Inglourious Basterds - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[violet]

At the end of each take, actors would face the camera and say "Hello Sally", referring to Sally Menke, the film's editor. This practice has occurred since Quentin Tarantino's previous movies (such as Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Death Proof (2007)). Inglourious Basterds was the last film by Tarantino to be edited by Menke, whose work was honored in 2010 with her final Academy Award nomination for Best Editing, prior to her death later that year.

[jeffrey]

Christoph Waltz previously played in a World War II-related film as an Auschwitz survivor in the biographical film, Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe (1991).

[gabriel]

In the original script, Samm Levine's role was much larger, with Private First Class Hirschberg being one of the primary members of the Basterds. However, in the film, Hirschberg only speaks one line, and he disappears before the closing scenes, with his fate being left unresolved. In interviews, Samm Levine confirmed that Hirschberg survived to the story's end, and written-but-not-filmed closing scenes had him, and other unspecified Basterds, meeting up with Lieutenant Raine and Private First Class Utivich after they settled things with Colonel Landa.

[carl]

Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger appeared in Troy (2004).

[elmer]

Bo Svenson: Small cameo as an American Colonel. Svenson was the star of The Inglorious Bastards (1978).

[cameron]

Quentin Tarantino intended for this to be as much a war film as a spaghetti western, and considered titling the movie "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France". He gave that title instead to the first chapter of the film.

[kylie]

The large Nazi eagle displayed in the theater lobby is based on a bronze eagle that was in the Reichs Chancellery in Berlin, by Kurt Schmid-Ehmen. The original Berlin eagle is now in the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.

[bernard]

For an unexplained reason, despite his infamy and photo appearing in German newspapers the Nazi SS Security Officer Strumbannfuhrer Hellstrom and the soldiers in the bar failed to recognize the infamous Hugo Stiglitz.

[tammy]

While hiding under the floor of the LaPadite house, Shoshanna could not understand the conversation between the French dairy farmer and S.S. Colonel Landa had in English. However Shosanna filmed her speech to the soon to be incinerated German political elite in fluent English. Many of the German theater audience, including Hitler, would not have understood what she said.

[charlie]

Well known German actor Moritz Bleibtreu was originally cast in a part for the bar scene, but had to cancel due to scheduling problems.

[jim]

In the basement bar scene, one of the enlisted men refers to Karl May and says his character is Winnetou. This is a reference to the western themed adventure books by Karl May (1842-1912). Winnetou was a Native American hero in several of the books. May was one of Adolf Hitler's favorite authors. However, the gesture the man makes of touching the heart and greeting with three fingers is an anachronism, as it was a signature gesture of Winnetou in the movies from the sixties.

[sandra]

Quentin Tarantino: [victim's viewpoint] Tarantino's trademark shot of actors from a trunk or engine compartment is replaced by shots from the viewpoint of post swastika-scarred victims.

[leo]

Director Enzo G. Castellari of The Inglorious Bastards (1978) allowed Quentin Tarantino to use the title "Inglourious Basterds" in exchange for a cameo as a General yelling "Fire!" (as Castellari appears in his own film). Tarantino filmed Castellari as a General in the theater pointing out the burning screen, but the scene did not make the theatrical cut.

[chad]

Diane Kruger and Brad Pitt appeared in Troy (2004).

[sandra]

Eli Roth directed the film-within-the-film, "Nation's Pride". Quentin Tarantino asked Roth to direct the short, and Roth requested his brother Gabriel Roth join him to direct behind a second camera, to which Tarantino agreed. In two days, the brothers got one hundred thirty camera set-ups, and Tarantino was so pleased, he gave Roth a third day that he was originally planning to shoot with Daniel Brühl. Roth got fifty more set-ups the third day, much to Tarantino's delight. The total running time of the short is five minutes and thirty seconds, and was always intended to feel like pieces of a longer film, not a coherent short.

[sara]

For his performance in this film, Christoph Waltz became one of six performers to win an Oscar playing a character that mostly spoke in a foreign language (German, French, and Italian). The others are Sophia Loren, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Benicio Del Toro, and Marion Cotillard.

[tamara]

In the Heer, the 3d Reich's Army, regulations and common practice would prevent a Oberfeldwebel (Master Sergeant), such as Willie/ Wilhelm, from fraternizing with a Gefreiter (Private First Class) and a Soldat (Private).

[kyle]

General Ed Fenech's (Mike Myers') uniform: He wears the "No. 2" dress of the British Army, an Officer's Sam Browne belt, the red collar Georgettes of a General. However, the view of his buttons is not clear enough to discern his regiment or corps. His medal ribbons include: either an OBE, CBE or KBE (you cannot tell from the ribbon), Transport Medal 1903 (South Africa or China), 1914 Star (with mention in dispatches), The British War Medal (World War I), the Victory Medal (World War I, with mention in dispatches), The General Service Medal (cannot tell which campaign) and then four more medals that I am unable to trace.

[veronica]

The role of Colonel Hans Landa is that of a notorious and merciless "Jew Hunter". In real life, Christoph Waltz has a son who is a rabbi.