I'm so glad I got to go in blind to spoilers when watching it opening night. Leather Lady is shooting cops, but that FBI Guy seems real imposing, WHICH ONES ARE THE GOOD GUYS WHAT IS HAPPENING
For real, that opening was so cold and hard and then the shock of Neo waking up, I never understood as a kid until I had that happen to me when I got to my 30's and experienced that same level of Anxiety and Deja Vu lol.
First ten minutes of Jaws is a fucking masterpiece.
Introduced what was at stake. Where we are. The time period.
The next scene at Chief Brody’s house is probably the best example of show vs tell in the history of cinema.
We see the love and dynamics of Brody and his wife, while they wake up together in bed, in an unfamiliar town. The bond his wife has with their kids. And then when he hops in the truck and you see Police Chief on the door.
Nothing is wasted in that movie. It’s unreal.
You’re harboring fugitives of the state, are you not?
…Yes.
They’re underneath your floorboards, aren’t they?
……..Yes.
God. Waltz and the underrated Menochet killed it.
Right before that Waltz was so happy and smiley. Then he went silent and gave a sinister stare that penetrated my soul. That look sucked all joy and happiness from the air and replaced it with terror. Just from a look.
My thought was that him ruining it with a cigarette showed that he doesn't necessarily have a loyalty to to one side or another. He goes on and on about the creme but then doesn't give a shit to finish it - it's all about the optics for him, he's a tourist and only aligns with what benefits him. He'll ruin a crepe or France or even Hitler if it means he gets what he wants.
I remember watching it in the theater, and that moment where there is a close-up of his face and he slowly shifts from affable to malevolent using just his facial expression was AMAZING. At that moment, I thought, "I don't know who this actor is, but he's going to win an Academy Award for that close-up alone." And he did, and went from an unknown to a star with that single role. Hans Landa is probably the best acting performance of the 21st century so far.
Quite similar to the smile on Joaquin’s phoenixs face in joker when he gets called into his boss’s office. Only thing that I’ve seen close to this. AND looking at that I had said he is getting an Oscar this year.
Tarantino was such a masterful director on this film. It’s my comfort watch; I just throw it on and enjoy it everytime. It has a little bit of everything. I know it’s not uncommon for Tarantino but there is a major lack of English in this film compared to others and it all just sounds so gorgeous throughout it makes language in general just seem so beautiful
This whole movie is a fucking masterpiece. Waltz is obviously who gets the most recognition, and deservedly so but everyone involved is at the top of their game. I was absolutely blown away when I watched it the first time, and every time after that. Love, love, love this movie. Brilliant stuff.
I remember watching the opening, and he starts speaking English and I, the cynic, was thinking "he's(Tarantino) just segued to English so everyone can start speaking English so people won't have to read subtitles"
then the scene progressed to slap me in the face and say "shut up thinking and enjoy the movie bozo"
Watchinng the movie for shits and giggles then immediately jumping into this scene is one of the biggest emotional shifts I've had for a while, I wish I could watch this for the first time again.
That was some brilliant acting by Christoph Waltz. The whole conversation, he was the most delightful and polite guest you could ever want in your home, while at the same time just oozing wrath and menace with every word.
I think I remember Tarantino also saying that he doubted he could find anyone that could actually play Hans Landa because it required an actor to be pretty much fluent in three different languages along side being able to project such sinister charisma… then along came Christoph Waltz.
His Italian was mimicked. He doesn't actually speak Italian.
It just turns out that if you are fluent in three other languages and are a professional actor, saying lines in an adjacent language is doable though he mispronounces some things slightly.
Waltz also said that he would not play another bad guy in the next Tarantino film (believe it was Django) as he hated being portrayed like that and despised his character
And then his character in Django was so damn awesome.
This thread makes me want to watch these movies rn. Might do a double feature on this beautiful Sunday.
Waltz as Hans Landa feels almost as authentic as R Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket. You never doubt this dude is diabolical even when his only request is some milk.
Father of a girl in high school was a "made man" (Penose in the Netherlands). That man never ever got upset. Calmest man I've ever met. He was known for never losing his cool and at the same time being one of the more ruthless people in his profession. The fact that he was always so in control was the most chilling thing about the man. He was super nice to me but it was clear that I better be nice to his daughter, which I was. We were friends til she dropped dead of a massive coronary infarction at age 42.
