Christoph Waltz

historically inaccurate movie that uses war and Nazis as a backdrop to tell a narrative of evil being subjective. The most important character in this movie is Hans Landa portrayed by actor Christoph Waltz. The character Hans Landa perfectly portrays how evil can be subjective, speaking to slash film Christoph Waltz explained the character by saying “I don’t think these swastikas are so important to him. It’s not so much ego-driven, it’s just a very thorough understanding of how the world works. What

Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Bastards entails a Jewish revenge fantasy that is told through a counterfactual history of events in World War II. However, this story follows a completely different plot than what we are currently familiar with. Within these circumstances, audiences now question the very ideas and arguments that are often associated with World War II. We believe that Inglourious Basterds is a Jewish revenge fantasy that forces us to rethink our previous understandings by

As time goes on, history has a way of getting distorted from its most truthful form. Time causes people to drift away from accuracy and become more interested in what they want to remember. Hollywood has a reputation of creating films that cater more to the average viewer, rather than the history buff. Inglorious Basterds, by Quentin Taratino, take very liberal liberty with a history story, and creates a story that will sell to the crowd. This may seem dubious, but it is often not such a bad thing

“I like the way you die, boy” Django said to Big John Brittle as John is shot to death by Django, an African-American free slave. That scene felt very satisfying especially since Big John Brittle was about to whip a little poor slave girl. Hitler in Inglourious Basterds was killed by a Jewish solider who got the opportunity to shoot Hitler multiple times in the torso and face; this Jewish solider had a look of vengeance in his eyes as he shot him. Notice how both these films have a feel good story

budget of $70,000,000. The film turned out to be Tarantino’s highest-grossing film up until Django: Unchained (2012), making it his second. The film was nominated for seven Oscars and won Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role (Christopher Waltz).

Over the course of first semester in college I have learned how to read, write, and learn again. That sentence may be hard to understand, since when getting to college you are already supposed to know how, but it is true. Starting off with I Stand Here Writing by Nancy Sommers, I have learned how to enhance my writing by using personal sources to combine personal and academic writing. With the help of The Mind at Work by Mike Rose I got an example of how the teachings of Sommers can be applied in

The Metaphor of Dance in Fugard’s “Master Harold”…and the Boys In Athol Fugard’s play “Master Harold”… and the Boys dance becomes a metaphor for how society can work harmoniously together, yet there are conflicts that prevent it from happening. Specifically, ballroom dance becomes a metaphor to show the conflict between a cooperative society and the disappointment associated with life and our inability to force change. This is expressed by Sam teaching Willie the mastery of dance and also educating

“The Dance” In discussions of “My Papa’s Waltz,” one controversial issue has been that it is about a contumelious relationship between Roethke and his drunk father. On the one hand, some readers argue that it is about Roethke and his father dancing. On the other hand, many readers contend that it is about rape. Others even maintain it is just Roethke walking his intoxicated father home. However, after deconstructing the poem, it becomes increasingly undeniably clear that it is about Roethke and

“My Papa’s Waltz” written by Theodore Roethke in 1942 is a bottomless dark poem in which the narrator starts off by stating “The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy.” Leaving the daunting image in the poem of the boy’s father being a heavy drinker, while reminiscing through his childhood bringing back the memories of how their relationship transpired. Roethke uses assonance, rhyme schemes and a variety of different themes to convey his love for his father even through his faults.

“My Papa’s Waltz” ,a poem written by Theodore Roethke, is about a father whose despairing dance moves terrify the son. Roethke uses the connotation of words to create an unruly mood. A demonstration of Roethke’s use word connotation to convey a mood is present on the following lines. “We romped until the pans / Slid from the kitchen shelf;” (5-6). These lines create an unruly mood because they consist of words that have strong negative connotation. One of these words is romped. Romped has a negative