Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

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Factual error: Although Dieter Hellstrom is a Gestapo Major, he has the SS runes on his uniform instead of a blank square.

Big Game

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Suggested correction: Nowhere in the movie is he said to be a Gestapo Major. He is SS. Even if he was part of the Gestapo, he could still be an SS officer, as the Gestapo fell under the SS and RSHA.

lionhead

Actually, Hellstrom himself says, "I didn't introduce myself. Major Dieter Hellstrom of the Gestapo," after Shoshanna meets Joseph Goebbels in the bar.

Big Game

Oh right, he was in another scene too. Sure, well, like I said, he can still be an SS officer.

lionhead

Character mistake: Hicox claims to be from around Piz Bün to explain his strange accent. However, Piz Bün isn't even in Germany and nobody around there spoke German at all. Yet nobody reacts. It's very weird that Hellström, being a German officer, would not know the borders of his own country.

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Suggested correction: A lot of Germans come from Austria, or lived in Austria. To the Nazis, Austria is part of Germany. Hitler was born in Austria too.

lionhead

Continuity mistake: After Shosanna switches projectors on the visual cue from the film, the movie cuts to Marcel standing behind the screen smoking a cigarette. The camera pulls back from behind him showing a large billow of smoke rising from his face and he lifts his right arm up to his cigarette. But then the camera cuts to an overhead view, and suddenly his arm is down and the smoke is gone.

Quantom X

Continuity mistake: When Donowitz and Ulmer walk into the theater, they see Joseph Goebbels and his mistress in the box above them, to their right. They would be looking to their right to watch the movie. Later, during the movie, Goebbels, Hitler, the mistress and Zoller are looking to their left to watch the movie, so they would have to be in the box on the opposite side of the theater, where Martin Bormann was shown.

Jets Fan

Character mistake: Hicox uses the word "momentarily" in the American sense of "in a moment". In British English it means only "for a moment". An educated Englishman in the 1940s would never have used the word in the American sense.

Necrothesp

Continuity mistake: When Shoshanna meets Zoller, there's a strand of hair falling by her left cheek which appears or disappears depending on the angle focusing.

Sacha

Lt. Aldo Raine: You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business. Business is a-boomin'.

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Question: Why does Hugo Stiglitz kill the German officers in the first place? The film mentions his enlistment, but how is this related to his killings?

Answer: Based on his willingness to join the Basterds, we can assume he killed them because he didn't believe in what the Nazis were doing.

There is a cut of him being whipped during the bar scene. I think he was taking revenge for harsh and perhaps undeserved punishment.

No, the whipping is how it feels in his mind sitting next to that SS officer and having to pretend to like him and be a Nazi. He's ready to snap.

lionhead

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