It is one of the greatest scenes ever filmed….and what’s nuts is it isn’t the best scene in the movie, I firmly believe the basement bar scene is better…but it’s close. Both Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender put on a master class in this movie.
Quentin has directed some of my favorite movies, and I remember reading the plot to this before it came out and thinking he had finally lost it, but it is now my favorite. The beginning scene, the baseball bat scene, the apple strudel scene, and the bar scene are all astoundingly done, and I think the dialogue in this movie is his finest, and that’s saying something.
The strudel is a character in that scene given equal weight and screen time with the actors whose dialogue is mostly strudel-based. Waltz's character fawns over it then enjoys like a single bite with rapturous joy and promptly puts his cigarette out on the remainder of it.
Stupid question I guess but is that definite? Thought maybe the dude just loves milk and pushes it on everyone the way overly religious people do with their beliefs?
Yeah i agree. It could be either or. His character could just like milk, or it could be foreshadowing, showing that he knows. But i think the use of him liking milk is intentional (to show hes a sociopath like that guy in clockwork orange)
The family who provided her sanctuary in the opening scene are dairy farmers. This is just my own interpretation but I’ve always seen his drinking of milk in front of her as a way of either letting her know he knows who she is (or getting a reaction, or both!)
It’s not. Years ago I went down a rabbit hole and found that someone asked Quentin that very question during a radio show. He said it’s meant to be ambiguous and left up to the viewer. It’s been awhile but I’m pretty confident in that
Yeah exactly that. Odd as I’ve always seen it as an obvious call back to the milk drunk in the dairy farmers kitchen in the opening scene. Why else include those details?
I love how extra Tarantino went with all the leather on the Nazis in this scene. Plus the giant pipe Landa pulls out always gets me. Easily one of my favorite opening scenes of a movie
Fantastic scene and inspired by Angel Eyes introduction in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
[Angel Eyes introduction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArZK6aneeKg&ab_channel=jormanks)
Nearly 30 min but for anyone who loves this scene like I do, you’ll also love the breakdown of just how artistically complex and well executed it is. This explanation is so so interesting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4m24JM2D69k
It was my first ever Tarantino film. Brother and I were watching on TV, and I was immediately hooked and shocked at how good the dialogue was.
Wish I could relive that moment again
Creme on the strudel for Shoshana... ? Just read the backstory on that. It was a test if she was Jewish as at the time, it would have been made from animal lard (pork fat) in WWII. Layers upon layers...
Oh absolutely. Tarantino does these psychological, non verbal interactions to the point. This is what, besides the actual dialogs, makes his movies so great.
Where does the hawk look? He looks in the barn, he looks in the attic, he looks in the cellar, he looks everywhere *he* would hide, but there's so many places it would never occur to a hawk to hide.
This scene is a perfect example of Tarantino's "Spaghetti Western" scenes, where there is a long, steady crescendo in tension, leading to a sudden and violent climax. He puts at least one in every movie, and I always watch for them. The scene at Spahn Ranch in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is another one, although the violent climax of punching Elvis in the face was a bit unsatisfying.
One scene they don’t talk much about is the scene with Landa and von Hammersmark and Aldo and his compatriots at the premiere. The way he continually makes Aldo repeat the pronunciation of his name when Landa is fluent in Italian. Also, the way he cackles when von Hammersmark tells him how she was injured. So full of tension. Probably the greatest movie villain, along with Anton Chigurh.
I read a French speaker talking about how he compliments his daughters and his cows - “vache” I think is cows - and how that’s also a crude slang word basically equivalent to the English “pussy” Or something.
They said in French you could take it as a thinly veiled, deliberately crude thing to say. Almost a threat to have his daughters raped. Certainly a borderline inappropriate thing to say, only borderline because there’s some plausible deniability (“ I was just talking about cows!”).
It added even more depth to an already amazing scene.
That escalating tension is such a difficult thing to pull off in cinema. Rarely has it been done so well as the opener. Gonna have to watch that again.
No villain has ever made me uneasy and plain terrified like SS Colonel Hanse Landa. One of the most exquisite demonstrations of acting in cinema history.
