Hans Lando, the highly educated, tenacious, and totally batty Nazi, known as the Jew Hunter. However, the only character that you’re likely to really remember after watching Inglourious Basterds is Col. Melanie Laurent is great as Shosanna Dreyfus, a Jew forced to hide her heritage from the Nazis, and Sylvester Groth as Goebbels also stands out. Wisely, Tarantino allows them to perform in their native languages, and the performances from the European cast members are largely very strong. With such a poor showing from the American contingent, it’s left to the German and French members of the cast to pick up the slack. It’s not entirely clear whether he’s supposed to be funny or not, but his time on the screen is largely distracting. Throughout the entire film, he pulls a strange face, as if he’s straining to break wind, and talks like he’s just bitten his tongue. What’s more surprising is how bad Brad Pitt is as Aldo Raine, the US soldier in charge of a group of Jewish combatants known as the Inglourious Basterds. Predictably, the decision to cast Eli Roth as the Bear Jew doesn’t pay off, and even though it’s a fairly small role, it’s still fairly embarrassing. However, whereas Pulp Fiction‘s list of screw-ups and thugs were all largely memorable – including the brief but brilliant appearance of Amanda Plummer – the many of the characters in Inglourious Basterds are either forgettable or miscast. If you can excuse the blatant historical inaccuracies, then the idea of a Pulp Fiction with Nazis doesn’t sound too unappealing. There no denying that the concept behind Inglourious Basterds is an interesting one: it’s a film set during World War II, but in a kind of alternate reality, where Quentin Tarantino is god, and Adolf Hitler was blown up in a cinema.
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