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

9. The Pacific War - Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)

If communism doesn't grab QT's fancy, he could still stick with the Second World War time period, and work with some of the ugly stuff the Allied forces did in the name of world peace. The horrific €“ and infamous - example is the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the two towns were military strongholds, the casualty count of 250,000 consisted mostly of civilians, which is just the kind of opening Tarantino could use to combine his love for Japanese culture (see: Kill Bill) and his knack for revenge tales. Besides President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the brains behind the operations on the American side have names that sound like they were made up by Tarantino himself; Tibbets, Spaatz, Le May, Purnell and Parsons. Imagine an affected Japanese civilian gathering a posse together and going through a checklist to take out the major players, only to find out that the Japanese leaders aren't completely blameless? Never one to shy away from controversy, Tarantino's Hiroshima and Nagaski could be like the Hattori Hanzo chapter from Kill Bill Vol. 1, only extended into a much darker full feature.