapeno3937 True that shit about baseball was corny
@@renaissancebatman actually, that’s Ennio Morricone for you.... his music style is instantly recognisable.... Tarantino is an amazing director but Morricone is a God tier composer
Pretty fucking corny, actually. You Americans and your over-the-top antics.
That officer is a vampire in a TV show called the Strain...
And a Nazi.
Yeah i rewatched this scene and was like "do i know this guy from somewhere?"
@@inputcontrolled490 Thomas Eichhorst
Eichhorst.
Best actor in that series
The camera play at the very end is hilarius 😂😂😂 top 5 all time movie in My humble opinion.
Best scene is the opening scene by far. Everything from Hans’ facial transition at the table to the door frame scene. Avoir Shoshanna
I love Tarantino: he gets his audience cheering sadistic brutality. Humanity goes right out the window as long as it's someone we hate on the receiving end. Of course, when THEY act similarly, we consider that evil.
Watch the part where Hitler is enjoying the film with the German sniper killing Americans and realize Tarantino is holding a mirror up to YOU.
Brilliant observation
I wonder if anyone else noticed that.... Thank you for confirming it.
well said. i actually watched "once upon a time in hollywood..." in a theater, the audience was quiet for the entire movie and then just fucking blew up in cheers and laughter during the final manson cult's scene.
We always want the worst of humanity to get what’s coming to them, and Tarantino does so by having his antagonists go up against Protagonists that are just as sadistic as they are. Whether it’s the Wife getting bloody vengeance, Django burning down the slave masters, or the Manson Family getting killed by two guys that represents the extreme violence inherent to Hollywood and the media
Well said
*"Bravery."*
Very moving. The possibility of cruelty like this is one of the great tragedies of war.
@@dreamer2260 That’s what you get when you exterminate millions of people for a ridiculous and stupid power trip of a madman. Especially when you serve an army that supports and fights for such a horrendous cause.
@@Divine_Serpent_Geh he was a wermacht soldier, not necessarily offiliated with the SS. Judging by his age & Iron Cross, he was likely a WW1 veteran too. But no sure, violently degrade & torture your enemies to death because they're on the wrong team. Disgrace.
@@Divine_Serpent_Geh Yeah, you'll see hell 'fore any of us
A Freedom fighter is another mans terrorist
Great film! Worth watching if you have yet to see, AND if you have! 👍👍👍👍👍
Eli Roth is a criminally underrated actor. The menace he exuded when he asked the German how he got the Iron Cross…I get chills every time.
The thing about that is he was trying to work himself up to hate the guy to make it easier to kill him, so when he asked him if he got it for killing jews, and he said bravery and stared him down it made his task more difficult, probably a realization that what he's there doing is no better than the germans.
The eyes!
lol
Agreed
What's crazy is that his role was originally written for Adam Sandler. He was actually excited to play this role but Adam was already shooting another movie during this time and/or couldn't get out of it.
Tarantino apparently wanted Adam Sandler for this role, would have been an interesting option
Nothing against this actor, he “knocked it out of the park”, but I would’ve loved to have seen Adam Sandler in this role. His role in Punch Drunk Love reminded me of Jim Carrey in The Truman Show. It was a breakout performance from the dumb comedies we all love and you get to see another side of them.
That... REALLY would have been interesting. Though knowing the internet, it could have led to some weird memes.
That is very interesting. I think this one still made it a better scene as he looks like the stereotypical German with the hair, eyes etc. Add his behaviour and bravery as a soldier until the very end and there you have the scene.
Actors name is Eli Roth same guy that directed the Hostel movies
Can't imagine that face in this style of directing. The idea is WHOA, though.
I get it, he’s the bad guy…. But that German dude was legit. He knew what was coming and did not hesitate to not sell out his guys. If he was on the “right” side he would be a hero. Props to the man that knew a horrible death was coming but didn’t sell out his countrymen.
Bad guy how?
he was a fucking nazi@@princeytron
The movie unintentionally portrays the germans in a better light than their american and jewish counterparts
@@princeytronnice try, nazi
I love Donnie’s regular ass voice following the build up of the bat sounds coming from the darkness. Shit makes me laugh my ass off
The German looks at him straight in the eye. That's going down like a man. Respect.
Look at his Medals... He saw enough.
Respecting a Nazi? Really? I mean I know it isn’t a real Nazi but? Really?
@@ComradeDrake you’re glowing
@@ComradeDrake who's doing the beating to death with a bat!
@@waynemongo does it matter? Nazi fuck deserved it.
The original Negan and Lucille
badt4life Donny might be negans ancestor or a distant great grandfather lol
@@Anfernee.Clarke you might be right 😂
Damn it, you beat me to it
negan and lucile was in the comic before this movie.
