Oria, Inglorious Bastards

My favorite character from the movie is Shoshanna. She goes through so much throughout the entire movie and I feel like she has the most reason to burn down the theater with the Nazis in it. Now it is not that the others did not have a reason to kill the Nazis, I mean who did not want to kill the Nazis, but I feel like Shoshanna has such a deeply rooted hatred for them because of what they did to her family. She is such a strong character and that is why I think I like her as much as I do. She sacrifices her life, her theater, and the love of her life Marcel all to seek revenge for the massacre of her family and her people. The entire movie I feel like she is very strong and intense. Whenever Shoshanna is shown, she is working on the cinema. The scene that made her my favorite character was the one where she was getting prepared for the Nazi night in her cinema. She is dressed in a floor length bright, red dress. This is the brightest outfit she wears the entire movie, all of the other ones were very plain and dull colors. I think that this was done because red symbolizes anger, passion, or blood. She is angry with the Nazis and is passionate about killing them. I do not know if this is true or not but I remember hearing in a movie once that if a person was some how involved with the death of a person, at their funeral they wear red. This might not be true but if it is then I found it interesting that she was in red because she is going to be the cause of a lot of Nazi deaths in that theater.

The picture I choose I felt truly describes her; it is when she is about to go see the Nazis. If you look at the lighting, it is lighter around her eyes and that is what I was first drawn to, it was the dominant image. Her eyes are very intense and determined but at the same time they are slightly covered by the black veil. I think that this represents how she knows what she has to do and she is going to do it but at the same time she is not going to reveal it to everyone. Also I think that it is significant that it is not solid piece of fabric over her eyes that completely cover them because it is not like she has tried to hide her distaste towards Frederick Zuller, he just has not gotten the message. The next thing my eyes are drawn to is the swastika in the background. It is kind of blurred but it can still be made out. It is huge but I am not drawn to it at first because it kind it just kind of falls into the background which I believe means that it was all over the place in this time and it was not uncommon to see them everywhere. It could also represent her motivation for burning down the building. It looks like it is apart of the building and she wants to destroy everything that is Nazi. Therefore she must destroy the building because the Nazis are in the building.