Daily Dialogue — April 18, 2019

“I apologize, I forgot to order the cream.”

— Inglourious Basterds (2009), written by Quentin Tarantino

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Dessert.

Trivia: Landa’s choice of food for Shosanna is symbolic and another way to test the girl and play psychological games with her. The glass of milk is a call-back to La Padite’s farm where Landa drank milk and Shosanna’s family died; as for Strudel, during WWII it would likely have been made with pork lard, which is not Kosher and therefore not allowed by Jewish dietary laws.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Leave it to Tarantino to take a harmless dessert item like strudel and craft a bone-chilling scene around it. Landa milks the moment for all its worth.