Inglourious Basterds spoiler below.
It’s well known that all of Tarantino’s films take place in the same universe - this is established by the fact that Mr. Blonde and Vince Vega are brothers, everybody smokes Red Apple cigarettes, Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, etc.
As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, ‘The Bear Jew’, is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance - which means that, in Tarantino’s universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker.
Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc.
You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino’s movies are technically two universes - he’s gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn take place in a ‘movie movie universe’; that is, they’re movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.)
What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn? That they’re crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America’s crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits - and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer.
Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.
From Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ubaqq/what_fan_theories_have_blown_your_mind_with_their/c4tzvnn
Lost In Seattle (Taken with instagram)
The Exceptionally Ordinary Tour
One day, all my friends will leave me. It’s happened before and it’ll happen again. I’ve always been the lone wolf-dog wandering the world, and though while not always alone, it always comes like the crash of waves on the beach. It’s painful each time the waves wash away my friends. And try as I might to make better walls and protect myself, people get through. They always get through, and I love them for that. In they come but out they go as well. One day, all my friends will leave me. It’s happened before and it’ll happen again. And each time, I hope the end never truly comes…
[video]
[video]
[video]
Relics from the past
Pretty little thing, you think that’s old! LOOK AT THIS!
wow miggs! You’re holding up a record to demonstrate that you predate them!
that’s not funny…
look how young and vibrant I am
Just cuz you have a bow tie don’t make you vibrant!
Look!
LOOK! I HAVE A HAT! SONNET BEAT THAT!
Relics from the past
I remember in elementary school when we had to save our homework to a floppy disk in the library so we could work on it at home. I’d always accidentally erase it by sliding it back and forth.
I would play with the slider all the time. I never had the misfortune of having my homework erased because of it. My dad has some really old records laying around and there’s a beta machine somewhere in my house.
I love sliding it back and forth…
