Inglourious Basterds (2009, dir. Quentin Tarantino) – “Three glasses.”
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Inglourious Basterds (2009, dir. Quentin Tarantino) – “Three glasses.”
by isthatgraceg
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The solemn realization on Fassbender’s face that he done f*cked up – priceless.
I love how an Irishman plays an English man speaking German in an British accent. I would be suspicious too lol
Stiglitz’s little chuckle after saying how good of a shot he has always gets me
Watched this 2 nights ago as it came up when I was channel flipping. Possibly more than 15 viewings at this point. Love this movie. The SS major already knew these guys were not who they were pretending to be. He would have recognized Hugo Stiglitz immediately. He is simply toying with them and waiting until they make a mistake. The three finger gesture, while not a dead giveaway, is enough for him to be able to call out LT. Hicox. And, yes, there is absolutely a cultural norm of counting starting with the thumb among Germans.
Source of one of the most famous meme
Became popular when Indians, Pakistani, mexican, African etc were larping as white nationalists to earn Elon bucks
A wild wilhelm scream!
“Say aufwedersehn to your nazi balls” is such a great line.
The brilliance of this scene is throughout it is Fassbender’s characters hubris that is his undying. He was nervous, impatient and rude at varying times and yet also very keen to show off his skill at speaking German. If he had just humoured the drunk German at the beginning things could have been resolved fine. The three fingers was the final nail in the coffin but he fucked up earlier by allowing the conversation to escalate to that point.
A great scene.
>!The fact that over half of the bastards die in this one scene surprised me. We are introduced to all these characters only to have a big chunk of them die was disappointing to me. Still one of my favorite WW what if films.!<
He’s scriptwriting is just so bloody good! Theres not many writers who can create such dialogue heavy scenes but keep your attention throughout.
I permanently changed the way I gesture ‘3’ thanks to this movie.
I don’t understand why Hugo just didn’t pull out his pistol and shoot the Major in the head.
Wasn’t there a line of dialogue that explains the “3” thing or am I imagining that?
Casting native speakers and having them speak in their native languages was a stroke of genius by Tarantino
Apparently the hardest role to cast was that of Hans (the Jew hunter) because Quentin wanted a native speaker who was fluent in obviously German but also had to be fluent in English and French
But it wasn’t just like a verbal fluency that he wanted but he wanted someone who could understand the language so well that they would be able to understand English and French jokes as well
The fact this loops and starts back with “just joking” makes this whole thing look like a dream
Been a while since I’ve seen this, forgot how quickly it escalated.
Fantastic scene and I’m always so grateful they didn’t use any music whatsoever.
Say Auf Wiedersehen to your Nazi balls!
This is a much better film than Pulp Fiction.
Of all Fassbender’s roles, this is the one that made me a huge fan of his.
“At this range, I’m a real Fredrick Zoller” I love the use of the fictional, in universe, famous sniper.
The Nazi knew all along, the way Hicox asked for 3 glasses was just the nail in the coffin
Bro I HATE this scene so much because they were SO close. Literally made it through all manner of questions and suspicions only to get ousted by such a small mistake. Such an amazing, but also stressful ass scene. Was so sad to see Fassbenders character go, despite his small screen time he was one of my favorite characters in the movie.
I always found it stupidly hilarous that Hugo Stiglitz moves his pistol after the first shot to line up the second, like he has actually pinpointed exactly where the nazi balls are and makes sure to get both of them. Only way to be sure.
“Say goodbye to your Nazi balls” is one of my favorite lines in cinematic history.
Hey, German redditors. Did you know in this scene that he showed the wrong 3 and the jig was up?
The smartest thing about this scene is the waiter slowly filling all of their glasses gives a logical reason to just sit there in silence and watch the SS officer process what he’s just realized and what is inevitably going to happen as a result of it. He takes a big sigh at one point.
August Diehl is such an underused actor. He should be at least as prominent as Daniel Brühl after that film. I wouldn’t say he is underrated, because directors know he is a brilliant actor, but they mostly cast him as Nazis. *A Hidden Life* by Terrence Malick is one of the few exceptions.
Insane that people these days are trying to trash him as a filmmaker
I’m always missing the extended version of this scene where he explains why he called him out. The way he used his fingers when signalling three…