How Qt established his film’s central tension in the opening minutes.

The opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a 17-page slow boil that introduces us to Colonel Hans Landa (Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz), aka “The Jew Hunter,” as he pays a visit to a dairy farmer in the idyllic French countryside. He’s there because of all the Jewish families living in the area, only one hasn’t been accounted for, which Waltz believes is because someone — namely the dairy farmer — is hiding them from the Nazis. As he downs the farmer’s delicious milk, Landa calmly, cooly, and masterfully manipulates the farmer through false promises to reveal that he in fact is the one hiding the unaccounted-for family. This is when Landa shows his true colors by inviting his troops inside to spray bullets through the floorboards, killing all the hiding family except for young daughter Shoshanna, who...