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Vanity Fair Hollywood Portfolio, 2010 by Annie Leibovitz

The Hellions Quentin Tarantino with Christoph Waltz
One film together: Inglourious Basterds (2009).

From the raw material of an Italian-made late-70s Dirty Dozen knockoff called Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato (released as The Inglorious Bastards in the U.S.), Tarantino has whipped up his latest barmy bijou mashup: part World War II epic, part goofy Mike Myers comedy (literally—he’s in the movie), part grind-house gore-fest, part Eastwoodian revenge fantasy. The linchpin of this whole exercise—and the counterpoint to the film’s putative star, Brad Pitt—is the Vienna-born Waltz. As Colonel Hans Landa, he runs the gamut of cinematic Nazi-ness, from the cold menace of Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List to the high camp of Dick Shawn in The Producers. With his tight smile and pit-bull jawline, he bullies his way through his every scene, terrifying and electrifying. It’s the kind of performance that a prankster like Tarantino might call S-S-sen-sational.

Photographed in Los Angeles on December 14, 2009.