Inglourious Basterds - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[sylvia]

B.J. Novak had to take leave from appearing on The Office (2005) in order to play Private First Class Utivich. His absence on the show was explained by his character going to "Thailand with friends from high school".

[nora]

In the scene where Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) strangled Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), the hands doing the strangling are those of writer and director Quentin Tarantino.

[chris]

In Legends of the Fall (1994), Brad Pitt played a man who scalped two German soldiers, and got involved with bootlegging. In this film, he played the leader of a group that scalps German soldiers, and mentions a past involvement in bootlegging.

[steve]

WILHELM SCREAM: The scream appears during two deaths in the film. The first half-second of the sound clip appears about ninety minutes into the movie, and the remainder of the scream appears about twenty minutes later. In the film-within-the-film, "Nation's Pride", the Wilhelm scream can be heard when a soldier is shot and falls from an upper window.

[jessica]

"Kino", the name of the British operation to kill the German officers, is the German word for "movie theater".

[kristina]

DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Quentin Tarantino (copyright under title): As with almost all of Tarantino's directed and produced films, the Roman numerated copyright appears during the opening credits, directly under the title of the film. Displaying the copyright info in the opening credits is an homage to films produced in the 1960s and 1970s.