INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Written by Quentin Tarantino 1. EXT - DAIRY FARM- DAY The modest dairy farm in the countryside of Nancy, France (what the French call cow country). We Read a SUBTITLE in the sky above the farm house; CHAPTER ONE "ONCE UPON A TIME IN... NAZI OCCUPIED FRANCE" This SUBTITLE disappears, and is replaced by another one; "1941 One year into the German occupation of France". The farm consists of a house, small barn, and twelve cows spread about. The owner of the property, a bull of a man FRENCH FARMER, brings a axe up and down on A tree stump blemishing his property. However simply by sight, you'd never know if he's been beating at this stump for the last year, or just started today. JULIE One of his three pretty teenage daughters, is hanging up laundry on the clothes line. As she hangs up a white bed sheet, she hears a noise, moving the sheet aside she see's; JULIE'S POV: A Nazi town car convertible, with two little nazi flags attached to the hood, a NAZI SOLDIER behind the wheel, a NAZI OFFICER alone in the back seat, following TWO OTHER NAZI SOLDIERS on motorcycles, coming up over the hill on the country road leading to their farm. JULIE Pappa. The French Farmer sinks his axe in the stump, looks over his shoulder, and see's the Germans approaching. The FARMERS WIFE, CHARLOTTE comes to the doorway of their home, followed by her TWO OTHER TEENAGE DAUGHTERS, and see the Germans approaching. The Farmer yells to his family in FRENCH, SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH; FARMER Go back inside and shut the door. IL FARMER (to Julie) Julie, get me some water from the pump to wash up with, then get inside with your mother. The young lady runs to the water pump by the house. She picks up a basin, and begins pumping, after a few pumps, water comes out splashing into the basin. The French Farmer sits down on the stump he was previously chopping away at, pulls a handkerchief from his pocket, wipes sweat from off his face, and waits for the Nazi convoy to arrive. After living for a year with the sword of Damocles suspended over his head, this may very well be the end. Julie finishes filling the water basin, and places it on the window sill. JULIE Ready Pappa. FARMER Thank you darling, now go inside and take care of your mother. Don't run. Julie walks inside the farm house and closes the door behind her. As her father stands up from his stump, and moves over to the window sill with the water basin... .The SOUND of the ENGINES of the two motorcycles and car get LOUDER. The Farmer SPLASHES water from the basin on his face and down his front. He takes a towel off a nail, and wipes the excess water from his face and chest, as he watches the two motorcycles, the one automobile, and the four representatives of the National Socialist Party come to a halt on his property. We don't move into them, but keep observing them from a distance, like the Farmer. The TWO NAZI MOTORCYCLIST are off their bikes, and standing at attention next to them. The NAZI DRIVER has walked around the automobile, and opened the door for his superior. The NAZI OFFICER says to The Driver in UNSUBTITLED GERMAN; NAZI OFFICER This is the property of Perrier LaPadite? 3 NAZI DRIVER Yes heer Colonel. The Nazi officer climbs out of the back the vehicle, carrying in his left hand n d OFFICER Herman, until I summon you, I am to be left alone. NAZI DRIVER As you wish Heer Col. The S.S. COLONEL yells to The Farmer in FRENCH, SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH; NAZI OFFICER Is this the property of Perrier LaPadite? FARMER I am Perrier LaPadite. The S.S. Colonel crosses the distance between them with long strides, and says in French with a smile on his face; NAZI OFFICER It is a pleasure to meet you Monsieur LaPadite, I am Colonel Hans Landa of the S.S. COLONEL.HANS LANDA offers the French Farmer PERRIER LAPADITE his hand. The Frenchman takes the German hand in his and shakes it. PERRIER How may I help you? COL LANDA I was hoping you could invite me inside your home and we may have a discussion. INT - LAPADITE FARM HOUSE - DAY The door to the farm house swings open, andtheaFarmer gesturestfor the S.S. COL to enter. Removing his grey S.S. cap, inside the Frenchman's home. Col Landa is immediately greeted with the sight of the Farmers wife, and three pretty daughters standing together in the kitchen, smiling in his direction. The Farmer enters behind him, closing the door. VA PERRIER Colonel Landa, this is my family. The S.S. COL clicks his heels together, and takes the hand of the French Farmers Wife... COL LANDA Col Hans Landa of the S.S. madame, at your service. He kisses her hand, then continues without letting go of his hostess hand... COL LANDA please excuse my rude intrusion on your routine. FARMERS WIFE Don't be ridiculous, heer Col. While still holding the French Woman's hand, and looking into her eyes, The S.S. Colonel says; COL LANDA Monsieur LaPadite, the rumors I have heard in the village about your family are all true. Your wife is a beautiful woman. His eyes leave the mother, and move to the three daughters. COL.LANDA (CON' T ) And each of your daughters is more lovely then the last. PERRIER Merci. Please have a seat. The Farmer offers The S.S. Colonel a seat at the families wooden dinner table. The Nazi officer excepts the French Farmers offer, and lowers himself into the chair. Placing his grey S.S. cap on the table, and keeping his black attache case on the floor by his feet. The Farmer (perfect host) turns to his Wife and says; PERRIER Charlotte, would you be so good as to get The Colonel some wine? COL LANDA Merci be coupe Monsieur LaPadite, but no wine. This being a dairy farm one would be safe in assuming you have milk? CHARLOTTE Oui. COL LANDA Then milk is what I prefer. CHARLOTTE Very Well. The mother of three, takes a craft of milk out of the ice box, and pours a tall glass of the fresh white liquid for The Colonel. The S.S. Colonel takes a long drink from the glass, then puts it down LOUDLY on the wooden table. COL LANDA Monsieur, to both your family, and your cows, I say; Bravo. PERRIER Merci. COL LANDA Please, join me at your table. PERRIER Very well. The French Farmer sit's at his wooden dinner table across from The Nazi. The Women remain standing. Col Landa leans forward, and says to the Farmer in a low tone of CONFIDENTIALLY; COL LANDA Monsieur LaPadite, what we have to discuss,' would be better discussed in private. You'll notice, I left my men outdoors- if it wouldn't offend them, could you ask your lovely ladies to step outside. PERRIER You are right. G. PERRIER (to his women) Charlotte, would you take the girls outside. The Colonel and I need to have a few words. The Farmers wife follows her husbands orders, and gathers her daughter's taking them outside, closing the door behind them. The Two Men are alone, at the farmers dinner table, in the Farmers humble home. COL LANDA Monsieur LaPadite, I regret to inform you I've exhausted the extent of my French. To continue to speak it so inadequately, would only serve to embarrass me. However, I've been lead to believe you speak English quite well? PERRIER Oui. COL LANDA Well, it just so happens, I do as well. This being your house, I ask your permission to switch to English, for the remainder of the conversation? PERRIER By all means. They now speak ENGLISH; COL LANDA Monsieur LaPadite, while I'm very familiar with you, and your family. I have no way of knowing if you are familiar with who I am. Are you aware of my existence? The Farmer answers; PERRIER Yes. COL LANDA This is good. Are you aware of the job I've been ordered to carry out in France? I PERRIER Yes. The Colonel drinks more milk. COL LANDA Please tell me what you've heard? PERRIER I've heard, the fuhrer has put you in charge of rounding up the Jews left in France who are ether hiding, or passing for Gentile. The S.S.Colonel smiles. COL LANDA The Fuhrer couldn't of said it better himself. PERRIER But the meaning of your visit, pleasant though it is, is mysterious to me. The Germans looked through my house nine months ago for hiding Jews, and found nothing. COL LANDA I'm aware of that, I read the report on this area. But like any enterprise, when under new management, there's always a slight duplication of efforts. Most of it being a complete waste of time, but needs to be done nevertheless. I just have A few questions Monsieur LaPadite, if you can assist me with answers, my department can close the file on your family. Taking his black leather attache case, and placing it on the table, he takes out a folder from inside. He also extracts a expensive black fountain pen from his uniform front pocket. Opening the folder, and referring to it; COL LANDA Now before the occupation there were four Jewish families in this area, all dairy farmers like yourself. The Loveitts, The Doleracs, The Rollins, and The Dreyfus's, is that correct? 8, PERRIER To my knowledge those were the Jewish families among the dairy farmers. - Heer Colonel, would it disturb you if I smoked my pipe? Looking up from his papers. COL LANDA Please, Monsieur LaPadite, it is your house, make yourself comfortable. The Farmer gets up from the table, goes to his shelf over the fireplace, and removes from it a WOODEN BOX that contains all the fixins to his pipe. He sits back down at the table with his Nazi guest. As The Farmer loads the bowel of his pipe with tobacco, sets a match to it, and begins slowly puffing, making it red hot, the S.S. Colonel studies the papers in front of him. COL LANDA Now according to these papers, all the Jewish families in this area have been accounted for - except, The Dreyfusis. Somewhere in the last year it would appear they have vanished. Which leads me to the conclusion that they've ether made good their escape, or someone is very successfully hiding them. (looking up from his papers, across the table at The FARMER) What have you heard about The Dreyfusis Monsieur LaPadite? PERRIER Only rumors - COL LANDA - I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false are often reveling. So Monsieur LaPadite, what rumors have you heard regarding The Dreyfusis? The Farmerlooks at Landa. I. COL LANDA Speak freely Monsieur LaPadite, I want to hear what the rumors are, not who told them to you. The Farmer puffs thoughtfully on his pipe. PERRIER Again, this is just a rumor - but we heard the Dreyfusis had made there way into Spain. COL LANDA So the rumors you've heard have been of escape? PERRIER Yes. COL LANDA Were the LaPadites and the Dreyfusis friendly? As the Farmer answers this question, the CAMERA LOWERS behind his chair, to the floor, past the floor, to a small area underneath the floorboards revealing; FIVE HUMAN BEINGS lying vertically underneath the farmers floorboards. These human beings are The DREYFUSIS, who have lived lying down underneath the dairy farmers house for the past year. But one couldn't call what The Dreyfusis have done for the last year living. This family has done the only thing they could, hidden from a occupying army that wishes to exterminate them. PERRIER We were families in the same community, in the same bussiness. I wouldn't say we were friends, but members of the same community, we had common interest. The S.S. Colonel takes in this answer, seems to except it, then moves to the next question. COL LANDA Having never met the Dreyfusis, would you confirm for me the exact members of the household and their names? 