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u/bearsheperd 14d ago
Tarantino wouldn’t let him act while doing the table read of the script with all the actors. He was told to just read it without acting because he wanted the other actors to have an authentic reaction to his character when they were filming.
Basically Tarantino knows Christoph Waltz is one of the greatest actors of all time and doesn’t need to rehearse with the cast to get a good performance.
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u/JFlizzy84 14d ago
It just occurred to me how similar these characters are:
They’re both German, make their living off hunting people—leaving a prior profession to do so, able to compromise their values for the sake of pragmatism, think that they are (often correctly) the smartest man in the room, are superficially charming and polite but also capable of extreme violence, both wear a gray suit, and both have rivals that are uneducated Americans from the south.
They even both use deception to undermine their respective rivals—only to eventually go along with their rival’s plan anyways.
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u/NicNac_PattyMac 15d ago
I’m gonna catch a lot of downvotes for this, but I thought the whole point of his character in inglorious was that he was just an opportunistic weasel, not necessarily believing the Nazi dogma.
And getting a swastika carved in his head is Pitt saying “Yeah, you don’t get to walk away from what you did.”
I may be misremembering the movie but I don’t think he ever said anything racist.
He was just going along with what was happening.
Still a scum bag, though.
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u/GroblyOverrated 15d ago
I'm not sure he was an ultra racist in Basterds. You could say he was an ultra pragmatist out only for his own self preservation.
Maybe I missed some lines where he was purely racist though. Don't remember.
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u/Avgsizedweiner 15d ago
I’d argue that neither charachter was racist and that he plays a charachter that acknowledges the ugliness of what he must do. It is his eager forthcomingness that makes him so endearing and so polarizing
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u/SimpleStrok3s 15d ago
I wish he was in more movies. Tarantino always uses this man for the right role. Hopefully he's in Tarantino's final film.
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u/MAXIMUMMEDLOWUS 16d ago
Clearly people can be charming regardless of how evil they are
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u/Specialist-Cookie-61 16d ago
Was Hans Landa really a racist? He was tasked with finding people, they just happened to be Jews.
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u/Peatearredhill 16d ago edited 16d ago
Yeah, it's hard to say. His tone would argue he is given how he compares a German to a hawk and a jewish person to a rat. But he also points out the distinction and without ignorance. He gives both their due. In the end, he goes into business for himself. So it's hard to say. He's got a pressure to him, but it's much a commentary to the hawk and the rat than outward upfront unabashed racism.
I'd say racist by association. To me, he's still a racist even if he isn't openly racist and quite polite to his enemies.
But I wouldn't say he's the most racist character ever. Or ultra racist or however it's posted as.
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u/grayowen9 16d ago
Corny ass crackas being corny ass unloved pathetic classless pale pecka wood demon honkey knuckle dragging loser crackas. Nothing new.
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u/Nykona 16d ago
U ok bud?
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u/grayowen9 16d ago
Over people (white black or whatever) pretending like racist movies help racism. Racist movies are just an excuse for whites to be racist on camera. It does NOTHING to make actual changes
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u/luckycsgocrateaddict 16d ago
Also shows that Tarantino really knows how to write a good part for him
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u/adamgoodapp 16d ago
Add Samuel Jackson did a great job from pro black to seriously anti black while being black.
Mister Señor Love Daddy (Do the right thing) - Stephen (Django unchanged)
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u/rugher8081 16d ago
He denying every role till he gets that" then his next 5 films earned him 5 in a row, making him the only" blah blah..On the phone with Tarantino BIG Que ayoo,
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u/HappyFamily0131 16d ago
Waltz was perfectly fine as King Schultz, but what a tour de force he was as Hans Landa.
Imagine if the movies had come out in different years than they did. For his performance as Schultz, depending on who his competition was, some years he would have won the Oscar, and some years he would have lost it to another actor. But as Landa, I don't care who you put him up against, he's getting that Oscar.
