The German-Austrian actor, best known for his work with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in such films as “Inglorious Basterds” and “Django Unchained”, Christoph Waltz has been hailed as one of the finest foreign actors, with accolades including 2 Academy Awards, 3 Golden Globes, and numerous other awards internationally.

Christoph Waltz was born on 4 October, 1958 in Vienna, Austria to set and costume designers, setting his path already to become a film sensation. Waltz began to study acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar during his formative years, and in the 70s he moved to New York where he studied method acting, before moving into theater and performing live. In 1977, Waltz made his television debut in the TV movie “Der Einstand”, translating to “The Purchase”, before landing a major role in 1979’s “Parole Chicago”, a German program. Soon after, Waltz began to star in many TV movies and television shows, becoming a prolific actor.

In 2009, Waltz played Hans Landa, the Jew Hunter, in Quentin Tarantino’s Holocaust film, “Inglorious Basterds”, taking the role instead of the first option, Leonardo DiCaprio, would star in Tarantino’s next film, alongside Waltz, “Django Unchained”.

Probably one of the most iconic acts of the 1990s in film, as well as simply one of the most iconic acts in all of film, we see John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, as Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield, undertake some of Quentin Tarantino’s wittiest and intelligent dialogue as they go along to carry out their duties as hit men. It should be noted that Tarantino seems to draw certain parallel to a work by Hemingway, “The Killers”.

Pulp Fiction, the 2nd theatrical release by director and writer, occasional actor, Quentin Tarantino, is considered by many to be a classic, as it shows Tarantino as a much more mature and realized filmmaker. Following the success Resevoir Dogs, it continues to establish Tarantino’s flare for violence, his masterstroke with dialogue, and his keen hand at choosing the right cast for his films–Pulp Fiction brings together some of the best in the business including John Travolta (for which this film revived his career), Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, and many others.

Inspired by the 1963 horror anthology film Black Sabbath, Roger Avary, an old friend of Tarantino’s and later collaborator, created, with Tarantino, the first component of what would become Pulp Fiction. The duo decided to write a short, but realizing that people no longer made shorts, decided that the film would become a trilogy, with one feature being by Tarantino, another by Avary, and a last by a as-of-yet selected director; the project was originally to be called Black Mask, a hardboiled crime fiction magazine. Tarantino’s feature was Resevoir Dogs. Avary’s, “Pandemonium Reigns” became the basis for “The Golden Watch” storyline. Tarantino enjoyed the idea of creating a trilogy, saying that:

“I got the idea of doing something that novelists get a chance to do but filmmakers don’t: telling three separate stories, having characters float in and out with different weights depending on the story.”

In this way, Tarantino began to produce his films as a series of chapters and bending their structures out of shape in order to serve the needs of his story in the same way that a novelist might. In these ways, Tarantino, with the help of Avary, created the classic we know today as Pulp Fiction.