The Holocaust, Tarantino-style: Jews Scalping Nazis

I was born in 1953, five years after my parents and brother arrived in Canada from the hell of Europe in WW2. I grew up with my family's stories of deprivation, pain, anti-semitism, and the murders of their families in Europe. As a child, I always had the belief that Jews were incapable of fighting and were victims in this life. The fantasy of a 'superman' type hero to protect us were the most I could think.

Move forward to the creation of the state of Israel, the war of independence, the six-day war and we now had a vision of Jews not only capable of fighting, but winning. Not the victim anymore. In reality.

The Tarantino vision of Jews getting even with (as if that would ever have been possible) the Nazis by inflicting on them the pain they inflicted on us, is a fiction but in ways, oh so satisfying.

We have the story of the Golem in our past. Was that real? Why not this too? It is emotional. It is visceral. It is lower than we as a society should ever wish to be. But sometimes revenge, even fictional revenge, feels good.

Tarantino will definitely show the Nazis to be the brutal, vicious scum-bags they were. He won't portray Nazis as sympathetic at all. When I watch movies like "The Pianist", I always want to reach through the screen and skin those Nazi pigs. They were bullies who hurt and murdered so many innocent people! I hope this is the most gruesome Tarantino film ever when he shows the Nazis being killed. Tarantino won't show Jews taking revenge on their "neighbors". Tarantino will show Jews taking revenge on some Nazi trash.

Back in the 50s and 60s people cheered when (I can not recall the actors name) they made movies with people who would not take it any more and when family members died went after the bad guys and killed them himself.

The people cheering knew that if this occured they would never do something as illegal as that. Cheeered anyway. Nobody felt sorry or the bad guys.

Anyone seeing this film will feel the same way. Relax-next subject!
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Laura

I personally think all of Mr. Tarantino's work is absolute trash, but
Hollywood is a place where people like him can flourish. It is ob-
vious to me that their interpretation of 'art' is very different from
mainstream America. From what I see in advertisements for movies
these days, any kind of crazy idea just might get to the screen and
influence young people, as well as others, in very negative ways.
Sometimes I think that our right to free expression does not always
serve us well.

I don't know of any Jews in the American Army who did such things, but I did read an account of a Jew with the British Army who wrote of breaking orders and popping over the Italian border to torment Nazis. He wrote that he didn't do it for long, because he found the experience profoundly unsatisfying.

Nevertheless, I don't doubt that this account will be wildly popular among Arabs, Muslims, and anti-Semites worldwide. So much of Israel seeks peace, so many Jews perform so many good deeds in support of Arabs everywhere, there is a deep and pressing need to keep the image of the "evil Jew" alive and in the forefront of anti-Jewish minds, lest their self-identity be threatened. Hollywood is betting that it can profit greatly by appealing to the psychological needs of this market.

It is a return to the days of Birth of a Nation, the 1915 film glorifying the creation of the Ku Klux Klan, thus assuaging the Southern feelings of defeat and encouraging violent, prejudicial racism as an expression of southern manliness and lasting rebellion. BON was wildly popular and is taught to all movie students as a landmark technical masterpiece of the period, which is why I doubt that Tarentino isn't aware that he's appealing to traditional anti-semitism, even if we don't see the results - remember that different cuts of the movie may be made available for different markets, just like that Jesus movie from a few years back: the lines blaming the Jews were deleted for the American market, but retained for everyone else.