@@DaSpoody He kept to his word. He wasn't interested in the French family to begin with. As cruel and ruthless as he is, Hans never went out of his way to cause collateral damage if it didn't serve a purpose.
More than fear, you can see a man's heart being truly broken. He has to look out for his family, but will also have to live with that decision for the rest of his life. If you wrote his character further in to the future, I could see him waiting for his daughters to grow up and get married, then take his own life.
Christoph Waltz is so damn good in everything he's in. His character's intro in Django: Unchained could easily go into a Best Character/Protagonist Intros movie in the future.
Waltz is such a good actor you can literally feel the tension in that scene alone, the movie itself is a masterpiece, it's masterfully crafted and perfectly casted to the point that the movie flows like a turbulent river thanks to how good and catchy it is. I cannot think of any scene where i felt bored at all, such a great film.
The movie has some epic scenes but it's also a very vulgar nazi-revenge violence porn movie which abuses the basest and most disgusting appetites of human beings thirsty for bloody vengeance.
So a little fun fact, in French, “adieu” is a goodbye said when you don’t expect to see someone for a really long time if ever like a hard bye, but “au revoir” is a goodbye used as if you’d expect to most likely be seeing someone soon or in the near future. If you pay attention, Landa uses “adieu” when letting the soldiers into the home to kill the family under the floor but then uses “au revoir” to Shoshana as she runs away, hinting that he knows they will cross paths again. I don’t speak French so correct me for anything I may have said improperly
I don't speak French either, but I'm Brazillian, and in Portuguese "Tchau" and "Adeus" confirms what you've said, "Adeus" is used when you don't expect to see that person again, like in a relationship break or something darker like this scene
I’m not a native speaker but I took French a while in school, this is correct. “Au revoir” more literally translates to “at/until seeing again” while “adieu” is “goodbye”.
French native speaker here. This is 100% correct, the "Au revoir" is foreshadowing for the rest of the film while "Adieu" is litterraly goodbye forever.
you skipped the Bane part where he goes, "Perhaps he's wondering why you'd shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane." That line had such weight to it because it was the actual first time you heard him. plus it showed he was intelligent
bruh, his audio is SO BAD though, its like hes speaking into a goddamn toilet roll infront of a mic. They did SUCH a horrible job in balancing his audio levels for this. Everyone is heard from their respective positions in the vicinity, but bane is RIGHT IN YOUR EAR. its grating and takes you out of the movie.
12:37 to 12:42 (immediately pause); Look at the very subtle change in expression between these two timestamps using the arrow keys. The right side of his mouth and eyebrows are ALL he needs to convey a shift in tone. MARVELOUS acting!
@@edi9892 For me best part was when Donny kill Hans with baseball bat, the music when dony comming out from that tunel, everybody claping and Donny just walk out and homerun that dude. That was awesome.
I think it's because anyone in the French farmer's position wants so very much to believe in the nice guy charade-finicky fountain pen, milk and comfy pipe included-even though he knows damned well in his heart that there's only one possible reason to get a visit from an SS Colonel in his little cottage...and Landa knows this, too, which is what makes him so damned disarming. Inevitable, and disarming despite it. He gives the man absolutely no alternative course of action.
reminds me of old skool gangsters like the series peaky blinders..they were calm, 2 faced/calculating, but classy well spoken, pleasant and terrifying all at the same time
The entirety of Inglorious Basterds is such a tense, nerve wracking movie. Every scene Hans Landa is in is terrifying and this scene sets the stage for that. After this scene you never know how much he knows but always feel terrified for the protagonists when he is in a scene with them. The scene where he meets Shoshana at the restaurant with Gobbles, the scene where he meets them at the movie premiere, the scene where he negotiates with Aldo. You know he's capable of anything, at any time, all because we've seen how cunning he is in this first scene. Add that in with the tension in the Basement Bar scene and the entire movie keeps you on pins and needles the entire time. Personally, I think it's Tarantino's best work.
The Inglourious Basterds intro is one of the best movie intros ever... such a nerve wrecking, bone chilling scene, so well played out... still gives me goosebumps every time. For me personally I put Inglourious Basterds over Pulp Fiction as the best movie Tarantino has made.
@@KordonGMV I wouldn't call Pulp Ficiton overrated... not by a longshot. The dialogues are great, especially every scene Jackson is in. But to each his own.
@@MickayG Don't get me wrong I like the movie and it's great, but I hate the way people act as if directors should just stop because it's so utterly spectacular and transcends film
I always see everyone praising waltz, but the other actor across from him (I forgot his name) also did an amazing job showing the pain his character felt when pointing out the family
"The Departed" is the only Hollywood remake of a foreign film,I can think of,that is on par with the original if not better. Then again,it´s directed by Scorcese and has Nicholson,DiCaprio,M.Damon,M.Wahlberg and Martin Sheen in it.
