Inglourious Basterds vs. Rogue One
My maternal grandfather served in the Second World War, which served as the setting for the 2009 Oscar-winning war film Inglourious Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino. 7 years later, the Star Wars franchise produced a war movie of their own called Rogue One. The two are the exact same story. Let me tell you why.
A military officer (Col. Hans Landa; Director Orson Krennic) from a deadly dictatorship (Third Reich; Galactic Empire) visits a farm located in occupied territory (France, Lah'mu) to convince a war-weary man (Perrier LaPadite; Galen Erso) to help him kill innocent people (Landa interrogates LaPadite for the whereabouts of the last unaccounted-for Jewish family in the area; Krennic tries to recruit Galen to finish building the Death Star, a superweapon capable of destroying entire planets), executing nearby civilians in the resulting standoff (Landa orders his soldiers to shoot the floorboards, killing the Jews hiding beneath it; Krennic kills Galen's wife). However, a young girl (Shosanna Dreyfus; Jyn Erso) manages to escape. Years later, the girl grows up into a resistance fighter with a personal agenda (Shosanna, living under an alias, becomes a cinema proprietor and plots to assassinate the Nazi leadership as revenge for the death of her family; Jyn is rescued from an Imperial labor camp by Rebel Alliance intelligence officer Cassian Andor, and is sent to rescue her father to learn more about the Death Star, but initially nothing more). Meanwhile, a guerrilla commander (Lt. Aldo Raine; Saw Gerrera) leads an brutal campaign against the government (Raine and a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as the "Basterds" patrol Nazi-occupied France, killing and scalping as many Nazis as they can; Gerrera and his partisans violently oppose the Empire). At the climax, with the help of a defector from the dictatorship (Bridget von Hammersmark; Bodhi Rook), the rebels embark on a suicide mission to weaken the government (the Basterds assault Shosanna's cinema in a plot to assassinate the Nazi leadership during the premiere of a propaganda film; Jyn and a group of rebel spies plan to steal the Death Star schematics). In the end, though many of the heroes die (all of the Basterds except for Raine and Pvt. Smithson Utivich die during the attack; all members of Jyn's group die during the theft), they complete their mission, ensuring victory for the good guys (the Third Reich is effectively beheaded, ensuring a swift end to WWII; the Death Star plans are handed over to Princess Leia Organa, leading to the events of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope).
It's the same story!
A military officer (Col. Hans Landa; Director Orson Krennic) from a deadly dictatorship (Third Reich; Galactic Empire) visits a farm located in occupied territory (France, Lah'mu) to convince a war-weary man (Perrier LaPadite; Galen Erso) to help him kill innocent people (Landa interrogates LaPadite for the whereabouts of the last unaccounted-for Jewish family in the area; Krennic tries to recruit Galen to finish building the Death Star, a superweapon capable of destroying entire planets), executing nearby civilians in the resulting standoff (Landa orders his soldiers to shoot the floorboards, killing the Jews hiding beneath it; Krennic kills Galen's wife). However, a young girl (Shosanna Dreyfus; Jyn Erso) manages to escape. Years later, the girl grows up into a resistance fighter with a personal agenda (Shosanna, living under an alias, becomes a cinema proprietor and plots to assassinate the Nazi leadership as revenge for the death of her family; Jyn is rescued from an Imperial labor camp by Rebel Alliance intelligence officer Cassian Andor, and is sent to rescue her father to learn more about the Death Star, but initially nothing more). Meanwhile, a guerrilla commander (Lt. Aldo Raine; Saw Gerrera) leads an brutal campaign against the government (Raine and a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as the "Basterds" patrol Nazi-occupied France, killing and scalping as many Nazis as they can; Gerrera and his partisans violently oppose the Empire). At the climax, with the help of a defector from the dictatorship (Bridget von Hammersmark; Bodhi Rook), the rebels embark on a suicide mission to weaken the government (the Basterds assault Shosanna's cinema in a plot to assassinate the Nazi leadership during the premiere of a propaganda film; Jyn and a group of rebel spies plan to steal the Death Star schematics). In the end, though many of the heroes die (all of the Basterds except for Raine and Pvt. Smithson Utivich die during the attack; all members of Jyn's group die during the theft), they complete their mission, ensuring victory for the good guys (the Third Reich is effectively beheaded, ensuring a swift end to WWII; the Death Star plans are handed over to Princess Leia Organa, leading to the events of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope).
It's the same story!
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