I thought it might be fun to try and list all the film references in IG, as I am sure none of us got them all. We can debate if some of them are actual references as well (I pulled these from various net sources).
1) The shot out of the doorway in Chapter One is taken from
The Searchers.
2) The rope burn on Aldo Raines neck is a reference to the ending of
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
3) Operation Kino references the Russian and German word for cinema.
4) Aldo Raine is named for Aldo Ray who was a character is several WWII films.
5) The film
Nation's Pride is an obvious homage to German propaganda films.
6) The character Hugo Stiglitz is named for the 70's exploitation star.
7) The Harvey Keitel cameo is a reference to "The Wolf" in
Pulp Fiction.
8 ) The whole movie is an homage to
The Dirty Dozen.
9) The three fingers part is taken from
The Big Red One.
10) Antonio Margheriti (the name the Roth character takes) is the name of a 70's exploitation director
11) Cpt. Wilhelm Wicki (played by German actor Gedeon Burkhard) may refer to German director Bernhard Wicki, who directed the anti-war film “Die Brücke” (1959), which was nominated for an Oscar in the “best foreign language” category.
12) Chapter one is a reference to
Once Upon a Time in the West. The first scene in both are very similar. They both start with the lady at the blowing sheets and contain a massacre that results in the death of a whole family except one girl.
13) The title references the original movie spelled
Inglorious Bastards.
14) Mike Myers’ smallish role as a British general named Ed Fenech, which is a nice little riff on the name of ’70s Italian movie starlet/sex symbol Edwige Fenech, who starred in some of the best giallo thrillers of the era.
15)
Le Corbeau: Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1943 film about gossip, misinformation and paranoia in a small French village that turns friends against each other in a storm of suspicion and persecution. The Nazis, smartly sensing it was about them, banned it in Occupied France, so of course it’s featured on a Paris cinema’s marquee in “Basterds.” Improbable in real life, yes, but not in the QT universe.
16) G.W. Pabst: Famous German Expressionist director, mostly known for “Pandora’s Box,” starring Louise Brooks. Another filmmaker referenced in “Basterds” by its cast of movie-mad characters who talk and talk and talk about films when they’re not plotting each other’s demise, the Nazis weren’t fans of his Weimar era “decadence.”
17)
Dark of the Sun: A 1968 “men on a mission” movie about mercenaries fighting in the Congo. Stars Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux. Taylor plays Winston Churchill in “Basterds.” Meanwhile, a female character has the last name Mimieux.
18) Jean-Luc Godard: As responsible as anyone for Tarantino’s love of running interference between the people doing the viewing and the thing being viewed, pointing out at every turn that this is “CINEMA.” Godard dedicated his French New Wave classic “Breathless” to American genre film studio Monogram Pictures and spent that entire movie framing Jean-Paul Belmondo as Humphrey Bogart. So when Tarantino throws text up onto the screen, like when he identifies “Basterds” characters with big bold blaxploitation-style fonts — anachronisms be damned, he does what he wants — he’s tipping his hat to the master.
19) Brad Pitt has a line of dialogue about fighting in basements a la Fight Club.
20) Fredrick Zoller is at one point referred to as the German Sergeant York, which is a nod to both real life character and the Howard Hawks film.
21) Sgt. Donny Donowitz is supposed to be the father of Lee Donowitz from True Romance. Lee dies in a Mexican Standoff which is frequently used by QT and at least talked about in IB as well.
22) The pipe Landa smokes is a reference to the Sherlock Holmes films.
23) Big face may be referencing 1984 (see image). It could aslo be a Metropolis reference (One of Hitler and Goebbels favorite films).
24) There's a shot in Nation's Pride taken directly from Battleship Potemkin where a guy is shot and covers his bloody eye.
25) The lobby is exactly like the one in Action in Arabia (directed by Leonide Moguy in 1944 with George Sanders). Specifically the two stairs, the ceiling fans, and the timing of Colonel Landa’s and Sanders’ Action in Arabia character’s descent on the stairs.
26) Private Affairs of Bel Ami (directed by Albert Lewin in 1947, and also starring George Sanders) served as the inspiration for the big circle window in Shosanna’s living quarters, overlooking the cinema.
27) The David Bowie 'Cat People' music cue played while Shosanna Dreyfus puts on her 'war paint' is a double reference to Paul Shrader's Cat People and Jacques Tourneur's original, which co-opted German Expressionism for the film's style.
28) Maybe its just because its a popular German dish, but both IG and The Judgment at Nuremberg involve Stroodle. In Nuremberg the American judge's German servants at the house he is staying at (a former high ranking Nazi), continue to push Stroodle on him.
29) The part in chapter one where the daughter shuts the window may be an homage to citizen kane, when kane is young, still living with his parents and outside sledding.
30) King Kong is mentioned in the bar game.
31) The shoe sequence is taken from Cinderella.
32) The final setting is reminiscent of Miller's Crossing.
33) The Basterds shooting from the balcony is similar to Scarface.
I am sure there are many others. I will add them to the first post.
