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Owasso_Landman t1_j6b9sae wrote

Reply to comment by Konggen in So I watched my first ever Tarantino movie: Inglourious Basterds. It's one glorious bastard. by Comic_Book_Reader

Just said basically the same thing. Involving Hitler at the end completely undercuts a beautifully written villain in Hans Landa. Landa carried the movie and the alternate history took me out of it when it wasn’t needed.

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vladivan t1_j6dxqgl wrote

But thats what the movie is about? Its about how cinema can influence the perception of reality. The nazis used cinema as propaganda. Tarantino takes away power of nazis by showing that they are just a bunch of assholes and not some unimaginable monsters. There's a reason why everything in basterds is about film.

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Owasso_Landman t1_j6dzh92 wrote

Yes and all of that was accomplished without killing Hitler.

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vladivan t1_j6e0a7n wrote

No. Killing hitler in a ridiculous way is a symbolic fuck you to all fascists of the past, present and the future.

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