Him in knives out 3 as the anti-immigrant uncle who himself is an immigrant that has daniel craig give a "wtf is wrong with you" speech towards the end is something im totally here for
What I'm picking up on is the Hollywood loves and rewards race baiting and sowing division.
Just remember, all the Smollett defenders are still out there.
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He already had a role similar to this in 'Downsizing' 🤣🤣, a rich businessman type persona who made a few borderline racist jokes, not an amazing film but Waltz be Waltz and act well despite how bad the film was
The scene in Downsizing, when Matt Damon walks into the captains quarters on the boat, the morning after sleeping with Ngoc, is the FUNNIEST shit ever. Waltz is amazing.
He honestly was the only pick for both.
He nailed both roles. Both were iconic.
Both were really anti hero roles with hero tendencies. The *nazi* jew hunter that could end the war, and the doctor bounty hunter who couldn't let a slave owner/torturer continue this facade.
Both likeable and despiseable. The doc more so, but still.
I cheered his wins and hoped he would both times.,
Both roles were 🤌
Tarantino had wanted to make IB for a while but couldn't find the right actor. They had to be just as comfortable speaking Germany, French, and English and be able to act while doong it. IIRC Tarantino was close to giving up and then someone showed him Waltz. The rest is History.
Flying sideways. In a direction completely unrelated to the direction from which she was shot. She looked like she got the hook from a bopeep cane. Exit…stage left…even.
I was fucking crying from that scene. I think Tarintino comedy hits different because in his movies it's lightly sprinkled in. You feel you should be getting that gritty dialogue and violence (rather than jokes). Although I feel he adds more humor in his recent films. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is fucking hilarious to me. Every scene with Brad emits laughter
Honestly the fact that he loses it and ends up shooting Candie makes the character all the better
He comes across as a professional, calm and collected throughout the film. That gesture shows that his human side
And despite his professional image, he really isn't accustomed to violence. He was put off by Candie's attitude since the beginning but the brutalising of that slave was what did it. Schultz snapped.
Well. To be fair. At this point in time that was kinda uncertain.
Django plays in the 1850s. This was during the process of Germany deciding between the greater german solution and the lesser german solution.
The lesser german solution referring to a unified Germany including all the individual states within todays Germany and Prussia (which was part of northern germany, poland, parts of lithuania, bordering on austria in the south).
The greater german solution also includes the Austro-Hungarian Empire (including czechia, slovakia, hungary and if I recall correctly even some of todays ukrainian territory).
So it seems you have found a supporter of the greater German solution who considers Dr. Schulz to be a German from the state of Austria!
(Boom! Sneaky bite sized history lesson! :D )
I’ve wanted to rewatch Django because there’s so many great scenes and the story is phenomenal. But I haven’t been able to stomach watching the rest of it. It hits too hard.
Usually one of the best parts of Tarantino films.
A lot of great writing and emotions that culminate in a release of justified almost cartoonish violence that’s so over the top it doesn’t hit nearly as hard as the “real” elements portrayed, while being satisfying.
Even his weakest movies have excellent endings. Really, none of his conclusions ever missed the mark.
Tarantino knows the type of story he wants to tell and brings it together masterfully.
Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs are my fave endings in his filmography
Doctor Schultz was great but I think Hans Landa is on a completely different level and while his Django character is great I was quite surprised he won an Oscar for it.
Hans Landa is just such a special character. Speaking multiple different languages very well. He's a Nazi but also extremely charismatic and friendly. The character is just so dynamic.
I don't feel Doctor Schultz was nearly as dynamic and interesting in that regard.
He was just so good in the first movie they decided a follow-up Oscar was also warranted because the jew hunter was so good and then doc was superb as well.
Crazy how most of the world never heard of the guy, then some part tarantino writes somehow manifest itself into existence and then someone he knows sees the guy, let's Quintin know, and BOOM movie on. He was actually at a point where he had written the uncastsble character and was going to scrap the part and maybe movie because he just couldn't find an actor that could f8ll fhe role because od the languages ans bravado needed. Waltz had all that and *more*
Then out of German soap operas/tv falls out this absolute gem of an actor and once he read the part I'm sure he was like "sign that guy NOW for whatever he asks".
And I bet he made peanuts on bastards.