@@CertifiedForkLiftOperator69420 Nope. This movie is from 2009, Negan was introduced in Issue #100 of the comics, and it was published originally in 2012.
He was just a man that died for his country's cause, or at least, what he believed in- and he stuck to his core. Gotta respect that.
Can’t argue with that. But then again, he was a Nazi. And he deserved his fate.
And he died like a b***h
When the Americans commit war crimes, it's supposed to be funny. But the rest of the world has been experiencing a century of American war crimes that have gone unpunished. But not forgotten.
The amount of dignity that guy projects while on his knees is amazing. What an actor.
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You do realize that the man facing Death was defending Europe against the "victims" who had annihilated 60,000,000 Christian Slavs in USSR?
You've been played, my nizzle.
@@user-yy2fl2yf5m bruh what?
@@Veles_Ra He's right.
@@user-yy2fl2yf5mYou realize this is a movie and he just commented on the actors performance, right? I'm just asking because you sperged out as if he was commenting on some real event, not just a movie scene.
Notice how he places his hand on his iron cross when he respectfully declines. He knows what is coming, he got that medal for a reason.
Without debating what they fought for, the average German soldier was a better man than 99% of modern “men” in our society today.
@@jakemocci3953 they also knew how to dress to impress. Seriously, their uniforms were sharp.
@@jakemocci3953 can’t debate without including what they fought for though. A man wouldn’t slaughter children simply because they were Jewish and “inferior”
@@lucasbrown2656 Did the jewish communists have any problem murdering Russian women and children during the Bolshevik Revolution?
@@jakemocci3953 I can see someone fed you the kool-aid
This scene has the opposite effect of what Tarantino intended.
It's very subtle, which emphasizes how good the actors are, but the power play in this scene is just absolutely brilliant. The bastards knew the officer wouldn't give them the information they wanted. They would know German military medals and awards, and have a pretty clear picture of the kind of man he was. He knew he was already dead before they even started talking, so he tried, and failed, to bait them into doing it quickly. He probably hadn't counted on the Bear Jew being part of the equation. He was probably counting on a bullet to the brain, and you can see he has that moment of "Oh, shit, they're not playing, they're actually going to do it like this."
On the other hand, they already figured out which one was their mark. Aldo didn't have to specify that he wanted him alive, that was just for show. After what just happened, they knew the second guy would tell them whatever he could think of to try to save his own ass and thus he was completely useless. It's already known that the Basterds usually leave one person alive if possible. Shooting the second guy took all the guesswork out of who it would be, giving the last guy a glimmer of hope.
Seeing that he was the last one left alive, the remaining soldier knew right away that if he told the truth, he'd be spared.
But how would they know if he was lying
@@ninjaked1265 he wouldn’t lie because they had already played with his brain to scare you really bad that it is like if you where to panic
@@ninjaked1265 i think the ability to lie at that moment disappear coz all you think about is to tell the truth and hopefully they will spare your life after witnessing what they did to their officer.
A bat to the head is fairly quickly, the cope of the westerner to think they always come on top
actually, the guy who got beat to death was either a Sergeant or a Staff Sergeant, not an officer.
That other German soldier crying in the background played a Jewish assassin for Israel in Munich.
Cool
no he is Bear Grylls, and shows how to survive in WW2
Bear Jew sound like "courage the cowardly dog".
I had a conversation with a family friend who was Jewish and lived through WW2 about how great this scene was. I think about him everytime I watch it.
Being alive at the same time doesn't mean you lived through it. I'm not a 9/11 survivor.
@@actualturtle2421cry about, h o n k e y
I'm surprised how little people really understood the scene. Quentin Tarantino never shows only one side as the bad ones. In most of the other scenes it's clear who are the bad ones. Of course the Nazis. But here it's different. We have a normal German soldier who stays loyal to his men and we have the “Inglorious Basterds“ which live up to their name. In this scene the German NCO is the victim and not the perpetrator. We don't know if he has something to do with the holocaust, probably not. Tarantino wanted to make this scene to show there's no black and white and even the “good ones“ aren't as good as we think and the bad ones aren't all that bad
I get what your saying here. Talented filmmakers do this, I don't wanna say quite often but when opportunity presents it.
Speilberg did something similar in Saving Private Ryan, when the Nazi Soldiers were surrending w their hands up. Then the Americans shot and even mocked them. Laughing saying something about them having clean hands for dinner.
I have seen other ppl comment in that scene to even drive the point home, that the German Soldiers were actually captured Czech soldiers first to fight, that is what they were saying anyways.