I'm with you on that. That movie reaches a _really_ low point that most films (especially action) fail to portray, and it takes you with it... there comes a point when you feel almost as desperate for a resolution as the characters in the movie.
I also thought him entering the criminal meeting was great. “I’m going to make this pencil disappear...”. I consider it a better introduction to his capabilities and psyche.
That's pretty awesome, and the whole movie is. Ending wasn't as strong as it seemed to meander around the two boats and an upside down Joker. The Dark Knight Rises started off so spectacularly... The weak pre ending and melancholy ending kneecaped the rest of the meandering movie. Maybe Nolan has problems with endings.
One of the key reasons I've heard for how good the Inglourious Basterds one is because it uses the Alfred Hitchcock idea of the bomb under the table. Which is roughly the idea comparing a conversation between two people when suddenly a bomb goes off killing them giving 20 seconds of shock compared to at the start establishing with the audience that there is a bomb under the table that will go off in 5 minutes resulting in 5 or so minutes of tension. In this case the bomb being the family hiding under the floor boards and the explosion being the Germans finding and killing them.
Hans Landa has got to be the best written villain I've ever seen. Just how he can go from a cheery disposition to stone cold serious at the drop of a hat is terrifying. And using other languages to trick his targets was genius. Evil, but genius.
@@dallastexas5653 Both are entirely different villains, so it's harder to like one more than the other. Chigurh is more terrifying, while Landa is both terrifying and strangely charismatic
That Departed intro will always be incredible, and TDKR rises intro will always be amazing, but the Inglorious Basterds intro will always be terrifying.
The subtlety of his threats and the way he maintains absolute control of the situation despite coming off as non-threatening and friendly is just so perfect. When he pulls out that ridiculous pipe you know it’s all over!
Anyone infatuated with the last scene and hasn’t yet seen the movie needs to look up “inglorious basterds Italian scene”. Never could you laugh and be so worried so much at once.
The last one was by far the best. No high stakes spec ops needed. Heck, he wasn't even the most evil of them! He doesn't do it out of hate or any of the typical motives for villainry. He does it because he's good at it and his skills are highly appreciated... What makes him stand out is his social mastery and that he actually made a pretty good offer to the person many of us would have expected to die...
I actually modeled an impromptu interrogation in a DnD session after the famous Hans Landa scene. My character was a chaotic neutral mercenary paired with another chaotic neutral mercenary played by my friend and we were sent on a job to do some investigating for this military for “signs of summoning”. It was in a peaceful solitary lake house like a few miles from the nearest town and a half-elven war veteran lived there. We did some preliminary scouting around the place and deduced that he was indeed inside the house. So being the more charismatic of the pair my character went to introduce themselves to the man while my friend waited by the back door (the only other exit) as he was the stronger of the pair in a straight up fight. My character managed to make their way inside after being let in and immediately noticed a doorway in the middle of the house presumably leading to a basement (it was a one story building) which the war veteran kept on glancing at. After some cheerful talking with the hesitant and closed off individual I decided to kick things up a notch because we couldn’t necessarily bring him up on charges just because he was quiet. Anyone would be wary after letting two strangers in who were armed and carrying an official letter from the military. So I started asking about family and if any lived with him which he replied “No” to which both our characters knew was a lie based on eye witness reports (my friend had been listening in from the back door). Instead of pressing the issue my character continued on asking about personal life and how often he would get visitors yada yada. Basically trying to get a questioning tone out of him. When he finally got fed up and bluntly stated if I wasn’t here to charge him with anything then I should leave. My character played dumb for a second and said “Oh, but I am here to charge you. Right now it’s just lying to an official during a sanctioned investigation, but that list could grow in the next minute depending on your actions. You have a daughter that lives here with you, and based on the fact that I haven’t heard anything around or seen anything of her I’m going to guess she’s out at the market.” This immediately caught his attention and he stiffened up before glancing at two places. The door that lead to her room (though we didn’t know that at the time) and the door leading to the basement. The next exchanges went a little something like this. I don’t remember everything word for word, so bear with me. My character purposely placed themselves between the half-elf and the back door, and dropped the friendly smile. My friend took that as a single to run around to front and wait for my que. “You’re hiding something in your basement aren’t you?” Silence. “Summoners perhaps? They were spotted in the area a few days ago. I’m assuming your daughter doesn’t know since you tried to desperately keep her out of the conversation. I can keep her out out of being charged as an accomplice as long as you point me to where your friends are.” A bald faced lie. We were directly instructed to bring anyone harboring these guys to the proper authority. Anyone. But my deception worked (thank you +9 deception) and I got him to lead me to the door. He unlocked it and as soon as he did my friend came in through the front, quietly. It was really dark down there, but my character was a caster so I just planned to throw a fireball down there at the first opportunity. Unfortunately as soon as the veteran saw my friend he got cold feet and tried to stall us. Fight broke out on the very cramped stairs, four summoners joined the fray. It was messy, but fun. Kind of anti-climatic in text form, but one of my best memories from my DnD group.
