Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

44 mistakes - chronological order

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Continuity mistake: When Hugo Stieglitz is threatening the balls of the Gestapo officer in the bar, his hand with the pistol is under the arms of the officer. In the next scene, when he is shooting, it is suddenly above the arms of the officer.

Factual error: In the opening credits for "Stolz der Nation," Joseph Goebbels' name is spelled "Goebbles." This is easily visible both in the actual film and in the "Stolz der Nation" bonus film on the DVD.

philly

Factual error: When we first see him in Royal Marines uniform, Hicox is wearing a beret with a short 'tail' (the end of the drawstring used to tighten the beret). This is indeed a feature of military berets in some countries, but not in Britain.

Necrothesp

Continuity mistake: In the tavern scene, when the SS officer tells Lt. Hickox that he is no more German than the scotch they are drinking, Hickox is sitting back against the back of his chair. In the following shot, which shows Eric the bartender slowly reaching for his shotgun, Hickox can be seen in the background leaning forward in his chair. In the next shot, Hickox is suddenly once again sitting back in his chair as he was before. It is implausible that Hickox would have or even could have changed seating positions so quickly or abruptly.

s4bio

Continuity mistake: When in the farmer's house, Landa's gloves on the table keep changing from wrinkled to straight depending on the angle.

Sacha

Audio problem: Landa enters the farmer's house and talks to the girls but a side angle shows his mouth not moving, despite sound coming out. It only starts moving when he says the word 'Monsieur'.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: When Bridget von Hammersmark is being strangled you can see a crack in the plaster on her leg, allowing her to take it off. Best seen in the shot taken from under her feet, right before she stops struggling.

Factual error: At the start of Chapter 3 the title reads "1944 Shoshanna Dreyfus four years after the massacre of her family." Chapter 1 takes place in 1941. So it is actually three years.

DMuhlfelde

Continuity mistake: When Landa is with the French farmer, there's an iron nail on the table used to crush the tobacco that moves around depending on the angle.

Sacha

Factual error: When Colonel Landa offers to surrender in exchange for not warning Hitler he is about to burned alive in the Paris cinema he points to a telephone with a rotary dial with alpha-numeric characters. I believe that was a feature of North American telephones after WWII.

Factual error: After carving the swastika on the Nazi private's head that they let go, Donny tells Aldo that he's getting good at that. Aldo then proceeds to make the joke about getting to Carnegie Hall and practice. This has been a well known and common joke for years, however the earliest known written instance of this joke is from 1950. Plus the joke originates in New York and Aldo is from Tennessee, saying he's from the Smoky Mountains. So him referencing this joke in such a manner does not match the time frame at all and is way out of place.

Quantom X

Continuity mistake: The card the SS officer sticks to his head in the bar is initially quite low over his eyes and at a slight angle. Later in the scene it's moved slightly higher up and straighter, without him touching it.

Jon Sandys

Continuity mistake: When Landa is about to kill the Jews in the farmer's house, he stands up and the box of matches keeps changing positions on the table.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Shoshanna kills Zoller, then approaches him and kicks a film can, which moves farther away. In the next shot, the can has moved backwards and is close to her ankle again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Landa arrives at the property of Pierre LaPadite, he teleports in front of the hanging clothes between shots.

Big Game

Character mistake: The narrator says that Hugo Stiglitz killed 13 Gestapo Officers. However, the newspaper's pictures and the text below them show that some of the officers were Wehrmacht officers.

Big Game

Factual error: Although Dieter Hellstrom is a Gestapo Major, he has the SS runes on his uniform instead of a blank square.

Big Game

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Suggested correction: Nowhere in the movie is he said to be a Gestapo Major. He is SS. Even if he was part of the Gestapo, he could still be an SS officer, as the Gestapo fell under the SS and RSHA.

lionhead

Actually, Hellstrom himself says, "I didn't introduce myself. Major Dieter Hellstrom of the Gestapo," after Shoshanna meets Joseph Goebbels in the bar.

Big Game

Oh right, he was in another scene too. Sure, well, like I said, he can still be an SS officer.

lionhead

Character mistake: Hicox claims to be from around Piz Bün to explain his strange accent. However, Piz Bün isn't even in Germany and nobody around there spoke German at all. Yet nobody reacts. It's very weird that Hellström, being a German officer, would not know the borders of his own country.

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Suggested correction: A lot of Germans come from Austria, or lived in Austria. To the Nazis, Austria is part of Germany. Hitler was born in Austria too.

lionhead

Lt. Aldo Raine: Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps... And I want my scalps!

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Trivia: A dummy of Quentin Tarintino is used as one of the scalped dead Nazis in the scene where the basterds are in the valley and Donny beats the German officer into a pulp.

emma2009

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Question: Does Emmanuelle Mimieux know of the Bastard's plan to blow up the cinema and do the Bastards know that Emmanuelle Mimieux is going to burn it down, or are the plans not connected at all?

Answer: They're unconnected. As happens often in Tarantino's films, their storylines are completely separate until they intersect at that point.

Captain Defenestrator

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