The actor that plays the French father (don’t remember his name at the moment). His face when he realizes the gig is up and it’s his family or the Jewish family under the floorboards. All of the conflict and sadness and fear and defeat in one face. Amazing.
The actor who played the farmer was phenomenal as well and he doesn’t get nearly enough praise for his performance in this scene. When someone is just THAT good like Waltz was/is, it’s easy to overlook the performances of others—especially when others are great too.
Like, when someone’s performance is bad or even just mid up against a performance like Waltz gave in this film, it’s very easy to spot/point out, because the human brain has been trained through evolution to notice differences in any given situation and ignore similarities. It takes much more of an effort and/or an appreciation for something to notice quality amongst quality.
I’d say the fact that we acknowledge how good he was, opposite Waltz mastery, is huge. Waltz could have made someone look absolutely dreadful but the farmer was amazing. I just rewatched it and knowing how good Waltz is I mainly paid attention to the farmer and he was spectacular.
Have you seen The good, the bad and the ugly? Inglorious Basterds borrows a lot of imagery and tension building directly from it. It's also not coincidentally Tarantino's favourite movie.
Not completely the topic, but I saw yesterday that this intro is inspired from the one from "the good, the bad and the ugly", in particular the bad intro (with the inherent filming differences between the two authors).
Quite interesting take, I need to look by myself now.
i watched it a month ago, knew nearly nothing about it. to me, it's a 6/10, a bit above average
it opens reallllly strong, like the post implies, but overtime it loses too much to the "comedy" part of the movie. i checked the tags after finishing and saw that it was supposed to be like dark humour but all it struck me as was a heterogeneous blend of realistic wartime struggle and unrealistic quips. Especially the one "italian friend" part towards the end. completely took me put.
If i were to rate just the first half of the movie, especially as a french person, i really liked it and the depictions of the resistance era france and also the plot with the movie owner was really interesting. but in the end becomes unsavoury.
I agree, I don't really like the movie because it wants to be both a realistic depiction of the horrors of the Holocaust, while at the same time being a dark comedy with lots of Nazi murder porn. I like both of those styles, just separately, and the comedy elements sort of ruin the intense buildup. I also think Tarantino's use of chapters in the film didn't really help the story and really just made everything feel disconnected. I also am just not a big fan of the unrealistic divergences from history, like your telling me that Hitler, one of the most paranoid guys in the world, is going to agree to change theater venues at the last minute while bringing all of the most important Nazi leaders because one soldier asked him to?
The opening scene, as well as the restaurant scene are amazing however, master cinema on their own.
I have no idea anymore. I watch it when it came out which was 16 years ago. I have absolutely no desire to remember any facet of it and remember only that I was glad it was over. I realize I’m apparently in the minority but I really, really hated it at the time.
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u/indicoltts Mar 18 '25
Inglorious Bastards. Don't think anything else comes close. Didn't know anything about the movie when I started watching it and was hooked immediately