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Continuity
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Errors in geography
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Factual errors
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs
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Colonel Landa is an SS officer. Although members of the Wehrmacht were always expected to be apolitical the SS was the military arm of the Nazi Party, they were NOT members of the Wehrmacht.
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Anachronisms
When Landa has Raine and Uitivich as prisoners, and is gesturing toward the telephone, the handset is connected to the phone with a perfectly coiled black cord that didn't exist until after 1960.Share this
Anachronisms
The highly flammable nitro film of the period plays a major role in the film's showdown. However, in the projection booth, projectors are show with visible running film reels, which would have been totally unthinkable at that time. All projectors were equipped with fire proof boxes in which the reels would run. These boxes had only small windows for the projectionist to check for the amount of run off or taken up film. If the film started burning, only the few inches actually running through the mechanics would be affected, not the major portions in the fire proof boxes.Share this
Character error
When Colonel Landa speaks with Lieutenant Raines and Private Utivich about chances being "999-point-999 out of one million" it appears he misspoke. However, when counting in Germany, a period is used where a comma would be used in the English world, and vice-versa. He did mean 999,999 out of one million but mistranslated.Share this
Character error
After the bar-basement fight, when Landa is identifying soldiers, he says that Wicki "immigrated to the United States" when he should have said that he "emigrated", as Landa was standing in the country from which Wicki left. If he has been in the US, the country to which Wicki emigrated, then he would have been correct in saying that Wicki "immigrated to the United States".Share this
Continuity
In the final scene where Col. Landa is surrendering to Lt. Raine, Lt. Raine's tie is untied and hanging off both shoulders. In one shot, the right half of the tie moves behind him, then returns in front in the next shot.Share this
Continuity
When Shosanna takes the specially prepared fourth reel (with her 'surprise' for the Nazis) out of the case, her hair is down and hanging loose. In the next shot, just a few seconds later, as she is putting the reel on the projector, her hair is pinned back. Some time after this, when the bell on her projector tinkles to let her know it's time to switch reels, she glances out the projector porthole at the audience and we see her hair is again down and hanging loose. As she pulls the lever to activate the reel, just a few seconds after this, her hair is once again pinned back, remaining this way throughout her final scene.Share this
Continuity
In the basement bar scene, Stiglitz's hand is under the SS officer's arm. When he shoots, his arm is over the officer's arm.Share this
Continuity
After the shootout in the La Louisiane tavern, Bridget von Hammersmark's silver earrings completely disappear only to later reappear in the scene at the veterinary hospital shortly thereafter.Share this
Continuity
In the tavern scene, when Bridget von Hammersmark is shot she falls backwards in her chair to the floor; but a moment later, when we see the room after the shoot out, her chair is still upright at the table.Share this
Crew or equipment visible
Reflection of camera and operator is visible on the short wave radio mike that Landa's holding when speaking to the American general.Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
Any mistake relating to actual facts of the Second World War can be thrown out with one explanation: This is Quentin Tarantino's universe, whose history diverged from ours in the early 1940s, and where Adolf Hitler was gunned down in a burning theater. Troop movements, uniforms, and technological developments occurred differently in the Tarantinoverse. Actor Christoph Waltz has stated that the film is "a piece of art. Not a history lesson."Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
The following continuity errors are considered to be intentional stylistic homages to the bad editing in the "spaghetti western" genre:Share this
Incorrectly regarded as goofs
It is hard to believe that Landa who checks for the cinema's safety does not discover the enormous pile of highly flammable cellulose nitrate film behind the screen. However, Landa is shown at the end of the movie to only be looking out for his own interests. It is likely that he saw the film, but chose not to report it so he could ensure that his attempt to gain amnesty would succeed.Share this
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Landa clearly expresses his love of his nickname "Jew Hunter" in the opening chapter but shows utter disdain, contempt even for the epithet by the end, preferring "Detective" to "Hunter". However, three years have passed since the first chapter; Landa may have grown tired of his nickname in this time. Also, Landa is planning to betray his superiors in exchange for amnesty from the Americans. Now that the Allies are on the verge of victory, he fears punishment for his wartime actions and naturally wants to distance himself from his reputation as a hunter and killer of Jews.Share this
Revealing mistakes
Stiglitz's eyelid moves several times when Landa examines him, hours after he's been killed.Share this
Revealing mistakes
When Col. Hans Landa's men shoot through the floor boards in LaPadite's house, the resultant bullet holes in the boards are funnel shaped, being larger in diameter at the top and smaller diameter at the bottom. In reality, the opposite would be true. The point of entry would be just a clean round hole with no funnel shape carved in the boards as seen from above the floor boards.Share this
Revealing mistakes
In the final theater scene, when the moviegoers are fleeing the fire and the Basterds are firing from above into the crowd, a woman extra gets shot in the back several times and when she falls forward (dead or dying, presumably), she grabs on to her hat to make sure it doesn't fall off.Share this