The way Christopher waltz changes his whole demeanor at 12:36 from someone who is fairly friendly to 'do not Fk with me' is a Stroke of mastery. So subtle, genius
Without the entrance of Angel Eyes from the good the bad and the ugly I can't take that list serious. Even Hans Landas entrance was a tribute to Angel Eyes entrance!
The inglourious basterds scene is so good because us along with the French guy keep trying to tell ours3lves that hans landa is just too full of himself and that he doesn't actually know... But we keep getting told he does
Landa wins hands down. But the real head twister is this: Does Landa already know Mimieux is Shosanna when he orders milk for her in the restaurant? Is he just messing with her for fun, the way he did when he let her go after killing her family?
Member? Nobody but quentin tarantino would know for sure but personally i think its how Landa rolls i mean i would think its a mere coincidence that he ordered her milk , not coffee , with the strudel but again there was already a cute little jar of cream along with it , and in my opinion , it would ruin the taste to have milk with that so my mind is like this 🤪🤪🤪 when searching for an answer to your Q
@@Benjy1 I think it was implied he knew. I was always convinced he knew because Landa doesn't consider himself a nazi or a patriot, he's an oppurtunist. He always thinks about what he will gain from a situation before acting he wasn't in a rush to report or kill Shosanne because in his mind there could have been an oppurtunity there.
@@Benjy1 Gestapo officers had to carry lists and ID's for the people they were hunting as well as their psyche papers from doctors. This makes the officers know almost EVERYTHING about the victims. Someone with Lando's skill, the papers are a better weapon than the walther he had. His message is to spread fear. He let her go so she will be tormented for the rest of her life and to know that he outsmarted her.
No he did not - would not make any sense. I am amazed how people even come up with nonsense like that. It would be an insane and honestly very retarded plothole. He simply checks her for being Jewish by ordering milk.
That first few minutes of "Inglourious Basterds" is the most frightening of any movie I have ever witnessed. No monster movie, no horror flick, no Alfred Hitchcock has ever scared me the way that sequence does to this moment. I pee my pants whenever I see that scene.
Even though I watched Waltz in Inglories Bastards like 10 to 15 times already, I felt my pulse raise nevertheless watching him performing this chilling scene
Hansen Landa is the perfect example of how you can be polite char. ming, and an absolute MONSTER. I remeber forgetting to blink durring the strudel scene. I was a terrified as she was, and still to this day dont know if he knew. I remeber that thanking God I didnt live in over there in those times.
No one can write dialogue like Tarantino. And no one can put that dialogue to screen like Waltz. The pub scene in Inglorious Basterds is also very well written and extremely tense.
Benjy Sounds like there could be a Best Villain Intros Part 2 on the horizon? Dennis Hopper’s Frank Booth from Blue Velvet would be a classic one to include. Haha just sayin’.
Hans Landa Is a brilliant villain.Cunning and very intelligent.With out raising his voice he can be intimidating.Christoph Waltz is an amazing actor.Love watching movies he is in.
Hans Landa is hands down one of the most terrifying and downright evil villains in film history. And what's even more terrifying is that his character is realistic, there were Nazi officers like that who were absolute monsters. Christoph Waltz really played the role perfectly, I mean that slow transition from a smile to a serious frown with a gaze like daggers was absolutely amazing. Fuck, and the music when they kill the family is so chilling.
If you mean he should have received an award for his acting, he did. Quick search would have told you; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Waltz Waltz received the Best Actor Award for the performance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and received acclaim from critics and the public. In 2009, he began sweeping critics' awards circuits, receiving awards for Best Supporting Actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics,[20] Los Angeles Film Critics Association,[20] and for Best Supporting Actor at the 67th Golden Globe Awards and the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards in January 2010. The following month, he won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor,[21] and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.[22] Tarantino acknowledged the importance of Waltz to his film by stating: "I think that Landa is one of the best characters I've ever written and ever will write, and Christoph played it to a tee. It's true that if I couldn't have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made Inglourious Basterds"
God I love good movies. In departed jack stands always in shadows until he’s revealed. If you look even in scenes where he shouldn’t be. He’s still in shadow.
His killings happen in daylight. We all fear monsters at night but we know we’re safe in the light. When your villain butchers in broad daylight. You can never feel safe. If you want a scary monster don’t hide it in the dark. Show me in daylight how inexorable it is.