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INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Fits Perfectly into Quentin Tarantino’s Movie Universe and Influences the Entire Filmography
By now, most Quentin Tarantino fans are aware of the connections interlaced throughout all of his films. John Travolta’s Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction is the brother of Michael Madsen’s Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel’s Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, the plot basis for Kill Bill is described as the synopsis for a TV series in Pulp Fiction, etc.
Now the epiphany that Eli Roth’s character of Donny Donowitz aka “The Bear Jew” in Inglourious Basterds is the father of the movie producer Lee Donowitz in True Romance has inspired a truly mind-blowing theory that the rest of the films (chronologically speaking) in Tarantino’s filmography take place in a world where [Inglorious Basterds spoiler] World War II came to an end when Adolf Hitler was brutally murdered in a movie theater by the Basterds.
This initial connection was brought up in an article on Cracked, but a poster on Reddit (via David Chen’s Twitter) has more eloquently summed up what this means for Tarantino’s movieverse:
As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, ‘The Bear Jew’, is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance – which means that, in Tarantino’s universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker. Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc. You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino’s movies are technically two universes – he’s gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn take place in a ‘movie movie universe’; that is, they’re movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.) What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn? That they’re crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America’s crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits – and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer. Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.
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By now, most Quentin Tarantino fans are aware of the connections interlaced throughout all of his films. John Travolta’s Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction is the brother of Michael Madsen’s Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel’s Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, the plot basis for Kill Bill is described as the synopsis for a TV series in Pulp Fiction, etc.
Now the epiphany that Eli Roth’s character of Donny Donowitz aka “The Bear Jew” in Inglourious Basterds is the father of the movie producer Lee Donowitz in True Romance has inspired a truly mind-blowing theory that the rest of the films (chronologically speaking) in Tarantino’s filmography take place in a world where [Inglorious Basterds spoiler] World War II came to an end when Adolf Hitler was brutally murdered in a movie theater by the Basterds.
This initial connection was brought up in an article on Cracked, but a poster on Reddit (via David Chen’s Twitter) has more eloquently summed up what this means for Tarantino’s movieverse:
As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, ‘The Bear Jew’, is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance – which means that, in Tarantino’s universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker. Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc. You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino’s movies are technically two universes – he’s gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn take place in a ‘movie movie universe’; that is, they’re movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.) What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn? That they’re crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America’s crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits – and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer. Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.
well fuck me gently with a chainsaw
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Yup, pretty much!
Via George Takei
Ultra-conservative Christian groups like One Million Moms (whose numbers are actually closer to One Thousand Moms, but they like to pretend there are more of them) have a weird perspective when it comes to protecting their children. They’re trying to get people to boycott Marvel and DC Comics due to an upcoming gay wedding and a superhero coming out, respectively.
To them, two people in love getting married is an abomination, but they never complain about the violence in comics, movies, games and the real world. They’re worried that kids will see gay people being happy and will magically become gay themselves. You know, like how kids see superheroes flying and shooting laser beams from their eyes and they’re suddenly transformed into Superman. Of course. That’s how it works.
Who cares if your kid comes out as gay? It’s your child, it’s your duty to love them unconditionally. Otherwise you are a SHITTY PARENT and you don’t deserve to have children. Wouldn’t it be simply HORRIBLE if gay people would treated equally and with the same respect offered to heterosexual people, instead of being treated like abhorrent deviants? (Spoiler alert: no, it would not be horrible. That would be wonderful, actually. Everyone deserves to be treated equally.)
Maybe their kids would prefer being protected from their bigoted, hateful, idiotic parents. The world would be a happier place if those awful scumbags never existed.
Because when you want to join the Klan, it’s the movie that’s racist
White men fought and died to free slaves and DEFINITELY didn’t own slaves themselves. Nope.
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So from what I can tell, working at the Daily Fail is just an intellectual exercise in seeing how many different ways you can write “LADY LEFT HOUSE WITH BOOBS”.
And poor Leonie Hodge is left screaming, “LOOK AT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!”
It’s here! The Court Of Owls is the first collection of the new Batman series, by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion and FCO. That is one good looking book.
This is my 3rd Batman collection by Snyder, after The Black Mirror and Gates Of Gotham. Can’t wait to do Snyder Batman marathon.
I bet they spent the night doing cool totally straight stuff like speculating on the sexuality of fictional elves.
I bought the first comic adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young, a while ago. As of today, I’ve got all 3. They are SO GOOD.
Skottie Young has to be my favourite artist right now. Check out his Tumblr, Blogspot, deviantart, anything you can. He’s amazing. His work is varied and always interesting.
