Summary
- "Inglourious Basterds" is considered one of Tarantino's best movies and a masterpiece due to its unconventional style and ultraviolent narrative structure.
- The movie's boldness in killing off Hitler has made it memorable and shocking even over a decade since its release.
- The film features memorable quotes from characters like Aldo Raine, Hans Landa, and Ed Fenech, contributing to its popularity and quotability.
Quentin Tarantino made Inglourious Basterds with the intention of making a masterpiece, and there are plenty of Inglourious Basterds quotes that stand up with any of his movies. It remains one of his best movies and is as close to a masterpiece as he has directed in his career. Tarantino wrote and directed this World War II movie in the style of a spaghetti western, and the result was a weird, unconventional, ultraviolent movie with a novelistic approach. The ensemble cast and intertwining storylines make the narrative structure a delicate tapestry – it’s Pulp Fiction set in the Second World War, just what Tarantino fans would want.
Inglourious Basterds remains one of Quentin Tarantino’s most popular movies, and the boldness of killing off Hitler meant that fans would not forget Tarantino’s World War II epic. Over a decade after it hit theaters, Inglourious Basterds quotes remain easy to just as the movie still has the capacity to shock audiences who discovered it late. From Brad Pitt's Aldo Raine quotes to those from the villain Hans Landa and a few other Inglourious Basterds quotes from ing cast , there is no shortage of quotable moments from the war epic.
20 "Nazi Ain't Got No Humanity."
Aldo Raine
The Aldo Raine quotes in Inglourious Basterds all paint him along the same lines. Raine is a smart man, but he has one purpose in his life and only one thing matters to him. Aldo is a Nazi killer, and he does it because he feels he has to in order to make this a safer world. However, when a person kills as many people up close and personal as Aldo, he has to find a way to make it okay, at least in his own mind. To Aldo, a Nazi has no humanity, which helps him convince himself that he is doing the right thing as the bodies pile up.
19 "Let's Discuss The Prospect Of Ending The War Tonight."
Hans Landa
In Hans Landa's mind, the entire goal of Nazi wasn't to prolong the war; it was to end the war and turn the world into its own image. He was a detective who believed he was doing the right thing by his government and he was not a villain at all - but a man seeking peace. While men like Aldo Raine were out in the woods slaughtering every Nazi they found to end the war, Hans was in his role as a hunter also fighting for the same reason. This movie was about ending World War II, and this quote was Hans Landa planning to end the war in his own way, although he ended up on the losing side of the proposition.
18 "Down With Hitler."
Ed Fenech
There were some interesting casting decisions that Quentin Tarantino made for Inglourious Basterds. One of these was Tarantino g comedian Mike Myers to one of his rare movie roles. This role was of General Ed Fenech, a whiskey-swirling career General with a ton of metals on his uniform. As Winston Churchill sits in the background, Fenech delivers the marching orders for Hicox, the actor going undercover in Nazi . These Inglourious Basterds quotes see Fenech delivering over-the-top lines about defeating Nazi , and he ends it with the ultimate order - to take down Hitler.
17 "If The Shoe Fits."
Hans Landa
There were Inglourious Basterds quotes that almost have as much to do with this being a Quentin Tarantino movie as it did with the movie's story itself. This was the case with a line by Hans Landa and its connection with Tarantino's very well-known foot fetish. As with all Tarantino movies, there is at least one shot that really focuses on a close-up of a woman's feet. When it comes to the Inglourious Basterds quotes, Hans Landa loved to try to spout out poop culture and well-known quotes, and in this case he pulled out the line about "if the shoe fits," which was a nice wink by Tarantino and his detractors about his foot fetish.
16 "I’ve Been Chewed Out Before."
Aldo Raine
At the end of Inglourious Basterds, some Aldo Raine quotes showed the real difference between the Nazi German military and the Allied Forces military forces - at least in this movie. Hans Landa thought he had a deal with the Allied Forces to save his life, but Aldo Raine had other things in mind. When Aldo let Hans know he wasn't getting out of this in one piece, Hans had a quote revealing how deals with people who break the rules, saying Aldo would be shot for disobeying an order. However, Aldo said he might get chewed out at the worst, and he has been chewed out before.
15 “We Ain’t In The Prisoner-Takin’ Business; We’re In The Killin’ Nazi Business.”
Aldo Raine
“You probably heard we ain’t in the prisoner-takin’ business; we’re in the killin’ Nazi business. And cousin, business is a-boomin’.”
From his very first on-screen appearance, Lt. Aldo Raine makes it very clear that the titular death squad’s mission is plain and simple: killing Nazis. He puts together a team of eight Jewish American soldiers to head behind enemy lines and start killing Nazi officers and collecting their scalps until Hitler gets the message and backs down. This was also a key statement for the Aldo Raine quotes because no one could have expected that Hitler would die in the movie, which eventually meant that Aldo's business came to an end thanks to his contributions.
14 “Gorlami!”
Aldo Raine
In the third act of Inglourious Basterds, Aldo Raine and a couple of the Basterds Bridget von Hammersmark at the premiere of a new Nazi propaganda movie to assassinate Hitler. They pose as Italians, but Aldo is hopelessly terrible at speaking Italian. The movie’s use of spies botching foreign languages and social customs to build tension is hilariously deconstructed with Brad Pitt’s painful butchering of Italian words. It was one of the funny Aldo Raine quotes that showed how much he was a fish out of water when he wasn't in the woods scalping the Nazis.
13 “I, On The Other Hand, Love My Unofficial Title, Precisely Because I’ve Earned It.”
Hans Landa
While a lot of the characters in Inglourious Basterds don’t like the nicknames they’ve been given – like Utivich and his nickname “the Little Man” – Hans Landa loves his. He’s been nicknamed “the Jew Hunter,” and he explains that he enjoys it because he’s earned it. However, at the same time, he also made it clear that he never gave himself the name. To Hans, he was a detective hunting down criminals for his beloved Nazi . He wanted to call himself a detective, but had no problem with the moniker his ruthless actions earned him.
12 “Watching Donny Beat Nazis To Death Is The Closest We Ever Get To Goin’ To The Movies.”
Aldo Raine
“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 what they were missing by doing their work to win the war.
11 “Can You Americans Speak Any Other Language Besides English?”
Bridget von Hammersmark
As far as the most iconic characters in the Tarantino oeuvre go, Bridget von Hammersmark doesn’t get nearly enough love. As a German movie star spying for the Allies, she’s a fascinating character caught in a series of daring, intense situations. Multilingualism is a big theme in Inglourious Basterds, as the languages spoken by spies are taken seriously for the first time in the genre’s history. At one point, Bridget jokingly asks, “Can you Americans speak any other language besides English?” It showed that, while she knew her job, she didn't have to respect either side as the war raged on.
