Jewish siblings watch INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS for the first time (how do you breathe) 

For added backstory for The Bear Jew, he bought that baseball bat while he was still in his hometown in Boston. Before he left to go to war, he went around his Jewish neighborhood and asked his neighbors to write the names of any family members they had that were stuck in Europe. So that's all the writing on the bat. One of the names on the bat was Anne Frank.

Christoph Waltz's performance in this movie is terrifying, hilarious, and mesmerizing.

Lt. Raine’s final line “I think this might just be my masterpiece,” is really just Tarantino speaking directly to the audience.

Shosanna's death scene is about empathy, even after all she went through she never completely lost that unlike the Nazis. It's the most beautiful scene in the entire movie.

Tarantino deeply understands catharsis in cinema. This movie does for the Holocaust what Django did for American slavery and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood did for the Manson family murders: It stokes a very specific fear, referred trauma and grief then detonates it. He goes in for some cheap thrills and cheap jokes at times, but the man knows people and visual storytelling.

I'm not a huge Tarantino fan, but that first scene is a masterpiece of suspense. Christophe Waltz plays a truly terrifying villain.

The strudel has a deeper meaning. In the original German recipe, it is made with pig lard. So we can safely assume that Landa knew who Shoshana was, and he was toying with her, forcing her to eat something not kosher.

Crazy fact about the choking scene at 46:11. That was the director's hands around her neck choking her for real because he always sees choking scenes in movies looking really fake. Also, Christoph Waltz's portrayal of Hans Landa is one of the most terrifying characters in cinema. During the 3 major scenes where it is basically a 1 on 1 conversation, he is in complete control. The line at the start of the movie where he tells the guy, "this is your house, make yourself comfortable" sets his character up perfectly.

The opening scene of this film-with Landa and the French farmer-is actually used in film schools now as a textbook example of how to build suspense.

I saw this opening night with a friend who spent some time in Germany for college. When the bar scene came up and he saw Fassbender put up three fingers for the drinks he immediately said “they have been made by the Gestapo officer.” Those next couple of minutes and the aftermath were extremely tense.

Landa is trying to make his deal in 1944. By that time it was pretty obvious that Germany could not win.

Yay!!! I love when reactors are quick responders to audience recommendations. I clicked on this with the quickness!!

In Jojo Rabbit I spoke about my family and roots. I'm mixed, Jewish grandma and German grandfather. They ran away during the war to another country bc of where things were headed. I gotta say, I love how it feels a bit triumphal to see a channel do well with Jewish siblings, and the topics at hand. It feels like a big $!@%^ to those "basterds" who tried to end a people for us to all now clap and have fun watching a revenge fantasy movie where they get what they deserve. We still have a long way to go towards equality, but it's a great feeling that at least in this moment, and in this way, to all those that died wondering and hoping, we won.

Frederick Zoller was supposed to be the German version of Audie Murphy, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat. Rejected by the Marine Corps for being too small, Murphy joined the U.S. Army as a private, eventually making it to First Leuitenant with a battlefield commission. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for singlehandedly repelling a massive German attack for over an hour, standing on top of a burning tank, firining a .50 caliber machine gun only stopping once he ran out of ammunition. After the war, Audie Murphy portrayed himself in the movie 'To Hell and Back'.

The father of Eli Roth (Donny/"The Bear Jew") is a celebrated psychotherapist. He wrote a great piece for Jewish Journal called "My Son Killed Adolph Hitler" that I think you might enjoy.

Melanie Laurent was superb, especially at the end of the strudel scene, where she broke down 😊😊😊😊😊😊

This film was part of Quentin Tarantino's 'revisionist history' trilogy. Inglourious Basterds is about a fictional company of Nazi killers who end up murdering Hitler while everyone in Hitler's high command are burned alive in a movie theater by an escaped Jewish woman living in Paris. Django Unchained is about a fictional escaped slave joining up with a bounty hunter and ultimately killing a series of slavers and plantation owners to rescue the woman he loves from captivity. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is about a fictional movie star and stunt man who foil the murder of Sharon Tate at the hands of the Manson Family. They're movies simply based on the way most of us wished history unfolded during those times. I find the whole trilogy to be fascinating works of art. For a more serious movie about real, historical Jewish heroes exacting vengeance upon a cruel adversary, check out Steven Spielberg's film, Munich. It's very tense and tragic in its own way, with the added weight of being based on true events. Great reaction! It's fun watching you experience these movies through the lens of you cultural heritage.

good thing this was a tandem reaction. someone who can fully watch films and is very patient is a good viewing partner to someone who closes their eyes or stops watching at parts they consider unsavory so when the one misses parts of scenes and asks what happened or who did what, the other can recap

Shoshanana was so strong the entire movie....the one moment...THE ONE MOMENT she shows a hint of weakness it's her end. Beautifully tragic.