I think it just highlights war is hell, we can all sit on sidelines and talk moral platitudes about what we would have done or they should have done. I could go on, but I think u get it!
@@joesmith3098 Yeah that's true. Those two soldiers are really czechs from a so called “Ostbattalion“ (Eastern Battalion) forced to fight. I knoe that because I speak it a little bit.
In BandofBrothers they did the same. There is a scene where some captured Germans sit together and one tells a US soldier he is a “Volksdeutscher“ (German person living in another country) from the US.. They did nothing wrong, just surrendered but soon after it they get shot by another US soldier. In that scene they tried do to the same, to make the Germans human. We know a bit from their history and see they are normal people as well (of course not all, I don't try to justify any crime committed by anyone. But I don't want to justice and justice means for me to blame those who deserved it and not all around them)
But then they get killed by a person we actually don't really know. It's the same thing.
Lmao you’re not wrong but I’m sure a lot of people could come to that conclusion, it’s not exactly subtle. If you asked a middle school class why the director did that I bet someone could think of it lol
Who misunderstood it? Seems like you just framed your comment as you being smart for pointing out some obvious surface level shit
@@sam-cs7ne Calm down and be happy you got it on your own. Just go through the comments, many people didn't get it.
Even heaven had split in two at one point
You can see Eli's pain and suffering really come out in this scene. Reminds me of a Mexican proverb "They tried to bury us but they didn't know that we were seeds".
Legendary quote
Yeah he really cries out in pain as he strike.
Seeds of evil apparently
Thats not a Mexican proverb !! Smgdh its African !!
@@DocSportello838 Finally, another knower.
Hearing that bat sound going down the hall *chefs kiss* to this amazing scene
This is one of the best part of the movie especially when he plays base ball with him
you can blink. you can cry. hell, youre all gonna be doing that
Professionally Newby haha
"Hes taking it like like a champ"
He said, "suck ma nuts"
Hot diggotty dog 😁😁
No Exceptions!!!
My opinion,The Real Man with iron Balls in this scene is the German Soldier.
"BRAVERY"
yup a real one
He never flinched.
"Iron balls" well, that makes no sence if you are dying stupid way like a lamb. He might be a little tricky, he could try to fool jews in order to disorient them, giving them wrong information about german locations without being such a bully. Or at least he could try to fight back to be killed during the battle
@@unknownuser5260 Yeah maybe .
But the main star in this Scene is the "Bear Jew" , so....
Bravery bud dead - Darwin‘ s Law
This one never gets old.
that's not a bear jew that is antonio margheriti.
When he looks up at the bear jew and says ".....bravery" he made all the heroes standing around him look like amateurs
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@@nissen6527 i mean he stared his killer in the face and showed him he wasnt afraid
looks like we got a kloset kraut
@@zachprouty8595 hahaha
@@danedgar1539 yes very true, i was just unsure of what you meant. But you are completely right.
So epic how Tarantino didn't grab the low hanging fruit by making the German a coward. He might be the most badass character in any Tarantino movie.
Most of the Germans in the movie were exceptional individuals. Landa and Hellstrom were both razor sharp. Not to mention Stiglitz, who while being a Basterd was still a German.
Most of the Germans in the movie were exceptional individuals. Landa and Hellstrom were both razor sharp. Not to mention Stiglitz, who while being a Basterd was still a German.
yeah but he flops around funny once the bat hits him, doesn't he?
who wouldn't after getting their head smashed with a baseball bat
exactly. i like how the music cuts out right at the moment of impact, and how the shot is really close on the german's face before that, then it's further out. it's like, with the music swelling and the german's stoical expression, it's how he sees himself. then the bat hits, he no longer sees himself any way, and we see him from the basterds point of view, or maybe the other captured soldiers' point of view, or maybe reality. anyway, i like that moment.
The acting in this movie is SO good
Love the camera angle at the end
My father was 82nd Airborne ⭐ ⭐⭐ 🇺🇲WW2🇺🇸 Battle Of The Bulge, Operation Varsity and Operation Market Garden.... Demolitions and forward advancement scout ( Pure Badass ) And one of the kindest souls to walk the earth R.I.P 🏅 I grew up thinking maybe he never actually had to kill anyone, being much older now... I know that's virtually impossible, before leaving for war, he was a hunter and trapper ... Mother said( 🏹 ) was his favorite. They met after WW2 and married. My mother said, after returning from a day of hunting with a deer, he was dressing it out and she came outside and started crying ... He stopped, hugged her and said ... I'll never kill again .... And he never did, he was my hero and an absolute GREEK GOD in my eyes .... I miss my father.... He told me some amazing things that happened in WW 2, but not until the last few yrs of his life. Go All American 82nd !
