What Happened To Hans Landa After Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds introduced the audience to one of the most memorable and scariest villains in movie history: Hans Landa, but what happened to him after the movie's end? Quentin Tarantino has explored different genres in his career as a filmmaker, and two of his most popular movies explored alternate history: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with the Manson murders of the 1960s, andInglourious Basterds with 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’s (Mélanie Laurent), a Jewish cinema owner whose family was killed by SS officer Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) and is now ready for revenge. Although Hitler was the common target of the Basterds and Shosanna, Hans Landa is the main villain of Inglourious Basterds, and when it seemed like he had won, Aldo Raine had a final surprise up his sleeve and left him with a souvenir he would never be able to get rid of.
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At the end of Inglourious Basterds, Landa captured Aldo and Utivich (B.J. Novak) and made Aldo call his superior officer to make a deal that would allow their mission to continue in exchange for safe passage for Landa through the Allied lines, full pardon, and other perks. Aldo agreed, but once they reached Allied territory, he carved a swastika into Landa’s forehead, calling it his “masterpiece”. It’s understood that Aldo let Landa go after that and everyone went on their own ways, but Tarantino has already answered the big question of what
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