This week, we take aim at Nazis as pop-culture film villains and the tropes associated with them in a discussion on Quentin Tarantino’s "Inglourious Basterds," in which the auteur shakes up World War II history with his revisionist caper war film. He makes an audience hungry for Nazi revenge, questioning how far one must go along in the journey to experience catharsis in foiling the Nazis. And in the ultimate act of revenge, Tarantino gives the masses something they always wanted to see, and Hitler gets his comeuppance. This film, shaped by a director with a history of fascist propaganda movies and WW2 films at his disposal, creates a Nazi-revenge, blood-soaked, brain-splattered pop culture sensation in a culture where sex gets you an NC-17 rating, and violence gets you Oscar nominations.