Who Won the Movie?
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- Lea Seydoux is joked, Waltz is offered, and the reply is that there is nothing to overthink: it is Quentin Tarantino, who was in the dark at this point; the third wave of American revisionist Westerns starts with this movie, it revivified his ability to raise money and attract movie stars, and it does both things Tarantino movies do, discovering new talent and spotlighting great talent.
- Recalling the show's Social Network conversation about the best movie of the last decade, a host puts this in the best-of-the-century conversation and cannot see how the sole author of it is not the winner; another is tending toward Tarantino because that is what leapt off the screen this time.
- A counterpoint is that this is a moment where the film's reception at the time, when many people did not feel that way, is hard to ignore, even though it made money and remains his second highest grosser; Tarantino himself said Waltz gave him his movie, and it is hard to imagine the film being what it is without Waltz, the only person who could do what he did, with the joke of DiCaprio doing a Blood Diamond South African accent as Landa.
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- Christoph Waltz