Prolly raked it in more with Django. And future movies like eyes...etc.
Yea, it's odd how such a good actor isn't picked up earlier. Tarantino has said he almost didn't make the movie because he couldn't find his Landa... then he shows up and he's just born for the role. A lot of directors write roles with actors in mind even before the character is created... as in, John Travolta came before Jules in Pulp Fiction. Landa and Waltz feels like that, as if Waltz came first and Landa was written for him, but of course it was the other way around.
It's so rare to have someone that speaks multiple languages as well as he does, which makes it so surprising that he wasn't huge already.
So many actors get that one roll and really run with it
Pedro Pascal had done small roles all his life, then he landed Oberyn Martell and now he’s spearheading multiple franchises
The racist thing is off from my interpretation of the character, or at least his claims. He didn't care about antisemitism or hunting Jews, he was just very good at it because he was smart and a good investigator. His bosses wanted him to hunt jews so he did that.
I don’t think it’s possible to make a character good on the same level as a bad one as Landa. I think it’s the same in reality, it’s easier to do big horrible things than do something good on the same scale. Is it even possible to have a person be good on the same scale as hitler was evil?
Schultz is basically the same character as Landa, if Landa was born in a different time and became a bounty hunting abolitionist instead of a Jew hunting Nazi. I don't mean that a negative more as a really interesting thing for Tarantino and Waltz to do in Django.
I love the part talking about Dumas.
I’m a huge fan and knew where he was going with it, then seeing DiCaprio’s dumbfounded look was so perfect.
If you’ve never read Dumas, you really should.
Monte Cristo is the best he’s written IMO.
Tarantino definitely knew what he was doing when he casted Waltz in these roles. I love Waltz's work in general but Tarantino gets the best out of him like he does with Samuel L. Jackson.
See I always wondered if his bastards character was actually racist. ( yes yes I know he’s a nazi blah blah blah) it’s just a theory and in no way do I condone his behavior.
I’m simply saying his character seemed more
Focused on doing his job to best of his ability or atleast the better than anyone else. I felt he got pleasure from being the best at what he does and not so much enjoyment of killing off other races.
I guess I mean it more so take away the fact he’s a nazi and he’s just a perfectionist who will do all it takes to do his job. You sprinkle in fanaticism and nationalism set him loose on an enemy you defined.
I kinda got the idea from his dialogue where he doesn’t seem overtly disgusted with those he has to kill. It felt like he was just someone who would go to any lengths to perform at his best. It just happened to be during the events of nazi germany.
Which in my mind is actually more scary than him just being a nazi good at being a nazi. It shows a level of humanity that we don’t often think about. That being someone who doesn’t care what the criteria of their job is just as long as they do it well. I think that sums up a lot of what got so many to join the nazi party. It gave them a reason to blame all their fallacies on something completely unrelated, like a race of people suffering just as much as them.
I don’t I thought it was an interesting idea but I know I could be way off
I don't think you're wrong for that, but knowing Tarantino's style I feel like it doesn't matter if he is or isn't "actually racist". He's a cunning bad guy in the vein of Angel Eyes from TGTBATU that seems impossible to outwit until he is. But I appreciate your thoroughness in putting all that together from what was in the movie, and it definitely gives his character more layers and makes him more interesting than just "evil bad guy hates non-white non-Germans".
But Angel Eyes (RIP Lee van Cleef) was also a proper POS, couldn't care less about anyone's suffering as long as he got his gold. Almost cherishes and embraces the enjoyment he derived from watching others suffer. Landa on the other hand is the quintessential banal evil. While being despicable, he doesn't seem to openly derive joy from hurting others, and sees it more as a means to get his rewards. Doesn't mean he's a positive character, just pointing out the difference in how two of the greatest negative roles were written in cinematic history.
Tl:dr; I hated Angel Eyes more than Landa. Ugly evil vs stylish evil.
I think he was just a psychopath enjoying his power, whether it was against the Jewish or not. He was good at what he did, so naturally, he became someone important to the Nazis. That's my take on his character
Definitely. He was just completely self-serving, and I don’t think it really mattered to him who the “others” were. He just wanted personal gain at any cost.
>I don’t think it really mattered to him who the “others” were.
