The influences behind Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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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.

   Where it came from

   • The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato), film by Enzo G. Castellari 1978
   • Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West), film by Sergio Leone 1968 follow this thread
   • The Searchers, film by John Ford 1956 follow this thread
   • The Dirty Dozen, film by Robert Aldrich 1967

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