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

6. The Ottoman Empire - Armenian Genocide (1915)

This is a historical event that precedes the Second World War and details the second-most talked about genocide in history. Since QT already touched upon the Holocaust in Basterds, the potential of bridging the films and using the Armenian genocide as the backdrop of his final instalment in the trilogy, sounds almost too good to resist. While Europe was embroiled in superpower naval contests, the Ottoman Empire was systemically eradicating the Armenian population in Turkey. Between the years 1914 and 1921, the Armenian populace plummeted from 1.2 million to less than 300,000, under the leadership of the "Three Pashas" - Minister of Interior Talaat, Minister of War Enver and the Minister of Navy Djemal. The Ottoman government, following Talaat Pasha's direct orders, rounded up and imprisoned 250 notable Armenian intellectual leaders on April 24th, 1915 - the date marked as the beginning of the genocide. Between the years 1915 and 1920, the methods of murder ranged from morphine gas poisoning, drowning, death marches to the Syrian desert and mass burnings of villages. In Tarantino's world, a group of imprisoned intellectuals arrested on the 24th could break out and make it their life's mission to do some eradicating of their own; climbing up the ladder all the way to the Three Pashas.