Walken in Seven Psychopaths

I watched Seven Psychopaths the other night. Good movie, not great, but the Christopher Walken character was my favorite part of the film. At this point in his career, let's be honest, all of his performances are basically the same, so I was pretty focused in on the character itself. 

Walken plays Hans (some Polish last name), a low-level crook who teams up with Sam Rockwell's character - he steals the show - to snatch dogs and return them for reward money. Clever angle. It gets better.

Hans wears an ascot - a day cravat, to be exact - throughout the movie, and the audience learns why. Hans used to live as a Quaker. His daughter, half black, was murdered, and so Hans spent the next decade or so year of his life waiting outside the prison gates for the killer to emerge. Eventually, the killer is freed, and Hans stalks him, ultimately driving him insane and into suicide, for Hell, the killer believes, is the only place to which Hans would not follow him. As the killer takes his own life by slitting his throat, the last thing he sees is Hans, standing on the street corner outside his apartment, bringing a blade across his own throat and following the killer to Hell. The killer dies, but Hans is saved by medics, and lives the rest of his life in Hollywood as a dog thief in a neckerchief.