2. Opening Sequence Throughout the film chapters are used to break the film up just as chapters to din fictional books. We also know that the film is a work of fiction due to the phrase “Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France” Once upon a time is a line used to open fairytales. Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France was considered for the original title for the film. At the beginning of the film, the timing it takes for Hans and his men on the motor vehicle to arrive at the dairy farm is completely inconsistent. The camera shows them approaching the farm in the background, and they pass the same tree by the road side three times. The opening scene contains the most concentrated use of the "spaghetti western" motif, and such continuity errors are common within the genre. Also when Col. Landa was talking to the farmer holding the Jews. His glass of milk he was drinking moves positions back and forth, and the milk level changes. This may also be a homage to spaghetti westerns as sloppy editing was rife in those genres. During the scene in the farmhouse the area outside is a backdrop this my be a homage to the music the sound of music. In the farmhouse Hans Landa asks that they switch to speaking English. He does this so that the hiding Jews will not understand him, but it is an easy postmodern method of not having to subtitle the whole film. Occasionally, the foreign word is inserted into the subtitle. Example: When Col. Landa is speaking to the French farmer, he says "Oui" which is French for "Yes". Instead of the word "Yes" appearing in the subtitle, the word "Oui" appears despite the fact that the rest of the French dialog is translated to English.

3. Nations Pride Nations Pride is the film that premiers at the film festival which Hitler attends during the film. It is about the character Pvt. Fredrick Zoller who in the short plays himself. It is a re-enactment of how his character fought off American forces as a sniper for a number of days. Eli Roth directed the film-within-the-film, "Nation's Pride". Quentin Tarantino asked Roth to direct the short, and Roth requested his brother Gabriel join him to direct behind a second camera, which Tarantino agreed to. In two days the brothers got 130 camera setups, and Tarantino was so pleased he gave Roth a third day that he was originally planning to shoot with actor Daniel Brühl. Roth got 50 more setups the third day, much to Tarantino's delight. The total running time of the short is 5:30, and was always intended to feel like pieces of a longer film, not a coherent short. Tarantino puts himself into his films and in the short “Nations Pride” voices an American soldier that is seen shouting "I implore you, we must destroy that tower!". The Wilhelm Scream can be heard when a soldier is shot and falls from an upper window. This is a stock sound effect. The scream is often used when someone is either falling to their death from great height or from an explosion. It is instantly recognisable form the “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” When look shoots a storm trooper, he screams and falls down a chasm. It has also been used in all Indiana Jones films. It has become a well-known cinematic sound cliché, and is claimed to have been used in over 149 films. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio Similarity between the movie and the movie-within-the-movie: Both have foreign language dialogs displayed as translated subtitles. In case of Nation's Pride, this is seen when Pvt Fredrick Zoller's character speaks in English (subtitles displayed in German on the Cinema's screen) just before Shosanna Dreyfus overrides the movie with her message.