Hans Landa has compared the character to Sherlock Holmes, due to the meticulous, cerebral way Landa searches for Jews and traitors. Landa was also compared to "Die Hard" villain Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman, due to his disdain for the inferior intellect of those around him. Hans Landa Standartenführer Hans Landa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film "Inglourious Basterds". He is portrayed by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. For his performance, Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Best Actor Award at
Die Hard of American History at the Smithsonian Institution. "Die Hard" established what would be a common formula for action films over the next decade, featuring a lone everyman against a colorful terrorist character in an isolated setting. Several of these films followed this formula were often referred to as ""Die Hard" on a _____", such as "Under Siege" (1992, ""Die Hard" on a battleship"), "Passenger 57" (1992, ""Die Hard" on a plane") and "Speed" (1994, ""Die Hard" on a bus"). Such a trend would continue until films like "The Rock" (1996, also dubbed ""Die Hard" on an island") changed the tone