Quentin Tarantino's masterful WWII movie proved (unsurprisingly) controversial for its stylised depiction of a war-time scenario, and most famously how QT decided to alter history. The plot revolves around an attempt to assassinate Hitler and many members of his high-command by sealing them inside a cinema during the screening of a new Nazi propaganda film and blowing the thing up. It would be a mistake to say the plot goes off without a hitch, but the cinema ends up burning down, and the money shot comes when soldiers Ulmer and Donowitz burst into the cinema totting machine guns, which they use to riddle Hitler and Joseph Goebbels with bullets, to the shock and (depending on your sense of humour) possible amusement of everyone watching. Tarantino is well-known for his audacity, but killing Hitler simply took this to another level: in a sense, this act was a rather clever work of collective wish fulfillment, a cathartic cinematic "if only" moment, done entirely with its tongue poking through its cheek. Only the most uptight viewer wouldn't amid feeling a glimmer of satisfaction as Hitler's body was pumped full of machine gun rounds.
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