Free Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino

German intellectual cinema of the twenties and the Jewish-controlled dogma of Hollywood.
    SUDDENLY… bellowing from the back of the room:
CHURCHILL
    How’s he doing?
LT. HICOX
    Frightfully sorry, sir, once again?
CHURCHILL
    You say he wants to take on the Jews at their own game? Compared to, say,… Louis B. Mayer… how’s he doing?
LT. HICOX
    Quite well, actually. Since Goebbels has taken over, film attendance has steadily risen in Germany over the last eight years.
     But Louis B. Mayer wouldn’t be Goebbels’ proper opposite number. I believe Goebbels sees himself closer to David O. Selznick.
    Gen. Fenech looks to the prime minister.
    With a puff of cigar smoke, Churchill says:
CHURCHILL
    Brief him.
GEN. FENECH
    Lt. Hicox, at this point in time I’d like to brief you on Operation Kino. Three days from now, Joseph Goebbels is throwing
     a gala premiere of one of his new movies in Paris—
LT. HICOX
    —What film, sir?
    The general has to resort to peeking at his file.
GEN. FENECH
    The motion pictures called “Nation’s Pride.”
LT. HICOX
    Oh, you mean the film about Private Zoller?
GEN. FENECH
    We don’t have any intelligence on exactly what the film that night will be about.
LT. HICOX
    But it’s called “Nation’s Pride”?
GEN. FENECH
    Yes.
LT. HICOX
    I can tell you what it’s about. It’s about Private Fredrick Zoller. He’s the German Sargeant York.
    Fenech can’t help suppress a smile. They have the right man.
GEN. FENECH
    In attendance at this joyous Germanic occasion will be Goebbels, Goering, Bormann, and most of the German High Command, including
     all the high-ranking officers of both the S.S. and the Gestapo, as well as luminaries of the Nazi propaganda-film industry.
LT. HICOX
    The master race at play, aye?
GEN. FENECH
    Basically, we have all our rotten eggs in one basket. The objective of Operation Kino… Blow up the basket.
LT. HICOX
    (reciting a poem)
    … and like the snows of yesteryear, gone from this earth. Jolly good, sir.
GEN. FENECH
    An American Secret Service outfit that lives deep behind enemy lines will be your assist. The Germans call them “the Basterds.”
LT. HICOX
    “The Basterds.” Never heard of them.
GEN. FENECH
    Whole point of the Secret Service, old boy, you not hearing of them. But the Gerrys have heard of them, because these Yanks
     have been them the devil. Their leader is a chap named Lieutenant Aldo Raine. The Germans call him “Aldo the Apache.”
LT. HICOX
    Why do they call him that?
GEN. FENECH
    Best guess is because he removes the scalps of the Nazi dead.
LT. HICOX
    Scalps, sir?
GEN. FENECH
    The hair.
    He runs his finger along his hairline.
GEN. FENECH
    Like a red Injun.
LT. HICOX
    Rather gruesome-sounding little dickybird, isn’t he?
GEN. FENECH
    No doubt the whole lot, a bunch of nutters. But you’ve heard the expression “It takes a thief.”
LT. HICOX
    Indeed.
    Gen. Fenech continues on with his exposition, moving over to a military map.
GEN. FENECH
    You’ll be dropped into Franch about twenty-four kilometers outside of Paris. The Basterds will be waiting for you. First thing,
     you go to a little village called Nadine.
    (He points it out on the map.)
    Apparently the Gerrys never go there. In Nadine, there’s a tavern called La Louisiane. You’ll rendezvous with our double agent,
     and she’ll take it from there. She’s the one who’s going to get you into the premiere. It will be you, her, and two German-born
     members of the Basterds. She’s also made all the other arrangements you’re going to need.
LT. HICOX
    How will I know her?
GEN. FENECH
    I suspect that won’t be too much trouble for you. Your contract is Bridget von Hammersmark.
LT. HICOX
    Bridget von Hammersmark? The German movie star is working for England?
GEN. FENECH
    For the last two years now. One could even say Operation Kino was her brainchild.
    In the back of the room the bulldog barks:
CHURCHILL
    Extraordinary woman.
LT. HICOX
    Quite.
GEN. FENECH
    You’ll go to the premiere