Everyone Loves to Hate a Nazi: ‘Inglourious Basterds’
In this episode, we dig into Quentin Tarantino’s alternate-history thriller and why Nazis became cinema’s “easy plug-in villain.” We frame Inglourious Basterds as “a movie about World War II movies… about how they’re depicted,” and how its set-pieces weaponize film grammar—chapter structure, sustained suspense, and the “threat of violence”—to make the audience complicit in both […]