Appendix 2

Image 3: Pierre LaPadite whipping his face, removing potential signs of unease towards Nazis. Connotation: ‘good.’

Image 4: Pierre LaPadite hesitates when Landa wants to shake his hand reflecting his reluctance towards Nazis. Connotation: ‘good.’

Image 5: Charlotte LaPadite throwing a hateful stare at Landa reflecting Pierre LaPadite’s disposition. Connotation: ‘good.’

Image 1: Hans Landa exhibits a routinized approach to his work by treating Jews as numbers/products in a notebook. Connotation: ‘dumb/banal evil’

Image 2: Hans Landa expresses pleasure while taking aim at Shoshanna Dreyfus. Connotation: ‘demonical evil’

Appendix 3

Image 1: Adolph Hitler wearing a white cape. Connotation: Cartoonish/superhero (comical element downplaying Nazi authority).

Image 2: Joseph Goebbels teasing Hans Zoller by hitting him with a napkin. Connotation: immature behavior (comical element downplaying Nazi authority).

Image 3: Scene in which the Basterds are introduced, functioning as an intertextual reference to Robert Aldrich’s film The Dirty Dozen (1967) (see image 4).

Image 4: Scene from The Dirty Dozen (1967) in which the hard criminals of the Dirty Dozen are introduced.

Image 5: The ‘unmediated’ scalping of a dead, German soldier requiring the receiver to compare his morals with those of the Basterds. Connotation: emotional coldness.

Image 6: The ‘unmediated’ beating of a German soldier requiring the receiver to compare his morals with those of the Basterds. Connotation: demonical evil

Appendix 4Image 1: Aldo Raine (to the right in the picture) eating while Donowitz is about to brutally murder a German soldier. Connotation: violence is natural for Raine.

Image 4: Alexander DeLarge gazing demonically and with a slight hint of pleasure as he cuts Dim in the hand. Connotation: demonical evil.

Image 2: Alexander DeLarge gazing demonically and without flinching at the receiver (into the camera) in the opening scene. Connotation: a variant of evil.

Image 5: The old writer gazing with a pathological stare akin to Alexander DeLarge’s in the introductory seen. Connotation: a variant of evil

Image 6: The old writer going through a behavioral transition akin to a demonical possession. Connotation: a variant of evil.

Image 3: Alex DeLarge dancing and singing Singin’ in the Rain while beating up an old man. Connotation: demonical evil.

Appendix 5Image 1: The old writer takes pleasure in hearing DeLarge suffer upstairs. Connotation: demonical evil.

Image 2: Benjamin Martin repeatedly stabbing the corpse of an English soldier. Connotation: demonical evil (but not emotionally registered as such).