Director:

Quentin Tarantino

Starring:

Melanie Laurent- Character –‘ Shosanna’

Christoph Waltz – Character - ‘Hans Landa’

Eli Roth- Character – ‘Donny Donowitz’

Diane Kruger - Character – ‘Fredrick Zoller’

‘Inglorious Bastard’ Movie Summary:

The film tells the fictional story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi Germany political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor (Laurent), and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine.

The movie is divided into 5 chapters. I will summarize the movie according to chapter as it flows.

CHAPTER 1:

Chapter 1 starts at Nazi occupied France in 1941. There was a man named Perrier LaPadite who lived in a village of Nazi occupied France with his wife and three beautiful daughter but they are JEWS. One day Colonel Hans Landa of ‘SS’ came to his home to investigate the rumours that he is hiding Jews. He had a conversation with Colonel in private. Colonel asked him about the Jews that were used to live in that region who are in number four. Colonel claims himself as the best hunter of Jews in comparison with other German soldier, because he can think like Jews and other Nazi soldiers not. He told to Mr. LaPadite that one if like to determine what the attribute the German people share with the beast, there will be the cunning and predicted instinct of the hawk, but if I am were to determine what attribute the Jews share with the beast would be that of the Rat. He tries to convince Mr. LaPadite that Jews are like rat in our home that we can’t bear as hostile if they cramp there. As rat spread diseases by animosity, we can’t hostile them in our houses. He tells that, this is the cause that German soldiers constantly search Jews everywhere. He forced Mr. LaPadite to tell about the four Jews (they were their family members) and also to tell about the place where they are hiding. When Mr. LaPadite told what Colonel wants to know, he ordered their soldiers to kill them. But one teenage girl ‘ Shosanna’ escape.

CHAPTER 2:

Chapter 2 starts with the opposite side of Nazi the Americans. The Americans had made a special team of Eight Jews American soldiers. They were ordered to do one thing and only one things – killing Nazis. The lieutenant Raines tells to the soldiers that they came to ‘Sisley’ 5000 miles from America by crossing Mountains, oceans and river to teach Humanity to Nazis. They believe that Nazis are no human. They posses Jews mass murder maniac so they need to be destroyed. They believe that they should be cruel to Nazis and not to think who they are. Lieutenant told the solders

to show the Germans the cruelty so that German will fear from them (Americans or more accurately Jews). He told to their soldiers that each soldier should show him a hundred ‘scalp’ of Nazis.

Hitler is very angry to the Americans because they butcher Nazis and they were flies. Hitler questions his men by saying that do you know the latest rumour they have conjured up in their fear-induced delirium? The one that beats my boys with a bat, the one they call “The Bear Jew” is a golem. Officers answer to him in this way- Mine Fuhrer, this is just soldier’s gossip, no one really believes the Bear Jew is a golem. Hitler ordered to bring them to him and told that I will hang them naked, by their heels from the Eiffel tower! And then throw their bodies in sewers for the rat of Paris to feast. I have an order I want relayed to all German soldiers stationed in France. The Jew degenerate known as "the Bear Jew" henceforth is never to be referred to as The Bear Jew again. He met with a soldier named ‘Butz’ whose squad was ambushed by Lt. Raines. Soldier told Fuhrer about the scalp removing of Nazis by Lt. Raines soldiers.

Hugo Stiglitz is an American soldier who killed Thirteen German officers. He was in jail but Bastards (Lt. Rains squad) let them freed.

Chapter 3:

Chapter 3 starts with German nights in Paris in June 1944. There is a Cinema hall which is operated by leady ‘Emmanuelle Mimieux’ (she is the girl who managed to escape stated in first chapter). A German soldier’ Fredrick Zoller’ made conversation with her and he praises her. He is a war hero. Here is a conversation between the leady and Fredrick, I would like to present conversation because it is very important to complete understanding of film.- Leady- What did you do? Fredrick- I was alone in a walled city, by myself with a thousand rounds of ammo.In a bird's nest against three hundred soldiers.Leady- What's a bird's nest? Fredrick- A bird's nest is what a sniper would call a bell tower. It's a tall structure offering a three hundred and sixty degree view, very advantageous for a marksman. Leady- How many did you kill?Fredrick- Sixty-eight the first day. A hundred and fifty the second day. Thirty-two the third day. On the fourth day, they exited the city. Naturally my war story received a lot of attention in Germany, why they all recognize me. They call me the German Sergeant York.Leady- Maybe they'll make a film about your exploits. Fredrick- Well, that's just what Joseph Goebbels thought. So he did, It's called "Nation's Pride". They wanted me to play myself, so I did. They have posters for it in kiosks all over Paris. That's another reason for all the attention. Leady- "Nation's Pride" is about you? "Nation's Pride" is starring you? Fredrick- I know, comical, huh? Leady- Well, good luck with your premier Private. I hodpe all goes well for Joseph and yourself.