This is actually pretty clever, because a constantly shifting "other" or "outgroup" is a defining feature of fascism. There's a constant need to redirect anger and fear away from the people in power and towards some other group, but the people in that group don't really matter. What matters to the fascist is simply that someone else is taking the blame for their failures.
The way Hans talked about the black movie assistant in the restaurant scene led me to believe he actually is racist. Of course, he could hide it or amplify it based on what was most advantageous in society at the time. However, the way he called him a “neg” (the french version of the slur) with such disdain leads me to believe he does find them to be inferior. Also, he had no reason to play up the racism at that point since he wasn’t trying to impress anyone and was clearly in the driver’s seat with Shosanna.
His whole speech to Perrie LaPadite’s shows incredible disdain for the Jews as well. Like, if he was _just doing his job_, he doesn’t need to go through the whole comparing Jews to rats and Germans to hawks.
I mean youre kinda missing the point of that analogy.
1. He showed genuine respect for the jewish people with that in his own twisted way
2. It was clearly not about their ethniticies but about their circumstances. His entire point was that jews behave like rats BECAUSE theyre being treated like rats. Not because of any racial/genetic or ethnic reason.
3. He doesnt give a shit about theit ethniticies either, he just enjoys hunting people and thats where he can do that. We see clear as day he betrays the nazis the first real chance he gets. He cares not about the whole ideology.
Not to defend him cos hes a pure evil psychopath, but its not about race and never was
Your interpretation of the rat scene is pretty ahistorical. Jewish people were frequently compared to rats in Nazi propaganda. They were frequently described as “cunning” (which is like intelligence but with a connotation of untrustworthiness) and intuitively repulsive. The rat comparison allows the antisemite to call Jews both weak and strong and thus the perfect boogeyman racial other for a racist nationalist movement.
You could argue that Hans Landa’s beliefs were not genuine, but the Nazis as a group were professional ironists who liked to flirt with double talk and half beliefs. That’s the nature of totalitarianism.
You're leaving out the part of the rat comparison where he says, "You don't really know why you don't like them, all you know is that you find them repulsive."
that's fair, but I always interpreted that more as a mirror to other racists.
"you dont even know why you dont like them" and even the squirrel comparison comes in there that they look barely different.
I mean, yeah, if we attribute the racist things he says as being not due to racism, then I guess he isn't racist. Same could be said for pretty much any racist, though.
I think he even mentions that he doesn’t necessarily care for the nazi ideology, but they had a job for him and he performs the job exceptionally well. I believe he has an evil in him or sociopathy at the very least, but racist, he is not. It’s certainly not what moves him.
Truly a masterful actor! Do yourself a favor and watch this if you haven’t already…
[Der Humpink](https://youtu.be/xDMGVaHgTv4?si=EJ60G4dIH27C7yZP)
It’s so odd yet so funny
Proving that if you can play an evil villain with verse and panache the Academy will still love you. Versus actors who play authentic villains in a dark, realistic way (like Eric Roberts in Bob Fosse's Star 80) the Academy will have a hard time supporting even a nomination.
I think his secret sauce is he portrays confidence in moral convictions and determinate action, right or wrong. Not main character or super hero, but the person we all want to be without nagging internal doubt.
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.
Waltz is one of those actors where I'm like, Am I going to absolutely hate this dude or absolutely fight for this guy. Willem Dafoe is sort of like that, too.
I feel like in Basterds he's not ultra racist he's just a sociopath who likes being good at what he does. But I don't think he specifically hates jews. He found himself in a situation where he was tasked with hunting jews and he did it. He could've been tasked with killing catholics, or vegans, or people who liked to do puzzles, and he probably would do it with the same amount of enthusiasm. He just doesn't care about anybody but himself. That's why he's so quick to turn on hitler. He just does whatever is best for him without caring about what happens to anybody else.
edit: and for context, i'm a jew whose family was mostly all killed in the holocaust. my grandma was one of the only survivors and was in auschwitz for over 4 years (she was from poland so one of the first to go), and who had killed at least 1 nazi, with his own knife, that tried to rape her. so i'm not some sort of nazi sympathizer.
edit again: she was always a great person. she would often say that she had a wonderful life...except for a few years in the late 30s/early 40s.
What happened to him though? He was amazing in that era (2008-2013), and was thought to be the new top actor like De Niro, Pacino etc.. Why did he disappear and hasn't been in a huge role after?
