“Actually, Werner, we’re all tickled to hear you say that. Quite frankly, watching Donny beat Nazis to death is the closest we ever get to goin’ to the movies.”
On one level, Inglourious Basterds is a love letter to the power of cinema. Quentin Tarantino believes that cinema had a major influence on World War II. Hitler was a massive film buff and propaganda was a huge part of his political strategy. And when Werner accepts his fate at the hands of the Bear Jew, Aldo Raine smiles and says that watching the Bear Jew beat Nazis to a pulp is “the closest we ever get to goin’ to the movies.” It was a nice callback to the fact that this was a movie and Tarantino knew that these men would remember what they were missing by doing their work to win the war.
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