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In three pages this film character’s personality is described within the context of the ‘big five’ personality traits clusters and how these characteristics affect the choices he makes. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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reasons and motivations that make them act as they do. The same is true of fictional film characters. Like their real-life counterparts, film character personalities like the larger-than-life
protagonist Lt. Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantinos 2009 film Inglourious Basterds can be assessed within the contexts of the so-called big five personality clusters. These clusters include openness, conscientiousness,
extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (Livesley, 2001). Openness refers to an individuals willingness to experience life, and includes "fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas, values" (Livesley, 2001, p. 22). Lt. Raine
is "a hillbilly from Tennessee" who is clearly open for extreme life experiences (Tarantino, 2008). By being named leader of a Jewish-American group of guerilla fighters dubbed Inglourious Basterds,
Raine openly embraces all aspects of war as if it gives him the opportunity to live out all of the wartime fantasies he may have had playing soldiers as a
child. He uses his impassioned hatred of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his Jewish religious values as constant sources of inspiration. As long as Hitlers forces are killing
Jews, Raine and his Basterds will take great delight in killing Germans. Conscientiousness refers to an individuals "competence, order, dutifulness, achievement striving, self-discipline, deliberation" (Livesley, 2001, p. 22). Lt.
Raine is a most conscientious soldier to the point of replacing any semblance of humanity with steely determination and transforming himself into a virtual killing machine. He is a
perfectionist of the highest degree, and extremely achievement oriented. In fact, his fellow soldiers gave him the nickname "Apache" because killing the enemy was not enough for Aldo Raine;
he wanted to take their scalps with him to reveal to others the extent of his competence as a warrior. After all, a soldiers primary objective is to kill
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