Love how Tarantino showed the Germans as brave, crafty, intelligent, intimidating instead of cartoonishly evil

ngl he definitely did earn that bravery badge

I love how there's a dramatic build up in the music to raise the emotion of seeing a brave soldier about to die for his country, but as soon as he swings the music stops and just becomes a man being beaten to death by a baseball bat. Its the reality of the situation.

You can see Eli's pain and suffering really come out in this scene. Reminds me of a Mexican proverb "They tried to bury us but they didn't know that we were seeds".

"We've got a German here who wants to die for his country. Oblige him." That has to be the most threatening line I've ever heard in a movie.

Wow, the fact that he didn't even flinch or show any signs of fear, the man was truly willing to die for his beliefs.

Donny raving about Teddy Williams will never fail to make me laugh. 😂

Fun fact about this scene. When it came time to shoot it, Eli Roth had already been on a strict workout regime to get himself looking tight and mean for this scene. He'd workout on set and pump himself up when it came time. But they filmed this scene several times. Each time they got it perfect, but Tarantino ordered another cut for a different day and each time, Roth got himself all pumped and jacked up to the point that when they did the last take, Roth may as well been the Hulk.

How nonchalantly he responds with "Yea" when Aldo asks for him.

I saw a prequel comic involving Donnie. Apparently Donnie was a bit of a hellion back home. An ancient Jewish woman caught him right before he was to leave for overseas. She looks at him, and the bat he was carrying. She looks him in the eye and asks him if he was up to trouble. He humbly replies "Yes maam." She ask him if he was going to take that bat with him. He says "yes maam." She tells him to give it to her, which he does. She then takes out a pen and signs her name to it, and tells him to send her love to that bastard Hitler.

I think we can all agree we’re all that last dude who pointed out everything to save his precious life 🤣🤣🤣

"You get that from killing jews?" "Bravery." I love the way Donny nods in a sort of respecting way. He despises the German officer in almost every way possible, with the exception of one; that he's a brave man serving and willing to die for his country. Inglorious Basterds is by far one of my favorite movies, and every time I rewatch it I discover something new that I love about it. Phenomenal once-in-a-lifetime movie.

Fun fact one of the names carved into Donny's bat is Anne frank's

Always lose it when Pitt shouts “Donny” and you just hear a “yeah” from within the dark. So funny

Not gonna lie. This german officer kept his composure till the very end. Deserves his Bravery medal, the guy got balls of steel

Idk why but the way Eli Roth delivers the "Yeah?" at 1:36 always makes me giggle

When the officer says "bravery" while staying him right in the eye. That's pretty badass ngl.

“Donnie” “Yeah?” “I got some German here who wants to die for country”

One tough son of a gun. He not only wasn't scared, but looked the guy straight in the eyes. Nazi or not, thats one trait worthy of emulation.

The problem with these movies is that people tend to ignore or choose to be oblivious of the difference between the Wehrmacht and the Nazis. Wehrmacht soldiers were unfortunate fuckers who were drafted in the army to fight for a cause the majority of them didn't believe in. I'll never forget the story my grandmother used to tell me about a young Wehrmacht soldier breaking down in tears after he'd asked her to fix one of the buttons on his uniform. She was a seamstress' apprentice in an occupied town that housed a German regiment at the time. When she was done and handed him back his vest, he broke out in tears saying how they were being sent to the Eastern front the next day and he didn't expect to be coming back.

Yes, their methods are brutal, but ya gotta admit... that third guy got real helpful real fast.

I love how Tarantino didn’t portray the Germans as cowards or dumb goons like Spielberg did with Indiana Jones for example. Hans Landa is an incredibly smart and dangerous person and the officer in this clip stayed loyal until his death. (I know Spielberg made nazis next level serious in Schindlers List but Indiana Jones is just a childhood favorite of mine so I had to mention it)

My grandpa who served in Pattons army during WW2 would have loved this movie.

Always warms my heart to watch Donny Donowitz make the world a better place.

Donny's "yeah?" always catches me off guard. Before that, he's presented as a dangerous force that most people probably imagine as some really big guy, and then we hear him answer Aldo and he sounds like a teenage dude who's about to lose his virginity. Subtle comedy at its finest

The last German was like “Well screw this crap I ain’t dying for nothing

lmao of course he comes out of a tunnel. The Bear Jew when you find out about his bloody mattress collection.

I get it, he’s the bad guy…. But that German dude was legit. He knew what was coming and did not hesitate to not sell out his guys. If he was on the “right” side he would be a hero. Props to the man that knew a horrible death was coming but didn’t sell out his countrymen.

Good to note. If the Officer really did know about the Basterds, he'd know they only leave one survivor. He chose his fate not only out of duty to his country but to also give his younger companion the chance to live. Plus, one of his badges earlier, conspicuously missing in this scene, denotes him as a veteran of 25 close-quarter engagements with the enemy. it could well point to him being a veteran of both wars, given his age and record.

