Hitler (played with manic glee by Martin Wuttke) is shot hundreds of times. Goebbels is burned alive. The theater explodes. History is rewritten.

Tarantino literally assassinates Adolf Hitler with a machine gun. He burns Goebbels alive. He changes the outcome of World War II. The film argues that cinema itself (the film Nation’s Pride , Shosanna’s flammable nitrate prints) is the most powerful weapon of all. It is a revenge fantasy for the ages.

The film belongs to Christoph Waltz, whose portrayal of the sinister "Jew Hunter" earned him a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Landa is terrifying because he lacks fanatic ideological loyalty; he is a pure opportunist driven by intellectual vanity and a love for the hunt. Waltz effortlessly glides between English, French, German, and Italian, making his linguistic mastery a lethal weapon. Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine