Inglorious Basterds is an action packed drama following a plethora of characters and their journey through World War II. The film is split up into five chapters. The film first introduces Colonel Hans Landa who is played by Christoph Waltz and is known as the “Jew Hunter”. He stops in a house that was suspected to be hiding Jews. He has a lengthily conversation with the homeowner and eventually gets him to admit that he was housing the missing Jews. Hans then ordered his guards to shoot the floorboards, one girl ended up getting away.
The second chapter introduces the group known as the “Basterds” lead by Aldo Raine who is played by Brad Pitt. Aldo makes it clear that their purpose is to kill Nazis and he instructs his men that he wants 100 Nazi scalps from each solider. Hitler is then shown irritated about Aldo’s group. One survivor that was let go by the Basterds showed the mark they left on his forehead which was a swastika. The Basterds are then shown in the woods surrounded by dead Nazis except for three. The Basterds try to interrogate the remaining Nazis but it doesn’t go very well because one tries to run away and is shot and another is beaten with a baseball bat because he refused to comply.
Chapter three shows the girl who got away from the Jew Hunter now in Paris owning her own movie theater. She then gets acquainted with a young Nazi war hero who suggests that she show a premier of his film at her theater. She is then pretty muted forced to show the film there. Which ends up working out for her because she comes up with a plan to burn the place down since so many prominent Nazis will be there including Hitler.
Chapter Four is a pretty lengthly chapter because it holds a lot of information. Basically some Basterds team up with an actress to also go to the premier and kill the Nazis. They meet in an underground bar and there meeting is disrupted by a Nazi soldier who calls them out for being fake Nazis. Then everyone in the bar ends up being shot and dead except for the actress.
The last chapter shows the two different yet simultaneous sabotages going on in the theater. The woman who owns the theater ends up being killed by the solider she met and Aldo and another one of his men end up being captured by the Jew Hunter. However, the sabotage still works and the theater goes up in flames. The Jew Hunter tries to make a deal with Aldo so that they both live and the Jew Hunter gets off scot free. This ends up working out for Aldo mostly.
All in all the film is very good and unique compared to other WWII movies. So, if you like war movies I do suggest this film.
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