Late commenting, but have only just gotten into IB fandom in the past couple of days.
This essay has actually made me rethink that scene and Landa's character a bit. One first glance, his killing her like that struck me as somewhat misogynistic, but I now think that your interpretation is more accurate - that she was different to others, that her betrayal is constructed as personal rather than against the Nazi party. Yes, yes, it all fits.
The above commenter alluded to the idea of her being 'the one that got away.' Perhaps for him part of the attraction was that he had to really work as catching her, that she was never just going to fall into his hands? And now that she's betrayed him, he'll never get the chance to hunt her again?
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Date: 2009-09-23 04:59 pm (UTC)This essay has actually made me rethink that scene and Landa's character a bit. One first glance, his killing her like that struck me as somewhat misogynistic, but I now think that your interpretation is more accurate - that she was different to others, that her betrayal is constructed as personal rather than against the Nazi party. Yes, yes, it all fits.
The above commenter alluded to the idea of her being 'the one that got away.' Perhaps for him part of the attraction was that he had to really work as catching her, that she was never just going to fall into his hands? And now that she's betrayed him, he'll never get the chance to hunt her again?
(And I end ramble now.)