![]() ![]() Some of them are skilled soldiers with reservations about all the wicked deeds they have to do, like Private Zoller. Some of them are drinking all the Kool Aid, like Major Hellstrom and Sergeant Rachtman. Waltz tried to explain and re-explain that he played the character as Quentin Tarantino wrote it: a detective who happens to be wearing a Nazi uniform, but who doesn’t buy into any of the actual ideology.Īnd that’s one of the things about Basterds that’s so fascinating: they aren’t all goose-stepping, Jew-hating caricatures. He kept pushing his point that Landa is the quintessential Nazi, and an evil man, and so on. ![]() If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say that Letterman hasn’t actually seen Inglourious Basterds (2009) – but that’s neither here nor there. When Waltz was doing press during the 2010 Oscar season, he suffered through a rather painful interview with David Letterman. Landa is one of the most fascinating characters in any movie, good or bad, and I just love thinking about him. Yeah, yeah, I’m obsessed with Christoph Waltz. Below are a few of some of my favorites, who all serve to illustrate John Rogers’s point: “You don’t really understand an antagonist until you understand why he’s a protagonist in his own version of the world.” Without a worthy adversary, though, what’s the point? Who wants a story about just good guys? And who wants a cartoon villain? Real villains, effective villains, are often more complicated than their good and noble pursuers/victims. He can be strong, brave, quick-witted, daring, whatever you want. Thinking about poor old Norman yesterday has gotten me thinking about other movie villains – antagonists, if you prefer a less loaded word – and how right Alfred Hitchcock was: “The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.” You can have a great, noble hero. ![]()
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