10. PERRIER There were five of them. The father, Jacob... .wife, Miram... her brother, Bob ... COL LANDA - How old is Bob? PERRIER Thirty - thirty one? COL LANDA Continue. PERRIER And the children... Amos... and Shoshanna. COL LANDA Ages of the children? PERRIER Amos - six - I believe. And Shosanna, was fifteen or sixteen, I'm not really sure. CUT TO UXT - DAIRY FARM - DAY The Mother and her three Daughters finish taking the laundry off the clothes line. They can't hear anything going on inside. e three Nazi Soldiers watch the three Daughters. SACK TO LANDA AND PERRIER COL LANDA Well I guess that should do it. Be begins gathering up his papers, and putting them back into his ttache case. the Farmer, cool as a cucumber, puffs on his pipe. COL LANDA However, before I go, could I have another glass of your delicious milk? it. PERRIER But of course. Farmer stands up, goes over to the ice box, and takes out the aft of milk. As he walks over and fills the Nazi Colonel's glass, German Officer talks. COL LANDA Monsieur LaPadite, are you aware of the nickname the people of France have given me? PERRIER I have no interest in such things. COL LANDA But you are aware of what they call me? PERRIER I'm aware. COL LANDA What are you aware of? PERRIER That they call you, "The Jew Hunter". COL LANDA Precisely! Now I understand your trepidation in repeating it. Before he was assassinated, Heydrich apparently hated the moniker the good people of Prague bestowed on him. Actually why he would hate the name, "The Hangman", is baffling to me It would appear he did everything in his power to earn it. But I, on the other hand, love my unofficial title, precisely because I've earned it. As "The Jew Hunter" enjoys his fresh milk, he continues to theorize with the french farmer. COL LANDA The feature that makes me such a effective hunter of the Jews, is, as opposed to most German soldiers, I can think like a jew. where they can only think like a German, or more precisely, a German soldier. Now if one were to determine what attribute the German people share with a beast, it would be the cunning and predatory instinct of a hawk. COL LANDA (CON'T) Negro's - gorilla's - brain - lips - smell - physical strength - penis size. But, if one were to determine what attributes the jews share with a beast, it would be that of the rat. Now the Fuhrer and Gobbles propaganda have said pretty much the same thing. Where our conclusions differ, is I don't consider the comparison a insult. Consider for a moment, the world a rat lives in. It's a hostile world indeed. If a rat were to scamper through your front door right now, would you greet it with hostility? PERRIER I suppose I would. COL LANDA Has a rat ever done anything to you to create this animosity you feel toward them? PERRIER Rat's spread disease, they bite people - COL LANDA - Unless some fool is stupid enough to try and handle a live one, rats don't make it a practise of biting human beings. Rats were the cause of the bubonic plague, but that was some time ago. In all your born days, has a rat ever caused you to be sick a day in your life? I purpose to you, any disease a rat could spread, a squirrel could equally carry. Yet I assume you don't share the same animosity with squirrels that you do with rats, do you? PERRIER No. COL LANDA Yet, they are both rodent's, are they not? And except for the fact that one has a big bushy tail, while the other has a long repugnt tail of rodent skin, they even rather look alike, don't they? 13.6 PERRIER It is a interesting thought, beer Colonel. COL LANDA However, interesting as the thought may be, it makes not one bit of difference to how you feel. If a rat were to scamper through your door, this very minute, would you offer it a saucer of your delicious milk? PERRIER Probably not. COL LANDA I didn't think so. You don't like them. You don't really know why you don't like them. All you know is, you find them repulsive. (let's the METAPHOR sink in) What a tremendously hostile world a rat must endure. Yet, not only does he survive, he thrives. And the reason for this, is because our little foe has a instinct for survival and presavation second to none. And that Monsieur, is what a jew shares with a rat. Consequently, a German soldier, conducts a search of a house suspected of hiding jews. Where does the hawk look? He looks in the barn, he looks in the attic, he looks in the cellar - he looks everywhere, he would hide. But there are many places it would never occur to a hawk to hide. However the reason the Fuhrer brought me off my Alps in Austria, and placed me in French cow country today, is because it does occur to me. Because I'm aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of once they abandon dignity. (Changing tone) May I smoke my pipe as well? Th e Farmer's cool facade is little by little eroding. PERRIER Please, Cononel, make yourself at home. 13. The Jew Hunter, removes both a pipe and a bag of tobacco fixings. The pipe, strangely enough, is a Calabash, made from a "S" shaped goard kith a yellow skin, made famous by Sherlock Holmes. A the Nazi Colonel, busies himself with his smoking life, he ontinues to hold court at the Frenchmans table. COL LANDA The other mistake the German soldier make is their severe handling of the citizens who give shelter and aid to the Jews. These citizens are not enemies of the state. They are simply confused people, trying to make some sense out of the madness war creates. These citizens do not need punishing. They simply need to be reminded of their duty in war time. Let's use you as a example Monsieur LaPadite. In this war, you have found yourself in the middle of a conflict that has nothing to do with yourself, your lovely ladies, or your cows - yet, here you are. So Monsieur LaPadite, let me purpose a question. In this time of war, what is your number one duty? Is it to fight the Germans in the name of France to your last breath? Or, is it to harass the occupying army to the best of your ability? Or, is it to protect the poor unfortunate victims of warfare who can not protect themselfs? Or, is your number one duty in this time of bloodshed, to protect those very beautiful women who constitute your family? The Colonel lets the last statement stand. COL LANDA That was a question Monsieur LaPadite. In this time of war, What do you consider your number one duty? PERRIER To protect my family. COL LANDA Now, my job dictates, that I must have my men enter your home, and conduct a thorough search, before I can officially cross your families name off my list. COL LANDA (CON'T) And if there are any irregularities to be found, rest assured, they will be. That is unless, you have something to tell me that will make the conducting of a search unnecessary. (PAUSE) I might add also, that any information that makes the preforming of My duty easier, will not be met with punishment. Actually quite the contrary, it will be met with reward. And that reward will be, your family will cease to be harassed in anyway, by the German military during the rest of our occupation of your country. The Farmer, pipe in mouth, stares across the table at his German opponent. COL LANDA You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not? PERRIER Yes. COL LANDA Your sheltering them underneath your floorboards aren't you? PERRIER Yes. COL LANDA Point out to me the area's where their hiding. The Farmer points out the area's on the floor with the Dreyfusis are underneath. COL LANDA Since I haven't heard any disturbance, I assume that while their listening, they don't speak english? PERRIER Yes . COL LANDA I'm going to switch back to french now, and I want you to follow my masquerade - is that clear? PERRIER Yes. Colonel Landa stands up from the table, and switching to FRENCH says SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH; COL LANDA Monsieur LaPadite, I thank you for milk, and your hospitably. I do believe our business here is done. The Nazi Officer opens the front door, and silently motions for his son to approach the house. COL LANDA Mademoiselle LaPadite, I thank you for your time, we shant be bothering your family any longer. Yet the LaPadite women watch the Nazi soldiers, machine guns at ready, approach the house. The Soldiers enter the doorway, Col Landa, silently points out area of the floor the Jews are hiding under. COL LANDA So, Monsieur and Madame LaPadite I bid you adieu. otions to the Soldiers with his index finger. wy TEAR UP the wood floor with MACHINE GUN FIRE. The little farm house is filled with SMOKE, DUST, SPLINTERS, SCREAMS, 0ULLET CASINGS, and even alittle BLOOD. With a hand motion from the Colonel, the Soldiers cut off their gunfire. The Colonel keeps his finger in the air to indicate silence. UNDERNEATH THE FLOORBOARDS The entire Dreyfus family lay dead. Except for sixteen year old $HOSANNA, who miraculously escaped being struck by the nazi's bullets. With her dead family surrounding her, the young girl goes for freedom (represented by wire mesh vent). L LANDA ears movement underneath the floor, looks down and see's a SHAPE Wing forward between the planks in the floor. COL LANDA It's the girl. Nobody moves I'. T KICKED open, the girl SPRINGS out. COL LANDA ae he crosses the floor, he see's the young girl RUNNING towards the cover of the woods. He unlatches the window, and opens it. Shosanna to perfectly FRAMED in the window sill. 1SANNA RUNNING towards woods. Farm house and Col in the window in B.G. LTHY BAREFEET LAPPING against wet grass. Qt! SHOSANNMA' S FACE same as a animal being chased by a predator FLIGHT - PANIC - FEAR SNOSANNA'S POV the safety of tree's, getting closer. COL LANDA Pramed by the window, takes his LUGAR, and straight arm aims at the fleeing Jew, cocking back the hammer with his thumb. CU COL LANDA SLOW ZOOM into his eyes as he aims. PROFILE CU SHOSANNA Sod dash for life. L LANDA changes his mind. He yells to the rat fleeing the trap, heading for the safety of the wood pile, in FRENCH SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH; COL LANDA Au revoir, Shosanna! Till we meet again! HOSANNA Maces it to the woods, and is gone. T h e S.S. Colonel closes the window. 17. EXT - NAZI TOWN CAR (MOVING)- DAY diihe ac seat of the convertible, that'sa stsn tColonel Hans Lan speeding away from the French farm house. Landa speaks to his Driver in GERMAN, SUBTITLED into ENGLISH; COL LANDA Herman, I sense` a question on your lips? Out with it? DRIVER Why did yoy allow a enemy of the state to escape? COL LANDA Oh, I don't think the state is in too much danger, do you? DRIVER I suppose not. COL LANDA I'm glad you see it my way. Besides, not putting a bullet in the back of a fifteen year old girl, and allowing her to escape, our not nessessarlly the same thing. She's a young girl, no food, no shelter, no shoes, who's just witnessed the massacre of her entire family. She may not survive the night. And after word spreads about what happened today, it's highly unlikely she will find any willing farmers to extend her aid. If I had to guess her fate, I'd say she'll probably be turned in by some neighbour. Or, she'll be spotted by some German soldier. Or, we'll find her body in the woods, dead from starvation or exposure. Or, perhaps-she'll survive. She will elude capture. She will escape to America. She will move to New York city. Where she will be elected, President of the United States. The S.S. Colonel chuckles at his little funny. TITTLE CARD:"INGLORIOUS BASTERDS" 1$, FADE UP CHAPTER TITLE APPEARS: F CHAPTER TWO "INGLORIOUS BASTERDS" FADE UP EXT - SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND - DAY A bunch of SOLDIERS are lined up at attention. LIEUTENANT ALDO.RAINE, a hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee, walks down the line. He recruits the men, the Germans will later call; "The Basterds". Lt.Aldo has one defining physical characteristic, a ROPE BURN around his neck. As if once upon a time,. he survived a LYNCHING. The scar will never once be mentioned. LT.ALDO My name is Lt.Aldo Raine, and I'm puttin together a special team. And I need me eight soldiers. Eight - Jewish - American - soldiers. Now y'all might of heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leavin a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwackin, guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin one thing, and thing only, Killin Nazi's. The Members of the National Socialist Party, have conquered Europe through murder, torture, intimidation, and terror. And that's exactly what we're gonna do to them. Now I don't know bout y'all? But I sure as hell, didnt come down from the goddamn Smoky mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half Sicily, and then jump out of a fuckin air-o-plane, to teach the Nazi's lessons in humanity. Nazi ain't got no humanity. There the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin manic, and they need to be destroyed. That's why any and every son-of-a--bitch we find wearin a Nazi uniform, there gonna die. if. LT.ALDO (CON'T) We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty, they will know who we are. They will find the evidence of our cruelty, in the disembowed, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans, will be sickened by us. And the Germans, will talk about us. And the Germans, will fear us. And when the Germans close their eyes at night, and their sub conscious tortures them for the evil they've done, it will be with thoughts of us, that it