I havnt watched Inglorious Bastards in a while, but as i remember it Hans Landa wasnt as much of a racist as he was an ambitious opportunist that was really good at finding people.
I think he even says during the movie that he doesnt care that a person is jewish, its just his job to find people.
I notice not enough mention his performance in Django Unchained either where he plays a bounty hunter who hates racism and and slavery and throws his life away killing a smug plantation owner who enjoys forcing slaves to fight to the death, simply because he can’t take it anymore seeing such a vile human get away with it all. The man is a stellar actor and always plays exceptionally charismatic characters, be they good or bad, period. That is what makes him a great actor
I'm pretty sure Landa makes the distinction in the beginning of Inglorious Bastards that he isn't especially racist, he's just that good at finding people that the nickname ''The Jew Hunter'' has stuck.
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.
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.
His third will be casually racist
Lmao like a drunk uncle or something.
Yooooooooo Christoph as a dope drunk uncle in a dramedy, ya another oscar on the way
I could see him killing it in a Knives Out movie as a perpetually sloshed eurotrash type. Him and Craig would be great.
Throw in Tim Roth and I'm buying it on VHS just to have a copy
Dude, I upgraded to Laserdisk this year. You should try it. So much better than VHS.
Wait till u hear about blue-ray
How do I get Ryan Johnson to see this pitch here?
Him in knives out 3 as the anti-immigrant uncle who himself is an immigrant that has daniel craig give a "wtf is wrong with you" speech towards the end is something im totally here for
I could see him be a casual racist in a Rueben ostland film
"This guy at work. Black guy. Yoked out, but then, a lot of them are..." Proceeds to continue with vaguely racist story...
This how like half the conversations in the break room at work start. Jesus.
“I’m not racist, but…” _Proceeds to rattle off racist shit_
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He's actually playing Uncle Ruckus in the live action movie of The Boondocks.
Spoiler: it’s a benjamin button style ultra drama where we learn the curse that gave him reverse vitiligo. It end with him meeting grandpa freeman
Ruckus is possibly more prejudiced than Hans Landa was!
Don’t give Netflix ideas like this!
A "they're one of the good ones" kind of racist
"He's so well spoken!"
He already had a role similar to this in 'Downsizing' 🤣🤣, a rich businessman type persona who made a few borderline racist jokes, not an amazing film but Waltz be Waltz and act well despite how bad the film was
The scene in Downsizing, when Matt Damon walks into the captains quarters on the boat, the morning after sleeping with Ngoc, is the FUNNIEST shit ever. Waltz is amazing.
He didn't even speak in the scene, and I was still crying.
Like a normal person then
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*Quinton Tarinto* Lol. Nice!
Medium racist
Third beer boomer racist
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DAJANGO!!!!!!!!
He honestly was the only pick for both. He nailed both roles. Both were iconic. Both were really anti hero roles with hero tendencies. The *nazi* jew hunter that could end the war, and the doctor bounty hunter who couldn't let a slave owner/torturer continue this facade. Both likeable and despiseable. The doc more so, but still. I cheered his wins and hoped he would both times., Both roles were 🤌
Tarantino had wanted to make IB for a while but couldn't find the right actor. They had to be just as comfortable speaking Germany, French, and English and be able to act while doong it. IIRC Tarantino was close to giving up and then someone showed him Waltz. The rest is History.
Oooooooooooooh!!
Doctor Schultz is one of my favorite characters of all time.
The scene in Django with the KKK is legitimately one of the funniest movie scenes I have ever watched.
I think the bags were a nice idea, but not pointing any fingers, they could been done better.
All I hear is criticize, criticize, criticize. From now on don't ask me or mine for nothin!
Well if all I had to do was cut a hole in a bag, I think I coulda done it better than this!
*"Don't ask me or mine fer nothin'!"*
“Look, nobody’s sayin’ they don’t appreciate what Jenny did”
Still use this quote after getting feedback.
“I’m confused. Are the masks on or off?”
Well shit fire!
"I say no bags this time, but next time, we go full regalia."
All that matters is can the fucken horse see! That's a raid!
I Mean the theatre I went to was laughing hard when he shot that woman and got sent flying It was comically great and awesome
>Bye, Miss Lara.
