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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.
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He'd gone on record as antismoking.
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But they felt this cigarillo,
this Toscano was part of the character.
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In the 1960s, smoking was seen
as a sign of control and masculinity.
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Today I guess it's the opposite. But in
the 1960s it was seen as that symbol.
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And Eastwood said whenever
he lit up, which wasn't often,
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the cheroot often is half-smoked
and he's not smoking it.
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When he does, he said, "It put me in
the right frame of mind. Kind of a fog. "
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And when it came to the second movie,
For A Few Dollars More,
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Eastwood said to Leone,
"Do I have to smoke the cigar?"
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"I don't like it very much. " Leone replied:
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"Of course you must smoke the cigar.
It's playing the lead. "
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In Yojimbo, there's a strong sense
at this stage in the story