Inglorious Basterds (2009)
Inglorious Basterds was written by Quentin Tarantino in 1988, after having borrowed the title from a Castellari film made in 1978. This reference to the 78 version is an example of the legendary intertexuality, innate to Tarantino films. Even though the only echoed topic matter was a second world war backdrop, Tarantino gave castellari a cameo role as a Nazi. Due to Tarantino encountering difficulities completing the end of the script he delayed the movies production for ten years and returned to producing the sequal to Kill Bill meanwhile. This lengthy pre-production time is classic Tarantino, despite the argument that it was justified.
On a seventy million dollar budget, grossing three hundred and twenty one million, and opening on 3165 screens in the US it became Tarantino's highest grossing film to date. This has now been outdone by Django Unchained in 2012.
Christophe Waltz, who is heavily featured in the scene i will analyse, won five awards for his performance as 'Colonel Landa' including best actor of Cannes Film Festival.
The film follows two attempts to assasinate Hitler. One carried out by a group of American Soldiers dropped behind enemy lines, and one of a Judeo-French cinema owner. Tarantino decided to veer from the truth in regards to some outcomes of the second world war, yet simultaneously introduces various realistic characters from different sources to give the film a feel of potential realism. At the end of the film Tarantino uses the closing stages to chip away at the fourth wall whilst also displaying great distaste for the individuals within the Nazi regime. As the main antagonist is being transferred to a safe location post capture, one of the central protagonists cuts a swastika into his forehead and looks directly into the camera and says "this