PLOT
Inglourious Basterds unfolds over five chapters: Once upon a time... In Nazi-Occupied France; Inglourious Basterds;A German Night in Paris; Operation Kino and Revenge of the Giant Face.[10][11]
In France in 1941, SS Colonel Hans Landa arrives at a dairy farm to interrogate Perrier LaPadite about rumors he is hiding the Jewish Dreyfus family. Landa persuades the farmer to confess to hiding the family underneath his floor. Landa orders the SS soldiers into the house to shoot the floorboards where LaPadite has confirmed the Dreyfuses are hiding below. The entire family is killed, with the exception of the teenage Shosanna, whom Landa allows to escape.
In Italy in the spring of 1944, Lt. Aldo Raine recruits a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers for a mission to get behind enemy lines and bring fear to all German servicemen. He tells the soldiers that they each owe him a hundred Nazi scalps. They operate with a "take no prisoners" attitude and come to be known as the 'Basterds'. One survivor of an attack by the 'Basterds', Private Butz, is interviewed by Adolf Hitler. Butz's account of the attack is shown via flashback as he reveals that his squad was ambushed and his Sergeant was beaten to death by Sgt. Donny Donowitz with a baseball bat. Butz then reveals that Raine carved a swastika onto his forehead with a knife so that he will be universally identifiable as a Nazi after the war.
In June 1944, three years after her family's murder, Shosanna has assumed a new identity as 'Emmanuelle Mimieux' and is operating a cinema in Paris. She meets Frederick Zoller, a German marksman whose exploits are to be celebrated in a Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (Nation's Pride).[12] Zoller is attracted to Shosanna and convinces Joseph Goebbels to hold the premiere of his film at Shosanna's cinema. Shosanna realizes that the presence of several high-ranking Nazi officials provides an opportunity for revenge and resolves to burn down the cinema during the premiere by using a large quantity of flammable nitrate film. The British also learn of the premiere and dispatch Lt. Archie Hicox to infiltrate the event aided by the 'Basterds' and German film actress and double agent, Bridget von Hammersmark. Hicox and two of the 'Basterds' meet with Hammersmark at a tavern where an SS officer notices Hicox's odd accent and that he gives the wrong three-fingered order for drinks. The resulting standoff erupts into a firefight, leaving everyone dead except Hammersmark. Raine interrogates Hammersmark, and upon learning that Hitler will be attending the premiere, devises a plan where himself, Donny, and Omar will pose as Hammersmark's Italian escorts at the premiere. Landa later investigates the tavern and retrieves Hammersmark's shoe and an autographed napkin.
At the premiere, Landa asks to see Hammersmark privately. He makes her try on the shoe he found and then violently strangles her to death. He then orders Raine to be arrested, as well as Private Utivich. Landa makes a deal with Raine's commanding officer to be granted a full military pension and American citizenship (among other things), in exchange for allowing Donny and Omar—still seated in the cinema—to kill the Nazi high command. During the film, Zoller goes to the projection room to see Shosanna and angrily protests about her rejecting him. When his back is turned, she shoots him multiple times, but he manages to shoot her dead before succumbing to his wounds. The film is then interrupted by a pre-recorded close-up of Shosanna informing the audience that they are going to be killed by a Jew. At the same time, Shosanna's employee, Marcel, who has locked and bolted all the exits of the cinema, ignites the nitrate film stacked behind the screen. Donny and Omar gun Hitler and Goebbels down and begin firing into the crowd. They continue firing until the dynamite Landa planted earlier explodes together with the sticks strapped to their legs, destroying the cinema.
Landa and his radio operator drive Raine and Utivich to the American lines, according to the deal. At the lines, Landa surrenders to Raine and hands over his weapons, allowing Utivich to handcuff him. Raine breaks his part of the deal by shooting Landa's driver dead and Utivich scalps him. Raine then carves a swastika into Landa's forehead, proclaiming that "this just might be my masterpiece."
BasNic opinion
Inglourious Basterds is one of the best movies released in 2009. It shows the actions of the Nazi´s in a ,,funny´´ way. Even if this movie is very long (153 min) it is not like in other movies where you can go and take a piss and come back without loosing the story....This movie achieved 10 out 10 points
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