7 Movies Where The Villain Dies Earlier Than You Think
2. Calvin Candie - Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino's masterful western Django Unchained is wholly concerned with Django (Jamie Foxx) and King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) retrieving Django's wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the clutches of her "owner," Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).
The pair hatch a plan to purchase Broomhilda without suspicion, one which goes kaput when an irate Schultz can no longer abide Candie's insidious behaviour and shoots him dead out of nowhere.
What in another movie might be the storming climax is basically the start of the third act here, given that the movie still has 35 minutes still to go. The resulting shootout sees Schultz and many of Candie's henchmen killed, while Django is taken hostage.
In the real climax, Django is tortured and sold into slavery before escaping, returning to the Candieland estate, freeing Broomhilda, murdering everyone in sight, and blowing the place to smithereens with dynamite.
As much as DiCaprio is an Oscar-nominated force-of-nature in this film, he's actually in it a lot less than you probably think, but such is a great villain - he lives in your head even when he's not on-screen.