Landa

Having watched "Inglorious Basterds" again, the villain, Hans Landa, really stands out. The Austrian actor (Christoph Waltz) who portrayed him did a great job with the character. Definitely one of the best cinematic villains to emerge in years.

Landa Laughing

Landa montage (fake trailer)

It's not easy to take something freighted with baggage like a Nazi character and make him more than a caricature of evil, but Landa was a great character, combining a serpentine charm with a toadlike oddness and a diabolical intelligence to make for a perfect villain. Any scene he enters, you can't help but feel dread, and, to his credit, Tarantino uses him masterfully throughout the movie.

Radiator

I don't know if the hissing radiators did it to me, but I dreamed I was driving a Mercedes and the thing was perilously close to overheating, so I stopped the car somewhere and checked the radiator, which was nearly out of water, and went about filling the radiator up. Some celebrity had a cameo in the dream, like the gal who was fetching the water. It was like Claire Danes or Naomi Watts or somebody equivalent. I can't remember, now, but I kept having her get water, before realizing that there was a hose nearby, and that I could use that, instead. Anyway, I took care of that, only to wake up to the sound of the radiators, so I think my subconscious was on task, trying to solve the problem of it being too hot and/or me being thirsty, etc.