Tarantino loves to references loads of various pieces of work throughout his own, including using specific shots, whether it be taken from Spaghetti Westerns such as 'The Good, The Bad, The Ugly [1966] where he frames the forest shots similarly to the build up to the finale, or whether it be just using music from all sorts of eras irrespective of whether it fits with the time of the film that he is showing.
Tarantino also pays tribute to the Odessa steps scene from the movie The Battleship Potekim.
Tarantino also sets Inglorious Basterds as a fairy tale. He begins the film with 'once upon a time' and also he marks the start of each new section of the film with 'chapter 3' etc. He once again uses the Spaghetti Western music in the opening part of the film.
A trait of Tarantino is to also often break the 4th wall, and also to stress to us as the viewer that what we are watching is only a film and nothing more. He does this in various ways in the opening 'chapter'. Instantly we become aware that the background that is being shown through the windows isn't actually real and that it is actually painted.
We are also shown that the room they are actually shown to be in is a filming studio, when Tarantino shows the camera actually going down through the floor-boards to show the hiding jews. Furthermore, the camera also shows a clear ceiling, however we are shown a view that is above beams where the ceiling was shown to be just seconds ago.
Yet another shot that is paid tribute to in the opening chapter is the shot that is taken from the film 'The Searchers' [1956] where Tarantino mimics the door shot where the girl is running, this is used in The Searchers where the man walks away.
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