While all these opening scenes are certainly amazing, QT's greatest opener to a may just come from his 2009 World War II epic, Inglourious Basterds, which celebrates its … Inglourious Basterds film location: the Basterds interrogate – and scalp – Nazis: Hahneberg Fort, Germany | Photograph: flickr / mKerenski Just outside Berlin itself, the wooded ravine with brick arches where Aldo Raine ( Brad Pitt ) and the Basterds interrogate Nazis before taking scalps, is Fort Hahneberg , Hahnebergweg 50 , west of the city (near to Spandau). The End.” This is a reality where any kind of normalcy doesn’t apply. The opening vacillates between mildly scary and fun and flirty as a cute young girl, Casey Becker (Drew Barrymore), tells the unknown caller that she’s making popcorn and is going to watch a scary movie. LaPadite, in order to protect his family, finally concedes that he is harboring a local farming Jewish family in his floorboards. The audience hears the whirring of a helicopter as background din as the camera shows the desecration of what seems to be an entire forest. Another beautifully shot opening with the perfect song. Willard mirrors the insanity of Vietnam by drinking heavily and inexplicably doing some sort of Tai Chi in his hotel room. The “your dead” post card eventually ends up in the hands of Dunne as the back of it reads: “I HATE YOUR GUTS ASSHOLE!” Not only might Griffin lose his job. From the deep cultural references in the dialogue to the unforgivingly in your face, some may even say offensive, violence throughout, there’s no mistaking who’s eyes you’re seeing the world through. Guillermo del Toro said “hi” to her once. Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is shown waking up at dusk and riding his bicycle down through Carpathian Ridge on his way home. The opening scene of Inglourious Basterds is one of the most intense sequences ever put on film. Landa suspected they were hiding under the floor, and he was right. There’s Henry Hill (Ray Liota) who drives, Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro) sits shotgun while trying to get some shut eye and Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) sits quietly in back. However, one member escapes. By Adrienne Tyler Aug 22, 2020. Zuckerberg has an inferiority complex despite getting a perfect score on his SAT. Florence Pugh's Black Widow Character Explained, Tom Hiddleston Gets Thor’s Long Flowing Hair In Marvel Recast Art, What Happened To American Pie? Donnie also passes by a red Trans Am (important plot point later in the story) while Donnie’s mother reads Stephen King’s It as he wanders into the house. Next: Why Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Spin-Off Never Happened. Landa served as the main villain, and he made it clear from the very beginning that he was a cold-blooded SS officer, yet he let Shosanna escape, making viewers wonder why. Captain Benjamin Willard’s (Martin Sheen) face is superimposed, but upside down, over the devastation while Jim Morrison sings “This is the end my only friend. Like Jaws, the opening music and score are as important to setting the tone of the film as the actual footage. The intro to the Stanley Kubrick directed and adaptation of Stephen King’s novel is so simple, and yet, so memorable. Every character seems to be acting, with every line marked as being part of a role rather than the expression of a realistic identity. The scene gets more and more terrifying as the harasser continues to play cat and mouse games until she and her boyfriend are both killed by a stealthy mysteriously masked murderer--in the most spectacular of fashions.