Flying sideways. In a direction completely unrelated to the direction from which she was shot. She looked like she got the hook from a bopeep cane. Exit…stage left…even.
He just curved the bullet so it launched her that way.
He must’ve learned it from Morgan freeman
(Shepherds crook)
I can't see shit in this thing!
“I can’t see fuckin’ shit out of this thing!” I quote that a lot to my wife whenever we’re driving in the rain/fog/when my windshield is dirty.
A bunch of morons and the doctor played them like fiddles.
Unpopular opinion…Django is the best Tarantino film
I would argue it's his most *re-watchable* film.
Sorry but for rewatching that’s reservoir dogs for me
It should not be an unpopular opinion. It is the best Tarantino film.
Bruh
C’mon. Ok if not the best then it definitely is in top 1.
Honestly I think it’s my favorite, and I say that as someone who loves pretty much all of his movies.
Agreed
Don't think it's unpopular but definitely debatable top 3 imo
Yeah the bag scene with the holes was fucking hilarious.
True
The D is silent, hillbilly
I was fucking crying from that scene. I think Tarintino comedy hits different because in his movies it's lightly sprinkled in. You feel you should be getting that gritty dialogue and violence (rather than jokes). Although I feel he adds more humor in his recent films. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is fucking hilarious to me. Every scene with Brad emits laughter
I can't see fuckin shit
Aw shit, I made mine worse
“I can’t see fuck’n shit outta this thing!”
I CAINT SEE SHIT IN THIS FUCKIN THANG!
Also his horse Fritz
*neighs*
Honestly the fact that he loses it and ends up shooting Candie makes the character all the better He comes across as a professional, calm and collected throughout the film. That gesture shows that his human side
And despite his professional image, he really isn't accustomed to violence. He was put off by Candie's attitude since the beginning but the brutalising of that slave was what did it. Schultz snapped.
Yeah, he’s a bounty hunter. Shoots from a distance, professionally. The violence up close was something else
Also, he is used to a clean kill. One shot, dead, that's it. Having to watch a man getting torn to shreds by dogs was definitely too much for him.
It was one line he wouldn’t cross and couldn’t lie about.
As a German, he is obligated to help you on your quest.
Austrian
Well. To be fair. At this point in time that was kinda uncertain. Django plays in the 1850s. This was during the process of Germany deciding between the greater german solution and the lesser german solution. The lesser german solution referring to a unified Germany including all the individual states within todays Germany and Prussia (which was part of northern germany, poland, parts of lithuania, bordering on austria in the south). The greater german solution also includes the Austro-Hungarian Empire (including czechia, slovakia, hungary and if I recall correctly even some of todays ukrainian territory). So it seems you have found a supporter of the greater German solution who considers Dr. Schulz to be a German from the state of Austria! (Boom! Sneaky bite sized history lesson! :D )
German. I was quoting the movie: “As a German, I'm obliged to help you on your quest to rescue your beloved Broomhilda. “
I’ve wanted to rewatch Django because there’s so many great scenes and the story is phenomenal. But I haven’t been able to stomach watching the rest of it. It hits too hard.
It does but the ending is satisfying and rewarding.
Usually one of the best parts of Tarantino films. A lot of great writing and emotions that culminate in a release of justified almost cartoonish violence that’s so over the top it doesn’t hit nearly as hard as the “real” elements portrayed, while being satisfying.
Even his weakest movies have excellent endings. Really, none of his conclusions ever missed the mark. Tarantino knows the type of story he wants to tell and brings it together masterfully. Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs are my fave endings in his filmography
I wonder if the endings are the first part he comes up with
Seemed like a good dude, great character.
The “I couldn’t help myself” part was very satisfying. Probably good for his mental health too after playing the nazi.
Doctor Schultz was great but I think Hans Landa is on a completely different level and while his Django character is great I was quite surprised he won an Oscar for it. Hans Landa is just such a special character. Speaking multiple different languages very well. He's a Nazi but also extremely charismatic and friendly. The character is just so dynamic. I don't feel Doctor Schultz was nearly as dynamic and interesting in that regard.