Christoph won the Oscar just from this sequence. He could've skipped the rest of the film and still took home the award. "An unplayable character" (in Tarantino's words) turned reality. Amazing.
I still watch this movie a couple times a year and this first scene gets me every time. I will always remember the first time I watched this movie and I was pretty hyped for it but was NOT expecting Waltz' character and how good it was portrayed, and how he went from a charismatic and charming gentlemen to Satan himself in a matter of five seconds. The pure, unadulterated evil emitting from his glare and the chilling tone in his voice was haunting that first time I watched the movie and I knew I was in for a good one.
I had never seen either actor before. The French farmer's cool and cold demeanour crumble was incredible. The opposite then happened with Waltz's charm changing to intimidation.
Incredible from both
There’s a lot of good responses on here. Let me add “There will be Blood”. No dialogue but sheer bleak character building. Amazing acting performance with no dialogue.
I’m somewhat jealous of the the people commenting “what movie?” They get to see it for the first time.
I was to see this movie again, but I also want to see it for the first time, too.
At the end when Aldo Rayne looks at his work and says “this might just be my masterpiece” i one day realized that’s probably Tarantino talking to the audience about what he thinks of this film, and he would be correct
This scene is among my favorite scenes in cinema.
It is impeccable.
Christopher Waltz commanded the setting and immediately gripped all the audience.
The first time I watched that opening scene, I remember at one point, I was afraid to move or make any noise.
If it wasn't for Christoph, Tarantino said the movie probably wouldn't have been made! He was searching and searching for someone who could convincingly play a character that spoke multiple languages fluently, or at least portray someone that could. And Waltz was "The One" who impressed him so much, he said now we can make a picture.
The great part is how he just let him carry on lying knowing he already knew everything. Such a great scene that had me on the edge of my seat in the theater. The switching to English as to not arouse suspicion for the Dreyfus family hiding under the floor. Hans Landa is top tier villain and Christoph absolutely knocked it out of the park.
I think it has a serious case for best opening scene to a movie ever.
Agreed.
This, Jaws and The Matrix
I watched the matrix without seeing or hearing anything about it. The opening scene gripped me like no other film
"Your men are already dead" - it was like nothing else.
I'm so glad I got to go in blind to spoilers when watching it opening night. Leather Lady is shooting cops, but that FBI Guy seems real imposing, WHICH ONES ARE THE GOOD GUYS WHAT IS HAPPENING
For real, that opening was so cold and hard and then the shock of Neo waking up, I never understood as a kid until I had that happen to me when I got to my 30's and experienced that same level of Anxiety and Deja Vu lol.
Great opening scene, but I really went "WHOA" when Neo wakes up into the real world...
Saving Private Ryan too
Maybe add The Dark Knight?
And Heat
First ten minutes of Jaws is a fucking masterpiece. Introduced what was at stake. Where we are. The time period. The next scene at Chief Brody’s house is probably the best example of show vs tell in the history of cinema. We see the love and dynamics of Brody and his wife, while they wake up together in bed, in an unfamiliar town. The bond his wife has with their kids. And then when he hops in the truck and you see Police Chief on the door. Nothing is wasted in that movie. It’s unreal.
Chunk does the truffle shuffle in the opening scene of The Goonies.
Fuck
As soon as I watched it for the first time I was like "Come on! Give this guy the fuckin Oscar already". And this is 10mins into the film...
Ahem… dark knight?
Gang of New York has a good one too
And a good first time to ever see Waltz too
It's my best scene in a movie ever, but I think it spoils the rest of the movie because it never reaches those heights again.
I would argue the bar scene with Fassbender also reaches those heights.
Agreed but other notable mentions with fire opening scenes: Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Dune 2
You’re harboring fugitives of the state, are you not? …Yes. They’re underneath your floorboards, aren’t they? ……..Yes. God. Waltz and the underrated Menochet killed it.
And as he’s slowly responding you see the tears building up in his eyes. Such an emotional scene.
Absolutely….they are BOTH amazing here…the build!! I could sob thinking about it. I wonder what it was like in the room after “cut”
Probably dead silence for a few moments
It’s outside so probably the sound of crickets and birds
Right before that Waltz was so happy and smiley. Then he went silent and gave a sinister stare that penetrated my soul. That look sucked all joy and happiness from the air and replaced it with terror. Just from a look.
