Some notes on Inglorious Basterds

First shots in Inglorious Basterds are very similar to Sound of Music hill scene. Inter textuality.
Scene from end of The Searchers regularly used in multiple texts.
Starts with 'Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France'. Making it seem like a fairytale.Hyper real war film.
Mike Myers appears because his family is from a military background.
Rod Taylor came out of retirement to play a character.

Starts with spaghetti western music with western type font.
Has very simple intro titles, just appearing in the middle and disappearing.
Mix of Beethoven and spaghetti western in first scene.
Breaking fourth wall, see beams of the set, roof taken off and replaced
Eye level scene from The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Scene from The Searchers
Brad Pitt's character has a scar all away along his neck. Rope burn/Attempted neck slice?
Spaghetti western music in forest

Chapter 1 Once upon a time ... in Nazi occupied France
Post modern elements including as many inter textual links as you can think of.
Yellow text is used in the title sequence. This is an inter textual link to Tarantino's other films. He likes the colour yellow. The simplicity of the rest of the title sequence is consistant with his other films
- Once upon a time (Fairy tale) (And they all lived happily ever after, finish in woods or a castle usually)
- The scenery - painted backdrop viewed through some of the windows. If backdrop is real, made to look like it isn't (Hyper Reality)
- Scenery links to sound of music
- Self Reflexive (where a film reveals itself to be a film) ;Birds eye shot of the roof beams (part of set)
- Western music mixed with classic music
Hans Lander
- Amusing character in some respects (Large Pipe)
- Drinks milk
- Form Filling
- Not a stereotypical Nazi
- Austrian (Vienna)
- Called 'The Jew Hunter', looks more like a business man than a killer
- Parody
- You actually get to know the character, whereas most the time Nazis all seem the same
- Doorway Shot from Searchers (1956)
- When girl is running away, towards the Alps. Inter textual of Julie Andrews in Sound of Music
- (Sound of Music is also a Nazi film, WW2)

Chapter 2 Inglorious Basterds
Brad Pitt's acting is over the top, accent is a bit ridiculous, sounds forced
Hugo Stiglitz section has a voice over from Samuel L Jackson
Blaxplotation and Spaghetti western music
Scalping of Germans (American Indians used to scalp their enemies, the Basterds attack like a group of Indians)
Hilter seems idiotic, nervous, forgetful
Western music

Chapter 3 German night in Paris
The British - What do you think?
Girl from Chapter 1, 4 years later
Blaxplotation music
Hitler's number 2 man Joseph Goebbels
Lander returns
Milk, Focus on the cream
More samuel l jackson
plan to burn down cinema
References to:
Leni Riefenstahl (German documentary director) - brilliant film maker and friends with hitler
G W Pabst (German Director)
Max Linder (Comic Actor silent era) - A contempary of Charles Chaplin
Sergeant York (Directed by Howard Hawks [1941]) Based on WWI exploits of Alvin York
Van Johnson (American film star of the 40's/50's)
Taratino makes a great effort to include pop cultural references, normally based on the time period of the film.
British publication video

Chapter 4 Operation Kino
British Accent exaggerated, seems comical
Mike Myers
Rod Taylor
Why is the room is so big?
Churchill sat by piano
Words written on blade

The projection box scene
Frederick and Shoshanna
Pay attention to the finer detail (i.e. - Costume, Music, Effects)
Is the ending of the film a satisfactory one?
Is it what you expected? Are you at all disappointed? If so, why?
War film music as fredrick walks up stairs (sounds building up to something, death, hanging, action about to happen)
Music normally stops when someone dies, when she opens door
Shoshanna is wearing red dress and makeup. Red= bad/romance/blood/danger/sex
Frederick in white uniform. White= good/pure/innocent
Contrasts to how they actually feel
Shoshanna shoots him
Mix of different music in shooting scenes (romantic, should be other way around, contrapuntal music, doesn't fit film)
Slow motion as shoshanna shot, emphasises scene, main character, thought she'd survive to see revenge
Her face in the smoke seems like wicked witch from fairytales
Fredrick?
Nice man
Up himself
a bit of a lothario
Nazi (by association angry/ bit of temper)
Compose himself a bit
Split personality
Sociopath
Powerful
Shocked when he barges in, (finally showing true character)

Hidden weapons
Bullet time with cigarette
Cackling laugh
Machiene guns blazing
Place burns down
Giant explosive
The Ending
Back to forest
Brad pitt in white suit, perfectly clean, hair back in place
Carves Nazi symbol again
end credits use simple yellow text again
Brad's Appearance is perfect (Hyper real)