inglourious basterds paragraphs

in inglourious basterds there are many different links intertextualities to other films, all of the clothing and setings are spotless, the scene is revealed and so on... all of these elements make the film postmodernism. in the film Aldo's clothing at the end are spotless and he has been dragged on the floor and also sat in the back of a truk that would have been used for trnasporting troops, this would mean that the inside of the truck would be filthy, but when he gets out his suit is spotless and also not a single hair is out of place, this is postmodern as it is not true becuase Aldo's clothes would be filthy and it contrasts to what the typical idea for war is as it is a dirty and mucky job.




the film is mainly a Homage to the war as it does not take the mick out of anyone exept for hitler, who no one likes as he started the war trying to wipe oput all of the jews. Although the film does not follow the direct path of what happened it ends in the killing of hitler.

the storyline of this film seems to be more of a fairytale as it begins with once upon a time and it also has an ending in a forrest, which is stereotypical for a fairytail. this is a nother postmodern element as it is contradiction the typical war film story plot.

inglourious basterds hitler pastiche

the next element of postmodernism in inglourious basterds is when hitler has a big paddy like a child and this is a complete cntrast to what the war is as hitler is acting like a child not getting what they want (this is taking the piss out of hitler)

another example of a pastiche to hitler would be when he gets the red ring of death on his xbox 360

link to youtube film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_1yEXrWtk

herer is the clip of hitler having the paddy from inglourious basterds:

song in inglourious basterds

Inglourious basterds is postmodern because it has intertextuality in it such as the songs as there is elements of there being spaghetti western songs as shown below:




here is the song in a spaghetti western:



this song that is in inglourious basterds seems out of place and this is a postmodern thing to do as it tells the audience how clever and origional the director is

Inglourious Basterds theory applied

the theorist Fiske could be applied to Inglourious Basterds as the 35MM Nitrate film print is originally used for entertaining an audience, however it is used as a weapon to kill all of the nazis in the cinema and this is taking the original contextual meaning of a nitrate film print and giving it a new meaning, in this case for a weapon and that is one of Fiske's theories.

inglourious Basterds Homage or Pastiche?

although inglourious basterds does not follow the correct path of what happened in WW2 they have followed the main story line and that is that Hitler is killed and his top officers were also killed, this finished the war.

so this means that Inglourious Basterds is a homage, making a tribute to all of the people who lost their lives to hitler and the nazi army, this is shown when the two american jewish soldiers are over killing hitlers corpse as shown below:

this could be shown as their revenge to hitler as you can see all of the anger in the mans face when he is shooting

Inglourious Basterds post modern elements

Quentin Tarantino's foot fetish is shown when Bridget Von Hammersmark is being interrogated by LT. Aldo Raine and also when she is killed by Col. Hans Landa as seen below in the YouTube clip

another postmodern element would be when Samuel Jackson is giving a small introduction to the nitrate tapes

also when there is the scene of Shosanna getting ready the camera reveals the set letting the audience know that they are watching a film and this is very postmodern

here is the link to the youtube clip, (play the video from 2:00 into the youtube clip) and you will see the set being revealed to the audience:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBk0-43GIdY