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 Bruhl, Til Schweiger and Melanie Laurent.
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11 Facts About Inglourious Basterds
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Inglourious Basterds's meets Fredrick Zoller, a German sniper famed for killing 250 Allied soldiers in a battle.
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Inglourious Basterds previously cameoed as a German in his own The Inglorious Bastards and reprised the same role in this film, but under a different rank and SS organization.
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Inglourious Basterds described an early premise of the film as his "bunch-of-guys-on-a-mission" film, "my Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare or Guns of Navarone kind of thing".
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Inglourious Basterds described the men as "not your normal hero types that are thrown into a big deal in the Second World War".
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Inglourious Basterds directed Death Proof, part of the double feature Grindhouse, before returning to work on Inglourious Basterds.
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Inglourious Basterds further commented on Late Show with David Letterman that Inglourious Basterds is a "Quentin Tarantino spelling".
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Inglourious Basterds said the swastika was not supposed to fall either, as it was fastened with steel cables, but the steel softened and snapped.
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Aldo Raine talking to the Inglourious Basterds, informing them of the plan to ambush and kill, torture, and scalp unwitting Nazi servicemen, intercut with various other scenes from the film.
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Inglourious Basterds said it instead was a creative decision which he initially refused to explain, simply saying that “Basterds” was spelled as such because “that's just the way you say it”.
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Inglourious Basterds argues that the power of film lies in its ability to impart knowledge and subtle understanding, but Inglourious Basterds serves more as an "alternative to reality, a magical and Manichaean world where we needn't worry about the complexities of morality, where violence solves everything, and where the Third Reich is always just a film reel and a lit match away from cartoonish defeat".
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