Quentin Tarantino has a very distinct style to his iconic films that notably contains extreme violence. Needless to say, there has been a lot of death in his films with more than a few characters meeting some truly gruesome ends. And Tarantino knows how to make the most of a good death scene.
Sometimes Tarantino wants audiences to feel bad for a character, show off the evilness of a villain, or shock the audience with an unexpected death. On the other hand, he is also good at delivering the kinds of deaths that will make audiences stand up and cheer. Here are some characters who didn't deserve to die in Quentin Tarantino movies, and some that did.
10 Didn't Deserve: Marvin (Pulp Fiction)
Not much is known about the young man named Marvin, who is part of Jules and Vincent's assassination plan. Marvin appears to be friends with the group of young men who stole from Marsellus Wallace, but he acts as an informant and is spared while the others are killed.
After avoiding death, Marvin is happy to sit quietly in the backseat of Jules' car while the two hitmen discuss the divine intervention. Vincent turns around to involve Marvin in the discussion but accidentally shoots him in the face. To add insult to injury, everyone is more upset about the mess than Marvin's death.
9 Did Deserve: Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)
There is no shortage of bad guys in Reservoir Dogs, but Mr. Blonde is certainly the meanest of them all. At first, he seems like a fairly quiet and reserved guy, but he is hiding some very disturbing tendencies underneath that persona.
In the unseen heist, Mr. Blonde apparently started randomly shooting the hostages for no reason. If that wasn't cold-blooded enough, he proceeds to capture and torture a young cop for the fun of it. Before he is able to burn the cop alive, Mr. Orange shoots Mr. Blonde dead.
8 Didn't Deserve: O.B. (The Hateful Eight)
Tarantino's second Western The Hateful Eight is another film filled with disreputable characters. However, among the killers and racists, one character shines through as a pretty decent guy: the stagecoach driver, O.B..
While he is not as central as the other folks in the film, O.B. is praised for his driving abilities, especially in the midst of a terrible blizzard. He becomes trapped in the cabin with the other characters, but while they are soldiers, lawmen, and outlaws, O.B. is just a regular guy who has the bad luck of drinking poison coffee and dying a painful death.
7 Did Deserve: The Manson Family (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)
Though Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a fun period romp for most of its runtime, there is a dark cloud hanging over the story as it's clear it is leading up to the horrific murder of actor Sharon Tate by the Manson Family.
But as the film gets to that fateful night in its own story, things go differently. The Manson Family breaks into Rick Dalton's house instead, where they are quickly and brutally killed by Dalton and his stunt double, Cliff Booth. Tarantino's Hollywood fairy tale imagines a world in which Tate lived and the bad guys died.
6 Didn't Deserve: Pam (Death Proof)
Though Death Proof is not one of Tarantino's most popular films, it is an underrated and fun take on the slasher genre. The movie follows a deranged killer named Stuntman Mike who uses his specialty car to terrorize and murder women.
While all of Stuntman Mike's victims are innocent people who didn't deserve to die, his first victim, Pam, is especially sad. Unlike the others, Pam is on her own and the killer toys with her before killing her. She only found herself in this situation because she was being nice to a stranger she met at a bar.
5 Did Deserve: Stuntman Mike (Death Proof)
For the first half of the movie, Stuntman Mike seems like a formidable and relentless killer. He stalks his prey and lures them into his trap. He seems to kill just for the pleasure of it, which makes him detestable enough.
However, then Mike's true persona comes out. After messing with the wrong girls, they turn the tables on him. All of a sudden, he turns into a big baby who tries and begs for mercy from the girls he just tried to kill. Watching them beat him senseless was pretty rewarding.
4 Didn't Deserve: D'Artagnan (Django Unchained)
Tarantino tries his hand at his first full-blown Western with Django Unchained. Set in the America South during the time of slavery, the movie is a brutal and violent film filled with depictions of this dark period in history.
In perhaps the most disturbing scene in the film, a slave named D'Artagnan is caught trying to escape from his plantation. After being recaptured, his cold-blooded slave owner, Calvin Candie, unleashes his hounds on the poor man. It is one of the most upsetting scenes in any Tarantino film.
3 Did Deserve: Calvin Candie (Django Unchained)
The brutal killing of D'Artagnan is just one of the many things that make Calvin Candie such a despicable man. He is a vile and ignorant racist who fancies himself an intellectual. He forces his slaves to fight to the death and subjects them to unspeakable cruelty.
After discovering Django and Schultz's plan to buy back Django's wife, Calvin turns the situation around in his own favor. As he gloats about his victory and the death of D'Artagnan, Schultz loses his patience with the hateful man and shoots him in the heart.
2 Didn't Deserve: Shosanna (Inglourious Basterds)
Many people expected Brad Pitt and his army of soldiers to be the heroes of Tarantino's WWII epic, Inglourious Basterds. However, it turns out the real hero is a Jewish girl named Shosanna who runs a cinema.
After the Nazi party decides to use her cinema to show a propaganda film, Shosanna plans to burn it all down and kill them. Before she can see the success of her plan through, Shosanna is shot dead by a young German officer who pretended to be a good guy.
1 Did Deserve: Adolf Hitler (Inglourious Basterds)
Part of Shosanna's plan to burn down the cinema involved killing the leader of the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler, who is attending the screening. As he watches the theater turn into an inferno, a pair of the Basterd soldiers burst into his balcony and begin gunning him down.
There are few people as hated throughout history and the world as Adolf Hitler. Thought make-believe, it's hard not to find it satisfying seeing this monster get what was coming to him.
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July 26, 2020 at 05:30AM
