You put beef in the stew!? You know I'm vegetarian!

Rating: 10/10 (29 September 2011)

Roughly translated, Inglourious Basterds means an old, shameful unpleasantry, like a vegetarian who is tricked into once again swallowing a piece of beef. Tarantino plays devil's advocate, the person playing the practical joke, who puts the beef in the stew, thinking that if we are conscious of what we intake we will be aware of the tomfoolery. If not then our blindness will lead us to the immorality we strive against, in this case, that meat is murder.
He is telling the audience to not be a pushover, to stand up for what you believe in, and to not be scorned by ignorance. The last line, "This just might be my masterpiece," is a mathematically crafted answer, his "Therefore, QED" statement that tries to answer sets of matrices. It takes a well trained eye to calculate the numbers as they grow exponentially throughout. This is no test problem, more so a bonus question. It reads, "Solve the differential equation," and the answer demystifies a single stereotype that math teachers can only hope to demolish in students brains, "That math has no application in the real world."