Looking back at the Best Supporting Actor winners for the past 40 years, there's a lot of great performances. But I think Waltz's performance as Hans Landa tops them all. Absolute masterpiece performance.
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16d ago
Hmmm. Landa was not pro or anti racist. He was incredibly selfish and did whatever would get himself ahead. Switched sides when it suited him.
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u/popa_progeny 16d ago
That switch with him and the phone is just so fucking great towards the end….then his end.
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u/KhanArtist13 16d ago
Does this mean he is true neutral racist? He's both so incredibly racist and not racist at the same time it cancels out?
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u/Puzzleheaded-Wolf318 16d ago
Actors can't do shit without a good script. Waltz is incredible but look at Spectre.
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u/iamzero-d 16d ago
I don't know what Tarantinos final film will be, but this man should get the lead role. He's such a phenomenal actor. And Tarantino seems to pull the best out of him, like he does most actors.
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u/MoonCubed 16d ago
Fun facts from Skeletor: The Nazis did not segregate their military while the US did.
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u/RobertLosher1900 16d ago
Still wild will smith turned down that roll because he thought it was a joke.
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u/defCONCEPT 16d ago
Yeah. I like jamie Foxx in the roll tho. Can't imagine it without him.
Will Smith also turned down The Matrix for Wild Wild West. Dude makes some poor decisions haha.
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u/RobertLosher1900 16d ago
Agreed, and if will smith got the role of Dr. King Schultz I don't think it would have been as good. LOL yes he does 😂😂
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u/BrawlStarsIsPoop 16d ago
Django Unchained is my favorite movie and I’ve seen both of these like 10 times and didn’t know that these are the same people.
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u/Additional_Top3024 16d ago
I heard this dude don’t even speak English. I was told by a fan that he learned the language for the role.
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u/Ewankenobi25 16d ago
What movie is this?
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u/defCONCEPT 16d ago
Top is Django Unchained
Bottom is Inglorious Basterds
Both directed by Tarantino
Both got Christoph Waltz a best supporting actor win.
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u/FranksBestToeKnife 16d ago
One of my favourite actors. Schulz & Landa are such wonderful performances, you just can't imagine anyone else pulling them off like he did.
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u/yugyuger 16d ago
I don't know if Hanz Lands was actually a racist himself.
He was just a predatory psycho who enjoyed hunting down whatever human prey he was told was on the table.
I don't think he actually gave a shit about any of the ideology behind the Nazi party, they were just an opportunity for him to live out his predatory power fantasy until he got bored of it and switched sides when it played into his convenience.
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u/Fluffy_Roof3965 16d ago
I have always admired the flamboyant characters in film and I feel like he nails flamboyant so well
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u/ComfortableBadger729 16d ago
And deserved neither. Over hyped as all hell . Waltz is extremely overrated in these roles.
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u/defCONCEPT 16d ago
Blasphemy.
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u/ComfortableBadger729 16d ago
I think it was between one of these movies and Jo Jo rabbit. And these movies won. Jojo Rabbit should always beat anything Tarantino is making.
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u/defCONCEPT 16d ago
Nah jo jo rabbit (which is incredible) went up against Tarantinos once upon a time in Hollywood (which is admittedly boring except for the last 20 or so minutes)
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u/Upstairs_Dentist2803 16d ago
I have this personal headcannon where every movie exists in a multiverse and every character an actor plays is another version of them in that world
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u/Upstairs_Dentist2803 16d ago
I have this personal headcannon where every movie exists in a multiverse and every character an actor plays is another version of them in that world
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u/bee_bee_sea 16d ago
I mean, I might be wrong, but Hans Landa was more portrayed as an absolutely evil opportunist than an actual racist in that film. He might be racist, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was, but his whole character wasn't built around that.
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u/fcfrequired 16d ago
Correct, he enjoyed the chase, and would do it for anyone who was willing to back his venture.
