It's pretty much a prerequisite in Hollywood that your movie has to have a happy ending. If the story doesn't naturally lead to one, well, you force it, often by simply rolling the credits at the right time. As we've discussed before , a lot of movies with supposedly "happy" endings actually seem closer to Requiem for a Dream than Babe when you sit down and think about them for any length of time ...

5 Django Unchained -- Django Would Be Dead Within Hours

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The Happy Ending:

After his BFF Dr. King Schultz gets blasted into oblivion, Django returns to the evil Candyland plantation to kill every remaining white person in the movie (and also Samuel L. Jackson, because he was a shithead). Django rescues his wife, Broomhilda, and detonates the vile mansion with a pile of dynamite, breaking slightly with action movie tradition by staring directly at the explosion instead of walking away from it in slow motion.

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You'll never get to run from a fireball in a hallway at this rate.

Django and Broomhilda then ride off into the night as the credits roll, free to spend the rest of their lives together in peace.

The Horrible Aftermath:

Wait. How the fuck is this guy going to make it out of the South alive? Being an African-American couple on the run for the murder of a rich white man -- and dozens of others -- in the antebellum South is literally the worst situation anyone could ever be in.

If Django's plan is to sneak away to the North, keep in mind that he's not exactly inconspicuous -- the movie already established that the sight of a black man on horseback stops traffic wherever he goes. And that was when he was traveling with a white companion who could have passed as his master and before he turned up on every wanted poster in the nation as the single greatest spree killer the South had ever known.

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"But how will anybody know Django even did it? He left no one alive!" Not true -- he spares multiple slaves in the course of his murderous bloodsplosion party. But what does Django imagine is going to happen when, say, the two house slaves he spared get picked up by some Mississippi lawman who ties them to the massacre at Calvin Candie's famous million-dollar racist fantasy camp? One or two confessions are going to be coerced out of those gals.

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"I'll trade you this cool fire knife for some information!"