10 Best Deaths In Western Movies

"I couldn't resist."

Despite having a calm heart for much of the film, Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) reaches the end of his tether at Candyland. Visibly unnerved and disgusted by Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), Schultz's cool begins to break. When he realises his latest ploy hasn't worked, Schultz begrudgingly pays a fortune to free Django's wife - and we hope that'll be the end of it. With 30 minutes of film left, however, we know things are about to go south.

Determined to get a handshake out of Schultz, Candie orders his men to open fire on Broomhilda should she leave before the handshake occurs. Instead of swallowing his pride, Schultz puts a bullet in the hideous slaver's heart. Moments later, a shotgun blast sends Schultz packing. It's a grim turn of events for a film where hope for the protagonists was on the way up. Enraged and unthinking, Schultz loses his own life and nearly costs Django and Broomhilda theirs as well.

Pride goes before the fall, something the lovably eccentric dentist learns the hard way here. As is always the case with Quentin Tarantino fare, blood goes everywhere. While the violence enhances the aesthetic, it is the storytelling that makes this death such a big one. Embarrassed, swindled out of $12,000 and terrorised, Schultz loses himself in the need for justice and revenge. It's a bleak goodbye for the film's most charming character.