The influences behind Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

39 works across 28 centuries, back to Odyssey.

2019

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Film by Quentin Tarantino

Contemporary Hollywood. United States. In English.

Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film follows a fading TV western star, Rick Dalton, and his stunt double, Cliff Booth, through Los Angeles in 1969, alongside their neighbour Sharon Tate, and ends by rewriting the Manson murders. It is built from the westerns, spy films and war films of the period it depicts, filtered through Sergio Leone's 'Once Upon a Time' fable framing.
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2009

Inglourious Basterds

Film by Quentin Tarantino

Contemporary Hollywood. United States. In English, German and French.

A Jewish-American commando unit and a cinema owner both plot against the Nazi leadership. The film ends with Hitler burned to death in a Paris cinema.

What it handed down

To Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Structural model, well documented.

Both films end by rewriting history through cinema-style violence: Hitler dies in a burning theatre, and the Manson killers die at Rick's house. Rick's flamethrower appears first in a film-within-the-film, The 14 Fists of McCluskey, where he incinerates Nazi officers in a direct echo of Basterds, and he uses the same prop at the climax.
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1978

The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato)

Film by Enzo G. Castellari

Italian genre cinema. Italy. In Italian.

An Italian war film in which American military convicts escape and stumble into a commando mission.

What it handed down

To Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Direct source, well documented.

Tarantino took the title, altering the spelling, from Castellari's Italian war film. He gave Castellari and that film's star Bo Svenson cameos, though the plots differ.
Where it came from
- The Dirty Dozen, film by Robert Aldrich 1967 follow this thread
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1968

Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West)

Film by Sergio Leone

Spaghetti western. Italy. In English.

Leone's slow, operatic western about a widow, a harmonica-playing avenger and a railroad baron's hired killer. It was written as a mosaic of quotations from American westerns.

What it handed down

To Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Direct source, well documented.

Tarantino took his title and its fairy-tale framing from Leone, signalling a fable rather than a history. Rick Dalton's career runs through the Italian western Leone defined, and Tarantino has named Leone's film among his favourites.

To Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Structural model, well documented.

Basterds opens with the title card 'Once upon a time... in Nazi-occupied France'. Its first chapter, a long, tense visit to an isolated farmhouse, is built like Leone's slow-burning set pieces. Tarantino also borrowed Ennio Morricone music for the film.
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1968

The Wrecking Crew

Film by Phil Karlson

1960s spy cycle. United States. In English.

The fourth Matt Helm spy comedy, starring Dean Martin, with Sharon Tate as a clumsy agent.

What it handed down

To Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Direct source, well documented.

Margot Robbie's Sharon Tate goes to the Bruin Theatre in Westwood to watch herself in The Wrecking Crew. Tarantino projects the real footage of Tate's fight scene, so the actual actress appears inside the fiction.
Where it came from
- The Wrecking Crew, Donald Hamilton 1960 follow this thread
- Goldfinger, film by Guy Hamilton 1964 follow this thread
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1967

The Dirty Dozen

Film by Robert Aldrich

Late studio-era Hollywood. United States. In English.

Twelve condemned soldiers are trained for a suicide raid on a château full of German officers.

What it handed down

To Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Aldo Raine's squad of brutal irregulars on a behind-the-lines mission follows the men-on-a-mission formula Aldrich's film popularised. Tarantino has spoken of the genre as the model for his commando plot.

To The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato) (1978)

Structural model, well documented.

Castellari's film was one of many Italian war pictures cashing in on The Dirty Dozen. Like Aldrich's film, it sends a band of military convicts on a commando raid.
Where it came from
- The Dirty Dozen, E. M. Nathanson 1965 follow this thread
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1966

Django

Film by Sergio Corbucci

Spaghetti western. Italy. In Italian.

A gunman dragging a coffin through the mud enters a border town divided between a racist gang and Mexican revolutionaries. It is one of the most violent of the Italian westerns.

