The section where Shoshanna is preparing her plan has a title flash on the screen, “June 1944.” It’s impossible to see “June 1944” and NOT think of D-Day. Since D-Day was June 6, there isn’t very much of June that’s not after the landing, and it looks like some time elapses before the actual night of the premiere, so I assumed that the invasion had already taken place even before the Hitler comment confirming it.
I guess I just remembered it saying 1944 and didn’t recall that they had June in the title as well.
I have to disagree, and agree with the comment upthread that milk is not what you would order in a restaurant. He had it at the farm because it was fresh and right there.
He knew everything. There’s no reason he wouldn’t have tracked where she ended up, especially when he let her go to see what happened to her.
You’re inferring a lot that simply isn’t in the movie. As long as you’re aware of that…
Yep. I’m aware that my inferences are based on everything else presented about the guy in the movie. He likes the chase, he knows everything that goes on, and he would enjoy toying with her. And adults in restaurants don’t drink milk. 
I think Landa knew who Shoshanna was. When she escaped the massacre of her family he yelled her name after her. He was thinking that she would lead him to other Jews when he caught up with her, so he let her go for another hunt another day. He was just toying with her. It did not occur to him that she could carry off a plot to kill the entire high command, and he missed the nitrate as a potential source of deadly fire. Landa was really smart, but not so smart that he caught everything. As far as Landa knew, there was only one plot to kill the entire high command.
Landa also knew that Aldo made deals for information with each survivor and then carved swastikas in their foreheads. He should have foreseen that Aldo would do the same to him.
Landa thought Aldo would keep his deal because Landa kept his deals. Meaning that he let the farmer’s family off without further punishment. Landa was “civilized”, and not a dirty double dealing Basterd.
I don’t think Landa recognized Shoshana, though I wouldn’t be surprised either way. I think he “smelled” her discomfort and knew there was something more to her than met the eye but by then he had his own plot brewing.
What I wondered was why he killed Brigitte when he himself had decided- at some point- to let whatever happened happen and benefit himself from it. Did he think that Brigitte would short circuit his desire to be the hero on Nantucket, or was it because he truly hated her as a traitor?
Huh - that’s a really good question. MacGuffin to keep the suspense up for the audience?
Some trivia I thought was interesting from here:
Now perhaps we will find out that when Landa got to Nantucket he married his Portuguese housekeeper and changed his surname to her’s: Vega.
Again, this “Yes Landa Maybe Knew It Was Shosanna, No Maybe He Didn’t” debate is what I think Tarantino wanted. Did Landa know or not? We’re meant to be kept on pins and needles during that sceen just like she was.
But I’m not sure about why he may have let her escape at the beginning. Could it be he had a photo of her in her family’s file and so could track her partially that way? He seeemed to enjoy The Game.
Maybe he just wanted to get his rocks off? A gunshot would have been heard, of course, and killing a famous movie star questionable.
Maybe Landa is not so different from the Basterds, in the sense that he lets one get away to spread his fame as the Jew Hunter?
Of course they did - on paper, Nazi germany was Christian. Wehrmacht soldiers even had “Gott mit uns” (God is on our side) written on their belt buckles.
Yep, I couldn’t stop laughing because of Samuel L. Jackson.
I just realized today that the name one of the Basterds used when they were pretending to be Italian was a reference to Italian sci-fi/horror director Antonio Margheriti. I only caught it because I just happened to see his name pop up in the credits of a film I was scanning through. Anyone remember what the other names they used were? They were probably references to people as well.
Anyone else notice that while the Nazi’s were coming up to the farmhouse that the accompanying music had the Fur Elise motif in it? Probably coincidence, because I can’t for the life of me figure out what symbolism would be intended, but it did throw me.
I doubt it’s coincidence, but I think it’s just because Quentin (or his musical director) liked it. I mentioned earlier that the theme played at the beginning is the theme to John Wayne’s The Alamo- a 1960 American movie about an 1836 American event, so no real relevance, but he liked it.
I love Tarantino soundtracks. I remember him telling the story of how he bought the rights to use My Sharona for PULP FICTION but the owners withdrew the rights (legally- some loophole) when they learned it was for the rape scene. Quentin was irked because he said due to jokes told by gay friends when he was a video clerk he’d always considered My Sharona “the ultimate butt-f*cking song”. (He had a similar problem with actors for that scene- Zed, the hillbilly rapist, was supposed to be played by Christopher Jones- an actor who was big in the late 60s and early 70s then walked away from his career and to whom Tarantino has some kind of family connection- but Jones reneged upon learning his character was a hillbilly rapist {and in part because he’s a real life hillbilly}.)
Yes! I’ve kind of thought Tarantino’s dialogue was overrated in the past (I enjoy it, though IME people idolize him too much) but the dialogue in this movie was so seamless and fitting. And his ability to build and sustain tension - truly incredible.
For some reason I found “Nation’s Pride” to be hilarious, as it seemed to be just hours of a sniper shooting random people. There were some great elements of farce and slapstick thrown in.
Also, did anyone else notice the retro Universal logo at the beginning of the movie? I thought that was a nice touch.
Something Gorlomi and Dominic Decocco.