Upper conversation shows that Zoller Fredrick is attracted to Shosanna and convinces Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) to hold the premiere of his film at Shosanna's cinema. .

Chapter 4: OPERATION “KINO”

Shosanna realizes that the presence of several high-ranking Nazi officials provides an opportunity for revenge and resolves to burn down the cinema during the premiere by using a large quantity of extremely flammable nitrate film. The British also learn of the premiere and dispatch Lieutenant Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender) to infiltrate the event aided by the Basterds and German film actress and double agent, Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger). Hicox and two of the German-born Basterds meet with von Hammersmark at a tavern where Major Dieter Hellstrom (August Diehl), of the Gestapo, notices Hicox's odd accent and that he gives the wrong (non-German) three-fingered order for drinks. The resulting standoff erupts into a firefight, leaving everyone dead except von Hammersmark. Raine interrogates von Hammersmark, and upon learning that Hitler will be attending the premiere, devises a plan whereby he, Donny, and Omar (Omar Doom) will pose as von Hammersmark's Italian escorts at the premiere. Landa later investigates the tavern, retrieving von Hammersmark's shoe and an autographed napkin

Chapter 5: REVENGE OF GAINT FACE

At the premiere, Landa asks to see von Hammersmark privately, where he makes her try on the shoe. Convinced to his satisfaction that she is in league with the Basterds, he strangles her to death. He then orders Raine and Utivich (B. J. Novak) to be arrested. Landa makes a deal with Raine's commanding officer (Harvey Keitel) to be granted a full military pension and American citizenship, in exchange for allowing Donny and Omar—still seated in the cinema—to kill the Nazi high command. During the film, Zoller goes to the projection room to see Shosanna and confronts her angrily due to multiple rejections of his advances from the beginning. When his back is turned, she shoots him multiple times, but he manages to shoot her dead before succumbing to his wounds. The film is then interrupted by an inserted close-up of Shosanna informing the audience that they are going to be killed by a Jew. At the same time, Shosanna's employee and lover, Marcel (Jacky Ido), who has locked and bolted all the exits of the cinema, ignites the nitrate film stacked behind the screen. Omar and Donowitz successfully attack and kill Goebbels and Hitler, then shoot into the crowd of panicking Nazis until the timers on their bombs go off and destroy the cinema, killing everyone inside.

Landa and his radio operator drive Raine and Utivich to the American lines, and according to the deal, Landa surrenders to Raine and hands over his weapons, allowing Utivich to handcuff him. To Landa's shock, Raine then shoots the radio operator and orders Utivich to scalp the dead man. Raine then carves a swastika into Landa's forehead proclaiming, "This just might be my masterpiece"

Human Right Perspective

Movie is successful in presenting human right perspective of Genocide that has done by both Nazis and Bastards.

Genocide is crime of destroying or conspiring to destroy a group of people because of their ethnic, national, racial, or religious identity. Raphael Lemkin, a Polish legal scholar, coined the term in 1944 to describe Nazi Germany’s annihilation of groups by direct murder and indirect means during World War II (1939-1945). The Nazis’ specific attempt to totally destroy the Jewish people and the Roma, or Gypsies, became known as the Holocaust.

If we talk about type of genocide by Nazis then it comes into ideological. Most often, this type of genocide is committed in an effort to achieve an ideal social structure in which all members of society are alike or hold the same beliefs. In these cases the governments in power instituted policies that led to mass deaths as part of a plan to achieve a country based on a single racial or ethnic group. The Holocaust, for example, was driven by the Nazi racial theory that Germans belonged to a superior race, which they called Aryans. This has been proved in the movie, through conversation of Hitler and the high authority in German at that time. It can also be perceived from Hans Land and Perrier LaPadite conversation.

If we talk about the genocide done by Nazis, it was the one of the gruesome act done in modern world. Nazis has killed 5 to 6 million Jews in the name of racial purification. Although genocide is not new, the kind is almost new. This can only be possible in the case of ‘ultimate leadership’ only. This movie also shows the political Genocide done by French Jewish cinema proprietor.

It shows not only the Nazis; somewhat Americans were on the same path. They are only different in a way, that they have not started the process. The scalp removing shows the same face the American have.