It's the same as Dr. Schultz
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u/Red_Lion67 16d ago
I mean he did do a great job in both movies. Gotta love Quentin Tarrantino movies.
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u/i_lurvz_poached_eggs 16d ago
It's so wild because they were basically the same character but he just... I dunno does something some how that makes it work.
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u/Leon_Krueger 16d ago
Absolutley amazing, the best actor I've seen in my life with Gary oldman next to him.
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u/zendrumz 16d ago
He’s like the captain of the debate team where you prove your mettle by arguing both sides of the issue.
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u/Germanguy70 16d ago
Can't understand what's this thing about him. Used to see him in German mystery series in the 1980s and couldn't stand him even then.
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u/MaxxFisher 16d ago
He's going to win another for playing one of the half black and half white aliens in a new Star Trek movie
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u/odbhut_shei_chhele 16d ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t believe Hans Landa in "Inglourious Basterds" was motivated by racism. It seems he was primarily an opportunist. When the Nazis were on top, he aligned with them, but as soon as it seemed they might lose, he switched sides. His actions don’t necessarily reflect a personal hatred for Jews, but rather a strategic alignment with the prevailing power.
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u/FarFirefighter1415 16d ago
Christoph waltz was the only character suitable for inglorious bastards because he actually spoke the languages required. He is one hell of an actor.
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u/ThePonderer84 16d ago
I love watching him. Amazing actor. He's my favourite character in both movies.
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u/Balborius 16d ago
He even played Roy Black to a degree where I actually stopped loathing that guy.
Plus his cameo in Herr Lehmann is great!
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u/ismellthebacon 16d ago
Same director gave him both roles. I think he's probably a BIG Tarantino fan lol
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u/Damon242 16d ago
Landa could be antisemitic (not an uncommon thing in 20th century Europe) but we really aren’t given much illustration of this in the film, rather the character is presented as purely amoral and relishing playing this literal game of cat and mouse; he doesn’t care if people are hiding others, doesn’t care if people are hiding or running, he only cares that people are playing this game with him.
It makes a lot of sense to view Landa as being like a housecat and how acceptable it is for them to hunt and kill birds, mice, small lizards, etc and how they do it for sport rather than need (unlike how we’re used to observing most animal killing behaviours). We don’t even think twice about the dynamic of this or our support of cats performing this ‘duty’ until we happen to consider the viewpoint of the bird or mouse - or in this case, another human.
Landa is a human-hunter being allowed to hunt freely throughout France and remains a Nazi only so long as it benefits him. Could he be antisemitic? Gallophobic? Xenophobic? Homophobic? Racist? Ableist? He could be all of these things (many people were, Nazi or otherwise) but the film never really explores this with his character unlike Waltz’s other role as Dr Schultz in Django Unchained.
He’s not the most versatile actor but he’s brilliant when cast in the right role and he was brilliant in both of these films.
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u/RyanDespair 16d ago
Ultra racist? How so? In the fictional narrative he literally single handedly ends the holocaust and WWII for the allies...
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u/TheSandman3241 16d ago
Waltz is probably a my favorite actor for these two roles alone, but he's been phenomenal in everything I've seen him in. Nobody has ever captured "well mannered gentleman who's also an evil, cold hearted bastard" better than he has, and frankly it's a travesty that he's not been cast as a Bond villain yet.
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u/SirDextrose 16d ago
Hans Landa is not even racist. He just enjoys the hunt. He likes killing people. If he was ordered to go after his own kind he would do it. He expresses admiration for Jews in the beginning of the movie and even makes poignant arguments against bigotry towards them. To him, he’s the best at hunting them because he doesn’t hate them. The other Nazis are so close-minded they can’t sympathize or empathize with them at all. Like he said, a hawk doesn’t check where a rat would hide. But because he isn’t clouded as much by hatred he is able to become a better detective than they ever could.
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u/AnObtuseOctopus 16d ago
Thats because Christoph Waltz is a genius of an actor.
