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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk
Though I didn't really think that much into IB, this makes a whole lot of sense. However, I have one nitpick. I consider there to be a difference between an audience laughing at a revisionist, caricature history and Hitler and the Nazi army and an audience laughing at troops killed in war. In other words, QT's audience hates the Nazis for a reason - not "no reason". If it was simply the German people with no affiliation to the Nazis, Landa would be right on the money. But I doubt any audience would be laughing at the German people getting mowed down. Just as I doubt there mainstream Americans despise today's Germans and Germany.
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Sure. Revenge is a reason to hate, though not a good one but perhaps an inherently human one, and this film is certainly a revenge fantasy.
I'd wager that nearly everyone who saw the film would agree that they would
prefer the IG defeat of the Nazis to the real-life way that the Nazis were defeated. The revisionist fantasy history is actually preferable. I see IG making a case for
movies with this movie. The cinema has the power to make real the precise kinds of delusions that we crave. We long for story, for emotion, for propaganda to give us direction. Movies give us all of these. Movies are at the very center of IG; one could say that IG is all about the movies. IG makes a case for movies as a vital, necessary part of our lives.