Quentin Tarantino Names the Best Character He's Ever Written

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Quentin Tarantino Names the Best Character He's Ever Written

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Who would you pick as Quentin Tarantino's best character? He's the guy who wrote all the misters of "Reservoir Dogs," the lovebirds (plus Floyd, who smoked the second page of the letter) of "True Romance," the $5 shake-loving criminals of "Pulp Fiction," plus everyone in "Natural Born Killers," "From Dusk Till Dawn," "Kill Bill," "Inglourious Basterds," "Django Unchained," "The Hateful Eight," etc.

Quentin Tarantino recently spoke to a sold-out crowd at a film festival in Jerusalem, and he named Christoph Waltz's Oscar-winning role of Hans Landa in the irritatingly spelled "Inglourious Basterds" as the best character he's ever written.

"I'm looking for that take where an actor just kicks into something — actors describe it as flying, they're not them anymore, it's the reason they become actors," QT told the crowd, via Screen Daily. "Landa is the best character I've ever written and maybe the best I ever will write. I didn't realize [when I was first writing him] that he was a linguistic genius. He's probably one of the only ***** in history who could speak perfect Yiddish."

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Quentin Tarantino recently spoke to a sold-out crowd at a film festival in Jerusalem, and he named Christoph Waltz's Oscar-winning role of Hans Landa in the irritatingly spelled "Inglourious Basterds" as the best character he's ever written.


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I'd have to agree. As many great characters as he's written, Landa was just genius, and Walsh completely deserved that Oscar. Every scene he was in was full of tension and creepiness.
 

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I'd have to agree. As many great characters as he's written, Landa was just genius, and Walsh completely deserved that Oscar. Every scene he was in was full of tension and creepiness.

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I remember watching that movie for the first time and thinking it was so so but was mesmerized by the character and performance by Waltz. I thought he did a very good job in Djano Unchained as well but he was not as mesmerizing as he was in IB.
 

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I remember watching that movie for the first time and thinking it was so so but was mesmerized by the character and performance by Waltz. I thought he did a very good job in Djano Unchained as well but he was not as mesmerizing as he was in IB.

Same, didn't care for IB but loved how he played the role and the scenes he was in. I did like his character in Django too, but you're right in that he wasn't as intense. His role didn't require the intense scenes in IB. Purposefully though; happy go lucky type (cocky) and empathetic (to an extent, etc.) as a uniquely clever bounty hunter.

I'll be in the minority but mine were always Sam Jack/Travolta as the hitmen in Pulp Fiction; apt scene and diner scenes esp. The dialogue in the car leading to the apt took a great 180 and really showed the disconnect in how they can do their "work" while not seen as your typical crazy sociopaths committing murder 1's for $ until the turn. Keitel did a great job as the "mop up" man but totally different role than Reservoir Dogs, etc. .
 
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Sometimes you come out of a movie saying 'That guy should win an Oscar!' and it's not just ephemeral enthusiasm. Waltz was one of them.
Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies was another one that hit that feeling.
 

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The opening scene in IB was amazing. Loved that scene.

You notice the dust or whatever flakes floating around in that scene? Not sure if that's cgi or not, doesn't look like it, not sure how they did that. I think that was in the hateful 8 too,iirc. The other guys acting was really good too
 
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