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In three pages this paper analyzes this offbeat Nazi-killing Jewish-American hero featured in Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film with the emphasis being on how his character changes throughout the course of the movie. One source is listed in the bibliography.
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File: TG15_TGaldorain.rtf
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World War in his 2009 satire entitled Inglourious Basterds. The films title refers to a special-forces unit stationed in France that is comprised of Jewish-American soldiers. Their leader,
Lt. Aldo Raine (played by Brad Pitt), was an overly zealous German soldiers killing machine, who had earned the nickname Apache because he was not content to merely kill his
victims; he wanted their scalps as war trophies afterward. Upon introduction, the screenplay describes Lt. Raine as "a hillbilly from Tennessee," with a distinctive rope burn on his neck
that suggests he had once survived a lynching, but is never mentioned (Tarantino, 2008). Though portrayed as a one-dimensional caricature interested only in slaughtering any German wearing a Nazi
uniform, Lt. Raine initially reveals himself a passionate man who is deeply affected by the Holocaust that has claimed the lives of many of his fellow Jews. In the
eye for an eye tradition upon which he was likely raised, Lt. Raine informed his potential recruits: "I sure as hell didnt come down from the goddamn Smoky Mountains, cross
five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half Sicily, and then jump out of a fuckin air-o-plane, to teach the Nazis lessons in humanity. Nazis aint got no
humanity. Theyre the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin maniac, and they need to be destroyed. Thats why any and every son-of-a-bitch we find wearin a
Nazi uniform, theyre gonna die" (Tarantino, 2008). Though certainly unorthodox, Lt. Aldo Raines initially reveals himself as a man with a specific
mission, and anything less than complete success in achieving the objective of killing Nazis is unacceptable. Raine also seeks to incite fear throughout Adolf Hitlers Third Reich, but
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