What it handed down

To Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Direct source, well documented.

Pacino's agent Marvin Schwarz pitches Rick on going to Rome to work for Sergio Corbucci, director of Django. Rick's Italian films, such as Nebraska Jim, are imagined as Corbucci productions. Tarantino had already titled Django Unchained after Corbucci's film.
Where it came from
- A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari), film by Sergio Leone 1964 follow this thread
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1965

The Dirty Dozen

E. M. Nathanson

Postwar American popular fiction. United States. Written in English.

A bestselling novel about a US Army major who turns military prisoners into a commando unit before D-Day.

What it handed down

To The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Direct source, well documented.

Aldrich's film adapts Nathanson's bestseller. It keeps the premise of Major Reisman training condemned prisoners for a raid on a château before D-Day.

Where it came from

The line stops here: built on a wartime rumour of convict commandos; literary debts not documented.

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1964

A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari)

Film by Sergio Leone

Spaghetti western. Italy. In Italian.

A nameless stranger plays two rival families in a Mexican border town against each other. Its success launched the Italian western.

What it handed down

To Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968)

Stylistic influence, well documented.

Leone developed in his Dollars films the style he brought to Once Upon a Time in the West. That style includes extreme close-ups alternating with vast wide shots, long silent standoffs and Morricone scores cut to the action.

To Django (1966)

Structural model, well documented.

Corbucci's film repeats Leone's premise of a lone gunman entering a town split between two factions and playing them off. It pushes Fistful's violence and mud-caked look further.
Where it came from
- Yojimbo, film by Akira Kurosawa 1961 follow this thread
- The Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni), Carlo Goldoni 1746 follow this thread
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1964

Goldfinger

Film by Guy Hamilton

1960s spy cycle. United Kingdom. In English.

The third James Bond film, which set the series formula of gadgets, a megalomaniac villain and glamorous set pieces.

What it handed down

To The Wrecking Crew (1968)

Stylistic influence, probable.

Columbia's Matt Helm series was made to cash in on and parody the Bond films after Goldfinger's success. The Wrecking Crew's gadgets, gold-heist villain and glamorous female agents follow that template.

Where it came from

The line stops here: adapted from Ian Fleming's novel; the Bond line is not followed here.

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1963

The Great Escape

Film by John Sturges

Classical Hollywood (late studio era). United States. In English.

Ensemble war film about the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III, with Steve McQueen as the American 'Cooler King'.

What it handed down

To Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Direct source, well documented.

Rick tells Cliff he nearly got Steve McQueen's role in Sturges's film. Tarantino then shows a scene from The Great Escape with DiCaprio digitally inserted in McQueen's place, as a picture of the career Rick missed.
Where it came from
- The Great Escape, Paul Brickhill 1950 follow this thread
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1961

Yojimbo

Film by Akira Kurosawa

Japanese golden age. Japan. In Japanese.

A masterless samurai arrives in a town torn between two gangs and sets them against each other.

What it handed down

To A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) (1964)

Direct source, well documented.

Leone remade Kurosawa's plot almost scene for scene, moving the samurai into a Mexican border town. Kurosawa and Toho sued and won a settlement and a share of the profits.
Where it came from
- The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett 1931 follow this thread
- Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett 1929 follow this thread
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1960

The Wrecking Crew

Donald Hamilton

Cold War paperback thriller. United States. Written in English.

The second Matt Helm novel, in which a government assassin poses as a photographer in Sweden.

What it handed down

To The Wrecking Crew (1968)

Direct source, well documented.

The film takes its title and its agent Matt Helm from Hamilton's novel. It turns his grim assassin into Dean Martin's lounge-lizard spy comedy.

Where it came from

The line stops here: minor branch; Hamilton's thriller sources are not followed here.

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1956

The Searchers

Film by John Ford

Classical Hollywood. United States. In English.

John Wayne's Ethan Edwards spends years hunting the Comanche who massacred his brother's family and took his niece.