I think what makes Hans Lando so scary as a villlain is that you have to assume that he always knows everything. He doesn't shout, he doesn't scream, he is always smiling, joking and being extra nice and friendly towards everybody. You don't know what he actually thinks. But he is always in total control and you get the feeling that nothing escapes him and that he already knows everybody's secrets. And the smiling contradicts his subtle power moves like when he grabs one of the farmer's daughters by her wrist, asks her father to make himself comfortable in his own home or when he tells Shoshana that she should wait for the cream. One little threat that always gets lost is when Landa tells the farmer that if he will be done quickly and wants to finally close the file on the farmer's family. Also people laugh when Landa takes out his huge pipe. Now, he asked the farmer if it is OK if he smokes as well. But does the farmer really have a choice in the first place? Landa constantly lets the other people know that he is in power but he prefers to maintain appearances. And when he laughs at Bridget von Hammersmark's excuse for her leg and admits that he is just teasing her you know that it's just because he enjoys the hunt so much.

This is my favorite Tarantino film. I personally never felt that Shoshana or Marcel ever intended to make it out of the theater. It always felt like a suicide mission to me. When they embrace and say goodbye to each other, that felt like a final goodbye. Perhaps she expected Marcel to run, but she never planned to make it out alive.

In real life, there was indeed a Basterds-like unit that consisted of only Jewish men, but they didn't take pleasure in murdering other humans, nor did they have aggrandizing nicknames like “The Bear Jew.” The real Inglourious Basterds true story was that they were a secretive British unit known as X-Troop (via Uproxx) ...Sep 24, 2023

He was snorting snuff which is finely ground tobacco. You guys are so much fun to watch.

The Bear Jew is actor and film maker, Eli Roth - who is also a master of horror films. You'll need to explore him at some time, but 2 other films I can suggest in this "genre" if you haven't already seen them is Schindler's List, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and Sophie's Choice. But prepare yourself...although there is a light at the end of the tunnel at the end of these movies, they will surely bring the tears.

the fact that she's clutching an Appa the whole time makes me like her more.

This is my favorite movie ever, as a Jew and an Israeli I always have a blast watching it, it feels like a love letter from Tarantino to our people. Obviuosly we lost a lot of lives in the Holocaust, but European-Jewish people were not completely hopeless, miserabe people, they fought back and they had a strong will to go on, which is not always depicted this bombastically and awesomely in Holocaust/WWII films. It is a very hard-to-swallow movie but the cast is phenomenal. Tarantino almost couldn't make it because he couldn't find an actor who could speak German, French, English and Italian fluently until he came across Christoph Waltz, who is a mind blowing actor, and he's such a gem.

To some commenters: plenty of Jews don't follow kashrut/kosher laws, so the strudel test wouldn't be reliable. I get it's a movie, but just sayin'. My mom used to cook pork chops sometimes, and we often ate shell fish, pepperoni pizza, and cheeseburgers. We ate in non kosher restaurants and friends' houses and didn't give it a thought.

I found you two on your Jojo Rabbit reaction. I was hoping you'd end up going ahead with this one!

It doesn’t matter what you think of Tarantino personally, the first act of Inglorious Basterds is up there with some of the most intense, well written, well acted and well directed scenes in cinema.

Fun fact: Tarantino makes an appearance in the film at 11:27. He’s the first German being scalped. Most people don’t notice it prob because the scalping is gross and looks quite real so you either get distracting or look away lol

39:30 I think he's inhaling snuff. It's powdered tobacco and was carried in a small box -- a snuff box. It was an alternative to smoking or chewing tobacco.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but one of actor Christoph Waltz' sons is actually a rabbi.

Tarantino is a MASTER of “Tone”, he knows how to make things work together in a film that really shouldn’t, he’ll make you laugh when you feel like you shouldn’t, yet still give the emotional scenes their proper weight & bits of super stylized flair that if anyone else did it, it would come off as cheesy, he makes it cool, it’s so unique to Tarantino.

One of the best trivia items regarding this film is the casting of Til Schweiger as Hugo Stiglitz. Throughout his career, Schweiger has steadfastly refused any role that would require him to wear a nazi uniform. He accepted this role and agreed to wear one for the first time ever- only because he would be killing nazis.

The final theater scene is incredibly cathartic, but has fascinated me since I first watched the movie. I don't know if Tarantino did it intentionally, but there is something foreboding about sitting in a theater feeling elated watching a movie theater audience slaughtered on the screen -- when that audience was also elated watching people slaughtered on screen.

Both of my great-grandparents were Soviet Jews and fought bravely for the liberation of our land from Nazis! Eternal memory!

I’m so excited that you did decide to watch this, it’s truly an incredible film. Love y’all’s reviews!

