Inglorious Basterds

Since January 2009 I have been looking forward to the August 21st release date of Inglorious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt and Diane Kruger. While many people think that Inglorious Basterds is just a shoot' em up adventure movie with no plot, they could not be more wrong. Inglorious Basterds focuses on three groups of people: The basterds, Shoshanna Dreyfus, and Hans Landa, the Jew Hunter. Inglorious Basterds focuses on Judaism in many different ways. The Basterds, a group of eight Jews from America are dropped into France with the sole purpose of killing Nazis and then scalping them. Shoshanna Dreyfus is a Jew who escaped from Hans Landa, an SS officer with the job of hunting down Jews and then killing them. When Shoshanna was a teenager, her hiding place had been given away by the French farmer she was being hidden by, and her entire family died except for her. Hans Landa is known among France and Germany as the Jew Hunter, and he was the Nazi who tried to kill Shoshanna's family. I won't tell you what happens in the end of the movie, but it is very suspenseful, and there is a lot of action and shooting. In the first scene of the movie, Hans Landa confronts a French farmer about the location of some Jews. The movie confronts the horror and terror of the World War II, and how hard it was for Jews to survive in the Second World War. I definitely recommend this movie. I give Inglorious Basterds a 9.3/10.

Seth Rogen

For many people, an example of a Jewish comedian is Woody Allen, or the Three Stooges. However, there is one who is taking the world by storm with his vulgar, disgusting, sarcastic, comedic and hilarious voice. His name: not Sacha Baron Cohen, but Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen was born in Canada in 1982 to: in his own words, "radical Jewish socialists." His mother was a social worker, and his father worked for a union. When he was thirteen years old, he became involved with standup comedy at his Jewish camp, and became legendary there for his comedy. While he was sixteen, he entered the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest, and finished second. He then left Canada, and arrived in America where he landed a role in Freaks and Geeks, a Judd Apatow comedy, in which he starred alongside James Franco, Jason Segel, and John Francis Daley. He then moved on to star in the short-lived show Undeclared, which he co-wrote with Judd Apatow. Some of the most recent movies that he has starred in include: Funny People, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Observe and Report, Zack and Miri Make A Porno, Knocked Up and Pineapple Express. He has also had minor roles in movies like: Anchorman, Stepbrothers and Superbad. In many of his movies, Rogen discusses his Judaism. One of his quotes says that his "face is circumcised." Most of the times, he acts as if being Jewish holds him back, and that it prevents him from reaching his goal. Some of Rogen’s upcoming projects include starring in The Green Hornet, and writing an episode of The Simpsons. Overall, I would have to say that Rogen is my favorite Jewish actor, and one of my favorite actors all together.

Here is a video of Rogen doing standup at a young age in Canada. It's very funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-aZogWeiyU