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The Slighest Inconvenience…

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For my GIF I wanted to do a screen shot of Hitler’s tantrum. I feel like Tarantino made out Hitler’s character to be whiny and silly. I feel like he wasn’t really taken as serious as he is protrayed in other films or readings. Other films show him as this fearless leader who gives off this intimidating figure that everyone looked at as someone to be afraid of. However In Inglorious Bastards that’s not the case. In this scene where he finds out about “The Bear Jew”, him and his soldiers actually appear to be terrified about a guy with a baseball bat and his appearance as a golem but don’t know to whether believe it or not because they say it’s just “soldier’s gossip”. I think this is an interesting scene because as we have talked about in class to what is Hitler and how his actions are far more terrifying then his appearance and the thought of anyone being more terrifying then him is an immediate threat. It’s kind of like he want’s to be the most feared so by doing that he say’s that he will hang their naked bodies from the Eiffel Tower to prove a point so that no one is more scary then him.

Place, Space and Time , in Transit

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28.03 – 29.03

This scene takes place in the line for visas and transits. Even though Georg repaired Driss’ old radio in the previous scene, the lobby has a TV screen with changing photos of ships from different eras of time cementing that not only are we in transit geographically, but also in space and time. Narrated similarly to Casablanca, another in-transit classic, we learn that this lobby is the place where people tell their stories. People tell stories of their near-death experiences to feel more alive. When Max leaves the hungry conductor to talk to the familiar dog-lady, she tells the story of the self-seeking Americans whose dogs she is caring for. “I hate them and their mutts,” she says to Georg. I believe making the dogs American was a conscious decision that references America’s lack of assistance during World War II. Maybe “mutts” refers to the mixing and assimilating cultures in America. The fact that these people left their dogs with their architect solidifies their tactless nature that is representative of the actual American government. The same government that’s refugee and immigration structures made it virtually impossible for Anne Franks’s family to come here. In January I learned that the number of refugees that the American Government accepts dropped from 110,000 for the fiscal year of 2017 to 30,000 for 2019 despite the fact that we are in a displacement crisis that has been expedited by US imperialism. 

Zaveri, Mihir. “Anne Frank’s Family Was Thwarted by U.S. Immigration Rules, Research Shows.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 6 July 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/us/anne-frank-family-escape-usa.html.

Blizzard, Jeanne Batalova Brittany, and Jeanne Batalova. “Refugees and Asylees in the United States.” Migrationpolicy.org, Migration Policy Institute, 2 July 2019, www.migrationpolicy.org/article/refugees-and-asylees-united-states.

Do you hear what I hear?

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For my analysis I want to talk about the score or the lack of one. Through out the film we rely heavily on the dialogue which makes since because the film reminds us to not always believe what you see and that what is right in front of you may not appear to be what you think it is. Dialogue is a way we can understand the characters chemistry, feelings and motives however, music can provoke even more emotion along with the action. This film does not have much of a score but when there is music playing I believe it is to make sure we are paying attention to what that person is saying. The scene that I have chosen is where Greenberg played by Felix Bressart does his dramatic monologue from The Merchant of the Venice by Shakespeare. He says this three times in the film, the first in the theatre where they both talk about roles they would love to do. The second when Warsaw was destroyed but only this time when he says it there is sad music playing. So when he says this it has a whole different meaning to it. It’s not only just a monologed from a play, it is the truth of these people being attacked and that there is more emotion to what he is saying. And the third time he says it is when he is confronted face to face with Hitler. While he is saying this once again there is a haunting chant in the background. So even though this film doesn’t rely on a score, music definitely helps play a part to provoke emotion when there is something the director wants the audience to feel and pay attention to. I also thought it was interesting that there were some words taken out of the monologue, the whole thing goes like this. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? ….Definitely changes the tone of what he is really trying to say.