10 Most Elaborate Movie Climaxes Ever

Quentin Tarantino has no respect for history and, in a sense, is as revisionist as someone like Sam Peckinpah. He wants to right the wrongs of history rather than stay faithful to the awful truths, all the while indulging in his own cinematic pet obsessions, extreme violence and 1970s lunchboxes.

Inglorious Basterds (a play on the title of a 70s exploitation war film) follows a trio of storylines, all of which intertwine and meet at a screening of a Nazi propaganda film in France, where the main leaders of the Third Reich, including the big H himself, will attend. What we see of the movie-within-the-movie is fairly plotless; just a solo sniper who manages to take out a number of American and European allies from a bird's nest. But Hitler is certainly having a ball.

What he doesn't know is that the Basterds are undercover there, ready to assassinate him at any cost. Or that his lead "Jew hunter" will happily sell him down the river. Or that the theatre owner is a vengeful Jewish woman who plans to burn the theatre down during the screening.

All three of these things happen at once, creating the kind of history rewrite that would anger any expert, and Hitler is brutally machine-gunned in the face.