I read once that Quentin is no particular fan of Kubrick, but the scene(s) with Redmond/Pottsdorf/police minister reminds me SO much of the operation kino briefing scene in Inglourious Basterds, right down to the 3 corresponding characters.
The Captain Feeny robbery scene also reminds me of the beginning of The Hateful Eight in a way.
Intersting . The captain feeny scene maybe .
shareI'm glad you posted this. I was thinking Capt. Potzdorf's accent sounded exactly like Christoph Waltz's. And now that you mention the briefing scene and the highway robbery scene, there's clearly echoes. I wonder if Quentin Tarantino had them subconsciously in mind or if they're just so generic that it's a coincidence.
shareHardy Kruger (who played Potzdorf) is German, and so spoke in a German accent.
Waltz is Austrian-German, and so speaks in a similar accent.
It has nothing to do with Tarantino.
Oh, no doubt. I wasn't implying that the accent itself was copied. i was agreeing with the OP that the convoluted plan was similar.
In terms of the accent, there are many different types of German accents. And Kruger's reminded me instantly of Waltz. Perhaps they're from the same region? Or they learned English the same way? Just for example, Arnold Schwarzenegger is from Austria and his accent doesn't sound anything like theirs.
Hardy Krüger is from Berlin and nowhere near where Walz is from (Vienna).
The accent you hear is more or less a rather dialect free standard German (kind of like Received Pronunciation in English). It doesn't have a regional flavour to it.
Which is funny, because in Inglorious Basterds he say's that he is from the "Austrian Alps". Not only would no Nazi at that time call it "Austria", it was called "Ostmark" (Eastern Mark). But people in that region have a very thick accent, which Walz didn't display at all.
Arnold is from Styria, from a rural upbringing, so his accent is very thick, when he speaks German. Like in English speaking countries, accents in German speaking countries not only depend on the region, but also on education and "class".
I'd say The Killing was also a big influence on Tarantino (Tarantino even called it the best heist movie ever made). Perhaps Tarantino likes Kubrick better than he actually realizes :) I always found Tarantino to be a modern day Kubrick to begin with - *not* in term of overall quality of his movies and his directing, I want to stress this.
shareTarantino loves Kubrick. I'm not sure if the OP worded the post wrong but 'The Killing' is everything QT wanted to do in films with the non-conventional narratives, Chapter Lists, being heavily involved in getting costume design correct and other small details that many people overlook.
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