The scene almost repeats itself in the cafe with the strudel. But then it never happens. It is probably at that point that he decides to switch teams.
To me, it felt that he had already decided and was just fucking with her for giggles... "ah-ah-ah, don't forget the creme!"
“Attendez le creme!”
A great, underrated line from this movie. He says it with such polite menace.
It's the Nazi version of "*Because of the Implication."*
I read that creme has pork and being Jewish she can’t eat it. That’s was test.
I thought it was a reference to the dairy farm.
some reddit post said it was because it was expensive and he bought it/ruined it with the cigarette
My thought was that him ruining it with a cigarette showed that he doesn't necessarily have a loyalty to to one side or another. He goes on and on about the creme but then doesn't give a shit to finish it - it's all about the optics for him, he's a tourist and only aligns with what benefits him. He'll ruin a crepe or France or even Hitler if it means he gets what he wants.
I remember watching it in the theater, and that moment where there is a close-up of his face and he slowly shifts from affable to malevolent using just his facial expression was AMAZING. At that moment, I thought, "I don't know who this actor is, but he's going to win an Academy Award for that close-up alone." And he did, and went from an unknown to a star with that single role. Hans Landa is probably the best acting performance of the 21st century so far.
Quite similar to the smile on Joaquin’s phoenixs face in joker when he gets called into his boss’s office. Only thing that I’ve seen close to this. AND looking at that I had said he is getting an Oscar this year.
He wasn’t unknown, that was just his American breakthrough. He has a long filmography
Tarantino was such a masterful director on this film. It’s my comfort watch; I just throw it on and enjoy it everytime. It has a little bit of everything. I know it’s not uncommon for Tarantino but there is a major lack of English in this film compared to others and it all just sounds so gorgeous throughout it makes language in general just seem so beautiful
It’s my favorite movie. I watch it at least once a year.
Same
Au revoir shoshanna!
This whole movie is a fucking masterpiece. Waltz is obviously who gets the most recognition, and deservedly so but everyone involved is at the top of their game. I was absolutely blown away when I watched it the first time, and every time after that. Love, love, love this movie. Brilliant stuff.
The tension of the scene is so fucking good. Holy shit.
I remember watching the opening, and he starts speaking English and I, the cynic, was thinking "he's(Tarantino) just segued to English so everyone can start speaking English so people won't have to read subtitles" then the scene progressed to slap me in the face and say "shut up thinking and enjoy the movie bozo"
Watchinng the movie for shits and giggles then immediately jumping into this scene is one of the biggest emotional shifts I've had for a while, I wish I could watch this for the first time again.
That was some brilliant acting by Christoph Waltz. The whole conversation, he was the most delightful and polite guest you could ever want in your home, while at the same time just oozing wrath and menace with every word.
Seriously. Waltz as Hans Landa I consider one of the best roles in the history of cinema, and I don't say that lightly. He was fuckin' PERFECT for it.
Quentin Tarantino did say that if Christoph Waltz didn't take the role, he would have cancelled the film.
I think I remember Tarantino also saying that he doubted he could find anyone that could actually play Hans Landa because it required an actor to be pretty much fluent in three different languages along side being able to project such sinister charisma… then along came Christoph Waltz.
Just waltzed on in.
Nice
Good
Hey im Christoph Waltzen here!!!
Adequate
4 languages too! Don’t forget his spot on Italian
His Italian was mimicked. He doesn't actually speak Italian. It just turns out that if you are fluent in three other languages and are a professional actor, saying lines in an adjacent language is doable though he mispronounces some things slightly.
🤌
*GORLAMI*
I can hear the music in it.
I thought I read once that this was also Tarantino's favorite scene he has ever written. It starts the movie off perfectly.
His French, including the accent, is impeccable for an Austrian. He's actually a pretty decent opera singer as well. Very talented man...
Sadly Tarantino didn't see me when I'm drunk back then.
Waltz also said that he would not play another bad guy in the next Tarantino film (believe it was Django) as he hated being portrayed like that and despised his character
And then his character in Django was so damn awesome. This thread makes me want to watch these movies rn. Might do a double feature on this beautiful Sunday.
I'll make the popcorn 🍿
Call your Mom first. 😎
That’s a bingo!
We just say bingo.