"Dammit Herschberg" gets me everytime LMAO

Last guy had a well developed survival instinct

Love the way Brad delivers the “Bring that one over here, ALIVE” line, his eyes widen and he drags out the last word and I find it super funny. As well as the “Dammit Herschberg,” while stuffing his face with food directly after shooting a soldier. Like it’s just another Tuesday evening and it’s said as if Herschberg spilled his coffee or something. Which is also hilarious because it implies that Herschberg shooting soldiers unprovoked is a casual and normal occurrence and it’s nothing more than a minor inconvenience to the Basterds because then they can’t tease Nazis if they’re dead. Lol

Honestly the guy with the bat is way too big for his voice to be like that...lol but he cute though

This whole sequence was good. The officer had a heavy conviction in his beliefs, took the bat like Glen. Also, the way the whole sequence was with Wicky translating between the German soldier and Aldo was done in one shot with the camera moving to who was talking. This whole movie was frickin awesome!

The officer's bravery and commitment are respectable, would be a hero for sacrificing himself for his fellow soldiers if he wasn't on the complete wrong side of the war.

I love the contrast between the moments before and after the beating starts. The uplifting music and dialogue, with the German commander's stoic expression, they all come together to paint this as a heroic, poignant moment. Then the bat is swung. The music stops. The commander's expression switches from heroic stocism to disturbing and pathetic as his arms flail pointlessly. The scene goes from romantic to disturbingly realistic instantly.

I get goosebumps when he comes out and the horns start playing. Such a great scene.

He sounds less intimidating when he starts screaming about knocking it outta dah pahk

My favorite little detail. All the names on Donny's bat are from all the Jewish people in his neighborhood in Brooklyn. So in a way they there with Donny getting revenge.

1) The way the German is breathing at around 55 seconds says it all. He's accepted his fate and is ready to die. 2) you can see the heartbreak in Donnys eyes when he says "you get that for killing Jews?" Tarantino is a genius.

I think Donnie's ego was blown apart when the German said to him "bravery" and didn't show any bit of fear in front of him...unlike other Germans he previously killed before with that bat, this one was a rare kind, a truly brave enemy who didn't fall to The Bear Jew's trap of making his victims shit scared before meeting their death...you can see in his face, Donny is frustrated and has tears in his eyes the same as a man who is humiliated in his own game and wants so much to take revenge, so the only thing left to fulfill his ego was to beat the German and scream some phrases like in a baseball game commentary to cover his frustration with the fact that he didn't satisfy his ego in this kill...Tarantino is really a genius, showing that even an evil regime had brave soldiers, and even Allies had cold-blooded psychopath ones that had turned into monsters

The way the guy acted out the brain damage on the floor after the first hit...gutwrenching. Fuck.

This movie was such an amazing cinema experience. I will always love this movie.

I know there is a lot of praise for the opening scene. I love it too. This is also an memorable scene. The pacing, the dialog, the music, the acting. I am fortunate to have seen this movie the first time in a theater and had no idea what I was about to experience.

That first German died like a boss. Notice he didn't blink, just looked at his killer in the eye till the end. And his last word was "Bravery".

That other German soldier crying in the background played a Jewish assassin for Israel in Munich.

Love this scene… oddly satisfying to see a Nazi get his brains caved in

That officer is a vampire in a TV show called the Strain...

Now that was a swing

One thing disturbs me about this scene. Okay, based on the German soldier's responses one could argue that he had it coming. But what is often overlooked in movies like these is that the regular infantry, or the Wehrmacht as such, weren't necessarily Nazis. They were just draftees, sent into a war they didn't necessarily want, for a cause they didn't necessarily support. I'm not saying that all Wehrmacht soldiers were saints, but I do believe that a majority just wanted this whole war mess to be over.

Great film! Worth watching if you have yet to see, AND if you have! 👍👍👍👍👍

Tarantino apparently wanted Adam Sandler for this role, would have been an interesting option

1:36 i love how Donnie replies "yeah?" From down the tunnel like he was in the toilet

"Bravery." And he certainly proved it. Give that man another medal.

This is one of the best part of the movie especially when he plays base ball with him

The way they laughed when the German Soldier quickly pointed to the location... Lol

It's very subtle, which emphasizes how good the actors are, but the power play in this scene is just absolutely brilliant. The bastards knew the officer wouldn't give them the information they wanted. They would know German military medals and awards, and have a pretty clear picture of the kind of man he was. He knew he was already dead before they even started talking, so he tried, and failed, to bait them into doing it quickly. He probably hadn't counted on the Bear Jew being part of the equation. He was probably counting on a bullet to the brain, and you can see he has that moment of "Oh, shit, they're not playing, they're actually going to do it like this." On the other hand, they already figured out which one was their mark. Aldo didn't have to specify that he wanted him alive, that was just for show. After what just happened, they knew the second guy would tell them whatever he could think of to try to save his own ass and thus he was completely useless. It's already known that the Basterds usually leave one person alive if possible. Shooting the second guy took all the guesswork out of who it would be, giving the last guy a glimmer of hope. Seeing that he was the last one left alive, the remaining soldier knew right away that if he told the truth, he'd be spared.

