Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards

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What if World War II didn’t end in the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the surrender of the Axis powers? What if instead there was a double conspiracy in the works against Hitler that was concentrated coincidentally on an extravagant movie premiere in honor of the efforts of Nazi German soldiers in France at the time? How different history would be. This very plot is depicted in Quentin Tarantino’s World War II movie staring Brad Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Mélanie Laurent and Shosanna Dreyfus. Shosanna is a Jewish dairy farmer’s daughter in France at the time of the German take over and is forced into hiding with her family under the floorboards of a neighbor’s farmhouse to elude capture by the searching Gestapo officers. In an eventful encounter with Colonel Has Landa of the SS also happily known as “the Jew Hunter” and her family’s host, Perrier LaPadite, she and her loved ones are given up and open fired upon. All are killed but a filthy bloodstained Shosanna who crawls out from under the house and sprints to freedom with a feeling of panic and despair. Years later Shosanna takes on the name of Emmanuelle Mimieux and owns a small cinema in Paris that attracts the attention of the newly honored war hero Fredrick Zoller who stars in his own movie showing his recent deeds. Zoller requests that the premiere of the film be moved to Emmanuelle’s theater as he falls in love with her and when it is approved she devises a plan to kill the repulsive Nazi leaders that will no doubt be in attendance. Lieutenant Aldo "The Apache" Raine appears in “Chapter Two: Inglourious Basterds” as a brutal leader of this notorious group that has been sent from the United States into France with one objective; “as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're ...

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Inglourious Basterds. Dir. Quentin Tarantino. 2009. Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Web.

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Milian, Mark. "Quentin Tarantino's Method Behind 'Inglourious Basterds' soundtrack mix-tape." The L.A. Times. The Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug 2009. Web. 15 Apr 2014.

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