10 Historical Revenge Fantasies That Quentin Tarantino Could Tackle Instead Of The Hateful Eight

8. The Korean War - No Gun Ri Massacre (1950)

Before moving away from events directly connected to the Second World War, there's one more incident worthy of exploration. After Japan surrendered the war, Korea was split into the South (Republic of Korea) and North (People's Republic of Korea) as we know them today. With the US military positioned in the South and Soviet military positioned in the North, the country became something of a Cold War chessboard. When the North invaded the South in July 1950, the U.S. military intervened to aid the South but ended up killing close to 400 South Korean civilian refugees at No Gun Ri, believing they were North Koreans in disguise. The story of the No Gun Ri tragedy is there for the cinematic taking; the fact that it's never been represented in American culture is all the more incentive to give it an entertaining twist a la Tarantino and get people talking about it. The U.S. troops had a "shoot-first-ask-questions-later" policy, which caused them to senselessly gun down the same people they were trying to protect. So picture this: a refugee survives the gunfire after seeing his friends murdered in front of him, and takes the shoot-first policy personally - ensuring that the commanders in charge get what's coming to them. Then asks them a few questions later.