Inglourious Basterds 5 Most Unexpected Plot Turns (& 5 Most Shocking Death Scenes)

Inglourious Basterds’ 5 Most Unexpected Plot Turns (& 5 Most Shocking Death Scenes)

Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s epic WW2 revenge movie, keeps the audience guessing with its surprising plot twists and character deaths.

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Quentin Tarantino had been telling interviewers about a World War II movie he was working on for years before he finally managed to complete the script. He pushed back Inglourious Basterds to make Kill Bill and Death Proof before getting the cameras rolling on his WWII epic. But the resulting movie was worth the wait. It’s one of Tarantino’s finest works — he even declares it to be his masterpiece in the final scene.

From the introduction of the Bear Jew to the historically inaccurate death of a certain dictator, Inglourious Basterds has a ton of unforgettable moments that wildly subvert the audience’s expectations.

10 Plot Turn: Landa Lets Shoshanna Escape

After Col. Landa deduces that the LaPadite family is harboring the Dreyfuses and his soldiers open fire on the floorboards, one of them escapes. Shoshanna flees into the French countryside to start a new life. Landa lines up the shot but decides to spare her life. He shouts out, “Au revoir, Shoshanna!”

Everyone has their own theory about why Landa let Shoshanna escape. Maybe he didn’t think she could survive the night. Maybe he liked the idea of letting her go so he could catch her later.

9 Death Scene: All The Other Dreyfuses

The opening scene of Inglourious Basterds is a prime example of Hitchcockian bomb-under-the-table suspense. Col. Landa arrives at the LaPadite dairy farm in search of Jewish refugees, and Tarantino pans under the floorboards to reveal a whole family trying to keep quiet.

When LaPadite gives away the Dreyfuses’ location, Landa bids him adieu and lets his soldiers into the house so they can tear the floorboards to pieces with machine gunfire. Shoshanna escapes, of course, but her family is all killed around her first.

8 Plot Turn: Meet The Bear Jew

When a German sergeant chooses death over betrayal, Lt. Aldo Raine giddily shouts into a dark tunnel, “Donny, got us a German who wants to die for his country. Oblige him!”

The Bear Jew rattles his baseball bat along the tunnel walls as he gets closer and closer to beating the Nazi to death. Ennio Morricone’s “The Surrender (La Resa)” beautifully builds up the suspense to Donny’s on-screen debut.

7 Death Scene: Sgt. Werner Rachtman

When the Bear Jew emerges from the tunnel, he asks Sgt. Werner Rachtman if he got his medals for killing Jews and the sergeant replies, “Bravery.” The German boldly accepts his fate as Donny lines up the shot.

Then, “The Surrender (La Resa)” abruptly cuts out as Donny smacks the sergeant over the side of the head. The camera mercifully pulls away as he bashes in the sergeant’s skull, cheered on by the other Basterds.

6 Plot Turn: “Say ‘Auf Wiedersehen’…”

The Allied spies impersonating Germans in Inglourious Basterds subvert the undercover spies seen in movies like Where Eagles Dare, who just assume complete assimilation despite Clint Eastwood’s English-language dialogue and American accent remaining intact. Dragging out the Name Game sequence works because the audience is hanging in suspense, waiting for Lieutenant Hicox’s cover to be blown by a tiny misplaced detail.

The shots get closer and closer on the actors’ faces as the Nazis figure out the British spy’s identity, then back to midshots as he realizes he’s been found out, returns to his native language (and distinguished native accent), drinks the rest of his scotch, and sets off a blood-drenched massacre that leaves only one survivor.

5 Death Scene: Shoshanna Dreyfus

When Fredrick Zoller takes a shine to Shoshanna, he arranges for the premiere of his movie Nation’s Pride to take place at her theater. Miffed by her continued rejections of his advances, Zoller bursts into the projection room in the middle of the screening.

She pretends to be interested and asks him to lock the door, so he’ll turn around long enough for her to shoot him in the back. When she goes over to make sure he’s dead, he suddenly turns around, pulls out his own gun, and fatally shoots her.

4 Plot Turn: “If The Shoe Fits…”

After finding a woman’s shoe at the site of the basement shootout that claimed the lives of several Allied spies and Nazi officers, Col. Landa is determined to find out who it belongs to.

When he finds movie star Bridget von Hammersmark attending the Nation’s Pride premiere with a couple of Italian filmmakers with thick American accents, he quickly becomes suspicious, so he takes her to a private room to try on the shoe.

3 Death Scene: Bridget Von Hammersmark

Landa strangles Bridget to death as soon as he identifies her as a traitor. The second he determines that the shoe fits, he lunges across the room at her.

It’s one of the most shocking deaths in the whole movie. Ahead of the cartoonish ultraviolence of the big finale, Bridget’s death has a haunting realism.

2 Plot Turn: Landa Foils The Basterds’ Plot

When Bridget is found out by Landa, the Basterds’ plot to assassinate the Fuhrer is foiled. Aldo is taken out by Nazis in the theater lobby. His head is bagged, his explosives are confiscated, and he’s taken away to a discreet location.

Luckily, Shoshanna’s plot is still a success and the Basterds who escaped captivity can improvise. After catching the Basterds red-handed, Landa almost gets away with his war crimes, but Aldo still has a couple of tricks up his sleeve.

1 Death Scene: Adolf Hitler

In the third act of Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino dared to do what few filmmakers would: kill off Adolf Hitler. And not only that, he kills him off in a historically inaccurate way. Instead of taking his own life from the comfort of a bunker, he’s shot to pieces by a pair of Jewish soldiers.

Hitler’s gruesome demise in Inglourious Basterds established Tarantino’s brutal brand of revisionist history that led to Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/inglourious-basterds-most-surprising-plot-twists-characters-deaths-quentin-tarantino-ww2-movie/

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