Inglourious Basterds - References

The title;

• When asked about the misspelled title, director Quentin Tarantino gave the following answer: "Here's the thing. I'm never going to explain that. You do an artistic flourish like that, and to explain it would just take the piss out of it and invalidate the whole stroke in the first place."

•  It is also based on the 1978 Enzo G. Castellari WWII

Characters;
 Character, Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz, is a homage to Mexican B-movie actor Hugo Stiglitz.
Mike Myers: Comedy Actor, American = Ironic
Hans landa: Hyper real, certain scenes such as his comical drinking of milk, and his oversized pipe, reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes. are excepted as normal because they are not extreme enough, yet are subtly exaggerated elements. "It's a bingo!" 

Lieutenant Aldo Raine: The name Aldo Raine is a homage to QTs favourite actors Aldo Ray and Maj. Charles Rain.He is the leader of the Basterds and is clearly from the American South, his accent is very pronouced and very contrasting to the others. His accent is also used as a comical element during the premiere as he fails to pass as Italian.

Archie Hilcox: Michael Fassbender's performance as Lt. Archie Hilcox is layered with irony due to his real life. Fassbender was born in Germany to German and Irish parents and raised in Ireland, now residing in London with fluency in German as his first language and English as his second, and a mastery of English accents and dialects. Here he plays an Englishman who goes undercover as a German, and who can speak German fluently, but cannot hide his accent. 

Post modern;

•  The music played as the credits run is 'The green leaves of summer' which features in the spaghetti western 'The Alamo' released in the 1960's; much later then the time Inglorious Basterds is set.
•  Tarantino's use of modern music could reflect Levi Strauss' theory of bricolage.
•  The text on screen reads 'Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France' reminiscent of a fairytale. Also highlighting that the film is not attempting to be accurate to reality.It is also a homage to Italian director Sergio Leone’s epic westerns, most obviously 1968′s Once Upon a Time in the West.
• Chapter one's setting references a similarly set film, The Sound of Music. This focuses on the process of transposition, taking familiar scenery from an originally heart-warming scene and transforming it to give a much more sinister feel; something considered postmodern.
• Use of chapters, not commonly seen within films, emphasis on story/fairytale like adaptation of war.

Hyper-reality

• Explicitly showing scenes are sets and not real places, with the use of overhead shots. This is Post modern = as it illustrates that the fake reality usually portrayed as being real is being portrayed as fake. It is both creating and destroying the sense of hyper-reality.
• This use of hyper reality is carried even further with the use of a real strangling and real fire. The audience is witnessing a real fire in a fake story pretending to be real.

Post-Modern

• No use of back story, creates a depthless story, yet depth is implied by the unfolding storyline of plots.
• Mutiple threads of the story that never overlap. 
• Roughly only 30% of the film is in spoken English, the language which dominates the film is either French or German, with a little Italian. Chapter Three of the film 'German Night in Paris' is completely devoid of any English. This is highly controversial for a Hollywood production.

Other film reference;

• The literary character Sherlock Holmes is referred to at least twice in the film. The first reference is Landa's smoking pipe, which is a Calabash Meerschaum, the exact same one that Holmes used. The other is Landa's line, "A damn good detective. Finding people is my specialty."
• WILHELM SCREAM: The Scream appears during two deaths in the film. The first half-second of the sound clip appears about 90 minutes into the movie, and the remainder of the scream appears about 20 minutes later. In the film-within-the-film, "Nation's Pride", the Wilhelm Scream can be heard when a soldier is shot and falls from an upper window.
• A man and a woman lying dead next to each other is reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet and so again we see hypertextuality as Tarantino modifies a preceding text inrelation to his own.
• Genre Bending Kill Bill
• Glamour of Jackie Brown
• The gore of Reservoir Dogs
• Electrifying Dialogue of Pulp Fiction

Tarintino's Signature traits;

•  Tarantino's foot fetish can be seen throughout his other films and so issocially recognisable as a factor of him as a director. Thsi illustrates his further use of bricolage by placing something of himself.

Funny Scenes

• Aldo and Landa discussing game shows "Its a bingo!"

What does post modernism and references add to the film;

• Comedy
• New possibilities to storyline (Hitler dies.)
• Overlooked