What it handed down

To Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Stylistic influence, probable.

The opening chapter frames a farmhouse doorway against open land as an enemy arrives. Critics have widely read this as a nod to Ford's door shots in The Searchers.

To Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968)

Direct source, well documented.

Leone, Bertolucci and Argento wrote the script as a web of quotations from American westerns. The massacre of the McBain family at their isolated homestead restages the Comanche attack on the Edwards ranch in Ford's film.
Where it came from
- The Searchers, Alan Le May 1954 follow this thread
- Stagecoach, film by John Ford 1939 follow this thread
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1954

The Searchers

Alan Le May

Postwar American western. United States. Written in English.

A western novel about two men's long search for a girl taken captive in a Comanche raid on Texas.

What it handed down

To The Searchers (1956)

Direct source, well documented.

Ford's film adapts Le May's novel, keeping its Comanche raid, captive niece and years-long pursuit. Frank Nugent's screenplay darkens the hero into Wayne's obsessive Ethan Edwards.
Where it came from
- The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper 1826 follow this thread
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1953

Shane

Film by George Stevens

Classical Hollywood. United States. In English.

A mysterious gunfighter defends a homesteading family against cattlemen and is watched throughout by the family's young son.

What it handed down

To Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968)

Direct source, probable.

The McBain homestead and the young boy who witnesses the violence recall Shane's farm family. Commentators on Leone's film, notably Christopher Frayling, list Shane among the westerns deliberately quoted.
Where it came from
- Shane, Jack Schaefer 1949 follow this thread
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1950

The Great Escape

Paul Brickhill

Postwar memoir. United Kingdom. Written in English.

A former prisoner's nonfiction account of the tunnel breakout from Stalag Luft III in 1944.

What it handed down

To The Great Escape (1963)

Direct source, well documented.

Sturges's film adapts Brickhill's account of the Stalag Luft III breakout. It keeps the tunnels Tom, Dick and Harry and the escapers' fates, while inventing American characters such as McQueen's Hilts.

Where it came from

The line stops here: a memoir of real events rather than a reworking of literary models.

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1949

Shane

Jack Schaefer

Postwar American western. United States. Written in English.

A boy narrates the arrival of a stranger who helps his family stand against a cattle baron.

What it handed down

To Shane (1953)

Direct source, well documented.

Stevens's film adapts Schaefer's novel closely. It keeps the stranger who helps the Starrett family and the son Joey through whose eyes he is seen.
Where it came from
- The Virginian, Owen Wister 1902 follow this thread
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1939

Stagecoach

Film by John Ford

Classical Hollywood. United States. In English.

Nine strangers cross Apache country by coach. This was Ford's first sound western shot in Monument Valley and the film that made John Wayne a star.

What it handed down

To Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968)

Stylistic influence, well documented.

Leone shot part of the film in Monument Valley, the landscape Ford made his own from Stagecoach on. He did so as an open homage to Ford's westerns, notably for Jill's journey by buckboard.

To The Searchers (1956)

Stylistic influence, well documented.

Ford returned to Monument Valley and to John Wayne, the setting and star he had established in Stagecoach. He refined its compositions of small figures against buttes and open sky.
Where it came from
- Stage to Lordsburg, Ernest Haycox 1937 follow this thread
- Boule de Suif, Guy de Maupassant 1880 follow this thread
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Stage to LordsburgErnest Haycox

1937

Stage to Lordsburg

Ernest Haycox

Pulp and slick-magazine western. United States. Written in English.

A short story in Collier's about a stagecoach of mismatched passengers threatened by Apaches.

What it handed down

To Stagecoach (1939)

Direct source, well documented.

Ford bought Haycox's Collier's story and had Dudley Nichols expand it into the screenplay. It supplied the coach of mismatched passengers crossing Apache territory.

Where it came from

The line stops here: minor magazine story whose own sources are not documented.