tortures them with. He stops pacing, and looks at everybody. LT. ALDO Sound good? They all say; ALL Yes, sir! LT.ALDO That's what I like to hear. But I got a word of warning to all would-be warriors. When you join my command, you take on debit. A debit you owe me, personally. Every man under my command, owes me, one hundred nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y'all will git me, one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazi's... .or you will die trying. CUT TO EXT - MOUNTAIN TOP CHALET- DAY A huge Chalet on a misty mountain top in Barvia. ZO A SUBTITLE APPEARS: "BARVIA BURSTICH GARDEN (HITLERS PRIVATE LAIR)" INT - BURSTICH GARDEN - DAY In a huge room, ADOLPH HITLER, pounds on a big table with his fist, as he rants at TWO GERMAN GENERALS. They speak GERMAN SUBTITLED into ENGLISH; HITLER How much more of these jew swine must I endure? They butcher my men like they were fish bait! This pack of filthy degenerates, are doing what the Russian army didn't, and Patton's army couldn't. Turning soldiers of The Third Reich, into superstitious old women! GERMAN GENERAL Just the cowards among them mine Fuhrer. Hitler pounds furiously on the desk with his fist. HITLER No, no, no, no, no, no! I have heard the rumors myself! Solders of The Third Reich, who have brought the world to there knee`s, now pecking and clucking like chickens. Do you know the latest rumor they've conjured up, in their fear induced delirium? The one that beats my boys with a bat. The one they call "The Bear Jew"...is a Golem. A avenging jew angel, conjured up by a vengeful rabbi, to smite the Aryans! GENERAL Mine Fuhrer, this is just soldiers gossip, no one really believes The Bear Jew is a golem. HITLER Why not? They seem to be able to elude capture like a aberration. They seem to be able to appear and disappear at will. Z}. HITLER (CON'T) You want to prove their flesh and blood? Then BRING THEM TO ME! I will hang them naked, by their heels, from the eiffel tower! And then throw their bodies in the sewers, for the rats of Paris to feast! The Fuhrer sits down at the table to compose himself, and wipe his greasy black hair out of his face. HITLER (DISGUSTED) The Bear Jew. He hits the button on the intercom on his desk. HITLER KLIEST1 KLIEST VOICE comes out of the intercom; KLIEST'S VOICE(OS) Year mine Fuhrer. HITLER I have a order I want relayed to all German soldiers stationed in France. The Jew degenerate known as The Bear Jew, hence forth, is never to be referred to as The Bear Jew again. We will cease to aid the Americans any longer in there attempt to undermine the German soldier psyche. Did you get that Kliest? KLIEST'S VOICE(OS) Yes mine Fubrer. Do you still wish to see Private Butz? HITLER Who and what is a private Butz? KELIST'S VOICE(OS) He's the soldier you wanted to see personally. His squad was ambushed by Lt.Raines Jews. He was it's only survivor. HITLER Indeed I do want to see him, thank you for reminding me. Send him in. CUT TO 0 EXT - FRENCH WOODS -- DAY CU FACE OF DEAD GERMAN SOLDIER His head lies on the ground horizontal. A HAND reaches into FRAME, KNOCKS aside the dead German patriots helmet, and grabs a handful of the cadavers blonde hair. A LARGE KNIFE ENTERS FRAME, and begins SLICING ALONG THE HAIRLINE. This process is called SCALPING. After SLICING is complete, the SCALP easily peels off like a banana. GERMAN PRISONERS PVT.BUTZ AND SGT.RACHTMAN on their knees, hands behind there heads. Private Butz NARRATES the scene in GERMAN SUBTITLED into ENGLISH; PVT.BUTZ(VO) Werner and I were the only ones left alive after the ambush. While one man guarded us, the rest removed the hair. All The Basterds wore German scalps tied to their belts. CU SCALPS hanging from belts. PVT.BUTZ(VO) They not only took valuables... WE SEE QUICK CUTS OF Rings, Weapons, Iron Cross, and somebody digging out a Gold Tooth with a knife, being removed from Dead Germans. PVT.BUTZ(VO) ..They also took their identification papers. CU IDENTIFICATION PAPERS taken from the inside pocket of a dead German uniform. BASTERD PFC.UTIVICH flips through the I.D. papers till he gets to the page that contains the German soldiers, name, statistics, and photo. PFC.UTIVICH Sigfried Muller. t3. PVT.BUTZ(VO) .and tore out the identification page. Utivich RIPS the page out, and sticks it in his pocket. Tossing the torn book on the dead, scalpless body. PVT.BUTZ(VO) ...They then removed their boots... CU GERMAN COMBAT BOOTS laces untied.. .boot pulled off... SOCKS removed, reveling dead bare feet... BASTERDS tossing the boots off a hill. PVT.BUTZ(VO) Throwing them away from the bodies... DEAD GERMANS scalps removed from their heads, pink bare feet... PVT.BUTZ(VO) The Basterds, took their lives, their hair, their valuables, their identity, and finally their dignity in death. True that. The sight of the dead soldiers with bare feet does rob the tableaux of a certain dignity, that is normally felt in battlefield shots. BACK TO HITLER HITLER The dogsl He fights his frustration, then... HITLER Continue. BACK TO THE BASTERDS Aldo screams to The Basterd who's guarding the two German prisoners. LT.ALDO Hey Hirschberg, send that kraut sarge over. BASTERD PFC.HIRSCHBERG KICKS Sgt.Rachtman in the back. zw. PFC.HIRSCHBERG You! Go! Sgt.Rachtman is a little slow to respond. So Hirschberg grabs him by the hair, YANKS him to his feet, and KICKS him in the ass, sending him on his way. Most of The Bastreds sit in a circle, Indian style, with Aldo in the middle. As Sgt.Rachtman walks towards this circle of Basterds, A OFF SCREEN LITERARY NARRATOR (not Pvt.Butz) speaks over the SOUNDTRACK in ENGLISH; NARRATOR(VO) Sgt.Werner Rachtman has seen many interrogations since Germany decided it should rule Europe. But this is the first time he's ever been on the wrong end of the exchange. It's always been his belief, only a weakling, in mind, body, and spirt complies with the enemy under threat of consequence. As Werner watched men cry like women, pleadingly offer their knowledge, in exchange for their worthless lives, he made a vow to himself. If his role is to die in this conflict. When they put him under the earth, his dignity would be buried with him. For in the other world, the gods only respect the ones they test first. Well Sgt, this is your test. And the gods are watching. The captured German Sgt, enters the circle of Basterds, stands straight before the sitting southern Lieutenant, and salutes his captor. SGT.RACHTMAN (ENGLISH) Sgt.Werner Rachtman. Aldo returns the salute, looking up at him. LT.ALDO Lt.Aldo Raine, pleased to meet cha. You know what sit down means Werner? SGT.RACHTMAN Yes. LT.ALDO Then sit down. 2.5. The German Sgt does. LT.ALDO Hows your English Werner? Cause if need be, we gotta a couple fellas can translate. Aldo points at one of The Basterds in the circle, CPL.WILHELM WICKI. LT.ALDO Wicki there, a Austrian Jew, got the fuck outta Saltzberg, while the gettin was good. Became American, got drafted, and came back to give y'all what for. Then Aldo points to another Basterd. A big scary looking Basterd, in a German Sgt's uniform, named, SGT.HUGO STIGLITZ LT.ALDO And another one over there, you might be familiar with, Sgt.Hugo Stiglitz. Heard of 'em. The two German Sgt's look at each other. SGT.RACHTMAN Everybody in the German army's heard of Hugo Stiglitz. The Basterds laugh, a couple pat Hugo on the back. The NARRATOR comes back on the SOUNDTRACK. NARRATOR(VO) The reason for Hugo Stiglitz's celebrity among German soldiers is simple. WE SEE A PHOTO OF HUGO on the front page of the Nazi version of Stars and Stripes (the military newspaper). NARRATOR(VO) As a German enlisted man, he killed thirteen Gestapo officers, mostly Majors. WE SEE THE MILITARY PHOTOS OF ALL THIRTEEN GESTAPO OFFICERS. ZC. NARRATOR(VO) Instead of putting him up against a wall, the High Command decided to send him back to Berlin, to be made a example of. Hugo in chains, being put in a lone troop truck, part of a prison convoy, enroute to Berlin. NARRATOR(VO) Needless to say, once The Basterds heard about him, he never got there. EXT- FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE - DAY The Basterds AMBUSH the prison convoy, killing everybody. They walk to the back of the troop truck, inside Hugo in chains, stares back at them. LT.ALDO Sgt.Hugo Stiglitz? Hugo nods. LT. ALDO I'm Lt.Aldo Raine, and these are The Basterds. Ever heard of us? Hugo nods his head, yes. LT.ALDO We just wanna say, we're a big fan of your work. When it comes to killin Nazi's, I think you show great talent, and I pride myself on havin a eye for that kind of talent. But your status as a Nazi killer, is still amateur. We all came here to see, if you wanna go pro? BACK TO THEBASTERD CIRCLE. LT.ALDO Now Werner, I'm gonna assume you know who we are? SGT.RACHTMAN Aldo the Apache. The circle of Basterds giggle. Z7. LT.ALDO Well Werner, if you heard of us, you probably heard, we ain't in the prisoner takin business. We in the killin Nazi business. And cousin, business is boomin. The Basterds laugh. LT. ALDO Now that leaves two ways we can play this out. Either kill ya, or let ya go. Now weather or not you gonna leave this circle alive, depends entirely on you. Aldo takes out a map of the area, and lays it out in front of his prisoner. LT.ALDO Up the road a piece, there's a orchard. 'sides you, we know there's another kraut patrol fuckin around here somewhere. Now if that patrol were to have any crackshots, that orchard, would be a goddamn snipers delight. Now if you ever wanna eat a sauerkraut sandwich again, you gotta show me on this map, where they are, you gotta tell me how many they are, and you gotta tell me, what kinda artillery they carrying with 'em? SGT.RACHTMAN You can't expect me to divulge information that would put German lives in danger? LT.ALDO well, Werner that's where your wrong. Because that's exactly what I expect. I need to know about Germans hidin in trees? And you need to tell me? And you need to tell me, right now? Now take your finger, and point out on this map, where this partys bein held, how manys comin, and what they brought to play with? Werner site, head held high, back straight, chin up, every inch the German hero facing death. 2S. SGT.WERNER F I respectfully refuse, sir. Aldo jerks his thumb behind him. LT.ALDO You see that ole boy battin rocks? WE RACK FOCUS to a one of The Basterds not in the circle. He's wearing a wife beater, and power hitting stones with a baseball bat. Werners eyes go to the ballplayer. LT.ALDO That's Sgt.Donny Donowitz. But you might know him better by his nickname, The Bear Jew. Now if you heard of Aldo the Apache, you gotta heard about The Bear Jew? SGT.RACHTMAN I heard. LT.ALDO What did you hear? SGT.RACHTMAN He beats German soldiers with a club. LT.ALDO He bashes their brains in with a baseball bat, what he does. SGT.DONOWITZ back to us, still haven't seen his face. He Babe Ruths a rock soaring into the atmosphere. LT. ALDO Now Werner, I'm gonna ask you one last-goddamn-time, and if you still, "respectfully refuse", I'm callin The Bear Jew over here, and he's gonna take that big bat of his, and he's gonna beat your ass to death with it. Now take your wennersitnitzel lickin finger, and point out on this map what I want to know. SGT.RACHTMAN Fuck you and your jew dogs. t v. Instead of getting mad, The Basterds burst out LAUGHING. I k Aldo says to Werner, with a giggle in his voice; LT.ALDO Actually Werner, we're all tickled ya said that. Frankly, watchin Donny beat Nazi's,to death, is the closest we ever get to goin to the movies. (YELLING) DONNY! SGT.DONOWITZ he turns to CAMERA, and yells; SGT.DONOWITZ Yeah? LT.ALDO Got a German here wants to die for country. Oblige him. SGT.DONNY DONOWITZ Bat over his shoulder, smiles. CUT TO INT - BARBER SHOP(BOSTIN) - DAY Donny, cutting heads, in his pop's barber shop, in Bostin. DONNY .ya got the goddamn fuckin Germans, declaring open season on Jews in Europe, and I'm suppose to fly to the fuckin Philippines, and fight a bunch of fuckin Japs - not me pal. If we just go in this against the Japs, the whole U.S.of fuckin A can go take a running jump at the moon. HEAD You know they got a word for what your sayin Donny, it's called treason. DONNY Hey, stick your treason up your poop hole. If I'm gonna kill my fellow man in the name of liberty, that fellow man, will be German. 