By demanding that his actors speak their native tongues—Christoph Waltz in German, Mélanie Laurent in French, and Brad Pitt in a thick Tennessee drawl—Tarantino uses subtitles to ground his "spaghetti western" version of WWII in a sense of realism. The subtitles serve as a constant reminder of the barriers between the characters. When Aldo Raine attempts to speak Italian ("Gorlami"), the humor arises from the gap between the subtitles’ intended meaning and his butchered pronunciation. Conclusion
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