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[rubixcub]

The adjoining lines are spoken in a lower register, but Waltz's voice isn't limited to that (the early scenes in "Django Unchained" attest to that).  The way the speaker pronounces the "r" on "across" makes it sound like Waltz's accent.

 

Dave

[Trevelyan 006]

Perhaps, some are listening a little too closely...

 

It's Waltz all the way through, ladies and gents. 

[Matt_13]

Loving the participation in the poll.

[thecasinoroyale]

As for the results of this poll:


 
"Well, they don't come any closer than that!"

[Vauxhall]

So, the new TV spot makes it sound far more like Waltz to my ear. In fact, all the dialogue sounds slightly different to the trailer.

[thecasinoroyale]

Agreed - Waltz sounds different from the previous trailers/spots and THAT line fits his voice in this one.

 

Deleting my vote - adding it to Oberhauser!

[Tiin007]

Wouldn't it be a riot if BOTH versions were included in the film-- the version from the trailer being said by Denbigh to M, and then Waltz uttering the same line (verbatim) to Bond as it sounds in the tv spot?

 

That would make this thread hilarious in hindsight. 

[The Shark]

You mean as a shared motto? That would be worse than TWINE!

[stromberg]

Just back from an Interview with Craig's German voice, Dietmar Wunder. I asked him about it (outside the interview), and he said that the trailer wasn't dubbed as an "ensemble" (the German dubbing hasn't started, yet. Will happen next week and the week after that), he only recorded his own stuff, but the way he understood it was that it's Waltz who says it.

[Matt_13]

Yeah this time it definitely sounds more like Waltz, but I think in both instances his voice has been altered slightly. I have an assumption as to why, too.

[thecasinoroyale]

It's like when he says "Welcome, James."

 

The first few times were actually quite welcoming and pleasant...the new TV spot has him sound pretty damn sinister!

[Guy Haines]

Bought the Guardian this morning and it being Saturday ther's a colour supplement - and who should be on the front cover but Christoph Waltz, billed as the "biggest, baddest" Bond villain of all.

(Didn't they say that about Javier Bardem three years ago? Never mind!)

The photographs of him - cover and inside - well, if he's not playing "ESB" in this film you could have fooled me. Not stills from the film but shot for the interview, I think. Either it's a put up job to make you think he's Blofeld, or that "I'm Oberhauser I tell you!" line is wearing off. He doesn't give anything away - of course! - but neither does he go out of his way to insist he's Franz.


The interviewer - who says he's seen footage of SPECTRE - seems quite convinced that "You came across me.... etc." is all Christoph Waltz. And says that "you came across me so many times and yet you never saw me" is a pretty good summary of Waltz's career up until Tarantino's "Inglourous Basterds". For example, I had no idea Christoph Waltz had been on UK TV in several series in the 1980s and 1990s.

[stromberg]

 For example, I had no idea Christoph Waltz had been on UK TV in several series in the 1980s and 1990s.

He was also in the 1990 "Goldeneye" Fleming biopic in a small role as a German spy.

 

I said it before and I'll say it again: even though he's become an international household name, I still can't believe that this is the same guy I've know for years for being frequently cast for lead roles but often playing small roles in many German TV movies and thrillers. Solid acting, above average, but never considered to be "Hollywood material". Had anyone asked me before Inglorious Basterds about a German language actor who could make it "big" internationally, he wouldn't have been in my Top Ten, maybe not even in my Top Twenty. Many Germans have tried hard and failed miserably, and he does it with one role.

 

Goes to show what I know about this business 

[Guy Haines]

For example, I had no idea Christoph Waltz had been on UK TV in several series in the 1980s and 1990s.

He was also in the 1990 "Goldeneye" Fleming biopic in a small role as a German spy.
 
I said it before and I'll say it again: even though he's become an international household name, I still can't believe that this is the same guy I've know for years for being frequently cast for lead roles but often playing small roles in many German TV movies and thrillers. Solid acting, above average, but never considered to be "Hollywood material". Had anyone asked me before Inglorious Basterds about a German language actor who could make it "big" internationally, he wouldn't have been in my Top Ten, maybe not even in my Top Twenty. Many Germans have tried hard and failed miserably, and he does it with one role.
 