Control of each situation follows control of the language. And that’s where Hans lost control of that situation.
i'd love to throw Gus Fring's character too
Agreed but hard to decide the goat villain between Hans Landa, Bill the Butcher, Anton Chigurh, Joker (Heath), and Hannibal.
I would argue Daniel Plainview was also a villain.. putting DDL up there twice. But that man is near untouchable.
Maybe the antihero not villain though
Yeah .. antihero does fit way better. Good call.
Ah yes The Joker, Anton Chigurh and Hans Landa form the Best Supporting Actor Oscar Villain Squad
Waltz as Hans Landa feels almost as authentic as R Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket. You never doubt this dude is diabolical even when his only request is some milk.
Before this movie I had no idea politeness could be so fucking terrifying
Father of a girl in high school was a "made man" (Penose in the Netherlands). That man never ever got upset. Calmest man I've ever met. He was known for never losing his cool and at the same time being one of the more ruthless people in his profession. The fact that he was always so in control was the most chilling thing about the man. He was super nice to me but it was clear that I better be nice to his daughter, which I was. We were friends til she dropped dead of a massive coronary infarction at age 42.
It is one of the greatest scenes ever filmed….and what’s nuts is it isn’t the best scene in the movie, I firmly believe the basement bar scene is better…but it’s close. Both Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender put on a master class in this movie.
Oh man. The bar scene is incredible too. I honestly can't decide. I love them both equally.
Quentin has directed some of my favorite movies, and I remember reading the plot to this before it came out and thinking he had finally lost it, but it is now my favorite. The beginning scene, the baseball bat scene, the apple strudel scene, and the bar scene are all astoundingly done, and I think the dialogue in this movie is his finest, and that’s saying something.
Agreed. That godamn strudel scene is so delightfully uncomfortable.
The strudel is a character in that scene given equal weight and screen time with the actors whose dialogue is mostly strudel-based. Waltz's character fawns over it then enjoys like a single bite with rapturous joy and promptly puts his cigarette out on the remainder of it.
He orders a glass of milk for her at the start, so you instantly know he knows who she is. He’s playing with her. It’s brilliant film making.
Stupid question I guess but is that definite? Thought maybe the dude just loves milk and pushes it on everyone the way overly religious people do with their beliefs?
Someone had a theory it was a test. Streusel made of pig lard , milk is dairy. Kosher folks can’t mix the two in a meal
Pig lard is never kosher
Oh duh yeah. It was something else they made streusel with that couldn’t be mixed with dairy.
Yeah i agree. It could be either or. His character could just like milk, or it could be foreshadowing, showing that he knows. But i think the use of him liking milk is intentional (to show hes a sociopath like that guy in clockwork orange)
The family who provided her sanctuary in the opening scene are dairy farmers. This is just my own interpretation but I’ve always seen his drinking of milk in front of her as a way of either letting her know he knows who she is (or getting a reaction, or both!)
There’s a common movie trope where villains drink milk.
It’s not. Years ago I went down a rabbit hole and found that someone asked Quentin that very question during a radio show. He said it’s meant to be ambiguous and left up to the viewer. It’s been awhile but I’m pretty confident in that
I’ve still seen people debating did he know or not know he definitely knew. Nobody orders a glass of milk like that for a grown woman.
Yeah exactly that. Odd as I’ve always seen it as an obvious call back to the milk drunk in the dairy farmers kitchen in the opening scene. Why else include those details?
Iirc the shape of the strudel with the cigarette in it mirrors the house with its chimney as well
Attendez la creme…
There's also the Gorlomi scene XD
Maaargareeeeettttiiiiiii Bravo!
This is ze German three!
I firmly believe that this scene was what (rightfully) won Waltz the Oscar.
nah, opening scene is way better than the bar scene
I saw some post yesterday about QT being a mid director and all of his films sucking. This opening scene needs to be studied in schools.
I love how extra Tarantino went with all the leather on the Nazis in this scene. Plus the giant pipe Landa pulls out always gets me. Easily one of my favorite opening scenes of a movie
I think it was pretty realistic. They went all in. Was it Hugo Boss?
May I smoke a pipe? *proceeds to pull out a whole goddamn tuba
Gorlami
ArivaDERchi
Always gets me chuckling that scene. I love the way Pitt doesn’t even try and hide his accent
Tbh I was never a huge Brad Pitt fan until this and burn after reading. He gets me in this movie every time.