" We're all tickled to hear you say that...." 😃😆😂

So many of you dont understand this scene. The officer isn't dying for beliefs or Hitler. He is dying for the honor of all his bros who fought to the death, and for the lives of those still living. There was no glory in it, but it last he didnt betray his bros and be forever branded as a NAZI (and traitor)

The music matches the intensity perfectly. Legendary introduction: The Bear Jew

Eli Roth is a criminally underrated actor. The menace he exuded when he asked the German how he got the Iron Cross…I get chills every time.

LMAO HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN IN TUNNELS

*"Bravery."*

I love Tarantino: he gets his audience cheering sadistic brutality. Humanity goes right out the window as long as it's someone we hate on the receiving end. Of course, when THEY act similarly, we consider that evil. Watch the part where Hitler is enjoying the film with the German sniper killing Americans and realize Tarantino is holding a mirror up to YOU.

Got to be one of my favorite scenes of all Tarantino movies

I love how Tarantino blurs the line between good and evil. If Apache and the boys were the wearing the a German uniform, I wouldn't be laughing at Donny playing T ball with that guy's head.

Notice how he places his hand on his iron cross when he respectfully declines. He knows what is coming, he got that medal for a reason.

The original Negan and Lucille

One of the best scenes of the movie

The amount of dignity that guy projects while on his knees is amazing. What an actor.

The German looks at him straight in the eye. That's going down like a man. Respect.

I love how the Germans are actually intimidating while the heros are just mostly cartoonish, mainly DeCapro.

Best scene is the opening scene by far. Everything from Hans’ facial transition at the table to the door frame scene. Avoir Shoshanna

I'm surprised how little people really understood the scene. Quentin Tarantino never shows only one side as the bad ones. In most of the other scenes it's clear who are the bad ones. Of course the Nazis. But here it's different. We have a normal German soldier who stays loyal to his men and we have the “Inglorious Basterds“ which live up to their name. In this scene the German NCO is the victim and not the perpetrator. We don't know if he has something to do with the holocaust, probably not. Tarantino wanted to make this scene to show there's no black and white and even the “good ones“ aren't as good as we think and the bad ones aren't all that bad

you can blink. you can cry. hell, youre all gonna be doing that

that's not a bear jew that is antonio margheriti.

Then nazi died like a boss ngl

My opinion,The Real Man with iron Balls in this scene is the German Soldier. "BRAVERY"

When he looks up at the bear jew and says ".....bravery" he made all the heroes standing around him look like amateurs

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton

He was just a man that died for his country's cause, or at least, what he believed in- and he stuck to his core. Gotta respect that.

During the "Battle of the Bulge" part of the American deployment into France, the average age of the Nazi Soldiers was 15. Germany lost so many soldiers during their Eastern push into Russia that Hitler pressed school boys and boy scouts (whatever the young Nazi program was called). My great uncle fought and survived that battle, and he never told anyone about his experiences. By the time I was born he had already retreated into his house and wouldn't talk to his family, despite living next door to his brother (who was a barber in the service during WW2) and a block away from another brother (who was a brick layer building FBO's in the service during WW2). As he didn't talk about his actions, I never verified that that was the reason for his silence. He did however, forbid any of his sons from joining the military, telling them "I went over there and fought so you wouldn't have too".

So epic how Tarantino didn't grab the low hanging fruit by making the German a coward. He might be the most badass character in any Tarantino movie.

It would've been real interesting to see Adam Sandler as the bear Jew as tarantino intended

Remember it's not war crimes if you win the war.

It's either that's a long ass hallway or donnie is just walking really slow

The psychological effects of him hitting the wall over, and over had to be highly unnerving

When you meet someone who gets off on people being afraid, nothing will piss them off more than looking them dead in the eye and showing that they mean nothing to you. In the battle between the German and Donnie, the German officer absolutely won.

I have to say: Tarantino's portrayal of jewish sadism is very accurate (as most palestinians will certainly agree).

You can breathe. You can blink. You can cry. Hell, they're all gonna be doing that.

I think I'm going to start entering through open doors the way the Bear Jew does. I just need to work on the walk.

The cold part about it is, these guys, even more so than todays soldiers, had a do or die, samurai type mentality which made it hard on their conscience to give up or surrender. The turmoil in such situations was real

"Oh-blaarge him"..

This scene is a masterpiece. The officer just as he know he is about to die horribly still stood his ground without a blink. Intense

I love the look on Donny's face before he goes into his Teddy Williams bit. While it's clear he enjoys killing these guys, you can just tell by that expression on his face that he kills out of anger.

of course this german officer was on its knees ... well i also couldnt stand up with such a pair balls of steel

trying to show jews as heroes at that time is soooo funny

2:28: Me coming back to my dead squadmates after taking the biggest shit humanly possible

The translator's voice is mesmerizing. I could listen to him speak for hours lol his voice is just amazing.

Donny: *pats medal on germans chest*, *whisperes* "you play games on that mac?"