3401 INT - SPORTING GOODS STORE- DAY MR.GOOROWITZ'S sporting goods shop in Donny's Jewish Bostin neighbourhood. Donny walks in. MR.GOOROWITZ Hello Donny, how are you? DONNY Ah, just dandy, Mr.Goorowitz. MR.GOOROWITZ Your mother, your father - everything good there? DONNY There just fine. I'm shippin off next week. The store proprietor, extends his hand to the young man. MR.GOOROWITZ Good for you son. Kill one of those Nazi basterds for me, will ya? DONNY That's the idea, Mr.Goorowitz. MR.GOOROWITZ What can I do you for, Donny? DONNY I need a baseball bat. The store owner leads him to a basket with eight bats init. Donny starts going through them without saying anything. MR.GOOROWITZ You gettin your little brother a present before you ship out? Donny, concentrating on the bats, not looking up; DONNY No. Donny's "no", silences the gabby Goorowitz. He seems to settle on one, feeling it's weight in his hands. DONNY Can I try this one on for size, outside? 31. Extending his arm; MR.GOOROWITZ Be my guest. The phone rings. MR.GOOROWITZ I'll get that, you go right ahead. The proprietor answers the phone, and gets into a conversation with his OFF SCREEN Mother. Donny walks outside, WE STAY IN STORE, but can see him clearly through the stores big picture window. However, Mr.Goorowitz instinctively, turns his back to Donny to speak with his mother. Donny starts swinging the bat. It's pretty obvious he's pantomiming beating somebody to death with it. Then the he starts yelling; DONNY Take that ya Nazi basterd! You like fuckin with the Jews? Wanna Fuck with the Jews? The American jews are gonna FUCK with you... ..! Mr.Goorowitz, see's none of this, as he speaks to his mother. He hangs up the phone, just as Donny walks back into the store. Store owner turns to store customer. DONNY Is this the heaviest ya got? CUT TO INT - HALLWAY APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY Donny, dressed nice, in a apartment building in his Jewish Bastin neighbourhood. He knocks on a door. A VERY OLD JEWISH WOMAN opens the door, only a little, peering out at the young man. OLD WOMAN How can I help you? DONNY Mrs.Himmelstein? MRS.HIMMELSTEIN State your business young man. 3Z.. DONNY Mrs.Himmelstein, I'm Donny Donowitz, my father Sy Donowitz, owns the barber shop on Greeny Ave, "Sy's Barber Shop". MRS.HIMMELSTEIN I've seen it. Do you live in the neighbourhood? DONNY All my life. MRS.HIMMELSTEIN Again, state your business? DONNY May I have a word with you? MRS.HIMMELSTEIN What about? DONNY Our people in Europe. She thinks for a beat, then holds the door open for the young man. MRS.HIMMELSTEIN Come in. Would you like some tea? INT - MRS.HIMMELSTEIN'S APARTMENT - DAY Donny sits on a overstuffed sofa, holding a tea cup and saucer in his hand. Mrs.Himmelstein sits on a overstuffed chair, holding her tea, looking across at her visitor. DONNY (Sipping tea) Very good. MRS.HIMMELSTEIN If you like tea. Donny chuckles at her little joke. The old woman remains stone. She wasn't joking. He places his saucer on the coffee table and begins; DONNY Mrs.Himmelstein, do you have any love ones over in Europe who your concerned for? 33. MRS.HIMMELSTEIN What compels you young man, to ask a stranger such a personal question? DONNY Because I'm going to Europe. And I'm gonna make it right. MRS.HIMMELSTEIN And just how do intend to do that, Joshua? DONNY MRS.HIMMELSTEIN And what exactly do you intend to do with that toy? DONNY I'm gonna beat every Nazi I find to death with it. MRS.HIMMELSTEIN I thought we were having tea together? MRS.HIMMELSTEIN And in this pursuit, how is it that I can be of service? DONNY I'm going through the neighbourhood. If you have any love ones in Europe, who's safety you fear for, I'd like you to write their name on my bat. BACK TO BASTERDS Donny takes a long walk to Werner... As WE CUT BACK and FORTH BETWEEN DONNY WALKING and WERNER WAITING, WE ALSO CUT BACK and FORTE BETWEEN DONNY and MRS.HIMMELSTEIN... MRS.HIMMELSTEIN You must be a real BASTERD, Donny? DONNY You bet your sweet ass I am. MRS.HIMMELSTEIN Good. A Basterds work is never done. Specially in Germany. Donny steps up to the plate, looking down at the Nazi; DONNY Gimmie your papers. Werner hands Donny up his papers. Donny RIPS the identity page out, and sticks it in his pocket. MRS.HIMMELSTEIN Hand me your sword Gideon. I do believe I will join you on this journey. INSERT she signs the BAT, "MADELEINE" BACK TO BASTERDS Donny BEATS Werner TO DEATH WITH THE BAT, to the cheers of The Basterds. PVT.BUTZ watches. Hirschberg says to him; PFC.HIRSCHBERG About now, I'd be shittin my pants, if I was you. Aldo points a finger at Butzsr and crooks it toward him. PFC.HIRSCHBERG That means you, cup cake. A crying, visibly shaken, Butz site down in front of Aldo. LT.ALDO You wanna live? PVT.BUTZ Yes, sir. LT.ALDO Point out on this map, the German position. His arm shoots out like a rocket, and points out the positions. 3 s. PVT.BUTZ This area here. LT.ALDO How many? PVT.BUTZ Maybe twelve. LT.ALDO What kinda of artillery? PVT.BUTZ They have a machine gunn dug in here pointing north. HITLER How did you survived this ordel? WE SEE Pvt.Butz in The Fuhrer's room for the first time. He wears a Nazi cap, which is unusual in the presence of The Fuhrer, but he seems okay with it. PRVT.BUTZ They let me go. FROM HERE ON WE GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN ALDO AND HITLER. LT.ALDO Now when you report what happened here, you can't tell 'em, you told us, what you told us. They'll shoot ya. But there gonna wanna know, why you so special, we let you live? So tell 'em, we let ya live, so you could spread the word through the ranks, what's gonna happen to every Nazi we find. HITLER You are not to tell anybody anything! Not one word of detail! Your outfit was ambushed, and you got a away. Not one word more. PVT.BUTZ Yes mine Fuhrer. HITLER Did they mark you like they did the other survivors? 36Ã¢Â¬Â¢ PVT.BUTZ Yes mine Fuhrer. HITLER Remove your hat and show me. LT.ALDO Now say we let ya go, and say you survive the'war? When you get back home, what'eha gonna do? PVT.BUTZ I will hug my mother like I've never hugged her before. LT.ALDO Well, ain't that's a real nice boy. Are you going to take off your uniform? PVT.BUTZ Not only shall I remove it, but I intend to burn it! The young German is telling Aldo, what he thinks, Aldo wants to hear. But the last answer didn't go down as well as he thought it would, evident by the frown on Aldo's face. LT. ALDO Yeah, that's what we thought. We don't like that. You see, we like our Nazi's in uniforms. That way, you can spot 'em, just like that. (Snaps his fingers) But you take off that uniform, ain't nobody gonna know you was a Nazi. And that don't sit well with us. Aldo removes a LARGE KNIFE from a sheath on his belt. LT.ALDO So I'm gonna give ya a little somethin, you can't take off. BACK TO HITLER Pvt.Butz removes his combat helmet, hair hangs in his face, his moves it aside, and WE SEE a SWASTIKA has been HAND CARVED INTO HIS FOREHEAD. BACK TO BASTERDS BUTZ'S POV: on ground, looking up at them. Aldo has just carved the swastika, and he's holding the bloody knife. All The Basterds crowd around to admire his handy work. 37. SGT.DONOWITZ You know Lieutenant, your getting pretty good at that. LT. ALDO You know how you get to Carnegie Hall, don't 'ch? Practice. FADE TO BLACK OVER BLACK CHAPTER TITLE APPEARS: CHAPTER THREE "GERMAN NIGHT IN PARIS" NOTE: This whole Chapter will be filmed in French New Wave Black and White. INT - CINEMA AUDITORIUM - NIGHT We're in the auditorium of a cinema in Paris. However the CAMERA is pointed in the direction of the audience, not the screen. We start CLOSE on the projector beam, emanating from the little glass window in the back of the theatre The CAMERA continues to DOLLY back, making the Shot Wider and Wider, bringing in more and more the German occupied citizens of Paris, who stare at the OFF SCREEN silver screen in the dark We can hear the OFF SCREEN SOUNDTRACK of a Goebbels produced German omm paw paw musical movie being projected. The Shot continues to pull further and further back, and the German dialogue continues to fill the auditorium... TILL... .The DOLLY SHOT LANDS on a CLOSE UP of Shosanna,. watching the movie. A SUBTITLE APPEARS: "1941 PARIS TWO WEEKS AFTER THE MASSACRE OF SHOSANNA'S FAMILY" We hear the sound of the German musicals climax. The lights go up in the auditorium. Shosanna, dressed in a NURSES UNIFORM she swiped from somewhere, remains seated, as the rest of the PATRONS, gather their coats, and file out. 3P. EXT - LITTLE CINEMA (PARIS)- NIGHT Patrons exit under the cinema marquee, as someone from inside SHUTS OFF the marquees lights. The MARQUEE READS in French: "GERMAN NIGHT BRIDGET VON HAMMERSMARK in MADCAP IN MEXICO". EXT - PROJECTION BOOTH (LITTLE CINEMA) A French Black Man, who we will learn later is named MARCEL, is the cinema's projectionist. We see him for a moment, taking the film reels off the projector, and placing them on rewinds. INT - AUDITORIUM CU SHOSANNA still sitting in her seat. Except for her, the auditorium is empty. The owner of the Cinema, a attractive looking French woman, who we will later know as MADAME MIMIEUX, appears in one of the cinema's opera box balconies. Looking down from her perch at the young girl, sitting in the empty cinema. The DIALOGUE will be spoken in FRENCH, and SUBTITLED into ENGLISH. MADAME MIMIEUX So young woman, since it's beyond obvious we're closed for the evening. I must assume you want something. What can I do for you? SHOSANNA May I sleep here tonight? MADAME MIMIEUX So I gather your not a nurse? SHOSANNA No. MADAME MIMIEUX But your a bright little thing, that's clever disguise. Where is your family? SHOSANNA Murdered. 3 1. MADAME MIMIEUX So your a war orphan? SHOSANNA We were from Nancy. The Bosch found us MADAME MIMIEUX Is this a sad story? SHOSANNA Oui. MADAME MIMIEUX Sad stories bore me. These days everyone in Paris has one. I haven't bore you with mine, don't bore me with yours. SHOSANNA You can run the machines? MADAME MIMIEUX What machines? Using her hands to pantomime the rotating film reels on a projector, she says; SHOSANNA The machines that show the film? MADAME MIMIEUX The projectors? Yes, I own a cinema, of course I can operate them. SHOSANNA I know, I saw you. FLASH ON: CU SHOSANNA eyes creeping up the stairway in the projection booth, watching... MADAME MIMIEUX expertly working the projectors... BACK TO SHOSANNA SHOSANNA Teach me. Teach me to run the machines, that show the film. It's only you and the negro. I know you could use some help. 40. MADAME MIMIEUX I know at least six people who've been put up against a wall, and machine gunned for sheltering enemies of the state. I have no intention of being unlucky number seven. How long have you been in Paris? SHOSANNA A week, and a few days. MADAME MIMIEUX How have you survived the curfew without capture? SHOSANNA I sleep on rooftops. MADAME MIMIEUX Again, I'm forced to admit, clever girl. How is it? SHOSANNA Cold. MADAME MIMIEUX (LAUGHS) I can imagine. SHOSANNA Respectfully, no you can't. MADAME MIMIEUX Fair enough. MADAME MIMIEUX So you can't operate a 35mm film projector, you want me teach you, in order to work here, in order to use my cinema, as a hole to hide in, is that correct? SHOSANNA Oui. MADAME MIMIEUX Whats your name? SHOSANNA Shosanna. MADAME MIMIEUX I'm Madame Mimieux. You may call me Madame. This is a cinema. Not a home for wayward war orphans. Having said that, what you say is true. If you were truly exceptional, I could find use for you. So Shosanna, are you truly exceptional? SHOSANNA Oui Madame. MADAME MIMIEUX I will be the judge of that. DISSOLVE TO TITLE CARD: Which shows a lovely PENCIL SKETCH of the CITY OF PARIS, complete with Eiffel Tower. ABOVE IT READS: "1944 PARIS" THEN... The CAMERA PULLS BACK, and we see we're not looking at a TITLE CARD at all, but a CALENDER stuck on the wall of the Little Cinema's Projection Booth. Before we leave it, WE SEE the Month is JUNE. ..The CAMERA finds, the THREE YEARS OLDER SHOSANNA, working as the PROJECTIONIST. It would appear, that Shosanna passed Madame Mimieux's exceptional test. A lyrical Morriconie-like tune PLAYS on the SOUNDTRACK, this will be "Shosanna's Theme". A Little Bell, begins RINGING, on one of the projectors, alerting Shosanna it's time for a REEL CHANGE. Shosanna stands at the projector, watching the old German film she's projecting, waiting for the1st REEL CHANGE MARK... SILVER SCREEN of the little cinema. On Screen LENI REFENSHTAL lies horizontal as a ice sickle drips on her head in the old German film, "The White Hell Of Piza Palu", The 1st REEL CHANGE MARK POPS ON in the upper right hand corner of the FRAME...