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The baddie wears a white shirt.
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In Hollywood the baddie wore black,
and certainly on television Westerns.
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But in this one,
the first vocal entry of the baddie,
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of the real baddie, is in a white shirt.
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Just as the goodie wears
a rather dirty brown hat.
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This isn't white hats and black hats,
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everyone wears grey hats,
as Clint Eastwood put it.
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You're not sure who the goodies are.
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You know Ramón is the baddie,
but what's Clint Eastwood's role in this?
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The stranger has been watching,
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showing a great interest,
selling himself from one side to the other.
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We're not sure of his motivation.
Is he on the side of law?
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Is he after personal profit?
Does he have any sense of honour at all?
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Time will tell.
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Esteban Rojo was played by Sieghardt
Rupp, who was a West German actor,
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like the leader of the Baxters,
John Baxter, the sheriff,
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was played by Wolfgang Lukschy,
who was a West German actor.
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A lot of the baddies are played by West
Germans, and Ramón was an Italian actor.
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This white fluff passing across the screen,
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which was a production touch
by Carlo Simi, white shirt, white fluff,
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the idea of almost snow falling,
playing against...
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Here you've got a psychopathic baddie,
and he appears in the whiteness of snow,
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the whiteness of his shirt. They play
always against your expectations.
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In the casting, in Italy,
and also in the production design.
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A trill on the soundtrack
as he moves his cheroot.
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It was an Italian cigar called a Toscano,
which is virtually unsmokable.
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You have to cut it with a knife
in order to open up the tobacco.
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Eastwood didn't like smoking very much,
in fact was very antismoking.