Nazi Jews

[kelber at mindspring.com]

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I honestly can't understand how a fantasy about some Jews killing Hitler and the high command of the Nazi Party and SS makes those Jews no different from Nazis.  The character Shoshanna saw her whole family slaughtered by the Nazis.  Would there be something wrong or immoral about her killing Hitler if she actually got the chance?  I'm also not clear if you're offended because it's Jews doing the killing.  Would you be offended if some members of the French Resistance were in that position?  Why do you expect Israel specifically to condemn the movie?  I'm not being rhetorical here.  I really don't understand.

The Brad Pitt character who heads the commando unit isn't Jewish.  He's a shit-kicking redneck bigot type.  Clearly, when he's talking about Nazis, we're meant to plug in a different N word.  The film isn't a Jewish revenge fantasy so much as it's a send-up of American racism, IMO.  The guessing-game sequence where the Nazi is trying to guess "King Kong," but thinks the real answer might be "the history of the American Negro," was a brilliant scene.  Scary, witty and full of subtext about the connections between Nazism and American racism.  It reminded me of the propaganda film sequence in GR.

Outside of Pulp Fiction, I've never been interested in any of QT's movies.  Most of them look pretty crappy.  And by all accounts, he's an arrogant fuck.  But unless something really great comes out in the next couple of months (The Road?), IB's in position to do well at the Oscars.  I don't have a problem with that.

Laura

PS- Personally, I'm a lot more offended by the thought of Jews like Mickey who admire Nazis.

-----Original Message-----
>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>

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>there is a bit of difference--Mickey and Bernstein are Jews who
>somehow inexplicably identify with National Socialism (remember those
>groups of men waiting in camps for the return of
>Blicero--inexplicable)
>the IB Jews (Americans) are committing war crimes in the movie--they
>are behaving like any other individual in history that has committed
>such crimes.
>That they replicate in detail some of the same acts of cruelty on
>German soldiers that the Jews (and others) were subject to during the
>war doesn't make me feel any less appalled, even if it is only a
>movie--in that sense they are Nazis. No one seems to have a problem
>with that--no condemnations from the US Army, in Israel, even in
>Germany.
>QT if he had any talent would've put these GIs in Vietnam committing
>these crimes--change the focus just a tiny bit--i see no
>difference--mass murder is mass murder tho all these jackoffs in tis
>country, critics and other blowhards would see the difference, those
>cheering for their heroes.
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>rich
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>On 9/17/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:03 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>>> Hard not to bring up Inglourious Basterds, which some (not me) have
>>> decried as portraying Jews behaving like Nazis.
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>> I'm curious as to what anyone who's seen it might have to say about it ...
>>