20 Things You Didn't Know About Inglourious Basterds

One could devote an entire article to the multiple, various and frequent movie references in not only IB but all of Tarantino's work. He's a prolific cinephile, everything he makes is a veritable love letter to movies and movie-making alike.

Here we go...

The character of Omar Ulmar's surname is a nod to German filmmaker Edgar G Ulmer; the character of Emil Jannings (at the premiere) was a real life Nazi-associated actor; the name Hugo Stiglitz is lifted straight from a Mexican B-Movie actor; Goebbels throws a fit when 'Lilian Harvey' is mentioned as the real life actress helped a Jewish pal flee Nazi Germany; Donowitz's alias at the premiere is Antonio Margherti, who was an Italian horror movie director (Cannibal Apocalypse); Pitt's Aldo Raine name is a mix of Aldo Ray (WW2 veteran) and Charles Rane, a character in 1977s Rolling Thunder; Operation 'Kino' is from the German word 'kinematograph,' meaning motion-picture projector and finally...

... the famous Wilhelm scream is heard in the movie-within-a-movie, Nation's Pride.