(That tells the projectionist to get ready). As the FILM REEL on the lst PROJECTOR rolls out, Shosanna stands ready, waiting by the 2nd PROJECTOR... WHEN... SILVER SCREEN the 2nd REEL CHANGE MARK POPS ON in the same place(That's the one). SHOSANNA THROWS the lever on the 2nd PROJECTOR, switching the film from projector 1# to projector 2#, executing a perfect REEL CHANGE. As Shosanna's Theme plays on the Soundtrack, we watch viva MONTAGE, her go through her daily chores. Carry heavy film cans up the stairs, empty the rat traps, ect,ect... EXT - CINEMA - NIGHT The MARQUEE READS in French: "GERMAN NIGHT LENI REFENSHTAL in PABST WHITE HELL OF PIZA PALU" Shosanna emerges from the cinema carrying two buckets of LETTERS (for the marquee), and a tall ladder. Her chore here, obviously, is to change the show on the marquee. The LITERARY NARRATOR comes on the Soundtrack in ENGLISH; NARRATOR(VO) To operate a cinema in Paris during the occupation, one had two choices. Ether you could show new German propaganda films, produced under the watchful eye of Joseph Goebbels. Or... .you could have a German night in your weekly schedule, and show allowed German classic films. Their German night was Thursday. Shosanna, by herself, perched up high on the ladder, changing the letters on the marquee. A YOUNG GERMAN SOLDIER(about the same age as Shosanna), walks out of the cinema. He sees the ladder with the young French girl on top, and walks over. They speak FRENCH, SUBTITLED into ENGLISH; GERMAN SOLDIER What starts tomorrow? Shosanna looks down, seeing the young German Solder smiling up at her from below. LC 3. SHOSANNA A Max Linder festival. GERMAN SOLDIER Ummmm, I always preferred Linder to Chaplin. Except Linder never made a film as good as "The Rid". The chase climax of "The Kid", superb. Shosanna continues working, not adding to the conversation. GERMAN SOLDIER I suppose now you could use a "M" a "A" and a "X"? SHOSANNA No need, I can manage. GERMAN SOLDIER Don't be ridiculous, it's my pleasure. He hands the French damsel the letters spelling MAX. SHOSANNA Merci. GERMAN SOLDIER I adore your cinema very much. SHOSANNA Merci. She busies herself with the marquee letters... GERMAN SOLDIER SHOSANNA GERMAN SOLDIER SHOSANNA GERMAN SOLDIER How does a young girl, such as yourself, own a cinema? Do to his uniform, and Shosanna's situation, all his efforts at trying to make small talk, strikes the young Jewess in hiding as a Gestapo interrogation. SHOSANNA My aunt left it to me. GERMAN SOLDIER Lucky girl. Shosanna makes no reply back. GERMAN SOLDIER Merci for hoisting a German night. SHOSANNA I don't have a choice, but your welcome. GERMAN SOLDIER Do you chose the German films yourself? SHOSANNA Oui. GERMAN SOLDIER Then my merci stands. I love the Refensthal mountain films, especially, "Pizu Palu". It's nice to see a French girl who's a admirer of Refensthal. SHOSANNA "Admire", would not be the adjective I would use to describe my feelings towards Fraulein Refensthal. GERMAN SOLDIER But you do admire the director. Pabst, don't you? That's why you included his name on the marquee. She climbs down from the ladder and faces the German Private. SHOSANNA I'm French. We respect directors in our country. GERMAN SOLDIER Apparently even Germans. SHOSANNA Even Germans. Merci for assistance, Private. Adieu. She turns to go back inside. GERMAN SOLDIER Your not finished? SHOSANNA I'll finish in the morning. She opens the door to go inside. GERMAN SOLDIER May I ask your name? SHOSANNA You wish to see my papers? She hands him her excellently forged papers. That's obviously not what he meant, but he takes them anyway to read her name. GERMAN SOLDIER Emmanuelle Mimieux. That's a very pretty name. SHOSANNA Merci. Are you finished with my papers? He hands them back. GERMAN SOLDIER Mademoiselle. My name is Fredrick Zoller. She gives no response. GERMAN SOLDIER It's been a pleasure chatting with a fellow cinema lover. Sweet dreams, Mademoiselle. He gives her a little salute, and walks into the black of a curfew imposed night. She looks after him. She didn't show it, but he kinda got to her. After all, for any true cinema lover, it's hard to hate anybody who, CINEMA MON AMOUR. EXT - ROOFTOP CINEMA - NIGHT Shosanna stands on the roof of her cinema, late at night, lighting up a cigarette. As she takes her first big drag, she remembers a voice. FLASH ON MADAME MIMIEUX, the younger Shosanna, and the black projectionist Marcel, in the projection booth. Shosanna lights up a cigarette, and Madame Mimieux SLAPS her face HARD, knocking the cigarette out of her mouth. Marcel quickly STAMPS it out on the floor. If-7. MADAME MIMIEUX if I ever see you light up a cigarette in my cinema again, I'll turn you into the Nazi's, do you understand? Shosanna is shocked by this statement. SHOSANNA Oui, Madame. MADAME MIMIEUX And for bringing a open flame in my cinema, you deserve far worse then a Nazi jewish boxcar. With your thick head, what do you think the highest priority of a cinema manager is? Keeping this fucking place from burning down to the ground, that's what! In my collection, I have over 350, 35mm, nitrate film prints, which are not only immensely flammable, but highly unstable. And should they catch fire, they burn three times faster then paper. If that happens.. .POOF...all gone, cinema no more, every body burned alive. If I ever see you with a open flame in my cinema again, I won't turn you into the Nazi's I'll kill you myself. And the fucking Germans will give me a curfew pass. Do you understand me? SHOSANNA Out, Madame. MADAME MIMIEUX Do you believe me? SHOSANNA Out, Madame. MADAME MIMIEUX You damn well better. BACK TO ROOF Shosanna exhales cigarette smoke. Marcel comes onto the roof. MARCEL Are you well? SHOSANNA Even on the roof I can't smoke a cigarette without hearing Madames voice yelling at me. That's why I do it. To hear Madames voice again. MARCEL We both miss her. SHOSANNA I know. I'm fine, darling. I'll be to bed soon. Marcel goes back inside, Shosanna smokes. INT - FRENCH BISTRO - AFTERNOON Shosanna sits in the back of a French bistro, reading a book, "The Saint in New York" by Leslie Charteris, drinking wine. When the young German Private from the other day, FREDRICK ZOLLER, walks in. He gets a beer, then notices the French girl sitting in the back. He smiles, and heads over to her. "Oh no, not this guy again", she thinks. Again they speak in FRENCH SUBTITLED into ENGLISH; FREDRICK May I join you? SHOSANNA Look Fredrick - FREDRICK (SMILING) - You remember my name? SHOSANNA Yes....Look, you seem a pleasant enough fellow - FREDRICK - Merci. SHOSANNA Your welcome. - regardless, I want you to stop pestering me. FREDRICK I apologize mademoiselle, I wasn't trying to be a pest. I was simply trying to be friendly. SHOSANNA I don't wish to be your friend. FREDRICK Why not? SHOSANNA Don't act like a infant. You know why. FREDRICK I'm more then just a uniform. SHOSANNA Not to me. If you are so desperate for a French girlfriend, I suggest you try Vichy? Just then TWO OTHER GERMAN SOLDIERS come over, obviously very impressed with Fredrick. They make a fuss over him in UNSUBTITLED GERMAN, which nether Shosanna, or the non German speaking members of the movies audience, can understand. He signs autographs for them, shakes their hands, and they go on their way. Shosanna's eyes narrow. SHOSANNA Who are you? FREDRICK I thought I was just a uniform? SHOSANNA Your not just a German soldier, are you somebodies son? FREDRICK Most German soldiers are somebodies son. SHOSANNA Yeah, but your not just somebody. What are you, Hitlers nephew? He leans in across the table, she leans in too, and he says; FREDRICK Yes. SHOSANNA Really? FREDRICK No not really, I'm just teasing you. She leans back annoyed. SHOSANNA Then what is it? What are you, a German movie star? 6'O FREDRICK Not exactly. SHOSANNA (Pfuit), what does that mean, "not exactly". I asked if you were a movie star, the answer to that question, is yes or no. Fredrick laughs at that line. FREDRICR When you said that just now, you reminded me of my sister. This catches young Shosanna off guard. FREDRICR I come from a home of six sisters. We run a family operated cinema in Munich. Seeing you run around your cinema, reminds me of them. Especially my sister Helga. She raised me, when our father wasn't up to the job. I admire her very much. You'd like her, she doesn't wear a German uniform. SHOSANNA You were raised by Helga? FREDRICK All my sisters, I'm the baby, but Helga was the bossiest. SHOSANNA And your mother and father? FREDRICK My mother died. And my father was a loser. My fathers moto; "If at first you don't succeed, quit". The day he left, good riddance. My sisters are all I need. It's why I like your cinema. It makes me feel both closer to them, and a little homesick at the same time. SHOSANNA is your cinema still operatiing? FREDRICR Oui. SHOSANNA What's it called? 5! FREDRICK The Kino Haus. SHOSANNA How has it done durring the war? FREDRICK Actually, in Germany, cinema attendance is up. SHOSANNA No doubt, you don't have to operate under a curfew. FREDRICK How often do you fill your house? SHOSANNA (Pfuit), not since before the war. FREDRICK So if you had one big engagement, that would help you out? SHOSANNA Of course, but that's not likely to happen. TWO MORE GERMAN SOLDIERS and their TWO FRENCH DATES approach the table. They ask for Fredricks autograph, he signs it for them. One of the French Girls says in FRENCH, how exciting it is to meet a real live German war hero. Shosanna hears it. They leave. So that's it, she thinks. SHOSANNA So your a war hero? Why didn't you tell me? FREDRICK Everybody knows that, I liked you didn't. SHOSANNA What did you do? He takes a sip of beer. FREDRICK I've shot the most enemy soldiers in world war two...so far. You bet your sweet ass that got her attention. SHOSANNA Wow. 52 FREDRICK I was alone in a bell tower in a walled off city in Russia. It was myself, and a thousand rounds of ammo, in a bird's nest, against three hundred Soviet soldiers. SHOSANNA What's a bird's nest? FREDRICK A bird's nest is what a sniper would call a bell tower. It's a high structure, offering a three hundred and sixty degree view. Very advantageous for marksmen. SHOSANNA How many Russian's did you kill? FREDRICK Sixty-eight. (BEAT) The first day. A hundred and fifty the second day. Thirty-two, the third day. On the forth day, they exited the city. Naturally my war story received alot of attention in Germany, that's why they all recognize me. They call me the German Sgt.York. SHOSANNA Maybe they'll make a film about your exploits. FREDRICK Well, that's just what Joseph Goebbels thought. So he did. It's called "Nation's Pride", and guess what, they wanted me to play myself, so I did. They have posters for it in kiosks all over Paris. That's another reason for all the attention. SHOSANNA "Nation's Pride" is about you? "Nation's Pride" is starring you? FREDRICK I know, comical, huh? SHOSANNA Not so comical. So what are you doing in Paris, enjoying a rest? 53. FREDRICK Hardly. I've been doing publicity, having my picture taken with different German luminaries, visiting troops, that sort of thing. Goebbels wants the film to premier in Paris, so I've been helping them in the planning. Joseph is very keen on this film. He's telling anybody who will listen, when "Nation's Pride" is released, I'll be the German Van Johnson. Shosanna, wasn't falling for the young German, by any stretch. However his exploits, as well as his charming manner, can't help but impress. But his referring to Goebbels as "Joseph", like their friends, is all she needed to get on the right side of things. This young man is trouble with a capital "T", and she needs to stay far fucking away from him. She abruptly rises, and says; SHOSANNA Well, good luck with your premier Private. I hope all goes well for Joseph and yourself. Au revoir. And with that, she disappears. Leaving the perplexed private alone. EXT - CINEMA MARQUEE - DAY It's the next day. Shosanna and Marcel are changing the letters on the marquee. Marcel excuses himself to visit the toilet. $hosanna is alone outside the little cinema, perched up on her ladder. WHEN... .A BLACK NAZI SEDAN pulls up in front of the little cinema. A GERMAN MAJOR in a black Gestapo uniform steps out of the back of the sedan. The DRIVER, a German Private, steps out as well. Yelling to the young girl up high on the ladder; Both GERMAN and FRENCH will be SUBTITLED into ENGLISH. 