Was Bridget Von Hammersmark Going To Betray The Basterds?
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds saw the Basterds’ plan, Operation Kino, not going exactly as they expected, with the first part of it going terribly wrong and leading to the deaths of some Basterds, with their ally, Bridget von Hammersmark, surviving the attack – but could it be possible that von Hammersmark had planned to betray the Basterds from the beginning? Quentin Tarantino has explored different genres throughout his career as a filmmaker, including alternate versions of historical events, as he did in Inglourious Basterds.
Set during World War II, Inglourious Basterds follows two stories with a common goal: kill as many Nazis as possible, including Hitler. One is the story of a group known as the “Basterds”, led by Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), and the other is that of Shosanna Dreyfus/Emmanuelle Mimieux (Mélanie Laurent), a Jewish cinema owner whose family was killed by SS officer Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) and is now ready for revenge. Killing Hitler was the common goal of the Basterds and Shosanna, and they came up with different plans to achieve that, which ultimately meshed and allowed them to complete their missions, though not without some obstacles in the way.
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In order to kill Hitler and those closest to him, the Basterds came up with “Operation Kino”, which consisted of sending German movie star and undercover Allied agent, Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), Lt. Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender), and two of the Basterds disguised as guests to the premiere of Joseph Goebbels’ movie Nation’s Pride, as Hitler, Goebbels, and more would be in attendance. Unfortunately, the first phase of Operation Kino didn’t go as expected and the
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