Public meeting with Quentin Tarantino was held in the municipal Cinematheque of Jerusalem. During the discussion of his work, the Director admitted that he may not retire after ten films, as promised earlier, and also spoke about which characters own films considered the best.
Tarantino called his favorite character movies
According to Quentin Tarantino, his personal favorite is the “hunter of Jews” SD standartenführer Hans Landa, whose image in the film “Inglourious Basterds” brought Austrian actor Christoph waltz.
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The Director said:Hans Landa is the best character from those which I have created and possibly the best one I ever create. Writing scenes with him, I did not know that Landa is a linguistic genius, but in the process of writing the script it became obvious. Regardless of whom he meets on his journey, the Colonel can speak with this man in his language. Perhaps he is one of the few Nazis in the history of cinema, who knows Yiddish”.
Christoph waltz in Hans Landa
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The role of a Nazi brought Christoph Waltz the award “Oscar” as the best actor of the second plan. Himself an Austrian, previously spoke about his character:For me, Landa is particularly interesting because it is absolutely solid character, there are many diverse traits, but they are all harmoniously connected. This unity struck me. Landa is not a boring post-modernist, mosaic character, but a living person with a bright character and unusual mental ability. In the process of filming I was literally mesmerized by the variety of languages in which I had to say. And I thought not on language as such and on how they correlate with the personality of my character, how it affects him. Why Landa uses so many languages and why at certain moments he abruptly passes from one to another? This is a very interesting phenomenon. This reflects the performative aspect of language, how it can be used to create a whole world. One person told me that for him, “Inglourious Basterds” – in fact, the film is about linguistic diversity. This picture shows what can language in General and of film in particular.”
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Tarantino also noticed that he auditioned a lot of actors for the role of Hans Landa: he was going to delay the start of filming to the moment until you find the perfect artist, but the search was so fruitless that Quentin had decided not to remove the picture. However, it was seeing Christoph Waltz Director immediately realized that he was the actor who can make the film perfectly matched to the original plan.
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