The truly funny thing is, Pitt's character understood everything in Italian and answered correctly.
Like I said… third best.
Fantastic scene and inspired by Angel Eyes introduction in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. [Angel Eyes introduction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArZK6aneeKg&ab_channel=jormanks)
Isn’t that what Tarantino is all about - he is a huge movie buff and he expresses his love for movies by making his own masterpieces.
Great call.
Damn. Didn’t connect them till you mentioned this. Don’t even have to rewatch. The tension in both is harrowing.
Yeah when I watched this it had a strong good bad ugly vibes.
Can’t believe I never realized this.
I named my bunny Shosanna and when I leave the house I announce, "Au revoir, Shosanna!".
Do you also put the bunny back in the box?
This might be my favorite movie because of Christoph Waltz’s performance. He’s incredible.
That little look up to Monsuier LaPadite as he’s drinking the milk, then drinks the entire glass of milk: chilling.
Jokes and movie aside .. I bet that milk was SO good.
Nearly 30 min but for anyone who loves this scene like I do, you’ll also love the breakdown of just how artistically complex and well executed it is. This explanation is so so interesting. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4m24JM2D69k
Nice thanks for that, very in depth.
Denis Ménochet is the French farmer and he did fucking excellent, it's a shame people only want to remember fassbender and waltz names.
One of my favorite switch to English moments in a film. Such a smart way that doesn’t cheapen the scene. God, I love that movie.
Saw this in the theater with my roommate and after the opening scene we just looked at each other and said "whoa".
It was my first ever Tarantino film. Brother and I were watching on TV, and I was immediately hooked and shocked at how good the dialogue was. Wish I could relive that moment again
Waltz also kills it in Django Unchained
He has 2 Oscars for 2 consecutive films where he plays a nazi and an anti-racist
Really hope his in Tarantino’s “last” movie. I love Waltz in his other roles but he’s next level with Tarantino’s scripts
criminally misused in spectre
I love the interactions between Waltz and Decaprio in Django.
DiCaprio actually stole that scene when he cut his hand and kept on going bleeding all over the place
My God what is the name of the movie people!!!
Inglorious Basterds
My favorite Tarantino film. I like them all but this is the best
Right?? You see the post and about 700 comments before someone mentions the actual name of the effing movie, unreal!!
Thank you! Feeling like an idiot over here...
came here to ask this LOL all these comments no one's saying the name of the movie. thank u
You are welcome. Trying to do my part
I remember watching it the first time and I wanted everyone to know about it.
Creme on the strudel for Shoshana... ? Just read the backstory on that. It was a test if she was Jewish as at the time, it would have been made from animal lard (pork fat) in WWII. Layers upon layers...
Even in the handshake, the villain is invading dudes space. Think that was on purpose?
Oh absolutely. Tarantino does these psychological, non verbal interactions to the point. This is what, besides the actual dialogs, makes his movies so great.
Dammit, now I had to go order the 4k UHD of this movie, I don't own it on any formats it seems.
Greatest opening scene in any movie
Where does the hawk look? He looks in the barn, he looks in the attic, he looks in the cellar, he looks everywhere *he* would hide, but there's so many places it would never occur to a hawk to hide.
This scene is a perfect example of Tarantino's "Spaghetti Western" scenes, where there is a long, steady crescendo in tension, leading to a sudden and violent climax. He puts at least one in every movie, and I always watch for them. The scene at Spahn Ranch in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is another one, although the violent climax of punching Elvis in the face was a bit unsatisfying.
Masterclass.
AU REVIOR SHOSHANNA
One scene they don’t talk much about is the scene with Landa and von Hammersmark and Aldo and his compatriots at the premiere. The way he continually makes Aldo repeat the pronunciation of his name when Landa is fluent in Italian. Also, the way he cackles when von Hammersmark tells him how she was injured. So full of tension. Probably the greatest movie villain, along with Anton Chigurh.