5 q. GESTAPO MAJOR Mademoiselle Nimieux? SHOSANNA Oui? Telling his Driver in German to ask her in French; GESTAPO MAJOR Ask her if this is her cinema? in French The Driver asks Shosanna; DRIVER is this your cinema? SHOSANNA GESTAPO MAJOR Tell her to come down. DRIVER Come down please. She climbs down the ladder. The Driver opens the back door of the sedan, indicating for her to get in. SHOSANNA I don't understand, what have I done? DRIVER (to Major) She wants to know what she's done? GESTAPO MAJOR Who says she's done anything? DRIVER Who says you've done anything? Then in her best imitation of Madame Mimeux's arrogantmanner. SHOSANNA Then I demand to know what this is about, and where do you propose to take me? The Driver begins to translate, when the Gestapo Major holds up his hand, telling him not to bother. The Major looks at the young French girl and tells her in German; 55. GESTAPO MAJOR Get your ass in that car. No translation necessary. She climbs into the back of the car, followed by the Germans. The sedan takes off. INT - SEDAN(MOVING) - DAY The Nazi sedan drives through the early afternoon Paris streets. WE HOLD SHOSANNA IN TIGHT CU the whole ride, never showing her Nazi oppressor sitting beside her. We just hold on her face trying not to revel anything. The sedan stops. The car door opens and the Driver offers Shosanna his hand. EXT/INT- MAXIUM'S (FAMOUS PARIS CAFE) - DAY She steps out of the car, and is lead into a Paris cafe by the Gestapo Officer. It takes the young Jewess a moment or two before she realizes she's not being led to a Gestapo interrogation room, a railroad car, or a concentration camp, but to lunch. The best table at Maxims. Three people, and two dogs, sit at it. Germany's Minister of Propaganda, and the number two man in Hitlers Third Reich, JOSEPH GOEBBELS, his female French translator (and mistress), FRANCESCA MONDINO, and young Private Zoller, are the people. TWO BLACK FRENCH POODLES, belonging to Mademoiselle Mondino, sit together in another chair at the table. We join them in mid-conversation; They all speak GERMAN, SUBTITLED into ENGLISH; GOEBBELS - it's only the off spring of slaves that allows America to be competitive athletically. America olympic gold can measured in Negro sweat. Shosanna is lead through the French eatery by the Gestapo Major. Private Zoller see's her, and stands up, excuse's himself, and greets her before she reaches the table. Fredrick says in French, SUBTITLED in ENGLISH; FREDRICK Good you came. I wasn't sure weather or not you'd except my invitation. SHOSANNA Invitation? THEN... .Goebbles Voice says OFF SCREEN; GOEBBLES(OS) Is that the young lady in question, Fredrick? Private Zoller turns in his direction, takes Shosanna by the arm, and leads her to him. FREDRICK Yes it is, beer Goebbels. Emmanuelle, there is somebody I want you to meet. Joseph Goebbels, remaining seated, looks up at the young French girl, scrutinizing her as he spoons creme brule into his mouth. The excited Fredrick introduces Shosanna to the propaganda minister formally. FREDRICK Emmanuelle Mimieux, I'd like to introduce you to the minister of propaganda, the leader of the entire German film industry, and now I'm a actor, my boss, Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels offers up his long spider-like fingers for Shosanna to shake. She does. GOEBBELS Your reputation precedes you Fraulein Mimieux. He looks to Francesca to translate, but she's just taken a big bite of terri misu. They all laugh. Fredrick jumps in... FREDRICK And normally, this is beer Goebbels French interpreter, Mademoiselle Francesca Mondino. FRANCESCA looks up at Shosanna. 5'? NARRATOR'S VOICE comes on soundtrack; NARRATOR (VO) Francesca Mondino is much more then Goebbels French Interpreter. She's also Goebbels favorite French actress to appear in his films... FLASH ON: FILM CLIP from one of Francesca's B/W Goebbels produced productions. Francesca, dressed as a French peasant girl, with a YOUNG GERMAN (MOVIE) SOLDIER. She speaks in FRENCH, SUBTITLED in to ENGLISH; FRANCESCA/PEASANT GIRL I love you, I can't help it. My country or my heart, which do I betray? A SUBTITLE APPEARS below naming the films title; "SENTIMENTAL COMBAT" (1943) FLASH ON Francesca and Goebbels having sex in her boudoir, on her red velvet bed. NARRATOR (VO) And Goebbels favorite French Mistress, to act in his bed. WE SEE JUST A SUPER QUICK SHOT OF Goebbels FUCKING Francesca DOGGY STYLE. FRANCESCA (ANIMAL-LIKE) Do it! Do it! Fuck me - fill me! BACK TO FRANCESCA looking at Shosanna. FRANCESCA Bon jour. SHOSANNA Bon jour. I f. FREDRICK And you've met the Major. The Gestapo officer steps up and says, to Fredrick in German; GESTAPO MAJOR Actually, I didn't introduce myself. (to Shosanna) Major Deiter Helistrom of the Gestapo, at your service mademoiselle. (he clicks his heels) Please allow me, have a seat. The Gestapo Officer pulls out a chair, for the young lady to sit down. Shosanna takes the hot seat. Seated to her right is Private Zoller. To her left are the two curly pampered poodles. Major Helistrom pours Shosanna a glass of red wine from a small craft on the table. MAJOR HELLSTROM Try the wine mademoiselle, it's quite good. Goebbels looks across the table at her. GOEBBELS well I must say, you've made quite a impression on our boy. Francesca interprets Goebbels German for Shosanna. GOEBBELS I must say fraulein, I should be rather annoyed with you. Francesca interprets.. GOEBBELS I arrive in France, and I wish to have lunch with my star... Francesca interprets... GOEBBELS Little do I know Be's become the toast of paris, and now he must find time for me. Francesca interprets... c9 Ã¢â¬Â¢ GOEBBELS People wait in line hours, day's, to see me. For the Fuhrer and Private Zoller, I wait. Francesca interprets... GOEBBELS So finally, I'm granted a audience with the young Private, and he spends the entire lunch speaking of you and your cinema. Francesca interprets... GOEBBELS So Fraulein Mimieux, let's get down to business. Private Zoller interrupts - FREDRICK - Heer Goebbels, I haven't informed her yet. GOEBBELS Unless the girls a simpleton, I'm sure she's figured it out by now, after all she does operate a cinema. Francesca, tell her. Francesca tells Shosanna in French; FRANCESCA What they're trying to tell you Emmanuelle, is Private Zoller has spent the last hour at lunch, trying to convince Monsieur Goebbels to abandon previous plans for Private Zollers film premier, and change the venue to your cinema. Zoller reacts. FRANCESCA (FRENCH to Zoller) What? FREDRICK I wanted to inform her. FRANCESCA Shit. I apologize Private, of course you did. 60. GOEBBELS (GERMAN to Francesca) What's the issue? FRANCESCA The Private wanted to inform the mademoiselle himself. GOEBBELS Nonsense. Until I ask a few questions, he has nothing to inform. Let the record state, I have not agreed to a venue change. MAJOR HELLSTROM Duly noted. Goebbels speaks German to Shosanna; GOEBBELS You have opera boxes? SHOSANNA GOEBBELS SHOSANNA GOEBBELS More would be better. How many seats in your auditorium? SHOSANNA Three hundred and fifty. GOEBBELS That's almost four hundred less then The Ritz. Fredrick jumps in... FREDRICK But beer Goebbels, that's not such a terrible thing. You said yourself you didn't want to indulge every two faced french bourgeois taking up space currying favor. With less seat's it makes the event more exclusive. Your not trying to fill the house, their fightin g for seats. 61. FREDRICK (CON'T) Besides, to hell with the French. This is a German night, a German event, a German celebration. This night is for you, me, the German military, the high command, their family and friends. The only people who should be allowed in the room, are people who will be moved by the exploits on screen. Goebbels listens silently, then after a bit of a pause; GOEBBELS I see your public speaking has improved. It appears I've created a monster. A strangely persuasive monster. When the war's over, politics awaits. Table chuckles. GOEBBELS Well Private, though it is true, I'm inclined to indulge you anything. I must watch a film in this young ladies cinema before I can say, yes or no. (to Shosanna) So young lady, you are to close your cinema tonight, and have a private screening me. Francesca interprets... GOEBBELS What German films do you have? Francesca asks.. SHOSANNA My cinema , on German night, tends to show older German classics. Francesca interprets... GOEBBELS Why not my films? Francesca asks... 6Z. SHOSANNA I draw a older German audience in my cinema, that appreciate the nostalgia of the earlier time. Francesca interprets... GOEBBELS That's nonsense fraulein. Us Germans are looking forward, not backwards. That era of German cinema is dead. The German cinema I create, will not only be thee cinema of Europe. But the worlds only alternative to the degenerate Jewish influence of Hollywood. Fredrick Jumps in... FREDRICK Along with being a cinema owner, Emmanuelle is quite a formidable film critic. He chuckles, but alone. GOEBBELS WSo it would appear. Unfortunately for the fraulein, I've outlawed film criticism. Zoller, thinking fast, says; FREDRICK Why don't you screen "Lucky Kids"? I'm sure Emmanuelle hasn't seen. it. And it's so funny, I've been meaning to recommend it to her, for her German night. That's a great idea, let's watch "Lucky Kids" tonight. GOEBBELS Ahhh, "Lucky Kids", "Lucky Kids", "Lucky Kids". When all is said and done, my most purely enjoyable production. Not only that, I wouldn't be surprised, if sixty years from now, It's "Lucky Kids" that I'm the most remembered for. I know it doesn't seem like it now, but mark my words. Very well, I'll have a print sent over to the fraulein'.s cinema. We'll screen "Lucky Kids" tonight. 63 As Francesca interprets this for Shosanna... ...the empty chair next to the young Jewish girl is suddenly filled with the bottom half of a grey S.S. officer uniform. GOEBBELS Ah Landa, your here, this is the young lady in question. The S.S. Officer sits down, and it's our old friend from the first scene COL HANS LANDA. FREDRICK Shosanna, this4pol Hans Landa of the SS., he'll be running security for the premier. CU SHOSANNA A bomb is dropped and detonated behind her eyes. But if she gives any indication of this, her war story ends here. The S.S. OFFICER that murdered her family, takes her hand and kisses it, saying in perfect French; COL LANDA Charmed Mademoiselle. MAJOR HELLSTROM Better known as "The Jew Hunter". The table laughs. GOEBBELS Oh Francesca, what was that funny thing the Fuhrer said about Hans? FRANCESCA What thing? GOEBBELS You know, you were there, it was a funny thing the Fuhrer said, about Hans...Something about a pig? Francesca's memory is jogged. FRANCESCA Oh, yes of course. She repeats it by whispering it in Goebbels ear. 6 "F GOEBBELS Oh, yes of course, that's it. So the Fuhrer said, he wouldn't be surprised if Hans weren't rooting out Jews like a truffle pig from the play pen. FRANCESCA That's what we need, pigs that can root out Jews. COL LANDA Who needs pigs when you have me? Big hearty laugh around the table. GOEBBELS Do you have a engagement tonight? COL LANDA Well, as a matter of fact, I do - GOEBBELS - Break it. We're all going to the Fraulein's cinema tonight to view "Lucky Kids". COL LANDA Splendid. Then Reich Ministers companion mademoiselle Mondino, INTERRUPTS; FRANCESCA And now I must get Reich Minister Goebbels to his next appointment. GOEBBELS Slave driver! French slave driver! They all chuckle. Everybody begins to stand up from the table... ..Francesca gathers the stupid dogs... .as Col Landa stands, he says; COL LANDA Actually, in my role as security chief of this joyous German occasion, I'm afraid I must have a word with Mademoiselle Mimieux. C. 5. Mademoiselle Mimieux eyes go to Private Zoller, who responds. FREDRICK What sort of discussion? COL LANDA That sounded suspiciously like a Private questioning the order of a Colonel? Or am I just being sensitive? FREDRICK Nothing could be further from the truth Colonel. Your authority is beyond question. But your reputation does proceed you. Should Mademoiselle Mimieux or myself be concerned? GOEBBELS Hans, the boy means no harm, he's simply smitten. And he's correct. Your reputation does proceed you. Laughter all around. The Reich Minister and his axis entourage, make