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I found a VHS tape at the junk store, labeled just “A Surprise!”. Since I’d recently set up my VCR and old 80s TV, I thought I should check it out.

Classic Nazi punches in cinema:

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

American History X

Hellboy

Inglourious Basterds

Captain America: The First Avenger

Bonus: Daffy Duck meets Hitler-

I do not consider Inglourious Basterds to be a film about how we glorify violence, though this is one of Tarantino’s focuses in many other works. I would posit that Tarantino himself enjoys screen violence at a visceral level and made this film in part to depict violence against Nazis for his own pleasure. I do not think it is in any way hypocritical then to enjoy seeing Nazis beaten and battered while appreciating this film.

Furthermore, there is nothing in the original post nor its responses in this thread on my part that suggests making light of or championing the beating of Nazis. Though I do fully approve of legal wartime Nazi beating, violent self-defense that leads to Nazi beating, and science fiction oriented stories that result in Nazi beating, none of that sentiment appears in my posts above which merely depict the acts without significant comment. You merely assumed it.