22 Greatest Dying Words Of Iconic Movie Villains

8. Calvin Candie - Django Unchained

The Line: "I insist." How He Dies: Dr. King Schultz finally snaps at Candie's aggressive attempt to belittle him through empty, perverse ceremony (in making him shake on the deal as if both are gentlemen) and shoots him through his flower, and his heart. The moment is indicative of Candie's contradictions: he is a ghoul, and an inhumane monster, capable of despicable acts who hides behind the veil of good conduct and manners, and Schultz - a genuinely good man - can abide his perversion no more. There is something wonderfully fitting in both his last words - because they encapsulate entirely his power over others - and in the fact that he is shot through his flower, a symbol of his ridiculous taste for the ostentatious.
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