Gerard Gennette

Intertexuality-Quotation, Plagiarism and illusion


There are elements of Intertexuality within Inglorious Basterds for example Tarantino has included music and positioning from the Spaghetti Western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Second, the idea of killing SS and Nazis can be seen to have come from the film with Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare. 
The background scene to the opening chapter can be seen to be taken or inspired from the The Sound of Music. In particular the scene in which The Hills are Alive with The Sound Music music.
Along side this is the the opening dark screen where the title is written in the style that would be expected from a fairytale.

Architextuality-Designation of the text as part of a genre by the director or the audience


It can be seen that there aren't elements of the actual film which fit under Architextuality however the film before it was produced was coined as Tarantino's war film and thus became expected by the audience as a film from the war genre.

Metatexuality- Explicit or implicit critical commentary of one text on another


Within Inglorious Basterds it can be seen that there are examples of Metatexuality when Frederick Zoller talks of Charlie Chaplain, his German counter part, Van Johnson and there is commentary on the film Pitz Palu and its director. This can be seen as Metatexuality as Frederick Zoller gives critical commentary on real films from the period in which Inglorious Basterds is set.

Hypotexuality-The relationship between a text and a proceeding hypo-text. A text or genre on which it is based but which transforms, modifies, elaborates or extends (including parody, spoof, sequel, translation)


There are elements of hypo-textuality in that Inglorious Basterds as there are numerous moments of translation throughout the film. For example there is translation of Where Eagles Dare, the Dirty Dozen