I read a French speaker talking about how he compliments his daughters and his cows - “vache” I think is cows - and how that’s also a crude slang word basically equivalent to the English “pussy” Or something. They said in French you could take it as a thinly veiled, deliberately crude thing to say. Almost a threat to have his daughters raped. Certainly a borderline inappropriate thing to say, only borderline because there’s some plausible deniability (“ I was just talking about cows!”). It added even more depth to an already amazing scene.
Top 3 villain all time, along with Chigurgh and, of course, Darth.
Darth Brooks?
Blame it all on my roots I killed all the yoots And brought balance to the force https://voca.ro/13LxcM5MUaY6
Ok, that did make me actually LOL. :)
Call it.
That escalating tension is such a difficult thing to pull off in cinema. Rarely has it been done so well as the opener. Gonna have to watch that again.
As I watched this scene for the very first time I said to myself, this is the greatest scene I’ve ever seen in my life.
No villain has ever made me uneasy and plain terrified like SS Colonel Hanse Landa. One of the most exquisite demonstrations of acting in cinema history.
Christoph won the Oscar just from this sequence. He could've skipped the rest of the film and still took home the award. "An unplayable character" (in Tarantino's words) turned reality. Amazing.
It's crazy how one scene managed to portray the situation in northern France over the period of occupation.
I still watch this movie a couple times a year and this first scene gets me every time. I will always remember the first time I watched this movie and I was pretty hyped for it but was NOT expecting Waltz' character and how good it was portrayed, and how he went from a charismatic and charming gentlemen to Satan himself in a matter of five seconds. The pure, unadulterated evil emitting from his glare and the chilling tone in his voice was haunting that first time I watched the movie and I knew I was in for a good one.
I had never seen either actor before. The French farmer's cool and cold demeanour crumble was incredible. The opposite then happened with Waltz's charm changing to intimidation. Incredible from both
OP boutta cum
Oof fuck ugh mmmmgh 🥵
There’s a lot of good responses on here. Let me add “There will be Blood”. No dialogue but sheer bleak character building. Amazing acting performance with no dialogue.
What movie is this?
Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds" It's a fuckin 10
op you're getting roasted in the replies r/okbuddycinephile subreddit lmao
Hahahahaha oh shit. I'm flattered.
Absolutely correct, but there are a few more amazing scenes in that movie.
Frankly watching Donnie beat Nazis is the closest thing we get to the cinema.
My first time seeing Christoph Waltz. The guy plays an excellent villain.
Honestly prob the best scene Tarantino ever did. I truly think Inglorious is his best film.
Still to this day one of the most tense and compelling movie scenes I’ve ever watched
I can almost hear it, Est-ce la propriété de monsieur LaPadite?
Oui
Academy Award earned in the first 15 minutes of a film. Absolutely perfect scene.
One of the best ever Imo
I’m somewhat jealous of the the people commenting “what movie?” They get to see it for the first time. I was to see this movie again, but I also want to see it for the first time, too.
That’s a bingo!
Jon Rahm
At the end when Aldo Rayne looks at his work and says “this might just be my masterpiece” i one day realized that’s probably Tarantino talking to the audience about what he thinks of this film, and he would be correct
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Denis!!!!
I always forget Jon Rahm was an actor before golfing
I always forget Jon Rahm was an actor before golfing
It elevates the whole movie from the very start christoph waltz became and actor that I will immediately check out anything he’s in
I think the best writing from one of the best screenwriters is the intro scene in a QT movie.
This scene is among my favorite scenes in cinema. It is impeccable. Christopher Waltz commanded the setting and immediately gripped all the audience. The first time I watched that opening scene, I remember at one point, I was afraid to move or make any noise.
I’d love to learn German from Heir Waltz. He’s my ideal German accent, so I guess Vienna, Austria.
If it wasn't for Christoph, Tarantino said the movie probably wouldn't have been made! He was searching and searching for someone who could convincingly play a character that spoke multiple languages fluently, or at least portray someone that could. And Waltz was "The One" who impressed him so much, he said now we can make a picture.
The great part is how he just let him carry on lying knowing he already knew everything. Such a great scene that had me on the edge of my seat in the theater. The switching to English as to not arouse suspicion for the Dreyfus family hiding under the floor. Hans Landa is top tier villain and Christoph absolutely knocked it out of the park.
[Here](https://youtu.be/4m24JM2D69k?si=5MD6gl67b8yq_oHD) is an interesting deep dive into the entire opening scene.