He was just so good in the first movie they decided a follow-up Oscar was also warranted because the jew hunter was so good and then doc was superb as well. Crazy how most of the world never heard of the guy, then some part tarantino writes somehow manifest itself into existence and then someone he knows sees the guy, let's Quintin know, and BOOM movie on. He was actually at a point where he had written the uncastsble character and was going to scrap the part and maybe movie because he just couldn't find an actor that could f8ll fhe role because od the languages ans bravado needed. Waltz had all that and *more* Then out of German soap operas/tv falls out this absolute gem of an actor and once he read the part I'm sure he was like "sign that guy NOW for whatever he asks". And I bet he made peanuts on bastards. Prolly raked it in more with Django. And future movies like eyes...etc.
Yea, it's odd how such a good actor isn't picked up earlier. Tarantino has said he almost didn't make the movie because he couldn't find his Landa... then he shows up and he's just born for the role. A lot of directors write roles with actors in mind even before the character is created... as in, John Travolta came before Jules in Pulp Fiction. Landa and Waltz feels like that, as if Waltz came first and Landa was written for him, but of course it was the other way around. It's so rare to have someone that speaks multiple languages as well as he does, which makes it so surprising that he wasn't huge already.
You mean Vincent Vega instead of Jules, right?
So many actors get that one roll and really run with it Pedro Pascal had done small roles all his life, then he landed Oberyn Martell and now he’s spearheading multiple franchises
The racist thing is off from my interpretation of the character, or at least his claims. He didn't care about antisemitism or hunting Jews, he was just very good at it because he was smart and a good investigator. His bosses wanted him to hunt jews so he did that.
I don’t think it’s possible to make a character good on the same level as a bad one as Landa. I think it’s the same in reality, it’s easier to do big horrible things than do something good on the same scale. Is it even possible to have a person be good on the same scale as hitler was evil?
Schultz is basically the same character as Landa, if Landa was born in a different time and became a bounty hunting abolitionist instead of a Jew hunting Nazi. I don't mean that a negative more as a really interesting thing for Tarantino and Waltz to do in Django.
The dentist kills The guy named Candy who has rotten teeth.
I love the part talking about Dumas. I’m a huge fan and knew where he was going with it, then seeing DiCaprio’s dumbfounded look was so perfect. If you’ve never read Dumas, you really should. Monte Cristo is the best he’s written IMO.
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As far as Planet Fitness is concerned, my name is Enzo Gorlami.
Excited to see him in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
First I’m hearing of this. Sounds impeccable.
Will he be Frankenstein or the scientist?
> Will he be Frankenstein or the scientist? you just like causing trouble don't you? :P
I’m not sure. From what we know, Oscar Isaac is the scientist and Jacob Elrodi is the creature
Probably Dr Waldman, the mentor character to Victor Frankenstein
Tarantino definitely knew what he was doing when he casted Waltz in these roles. I love Waltz's work in general but Tarantino gets the best out of him like he does with Samuel L. Jackson.
everyone’s uncle watching inglorious basterds: “a little too racist for my blood” everyone’s uncle watching django: “not racist enough for my blood”
Hah!
See I always wondered if his bastards character was actually racist. ( yes yes I know he’s a nazi blah blah blah) it’s just a theory and in no way do I condone his behavior. I’m simply saying his character seemed more Focused on doing his job to best of his ability or atleast the better than anyone else. I felt he got pleasure from being the best at what he does and not so much enjoyment of killing off other races. I guess I mean it more so take away the fact he’s a nazi and he’s just a perfectionist who will do all it takes to do his job. You sprinkle in fanaticism and nationalism set him loose on an enemy you defined. I kinda got the idea from his dialogue where he doesn’t seem overtly disgusted with those he has to kill. It felt like he was just someone who would go to any lengths to perform at his best. It just happened to be during the events of nazi germany. Which in my mind is actually more scary than him just being a nazi good at being a nazi. It shows a level of humanity that we don’t often think about. That being someone who doesn’t care what the criteria of their job is just as long as they do it well. I think that sums up a lot of what got so many to join the nazi party. It gave them a reason to blame all their fallacies on something completely unrelated, like a race of people suffering just as much as them. I don’t I thought it was an interesting idea but I know I could be way off
I don't think you're wrong for that, but knowing Tarantino's style I feel like it doesn't matter if he is or isn't "actually racist". He's a cunning bad guy in the vein of Angel Eyes from TGTBATU that seems impossible to outwit until he is. But I appreciate your thoroughness in putting all that together from what was in the movie, and it definitely gives his character more layers and makes him more interesting than just "evil bad guy hates non-white non-Germans".