Goes to show what I know about this business 

I'm trying to think of a British equivalent - one of those guys who has been around on TV in solid supporting roles for ages and suddenly hits the Hollywood jackpot. I guess we Brits have an advantage when it comes to Hollywood, apart from the lingo - that RSC/RADA training, the clipped way of speaking makes us "go to" types for US studios when it comes to playing....er.... foreign sounding villains! ;-)

Never mind.

According to this interview I've read, Christoph Waltz was Tarantino's only choice for the Hans Landa role in Inglorious Basterds. Right place, right time?

[Jim]

 

 For example, I had no idea Christoph Waltz had been on UK TV in several series in the 1980s and 1990s.

He was also in the 1990 "Goldeneye" Fleming biopic in a small role as a German spy.

 

Really? Fact of the day stuff, that.

[Guy Haines]

 

 

For example, I had no idea Christoph Waltz had been on UK TV in several series in the 1980s and 1990s.

He was also in the 1990 "Goldeneye" Fleming biopic in a small role as a German spy.

 
Really? Fact of the day stuff, that.

If that one seems apt, I've found another which seems unlikely but true. In the 1990s Christoph Waltz appeared on British TV in, of all things, "The All New Alexei Sayle Show" playing a character called "Weak Mustache" I kid you not. It can be found on YouTube.

(For those not in the know, Alexei Sayle was part of the new wave of "alternative comedians" in the UK in the 1980s and 90s.)

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=7WI8B5CI2Bg

 

Link to the sketch "The League Of Hirsuite Gentlemen" above.

[stromberg]

 

 

 For example, I had no idea Christoph Waltz had been on UK TV in several series in the 1980s and 1990s.

He was also in the 1990 "Goldeneye" Fleming biopic in a small role as a German spy.

 

Really? Fact of the day stuff, that.

 

Thought it was common knowledge. I'm still puzzled that (so far) no journalist has ever asked him some silly question about it.

 

Here's a pic of the scene:

 

[Vauxhall]

I hereby apologise for starting this thread

[Guy Haines]

Nothing to apologise for, Vauxhall, it's been amusing over the past few weeks! ;-)

One thing though;

Spoiler

What happened to the following lines in the movie; "Look around you James. Everything you stood for, everything you believed in... a ruin." They weren't used in the finished piece. I wonder why? I'd assumed our villain would be taunting Bond with them in the final showdown, but, nothing. Something that Sam Mendes decided to cut for reasons of length - or because it sounded too much like Silva's comment "You're living in a ruin James, you just don't realise it."

[antovolk]

Nothing to apologise for, Vauxhall, it's been amusing over the past few weeks! ;-)

One thing though;

They were.

Edited by antovolk, 28 October 2015 - 09:51 AM.

[Guy Haines]

I must have had  a senior moment then - that said I was feeling a little bit stressed Monday evening, for various reasons. Couldn't have been paying attention. But I'll be off to see it again sometime soon - before this week is out, I'm sure. I'll have to listen carefully next time.

[plankattack]

From anyone's who seen the film - is there a winner yet in this poll??????

[Vauxhall]

From anyone's who seen the film - is there a winner yet in this poll??????

Yes.

Spoiler

Waltz

I must have had a senior moment then - that said I was feeling a little bit stressed Monday evening, for various reasons. Couldn't have been paying attention. But I'll be off to see it again sometime soon - before this week is out, I'm sure. I'll have to listen carefully next time.

I'm making no excuses. Clearly intended to sound like Moriarty and confuse us all.

[DaveBond21]

I must have had  a senior moment then - that said I was feeling a little bit stressed Monday evening, for various reasons. Couldn't have been paying attention. But I'll be off to see it again sometime soon - before this week is out, I'm sure. I'll have to listen carefully next time.

 

I think Blofeld says it to Bond from behind the glass in the old MI6 building.