- Culture
- 12 Jul 16
Quentin Tarantino Reveals His Favourite Tarantino Character
With a character catalogue as expansive and varied as the one Tarantino has created, he has finally named his 'favourite child' of the family.
Make way for the sadistic, bilingual, manipulative Nazi Jew-hunter and certified Inglourious Basterd, Standartenführer Hans Landa.
For those of you who've seen Inglourious Basterds then we're sure you'll agree that Christoph Waltz was made for this role. In fact, Tarantino has admitted that he felt as though pasking the entire filming aside as he feared no one would be able to personify Landa's character to his full effect. Well, he found Waltz and Waltz did Taranatino (and himself) proud, bagging an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Academy Awards for his performance.
Tarantino is so enamored by the character of Landa that even he reckons he will never be able to top him; “Landa is the best character I’ve written and maybe the best I ever will write,” Tarantino admitted at the Jerusalem Film Festival. “I didn’t realize [when I was first writing him] that he was a linguistic genius. He’s probably one of the only Nazis in history who could speak perfect Yiddish.”
Waltz went on to play the much more empathetic and heroic Dr. King Schultz in Tarantino's Django Unchained and for that too he bagged the Oscar. Tarantino has claimed that he will retire after film No.10 but we will be forever grateful for the array of iconic personalities he's granted us.
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