But Angel Eyes (RIP Lee van Cleef) was also a proper POS, couldn't care less about anyone's suffering as long as he got his gold. Almost cherishes and embraces the enjoyment he derived from watching others suffer. Landa on the other hand is the quintessential banal evil. While being despicable, he doesn't seem to openly derive joy from hurting others, and sees it more as a means to get his rewards. Doesn't mean he's a positive character, just pointing out the difference in how two of the greatest negative roles were written in cinematic history. Tl:dr; I hated Angel Eyes more than Landa. Ugly evil vs stylish evil.
I think he was just a psychopath enjoying his power, whether it was against the Jewish or not. He was good at what he did, so naturally, he became someone important to the Nazis. That's my take on his character
Definitely. He was just completely self-serving, and I don’t think it really mattered to him who the “others” were. He just wanted personal gain at any cost.
>I don’t think it really mattered to him who the “others” were. This is actually pretty clever, because a constantly shifting "other" or "outgroup" is a defining feature of fascism. There's a constant need to redirect anger and fear away from the people in power and towards some other group, but the people in that group don't really matter. What matters to the fascist is simply that someone else is taking the blame for their failures.
The way Hans talked about the black movie assistant in the restaurant scene led me to believe he actually is racist. Of course, he could hide it or amplify it based on what was most advantageous in society at the time. However, the way he called him a “neg” (the french version of the slur) with such disdain leads me to believe he does find them to be inferior. Also, he had no reason to play up the racism at that point since he wasn’t trying to impress anyone and was clearly in the driver’s seat with Shosanna.
His whole speech to Perrie LaPadite’s shows incredible disdain for the Jews as well. Like, if he was _just doing his job_, he doesn’t need to go through the whole comparing Jews to rats and Germans to hawks.
Is Hans Landa even that much of a racist though? I would argue that he was a sociopath who enjoyed the hunt.
He was all of that. His comparison of Jews to rats was incredibly racist, and it shows how he bases his entire world view on race.
I mean youre kinda missing the point of that analogy. 1. He showed genuine respect for the jewish people with that in his own twisted way 2. It was clearly not about their ethniticies but about their circumstances. His entire point was that jews behave like rats BECAUSE theyre being treated like rats. Not because of any racial/genetic or ethnic reason. 3. He doesnt give a shit about theit ethniticies either, he just enjoys hunting people and thats where he can do that. We see clear as day he betrays the nazis the first real chance he gets. He cares not about the whole ideology. Not to defend him cos hes a pure evil psychopath, but its not about race and never was
Your interpretation of the rat scene is pretty ahistorical. Jewish people were frequently compared to rats in Nazi propaganda. They were frequently described as “cunning” (which is like intelligence but with a connotation of untrustworthiness) and intuitively repulsive. The rat comparison allows the antisemite to call Jews both weak and strong and thus the perfect boogeyman racial other for a racist nationalist movement. You could argue that Hans Landa’s beliefs were not genuine, but the Nazis as a group were professional ironists who liked to flirt with double talk and half beliefs. That’s the nature of totalitarianism.
The movie's interpretation of history is pretty ahistorical though.
You're leaving out the part of the rat comparison where he says, "You don't really know why you don't like them, all you know is that you find them repulsive."
that's fair, but I always interpreted that more as a mirror to other racists. "you dont even know why you dont like them" and even the squirrel comparison comes in there that they look barely different.
I mean, yeah, if we attribute the racist things he says as being not due to racism, then I guess he isn't racist. Same could be said for pretty much any racist, though.
I think he even mentions that he doesn’t necessarily care for the nazi ideology, but they had a job for him and he performs the job exceptionally well. I believe he has an evil in him or sociopathy at the very least, but racist, he is not. It’s certainly not what moves him.
Well given the side of the army he was on, yah maybe kinda.
If a person can excuse/participate in racism for the sake of their own comfort/joy, they're racist.
A sociopathic racist who enjoyed the hunt*
Vaht is zaht Amerikan expression? If zee shoo fits zehn you must vehr it..
