Inglourious Basterds (2009 movie)
starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl,
Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Maggie Cheung, Mike Myers
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storyline- Here is a plot of the movie: Inglourious Basterds unfolds over five chapters: Once upon a time... In Nazi-Occupied France; Inglourious Basterds; A German Night in Paris; Operation Kino and Revenge of the Giant Face.[9][10] In German-occupied France in 1941, SS Colonel Hans Landa, arrives at the home of rural dairy farmer, Perrier LaPadite. Inside LaPadite's home, Landa persuades the farmer to confess to hiding the Jewish Dreyfus family underneath his floor. Landa summons the Waffen SS soldiers into the house and has them shoot through the floor boards in the approximate area where LaPadite has confirmed the Dreyfuses are hiding below. The entire family is killed, with the exception of the teenage Shosanna, whom Landa allows to escape. In Italy in the spring of 1944, American Lieutenant Aldo Raine recruits a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers for a mission to get behind enemy lines and create havoc within the Third Reich by savagely killing as many German servicemen as possible. They operate with a "take no prisoners" attitude and scalp their victims following each ambush. "The Basterds", as they come to be known, generally leave one soldier alive to interrogate for information about further patrols, and to act as testimony to the particular terror of their attacks. One survivor of an attack, Private Butz, is taken to Hitler personally. He recounts to the Führer his experience when his squad was ambushed. Hitler listens to the soldier's frightening descriptions of Sgt. Donny Donowitz, nicknamed "The Bear Jew", who bludgeons an officer with a baseball bat and Raine who carves a swastika onto each survivor's forehead with a Bowie knife, so that he will be universally identifiable as a Nazi after the war. In June 1944, three years after her family's murder, Shosanna has assumed a new identity as Emmanuelle Mimieux and is operating a small cinema in Paris. She meets Frederick Zoller, a German marksman and war hero whose exploits are to be celebrated in a forthcoming propaganda film. Although she resists his advances, the smitten Zoller, who is also a film fanatic, convinces Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels to hold his new film's premiere at Shosanna's theater. She realizes that the presence of several high-ranking Nazi officials provides an opportunity for revenge, and with the help of her employee and lover Marcel, resolves to burn down the cinema during the premiere. The British also learn of the premiere and they dispatch former film critic Lieutenant Archie Hicox to Paris to infiltrate the event. Disguised as an SS officer, Hicox joins forces with the Basterds, as well as German film actress and Allied double agent Bridget von Hammersmark. Their rendezvous at a tavern goes awry when a Gestapo officer realizes that Hicox is not German. The resulting standoff erupts into a bloodbath, leaving everyone in the tavern dead except von Hammersmark, who has been shot in the leg. Raine interrogates von Hammersmark and learns that Adolf Hitler will be attending the film premiere. They devise a plan wherein Raine, Donny and Omar will pose as von Hammersmark's Italian escorts at the cinema. Landa, acting as head of security for the premiere, investigates the bar shootout and finds evidence of von Hammersmark's involvement. At the premiere, Landa questions von Hammersmark privately and upon confirming that von Hammersmark is working with the Basterds, he strangles her to death and has Raine and Utivich detained. However, in a private meeting, Landa makes a deal with the Basterds' OSS commanding officer to be granted immunity from war crimes prosecution and credit for ending the war (among other things), in exchange for allowing Donny and Omar—still seated in the cinema—to kill the Nazi high command. During the Nazi film, Zoller goes to the projectionist's booth to see Shosanna and angrily protests about her rejecting him. She shoots him multiple times, but he manages to shoot her dead before succumbing to his own wounds. The film is then interrupted by a pre-recorded close-up of Shosanna informing the audience that they are about to be killed by a Jew. At the same time, Marcel, who has locked and bolted all exits of the theatre, ignites 350 reels of flammable nitrate film stacked behind the screen. Simultaneously, Donny and Omar gun Hitler and Goebbels down and begin firing into the crowd, until the dynamite Landa planted earlier in Hitler's opera box detonates, exploding together with the sticks strapped to the basterds' legs, which destroys the theatre. Some time later, Landa and his radio operator, Hermann, drive Raine and Utivich to the American lines, where Landa surrenders to Raine and hands over his weapons according to his deal, allowing Utivich to handcuff him. Raine then breaks his part of the deal and kills Hermann, whom Utivich scalps. Raine then carves a swastika into Landa's forehead, proclaiming that "this just might be my masterpiece." |
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