I will say yes. If only for the scene where he tells Shosanna that he has something to tell her but can't remember. His expression goes from absolutely menacing to clumsily forgetful in the raise of an eyebrow. Absolutely well done.
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That's what you get for such questions.
"Same performance?" That is just pure foolishness.
The only similarities was that Christoph Waltz played a German/Austrian individual written by Quentin Tarantino with an aptitude for languages, civilized conversation and smoking. Other than that, you couldn't find two completely separate characters. Dr. Schultz was a good natured if easily flustered individual who found he couldn't handle the intensity of the world around him and succumbed to his own selfishness for a brief moment because the idea of a character like Calvin Candie inhabiting the world and spreading his poison was too much for him to bear, especially after having to be a complicit witness to an innocent man's death just because of the color of his skin, whereas Standartenführer Landa was the personification of cold opportunism. Everything he did was personally self motivated or out of a sadistic need to demonstrate how he was smarter than everyone else (i.e. the opening scene, where he has no qualms about tricking the farmer into revealing where the Dreyfus family is hiding and the gleam in his eyes when the troops open fire on them in their hiding place).
I do agree that Christian McKay was phenomenal as Orson Welles and, had the film been distributed by a more prolific studio, would rightfully have been nominated.
That was the only one he deserved.
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