Coup de Torchon

And some of those films, like a movie like Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole, or even Bertrand Tavernier’s Coup de Torchon, I mean, these films, they were dark, and they were, you know, they had this black humor and everything. And I think Inglourious Basterds has a lot of that kinda black humor, that kinda dark Coup de Torchon-esque sense of humor.

Quentin Tarantino architected this film around Sergio Corbucci's 1966 Spaghetti Western Django, even casting the original star Franco Nero in a cameo. Tarantino also studied Corbucci's The Great Silence (1968) for its willingness to place brutal, bloody violence against stark snowscapes. Django becomes a conversation between films across decades, Corbucci's Italian Westerns speaking directly to a contemporary reckoning.