their way to front of the cafe, with the two dumb dogs on a leash, leading the way. COL LANDA No need for concern, you two. As security chief, I simply need to have a chat with the possible new venue's property owner. FREDRICK I was just hoping to escort Mademoiselle Mimieux back to her cinema. GOEBBELS Nonsense! You can eat ice cream, and walk along the Sienne another time. Right now, allow Col Landa to do his job. Everybody saystheir farewells. Col Landa offers the young jew in hiding a seat at a small table in the outside patio area of Maxims. The fluency and poetic proficiency of the S.S. jew hunters french, revels to the audience, that his feigning clumsiness at french with Monsieur Lapadite in the films first scene, was simply a interrogation-technique. bd. They speak FRENCH SUBTITLED into ENGLISH; COL LANDA Have you tried the strudel here? SHOSANNA No. COL LANDA It's not so terrible. So how is it the young Private and yourself came to be acquainted? She's about to answer, when a WAITER approaches. COL LANDA Yes, two strudels, one for myself, and one for the mademoiselle. A cup of espresso, with a container of. steamed milk, on the side. For the Mademoiselle, a glass of milk. Considering Shosanna. grew up on a dairy farm, and the last time she was on a dairy farm, her strudel companion murdered her entire family, his ordering her milk is, to say the least... . disconcerting. The key to Col Landa's power, and or charm, depending on the side ones on, lies in his ability to convince you he's privy to your secrets. COL LANDA So Mademoiselle, you were beginning to explain....? SHOSANNA (ANXIOUSLY) Up untill a couple of days ago, I had no knowledge of Private Zoller, or his exploits. To me, the Private was simply just a patron of my cinema. We spoke a few times, but - COL LANDA - Mademoiselle, let me interrupt you. This is a simple formality, no reason for you to feel anxious. The Colonel takes one look at it, and says to the Waiter; 67 COL LANDA I apologize, I forgot to order the cream fresh. WAITER One moment. He exits. COL LANDA (Refuring to the apple pie) Wait for the cream. (Back to BUSINESS) So Emmanuelle - May I call you Emmanuelle? SHOSANNA Oui. COL LANDA So Emmanuelle, explain to me how does it happen, that a young lady such as your self, comes to own a cinema? The Waiter returns, applying cream fresh to the two strudels. The S.S. Colonel looks across the table at his companion, picking up his fork, he says; COL LANDA After you. Shosanna takes Ã¢â¬Â¢a whip creamy bite of strudel, Landa follows her lead. COL LANDA (MOUTHFULL of pie) Success? Shosanna, mouth full of pie, indicates she approves. .COL LANDA Like I said, not so terrible. (Back to BUSINESS) So you were explaining the origin of your cinema ownership? 69. SHOSANNA The cinema originally belonged to my aunt and uncle - Col Landa removes alittle black book from his pocket. COL LANDA - What is there names? SHOSANNA Jean-Pierre and Ada Mimieux. He records the names in his little book. COL LANDA Where are they now? SHOSANNA My uncle was killed during blitzkrieg. COL LANDA Pity... . Continue. SHOSANNA Aunt Ada passed away from fever last spring.' COL LANDA Regrettable. (RESPECTFUL PAUSE) It's come to my attention you have a negro in your employ, is that true? SHOSANNA Yes, he's a Frenchman. His name is Marcel. He worked with my aunt and uncle since they opened the cinema. He's the only other one who works with me. COL LANDA Doing what? SHOSANNA Projectionist. COL LANDA Is he any good? SHOSANNA The best. 61. COL LANDA Actually one could see where that might be a good trade for them. Can you operate the projectors? SHOSANNA Of course I can. COL LANDA Knowing the Reich Minister as I do, I'm quite positive he wouldn't want the success or failure of his illustrious evening, dependent on the prowess of a negro. So if it comes to pass we hold this event at your venue, talented no doubt, as your negro may be, you will operate the projectors. Is that exceptable? As if she has any say. SHOSANNA Oui. Col Landa takes another bite of strudel, Shosanna follows suit. COL LANDA So it would appear our young hero is quite smitten with you? SHOSANNA Private Zollers feelings for me aren't of a romantic nature. COL LANDA Mademoiselle...? SHOSANNA Colonel, his feelings are not romantic. I remind him of his sister. COL LANDA That doesn't mean his feelings aren't romantic. SHOSANNA I remind him of his sister who raised him. 70 COL LANDA It's sounding more and more romantic by the minute. Landa takes out a handsome looking cigarette case, with a S.S. LOGO on it. Removing on of the fags, he lights it up with a fancy S.S. gold lighter. He offers one to Shosanna. COL LANDA Cigarette? SHOSANNA No thank you. COL LANDA Do you smoke? SHOSANNA Yes. COL LANDA Then I insist, you must take one. There not French, there German. I hope your not nationalist about your tobacco, to me French cigarettes are a sin against nicotine. She takes one, but makes no move to light it. He inhales deep, and says; COL LANDA I did have some thing else I wanted to ask you, but right now, for the life of me, I can't remember what it is. Oh well, must not of been important. Col Landa stands up, throws some French francs on the table, puts on his grey S.S. cap, touches his finger to his visor, saluting Shosanna, and saying: COL LANDA Till tonight. And with that he's gone. Shosanna breaths a sigh of relief. The CAMERA begins to slowly lower from a MEDIUM CU to her feet ankles and floor. We see her shoes are in a puddle of urine. During her conversation and strudel with the man that exterminated her entire family, shosanna pissed herself. She drops the German cigarette in to the piss puddle by her feet. 7 1. INT - CINEMA AUDITORIUM - NIGHT The SILVER SCREEN on screen is the German screwball comedy "LUCKY KIDS". We hear OFF SCREEN laughter at the on screen aryan antics. CU GOEBBELS Watching the screen, basking in his own toxic genius. CU FRANCESCA Laughing at the comedy, hand covering her mouth. CU TWO BLACK POODLES Pantingly watching the screen. CU MAJOR HELLSTROM Smiling, smoking a French cigarette. CU COL LANDA Smoking his calabash, amused. CU FREDRICK ZOLLER Truly enjoying himself. CU SHOSANNA watching the screen. The LITERARY NARRATOR comes on the soundtrack. NARRATOR (VO) While Shosanna sits there pretending to be amused by the aryan antics of Goebbels Frank Capra copy, "Lucky Kids", a thought suddenly comes to her. We see her face get slightly distracted behind the eyes. NARRATOR (VO) What if tonight, accidently, the cinema burned down? The Third Reich would lose it's Minister of propaganda, it's national hero, and it's top jew hunter, all in one fell swoop. She chuckles at the thought, though it looks like she's laughing at the German comedy. SILVER SCREEN "The END" card for "Lucky Kids" is projected. The Nazi rouges gallery, and Shosanna, applaud the film. IZ The lights go up. P Goebbels excepts congratulations, as they stand and begin to file out into the lobby. NARRATOR(VO) The screening of "Lucky Kids" was a complete success. And Heer Goebbels conceded to have the venue changed to Shosannas cinema. Not only that, in a moment of inspiration, Heer Goebbels had a idea. Goebbels speaks GERMAN, and Francesca translates; GOEBBELS I must say, I appreciate the modesty of this auditorium. Your Cinema has real respect, almost church like. Not to say we couldn't spruce the place up a bit. In Versailles there's a crystal chandelier hanging in the banquet hall that is extraordinary. we're going to get it, and hang it from the very middle of auditorium roof. Also I want to go to Louvre, pick up a few Greek nudes, and just scatter them about the lobby. MONTAGE we see a quick series of shots that show all that happening. The chandelier being removed from the ceiling of Versailles. Greek nude statues being hand trucked out of the Louvre. A truck driving through the french countryside with the enormous crystal chandelier in the back. The lobby of Shosanna's cinema, pimped out in Nazi iconography. WORKERS buzz around decorating. The Greek statues are moved into place. We see Workers trying with incredible difficulty, to hoist the huge, heavy, and twinkingly fragile chandelier, in Shosannas auditorium, which now resembles something out of one of Tinto Brass's Italian B-movie rip off's of Visconti's "The Damned". SHOSANNA watches all this from a opera box, she shakes her head in disbelief. 73 BACK TO SHOSANNA AND THE NAZI "S in the lobby, post screening of "Lucky Rids", she's soundlessly escorting them to the door, as they make their goodbyes. NARRATOR (VO) As they left the little French cinema that night, all the Germans were very happy... We see Private Zoller hanging back, so he.can say goodbye. NARRATOR (VO) None more so then Private Zoller. She closes the door on him. Watching the Nazi's walk into the Paris night. Their shadows, for a moment onAwall, look like grotesque Nazi charcthers. 4644 The Nazi's are gone. Marcel sits at the top of the staircase of the lobby, looking down at Shosanna. They speak in FRENCH SUBTITLED into ENGLISH; MARCEL What the fuck are we suppose to do? SHOSANNA It looks like we're suppose to have a Nazi premier. MARCEL Like I said, what the fuck are we suppose to do? SHOSANNA Well, I need to speak with you about that. MARCEL About what? SHOSANNA About these Hun swine, commandeering our cinema. MARCEL What about it? She slowly walks up the stairs to Marcel. She makes him part his legs, and sits on the lower step, between his legs. Her back up against his chest, his arms around her shoulders. Shosanna has only known this type of intimacy with Marcel. SHOSANNA Well, when I was watching the bosch (Said in ENGLISH) Capra-corn abomination, (Back to FRENCH) I got a idea. MARCEL I'm confused, what are we talking about? SHOSANNA Filling the cinema with Nazi's and their whores, and burning it down to the ground. MARCEL I'm not talking about that, your talking about that. SHOSANNA No, we're talking about that, right now. If we can keep this place from burning down by ourselves, we can burn it down by ourselves. MARCEL Shosanna - SHOSANNA No, Marcel, just for sake of argument, if we wanted to burn down the cinema, for any number of reasons, you and I could physically accomplish that, no? MARCEL Oui Shosanna, we could do that. SHOSANNA And with Madame Mimieux's 350 nitrate film print collection, we wouldn't even need explosives, would we? MARCEL You mean we wouldn't need any more explosives? SHOSANNA Oui, that's exactly what I mean. She begins kissing his hands. 75. SHOSANNA (CON'T) I am going to burn down the cinema on Nazi night. One of his fingers probes her mouth. SHOSANNA (CON'T) And if I'm going to burn down the cinema, which I am, we both know, your not going to let me do it by myself. The back of her head presses up hard against him, as his hand both caresses, and grips her lovely neck. SHOSANNA (CON'T) Because you love me. And I love you. And your the only person on this earth I can trust. She then TWISTS around, so she's straddling him. They are now, face to face. SHOSANNA (CON'T) But that's not all we're going to do. Does the filmmaking equipment it the attic still work? I know the film camera does. How about the sound recorder? MARCEL Quite well, actually. I recorded a new guitarist I met in a cafe last week. It works superb. Why do we need filmmaking equipment? SHOSANNA Because Marcel, my sweet, we're going to make a film. Just for the Nazi's. FADE TO BLACK ?G. FADE OFF INT - ENGLISH COUNTRY ESTATE - DAY A young MILITARY ATTACHE, opens the sliding double doors that serve as a entrance to the room. MILITARY ATTACHE Right this way, Lieutenant. A snappy handsome British Lieutenant in dress browns, steps inside the room. This officer, who has been mixing it up with the Gerrys since the late thirties, is named LT.ARCHIE HICOX. A young George Sanders type(The Saint and Private affairs of Bel Ami, years). Upon entering the room, Lt.Hicox is gobsmacked. Standing before him is legendary military mastermind, GENERAL ED FENECH, a older George Sanders type (Village of the Dammed). But in the back of the room, sitting behind a piano, smoking his ever present cigar, is the unmistakable bulk of WINSTON CHURCHELL. LT. HICOX Lt. Archie Hicox, reporting sir. GEN FENECH (Salutes back) General Ed Fenech, at ease Hicox. Drink? Hicox's eye's go to the formidable bulldog behind the piano, who's scrutinizing him behind his cigar. However the man behind the cigar makes no gesture, and the General, makes no acknowledgment of the three hundred pound gorilla in the room. Which Lt.Hicox knows enough to mean, if Churchell isn't introduced, he ain't there. LT.HICOX if you offered me a scotch and plane water, I could drink a scotch and plain water. ?7. GEN.FENECH That a boy, Lieutenant. Make it yourself, like a good chap, will you? Bars in the globe. Hicox heads over to the bar globe. LT.HICOX Something for yourself, sir? GEN.FENECH Whiskey straight. No junk in it. The Lieutenant moves over to the Columbus-style globe bar, and busies himself mixing spirits, playing bartender chappy. Fenech, eyeing the Lieutenant's file. GEN.FENECH It says here you've run three undercover commando operations in Germany, and German occupied territories? Frankfaurt, Holland, and Norway to be exact? Back to them, mixing drinks, he says; LT.HICOX Extraordinary people, the Norwegian's. GEN.FENECH It says here you speak German fluently? LT.HICOX Like a Katzenjammer Kid. GEN.FENECH And your occupation before the war? His back still to us, as he bartends... LT. H I COX I'm a film critic. GEN.FENECH List your accomplishments? LT.HICOX Well sir, such as they are, I write reviews and articles, for a publication called; "Films and Filmmakers". As well as our sister publication. 