10 Things You Didn't Know About Inglourious Basterds
7. Quentin Tarantino Has A Cameo In The Film (Not That You'd Know It)
And the award for the most pointless film cameo goes to... Mr. Tarantino! Directors starring in their own films with small cameo roles is always forms a fun little game for audiences. If they know a film has a cameo, they'll spend the entire duration of the film trying to spot the fleeting moment in which the cameo takes place, but in Inglourious Basterd's case, you'd never be able to spot Tarantino's cameo, mainly because the only part of him that you actually see are his hands. Unlike the famous examples of Alfred Hitchcock playing background characters in many of his own films, Tarantino decided to take that concept a little too far in Basterds, deciding to make his cameo not only useless in terms of giving the audience a chance to spot him, but also in the sense of him wanting to be a part of the film itself. In the scene in which Hans Landa discovers that Bridget Von Hammersmark is a German spy working for the Allies, he proceeds to outstretch his arms and strangle the poor woman to death. Except it wasn't really Christoph Waltz doing the mock strangling - it was Tarantino.
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