May he rest in peace
It's either that's a long ass hallway or donnie is just walking really slow
Walking slow.
A fellow Jew who's coming to kill the man who took a sadistic pleasure of killing civilians JUST for them being Jews themselves would take EVERY moment leading to killing a Nazi with the same deliberate savor as a child takes to a slice of cake~
During the "Battle of the Bulge" part of the American deployment into France, the average age of the Nazi Soldiers was 15. Germany lost so many soldiers during their Eastern push into Russia that Hitler pressed school boys and boy scouts (whatever the young Nazi program was called). My great uncle fought and survived that battle, and he never told anyone about his experiences. By the time I was born he had already retreated into his house and wouldn't talk to his family, despite living next door to his brother (who was a barber in the service during WW2) and a block away from another brother (who was a brick layer building FBO's in the service during WW2). As he didn't talk about his actions, I never verified that that was the reason for his silence. He did however, forbid any of his sons from joining the military, telling them "I went over there and fought so you wouldn't have too".
Damn
Most of the Germans who defended Berlin were either young boys or old men. Pretty impressive how Germany still managed to inflict more casualties on their enemies at this stage despite being outnumbered and outgunned
That's some real shit
cant even imagine how he must've felt, there's no way anyone who fought in a war like that feels normal again
My grandpa fought in africa, italy and france, and a few years ago he got real sick and died. In the weeks before he passed he was in a sleeping stupor almost, he thought he was back in the war. he would laugh and joke, and cry and scream. sometimes he would mumble and just have minor facial expressions, others he would look around the and talk to us like he was reliving a moment, able to sit up speak very clear.
He told me a while back ww2 was the most fun he ever had, except for the fighting parts, he could do with out those. Getinng a house brought down on him by a German tank was "the funniest damn thing I've expereinced, except for maybe when that 400lb woman hung me by the tree branch."
We weren't close until I enlisted, but he told me "the army is a good life, and war, aside from the killing and the dying, is a pretty good time. But if you are gonna die, do it for more than country. Do it for something that matters."
He thought that fighting for country, where as noble in some case, was also ignorant, because you were fighting for the interest of people who have no interest in you. If you're going to risk your life do it for something you believe it. Family, the innocent there, a better world, something that matters, because that's what gets you through hell.
I like that he calls it a club, and Aldo corrects him.
One of the best scenes of the movie
You can breathe. You can blink. You can cry. Hell, they're all gonna be doing that.
Look at that!
Taking it like a champ!
The psychological effects of him hitting the wall over, and over had to be highly unnerving
very satisfying scene
The bat is mightier than the pen.
I think I'm going to start entering through open doors the way the Bear Jew does. I just need to work on the walk.
it take me a couple of hour to master this
@Pangur Ban
bullying nazis is a good thing
@Pangur Ban
sounds like someone wasn’t shoved in a locker enough growing up. idc about poor nazi feelings 😢
I realize this is fiction. But that's a brave soldier right there. Regardless of who's side they were on.
so are terrorist who blow themselves up...
Are you comparing a German of the Wehrmacht to somebody as vile as a member of ISIS?
The Wermacht was much more honorable than ISIS. Not the SS... them and ISIS can burn in hell
Blindly believing something that make you feel better, be it religion or nazism, doesn't require much courage. Those guys have their whole community telling them they're saints for doing what they do. No, standing up for what is right, even if it doesn't make you feel better and is against your whole community or even the entire world, that takes real courage.
JJ Redfield Germans DESERVED to be called brave and saints, because for most of the young guys lives they grew up when bread cost 47 trillion marks and suffered constant blame for the First World War.
The actor who plays this soldier, lets say if this was real life and he was a soldier. He's old enough to have served in both world wars.
I love that YEah from Donny gets me every time
What an inspirational scene.
2:28: Me coming back to my dead squadmates after taking the biggest shit humanly possible
Lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣I dying, this is the best comment
I like the German in this scene. Thats going out like a man.
Nazi bastard got what he deserved..
@@francisphillips53 ya, but he went out like a man.
@@francisphillips53 As a Brit let me just say I wish we were speaking german right now
@@francisphillips53 Damn straight
@@francisphillips53 not all German officers were a part of the SS this guy wasn't. He got wounded in the war thats why he got the medal. This scene is tailored to evoke feelings of contradiction so that we understand that in war both sides have good and bad people, the good being the German officer and the bad being the guys killing a defenceless war hero because he wouldn't snitch on his countrymen even if brutal death was the alternative.
Some of that sweet sweet Tarantino screen play and writing.