10 Movie Characters Who Died In The Final Shot
9. Mr. White & Mr. Orange - Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino's ferocious directorial debut Reservoir Dogs gives us a two-fer, as gangster Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) and undercover cop Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) both expire in the film's gut-wrenching closing shot.
The final shot is a two-minute single take in which Mr. White cradles a mortally wounded Mr. Orange who confesses to being a cop, before a distraught Mr. White then points a gun at his head.
At that moment, the police storm their warehouse hideout and instruct Mr. White to put his gun down, but as the camera eases in on him, he pulls the trigger, presumably killing Mr. Orange.
This prompts the cops to open fire on Mr. White, who is blasted out of the frame and evidently killed.
Tarantino then abruptly cuts to the credits, and that's all she wrote. There was nowhere for the movie to go after this, what with all-but-one of the robbers being dead - Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) being the only survivor - so Tarantino was smart to end things with a savage exclamation point.