In film an ideology is an applied theme that is apparent and interpreted throughout the film. A dominant idea that has been proposed by a dominant class, for example the Christian Church, that is expected to be adhered to by all members of society. The purpose of the ideology is to either offer a change in society or conform to the ideals that are already in place.
Inglourious Basterds, (2010) by Quentin Tarantino, set in 1944 Nazi-occupied France, tells of what it could have been like if Hitler was killed by the Jews. This particular imaginative film by Tarantino has the strong running theme of kill the Nazis, and take no prisoners. It is a fairy-tale and a ‘what if’ film that gives the audience a taste of what it could have been like if the reverse happened.
There are both explicit and implicit ideologies running throughout the film that can be easily interpreted. The suggested implicit messages from the story of the Nazi are embarrassment, humiliation and the repercussions of breaking trust. Brad Pitt and his team of ruthless Jewish soldiers brought across these emotions when they branded the Nazi’s that they captured. A knife was used to carve the Nazi sign into the forehead of the soldiers so they would be scarred forever with their wrongdoings. The explicit ideology comes from the Nazi and Jewish point of view in the film, which is clearly interpreted as go to war. The film has many different chapters but we see the brutality of the treatment of the Jewish race by Hitler’s army through many of them. Hitler’s reign was a dictatorship, a very explicit theme shown throughout the film. The history of the film has been reversed, showing the Jewish race being the race that came out on top; however both races had very explicit ideologies which ultimately lead to killing, death and war which are clear throughout Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, (2010).
The Da Vinci Code, (2003) written by Dan Brown and directed by Ron Howard, is another film that has explicit and implicit ideologies throughout the film. There has been a lot of debate and disapproval towards the film as many people who have seen the film have been influenced and now believe that there have been many clues and truths that have been covered up by the church for centuries that there is actually a bloodline from Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s children that still exist today.
The implicit ideology within the film is how the modern world has become rebellious and corrupted from religion. This is resonated through the explicit ideology when the dedicated monk interferes with the facts that could lead to the Roman Catholic Church and religion being challenged. This could be looked at as ironic as the monk who commits the murders feels that the Harvard University symbologist, Robert Langdon, and the cryptographer, Sophie Neveu, are interfering with his belief and religion instead of the other way around, which would be the church hiding hidden secrets from the public.
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