What will Landa do next, the audience asks, as we find ourselves becoming increasingly uneasy as the tension grows. Landa enters the farmhouse, brimming with menace, before elaborately greeting the farmer’s daughters and eyeing them up shamelessly in front of their father. When we first meet Landa he is arriving at a French farmhouse, the owner of which we quickly discover is suspected of harbouring Jews. One of the most exciting and gripping aspects of Landa is his unpredictability one is never quite sure what he is going to do next. And it is for this reason that I argue he is one of the finest characters created in the modern era. However, Colonel Hans Landa also possesses these qualities alongside an enormous dollop of charm, charisma and sophistication. Goeth is without doubt a fine character an amoral, cold blooded, heartless man of pure evil and mindless cruelty. There were strong opinions on either side but overall it was Fiennes who won. I recently witnessed a lively Internet debate surrounding the burning issue of who is the best Nazi of them all Christoph Waltz’s Hans Landa or Ralph Fiennes’ Amon Goeth (Schindler’s List, 1993). Creator - Quentin Tarantino (Original Screenplay)
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