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1931

The Glass Key

Dashiell Hammett

Hard-boiled fiction. United States. Written in English.

Hammett's novel of a political fixer who moves between rival factions in a corrupt city.

What it handed down

To Yojimbo (1961)

Direct source, probable.

Kurosawa acknowledged drawing on Hammett's The Glass Key for Yojimbo. Its hero moves between warring political factions in a corrupt town, and the film's cynical, laconic manner carries a hard-boiled tone.
Where it came from
- Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett 1929 follow this thread
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1929

Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

Hard-boiled fiction. United States. Written in English.

The Continental Op cleans up the mining town of Personville by provoking its gangs into destroying one another.

What it handed down

To Yojimbo (1961)

Disputed link, probable.

Yojimbo's plot, an outsider who destroys a town's two gangs by setting them against each other, closely parallels Red Harvest. Critics often cite it as the true source, though Kurosawa named The Glass Key instead.

To The Glass Key (1931)

Stylistic influence, well documented.

Hammett refined in The Glass Key the method of Red Harvest: an outsider working among rival factions in a corrupt town. Both use the same flat, external narration.

Where it came from

The line stops here: hammett drew chiefly on his own Pinkerton work and the pulp magazine milieu rather than on documented literary models.

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1902

The Virginian

Owen Wister

Progressive Era. United States. Written in English.

A novel about a laconic Wyoming cowboy, his courtship of a schoolteacher and his showdown with the villain Trampas. It fixed many conventions of the western.

What it handed down

To Shane (1949)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Schaefer's quiet stranger with a code, who intervenes in a range conflict and ends in a showdown, belongs to the line of western hero Wister fixed in The Virginian.
Where it came from
- The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper 1826 follow this thread
- Le Morte d'Arthur, Thomas Malory 1485 follow this thread
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1880

Boule de Suif

Guy de Maupassant

French Naturalism. France. Written in French.

Respectable passengers fleeing the Prussians in a coach exploit a prostitute and then shun her.

What it handed down

To Stagecoach (1939)

Direct source, probable.

Ford and Nichols said they drew on Maupassant's story for the coach of hypocrites who scorn a prostitute. In Stagecoach that figure becomes Claire Trevor's Dallas.

Where it came from

The line stops here: drawn from the Franco-Prussian War; Flaubert's mentorship is not followed here.

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1826

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper

American Romanticism. United States. Written in English.

A Leatherstocking tale of the scout Hawkeye and his Mohican companions escorting two sisters through the French and Indian War, with capture and pursuit.

What it handed down

To The Searchers (1954)

Thematic kinship, conjectural.

Le May's plot of a girl taken by Indians and a long frontier pursuit belongs to the captivity-and-rescue tradition that Cooper's novel made central to American fiction.

To The Virginian (1902)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Wister's skilled, laconic frontiersman descends from Cooper's Hawkeye, the first American hero of the wilderness. The Virginian moves that figure onto the cattle range.
Where it came from
- Waverley, Walter Scott 1814 follow this thread
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1814

Waverley

Walter Scott

Romantic. Scotland. Written in English.

A young Englishman whose head is full of romances is drawn into the Jacobite rising of 1745. It is the founding historical novel.

What it handed down

To The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Structural model, well documented.

Cooper modelled his historical romances on Scott's, setting fictional characters within a real war and a vanishing culture, and was hailed as 'the American Scott'.
Where it came from
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes 1605 follow this thread
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1746

The Servant of Two Masters (Il servitore di due padroni)

Carlo Goldoni

Venetian Enlightenment. Republic of Venice. Written in Italian.

A comedy in which the servant Truffaldino secretly works for two employers at once and plays them off against each other.

What it handed down

To A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) (1964)

Disputed link, probable.

Leone claimed the story of a man serving two rival masters at once came from Goldoni's comedy, which he said underlay Kurosawa's film too. Many treat this as a defence during the Yojimbo lawsuit rather than a real source.

