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

4. McCarthyism - The Hollywood Ten (1947)

The period immediately following the Second World War paved the way for rampant communist paranoia on a governmental level in the United States. The most notorious example was Senator Joseph McCarthy, who orchestrated the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) to investigate anyone who might have communist tendencies, and thus posed a threat to the nation. This committee started getting media attention once it began its crusade against the film industry in 1947 and issued out an arrest warrant for ten Hollywood professionals, later referred to as "The Hollywood Ten". These persecutions and blacklists were exaggerated to the point of destroying careers and livelihoods, which leaves a wide window of opportunity open for Tarantino to twist events around. The potential to have the likes of Humphrey Bogart, Billy Wilder, Kirk Douglas, and Luis Buñuel be Tarantino characters is enticing enough to create the biggest buzz one of his films ever had. As a director who uses freedom of expression to the max, the theme of stifled creativity in Hollywood is something that Tarantino could surely connect to. One scenario could include Buñuel (blacklisted in 1950), a wife of one of the original Ten and a homosexual film professional (also prosecuted as "sexual perverts") forming a group to take down HUAC and Joe McCarthy. With McCarthyism as the setting, Tarantino's fantasy would know no bounds.