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Are there two versions of Inglourious Basterds? ›

One for the general showings, which has all dialogs dubbed into Russian except for French and Italian; and another, so-called "director's cut" where only the English passages are dubbed into Russian and the rest is subtitled.

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent.

Those comments came as a scene from Inglourious Basterds in which her character is strangled came under fire by critics of Tarantino, many pointing out the fact that the director insisted on actually choking Kruger himself for on-camera realism — a moment she revealed in 2009.

While the film's story and characters are not entirely based on true events, there were real military units, like X-Troop and the American counterpart, that consisted of Jewish soldiers and focused on intelligence gathering and infiltrating Nazi operations.

True to his reputation and nickname, he recognizes Shosanna living an undercover life as a cinema owner four years later, but spares her life again.

It is French. Au revoir means goodbye, Shoshanna is a female Jewish name.

At the prom, Amy and her cohorts (including John Travolta) drop a rigged bucket of pig's blood on Carrie. Carrie's kinetic powers are now unleashed in one of the screen's most-celebrated depictions of merciless and unstoppable fury.

The Tarantino film is not a remake of The Inglorious Bastards, but contains a few references to it, including the appearances of Svenson as an American colonel and Castellari as a Wehrmacht general (although credited as "himself").

When the movie was released back in 2009, it's reception amongst the Jewish community was mixed. A section of the community was critical of the extreme violence and torture sequences in the movie, calling 'Jews behaving like nazis', and some even compared the burning theatre scene to 'gas chambers'.

What was Raine sniffing throughout the film? Powdered snuff, which is a type of tobacco that you can inhale through your nose. He'd gotten it from one of the dead German soldiers right before Donny kills the officer with his bat.

Why milk in Inglorious Basterds? ›

Shosanna being a young woman owning a cinema and with Marcel working for her surely made Landa suspicious, and ordering the milk and cream were subtle ways in which he was looking to provoke a reaction from her that gave her away.

At that point during the war, it was almost a certainty that the third Reich was about to fall, and since he was a cruel and sociopathic coward with no actual loyalty to the third Reich, it was a certainty to him to surrender.

According to Tarantino in a 2019 podcast, Landa survives the end of the film and is labelled a hero in the US and the history books for his role in the death of Adolf Hitler, and retires to Nantucket Island, where he is roped into solving a series of murders as an amateur master detective.

Vengeance: Vengeance is a central theme in the film, as the Basterds are on a mission to kill as many Nazis as possible in retaliation for the atrocities committed against the Jewish people. This theme is also seen in Shosanna's desire for revenge against the Nazis for the massacre of her family.

Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 "macaroni" war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life, his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake.

The Der Stolz Edition of Inglourious Basterds extends the film as four new and extended scenes are masterfully integrated back into the film, reincorperating 6 minutes of new footage.

In the film, someone gets gunned down because he uses the wrong hand signal for the number three. A lot of people use the middle three fingers to denote the number three, though some use other combinations. In the town in Germany mentioned in Inglourious Basterds, people use the thumb and first two fingers.

The Basterds are the main protagonists of the 2009 Quentin Tarantino war film Inglorious Basterds. They were a group of 11 (initially 9 soldiers), 8 Jewish and 3 non-Jewish, whose sole mission was to inflict terror in the Nazi occupied France during WW2.