Honestly as jew i bet this film is extra awesome to watch 😂

They were never going to leave that theater. They wanted to ensure that all of the high command were killed.

"The banality of evil" in our family we used to say a Jewish pessimist would say things cannot get worse The optimist says yes they can.

Thank you for this reaction. It’s a fascinating and important perspective to have documented on RU-vid. Subscribed, and look forward to your future content. Love to both of you from distant Ireland! 🇮🇪

I hope eventually you watch other Tarantino films for this channel. DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012) will be especially interesting because Christoph Waltz plays a good guy with the same amount of charm and skill as he plays a villain in this film. I think Ayala would enjoy JACKIE BROWN (1997) the most, though, because it’s not a graphically violent movie. It’s primarily story and dialogue. Terrific characters in it.

You guys are my new favorite reactors!!!! So glad I found you!

Quentin Tarantino is fascinated by words, and this movie plays with accents. The scene in the basement bar was written around actor Michael Fassbender being German, but spent his childhood in Ireland, so he actually does speak fluent German with a weird accent. Brad Pitt has the worst American southern accent ever, and you don't know why until he tries to speak Italian, and then it's hilarious. I don't know of any other movie whose plot depends so much on accents.

Tarantino is a fucking G. Fucking gangsta. This first scene is art.

Man you really feel that anger in Eli Roths face when hes shooting hitlers corpse

This was an awesome reaction! Love the ending discussion ❤

In case anyone is curious. Lieutenant Aldo Reigns is not snorting coke or drugs. It is snuff . A very finely chopped tobacco that you take a pinch and inhale.

Totally awesome that you put a timer up during the commercial part. For once I actually stayed, instead of fast-forwarding like usual. A+

Having recently discovered some Jewish ancestry I’ve been trying to get more in touch with my heritage and I’ve noticed everything seems to have a new effect on me like affecting me more and I just wanted to say love the channel just subscribed

Loved your reaction. Such a brutal, intense, and cinematic movie. SUBSCRIBED :D

Great reaction again guys. Thank you. I think Tarantino did a good job of mixing brutal reality, with unexpected humour, given the subject matter. I have a little bit of Jewish family on my mother's side, and I get that comment about Shosanna not being a common name nowadays, but it was my grandmother's name, and much more common when she was a little girl, I always liked it.

Great fucking reaction! I'm so happy that you finally got around to seeing this film! I really wished I could have seen your reaction to Django Unchained!

that scene in the bar is so good. I love the moment fassbender's character gives himself away, the shot is so good with the number three gesture out of focus in the front of the frame and the nazi officers immideate glance at it. Most people watching has no idea what happened, but everyone knows something happened and the tension thats been building for the entire scene just got amplified tenfold, and you just know this wont end well.

Yes, yes, yes! Thank you for enjoying this with me, it letting me enjoy this with you!

During WWII average soldier Audie Murphy killed 241. He was decorated. After the war he portrayed himself in the Hollywood movie Too Hell And Back (1955). Till the end of his days he suffered from PTSD.

göbbels sex scene was the most unexpected thing to happen in this movie btw, no one could have known that landa speaks perfect roman Italian 😂

just found yall, i love you. thank you for the smiles

The stuff he was sniffing is called Snuff, a ground up tobacco product that’s gone out of style.

They types of people that feel the need to “warn” others about scenes in movies are not only spoilers but are softer than yogurt and require “trigger warnings” throughout their day to survive ordinary events.

amazing reaction guys. Well done. Got another sub

Big fan of the channel guys keep it up!

@Those Siblings Nice choice of face shield for scary parts, an Air Bison like Appa is a good companion / guardian for you.

Great job Ayala and Ron. Can't wait for more reactions.

"My name is Shosanna Dreyfus and this is the face of Jewish vengeance". What a line!

The Bear Jew part was apparently originally written for ADAM SANDLER

I just discovered this channel. What a show! Loved your reaction. Shalom.

She was shot and being carried out of the basement. I don’t think many people would think “Oh, let me pick up my shoe and look through the rubble to find that napkin I autographed.” And Aldo wasn’t there when she signed the napkin, so he wouldn’t have known to even look for it.

The stuff aldo keeps sniffing up his nose is called snuff. It's a form of powdered tobacco that you can either dip or sniff. My grandmother used to use it.

In the restaurant scene the strudel was made with lard (animal fat). He was seeing if she would eat it because with the cream it's not kosher.

Great film. Wonderful reaction. Thank you for sharing it with us. 👍

this is easily one of my favorite movies ever. it's got so many brilliant layers and i have a video essay in the works dissecting Zoller's character and why he makes such an incredible antagonist (even if he's not the primary villain)

Great Reaction !! Thank You

Hi its me Gili, big fan! i would like to ask the one with beard and glasses... can i use cff explorer ?