7f . GEN.FENECH What's that called? LT.HICOX "Flickers Bi-Monthly". And I've had two books published. GEN.FENECH Impressive. Don't be modest Lieutenant, what are their titles? LT. HI COX The first book was called; "Art Of The Eye's, The Heart, and The Mind:A Study of German Cinema in the Twenties". And the second one was called; ... He turns around with his whiskey and plain water, and the Generals whiskey no junk. He finishes what he was saying, as he walks toward the General, handing him his drink. LT.HICOX "Twenty-Four Frame Da Vinci". It's a subtexual film criticism study of the work of German director G.W. Pabst. LT. HI COX What should we drink to, sir? GEN.FENECH (Thinking, for a moment) Down with Hitler. LT.HICOX All the way down, sir. GEN.FENECH Are you familiar with German cinema under the Third Reich? LT. HI COX Yes. Obviously I haven't seen any of the films made in the last three years, but I am familiar with it. GEN.FENECH Explain it to me.? 77 LT.HICOX Pardon sir? GEN.FENECH This little escapade of ours, requires a knowledge of the German film industry under the Third Reich. Explain to me UFA, under Goebbels? LT.HICOX Goebbels considers the films he's making to be the beginning of a new era in German cinema. A alternative to what he considers the Jewish German intellectual cinema of the twenties. And the Jewish controlled dogma of Hollywood. SUDDENLY... Bellowing from the back of the room; CHURCHELL How's he doing? LT. H I COX Frightfully sorry sir, once again? CHURCHELL You say he wants to take on the Jews at their own game? Compared to say .Louis B.Mayer...how's he doing? LT.HICOX Quite well, actually. Since Goebbels has taken over, film attendance has steadily risen in Germany over the last eight years. But Louis B.Mayer wouldn't be Goebbels proper opposite number. I believe Goebbels see's himself closer to David O.Selznick. Gen.Fenech looks to the Prime Minister. With a puff of cigar smoke, Churchell says; CHURCHELL Brief him. GEM.FENECH Lt.Bicox, at this point in time I'd like to brief you on, Operation Kino. Three days from now, Joseph Goebbels is throwing a gala premier of one of his new movies in Paris - 80. LT.HICOX - What film sir? The General has to resort to peeking at his file. GEN.FENECH The motion pictures called; "Nation's Pride". LT.HICOX Oh, you mean the film about Private Zoller? GEN.FENECH We don't have any intelligence, on exactly, what the film that night will be about. LT.HICOX But it's called "Nation's Pride"? GEN.FENECH Yes. LT.HICOX I can tell you what it's about, it's about Private Fredrick Zoller. He's the German Sgt.York. Fenech can't help suppress a smile, they have the right man. GEN.FENECH In attendance at this joyous Germatic occasion, will be Goebbels, Gerring, Boorman, and most of the German High command, including all high ranking officers of both The S.S., and, The Gestapo. As well as luminaries of the Nazi propaganda film industry. LT.HICOX The master race at play, aye? GEN.FENECH Basically, we have all our rotten eggs in one basket. The objective of Operation Kino.... Blow up the basket. LT.HICOX (Reciting a a poem) "...and like the snows of yesteryear, gone from this earth". Jolly good, sir. GEN.FENECH An American Secret Service outfit, that lives deep behind enemy lines, will be your assist. The Germans call them; "The Basterds". LT.HICOX "The Basterds", never heard of them. GEN.FENECH Whole point of the secret service, old boy, you not hearing of them. But the Gerrys have heard of them, because these yanks have been them the devil. Their leader is a chap named Lt.Aldo Raine. The Germans call him, "Aldo the Apache". LT.HICOX Why do they call him that? GEN.FENECH Best guess, is because he removes the scalps of the Nazi dead. LT.HICOX Scalps, sir? GEN.FENECH The hair. He runs his finger along his hairline. GEN.FENECH Like a red Injun. LT.HICOX Rather gruesome sounding little Dicky bird, isn't he? GEN.FENECH No doubt the whole lot, a bunch a nutters. But you've heard the expression, "It takes a thief". LT.HICOX Indeed. General Fenech continues on with his exposition, moving over to a military map. 9i. GEN.FENECH You'll be dropped into France, about twenty four kilometers outside of Paris. The Basterds will be waiting for you. First thing, you go to a little village called, "Nadine". (He points it out on the map) Apparently the Gerrys never go there. In Nadine, there's a tavern, called, "La Louisiane", you'll rendez-vous with our double agent, and she'll take it from there. She's the one who's going to get you in the premiere. It will be you, her, and two German born members of the Basterds. She's also made all the other arrangements your going to need. LT.HICOX How will I know her? GEN.FENECH I suspect that won't be too much trouble for you. Your contact is Bridget Von Hammersmark. LT.HICOX Bridget Von Hammersmark? The German movie star is working for England? GEN.FENECH For the last two years now. one could even say Operation Kino was her brainchild. In the back of the room the bulldog barks; CHURCHELL Extraordinary women. LT.BICOX Quite. GEN.FENECH You'll go to the premiere as her escort, lucky devil. She'll also have the premiere tickets for the other two. Got the gist? LT.HICOX I think so, sir. Paris when it sizzles. The three British bulldogs laugh. 9 3 EXT - CINEMA ROOFTOP - DAY Shosanna and Marcel are on the rooftop of their cinema, literally, making a movie. Marcel is behind a old (even then) BOLEX 35MM MOVIE CAMERA, positioned low looking up. Shosanna, the camera subject, stands on boxes looking down into it. A old timey MICROPHONE is positioned out of frame. As they always do, and always will, they speak FRENCH SUBTITLED into you know what. MARCEL We need a sync mark. SHOSANNA What is a sync mark? MARCEL A action and noise put together, So we can sync up the picture and sound. SHOSANNA How do we do that? MARCEL Clap your hands. She does. MARCEL In frame imbecile. She claps her hands in front of her face. MARCEL Ready? Shosanna takes a deep breath, then; SHOSANNA Ready. MARCEL Action. WE CUT BEFORE SHE SPEAKS TO... GIR .THE SCENE EARLIER BETWEEN MARCEL AND SHOSANNA IN THE LOBBY, ON THE STAIRS, TALKING ABOUT BURNING DOWN THE CINEMA. Big diffrence this time, it's in COLOR. MARCEL But how do we get it developed? Only a suicidal idiot like us would develop that footage. How do we get a35mm print with a soundtrack? SHOSANNA Do you know one person who can do both things? MARCEL Of course Gaspar, very nice man, took care of all the experimental filmmakers. But nobody in their right mind would strike a print of what your talking about. If the Nazi's found out, their life wouldn't be worth this. He snaps his fingers. SHOSANNA In a wolf fight, you ether eat the wolf, or the wolf eats you. If we're going to obliterate the Nazi's, we have to use their tactics. MARCEL What does that mean? SHOSANNA We find somebody who can develop and process a35mm print. And we make them do it, or we kill them. Once we tell them what we want to do, if they refuse, we have to kill them anyway, or they'll turn us in. MARCEL Would you do that? SHOSANNA Like that. Snaps her fingers. ?S, INT - SMALL FILM PROCESSING LAB- LATE NIGHT A old mom and pop film processing lab circa the Thirties. Late late at night. GASPAR, the fatherly figure of all the experimental French filmmakers in the decade before German rule, takes a SAVAGE BEATING at the hands of his friend Marcel. Shosanna watches, pitiless. SHOSANNA Bring that fucker over here! Put his head down on that table. Marcel, holds his arm behind him, as he forces his head flat against the table top. Shosanna brings a HATCHET DOWN DEEP into the table, just by his face. SHOSANNA You ether do what the fuck we tell you to, or I'll bury this axe in your collaborating skull. GASPAR I'm not a collaborator! SHOSANNA Then prove it! Or does your manhood go no deeper, then standing to piss? Marcel, does his wife, and children know you? MARCEL Oui. SHOSANNA Then after we kill this dog for Germans, we'll go and silence them. She lifts up the hatchet, raises it high... SHOSANNA Prepare to die, collaborator fucker! CUT TO GASPAR hands the couple a SMALL SILVER CAN OF 35mm FILM. Outside the shop window, it's morning. INT - PROJECTION BOOTH- WE SEE the five heavy silver film cans of Fredrick Zollers life story "Nations Pride"(clearly marked) on the floor of the projection booth. The can for REEL 4is open and empty. Shosanna's at the editing bench, REEL 4, is up on the rewinds... Shosanna SPLICES her and Marcels footage into REEL 4 of Fredricks film. Rewinds it, puts it back in the can, and puts a piece of RED TAPE on REEL 4 CAN. She walks out of the booth, turning off the lights behind her, PLUNGING THE SCREEN INTO DARKNESS. BLACK FRAME FROM BLACK DISSOLVE TO EXT - LA LOUISIANE (TAVERN) - NIGHT We see a small basement tavern, with a old rustic sign out front that reads, "La Louisiane". A SUBTITLE APPEARS: "The Village of NADINE, FRANCE" TWO SHOT LT.HICOX and LT.ALDO RAINE Aldo is dressed like a French civilian. Hicox is dressed in a German grey S.S. Cap't uniform. They look out of a window, in a apartment, in the village of Nadine, overlooking the tavern. LT.ALDO You didn't say the goddamn rendez-vous was in a fuckin basement. LT.HICOX I didn't know. LT.ALDO You said it was in a tavern? LT.HICOX it is a tavern. LT.ALDO Yeah, in a basement. You know, fightin in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, your fighting in a basement. Wilhelm Wicki, joins the SHOT, dressed in a German S.S. Lieutenant uniform. WICKI What if we go in there, and she's not even there? LT.HICOX We wait. Don't worry, she's a British spy, she'll make the rendez-vous. WE SEE the other Basterds, dressed in French civilian clothes, are in the room as well, they are, Donowitz, Hirschberg, and Utivich. And in the back of the room, dressed in the grey uniform of a S.S. Lieutenant, Hugo Stiglitz sits off by himself, sharpening his S.S. DAGGER on his leather belt looped around his boot. Anybody not in the scene from the Basterds opening chapter, is dead. Lt.Hicox watches Stiglitz off by himself on the other side of the room, SHARPENS his dagger menacingly. .Stiglitz is fucking werid... Lt.Hicox approaches Stiglitz... LT.NICOX Stiglitz, right? STIGLITZ That's right, sir. He continues bringing the blades edge, up, then, down on the leather strap. LT.HICOX I hear your pretty good with that? Meaning the blade. Stiglitz doesn't answer. LT.HICOX You know, we're not looking for trouble, right now. We're simply making contact with our agent. Should be uneventful. However, on the off chance I'm wrong, and things prove eventful. I need to know, we can all remain calm. 99. The renegade Gerry Sergeant, stops his blades progress, and looks up at the limy Lieutenant. STIGLITZ I don't look calm to you? LT.HICOX Well, now you put it like that, I guess you do. He turns his attention back to his blade. Hicox moves over to Aldo, and asks him privately; LT. HI COX This Gerry of yours, Stiglitz? Not exactly the loquacious type, is he? Aldo just looks at him. LT.ALDO Is that the kinds man you need, the loquacious type? LT.HICOX Fair point, Lieutenant. LT.ALDO So y'all git in trouble in there,