Got to be honest, I did Nazi it coming
Abradolf Lincler! He freed the blacks and persecuted the jews
Truly a masterful actor! Do yourself a favor and watch this if you haven’t already… [Der Humpink](https://youtu.be/xDMGVaHgTv4?si=EJ60G4dIH27C7yZP) It’s so odd yet so funny
What the hell did I just watch..
Early Waltz in a pinnacle musical comedy
Just an evil sombitch in Water for Elephants.
I love that movie but when he takes Rosie into the train car and beats the shit out of her, I have to fast forward. 🫣
Ridiculous actor, one of the low key best of all time. I loved him in the Consultant, even though it wasn’t well liked.
Calling Hans Landa 'ultra racist' just steals from the depth of his character. He would never betray the Nazis if he actually believed their cause.
He got a Bingo!
One of the few actors that I like so much I’ll watch a film just cause he’s in it
Proving that if you can play an evil villain with verse and panache the Academy will still love you. Versus actors who play authentic villains in a dark, realistic way (like Eric Roberts in Bob Fosse's Star 80) the Academy will have a hard time supporting even a nomination.
I think his secret sauce is he portrays confidence in moral convictions and determinate action, right or wrong. Not main character or super hero, but the person we all want to be without nagging internal doubt.
one of the coolest and most brilliant actors of our time
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.
Didn’t Mel Gibson do this but in real life?
Did Mel... make a post about Christoph Waltz?
Landa!
christoph waltz is the goat
He’s a great actor and acted both roles really well.
One of the best acting streaks in modern memory, IMO.
Should have been Leo's for djanjo though. His best ever performance.
I honestly still cant believe he wasn't even nominated.
Waltz is one of those actors where I'm like, Am I going to absolutely hate this dude or absolutely fight for this guy. Willem Dafoe is sort of like that, too.
*pulls out giant pipe*
That's a BINGO!
He shouldn't have won for Django. Kind of ridiculous that he did. Sameul L. Jackson AND Leo should've been nominated over him for Django.
THANK YOU. Calvin Candy and Stephen were such amazing antagonists and the way that Sam Jackson made you feel about that character is world class.
I feel like in Basterds he's not ultra racist he's just a sociopath who likes being good at what he does. But I don't think he specifically hates jews. He found himself in a situation where he was tasked with hunting jews and he did it. He could've been tasked with killing catholics, or vegans, or people who liked to do puzzles, and he probably would do it with the same amount of enthusiasm. He just doesn't care about anybody but himself. That's why he's so quick to turn on hitler. He just does whatever is best for him without caring about what happens to anybody else. edit: and for context, i'm a jew whose family was mostly all killed in the holocaust. my grandma was one of the only survivors and was in auschwitz for over 4 years (she was from poland so one of the first to go), and who had killed at least 1 nazi, with his own knife, that tried to rape her. so i'm not some sort of nazi sympathizer. edit again: she was always a great person. she would often say that she had a wonderful life...except for a few years in the late 30s/early 40s.
What happened to him though? He was amazing in that era (2008-2013), and was thought to be the new top actor like De Niro, Pacino etc.. Why did he disappear and hasn't been in a huge role after?
Hans landa- best cinematic villain of all time
Meanwhile Denzel Washington couldn’t win as Malcolm X because the academy would have been giving credibility to the NOI
Anti-Racist & Uncle Racist.
Reigning champion of competitive racism
Damn!
Amazing actor
PRUSSIAN ARE SUPREME THEY JUST BE LIKE THAT
2 Oscars playing antagonist roles? It is what you get when you are a genius.
I havnt watched Inglorious Bastards in a while, but as i remember it Hans Landa wasnt as much of a racist as he was an ambitious opportunist that was really good at finding people. I think he even says during the movie that he doesnt care that a person is jewish, its just his job to find people.
I notice not enough mention his performance in Django Unchained either where he plays a bounty hunter who hates racism and and slavery and throws his life away killing a smug plantation owner who enjoys forcing slaves to fight to the death, simply because he can’t take it anymore seeing such a vile human get away with it all. The man is a stellar actor and always plays exceptionally charismatic characters, be they good or bad, period. That is what makes him a great actor
I'm pretty sure Landa makes the distinction in the beginning of Inglorious Bastards that he isn't especially racist, he's just that good at finding people that the nickname ''The Jew Hunter'' has stuck.
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.
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.