Creating a Terrifying Villain: Inglourious Basterds

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• ED

  @edinscot56789 · 6 years ago

  Hans exhibited one of the greatest traits of a true psychopath: charm.

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• GR

  @grail68 · 9 years ago

  What makes Hans Landa such a great villain is that he's very much not a Nazi at all. He's an opportunist with no regard for human life, quick to sell out the Jews to the Nazis and the Nazis to the Americans, all for his own benefit rather than any kind of coherent ideology.

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• NI

  @NikkiMKarLen · 9 years ago

  Christoph Waltz is phenomenal.

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• KO

  @KoxenBols · 6 years ago (edited)

  Can someone mention how incredible the &quot;frenchman&quot; acts? As if Christoph Waltz&apos; flawless acting wasn&apos;t enough, the visible fear and distress of the frenchman is a huge cherry on top.<br>So many of the scenes in this movie left me speechless, one of my all time favourites, an actual masterpiece.<br><br>You can say what you want about Tarantino as a person, but he&apos;s a movie making genius.

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• MU

  @multitrackjake8698 · 6 years ago

  I&apos;m not sure this video gives Waltz enough credit. Tarantino almost axed this movie because he couldn&apos;t cast Landa until he found Waltz.

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• ME

  @MedievalSolutions · 9 years ago

  I believe he does know for one simple reason. He ordered her a glass of milk. Which is the same thing he drank before killing her whole family.

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• CR

  @cr0be · 9 years ago

  the strudel scene is a masterpiece

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• CO

  @connorfarrell1424 · 8 years ago

  You forgot the fact that Landa sold out his entire nation just to give himself some immunity

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• TH

  @thejallenator5722 · 7 years ago

  Hans Landa is a truly great villain as he made us hate him, for what he did to that perfectly good strudel. Bastard, I would&apos;ve eaten it. It looked delicious.

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• HP

  @HP-wy8dr · 7 years ago

  Landa&apos;s line &quot;Don&apos;t forget the cream&quot; sold it to me that he knew exactly who the woman was.

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• RA

  @RangerHouston · 7 years ago

  &quot;let&apos;s talk about the anti-Semitic elephant in the room&quot;<br>Hermann Göring?

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• MA

  @Magnus_Loov · 9 years ago

  What makes Landa so terrifying is his social manner where he seems to be charming, but at the same time totally aware of his power. This makes the contrast when he switches from his &quot;friendly chatter&quot; with lots of gestures to the the totally stiff and focused stare when he accuses the frenchman of hiding jews very, very powerful. The manner also masked the &quot;Does he know or not&quot; very well.<br><br>Another thing that helped was the fact that at the time Walz wasn&apos;t a famous actor that you had seen in other movies compared to Samuel L Jackson who you had seen in a bunch of movies before Jackie Brown, many of them where he played a cool person with a swagger and some funny one-liners. It is harder to associate him with an evil person at that point. With an unknown actor you don&apos;t have any reference points from earlier movies.<br><br>But with that said, Walz was phenomenal in his role.

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