Daily Dialogue — February 22, 2019

Col. Hans Landa: [to Aldo] So you’re “Aldo the Apache.”
Lt. Aldo Raine: So you’re “the Jew Hunter.”
Col. Hans Landa: A detective. A damn good detective. Finding people is my specialty so naturally I work for the Nazis finding people, and yes some of them were Jews. But “Jew Hunter”?
Col. Hans Landa: [reacts in disgust] It’s just a name that stuck.
Pfc. Smithson Utivich: Well, you do have to admit, it is catchy.
Col. Hans Landa: Do you control the nicknames your enemies bestow on you? “Aldo the Apache” and “the Little Man”?
Pfc. Smithson Utivich: [confused] What do you mean “the Little Man”?
Col. Hans Landa: Germans’ nickname for you.
Pfc. Smithson Utivich: The Germans’ nickname for me is “the Little Man”?
Col. Hans Landa: And as if to make my point, I’m a little surprised how tall you were in real life. I mean, you’re a little fellow, but not circus-midget little, as your reputation would suggest.

— Inglourious Basterds (2009), written by Quentin Tarantino

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Interrogation.

Trivia: Quentin Tarantino was considering abandoning the film while the casting search for someone to play Colonel Hans Landa took place, fearing he’d written a role that was unplayable. After Christoph Waltz auditioned however, both Tarantino and Producer Lawrence Bender agreed they had found the perfect actor for the role.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Of course, you were thinking of that other interrogation scene in Inglourious Basterds. It’s great, but this one has a nice twist to it: Landa seeking a deal.