Where it came from

The line stops here: its roots lie in the largely unscripted commedia dell'arte stage tradition.

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1605

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish Golden Age. Spain. Written in Spanish.

A country gentleman driven mad by chivalric romances sets out as a knight errant with his squire Sancho Panza.

What it handed down

To Waverley (1814)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Edward Waverley's mind has been shaped by undisciplined reading of romances, so he misreads the Jacobite rising as an adventure. Scott builds this quixotic premise from Cervantes, whom he cites in the novel.
Where it came from
- Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula), Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo 1508 follow this thread
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1508

Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula)

Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo

Spanish late medieval and early Renaissance. Spain. Written in Spanish.

The most popular Iberian chivalric romance, following the knight Amadis through combats and enchantments for love of Oriana.

What it handed down

To Don Quixote (1605)

Direct source, well documented.

Amadis is the romance Don Quixote most reveres and imitates, even copying its hero's penance in the Sierra Morena. In the scene where the priest burns the knight's library, Amadis is spared as the first and best of its kind.
Where it came from
- Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Vulgate Cycle), Anonymous c. 1215-1235 follow this thread
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1485

Le Morte d'Arthur

Thomas Malory

Late medieval England. England. Written in Middle English.

Malory's English prose compilation of the Arthurian legend, from Arthur's birth to the fall of the Round Table.

What it handed down

To The Virginian (1902)

Thematic kinship, conjectural.

In his essay 'The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher' (1895), Wister presented the cowboy as heir to the medieval knight. The Virginian's code of honour and single combat draw on that Arthurian image of chivalry.
Where it came from
- Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Vulgate Cycle), Anonymous c. 1215-1235 follow this thread
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c. 1215-1235

Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Vulgate Cycle)

Anonymous

High Middle Ages. France. Written in Old French.

A vast cycle of French prose romances covering Lancelot, the Grail quest and the death of Arthur.

What it handed down

To Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula) (1508)

Structural model, probable.

Montalvo's Amadis takes its knight devoted to a lady, its quests and its enchanters from the French prose Arthurian romances. Amadis and Oriana are modelled on Lancelot and Guinevere.

To Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)

Direct source, well documented.

Malory's chief sources were the French prose romances of the Vulgate Cycle. He condensed them into English for the Lancelot, Grail and Death of Arthur sections.
Where it came from
- Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Chrétien de Troyes c. 1177-1181 follow this thread
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c. 1177-1181

Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

Chrétien de Troyes

High Middle Ages. France. Written in Old French.

A verse romance in which Lancelot humiliates himself and risks everything to rescue Queen Guinevere.

What it handed down

To Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Vulgate Cycle) (c. 1215-1235)

Direct source, well documented.

The Vulgate prose Lancelot expands Chrétien's story of Lancelot's love for Guinevere and his rescue of her from Meleagant. It reworks the cart episode directly.
Where it came from
- Roman de Brut, Wace 1155 follow this thread
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Roman de BrutWace

1155

Roman de Brut

Wace

High Middle Ages. Anglo-Norman England. Written in Anglo-Norman French.

A verse adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's history. It first mentions Arthur's Round Table.

What it handed down

To Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (c. 1177-1181)

Thematic kinship, probable.

Wace's French Brut gave courtly audiences Arthur's court and the Round Table. Chrétien sets his romances in that court and names the Round Table knights.
Where it came from
- The History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae), Geoffrey of Monmouth c. 1136 follow this thread
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c. 1136

The History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae)

Geoffrey of Monmouth

High Middle Ages. Anglo-Norman England. Written in Latin.

A legendary history of Britain from the Trojan Brutus to Arthur. It made Arthur a European figure.

What it handed down

To Roman de Brut (1155)

Direct source, well documented.

Wace's poem is a free verse translation of Geoffrey's history into French. It adds details such as the Round Table.
Where it came from
- History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum), Anonymous (attributed to Nennius) c. 829 follow this thread
- Aeneid, Virgil 19 BCE follow this thread
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c. 829

History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum)

Anonymous (attributed to Nennius)

Early Middle Ages. Wales. Written in Latin.