What an emotional reaction, i enjoyed watching this with you! like + sub :)

I agree with your brother, people should stop doing spoilers. Your energy is so real. No offense to your brother, who is really good btw, but you’re the reason I subscribed. ❤

The scene where Donny comes walking out of the tunnel gives me chills from the first sound of the bat hitting the wall until the moment the soldier points at the map. It is so well executed. :-)

Look at the 1st scene as if Landa isn´t a SS Officer but a detective that already know everybody is guilty. The way he looks at the French daughters and even holds their wrists is because he want to see if they are afraid in his presence. Look again at every move he does. His faces he made. He was playing with that family all the time... Nasty man... But an AWESOME scene with amazing performances...

It's not easy watching you watch this (or the JoJo Rabbit one as well), knowing the little I know about generational trauma that can be passed down to following generations. **Edit: And, now that I've seen the whole video, I think it's incredibly powerful how you showed us your experience in such a raw and honest way. I married a Jewish woman, since I was a kid early on some kind of affinity to "Jewish humor" from the Borscht Belt through to the comedians I grew up with grew in me and stayed, all my adult life I've been a friend, lover, and husband to various Jewish people from the US, Israel, Soviet Union, and elsewhere. All that went a long way to making it clear to me that I can never even approach any real understanding of what it means to be Jewish in this world. Not only the actual physical changes that are passed down through generations from extreme trauma to those who are born generations later but then add the ever-present reminders that there continue to be far too many people who would easily and gladly do the same right now, today. My wife (we're now divorced) insisted on nailing a mezuzah on the entrance of every home she lived in after she left home, even though she was not a believer or religious at all. She told me, "I want them to know who I am and that I'm not afraid of them!" How can I know how that feels? I can only honor her passion and defiance. I'm a big fan of defiance! And here, all I can do in reaction to this video is honor and salute you for sharing it with us with such vulnerability and honesty. Respect Peace

One of u is SO DRAMATIC i luv it!

One of the best reactions I’ve seen!

REALLY liked your reaction. It had a totally different dynamic than the others. Well done!

Tarantino is a HUGE fan of the Italian director Sergio Leone. The opening sequence was a direct homage tot he opening of _The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly_ , with the building tension across the dinner table. Much of the music in this movie was done by the composer for Leone's movies, Ennio Morricone, who Tarantino brought out of retirement to compose for this and other films, like _Django_

I just love that 'masterpiece' at the end... nice job. ✔

Finished watching your Jojo Rabbit reaction, just finished this one. Subscribed to you guys! I love how perceptive you two are, as well as your sibling bickering. Lol Now I’m going to enjoy you two watching Monsters, Inc. Lol

Would love it if you guys did more Tarantino. Start at the beginning if you want or maybe dip your toe in by checking out Jackie Brown. Its not as gory or "Violent" as some of his other films but it is a very good one. They're all good

The sister watching this like it's a horror film 😂😂

I didn't realize until now that David Bowie had songs in both this and Jo Jo Rabbit until now.

Loved your Jo Jo react. I am here because of that vid. So nice to subscribe. 🥰

Huge new fan. Much love from Canada.

I’m happy you did this one, especially after “JoJo Rabbit.” I thoroughly enjoyed your reactions. Thank you.

came here from the jojo rabbit vid, i didnt realize how good that movie really was definitely subbed. you guys should see valkyrie and fury if you ant to keep going with the ww2 genre

thanks for reaction

I've watched a lot reactions to this movie, yours has been my favorite.

You guys should definitely watch The Pianist (2002) It was directed by Roman Polanski who was a kid living in Poland when the Nazis invaded, so he basically lived the movie. It's a beautiful movie with a powerful message.

You talked her into watching the movie! I found you guys on the Jojo Rabbit video. Keep up the great content!

I AM SO HAPPY. After Jojo (my introduction to you) I was searching for the right words to express how this alternative history is an excellent revenge fantasy and not a holocaust movie or a tragedy.

This is really gut wrenching watching along with you guys. It must hit diferent ,but you guys seem to roll with the punches. Tarentino really knows how to shoot from the hip . Like with Django !!!!

Quentin Tarantino, the director of this film, is married to an Israeli woman.

I couldn't help but note your laughter during the theater scene. It's so interesting how Tarantino can cause an audience to laugh while showing horrendous violence--toward those who deserve it! I , myself, had the same laughing jag in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood",when the Manson family members met their fates in that film. Everyone in the audience was howling with laughter. I think that Tarantino's twist on history, so that stories end as we wish they did, is like a psychological release of emotions. Aside from comedies, I've never seen any other director be able to evoke emotions so contradictory to the content of the scenes. Good review btw!