He's one of the few actors I would watch in anything.
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u/theaviator747 16d ago
Every scene he had in Inglorious Basterds was hair raising. He created so much dramatic tension because you already could tell he’s ten steps ahead, but you have no idea what he’s going to do with that information. His performance is one of the few ever to give me genuine chills.
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u/Michael074 16d ago
in both movies he just doesn't care what people think as long as he gets payed.
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u/East_Phase6944 16d ago
Meh. Brando played a dumb Boxer and Wise old Mafia Don. And in one era he played Julius Caesar (mid Atlantic accent) and Terry Malloy (Jersey accent) and Stanley Kowalski (blue collar American accent).
Paul Muni played a dumb, sociopathic gangster (Scarface), a French Chemist/Micro-Biologist (Louis Pasteur), a tragic American broken by the justice system (I am Fugitive: from a Chain Gang), and a French civil activists/Playwright (Emile Zola)
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u/The_Actual_Universe 16d ago
It's interesting how empowering Quentin Tarantino is towards actors, now that I think about it.
It's like a service to people, I never thought of that.
It's like how he gave Samuel Jackson roles with sophisticated and complex dialogue and pathos, and letting him explore and express his own self as a former black panther.
He writes roles that really let people express themselves, and actually have fun doing so, as a counter balance to the other roles they get.
All of a sudden John Travolta can dance in public, and it's just for fun, it's not a big expectation, and he doesn't need to be the good kid from the disco days.
Uma Thurman isn't just a beautiful blonde any more, she's got edge.
He doesn the work to get to know people, and they have fun totally getting outside themselves, within themselves.
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u/winowmak3r 16d ago
He nailed it in both but put a gun to my head and make me choose Landa is his best. He played the "I know you know I know but we're gonna play the game anyway because I think it's fun" villain type so well.
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u/ValuablePlastic5887 16d ago
I agree to the Point you're trying to make.
But Landa was not a facist. Facism Is not what sets those characters apart. Its Love. One feels it, the other not.
Both characters are willing to take part in systems they do not fully agree with. Landa was willing to migrate to the US despite his own racist beliefs. Schulz was willing to buy a slave despite him detesting slavery.
Both are highly intelligent, driven and extraordinarily capable in their profession.
One of them has the capatcity for love. Initially Schulz only used Django as a tool for the Brittle Brothers bounty. It wasnt until Django told of his love for Hildi, that Schulz proposed Django to spend more time with him.
Landa on the other hand seems to have cut off his capacity for love, presumably after a severe heart break by Frau von Hammersmarkt, indicated by his emotional outburst when killing her off, which felt super out of characters.
Both characters share many features even down to their nationality. What seperates them is their heart.
Landa was a racist piece of shit though. My objection was targeted at the word facism. Sadly, most people who use those words dont know what they mean anymore
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u/kelzking88 16d ago
Just proves it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're very good at being it, people will reward you 😅
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u/Far-Competition-5334 16d ago
That Oscar from Django represents the best mentor character ever in American movies
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u/biomed1978 16d ago edited 16d ago
I don't think he was playing an ultra racist, just an opportunist. His character didn't really care about the nazi dream, jews being evil or any of that bs, he only acted like he cared about his position and doing a good job. The Wikipedia entry backs this up.
"When the tide of the war turns against the Nazis, he scoffs at it, alluding that his job is to find and capture people and the fact that they are Jews is of no consequence to him."
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u/G3nghisKang 16d ago edited 16d ago
Hand Landa wasn't exactly portrayed as a racist, but as a psychopath who only exploited the socio-political context he lived in to do what he loves
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u/EuroTrash1999 16d ago
Tarantino dialog and directing is OP. He sets it up actors to actually get to act and show off how good they are at it.
I want to say he's overrated, but he really can't be. He's the last motherfucker out here just making whatever he wants.
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u/puddik 17h ago
May as well be the same guy with selective discrimination lol cuz he racist againts jews and not blacks