A Welsh Latin compilation that gives the Brutus origin legend and lists Arthur's twelve battles.

What it handed down

To The History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae) (c. 1136)

Direct source, well documented.

Geoffrey took from the Historia Brittonum the Trojan Brutus as founder of Britain, Arthur as war leader, and the story of Vortigern and the boy prophet. He developed these into a full narrative.
Where it came from
- On the Ruin of Britain (De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae), Gildas c. 540 follow this thread
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c. 540

On the Ruin of Britain (De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae)

Gildas

Sub-Roman Britain. Britain. Written in Latin.

A sermon-history lamenting the Saxon invasions and the sins of British rulers, including the victory at Mount Badon.

What it handed down

To History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) (c. 829)

Direct source, well documented.

The compiler of the Historia Brittonum used Gildas's account of the Roman withdrawal, the Saxon invitation and the British resistance. That account is the frame into which Arthur's battles are set.
Where it came from
- Aeneid, Virgil 19 BCE follow this thread
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19 BCE

Aeneid

Virgil

Augustan. Augustan Rome. Written in Latin.

An epic of the Trojan Aeneas's wanderings and his war to found the Roman people in Italy.

What it handed down

To The History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae) (c. 1136)

Structural model, probable.

Geoffrey's Britain begins with Brutus, great-grandson of Aeneas, whose exile, prophetic dream and sea voyage to a promised land are patterned on Virgil's epic.

To On the Ruin of Britain (De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae) (c. 540)

Stylistic influence, probable.

Gildas quotes and echoes Virgil in his Latin. This shows the Aeneid's place in the schooling that carried classical narrative into the earliest British history.
Where it came from
- Argonautica, Apollonius of Rhodes c. 250 BCE follow this thread
- Odyssey, Homer c. 700 BCE follow this thread
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c. 250 BCE

Argonautica

Apollonius of Rhodes

Hellenistic. Ptolemaic Alexandria. Written in Ancient Greek.

A Hellenistic epic of Jason's voyage for the Golden Fleece and Medea's love for him.

What it handed down

To Aeneid (19 BCE)

Direct source, well documented.

Virgil modelled Dido's passion for Aeneas in Book 4 on Medea's love for Jason in Apollonius's Book 3. Ancient commentators such as Servius already noted the debt.
Where it came from
- Odyssey, Homer c. 700 BCE follow this thread
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c. 700 BCE

Odyssey

Homer

Archaic Greece. Archaic Greece. Written in Ancient Greek.

The epic of Odysseus's ten-year voyage home from Troy and his revenge on the suitors.

What it handed down

To Aeneid (19 BCE)

Structural model, well documented.

The first six books of the Aeneid are Virgil's Odyssey: a hero's wanderings by sea, a tale told at a foreign court and a descent to the underworld. All of these are modelled on Homer.

To Argonautica (c. 250 BCE)

Structural model, well documented.

Apollonius built his voyage epic in Homeric hexameters and diction. He reworked Odyssean episodes such as the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Phaeacians.

Where it came from

This is one of the oldest surviving works in its tradition; the line ends here.

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To The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato) (1978)

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To Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

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To The Dirty Dozen (1967)

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To Django (1966)

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To The Wrecking Crew (1968)

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To Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

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To A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) (1964)

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To The Wrecking Crew (1968)

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To Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968)

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To The Searchers (1956)

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To Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968)

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To The Great Escape (1963)

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To Shane (1953)

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To Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) (1968)

To The Searchers (1956)

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To Stagecoach (1939)

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To Yojimbo (1961)

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To Yojimbo (1961)

To The Glass Key (1931)

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To Shane (1949)

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To Stagecoach (1939)

Where it came from

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To The Searchers (1954)

To The Virginian (1902)

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